Nighthawk

### Powers/abilities

Tail barb, blue fire (from hatching under blue moons), mind reading, visions/future sight

## Affiliation

### Former

Princess of the SandWings, Assassin, JMA student

## Relatives

### Mother

Queen Beetle (Adoptive mother, actual mother Queen Moondancer)

### Siblings

Sister: MicaBrother: Deathstalker

Queen Moondancer and King Tegu were from different kingdoms but they still loved each other and would meet up in secret together. Tegu had found a mate in Queen Beetle but she wasnt exactly gentle kind and loving. Tegu still loved her but sometimes it was unsure if Beetle loved him. He had been meeting up with the much more loving Moondancer secretly behind Beetles back, if she was to find out she would for sure kill him. One day, Moondancer told him that she was with his eggs and he knew he couldnt return back to the Kingdom of the Sand. Beetle had already been suspecting things and if Moondancer was to hatch a Sand/Night hybrid, she would for sure know and kill him and his offspring.

A couple moons earlier, Queen Moondancer had come to the monthly queens meeting with news of a prophecy that went like this:

*NightWing of the egg so pale, so blue*

*She has powers no one knew*

*Beware the two tribe dragon as she struggles to find her place*

*Beware the dragon worried of heights so high he never flew.*

Moondancer wasnt able to go to her dragonets hatching safely. If anyone in her kingdom found out they would most definitely go tell Queen Beetle as she was searching for her king. He was hidden deep inside the NightWing palace so no one could know. The night of their hatching there was a high stakes battle between the NightWings and the SeaWings, she sent her servant out to Marshshore Mountain on the far side of their territory so they could hatch away from the battle and the possibility of being found. Her eggs had all been black when she first laid them but the second she handed them to her servant in the moonlight, one turned pale silver, one stayed black and the third turned a pale blue. She remembered the prophecy and knew this blue egg was it.

Blackmoon was given the privilege of watching the Queens eggs hatch on the safety of Marshshore Mountain. She quickly made them a nest of soft black cloth and laid the three eggs inside. She had been sworn to secrecy about the blue egg and promised her life to keeping them safe. All she had to do was stay the night and watch them all hatch then return them home with them safely, depositing them into the queens hidden hatchery. It was three full moons, a night where the dragonet was destined for power in the kingdom, to work alongside the queen. One of these dragonets could be the queen however.

The first one to hatch was the blue egg. Out crawled a sandy colored dragonet with black wings and silver stars, she had a tail barb that looked like it had been dipped in ink, black scales splashing about a third of the way up her tail and covered in silver scales. She didnt know what to do with the dragonet now that it had hatched, she was so tiny and frail she was afraid if she touched her that she would break. She took a while to watch the moons, she even tried to fly up towards them, helplessly flapping her floppy wings like she wanted to fly off into the night. She scooped her up daintily and named her Starchaser. The silver egg hatched next and out came a really tiny pure silver dragonet whose talons glowed for a second. the black egg stayed black until the moons sunk down deep in the sky and the sun began to rise. She scooped up the two dragonets to fly back with them, assuming that one was dead or not ready to hatch yet but the sandy colored one hopped out of her talons and back to the egg.

She heard a roar of anger behind her and could see the dark shapes of dragons flying her way. She already knew they were looking for her and the dragonets. She tried to get the sandy dragonet back into her arms and fly away but both she and the little silver one jumped out again and over to the egg, leaning their talons against it protectively. The egg suddenly turned silver and the sandy one began to crack it open carefully and a black dragonets head popped out. She could hear the wings flapping of the dragons getting closer and she panicked, smashing the egg open with her talon then scooping up the three dragonets in a hurry and rushing off. She needed to get away before she could even tell what tribe these dragons were. They definitely werent NightWings, they were flying too clumsily in to be NightWings. If they were SkyWings then she was screwed.

She tried to readjust the newest hatched dragonet in her talons but he squirmed and fell from her grasp, tumbling down towards the ocean below. She could *not* let the queens dragonet plummet to his death. She tucked into a quick dive to try and catch him but he hit the water before she could get to him, she searched the water hopefully, maybe he would float back up? The two other dragoents were screaming and crying for their brother. She could hear the wing beats, they were almost here and if they were sent for the dragonets, they would definitely kill her for them. She tried to fly up and away from the ocean with the two she still had. She could at least return with them. The queen would understand. Her whole body was soaked with the spray from the ocean so as the other two dragonets squirmed and cried they both slipped and fell, crashing into the ocean, their cries silencing into the sound of the waves. She dove back for them too, she couldnt go back empty handed!

