A Cursed Winter

A Cursed Winter 
Three sandwings eggs hatched to end the cold, with each other side by side Dusk, Dawn, and Day will end the cold and bring back the old ways. Talon by talon the sun will be returned, Claw by Claw the cold ways will fall leaving the dragons alone to face his wrath   
It had been a hard year, with the icewings taking over and it was more of a take than anything being over. Even with his warning, he couldn't stop them. they took everything you ever knew and flipped it on your head. It had been hard to get used to the new world they were stuck in, a world stuck in an ice age. I was in the desert when it happened, the air felt cold like the biggest wind just struck the continent. When you tried to breathe you could see smoke coming from your mouth. Then I saw it, the clouds looked as cold as ice, by this point the heat that was just with everyone had left them.
The clouds were what made everyone bedside that something was wrong. I flew over to a nearby cave where I had been making a small camp, then I saw three small sandwing eggs rolling down a hill. There was no one nearby. I made sure of that so I flew down and scooped up the eggs. If the weather were to stay this way there would be no way the eggs would survive. After flying back to my camp I
made a small fire and found a nice spot to put the eggs. 
“What was I thinking? I can't raise those dragonets ugh maybe I'll drop them off at the possibility there must be someone there who can look after these eggs.” 
I thought to myself. The days before I had been having non-stop visions of a property 
“Three sandwings eggs hatched to end the cold, with each other side by side Dusk, Dawn, and Day will end old ways.” 
at the time he didn’t know what it meant but by now he might have a clue.
I hear the flaps of wing beats coming closer and closer until the dragon lands. Their scales are moist and damp, Aqua had come back after her exploration edition. 
“Hey DarkDrift, found some chickens by the beach, but just me, or has a bad drift gone through here?”
Aqua asked looking at DarkDrift 
“The same kind of thing happened to me even in the sand kingdom. When I was flying back to our cave I saw these eggs drifting in the sand.” He said, lacking confidence, 
“Hmm Sandwing eggs, I would think those look a bit different than the sandwing eggs I have seen before, one darker, bluer, and paler
. “Maybe their Hybrid eggs many dragons these days are finding mates from different tribes''
DarkDrift says trying to sound smart 
“They could be but if they were found together that must mean that they have the same parents or maybe a bunch of eggs were kept in the same spot and these ones rolled off the wall when no one was looking.”
Aqua said to the wall examining the eggs 
``I do think I know one thing that meat has to do with them… I have been getting these dreams I think it's a prophecy” 
DarkDrift said look at the eggs 
``Well we do have decades to go on "
’Three sandwings eggs hatched to end the cold, with each other side by side Dusk, Dawn, and set will end the cold and bring back the day.’ or at least that's how I think it goes “
Aqua started at him in disbelief 
“You knew this the whole time. Why didn’t you tell me that would have been very useful.”
He stood there for a second trying to come up with an excuse
 “How was I supposed to know that this dream meant anything I most I have seen it do it tell me if your favorite fish shack is closed and that is very rare that it says anything that important most the time it just shows a delicious dinner”
He said whiningly 
“DarkDrift do you know what this means?”
she said trying not to sound mad by slipping up a few times
“This means you can see the future even if it is the fastest little spark that spark is still alive, and I think we got some powerful eggs here.
Well if they are going to bring back ‘the day’ then I think it's best we look after them rather than return them. No one else would know anything about this because only we do and if they don’t get raised right or one of them dies then I think the world will stay in this frozen wasteland. DarkDrift we are going to have to look after them.”
After that crazy conversation, they both went to bed. In the morning Aqua looked after the egg wall DarkDrift looked for food, after looking for a few minutes DarkDrift had a bird. He went to the local market and bought some seeds for growing fruit since finding food would become harder and harder. There were few stands open and fewer shoppers. After flying back to their cave DarkDrift had been thinking of a good spot to plant the fruits, in between the wall of the cave and Aqua’s tent. 
Soon they would have to make the cave a more permanent stay as they were just thinking about staying there for a few nights, those nights would turn into weeks then months, and maybe years. After planting the seeds he started taking down the small tents and making more of a comfortable sleeping place, DarkDrift found the best place for him to be tucked in a small corner where he could make a small roof out of sticks, and that inside his small room, there were flat stones to put his scrolls on and great for writing things even thought that was more of Aqua’s thing. 
