(Not
to be confused with her mother Jerboa, who lived in the time of Darkstalker, or Jerboa II, Jerboa's first attempt
at creating a dragonet.)

Jerboa III

JerboaIIITemplateLumin.png|Ref JerboaIIIGlamourTemplateLumin.png|Ref
(Glamour)

Over 2,000 years old (hatched before 3,012 AS)
Female

SandWings
Animus magic

Alive (as of The Flames of Hope)

Mother
Jerboa

Talons of Power,
Darkness of Dragons The Lost Continent (book)|The Lost
Continent, The Poison Jungle,
The Dangerous Gift,
The Flames of Hope
The Hive Queen
'Jerboa III', also known
as 'Boa', is an adult female SandWing Animus magic|animus Dragons|dragon who was introduced in Talons of Power. She
resides in her Jerboa III's hut|hut beside the sea, near a border shared
by the Ice Kingdom and the Kingdom of Sand. She is responsible for
preventing all current animus dragons from casting new spells.

## Description

Jerboa has pale yellow scales. She is tall, long necked, and graceful,
with wide black eyes and a dappled light brown triangle pattern on her
wings. She wears a pale, fan-shaped seashell edged with darker pink on a
coconut fiber cord around her neck, which is enchanted to hide her
missing six claws and missing tail barb due to her mother's animus
curse. Jerboa enchanted Jerboa III to stop growing at the size of a
normal dragon, although she would stop growing at a size that was
slightly smaller than Jerboa's. She has frown lines on her face, and
moves in an odd way, as though she is secretly in pain, or her bones do
not fit together quite right.

## Personality

Jerboa III wants to be her own dragon, and was bad-tempered around her
mother who often re-wrote her personality. She tends to be lazy, and
although she had a lot of energy as a young dragonet, Jerboa's spells
made her more placid, less argumentative, and more likely to say yes to
everything likely resulted in her laziness. She was enchanted to be
sweet, serene, and talks and thinks extremely slowly; she avoids arguing
with her mother, with the love for her tripled by Jerboa to make Jerboa
III appear extra cute and affectionate. Jerboa III is desperately
curious about animus magic despite her mother's memory spells, implanted
nightmares, and personality adjustments; rewinding her age made her a
faster thinker, but her mind began to slow again with each new spell
cast on her. She is often confused, and her mother described her brain
to be uncommonly stupid. After reversing the enchantments made by her
mother, Jerboa III felt terrified by animus magic and what other dragons
might force her to do, causing her to disable its power across all
animus dragons. She is quiet, thoughtful, easily amused, sarcastic, and
prefers to be ignored. Luna ventured a guess that Jerboa III really
wanted to connect to other dragons, but was easily overwhelmed by normal
dragon interactions. She was not interested in discussing her feelings
or making facial expressions; either looking bored or mildly annoyed.
She is pessimistic towards the future, believing that something will
always go wrong.

## Biography

### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

left Talons of Power
Jerboa was first introduced in Darkstalker's NightWing palace|palace
for just a few seconds by Turtle when she was summoned along with all
other existing animus dragons. Jerboa then disappeared with a surprised
expression, leaving Turtle to believe he imagined her.

left
Darkness of Dragons
Jerboa III made
another appearance in the epilogue when she led Moonwatcher and Qibli
into her hut to meet her. She then confirmed to the two dragonets that
she was the daughter of the first Jerboa, and that she was immortal.
Jerboa showed them an injured dragon, who she had been taking care of.
This dragon was Luna, a SilkWing from Pantala.

-----

### The Lost Continent Prophecy

left The Lost Continent

Jerboa was in the epilogue when she found Luna, lost and
severely injured on one of the Kingdom of Sand's beaches. Jerboa said
that it was lucky Luna spoke Languages#Dragon|Dragon. She introduced
herself to Luna, and Luna does the same. Jerboa brought the lost
SilkWing to her home and offered her fish stew, but Luna declined,
saying that she does not eat meat. Jerboa welcomed Moon and Qibli when
they first arrived and brought them to Luna, as seen in the epilogue of
Darkness of Dragons.

left
The Hive Queen
Her hut was mentioned
twice in the prologue. She was also mentioned when Tsunami asked if she
could enchant something for Luna to get back to Pantala, but Moonwatcher
said that she was an animus, who does not use her magic.

