One Wish

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Oral always had wanted to journey out and explore, but when she is about to graduate from school, her world turns upside down. Running away from the only place she called home, she becomes a traitor. Secrets from the past emerge and pure evil is what everyone thinks of her. If Oral was evil, did that mean she had to be that- to be something she was labeled- or could she change and be something else?
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|-| Notes = 
 Hey! Just wanted to let you know this is my old work, and I probably won't continue this story! You can take a look at my latest fanfic right here! which I'm activly working on! Thanks! - Astralunar11 
WARNING- There might be a bit violence in the story, along with a few words of language. (turd, idiot, stupid) Also in "Chapter 4" There is a scene that may be too much for a some readers. (killing of an animal) 
Time story takes place- about seven years after the events of book 15 (The Flames of Hope)
Significant changes:
- Visiting Pantala is a bit more usual these days, but dragons still kinda getting used to the idea of dragons from different tribes.
- There was a very short war between the rainwings and nightwings (Nightwings demanding their own nightwing queen, but resolved, Queen Glory still queen of both tribes)
(Note that all the queens are still the same)
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== The Prophecy of Wish ==
When a monster rises,
with the color black,
all will turn on them,
and she shall be sent to the mainstrack,
a book full of hope,
is the weapon to a power's oath,
one wish to be made or not,
one decision to make or not,
or the world will fall apart,
|-| Credits = 
Cover art and writing by Astral. Sticky TOC by R\d+, majorly edited by Astral
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== Prologue ==
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1000 years ago..... 
The cave dripped wet with water droplets splattering all over the rocky ground of the floor. A dragon was curled up in the corner. His eyes was a boring black color, and his scales were purplish-black with hints of blood dabbled across. A small scrawny yellow dragon claws her way in. The cave echoes with the scratches of her claws. 
As soon as the dragon in the corner saw her, he grumbled. Trying to sit up, and then flinched as a spiky rock brushed across his knees.
"Hello there, my fellow friend." She smiled at him mischievously. 
"Let me out! I won't tell you! No matter how much you want me too." He glared at her.
"Oh, come on." She says. "Just tell me! Where is it?!?" 
The chains around the nightwing, clanked against the stone. The dragon backed up against the stone wall. He was full of scars and blood and his eyes glistened.
The dragon glared again. "I won't tell you....you can't make me." 
"Oh, yes I can!" She sneered. "I'll just send out a hunter party after your dragonet, if that's okay with you.."
"No! Don't!"The nightwing cried. "Don't punish him when he didn't do anything!" 
The sandwing stomped down. "Well if you don't tell me, that's going to happen!" 
The nighwing shifted in his spot, looking uncomfortable. He looked around and gave a uneasy look to the sandwing.
"Your already to the end of your life Coalsharker." The sandwing continued. "Just tell me where that object is, and your family will be free. You'll be free too. Now, how amazing would that be?" 
"Either way kills me and my family." He shook the chains around him violently, rattling. "You don't deserve it Sandpit."
The sandwing furiously clawed at the floor, and then looked up at Coalsharker in disgust. 
"Ugh. Why isn't this working?" She mumbled to herself, letting her voice trail of into a whisper.
Silence erupted in the cave full of distrust.
"I gave you the easy choice at first." She finally said. "But I guess I need to do it the hard way. Guards! Bring them in."
Two sandwings huffed as they pushed in two nightwings into the cave. 
"Daddy!" The little dragonet cried.
"Pebble! D-don't move Pebble." Coalsharker cautiously said to his son.
"HA! Is that REALLY what you named your son?" The sandwing laughed. "Guards, bring me tissues and a dead goat, because I'm literally going to kill myself laughing on this very spot!"
"Don't insult my son!" Coalsharker sternly said wobbling over, but the chains painfully stopped him from moving any closer to his son.
"Coalsharker! Are..are you okay? Whats going on? I don't get it...why are you in chains?" His wife cried out.
"Fiercedreamer...I'm...I'm so sorry. I-I didn't tell you.." He mumbled ashamed, gripping his claws on his head.
"What? What do you mean?" She tried to move forward to him, but the guards sternly held out their arm and shook their head.
"Mommy? Whats happening?" The three-year old dragonet whimpered. 
"Everything is okay honey. Just some...um business." Fiercedreamer whispered.
"I have to tell you something! Before I die!" Coalsharker worriedly cried out.
"What-"
"Alright thats ENOUGH! I don't care about sappy relationships like these! I know, lets get to the part where the nightwing dies!" The sandwing says, perched up above a higher rock.
"Who-who are you?" Fiercedreamer said, looking at her.
"Oh, yes let me introduce myself. I'm Sandpit, and your husband is being assassinated right here, right NOW!" Sandpit grins.
"For...for what? He didn't do anything! Please, don't do anything to Coalsharker!" She pleaded.
"Mommy!" Pebble whines. "Why is she so rude, can you tell her to stop mommy?"
"Uh..Pebble please stay quiet for a moment." 
"Wow!" Sandpit dramatically says, looking shocked. "Of all the dragons in the Pyrrhia, I didn't think you wouldn't know! Wow this changes so many things!"
Fiercedreamer confusingly titled her head and gave a what-is-she-talking-about look to Coalsharker.
"I didn't tell you earlier, and I'm really sorry." Coalsharker took a deep breath. "I..I know where the...secret cave of wishes..is"
== Part 1 - Darkness of the past ==
== Chapter 1 ==
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Around 3000 years later...
"Sis! Sis! Wake up!" a little rainwing says jumping with joy.
She pounded onto Oral, grinning with excitement. 
"Arghhhhh." Oral said shifting in her bed. "Whyy??? I wanna sleep more.."
The little rainwing rolled her eyes and sighed. "You have too! It's the day! You can't just waste your time sleeping here!"
"Noooo..stop Dewfall...The day when I get tortured from my beautiful...sleep..." Oral mumbled.
"Ugh." Dewfall paused for a moment. "Why is my sister sooo grumpy? Thats it!"
