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Part 1-Welcome To Jade Mountain Academy

Chapter 1

Moon observed the school in front of her. Giant windows and archways were set into the mountain, whose tallest peak looked like it would reach the clouds. It looked terrible.

Her and her mother, Secretkeeper, both whose pale skin did not react well to sunlight, were standing out the front of Jade Mountain Academy, a school for humans from all the different tribes to learn how to live together in peace. Moon really disliked the idea to stay. She would much rather read books and explore the forest at home.

"Mum, do I have to go here? It's noisy and I just want to go."

Moon shuffled away from two MudWings, whose dark hair and skin were greatly contrasted to the scenery quite well, both of which were running and jumping everywhere around the place. They defiantly would not be begging their mothers to take them home.

"I know you do not want to go here, Moonwatcher, but I am sure it will be good for you. Besides, it will be better than the NightWing village." It won't be full of other NightWings, her mind continued.

"The other NightWings aren't too bad," Moon retorted, "And I would rather be wherever you are."

"Most NightWings are arrogant showoffs and you know it," Secretkeeper pointed out. Both of them were now thinking of the terrible stares and hateful comments from six months ago, when Moon's mother had brought her healthy, cute little child back into the NightWing tribe. After the volcano had destroyed the NightWing's earlier residence, all of the tribe had moved into RainWing territory, and let the new Queen Glory, who wasn't much older than Moon, lead both of the tribes. Queen Glory, being the wise and kind person she was, had officially forgiven them for breaking tribe rules, but that didn't mean the other NightWings had. "At Jade Mountain Academy, you will be with much nicer people, like Sunny and Starflight. Remember how friendly they were to you when you met them?"

"But I just want to stay with you," Moon said pleadingly. Back when she was hidden in the rainforest, Moon hardly ever saw her mother, or anyone for that matter. It just wasn't fair that now she had the time to see her mother, she had to spent it at school.

"I'll come and see you soon, and you will make lots of friends here, I'm sure you won't miss me too much." Well, I hope you will make friends, my adorable little baby.

"I am not a little baby, mum, I am already fourteen." Moon protested.

Secretkeeper bent down and put her face right up close to Moon's. Moon could clearly see the lines of worry on her mother's face. "You need to stop that, remember?" she whispered. "If you hear something in your head, don't respond. Everyone thinks NightWings don't have any powers anymore, and who knows what they would do if they found out?" And you will never make any friends if you talk to their thoughts and make them uncomfortable, her mind worried. "Or even worse, they will not believe you and have immense loathing for you for lying to them. Do not let them find out, okay? Stay secret, stay hidden, stay-"

"Safe, I know mum." Moon finished. All the years of pretending to have mind reading, future seeing and prophesizing powers had made the NightWings almost have a phobia of real mind reading powers.

"I know it is awful to be the way you are, Moonwatcher, but if you be careful and not reveal your secret, you can have a totally normal life as a normal human being. No-one has to know you are special, alright?"

As Secretkeeper was saying this, a group of SeaWings, all with tanned skin and fair hair, hopped out of a horse-drawn chariot, which had at least six footmen and guards sitting or standing around it. Moon recognized these people from some books she had read. There was the queen of the SeaWing tribe, Queen Coral, and her two daughters, Anemone and Auklet. Behind them came another SeaWing, but she had no idea who he was.

Almost as soon as their feet touched the ground, a SeaWing came sprinting out of the front entrance, who looked almost exactly like both the queen and her two children, yelling "You came!" She hugged the older daughter very tightly for a few seconds, then released her to greet the queen.

Oh, I'm such a snail-brain, Moon realized, that must be Tsunami. The famous SeaWing princess from the Great Prophecy had been in the rainforest for a while, but Moon hadn't had any time to go and see her before she left to get started on Jade Mountain Academy.

Moon turned back to the school, and as she did, she suddenly had a dizzy, tilting feeling that the mountain was falling down towards her. The world was then dark for a second, and then a strange, new image came floating together like someone was doing a puzzle before her.

A beach.

A beach and the strange person who came with the SeaWing Queen, who was pinning down Anemone by her neck. She was choking, and judging from how her body looked, she had been in a fight. She was twisting and writhing in pain.

Then the vision was gone, and after a few seconds of blinking around like a newborn animal, so were the SeaWing royal family.