left The Poison Jungle

In the epilogue, Jerboa III flew to the edge of the Ice
Kingdom to meet Queen Snowfall. It was revealed that Jerboa III knew the
current queen's late mother as Jerboa thought about how Queen Glacier
usually arrived after she did when they met up. Queen Snowfall, already
traumatized by Darkstalker's return and paranoid about getting attacked,
was panicking about the sight of hundreds of dragons flying in from
across the ocean. She wanted Jerboa to expand the Great Ice Cliff, but
Jerboa stopped her, proving that her animus magic did not work anymore,
also stating that no one else's animus magic was working either. She
proved this by grabbing a frozen twig and saying: "I hereby enchant this
twig to turn anything it touches green." She then holds it out to
Snowfall, who snappishly denies it, so Jerboa taps herself with it, and
nothing happened. Then she gave it to Snowfall. Still nothing happened.
It was also said that after Queen Snowfall flew away in a fit of rage,
Jerboa thought to herself: "Completely useless. […] Yes. Just like
I've always wanted."

left
The Dangerous Gift
Snowfall
mentioned Jerboa when she was deciding to find out more about the
approaching mysterious dragons. She later travelled with the Pantalan
refugees on a journey to Sanctuary, passing the island Jerboa's hut is
in in the meanwhile. Snowfall blames Jerboa for not using her magic to
help Snowfall, leading to how she took treasure from the IceWing
palace|Forbidden Treasury with no choice and therefore getting stuck
with Opal's ring. Jerboa appears to be exasperated, and continued to
talk about how animus magic is not working in the first place. She even
promised Snowfall that if magic ever comes back, removing her ring would
be first priority. Jerboa is not mentioned much after her encounter with
the Snowfall.

Later, Snowfall had a vision in Jerboa's point of view. In the vision,
it is shown that her mother created her and would always edit her to be
exactly how she wanted. Jerboa the first also erased many of Boa's
memories, including arguments they had and discussions on whether Boa
should have a brother. When Boa found the scroll her mother used to edit
her, she froze her with enchanted quills and interrogated her mother
about all the spells used on her. Feeling betrayed by her mother's
controlling over her existence, she uses the scroll to turn herself into
an animus dragon. She also uses the scroll to return all her missing
memories. Before Jerboa is completely frozen, she casts one last spell
on Boa, making her lose a part of her body every time she cast a spell,
as well as making the damage irreversible, even with magic. Boa does not
finds out about the spell until she buries her frozen mother under her
hut, losing her first claw. Over the course of the years, she loses five
more claws, three trying to heal her wounds from the curse, one from
enchanting a scroll to truthfully answer any question it is asked, where
she finds out about her mother's curse, and one from enchanting a
necklace to make her look normal to other dragons. When Darkstalker
summons all animus dragons to his room, Boa quickly returns to her hut
using her necklace. She asks her information scroll what Darkstalker
wants. It tells her he wants to use other dragon's magic to preserve his
soul, as well as making sure they cannot be threats to him. Terrified,
Boa asks why he needed the animus dragons at that moment, finding out he
can detect animus magic. She brainstorms ideas on how to stop him and
keep herself safe, but eventually decides to stay hidden in her hut,
having accepted there is little she can do.

While recovering her fishing nets, Boa spots Luna being washed up on the
shore. She runs back inside to talk to her scroll, finding out about the
absence of animus magic on Pantala. Realizing dragons cannot be trusted
with a power like animus magic, Boa enchants her candleholder to get rid
of animus magic once and for all, thus losing her tail barb. Despite the
agony she is in, Boa is at ease knowing she has finally fulfilled her
purpose, and will never have to be afraid of magic again.

left
The Flames of Hope
Jerboa III first
appeared on the beach near her hut. Luna gave Jerboa a crude project she
made as a thank you gift. She nearly instantly regretting giving Jerboa
the gift, but Jerboa insisted that Luna did not take it back. Luna and
Jerboa then talked about the trip to Pantala and some practical outcomes
of the situation.

Later, Luna remembered how when she was staying with Jerboa, she had
practiced making different kinds of flamesilk, and Jerboa had touched
one of the strands, not knowing it would burn her.

## Relationships

### Glacier

Jerboa and Glacier met before Glacier became queen and were good
friends. When the SandWing took off her glamour, Glacier cried, telling
her that it wasn't fair what she had gone through. The IceWing queen
never asked Jerboa for a spell, knowing what the cost was. Jerboa misses
Glacier greatly after her death. She wished that she had met Snowfall in
time to save Glacier from the IceWing plague|plague, even at the cost of
part of her physical body.