Dewfall smirked, and then pulled out a bunch of leaves from under her claws and shoved them inside her sisters mouth.
Oral jolted up, hacking out the leaves. "Aughh! Why did you have to use the grovner leaves? You...you little...terd!"
"Hehe! You look so funny now, coughing out leaves! Were they spicy?" Dewfall fell to the ground and started rolling around laughing.
Ugh. Why, why did I ever, ever get a sister??? Gosh these leaves are so salty and spicy at the same time! Oral thought to herself.
"Come on Oral! Lets go, breakfast is awaiting us!" The rainwing danced around, prancing in circles. "Think about the things we are going to see! It's going to be amazing!"
"Uhh..yeah..sure." Oral sighed and heaved herself out of her bed. 
The rainwing tilted her head and grabbed one of Oral's talons. 
"Come on, aren't you excited? I am!" She said, squealing while her scales turned different shades of purple. 
"For..for what?" Oral yawned gripping the floor so she wouldn't collapse to the ground. 
Dewfall gasped. "Please don't tell me you forgot...." 
Oral just stared back at her little sister. Uhh...am I missing something here? What is she talking about? Oral wondered. 
"Its fieldtrip day! Blossumsprout is taking us on a tour! Isn't that exciting?" Dewfall jumped up and down, her scales turning shades of bright magenta pink. 
"Wha??" Oral mumbled, half awake, and then jolted forward, eyes wide when Dewfall poked her with a stupendously sharp stick. 
"I mean yeah! Of course exciting! But...whats the tour on again? I mean I forgot..so..." Oral said scratching her head. 
"Finally! You're awake FULLY! Okay anyways, yes were having a tour and were going to the deeper part of the jungle! Isn't that amazing? I've never been there before and I just have so many words to explain this but not that many actually and...." Dewfall chattered on trailing of. 
"Oh, thats cool. But um..don't you ever want to explore..out of the jungle? What lies out there?" Oral said grinning, rubbing her chin. 
"Meh..not much. Plus its forbidden...so whatever!" Dewfall paused then added. "I really can't wait to see the deeper part of the jungle! What if theres..." 
The rest Oral didn't bother here. It was true, no rainwing left the jungle. She didn't know why, but every "lazy" rainwing here was happy with the food...so leaving the jungle became one of those things that never happened. 
Apparently leaving the jungle was very rare and now was considered banned to do. Oral always wanted to see what the outside kingdoms were like. On the other claw, it didn't seem like it mattered to Dewfall. Oral brushed away a sigh. 
Just thinking about the outside kingdoms made her stomach clench tightly because sometimes she felt like she wanted to leave the kingdom. She knew it wasn't allowed but the thought still brushed her mind every so often. 
Oral and Dewfall headed out the door toward the leafy table full of fruits on baskets. 
"Oooh. Mangos, yes!!" Dewfall said cheerfully skipping forward, and then snatching the fruit into her claws. 
Since rain wings were vegetarians, they didn't eat any meat. From learning she knew that all the other dragons ate meat. 
Eww..how do dragons even eat meat? Soo gross. Oral thought crinkling up her face.
But it was normal for other dragons. Blossumsprout had once taught them about sandwings and how they live in the desert. In the past rainwings didn't know much, but these days, Queen Glory had taken education into consideration and nowadays there were few schools scattered through the rainforest. She knew about mudwings too, and how they lived in swamps. She also remembered icewings, they lived in the ice kingdom where everything was cold. A shiver ran up her spine just thinking about it.
"So...what are you going to eat??" Dewfall asked midway between chomping on her mango.
"Uhh.." Oral quickly grabbed a mango. "A mango..um..just like you!"
"Yay!" Dewfall smiled. 
Yellowish-orange juice trickled down the chin of of the purple rainwing, some splattered down on her ruff and her mouth overall was full of mango.
"Dewfall...you gotta eat more....properly." Oral said pointing at her chin.
"Urrghhh.." Dewfall quickly finished the mango. "Why do you ALWAYS tell me that? Fine I'm gonna go wash my face..." 
Dewfall trotted away murmuring to herself. 
Oral always wondered what was out there. She knew it was forbidden but she still couldn't help herself, her mind kept tugging at her, urging her to leave, to explore. But Oral always held back and shaked her head. 
"Alright I'm back. " Dewfall rubbed her face. "See, nice and SHINY." 
Oral rolled her eyes and started clawing her way out the door. 
"Come on. Lets go, Blossumsprout is waiting for us." Oral exclaimed. 
Soon the two rainwings arrived at the patchy grass clearing, where a bright yellow dragon with orange spots dabbled across was standing, perched on a big rock. They were many other rainwings chatting and the whole place was buzz. 
"Alright, alright. Calm down. I know today is the special fieldtrip day, and yes, they are a few dragonets here who are graduating this school as this will be their last time with us." Blossumsprout called out. 
Oral gulped her face feeling hot. Since Oral was about to turn six years old, she was officially going to leave the school. On the other claw, her little sister was only four and would continue school for two more years. The thought of being separated from her sister made her sad. Her sister could be annoying at times, but she always loved her sister, no matter how annoying she was. 
"Oral! You're going to graduate! You're sooo lucky! Aww...I'm gonna miss you!" Dewfall said smiling brightly. 
"Yeah..umm" Oral gulped again, her heart pounding. 
Oral continued, managing to choke out a few words. "Thats..umm..great." 
Dewfall face fell. "Are you okay? I know your nervous, and its okay we can send letters to each other." 
Oral sighed and held back a few tears. She'd never made any friends before, so she was going to be as lonely as ever. When you graduated from a small school, you'd head over to a bigger school and work there for a year. Then when you officially turned seven, you'd...be on your own. You'd be officially a grownup, and the fact that being seven was only a year away made Oral's head hurt. 
"Yes." She admitted. "I..I don't want to leave you!" 
Dewfall smiled weakly. "It's okay. I'll be fine. And so will you." 
"Tha-thanks Dewfall." Oral said back. 
Oral folded her wings in so there would be more room for more dragons to come in. It was so crowded, Oral felt claustrophobic for a moment. 