When DarkDrift was done it was close to midnight, Aqua was planning where she was going to sleep and where to keep the eggs, they decided on a small hole on the side of Aqua’s workspace where she wrote they could easily cover up the hole so if anyone ever found their cave they wouldn't find the eggs. 
It had been a wild few months and turns out that the fruit I planted did come in handy as that is what we mostly ate we are certain that the eggs will hatch so any day now, I have been thinking about naming the darker one Dusk, the paler one Dawn and the last one Day this is the best we could match the names as the process was not very clear. It was just to wake up, check on the eggs, make a fire, and go look for some sticks. I have to look for a few hours together with enough sticks as we keep the fire going all day. After coming back with a bundle of sticks there were eggshells all over the floor, did something happen to the eggs? 
“Oh no no no no.”
he heard the tiny screams from their voices.
“oh my moon the eggs hatched!”
He said running toward that sound dropping the sticks and letting them roll all over the cave floor. Running to Aqua’s sleeping quarters and opening the small cave where the eggs had been set, only one was there: the small Day. 
“Hmm a thief wouldn’t only steal two of the eggs they would take the whole batch hmm so they must be here, ugh Aqua would have known that by now”
After taking a few minutes he found one of the dragonets, the darker-colored eggs DarkDrift guessed. The dragonet was beautiful near the back of her body. There was a smooth transition into a dark night wing’s body, her wing staring at DarkDrift like a world to be explored with bright orange blending into the tips. DarkDrift stood in awe at the dragonet for a second before DarkDrift carried Dusk with his wall as he looked for the other missing dragonet. Looking around he found Dawn in his sleeping place. Dawn looked like a rainwing so she must be part rainwing DarkDrift thought as her scales changed trying to mimic DarkDrift black wings with a dark purple belly. 
“Oh you're going to be fun to have around”
DarkDrift said, chuckling to himself. While he watched the dragonets he wondered what Aqua was doing right now. She works as a doctor in possibility mostly looking at new eggs, how they make their money, and how they used to buy food but since the freezing weather started she has talked about more and more dragons coming in because of the cold and fewer and less subplays to help them with. There had been a loud noise heard by every dragon on Pirriya
“Hello Tribles Dragons. You all may be wondering why everything is so cold. Well, we wanted to share the icy world with you and we have a safe place where you can all stay and be nice and warm, and safe with ice-cream guards. Everyone will have three days to pack your things. You all are getting early abscesses to your new home! We will be coming to the kingdoms soon to tell the others. Don’t think this is the place for you? Note it's the only place with a warm fire for all on the continent”
It sounded like the dragon speaking was right next to him but after looking around no one but the dragonets were in sight. The icewings must be using an animus to send the message. I don’t think they would spend their time checking everywhere to look for the dragons who refuse to go so they have some time to stay before they look for all the other dragons. Suddenly a wing beat could be heard 
“Aqua? Is that you?”
DarkDrift said hoping it was her, but sadly an icewing landed instead, Dawn and Dusk hid behind DarkDrift. 
“Greetings you may know me as Cryo I am here to make sure you have a safe visit to the sanctuary,” Cryo said tiredly 
“For every dragon you may take 2 items'' Cryo said, sounding grumpy “There are 4 dragons that live here, 2 dragonets and a seawing.” 
DarkDrift said, trying to sound calm but hiding what he felt was not his strong suit. 
“Is everyone here?”
Cryo said, sounding bored looking around Aqua is not here, she works during the day at Possibility, and the two other dragons are umm are dragonets Misty and MoonFish.”
Right as Cryo turned Dawn changed into a dark blue 
“When will the seawing come back?”
Cryo asked, trying to look important. Just as DarkDrift heard him, there she was with the most worried face DarkDrift had ever seen on the intelligent yet sassy seawing. 
“Hello, DarkDrift can I have a quick chat real quick and to you sir we will be right back I promise you that”
As she said she walked away towards her sleeping quarters. Aqua was panicking and going through all her scrolls 
“Aqua the eggs…”
DarkDrift said, trying to think of a good way to say it. 
