Wings of Runes

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《So, uh, hi! My name is Rhyolite, and this is my story, but before we move on, please read these rules
1. Do not edit, please, while you probably are trying to be nice and correct my awful writing, I'd appreciate it if you left the edit button alone.
2. Constructive criticism is welcome, I always love to know how I can improve.
3. I think that's it [...] Hm? What? No, that's not necessary, they don't need to- AH!
4. Hey, I'm Tenebris, and I'm here to add another rule. Don't you dare! This is MY story! But I'm an important character! A side character, or maybe just the comic relief. I'm not comic relief I'm- [sounds on intense struggle]
OK, sorry about him, that's ALL THE RULES AND NONE MORE ARE REQUIRED. No, they need to hear about- [sound of a NightWing being strangled]... He might not make a reapperance in this story [chuckles nervously]
Also, this beautiful cover was made by uni》
==Prologue==
Rhyolite's early life was full of lies. Everything she thought she knew about herself and her world wasn't true. Her tribe wasn't the greatest in Pyrrhia after all.
And it was all because of her parents.
As soon as she scrambled out her egg, her life was chaos.
Bright lights surrounded her as she pushed the the barriers that held her back. And two SeaWings came into view.
"Looks just like you," One said, holding her talon out to the small dragonet. She happily scampered over to her talons and climbed up her legs to nestle on her shoulder.
Mother opened her wings and flashed the florescent stripes underneath. The dragonet opened her tiny wings and flashed her all her lights, but something was wrong. 
"What was that?" Asked Father, who stomped over and lifted the small dragonet off her mother's shoulders, with no particular skill or gentleness. He poked her sharply in the stomach to make her open her wings. The dragonet squeaked in terror at her father and opened her small wings for him to inspect. 
"It's nothing like me," Father growled, "I wouldn't squeak in terror if my father wanted to inspect me. And I certainly don't have weird scales like this!" He forcefully pulled his daughter's wing open to reveal the strange light patterns underneath. Instead of graceful swirls. The light up patches looked more like letters from the ancient dragon alphabet. He moved to inspect her tail, which had similar patterns. The little dragonet tried to pull her wing free from her father's tight grip, she fell out her her father's talons with a soft thump.
"Stop," Mother said sternly, "You're hurting her." She gently scooped up the tiny dragon and cuddled her, "Don't worry about him, Laguz, he's just grumpy you have really cool scales and he doesn't." She glared at her husband.
"Laguz?!" Father asked indignantly, "That's the stupidest name I've ever heard."
"It is not," Mother argued, "Laguz is the ancient magical symbol for water, my daughter has rune-like patterns on her wings. It fits."
"Fine," Father relented, "Call that creature what ever you want, but it will not tarnish my reputation."
Mother snorted, "She won't."
==Part One: Out of The Ocean==
===One===
Laguz could hear her parents’ voices echoing off the cliffs as she swooped down to the landing outside their home. They were arguing again, and as usual. She slipped into her cave on the far side of the house. Despite there being several feet of rock between her and her parents, she could still heat her parents arguing as if they were right next to her.
"I'm not going to accept the position!" Father was yelling, "My rank is much too important!"
"Queen Coral isn't going to reconsider." Mother insisted, "You're lucky she's offering to make you a part of her council."
"Until she makes me her top advisor I will refuse her offers." Father snarled, "And it's all your dragonet's fault."
"She's your daughter too," Mother reminded him.
"It is no dragonet of mine," Father said, "My dragonet wouldn't have deformed scales, my dragonet wouldn't be a gender-questioning lunatic, my dragonet wouldn't have some absurdly stupid name like Laguz!"
"I'm here," Laguz said to herself, "Just minding my own business."
Her parents never took notice of her, ever since she came out to them as genderfluid, mostly to her mother, they'd ignored her even more.
"It doesn't mater what my dragonet's name is," Mother was saying, "She's almost two, and should be in school by now." 