"Alright. Now that everyone is here. Lets first start the graduation ceremony. These are the dragons that have finished their studies and now are at the age of six almost. Springflower, Coconut, Oral and Sloth, come up!" 
Oral took a deep breath and smiled at Dewfall as she gave a reassuring shove towards the platform. 
I can do this. I can..no I can't. I don't want to have to leave Dewfall. What if I fail the final test? Maybe I should! Then I could stay with Dewfall! Oral glanced back at Dewfall. But thats not what Dewfall would want. My sister would want me to go. She'd want me to grow up. But that's not what I want. I don't want to grow up too fast. I want to stay a dragonet. What is wrong with that?
Oral slowly made her way over to the platform, following three other dragons. 
"Now it's time for the test. The test for whether you're going to graduate.....or not" Blossumsprout sternly said.
Oral gulped again. Maybe...maybe she'd pass?
"Sloth, your up first." 
The grey rainwing quietly strolled over, her head hanging. She looked miserable. 
"Is...is he okay?" Oral whispered to Coconut. 
Coconut glumly shook her head, her vibrate pink scales turning the color of grey. 
"Sloth isn't always sad. But...but for some reason these days he's so sad. He used to be bright pink everyday." Coconut whispered back. 
"Maybe...maybe Sloth was nervous about graduating Maybe he was sad to leave his friends?" Oral shifted her feet. 
"No. It can't be that because it's been going on for a whole week. Surely no dragon can stay nervous for a whole week...I mean even poor Kapok who sad most of the time never stays sad for a whole...week." Coconut answered. 
"Alright Sloth, pass the test, and you'll be able to graduate." 
Blossumsprout hung a necklace around Sloth's neck. It glowed and vibrated intensely, and then came to a stop glimmering the color of yellow. 
"Congratulations Sloth! The necklace has confirmed you will graduate!" Blossumsprout grinned widely. 
Sloth slumped and sighed as he started making his way through the crowd. 
"W-wait! You forget your congratulation vine!" Blossumsprout yelled. 
But Sloth disappeared and didn't come back. 
"Thats...uhhh..unfortunate. Oh well. Coconut! You're up next!" 
Coconut graduated too as the necklace showed the color yellow, if it showed black, that meant they weren't to graduate. Springflower also graduated, and soon it was Oral's turn. 
"Oral! Your turn!" 
Oral gulped, and felt her scales turn a shade of pale green. It was finally time. It was finally time to go see whether she'd move on. 
I can't fail the test on purpose apparently. Oral thought. The enchanted necklace...just decides it for us. 
Oral stepped up onto the platform and looked at Blossumsprout. 
She gently placed the necklace with the pendant onto her neck. Oral felt the brush of the necklace against her scales. The necklace started vibrating, just like for the others. Oral felt her heartbeat raising up. 
Please, please make me graduate...or is that what I want? To be honest, she didn't really know what she wanted. But the majority of her mind wanted her to graduate, knowing her future would be better of graduating at the right time and not spending a extra year at the school with her sister. 
Oral felt her chest rising. Finally the necklace stopped vibrating, and it turned the color of....black. 
Everyone gasped, the whole crowd erupted in whispers and confused looks. Oral wanted to cry. She didn't understand what she did. 
"Wha-what? This..this has never happened before." Blossumsprout's scales turned a shade of greenish - teal. 
"What..what do you mean?" Oral whispered, her eyes full of horror. 
"Its...its just that everyone in history has graduated before. You didn't...the stone...it..it turned black." 
"Is...is that true? All this time dragonets my age were worrying and..." Oral trailed off. 
The crowd nodded their eyes looking in fear at eachother. 
"We've never had one in generations...." Blossumsprout choked out. 
"What? Please tell me!" Oral exclaimed. 
"There used to be a dragon...a long time ago." Blossumsprout continued. "He...he failed the test. He was a monster. He suddenly turned evil and..and he just was bad dragon. A-according to the legend, if the necklace shows black...it shows pure...evil." 
"What...what are you saying?" Oral knew what answer was coming. 
"Oral, I'm saying..." Blossumsprout sternly looked upon her. "You're dangerous. Pure evil has come upon us rainwings, and so you must be executed." 
== Chapter 2 ==
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"What?!? No! I-I didn't do anything wrong at all!" Oral cried out.
"Someone! Call the guards over!" Blossumsprout glared at Oral.
"No! Stop, Oral didn't do anything!" Dewfall protested.
Dragons came to hold Dewfall back from pouncing on Blossumsprout. She kicked and scrambled with rage trying to get out of their arms, but it was useless.
I-I can't believe it. I'm no villian. I'm a ordinary dragon. Who is good. But thats what....I used to be. Oral brushed away tears trying to take in the whole scene.
Two rainwings entered with armor and stinger in their hands. They raced over to Oral, rushing through the crowd.
Oral freaked out. Flapping her wings to take off, she frowned. Why was she bad? She hadn't done anything. But Oral was too late, the guards seized her and pinned her down. Oral struggled, trying to get out of their grip. 
"Alright, she's pinned down! Everyone can calm down!" One guard roared out.
The other guard took out the stinger and stabbed it into Oral's neck. The world suddenly felt blurry. She could see the blur of Dewfall's colorful scales and the ridegy smirk on Blossumsprouts face.
"Noo! Stop.." 
The voices around Oral murmured. Suddenly blackness fell. But soon light came again as she forcefully opened her eyes.
"Do you think the stabber worked?" 
"Yes it did, I think, Quick take her.." 
No,,I'm...not...bad. I'm a...good dragon..." Oral thought, and then her eyes flickered shut finally.
The rest Oral didn't hear as she drifted into a painful sleep.
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She woke up to the sigh of horrified face staring down at her. 
She yelped, startled. 
"Um...hey." The silkwing tilted his head curiously.
Oral sat up, staring at the silkwing.
"Umm...hello." She paused. "Uh..who are you?"
The silkwing breathed out in relief. "So you aren't a monster...are you?"