“DarkDrift we can’t do this right now grab the eggs and follow me,”
Aqua said not looking at them 
“Follow me and don’t say anything,”
Aqua said as she opened the egg's small little cave and all the sudden there was a small cave way to small to comfortably put your are in she makes a great big roar, and waits as she hears Cryo walk out of the cave to see what made the mouse 
“Fly”
Aqua said 
“Fly high into the sky, meet me at the old school then make sure the eggs stay warm. I'll fly after you so the eggs will be safer. If you don’t see me there in a day then leave and find somewhere to hide where no one will find you raise the dragonets right I know you can. Now fly”
Aqua said with worry in her face like she was certain she wouldn't make it long. DarkDrift ran as fast as he could with all his heart; he wished that Aqua would be ok, but sadly the world was a very cruel place where the kindest souls were knocked down first. 
He didn’t fly far before Dawn started to roar from the cold. The desert looked like a whole different world than it did half a month ago. What Aqua meant by “the old school” was Jade Mountain Academy it had stopped after the dragonets of destiny were killed by some Skywing named Scarlet the world didn’t believe that anyone could run the school as well as they did so it was closed for good, even though this had happened hundreds of years ago the remains of the school still survived in the stories told and and writing left on the walls. DarkDrift started a fire without saying anything, reaching into his bag he found a fish and ribbit tearing the rabbit into two giving one to Dawn and the other to Dusk. Reaching back to his bag and carefully grabbing the last egg, after looking at it for a few seconds he looked at Dawn and Dusk, Dawn was her sandwing paleness with a pale blue. Maybe her sandwing parent was a pale yellow and Dawn can only turn into paler versions of colors. As he thought he saw her turn into the white brownish fur of the rabbit 
In the morning DarkDrift moved everyone to a smaller cave trying to find anything to keep them warm. The best thing he could do was turn some old pages of books, looking before if they had any useful information on them, most were about history and other tribes from long ago, about the lost continent. 
It had been quite some time since the icewings froze the world, years Dusk had small memories of any other time. Day by day we hid from the dragons of cold moving from camp to camp. DarkDrift used to tell us about how their land was before this ice age. 
I have two younger siblings Dawn, a color-changing explorer who didn’t like to be put in his place, and Day who read everything he could get his hands on. DarkDrift didn’t tell everyone about the vision he had about us, he told me that they weren’t ready to know until they were about eight, but since I was the oldest one, and the smartest one of my siblings I was told at around seven, even after their eighth birthday we still didn’t tell them. It's a very hard thing to word right “Oh hey it turns out that we are going to go up against an animus that not even the strongest dragons in the World could destroy” but DarkDrift did tell me about something very old that happened that was kinda like this. The dragonet project where five dragonets stop a full-on war, DarkDrift told me that it was not easy but they saved the world so If they could do it then we have some chance, but I don’t think it's a very high chance of happening.
I would say that the icewings are the worst tribe of them all because the world was a great and beautiful -place with new animals. The only ones I have found were some frozen birds barely warming their feathers. The one problem about the stories DarkDrift told was that after the war was stopped by the dragonets they didn’t live very long after that, Dusk read about a group that would go around eggs and steals them off to be used for their labor, as one dragon hatched they learned they had stolen an animus and sold them off to the icewings.
I wonder what will happen and how I can protect them as long as I can before the time comes when they will stop the war. If only it were as simple as the scrolls say then this could be over and everyone could go back to their lives, back to their families, back to the life they had before the war.
Chapter 2 When a Breeze Felt Nice
The last thing she could remember was the gasp of the sandwings when their small oasis froze, panic shocked every soul that saw. Is the oasis freezing into hard ice? How could this be, the only time the oasis was ever even chilly was in the middle of the night when the hot dry wind turned into a small whoos of chill. Some sandwings had ever even seen snow before, so you can see why the whole Scorpion Den was in shock on how in the middle of the driest and hottest place on the planet and it's not like this was in the coldest night of the year, it was in the middle of the day! Though Tidepool was still asleep during all of this panic, at some point, the cold had to have woke him up. Tidepool was an adventurous seawing traveler with his half-sister Nightfish who was outside wishing she'd stayed with Tidepool where she didn’t have to listen to all the panic and voices that she was forced to hear. In all the panic there was a small silver shine in the sky getting closer and closer. And instead of it being a small piece of the sky it was icewings lots and lots of them. 