"Where she can flaunt her scales and ruin my reputation?" Father snorted, "Never."
"We're getting nowhere," Mother said, "This argument is going in circles."
Laguz thought she heard her mother leaving her parents cave when there was a large thud, "DON'T YOU DARE WALK AWAY FROM ME," Father roared.
Laguz was up in an instant, she ran into her parents room, her father was standing over her mother his claws extended. 
"Don't touch her!" Laguz cried. She threw herself between her mother and father.
"Get out of the way!" Trident roared, and before she could react, her fathers enormous tail came out of nowhere and smacked her across the face. 
The side of Laguz's face was on fire, she was pretty sure it was bruised, "I'm LEAVING!" She screamed at her father, "If I can't be treated like every other SeaWing in this Kingdom, then I won't be in this Kingdom." 
"You're NOT going anywhere!" Trident roared back, "Imagine my reputation! I would be in utter disgrace" 
"YOU SHOULD BE!" Laguz yelling, her eyes brimming with tears. 
She turned and ran out of her parents room.
"Get back here!" Trident yelled after her.
Laguz shut the door to her room behind her and collapsed on the floor. She cried and cried for hours and hours. She cried until her tear ducts dried up and she couldn’t cry anymore. She lay on the bed and prayed there would be some way around this nightmare.
After hours she got up, dried her face and began to pack her belongings. She wouldn't be needing much, just her scrolls, a dagger for hunting, and if she was lucky, a pouch of gold she could steal from her father.
Just then the door flew open and Trident stood fuming, "I've accepted Coral's offer." He said grandly, "And you, miss, are invited along to meet her."
"What about mother?" Laguz asked, kicking the sack under her bed, "Will she be coming along too?"
"Of course," Father replied impaitantly, "I just came to give you this." He threw a heavy tail band onto the floor. It eas made of heavy gold bands inlaid with pearls, gold chains attached each ring and would probably cover her entire tail. Laguz looked down at the large piece of jewelry, confused, there was no way anyone could swim with it on, let alone fly.
"How will I swim to the Deep Palace in this?" Laguz asked, "It's solid gold and really heavy." She picked it up and weighed it.
"We'll be meeting Coral in the Summer Place," He explained, "But we will be expected to move into the Deep Palace eventually.
Rhyolite sighed and put the clunky tailband on, she noticed it covered the odd runes on her scales, "Are we going to one of the Queen's parties?" She asked.
"Of course," Father said indignatly, "That's how she meets most guests."
Laguz sighed and got dressed. When she came out of her room, she saw that both her parents were equally dressed up with gold and perals.
"Let's go," Trident snapped.
As Laguz had expected, the tail band was extremely heavy, and Laguz felt she was about to fall out of the sky every few seconds. She somehow managed to fly the whole way there without complaining though, much to her amazement.
Laguz wasn't surprised in the slightest that the Summer Palace was beautiful, imposing and majestic. Twelve stories high and pure shiny white stone, the Pavillion immediately made Laguz feel tiny and insignificant, not that she didn't already feel like that around her father.
The highest level was bustling with dragons, and for once, Laguz didn't feel over-dressed. Every dragon at the party was dripping with jewels, pearls and silks. Trident landed first then signaled for his wife. Laguz quietly landed a few feet behind her mother and waited.
They didn't have to wait for long, barely a minute later the Queen arrived. The scrolls hadn't lied about the Queen, if anything, they undersold the Queen. Coral was majestic and beautiful, with blue scales. She was huge too, with enormous blue wings with patterns of webbed talon prints underneath them. Her eyes were a warm green colour, and her neck, chest, and wings were adorned with strands of pearls. She also had a twisted white narwhal horn spear attached to the tip of her tail.
Behind her were two dragons who were both a rich emerald green in colour. Laguz recognized the larger of the two as Prince Gill, husband of the queen. However she had no idea who the dragonet standing behind him was. Coral came across the pavilion to Trident. He bowed deeply to the Queen.