She tried to find them quickly but she couldnt spot them in the dark water, the dragon wing beats were practically on her, she couldnt stay long. She let out a burst of fire towards the attackers and flew away, practically crying at the thought of the queens anger.

Nighthawk had apparently almost killed a guard in a jailbreak within the first couple days of her life. Her mother, Queen Beetle sent her to battle training to get her skills up, she wanted a strong queen to take over for her. She had always been strange in her kingdom. Mother didnt send her to school, due to Nighthawks request. Her black wings and tail barb set her apart from the rest of the SeaWings. She didnt often see her siblings now adays. She didnt really know where they were but she was too busy, Mother always gave her things to study. Since she didnt go to school she was homeschooled by Mother, studying to be queen in her place one day.

She was also strange because she could read the minds of nearby dragons. She used to get headaches when she was younger but she learned how to drown them out, it was much more difficult to block out dragons who were thinking about her though and that happened a lot since she was royal and looked weird. She never dared tell anyone about this, in all her studies from the scrolls mother gave her, no dragons in the entire Sand Kingdom or any kingdom could read minds. She hadnt even told mother yet but she could tell mother thought about the possibility, she didnt know how Mother knew but she was very wise, she knew so much. Sometimes she had intense dreams that would come true in the near future and if she focused really hard she could see events that would come true later on too.

Mother also wanted her to find a dragon who could be her future king. She only wanted the best for her future kingdom. She brought in the most wealthy and well known dragons sons to meet her but they never wanted her. She didnt have much time to talk to Mother much, she was far to busy trying to find her father, King Tegu. He had gone missing not long before she hatched and Mother was going crazy over it. She had sent out many search parties and raids to nearby jails, palaces, oasises, anything she could think they were at. She had even searched Pantala.

One day while writing another letter to another rich dragons son when she heard the voice of another dragon she had never heard in the palace before right outside the door to her room. Her room was down many twisty hallways and at the top of one of the many towers in the palace. Not many dragons that werent Mother came up here, occationally Mothers personal servant but that was really it so this was strange. He was listening to her as she talked to herself. She hadnt heard him walking up as she was drowning out the loud voices of the palace dragons but then he started thinking about her, trying to put a face behind her voice.

She caught him in the hallway, he was the first dragon she met who didnt have the air of power around him, he was thin and scrawny with a heavy and fancy piece of armor around his chest and neck with a circle of dented gold in the middle of his chest. He was actually kind of cute. It looked like he had tried to clean years worth of dirt off his scuffed scales before coming up here. He didnt look like a part of the army, more like a strange servant. He was one of the few dragons she had ever met that was able to hide parts of his thoughts from her, sort of like mother. They never knew they were doing it either, she could only hear immediate surface thoughts, she heard his panic of trying to remember what to do in front of a royal but when she opened her mind to try and hear his full mind she was blocked by a spiky wall like a cactus around the center. She was intrigued.

He was curious about the palace, he had never been in anywhere like this. She showed him around and then back to the exit of the palace. They had a quick conversation, his name was Dingo. He was super shy and quiet, she couldnt even tell what he was thinking because of the wall. He was mysterious and intriguing, and adorable almost, in a cute fumbling way. She wanted to get to know him more but she had always been told by Mother to not talk to commoners for too long so after the short exchange she flew away back to her room.

She couldnt stop thinking about Dingo for the next couple of days. She had never seen him before anywhere in all her adventures to markets, she would have remembered his cute face, and she didnt know if or how she could see him again. She wanted too but she never figured out where he was from. She expected to never see him again. One day while she was writing yet another letter in her room, she heard a commotion from the courtyard. She peered out her small window and found a collection of the palace SandWings around a group of three SkyWings who were angrily staring at a small SandWing with a collection of cloth around his neck. Apparently the commotion was big enough to disturb Mother as she was down there.

She jumped out of her window to go figure out what was going on. She glided above the collection. The SkyWings had been tackled and tied up. Mother was now yelling at the small SandWing. He was bowed down, his bags thrown aside, he looked scared, he was bleeding a lot, she could see Dragonflame seedpods poking out of his scales at the starts of the blood trails. As she got closer, she recognized him, he had a pure black tail barb and his scales looked familiar. It was Dingo. She swooped down into the crowd behind him right as Mother was yelling at him about collecting some sort of cactus from SkyWing territory. She quickly jumped in and defended him, standing close to his side, wing over him to protect him from Mother. If anyone could it was her. He got thrown in jail anyways.

Seen in: https://youtube.com/shorts/RYIHBp108Mk