Shattered Instances

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## Part One: Sora: Learning The Ropes

You know, news doesn’t usually travel so fast in the mud kingdom. Hiding there wouldn’t work. Everyone know my face, and so do they know my brothers. Lots of stares and questions, let’s avoid that. But where? We could hide with ruby, she’s nice… no I killed her subject she won’t let me a step into her kingdom. Not the night, rain, or ice kingdom. Oh I guess it might be nice in the rainforest, they rarely get any news there, and we mudwings live nearby. No too risky, another mussing might spot us. Do you know how much money is on my snout??? I don’t know why Umber is trying to help, I’m a lost cause. I tell him our best bet is probably the scorpion den, and he looks appalled. He doesn’t like the heat that much, not nearly as much as me. As we start traveling, a little into the ride I hear… wing beats, and I smell smoke. Like a sandwing we try our best to burrow underneath the sand. As the skywings pass over head (sky wings? Are they looking for me?) and then realize how predictable this choice was. Water was closest in the city, that’s where we will go. As we start flying again, I think, thorn has always been nice, I could meet her directly and become an outclaw. She could probably relate since dune stole sunnys egg. We hear talking nearby flying to the den, and see the skywings. I hide, and so does umber, then we listen.

“This year has been horrid, hasn’t it?” A orange skywings asks.

“Yes, but alas, vulture will recruit us. Ruby can die.” A red dragon growls. She has an odd spot on her eye… oh god is that scarlet??? Who’s culture again? Must be someone terrible if scarlet wants to join. I stopped listening instantly, they could start another war. Never got the skywings name, I don’t need it. Get some water, and fly back to jade mountain or hope we are dreamvisted. They would be most alert to scarlet.

—Two weeks later—

Oh god, what’s happening on jade mountain? So much death, and blood, and more death.

“This couldn’t have been the night wings right? Their queen is glory now…” she trailed off. Dead night wings and ice wings, but mainly ice wings, lay all across jade mountain, and more fighting proceeded. But all of a sudden, they stop, and a large dragon goes and picks up a small sandwing. Who is that? Oh nooo… it’s qibli. Well, I take my chance, and find sunny. She will listen the most, clay next, mabye even travel to glory. Yes she will want to know.

“How… I thought she was dead… what do we do? Vulture? No no no no no nooooooooo” sunny stops, looks me in the eyes, and says “I will dreamvisit everyone I know, and tell them this. I mean, you did murder, but I will trust you for now.” She runs off, somewhere safe to dreamvisit. She will tell the dragon eta of destiny, right?

—About a day later—

“Queen glory, forgive me, but please listen. You can venom spit me anytime after this, just listen. We saw scarlet with an odd orange dragon, planning to join his thugs. Scarlet is still alive, and this could cause a war.”

“Why should I trust you?”

Her heart was broken. She figured this would happen, but not so soon on her journey. I look at umber, desperate for some help. He try’s to explain, but after the night wings kidnapped the rain wings, she won’t trust anyone. I start to leave, and then umber starts screaming. I run to him, and see glory’s venom in his heart.

“HOW COULD YOU!!?!?!”

“I wanted to make sure you still had a soul, and you would mourn for your brothers death. Unlike peril who would kill without guilt.”

I stared in pure shock… I thought she was past that… I thought she was a nice dragon… but I guess not.  Then all of a sudden-

Hisss, ka thunk

No, no no no no no no. Not me too. She looked at her disinagrating chest and yelled

“ You monster!!! I thought you were the most logical queen, but I guess not! How could you do this to him???”

My life is draining, glory knows that as well as I. Time seems to slow down, i stare at glory for a long moment, then float. Wait wat? I look around and see crane and umber next to her, getting a prompt from a strange dragon, unlike anything I’ve seen before, with four wings shaped like a skywings, just as big, and with glowing wrists. It is all white as well. Odd. I shall call them flutter wings. I overhear this to umber..

“... you never committed a crime umber… as you shall stay up here…. You are dead you know…” and so on. Then I ireally grasp...I’m dead. What do I do? Then I see an flutterwing coming to me. Oh god they look so simalar. She starts to say

“Criminal record, death of two dragons, maiming of several. Punishment, staying on the real land, haunting the dragon she tried to kill, and never bieng able to eat or drink, but constantly hungry and thirsty, not until a hundred years May you come back up, or when your victim is dead.”

Wait so did I want this? I start sinking down, then realize what’s happening and panic, trying to say goodbye to my sibs. I claw through the clouds to try and hold myself back up, but it’s no use and I sink down. I am now on the ground. So much for that