Prologue

Vines nervously shifted his colors. What if I fail! No, no big deal. I'll just tell

Lime to cut it out. But how will Glamor think?! Will she stop being my friend? Will she laugh at me with Lime? Ugh! I just hope I pass.

"Uhhhhh, Vine?"

Vines spun around to see a pale green RainWing dragonet staring at him

"Oh hey Lime! I am not. Nervous. Nope. Not meeeeeeeeee." Vines sputtered.

Lime inspected Vines.

"Yeah. You're. Definitely. Nervous. Alright." Lime mocked.

"Am! Not!"

"Yeah. You're talking weird. As you always do when you're freaked out."

Vines grunted and turned his back to Lime. Lime. The same RainWing who always teases me when I am nervous. Just because I talk funny doesn't mean he gets to make fun of me. His scales slashed red.

"Oooo! Vines. Getting. Mad. Run. For. Lives." The green RainWing teased.

"I so don't talk like that!" Vines hissed. He whirled around, teeth bared.

His normally dark green scales transitioned to blood red.

"Vines?"

Vines looked up. A large pink RainWing glided down in front of him.

Vines swallowed. This is it. The final results of my exam. For a dragonet, he was psyched to do venom lessons. The pink RainWing, Sloth, smiled.

"You, young dragonet," Sloth beamed at Vines. "Have passed."

Vines squealed with delight. He had always dreamed to have private venom lessons. Lime just glared at him enviously. As his little brother, Lime never felt happy for Vines, only jealousy. Which was fine by Vines. He yawned and looked up. The sun was burning down in him. He smiled. Finally. Sun time. He thought. Vines trotted to his hammock in the tall tree. He nestled nice and snug in his stringy bed and closed his eyes peacefully.

O O O

Vines slowly opened his eyes. He yawned and stretched. The RainWing dragonet looked around. The sun was no longer high in the sky. He rubbed his eyes. Vines searched the sky. He gasped. The sun was gone. Vines flapped his wings in panic, forgetting he was in a hammock, and tumbled out. He slammed to the ground a sudden pain zapped through his wing. He screamed in agony.

Vines slowly got up. Wait a minute, there's no need to panic! It's night! He slapped his forehead. Stupid Vines. The green dragon looked up again. Huh? Weird. Is it me, or is there no stars, cloud, moon, or any light at all?! Vines rubbed his eyes again. There was some lights. In the sky were cracks of tiny slits of light. But skies don't "leak" light! Vines' suspicion grew.

SNAP! He whirled around. In the dim light, Vines could see a shadowy figure slithering into the jungle. Curiosity filled him. He camouflaged himself even though he was pretty sure no dragon could see him in this light.

Vines tip-toed after the figure. After what seemed like a hour, the shadow suddenly stopped, so sudden that Vines almost smacked into it. It crouched down and began to dig. Vines crept closer.

CRACK! Went a twig under his talons. To make things worse, Vines let out a gasp. The figure froze. Slowly it turned around. Vines tried back away, only to step on his tail. He screamed, letting his scales return to its normal green color. The figure screeched in response. Vines screamed again and instantly bolted away. The shadow started after him. Vines ran blindly through the jungle with figure right on his tail. He tried zig zagging through the pitch black rain forest, hoping to shake it off his trail. But he was making such a racket, with snapping twigs, crunching leaves, and continuous stumbling.

Then, the green dragonet tripped on a tree root and tumbled furiously to the ground. The shadow roared and lunged at him. Vines desperately scrambled on his talons and managed to get up as the shadow clawed his tail. The terrified dragonet spread his wings and tried to fly. A searing pain lashed through his right wing. He screamed in pain. The figure took this chance to tackle him. He struggled to escape, but his attacker was too strong. The shadow spread its wings. It's a dragon! Vines thought as he recognized the shape of the wings. A beam of light burst out, revealing silver scales scattered across the black wings. A NightWing!

The dragon whirled it's head around and nodded to another shadow that appeared next to it. The second NightWing turned and started digging. After a moment, the other dragon froze. It held up a glowing blue necklace.

"Good. We came what we were looking for. Now let's go before the rest of these stupid RainWings wake up." The dragon holding Vines grunted.

"You sure this is it Midshifter?" The second NightWing questioned.

"Sure I'm sure you featherbrain." Midshifter snarled. "Don't question my knowledge Featherbiter."

Featherbiter nodded silently and leaped up into the air with the blue necklace. After a few seconds, Midshifter followed, with his talons still grasping terrified Vines. Vines looked down and watched in horror as his homeland grew smaller and smaller. He looked up and saw that the reason why the sun was gone was actually because there was a large dragon blocking the sky. It saw Midshifter flying away and began to flee too. Vines opened his mouth the cry for help, but something hit the back of his head. Everything went black.

Okay, soooooooo, Hi. Im new. I am trying very hard to write this in a Wings of Fire style. And, I am not very good at grammar.