Chapter One
Eclipse
Eclipse was a normal dragon for her age. She was studying like usual, and didn't go off her schedule unless necessary. Of course, she never thought it would be necessary. She rarely did anything that would require it to be necessary. She wasn't even an animus. The one useless NightWing power she had was mind reading. Often she hoped she could be more useful. Most of the time it wasn't even used. She spent the entire day having headaches and shutting her power out. It was annoying and it had to stop.
If she were an animus, she would know by now. Sure, her parents hadn't tested her yet, but she had ordered objects around countless times and nothing happened. When she was younger she had hoped for a time that she would be an animus, but no luck. She had read countless scrolls about dragons with animus power, and had sworn that if she had it, she would use it for good only, and not use it too much, so she didn't use her soul.
It was on her to remember to shut out the minds of dragons when she walked into a room. Otherwise it would give her a headache that lasted for days, even if she shut it out. It was an annoying timed light switch. She was responsible for turning the light on when she entered a room.
In a way, Eclipse was special. She was the only NightWing dragonet at her school that had mind reading, and everyone hated her for it. She made it no secret. She couldn't, even if she had wanted to. She was also the only hybrid at her school. Everyone else, everyone else was pure IceWing or pure SkyWing or pure- She couldn't stand being bullied for her parents. It was their fault. So she turned her weapon that she was bullied for on them.
Eclipse had a SandWing tail. A barbed, poisonous tail like all SandWings had. She knew it wasn't nice, but since they were bullying her, she figured they were an exception. She scratched them with her tail until they stopped bullying. It hurt, but she controlled the venom and none of them got poisoned. Still, they screamed when she started doing it, and the explanation that she had only touched them wasn't good enough to get her out of trouble. She had gotten scolded enough, but she stopped doing it when they stopped bullying her. Now, threatening them was enough to get them to back off.
It was one of the best ways of escaping bullies that she knew of, and she had taught her friends this method so they could use it too. Her friends weren't hybrids, but they were different. They got bullied because of their difference, too, so Eclipse taught them how to use that against the bullies.
Eclipse had hatched under a single moon. It gave her mind reading. But, oddly enough, she had hatched at day. No NightWing, even a hybrid, before or since, had hatched when the sun was out. Except, the sun wasn't really out. It was where Eclipse got her name. Eclipse hatched when a full moon covered the sun completely. Maybe it was because her father was a SandWing. She figured it was dark enough. She often wondered what it meant that the NightWing object in the sky, one of the moons, had covered up the SandWing object in the sky, the sun. She was almost completely NightWing. It was just strange that a NightWing-SandWing dragonet had hatched as a mostly NightWing when the sun was obscured.
Secret
Secret was special. She had known that from the day her parents admitted she was an AllWing. She was the most hybrid a dragonet could be, with ancestors from every tribe. She got all of their powers, too. She was an animus, a mind reader, a prophet, and her powers were strengthened because she hatched under all three moons.
She had known that she was the most powerful dragon on Pyrrhia since, and didn't act lightly of it. The other dragonets claimed that she acted with her chin up, and regal. She was descended from royal SeaWings and IceWings, after all. They needed to see the outside of her. She masked her true feelings pretty well, besides the feeling of being special. She made her powers no secret.
Because of her personality, she only had one friend at school, a dragonet a few years younger than her. He was a NightWing named Fate. But he mostly did whatever she asked, like she was queen or something. Pah, queen. Sure, Secret was royal, but she didn't want to be queen. It would be way too hard to rule any tribe. And she was an outcast from every tribe, a hybrid not meant to exist, so it would be all or none for her. Right now, she would choose none.
She had no desire for power... yet. She could not see the futures where she became queen of all the tribes, using her animus power to eliminate any opposers and threats. Her powers were... dark. She did not know any future where she held any position of power. So she could make no choice to lead her toward power. She just had to wander toward it, blind.
If she succeeded, she would be powerful. The literal most powerful dragon on Pyrrhia. Nobody would challenge her. If anyone did, she would enchant them. Of course, she could not see any of the futures where she became queen. It helped her sanity. She was more likely to go on those futures if she saw them coming. It was still possible where she had a mate, sometimes Fate. Her futures that she became queen in were different; some she was challenged in, some she lost her power, and others where she was immortal and queen forever, making Pyrrhia a terrible place to live. Many dragons left for the lost continent.
Those futures hadn't happened yet. So nobody saw them coming, and nobody said they were strange. She was not judged.
Okay. I maybe rushed this chapter so I can get it out for my friends to see. Right now this is not popular, so give me CONSTRUCTIVE CRITISISM that I can use to improve this story. It is my first story and I really want to see it go somewhere. Published 9/25/2017.