The Trees Beyond

== Prologue ==
Talons raced along the grass, tearing it up and sending it flying. A brown LeafWing ran for his life.
Bramble froze, turning around, checking to make sure he wasn't being followed by anyone.
No dragons were in sight. He couldn't hear anything, either, though his hearing wasn't the best these days. He continued on, more slowly, but cautious. His legs were sore from all the running, and his back left leg felt numb. But Bramble continued on, ignoring the pain. Suddenly, he tripped, rolling down a hill and stopped right in front of a dragon. He panicked at first, before recognizing the familiar shape of his RainWing partner, Lupine.
Lupine glanced down at him, her expression unamused. She helped him up, and glanced at him expectantly.
"I suppose you intend on explaining what happened to cause you to be like this?" Lupine asked, sitting down.
"About that..." Bramble couldn't bring himself to go on. Instead, he glanced at his talons, which were covered in mud from all his running. Lupine seemed to notice that he wasn't really feeling alright, and she curled her tail around his affectionately.
"You can tell me later, I suppose," She told him as he looked up to face her. "But for now, you should probably rest."
Bramble thought that was a good idea.
At that moment, he felt like anything was a good idea.
He was too tired to move, so Lupine dragged him to a nest, where he fell asleep.
His dreams were quiet and empty, but he could've sworn he'd heard someone, sounding similar to Lupine, saying something, but he couldn't quite make it out.
He was pretty sure that she had been commenting on his bleeding leg, from where he'd been attacked by the SandWing known as Spike.
But he fell deeper and deeper into the endless void of sleep, and his mind drifted away from that thought.
== Chapter 1 ==
Berry felt excited. She was here! Home! At last! She raced along the rainforest floor, her scales turning pink and yellow. She spread her wings, which had turned pink, and she flew off, searching for the RainWing village. She longed to go home. She had to go home. So she would.
The village slowly came into view, as Berry drew nearer and nearer. Home! It felt so close, yet so far at the same time.
Berry swooped down, landing on a platform with a THUD. Several RainWings turned to look at her. She panted, changing her scales back to their boring teal color. She resisted collapsing, as she looked around. Everything looked the same as when she'd left.
A blue dragon bounded forward. Chirp. Berry's bestest friend in the whole wide world.
"Berry!" She exclaimed. "You're back already!"
An emerald-green dragon stepped forward. Queen Glory.
"Shouldn't you be at school, Berry? Did something happen?" Glory stared expectantly at Berry. Berry shook her head.
"No, I just felt... lonely!" She lied. She felt bad for lying to her queen, but she knew she couldn't mention the old Night Kingdom visit.
"Well, you can stay. For now. But it's not going to be my fault if Sunny comes to look for you," Glory told her.
Glory walked off, signaling to the crowd to leave as well.
Chirp extended her talon, and Berry grabbed onto it, as Chirp pulled her up.
"Are you alright?" Chirp asked.
"I just flew too fast.." Berry replied, feeling tired.
"Well, come on, you can rest. It's sun time anyway," Chirp replied.
Berry practically dragged herself onto a platform, falling asleep within seconds.
== Chapter 2 ==
Berry woke to see Chirp standing over her.
"Chirp... What do you want..?" Berry mumbled, half-asleep.
"You've been asleep for way too long!. You need to get up and come flying with me!"
Berry pulled herself to her talons, staring directly into Chirp's sun-colored eyes.
"So, where are we headed?" Berry asked, still a little tired.
"I thought we could visit the waterfall! You know, the one we used to visit when we were younger!" Chirp replied, hints of yellow and pink racing up her turquoise scales.
Berry nodded, and followed Chirp through the trees.
After a while, they arrived at a shimmering blue pond.
"Here we are!" Chirp exclaimed, as though Berry didn't already know they arrived.
She stopped by the pond. Someone had been here. Recently.
Pebbles had been lazily tossed into the pond, and the ferns and bracken all around were bent out of place.
Berry glanced at Chirp, and realized she hadn't noticed.
Better not bring it up. Don't wanna ruin this for her.
She sat by the pond, curling her tail around her talons. Chirp sat beside her.
This is nice.
Chirp froze, her scales fading to a pale green.
Something was wrong. Terribly wrong. Berry had never seen Chirp like this.
The birds had stopped singing (though Berry never realized they were singing until they stopped), and the waterfall seemed miles away.
Then, everything was back to normal. The birds sung, the waterfall sounded nearby.
And Chirp's scales were back to normal.
Am I seeing things?
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