When they closed in most moved from running around in panic to weather hiding inside their homes or for the more important roles gathering a small army of sandwings most of their soldiers were hiding in their homes and it would take too long to gather them all so they had to work with what they were given. Commander Neu, brother to the Queen, landed in front with his soldiers behind him. 
“Hello, Sandwings of the Scorpion Den. You may be wondering why your lake has frozen, and there is a good reason. Fog our icewing animus has gone out of control and has sent the world into frozen lands like ours. We have locked him up but we couldn’t reverse the spell.”
 Neu tried to sound as worried for them as he tried. Burrow a princess to the queen who had been in charge of the scorpion den at the time spoke 
“Your home in Iceland is too cold for us to be comfortable let alone survivable, we Sandwings are smart and clever if we can survive the heat of the desert then we will survive this new cold”
she said as sandwings behind her roared in agreement “The sandwings will live on'' a pale tan dragon roared 
“We will stay in our home, but I doubt this new winter you speak of is as bad as you speak of, we will stay put.”
 Burrow said with a strong and clever voice. 
“As you wish Princess Burrow we will have a small icewing near our borders we will wait 2 weeks for you to choose”
 Neu said with a little tone in his voice 
“I wish you good luck and hope you find warmth even if it's not in our kingdom”
 As soon as he finished he signaled his icewings to fly back towards their homeland. 
“Queen IceQuack the sandwings choose not to come with us, but to stay with their sand, but we did agree that I would send a small patrol of icewings that will wait for them when they break''
said a shimmering icewing with smoke-like eyes glaring at the Queen 
“I will send Sleet, Ferret, and Everest, They will stay at the south outpost for 2 weeks”
The smoky-eyed dragon stared back with worrisome eyes and looked around until the queen spoke again.
“Hmm bring me the sleet.”
The Queen’s breath felt like a cold breeze against his scales like winter wind that would soon be everywhere, more frozen land for the icewings to take over on I mean if they can’t use their kingdoms will just give them a favor and take it, after all it's not like they can do anything about it scene fog froze the world. 
His Queen was the one giving the other tribes hope after all she was the one who was willing to give up her land for them. His thought was interrupted when Princess Ice Drift landed and swung the windows open with the wind from her wings 
``Hello Flurry''
She said bowing to the Icewing king 
“I have good news for you, the Mudwings agreed to come with us, though some dragons froze in the mud and had to be left there.”
 Princess Iribs started 
“I will bring them to the mud to their new village, you want to do a speech or should I?”
 Iribs tried to sound strong and sweet, but she was still tired from the flight, more so since it was her first time out of the Icelands. 
“You may stand by me, but afterward you should go rest and restore your energy.”
 He said turning to hundreds of Mudwings waiting for Flurry to speak 
“Hello my dear Mudwings, I am very sorry for my Son's triable spell, he has been locked away. Don't worry about him using his powers to come back as we have gotten him to give up his powers and enchant something to get rid of them. We were able to use his powers to make all the tribes an area that looks identical to the swamps you know of."
cheers could be heard after the dragon shooting "Oh Ray for the icewings!"
 and other happy roars  
“The sandwings will arrive soon. WhiteCap showed our new guest to their new home”
Flurry said as he walked back into his study room “Brindle go find Sleet, Ferret, and Everest for me, tell them about their mission. I want them out of here as soon as possible”  
 Chapter 3 The Mission
Everything was horrible that night Sleet learned that he would be sucked on a mission away from his nice and quiet glance and that wouldn’t be that bad since he could still do his work without the conversation it would be like a nice short stay away from home, but now Ferret would be joining, Ferret was the kind of dragon that though the world would treat him good if he was himself, that is far from the truth of the Icewing kingdom where you're either the powerful or the servant. Sleet was building up his life one small brick at a time, one rank after the other, well Ferret was born into power even if he wasn't part of the royal family his parents were still powerful as they made jewelry, beautiful necklaces, and earrings as their work has been on several paintings of the Queen IceQuack. 
Everest was a more reasonable dragon than Ferret, she worked at a nearby museum mostly as a guard there though she knew a lot of knowledge about the different kingdoms so Sleet could see why she was picked to come with the two of them. It was morning and everything he needed was packed, breakfast was eaten, and there was nothing to do, but wait. When it was time to leave, Ferret went on and on about how his brother went here or about the weird weather between the borders of the desert and the ice kingdom. 