Oral jolted forward. "What!?!? No, no, no, no! I'm a very NORMAL rainwing in this NORMAL rainforest."
He blinked. They both stared and glanced around, trying not to get things awkward. The sounds of the rainforest was the only thing she heard.
"Yeah...um are you sure you're not going to go...evil and kill me right now?" 
"No, I won't. I'm not a monster! Umm, who are you?"
"Oh, right! Forgot to answer the first time.." He glanced around. "Its...um Dorne." 
Oral blinked a few times. Thats not a normal silkwing name at all...
"Um..." Oral fidgeted with vines on the ground. "Thats not really a normal-"
"I know, I know.." He glumly looked away. 
"But uh its a great name! I like it, Dorne, Dorne, Dorne, Dorne..."
"Yeah now you've gotta stop." Dorne laughed. "Your going to make me hate my own name!"
The two dragons started laughing. 
"Alright...I'll stop..." Oral paused for dramatic effect. "Dorne."
Dorne rolled his eyes. "So, whats your name?" 
"Oral." 
"Uhh...what is it-" 
"My name means to talk or to speak. But um ironically I don't talk much." Oral laughed.
"Haha. So its NOT named after a plant?" Dorne smirked.
"Uhh..." Oral finally answered. "Yeah. Pretty much."
"So why am I here? Are you one of those executioner guys because this will be the last time you hear me talk." Oral asked.
"Nope. I kinda grabbed you and escaped so were kinda...wanted at the very moment now." Dorne explained.
"Yerrghh!" Oral jumped. "I'm with a runaway criminal!"
"I'm not bad! Unlike you, your a monster everyone hates right now!" 
"Yeah. I think I know. So if you escaped with me....where are we right now?" 
"Were in the deeper part of the rainforest." Dorne gestured to the trees and plants.
"Aww...dang it. My sister would love to come here, she's been practically jumping with joy!" Oral sighed.
"Oh..yeah." Dorne gulped. "Bad news, is the really bright yellowy rainwing your sister?"
"Yes, thats her alright."
"She was also tranquilized and believe it or not, but she kinda...." Dorne trailed off.
"Just get to the point!" Oral exclaimed. 
"Your sister murdered this dragon. It was the dragon who called the guards." 
"W-what? My sister would...never do that! She's only four! Are...are you sure?" Oral gasped.
"Well the dragon was very angry and said something about how she wasn't going to let them take her sister." Dorne replied.
"Oh." Oral admitted. "That's her. She murdered her own teacher...I can't believe this. Blossumsprout is...dead."
"I'm really sorry." Dorne put a reassuring hand on Oral's shoulder.
"So where is she now?" Oral asked.
"She's in prison now. Yikes..." 
"We...we have to get her out!" Oral sat right up.
"Woah, woah, woah! We're already wanted criminals right now! Releasing a prisoner will kill us for sure!" Dorne said gesturing as he slid his claw across his neck.
"I know, but I still need to save her." Oral sighed. "She's my sister. I can't just leave her alone like that."
"I know," Dorne mumbled. "siblings...are worth saving. But...imagine the.."
"Dorne? Are..are you okay?" Oral asked concerned.
"I used to have a sister too." Dorne smiled. "But, she's missing now. I haven't been able to find her for the past days. Its just, what..what if its too dangerous."
Poor Dorne, it looks like he used to have a sister too. Oral thought sympathetically. 
"We'll try to find your sister, but please, please help me get my sister out of prison!" Oral pleaded.
Dorne stared and then nodded. "Okay, but if you haven't noticed, I'm a silkwing and....I probably shouldn't be here."
"Oh right! What...why are you here? Aren't you back on Pantala? A visit, I presume?" Oral curiously asked.
"Questions for later."
The sun was already starting to set and it would be dark soon. Maybe now would be the perfect time to strike. 
"Here we should get some sleep. I'll wake you up at midnight for our plan, okay?" Dorne yawned.
"Yes. Thank you...Dorne. You don't know how much this means to me." 
"Yeah, yeah. Now of you go to sleep." Dorne rolled his eyes.
But secretly Oral could see he was thankful for her too. Oral curled up near a patch of leaves and sighed. I really hope Dewfall is alright. She better be. At least Dorne is here...too help me...if I'm a monster now, or am I? I certainly don't feel like one. I don't want to be the dragon everyone's afraid of. I want to be the dragon people like. Not runaway from.
Oral drifted into a frustrating sleep, thinking about what she was going to do.
She was a monster now, and there was nothing she could do about it.
== Chapter 3 ==
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"Oral, time to go." Dorne whispered.
"Ughhh....stop it Dewfall...not yet...." Oral stubbornly murmured.
"Umm...Oral its me, Dorne." 
"Huh? Who...who's..." Oral blinked her eyes open. "oh, sorry its you."
Oral shifted awake, getting up. The moon was shining bright in the sky. White light shone down on Dorne's face and the moon was the only light source for Oral.
"Are you ready?" Dorne asked.
Oral nodded. 
"Alright, just be quiet, we don't want to get noticed." Dorne whispered.
Oral and Dorne quietly made their way out of leaves. The rainforest in the night sounded quite different that in the day. In the day you could hear the sounds of birds cooing and the rustle of leaves falling from the monkeys swinging from trees. But in the night....it was quiet. But it wasn't all quiet, they were the sounds of bugs chirping and buzzing, hidden anywhere. The thought of a bug coming out of no where and climbing up her legs didn't feel good. She wasn't very fond of bugs, even though she had grown up in a place full of bugs.
They ducked under branches clamping their wings tight at their side. Finally they came upon the same clearing all the drama had happened. 
Oral stopped and stared at the clearing ashamed. 
"Why am I bad? Why didn't the necklace shine yellow? Why me?" Oral softly asked herself.
"Calm down. Those are a LOT of questions, and honestly I don't know the answer to two of them."
Oral whipped her head around. "Y-you have information? Tell me! Tell me everything you know!"
