Fallenverse Shorts

A collection of short stories set in the Fallenverse.
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When The Smoke Clears=
The sky is grey. It used to be blue.
When it was blue there was a tribe of Ice, they lived, played, and fought just the same.
Now the sky is grey and the IceWings are dead. The tribe is lost and the surviours are lost too. Winter hoped after the battles that scales like his would emerge from the wreckage, but they never did.
His scales also used to be ice blue, now they are grey and stained with mud. How he wishes to return to his home and clean off the dirt by rolling in the snow.
He knows what will also await him when he goes home. Bodies and bloodied stone.
Winter remembers dragons telling him how after the IceWings fled from the Dark Army, they followed. The Darkstalker followed the fleeing dragons and burned them out of the sky. The ones who stayed in the safety of the IceWing Palaces and Queendom weren't safe. 
The magic that makes the NightWing's strong kept them safe when they invaded the Ice Queendom.
He can never go back. Never see them again without being reminded of the slaughter.
Dragons come and go, offering condolences and sympathy. It's all they can do.
Sorry does not bring back the dead; it never can. Even the most powerful magic cannot undo the power the sunless lands have on the dead.
Winter looks to the north, to the SkyWing Queendom. There is no more smoke, the battle having ended two weeks ago.
He shakes his wings out and leaps into the air.
The smoke is gone, but the sky is still grey.
|-|When the Sky Weeps=
For the first time in her life, dragons were regarding Peril as a hero.
It was her flaming wings that followed the NightWings while the chased down and killed the IceWings. It was she was was the shooting star that warned of the NightWings.
The SkyWings, suddenly are grateful of Peril's curse. They couldn't see all the teeth and claws and magic that was cloaked in the night. But they could see her.
According to them: thanks to her, they survived that night. She fought with them she defended the dragon that called her a monster. She got blood on her talons. But also spilt blood for the first time in her life.
Last time someone touched her was Clay, and the first time he did, he was fighting for his life.
Now as she was fighting side by side with the dragons who hated her, she felt like part of a whole. These were her dragons, her tribe. Clay would always be her special dragon, as her first real friend. But these dragons shared the same Queen as her, they had the same scales and wings as her.
She was finally part of her tribe. And she didn't let it die when the Night came to end them.
She couldn't save Ruby, but she saved others. She led them to safety and out of the reach of the hungry Night dragons, hungry for blood.
There was so much fire, it almost looked like it was day. Some NightWings burned out of the sky. Some of her dragons did too, but they were safe, they would live to see another sunrise.
Wings of Fire ended the War of SandWing Succession; Now Wings of Fire warns them of another.
|-|When the Swarm Approaches=
Cricket and the LeafWings flew from their burning forest and home in search of sanctuary. What they found was so much worse.
She remembers feeling hope when land came into view. It was frozen, but that was fine, Clearsight's map and Tsunami said there was an Ice Queendom.
The Queendom wasn't just frozen physically. It was frozen in time, with blood staining the pristine ice crystals. Blue blood coming from white dragons and red from black. Pooling together into ghastly purple puddles.
It was horrifying to see, but the dragons couldn't seem to move from there. It was like watching Bloodworm Hive fall all over again; transfixed by the horrors she could only observe and shed tears for dragons she didn't even know.
But she did know that these dragons were mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, soldiers, and family. She knew all she could do was give condolences to survivours of the battle. She knows that sorry will not bring back the dead, but it's all she can do.
Like the IceWings, they're frozen. Unable to leave this place.
The LeafWings came from a nightmare, only to find themselves in a reality far worse.
|-|When the Glass Shatters=
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