When they arrived 3 guards lined the entrance of the SandWing palace 
“What brings you here icewings?” The first SandWing said with suspicion in her eyes. “We have come to talk to Queen Coati on behalf of Queen IceQuake of the Icewings.” Said Everest trying to sound fancy 
“Bring them in '' He said, swaying his arms at the guards up the wall. As the 3 Icewings entered the stronghold they saw many guards lined against the wall. As they walked through the courtyard they got many looks of suspicion from the sand wing guards. When they got to the grand hall full of lavish camel pelts and colorful hand-sewn cloth hanged the walls 
“Greeting icewings, what brings you here?” Said Queen Coati. The queen was covered in intercity detailed cloth and fine emerald jewelry. 
“We bring news from Queen IceQuack” spoke Sleet in a calm voice as he stepped in front of the others. “Her majesty’s son, Fog has cursed the land we talk on. She is working as hard as possible to reverse the spell but in the meantime, she has offered every Queen a place where it will be ok in the ice kingdom.” As he finished speaking he stepped back to be at the same length as Queen Coati as Everest and Ferret. “Oh really? I haven't heard anything like this at all. Do you have any proof that Queen IceQuack sent you?” She said with a soft voice and a confused expression. “Prince Neu and his most prized guards were sent to the scorpion den to bring the sandwings there. I would think Princess Burrow would have told you this.” Everest said before Sleet was about to answer Queen Coati “Fence, can you go get Princess Burrow for me now?” She said turning to a guard at her side “Of course your majesty” The guard said in a hasty voice. “Now Caracal, please lead our guests to the lounge where they can wait for Fence to get Burrow” As Caracal led through the palace they saw how each room was as detailed as the last. From what Sleet knew the Sandwing kingdom was a place where you had to fight to survive and not have so much surplus of wealth to decorate a whole castle. 
After a lot of grumbling from the throne room, Caracal called them back as Burrow arrived. “Welcome daughter, is it true that the icewings came to your den?” Queen Coati snapped all of a sudden all her warmth had vanished leaving her growling at the Princess “I am your queen, you will follow the rules enforced for else you'll lose that pit of scourges you call home!” Queen Coati roared at Burrow for the first time Sleet saw the confidence in her drop and she snarled one last time stating “I only think keeping that smug look on your face is that stupid alliance with the skywings, but once you're gone there is no heir to stop me from sitting on that throne.” With one last puff, she walked out leaving everyone but the queen staring at the interaction. 
Chapter 4 
As The fire turned to ash and the 3 dragonets drifted off into a distant dream realm wall DarkDrift wandered through the abandoned halls to find more paper to keep the fire going. Many paintings were covering the wall, he stopped to look at one, the Quartz Winglet. When he was barely out of the egg he had heard the greatness they were doing for the world and had studied every dragon who ever entered the halls. His favorite of the many was the synthetic Icewing royalty Icicle, he would stay up late reading reports of the teachers about her behavior. It was Ironic since she was the one who started this mess after assassinating StarFlight she fled back to the palace, told the royal family about how she was treated, and soon after sent guards to gather the rest of the icewings from the school. After Starflight’s death was really when Pirriya lost faith in such a thing as peace and the school disbanded just like that. Soon after Icicle Killed Glacie, though many didn’t think of her as being fit for the throne, especially in the sense she was only the niece to the pasted queen, but the guards and the rest of the royal family viewed her as such. He wondered why his past self was so interested in clever Icewing who had brought her cold harshness to the rest of the icewings, even stealing one of the Seawing’s animus who had only revealed their powers to her whimpering brother granting her offspring his powers. He shook is head. Now was not the time to think of what's long gone. He thought to himself wall the dragonets slept he went out to clear is mind and if he was lucky he might even find some prey. 
"Have you come to stare off or to learn?!" said a strange fellow who seemed to be covered in mist and fog. Their voice sounded like the snap of a whip DarkDrift seemed to ignore the harsh dragon. 
"I SAID if you are to be part of this family you are to be at the top of your classes" The figure stepped forward and was seen as a NightWing who wore scraps of leather across thier legs. 
 
)Note This is not completed and might be changed in the future) 
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