Hey everyone, thanks for reading! This is my first fic, so when there are errors please feel free to respectfully let me know; I want to improve my writing. I promise to update as often as possible. Also, please tell me whether you'd like long, infrequent chapters, or short, frequent ones. Thanks! Here's the first chapter, where we're getting to know Waterfall's parents…
Cormorant sighed in frustration. To most SeaWings, the day's battle had been just that-a battle. But he wasn't like all the rest; he had a loathing of war that he knew Queen Coral didn't approve of. Ever since she'd first seen him, although it was from a distance, Cormorant had felt her disgust with him. She gave him the look so many dragons did, the one that said, "You are a failure. You always were. You always will be. You'll never fit in. You'll never measure up. You'll never, ever, ever be a real SeaWing."
Cormorant hated that look, and even though he saw it all the time, it especially hurt coming from his queen. Yes, he hated the war, fighting, and even Blister herself, but he was a loyal SeaWing, and he respected Her Majesty.
When his only brother was killed by an IceWing, he was devastated, of course, but he kept fighting out of love for his tribe. Less than a moon later, when his mother died in a battle with SkyWings, he tearfully pulled through it. His father was the one who helped him through everything. He was always strong, even though he suffered greatly, too. He was Cormorant's best friend in the world, and they loved each other in a way only they knew. If it weren't for his beloved father, Cormorant would have had nothing to live for.
And then his father was taken from him, too.
His beloved father, loved and respected by all who knew him, mercilessly slaughtered by a MudWing dragonet. And as if that wasn't tragic enough, that was when Cormorant started to get the aforementioned horrible looks. The other dragons of his tribe turned against him. He felt as if he didn't have a single friend in all of Pyrrhia.
That was the day that he decided to run away. He couldn't stand killing others' loved ones anymore, even those who were supposed to be his enemies. He knew all too well how they would feel.
Cormorant would run tomorrow morning, when no dragon would be awake or able to see him.
What he really needed was a friend.
Jaguar smiled to herself, her scales starbursting with bright yellow. She had just come up with the perfect plan. Because no dragon in the entire rainforest liked her, she would leave for a while, see what she found on the continent by herself, then come back and see how relieved everyone was to see her again. Another reason for her escape was that Jaguar, unlike the other RainWings, had noticed that the dragons of her tribe were disappearing, one by one, into thin air. She didn't want to be next.
Could disappearing into thin air be as bad as her current life? She wasn't going to stick around and find out.
Poor Jaguar had always had a dream that she would become Queen of the RainWings. However, as she grew up, that seemed less and less likely. She had thought she could make the RainWings less lazy, but she doubted they would even listen to her.
Jaguar stopped sitting and thinking, because she kind of hated it when her tribe mates did that. She decided that she would leave early the next day, while everyone was still asleep.
So it was set. Jaguar didn't have any fraction of an idea what she was getting herself into.
What she really needed was a friend.
Hope you all liked it! Next chapter there'll be a little more action, probably with the two of them running away from their respective tribes and finding each other. I'll update as soon as I can. Once again, please tell me your preferences and what I can do better. I'd also like to give a shout out to my first follower, Celestialskyfire! Thanks everyone!