"No, no, no, no. I don't got any info here." Dorne sighed. "But I know that you're not bad. You have a...a true heart. Believe me when I say that your not bad, okay?"
"I-I...I'm bad...I'm evil just like they said. I might not feel it..." Oral sternly looked upon Dorne. "But I'm evil and...I can't change that."
"Yes, you can! The first thing you can do is prove yourself." 
"How?" Oral cried. "I'm nobody! But thats what I used to be, and what I've always wanted to be! But, no! Life decided to push me down anyways! I've tried my best to be a great rainwing, but now I really can't be that at all!"
They walked in silence the rest of the way. All Oral did was follow Dorne. She didn't feel like talking now. The silkwing quietly was walking across the patchy grass, where trees were everywhere, their branches hanging down. His four wings fluttered as he jumped over a stream.
Why would Dorne be here? He's a silkwing, so he should be on Pantala. Well these days there are more visitors, but its pretty unusual to come and just...rescue me. I wonder how old he is. I think silkwings get their wings at age six...so he must be older than six right? 
Suddenly they came upon a river that was 20 feet wide. Dorne halted to a stop, staring at the flowing water.
"Umm...Dorne we need to keep moving. The sun will rise in a few hours!" Oral whisper-shouted.
Dorne shaked his head. "No...I don't like water. At least I don't like to swim in it."
"Um, yeah. Thats why we have wings, right?" Oral giggled, flapping her wings and fluttering in the air.
Dorne just stared at the ground, he didn't even move.
Maybe he didn't understand me. But surely he wouldn't forget he had wings, right?
"Um.." Oral cleared her throat. "I was trying to say that we had wings...so we can just fly over."
"No. I just got these wings yesterday. I haven't tried flying with them yet. What if I fall in the water?"
"Ohhh," Oral realized. "So you just went through your metamorphosis?"
"Huh, you know about that?" 
"I'm not dumb." Oral rolled her eyes. "I've paid attention to class."
"Haha, I wasn't assuming you were dumb. Just not many dragons KNOW that yet." Dorne said.
"Queen Glory cares about education, so we know. Maybe you could just try to fly over?"
Dorne took a deep breath and started flapping his four wings, he tried to soar over the river, but lost balance and started plummeting down towards a big bolder.
Uh..oh. I need to save him. He might break bone if I don't.
Oral dived in time, soaring her wings and shoving him of course in mid flight. He landed with a thud on the other side of the river, rolling to a stop.
"Ahh..." Dorne rubbed his head, his antennas twitching. "thank you...it wouldn't have been any better falling on a rock."
Oral gracefully landed. Three moons! He almost fell and I'm not about to deal with a blood bath. So I was right, he's six.
"I'm glad you're okay."
"I'm sorry for being such a trouble." He turned a shade of deep red.
He's embarrassed. Oral realized. He's embarrassed because he can't fly properly yet.
"Don't worry," Oral said circling him. "You'll learn to fly soon."
Dorne smiled back gratefully. They continued padding along the mossy path, until they found the village.
"Alright, we're pretty close!" Oral whispered.
But then she heard the munching of food. Someone was there. 
"What? Dorne did you hear that?" 
"Uhh...yes." Dorne said eating a mango.
"Ugh..Dorne its just you. WHY ARE YOU EATING RIGHT NOW!?!?" Oral grumbled.
"Sshhh! Be quite!" Dorne hushed her.
"Huh, says the one eating mangos like my sister." Oral laughed.
"Alright, I'm done. Just a quick nibble, you know? Just hungry..." Dorne trailed off.
They reached the prison soon. Oral had never visited the prison before. Lucky her, many rainwings had mentioned it being north of the village, far, far away. But the prison wasn't your ordinary prison, it wasn't a too bad place to live in. It was actually quite beautiful and there was vines kept as the windows, but purposely not to closed together.
Queen Glory probably wanted the prisoners to still get light. Prison is prison, but it shouldn't be too torturing. Everyone deserves light. Oral thought looking around. 
"Huh, doesn't look like a prison too me. Are you sure we aren't at the castle?" Dorne joked.
"Yeah, this is the prison believe it or not."
"Ohhhh...okayyy. Nice prison..." Dorne stared in aw.
"Alright we're not here to stare, lets get my sister out already!" Oral shoved him playfully.
"Right. What were here for." 
They tip-toed their way towards the door. The sun was going to rise in a hour, so they didn't have much time. Dorne clutched the door, shaking it violently. 
"Urghh!" Dorne scoffed. "Stupid door."
"Uhh...its locked you can't expect a prison to be like come-in-we-leave-the-door-open-and-not-locked place." Oral laughed.
Oral could see Dorne's expression in the dark. He blushed and set his claws on the ground again.
"Righhhttt..." Dorne muttered embarrassed again. "So how do we get in?"
Yikes...I made him embarrassed again. Is that bad? Should I be better than that? What am I doing to myself? I don't care what Dorne thinks of me, obviously. 
He gestured to the door. Oral shrugged.
"A guard must have it." Oral softly answered. "Just don't know which one."
"I don't see any guards around though." Dorne looked around.
"Ohhh.." Oral wanted to slap her forehead. "Queen Glory doesn't want the guards to not sleep, they only work in the morning."
"WHAT KINDA GUARDED PLACE IS THIS?!?" Dorne nearly yelled.
"Shhh!" Oral put a claw over her mouth. "Theres not many SECRET missions going on here, so probably why. Remember, the world is at PEACE! Glory obviously didn't think it was needed."
"I guess..." Dorne glanced at Oral's face. "Why are you SO MUCH smarter than me?"
"HA!" Oral laughed. "I'm just smart I guess."
Dorne rolled his eyes. "If your smart then where are the keys? Hey don't give me that look! You're the lazy rainwing who lives here!"
"I am NOT lazy! Remember, we were over that label YEARS ago. Sorry, you might be a little out of date right now!" Oral said imitating a squeaky voice. 
"Hey! I'm not 1000 years old or something! Just a normal six year old rainwing!" Dorne chuckled.