### Jerboa

Jerboa III was often grumpy around her mother, and Jerboa viewed her
daughter as ungrateful. Jerboa used memory wipes, personality
adjustments, and implanted nightmares within her daughter to try and
suit her own needs. Jerboa III tried to run away from her several times,
and Jerboa was often impatient and snappy towards her. Jerboa III was
entertaining for Jerboa, and she made promises easily to her daughter,
safe in the knowledge that she could erase them from Jerboa III's mind
with ease. When Jerboa III tried to get someone to rescue her, Jerboa
thought of this as nonsense and tended to avoid other dragons from then
on. She was manipulative and psychologically abusive towards Jerboa III,
pouring honey through her voice instead of hissing at her to get what
she wanted. She lied often to her daughter, and Jerboa III was convinced
that all the love she felt for her mother was the result of Jerboa's
enchantments. Jerboa stated that she loved her daughter when she is
agreeable, but when Jerboa III angrily confronted her mother about her
enchantments, Jerboa stated that she was exceptionally unlovable in that
moment. Before Jerboa III encased her mother in ice, Jerboa cast a spell
on her daughter out of revenge, and to ensure that Jerboa III was not as
triumphant as she thought and that she would never forget Jerboa.

### Snowfall

After Snowfall discovered that animus magic was not working, she
considered Jerboa to be useless and was furious when Jerboa seemed only
annoyed rather than guilty when Snowfall confronted her about consorting
with Luna, Moonwatcher, and Qibli. She is acid, flat, and withering
towards Snowfall, and she often seems amused when Snowfall is annoyed.
However, after experiencing Jerboa's life through the gift of vision,
she could not imagine being angry at her anymore, and thought that she
might soon visit Jerboa, just to check on her, because it seemed like
she needed a friend.

## Known Enchantments

I hereby enchant this candleholder. When I shatter it, I
shatter the power of all current animus dragons. From now on, no new
spells cast by any animus dragon alive today will ever work again. Also,
from this point forward, I will grow old and die, like any normal
dragon. I make this spell irreversible by any animus, including myself.

A glass candleholder
To prevent new animus spells
from being cast by any of the current animus dragons and make her age
normally when she shattered it. This spell is irreversible.
TDG

292

Phrasing unknown.
Porcupine quills
To
smooth back into one piece.
TDG
284

Phrasing unknown.
A scroll
To answer
any questions she asks.
TDG
283

Phrasing unknown.
A shell necklace
To
make her look normal and intact to any dragons who see her.
TDG

285

Phrasing unknown.
Herself
To heal her
wound from her mother's curse.
TDG
283

Phrasing unknown.
Herself
To reverse
and/or fight her mother's curse. Cast twice.
TDG
284

I enchant this block of ice to bury itself under this hut and
stay frozen there forever.
A block of ice
To bury
her mother under her hut.
TDG
282

## Quotes

When the world is all fixed. Hrm. Don't get your hopes up.
Every time you think you've fixed something, something else always goes
wrong.
to Luna
The Flames of Hope
8

-----

Yes. My mother cast a spell to make sure nothing could ever
harm me. I've been waiting a long time to fulfill my purpose.

to Qibli
Darkness of Dragons
epilogue

-----

Well, you're not going far on these wings today. But help is
coming. I have a feeling it'll be here soon.
to Luna

The Lost Continent
epilogue

-----

It's too cold for anyone to do that. The truth is, other tribes
are not the slightest bit interested in stealing your kingdom.
to Snowfall The Poison Jungle

epilogue

-----

Completely useless. Yes. Just like I've always wanted.
thoughts The Poison Jungle

epilogue

-----

How would we know? Is any of it really me anymore? I only love
you because of magic. Right? You've been enchanting me to love you.

to Jerboa
The Dangerous Gift
276-277

-----

It's not fair to make me love you when you don't love me at
all.
to Jerboa
The Dangerous Gift
277

## Trivia

  - One of her first lines, "I've been waiting a long time to fulfill my
    purpose," is a reference to what Queen Glacier told her years ago.
  - Jerboa III was one of the candidates that were considered to be the
    main protagonist of The Dangerous Gift.
  - Jerboa III is an excellent cook.
  - Jerboa III loves gathering firewood, though this is one of the
    personality adjustments made by Jerboa.
  - Jerboa III has been a talented musician and storyteller throughout
    her life.
  - For her last animus spell, she lost her tail barb when she shattered
    the candleholder, activating the enchantment, instead of when she
    actually cast the spell.