"Your Majesty," He said in the oily voice Laguz hated. "You look radiant and regal, as always. I am beyond grateful for the invitation to your beautiful palace."
Coral looked mildly amused by Trident, "I wouldn't have invited you and your family if I didn't know what I was getting into. Gill, my husband, vouched for you, he said that the two of you served in my mother's army before power was transferred over to me and you started working in the tribes' government."
Gill nodded behind the Queen.
"And this must be your family," Coral said, finally acknowledging Laguz and her mother.
"Yes," Trident said, "This is my wife Atlanta, and," He paused for the slightest moment, "Our daughter, Laguz." Laguz lowered her head and bowed.
"My!" Coral said, delighted, "So polite! I wish my daughter," she shot a look at the SeaWing behind Gill, "Acted like her more often."
Trident smiled with all his teeth, "Well, Your Majesty, discipline and order are the most important things is you want if you expect anything to run smoothly."
"Come with me, child." Coral said, directly to Laguz. Laguz bit back a snarky remark and followed the queen, not daring to look back at her father, who she knew was glaring daggers into her departing back.
Coral led her to the other SeaWing. Up close, she couldn't have been more than a year older than Laguz, but she was deffinetly bulkier. She smiled lightly, "Who's this, mother?" She asked.
"This, Orca," Coral said, "Is my new advisor's daughter, Laguz."
"Princess Ocra," Laguz said, bowing. "An honour to meet you."
"Likewise," The princess said with a smile that reached her eyes.
Laguz rose, she turned to address the queen, but she'd melted into the crowd, chatting animatedly.
Orca tipped her head at Laguz, "I'm five," She said, filling the silence that came between the two dragonets.
"Four," Laguz responded.
"Really?" The princess said, "The way mother was acting around you made me thing you were absolutely ancient." She rolled her eyes dramatically.
Laguz bit back a giggle. "Oh, don't be like that," Orca begged, "Please, my mother isn't here and I'm not queen."
"No," Laguz said, "But I can tell that my father is calculating every move I make."
Ocra delicately raised an eyebrow.
"If I make any mistake, snub the wrong guest, look at the Queen for more than three seconds, become friends with any guests, an he'll make sure I never see this place again." Laguz informed her, "He is very worried about how my actions reflect back on him."
"Please," Orca said, "I'm a princess, you can imagine what my mother thinks of me, when I eat a millisecond before she does."
Laguz nodded slightly, "I can hardly comprehend what your life was like."
"Come with me?" Orca asked, she gestured with her wings towards one of the tallest waterfalls.
"Let me get permission from my father," Laguz said.
She walked purposefully across the pavilion and stopped before her father, "Princess Ocra has requested that I join her on a tour around the palace," She said in a flat voice, "I request your permission to leave the party."
"If it keeps you off my tail out of the Queen's eye for a while," Father said, in a slow bored voice, "Then I suppose, yes. You may."
Laguz was giddy with excitement, but she managed to hold it in. She hurriedly moved towards Orca, who nodded eagerly as the two took off.
===Two===
Orca took them to a beautiful cave close to the canopy. It was constructed of white marble and had a simple stone slab jutted out of the wall. On the stone desk was a variety of knives and brushes. The floor was covered in wood shavings.
"A wood-carving studio?" Laguz asked.
"Not just wood," Orca said, leading Laguz over the a corner.
Laguz stared in front of her at the carving. It was a SeaWing, her scales carved out of a green marble, she almost seemed to be climbing out of the rock she was carved out of. Laguz looked at Orca, who was stating at the statue proudly.
"You?" Laguz guessed.
Orca smiled. Looking proud. "I've been sculpting this for months," She whispers, "I plan to give it to mother- maybe she'll put it in the hatchery so I can look after my little siblings and nieces and nephews."
"Aw," Laguz cried, "That's so cute!" She could imagine it, a stone guardian watching over the eggs at the royal hatchery.
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