"Yeah, well you seem-" Oral giggled, but was cut of as a nightwing three times her size grabbed her.
He cuffed her mouth with leaf.
"Uh-oh! I think we were caught!" Dorne looked up horrified.
The nightwing smirked and pulled out a knife, showing it close to Oral's neck. 
"No! Don't hurt her! Don't you dare!" Dorne yelled standing guard, he scowled.
What if I die? What if this is the end? Does Dorne really care about me? Or is he using me?
"Come one Dorne. We all know this is a little monster." He grumbled, as many other nightwings scrambled out of the trees.
What, whats going on? H-how does he know Dorne's name?
"Just let us kill her for the rainwings, and we'll give you the gold you wanted." Another scrawny nightwing said.
"What? Dorne?" Oral asked her mouth open wide.
"I-I...I'm sorry Oral." He dug his claws in the dirt. "I..I work for the nightwings here."
No..no! I trusted Dorne! Maybe thats why there was something so unusual about Dorne. Because he wasn't normal. He worked for a group of nightwings. Oral's thoughts practically screamed at her for trusting him.
And I hadn't known the whole time.
== Chapter 4 ==
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Oral was never a fan of nightwings. They were dark black and seemed rather creepy. Although the dislike of nightwings didn't help at all, as Queen Glory had allowed a few years ago for the nightwings to live in the rainforest. In circumstances it really didn't seem fair. The nightwings had a problem, they didn't have a home. So why should the rainwings give up their land for nightwings? It just didn't seem fair. 
Once when Oral was only two, she heard the whimpers of a sloth. Curiously she trotted over looking for where the sound was coming from. Then she saw it. It was horror at first sight. A dead sloth was lying down on a stone with a nightwing munching on its legs. He was eating it alive.
Oral gasped her heart broken into pieces, accidentally slipping she fell and whimpered sadly. 
"Hey rainwing! Get out of here, I've got food to munch on." He rolled his eyes.
She cried the rest of the day, thinking about the poor sloth which had been killed. Nightwings weren't vegetarians, so it didn't help that many times she had spotted nightwings hunting down animals. While rainwings had sloth's as pets, nightwings ate them. Queen Glory had made a rule already about not eating sloth's since rainwings have them as pets, but unfortunately many nightwings didn't follow those rules. Oral didn't bother report him, she didn't want to feel like a tattle-tale.
But soon Oral had gotten more used to the nightwings, by the time she was three, if she heart a piercing scream of any sort of animal, she just ignored it. But her mind was full of sadness and hostility. 
Nightwings don't deserve to live here. Oral thought furiously. They kill, kill and kill, sometimes I don't know what to think.
But it didn't help at all now that she was being dragged by a bunch of evil nightwings. Oral had never been betrayed before, and Dorne seemed like a nice dragon. He was sweet, and kind. But now she didn't think that anymore. He was just a selfish dragon, he wanted gold and he'd do ANYTHING to get it. Even turning in a rainwing.
I can't believe I was so naive. Oral thought. I thought Dorne was nice. I thought he was cool. Ughh! Stop it stupid mind! I can't feel mushy with Dorne anymore...I have to hate him. 
But for some reason, Oral didn't feel like she could.
He shouldn't be hated. He was just doing his JOB. And well I was....being dumb and naive and well just a normal rainwing. I should hate myself for being so innocent. Even my sister Dewfall wouldn't fall for a trap like THAT. I mean she'd probably be super stubborn and then whack Dorne in the head and who knows maybe even murder him.
Oral giggled out loud, thinking of her sister.
"What so funny rainwing? Getting captured is fun, huh?" A nightwing sarcastically said.
"Oops." Oral replied, ducking her head down.
Why, why is life so hard? Oral sighed. Should I really be the monster I meant to be? I could just kill them right now if I wanted to. They're BARELY guarding me! Just a small rope around my neck should be easy to slice off...No I can't. If I escape from what I truly deserve, then I'd be an idiot running away. I don't want to be a silly rainwing running for her life. I HAVE to face the consequences.
Dorne glanced over at Oral.
Huh?!? What do you want now, DORNE? I mean you've done enough! That I deserve...
"Um, hey Oral." 
Oral's eye twitched. Gosh, did Dorne just loose his memory? Because he's acting like he isn't sending me to my death.
"Uhhh..." Oral whispered back. "Hey, really thanks sooo much!"
Dorne grimaced. "Yeah, I'm really sorry Oral."
"Don't say that." Oral glared at him
HUH!?!! So now he wants to say sorry NOW? He's gonna get a piece of mind!! Urghh...calm down Oral. Oral took a deep breath in and then out. I have to stay calm. I can't freak out or get over-angry, I don't want to be a monster. Maybe he's good, maybe he's better. UGH! I never said you could get mushy with him again!!!
Oral felt like she was having a conversation with her mind. Her mind yelling at her, part of her still liking Dorne. The sun had finally came into the sky, the bright light blinding Oral's eyes. The village was buzzing with rainwings, some chatting with their families, others just buying fruit. 
They were a total of five nightwings, two of them holding Oral. They shoved through the crowd. 
No, no, no! There going towards Queen Glory! Oral thought frantically.
And there she was. Queen Glory was a beautiful rainwing, she sat on a throne with a nightwing crouched by her side.
Its Deathbringer. And...and Queen Glory. This is REALLY bad.
"You majesty!" The biggest nightwing bowed down. "We have found the monster!"
"I-I'm no monster!" Oral yelled out.
"I told you, taking the mouth cuff was a BAD idea!" A nightwing scolded the other.
"Alright calm down. Are you SURE this is the dragon?" Queen Glory eyed all the nightwings.
"Yes, yes! She's the one alright!" Deathbringer frowned at Oral. "I-I can perform her execution if you..want."
"No she's a monster Deathbringer, she's too dangerous! I'll ask someone else too do it. Like one of the guards."
This is it. This is where my life ends. I guess its good. The monster out of the world will be BETTER. I guess. 
Oral glumly clawed her way over to the guard. The guard chained her up, making sure it was tight and then they walked in silence towards the execution platform.
