Queen Snowflake rushed down to the royal hatchery. The four eggs were hatching, tonight, and she needed to see them hatch. But she heard shuffling, and occasionally ice smashing. There was only one place in the entire palace with breakable ice, and that was the royal hatchery.
"Stop right there!" Snowflake roared at the dragon. She recognised it immediately. Jadecurser, the icewing-nightwing animus dragon, raised by nightwings, and trained to use his powers at any time. "What are you doing?"
When Jadecurser turned around, she knew exactly what he had done. Lost his soul.
"Hello Snowflake," Jadecurser greets her in an oily voice.
"Thats Queen Snowflake to you now!" Snowflake hissed. "What did you do with the eggs?"
"I made them more powerful," Jadecurser cackled. One of the eggs cracked, then another, and another. Soon enough, four little dragonets were playing around on the floor of the nursery, oblivious of Snowflake's anger.
"What. Did. You. Do," Snowflake trembled in rage.
"One of them... Oh, theres too many powers I gave them to tell you them all," Jadecurser laughed.
"Lock him up in the dungeon!" Snowflake hissed. Icewing soldiers came rushing down the stairs. "These dragonets will sleep in the nursery." Jadecurser was dragged to the dungeon, and the little dragonets were left alone with their mother. One had an oddly shaped tail. One breathed fire... And one turned into a Rainwing. Snowflake cried. Her true husband was dead. The one she had fallen in love with years before, was gone. He couldn't see her beautiful dragonets.
Her best friend was also dead. Jadecurser was her adviser for many years, and always urged her to do the right thing. The try and make peace between the Icewings and the Nightwings. He assured her that challenging Glacier was the right thing to do.
"I argued against giving one of them a nightwing name," Snowflake cried. "You said that it would bring peace between the Icewing and Nightwing tribes. But now you are gone, I have to grant your final wish. Th pure white one will be Destiny. This blue one will be ice. This blue one will be wolf. And this pale blue one will be Akoya."
Destiny, Ice, Wolf, Akoya. The last dragonets I will ever raise.