I guess I thought I'd do more with my life. I really wish Dewfall were here to comfort me. Shes the most amazing sister ever. What did I ever do to deserve this, though? I hadn't done anything wrong!!
No more graduating.
No more becoming an adult. 
No future of having dragonets. 
My future is just death. And blood. And darkness. 
I hope Dewfall is okay, I hope she gets out of prison. My biggest question now is WHY? WHY did the gem turn black, instead of yellow? WHY did I get tricked from a dragon I thought I liked? WHY does my life have to end in an execution? 
The guard chained me up to a wall and left grumbling.
I guess my execution would happen a little later. More time to think about my life.
A single teardrop slid down Oral's scales. Her eyes were watery, and her vision was blurry. She could barely see anything.
"Hey." 
Oral jumped up startled, she spun around and then quickly wiped away her tears when seeing Dorne.
"YOU!!" Oral yelled.
"Woah..I mean yes its me." Dorne stared at the ground. "Oral I'm sorry for doing this to you."
"You don't have to apologize. I'm the bad dragon here." Oral sighed. "It was the right thing to do to turn me in."
"I've-I've decided to let you escape." Dorne muttered.
Oral gasped. "Actually....really?
See Dorne does have kindness in his heart! Oral through back at her brain. Don't get your hopes too high.. She hissed back at herself.
"How?" She gestured to the chains wrapped around her neck.
"With this." He held out a key, and then unlocked the lock. The chains clattered to the ground, making Oral's ears heart.
"Go! Fly and don't come back EVER again!" He pointed to the sky.
"What? No way I can't escape like that! Then they'll really think I'm a monster!" Oral cried.
"Its either death," He pointed to the execution platform. "Or escape." He said pointing towards the open sky.
"Which one?" Dorne said sighing.
"Umm..." Oral looked at the open sky. "escape, way better."
Oral spread her wings out feeling free again, the chains didn't help her feel free before, but now she was FREE.
"Before I leave, I have a question. W-why I are you helping me escape? Why are you just letting me go?"
"Because I know your not a monster, and I don't want life to end for you right now. Go do something with your life, okay?" Dorne smiled weekly.
Oral brushed away a tear. "Thank you Dorne."
Dorne believes in me. He thinks I'm not a monster. No one deserves to be labled that. They should prove first who they are. They shouldn't have to be that. But with the whole rainforest after me, its hard to really be myself. But..but I won't give up. Not that easily. I won't. I-if Dorne believes in me, then I believe in myself too.
"One more question." Oral frowned. "About the nightwings. Are they your family?"
"THREE MOONS!" Dorne screamed. "No, no, no. You got it ALL wrong! I was born a NORMAL silkwing, these nightwings took me in when I accidentally wiped upon a beach in Pyrrhia. I don't remember what happened and how I got here. I don't even remember my own family. I just know these nightwings are well...the only family I got. So I guess you didn't get it all wrong."
Oral had winced when Dorne screamed. But knowing that he was raised by nightwings helped her feel like she could trust him better now that he was telling more of his backstory. 
"You didn't have to scream. But thank you for telling me." Oral sighed knowing what was coming next. "I guess this is goodbye? It was nice knowing you. Even if it was only for a day."
"Yeah...um." He looked around and then said. "I'll miss you too. But before you go, I have to give you something."
He pulled out a book from behind him. The cover was engraved with strokes of a stick, it was the creation of a orb and swirls around it. He handed it over to Oral, grinning.
"W-what's this?" Oral blinked astonished. 
The book was a little dusty, and its pages seemed a little worn out. 
It must be very old. I wonder how old it is... Oral wondered.
"Its the book of wishes." He explained. "You should have it."
"It seems powerful. Why would I deserve it?" Oral said in aw.
"Trust me." 
Trust. That was something she'd already lost a long time ago. It was sunken under many rocks, something she could barely reach, barely grasp. But the book of wishes, she just felt like the book of wishes was......
a weapon she shouldn't have.
== Chapter 5 ==
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Oral had flown for a whole day straight. She took rest by sleeping at night, but in early in the morning she was flying. Just flying. Her wings sore that her shoulders hurt so badly. Sometimes she just wanted to stop soaring across the sky and plummet down to the earth, finally giving her a moment to rest. And then well DIE. The book was tightly kept in a pouch with her. 
Where do I go now? Do I just go in hiding for the rest of my life? I can't possibly do that. Oral winced.
The thought of hiding for the rest of her life just didn't seem right. She didn't want to hide.
But I possibly will have too. Oral realized. There isn't really any choice anyways. 
Oral kept flying and flying. Her wings felt like they were going to fall off any second. Then from the corner of her eye, she saw a back swish. 
Huh? What was that? Uhh...probably nothing at all. Anyways- 
But her thoughts were cut off when a small nightwing came crashing into Oral, and they tumbled down into the jungle. Oral hit the ground with a thump. Thankfully she had used her wings to cover her, so she hadn't broken any bones. 
Oral and the nightwing got up, rubbing their heads. 
"S-sorry.." The nightwing took a deep breath. "I didn't see you there and I'm really sorry so please don't kill me or use your venomous poison on me or whatever rainwings do when nightwings are mean to them but just please don't do anything and I promise-" 
"Woah, calm down." Oral's head lit up. "Its okay. We're fine, right?" Thats something Dorne would say. No! Forget about Dorne! Not now. 
The nightwing's face glowed and she bounded over to Oral, and then hugged her tight. 
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you-" The nightwing smiled. 
"Okay thats enough." Oral laughed. "Whats your name? And what are you doing so out north here?" 
"I'm Shadowmind and I'm here cause I am but why are YOU here? I mean rainwings never ever ever ever-" 
"Yeah, I know." Oral cut her off before she could go on. "You sure talk a lot. I'm Oral." 
Nice name, I haven't heard of a rainwing ever having that kinda name!" She giggled. 
"Yeah my name means to talk. Really you should of been named that, not me." Oral chuckled. 
The nightwing grinned, she looked about the same age as her sister Dewfall. Shadowmind reminded Oral of Dewfall. She was always enthusiastic and happy, just like this little fellow. 
"Have...have you heard of the rumor?" Oral flinched. "The monster?" 
Shadowmind scrunched up her face, confused. "What? What monster? Wait theres a monster?!?!? OH NO! Okay, so I have a plan, what if we use lasers and-" 
"Oh so you don't know, right?" Oral took a deep breath. "I'm a monster from...the rainforest. I mean I thought you'd know. Your a nightwing and I'm a rainwing and well....I just assumed you knew." 
"Oh, I don't live in the rainforest. I mean of course I don't I'm a nightwing. Only rainwings live there and you don't seem like a monster to me." Shadowmind just stared. 
Oral couldn't believe that she didn't live in the rainforest. She didn't even know that she was a monster. She didn't THINK that Oral was a monster. That completely changed things. She didn't have to tell her at all! 
"So you don't live in the rainforest? Where do you live?" Oral curiously asked. 
"Oh I live with dad here in the forest." 
Oral blinked her eyes, Here? Why here? I mean what about the rainforest?
"What?" Shadowmind tilted her head. "Is there something wrong?" 
"HAAHA!!" Oral laughed nervously. "Nothing at all! AT ALL." 
Shadowmind suspiciously continued to watch Oral and then rolled her eyes. 
"Okay, I mean if you saaayy so." Shadowmind brushed her wing against Oral. 
"Yeah its just all rainwings live in the rainforest. And believe it or not but nightwings live there too. So why aren't you there?" Oral curiously asked. 
"Ummm...since when did nightwings live in a forest?" She laughed. "I mean why live with LAZY rainwings, not that you are lazy I mean you are great and so are all rainwings its just not common cause-" 
"Queen Glory of the rainwings rules both nightwings and rainwings." Oral blurted out. "And they ALL live in the rainforest. Unlike you." 
"WHAT!!?!?" Shadowmind screamed. A few birds rustled out of the trees as she spoke. "WHY IN ALL OF PYRRHIA WOULD THE LAZY RAINWINGS RULE NIGHTWINGS!?!?!?!" 
"Uhh..well yeah-" 
"I didn't mean rainwings are lazy, I was saying-" 
"Don't worry. Its okay you can express your opinions." Oral assured her. "You don't have to ramble on trying to get me to like you. Just be who you are." 
"H-how did you know?" Shadowmind asked wide-eyed. 
"Because I know how it feels to try to be perfect, and then not be able too." Oral sighed. "The truth is I'm a monster from the rainforest. I mean for you maybe not but for all the rainwings and nightwings. T-they hate me." 
"Woah woah woah! You're amazing I mean I just met you but you're great!" Shadowmind playfully shoved Oral. "We all got our differences, right?" 
"Thanks Shadowmind." Oral grinned back. 
"Just call me Shadow!" She adding playfully back. 
Oral smiled. "Okay." 
Shadow and Oral spend the rest of the day just joyfully walking throughout the forest. They soared the sky's together and Oral seemed to be loosing track of time. She hadn't eaten since a while but that didn't matter to her either. Dorne always managed to pop up in her head. There was still something off about Dorne. Something she couldn't grasp onto. But Oral knew that he was hiding something. Dorne just hadn't told Oral...YET. 
Maybe he'll tell me soon what his secret is. I mean he has too. He can't just expect me to not ask. W-when will I ever see him again? Maybe I will. Maybe I won't. What am I thinking I don't care about....about DORNE. He's nobody. Just a random...umm...really handsome Silkwing. UGH what is happening to me??? 
Shadow swooped down and smiled. "So who's Dorne?"
"W-wait...a-are you a.." Oral gasped.
"Yes I'm a mindreader. Just a mindreader though." Shadow sighed sadly. "I wasn't born under two moons so I didn't get the power of having visions. I mean hearing thoughts is great and all but visions of the future and prophecies!! AMAZING!"
"Well I think reading people's minds are cool too." Oral grinned.
"So who IS Dorne? And what a weird name. Like how could a dragon with a weird name be handsome?" She asked herself.
Oral flinched turning a deep shade of red. "Please don't listen to my thoughts!!"
"I can't stop! I-if you had skyfire you could block out my thoughts." Shadow said reassuringly. 
"Skyfire? What's that?" Oral blinked.
"Its.." Shadow scratched her head. "Its this type of rock that can block out thoughts of a mindreader, if you wear it then I can't hear your thoughts." Skyfire huh? Where can I get that?? Not that it matters I probably won't stay with this dragon any longer. I-I need to go. I know I was going to stay in hiding but I need to go back for Dorne. No I mean not him just something else.... Oral thought.
"Please, please don't leave!!" Shadow scrunched up her face trying to make herself look cute. "I'll miss you and you'll miss me and it'll be sad-" 
Oral sighed. "I'm sorry Shadow but I need to go. There's other stuff out there in the world." 
"Yeah.." Shadow puffed up her chest. "But what about all that "monster" stuff and "oh I need to hide" things?" 
"I know...but I still think there's more I need to do in life than just...do nothing here." Oral shook herself free from the branches of a tree. 
"Well. I'm really sorry Shadow. But I need to leave now." Oral sternly glanced over at Shadow. 
"Oh, no you don't!" Shadow grabs Oral's leg before she can take off. 
"Shadow, this what I have to do! You need to go!" Oral grimaced trying to make Shadows claws get off her. 
But then with sudden movement, something zipped right past her, it plunked Shadows neck and she fell to the ground unconscious. 
"W-what was-" Oral started, her eyes wide. But she was too late to move, because another dart stroke her in the neck leaving her dizzy. Oral fell unconscious too, and the world turned black once again. 
== Chapter 6 ==
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Dragons sometimes are surprising. Some can be grumpy, others can be sweethearts. But mostly, dragons are grumpy. They have a tendency to yell at others due to their unhealthy habits of training their dragonets harshly. Of course, Oral wasn't one of those kind of dragons.
 
Prolouge
Part 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
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