"Valentine's Day?" Chorused four of the dragonets. Starflight winced at the volume and nodded.
"Yes, Valentine's Day. It is supposed to be tomorrow," Starlight told them. Clay frowned and tilted his head.
"So, that scroll you found contained a whole bunch of holidays that scavengers celebrate?" Clay asked. Starflight nodded again and handed the scroll to Tsunami. Her eyes slowly went down the scroll and she muttered some of the holidays out loud, like Christmas and Thanksgiving.
"These sure are weird names. New Year's Eve? Why would any dragon want to celebrate a new year?" She asked, with no response. She handed the scroll to the next dragonet and that kept going until every dragon read it.
"Halloween? Sounds yummy. You get to eat a whole bunch of...candy? What in the three moons is that!?"
"Aww, Mother's Day and Father's Day. That sound sweet. A day where we celebrate our moms and dads. One day, after we complete the prophecy, I want to do that!"
"Why are there a bunch of birthdays on here! This is really weird... Why would any dragon want to write a bunch of holidays scavenger celebrate, and how did he even do that?" All dragons shrugged and Starflight placed the scroll in the center of the circle that the dragonets formed.
"So, what is Valentine's Day?" asked a curious Sunny. Starflight suddenly became nervously, causing even the very grouchy Glory become interested at his answer.
"It is, uh, um, uh.." Starflight stumbled over his words.
"Just spit is out!" Glory demanded.
"It is a holiday when you show your affection and love to your mate or someone you care for with a card with hearts on it and a poem. Males usually give the females roses and the girls give choclate," he squeaked with fear of Glory's grouchiness.
"Choclate!" Clay yelled in happiness, and as if right on cue, his stomach rumbled. Starflight gave Clay a light glare for interrupting him and Clay gave him a sheepish, apologetic smile in return.
"What is a heart shaped like?" Tsunami asked Starflight. The question caught him off guard, how does he explain the shape? With Starflight's quick thinking, he grabbed a parchment and some ink, and dipped his talon into the bottle and drew a heart.
"It is usually pink or red," he told them. Glory examined the the shape carefully, a bit too carefully in Starflight's opinion, but it wasn't his business, so he brushed it off.
"So, do you guys want to celebrate it?" Asked Starflight.
"Yeah," the rest replied.
"As long we don't get in trouble with our guardians," Gory added. Everyone nodded, telling her that they understand. They all got up and headed towards their own cave. Glory and Starflight walked said by side together, but Starflight made no acknowledgement to her presence.
Starflight was grinning goofily, and that made Glory look it him weirdly, but who cares! Tomorrow was the day he showed that he cares for a certain SandWing.
". . ." The blank stares at Glory made her shift uncomfortably.
"What?" She said defensively to her friends, who were looking at her intensely. What did she do?
"Glory...why are you dressed up with all those hearts?" Clay asked. Glory shrugged in reply. You see, when Glory walked in, instead of the usual rainbow of colors, she had a bunch of pink and red hearts with a white background. Something that made the dragonets of the prophecy jaws drop, because this was Glory! One of the most grumpiest dragon alive.
"It is Valentine's Day, so why not show it?" Glory pointed out with annoyance. No one asked any more questions about her patterns, so she won't get even more annoyed, then angry.
"Clay and Starflight, you can have some of our food," the girls told them and handed each boy some of the cow they were eating. Clay grinned widely and hugged each dragon and told them," Thanks, happy Valentine's Day!" The female dragonets can't make choclate, because they don't even know what that is, so they agreed to give the boys a portion of their food. Especially since their guardians brought a huge and tasty cow, so they figured the boys wouldn't be disappointed.
Clay handed each of his female friends a paper with words like,"Roses are read, violets are blue. Thanks for the food!" The boys also couldn't get flowers, because they were stuck in the cave all day, so they decided to make a card.
Sunny hugged him, while everyone else gave a light laugh it Clay's card. Starflight gave the girls a similar card, except Sunny. Sunny was hurt when she didn't get a card, but she didn't show it. Starflight on the other claw was nervous and wanted to give Sunny his card in private. Hopefully, after dinner. They were lucky their guardians were away, or they would get angry and ask why would they waste scrolls! They wouldn't understand this scavenger holiday and Krestal would probably, or also known as very, very, vey likely, burn the scroll in ashes.
Sunny was in a crestfallen mood for the rest of the dinner, because she thought Starflight didn't care for her as his friends, so he didn't gave her a card. Valentine's Day was, after all, was day when you care for your friends!
Afterwards, everyone finished the delicious cow, and they wished everyone a happy Love Day and headed towards their own cave, except for Sunny and Starflight. Sunny shifted awkwardly and glanced up at the NightWing, who was avoiding her eye contact. Sunny frowned and decided to leave, because she didn't want to bother the NightWing if he didn't care for her as his friend. They lived together her since they were born! Sunny sighed and got up.
"I am going to go back too, so see tomorrow," Sunny tried to say cheerfully. Keyword: Tried. Starflight finally glanced up at the SandWing as she was at the exit of the room. This was his last chance to tell her on Love Day.
"Please give me strength, whoever was the scavenger who made Valentine's Day!" He prayed and he stood up from where he was eating.
"Sunny, wait!" He called out. The SandWing, who had her head hanging down at the ground, snapped her neck to her friend as he ran over to her.
"What is it?" She asked sadly. Starflight shifter uncomfortably before nervously heading her a card. Sunny beamed at the card and opened it.
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
You are fun to be around, and I love you.
Sunny flung herself around Starflight's neck.
"Oh thank you, Starflight! I knew you cared about me! I love you too!" Sunny cried out. Starflight gasped and his eyes bulged out.
"You-you do?!" He nearly yelled. Sunny unwrapped her arms and looked at him puzzled.
"Of course I do. Just like I love Tsunami, Clay, and Glory. Isn't Valentine's Day the day you show you care for your friends?" She asked. Starflight nearly facepalmed himself when he realized Sunny misunderstood him.
"See you later!" And with that, his crush rushed off leaving the NightWing alone. Starflight sighed.
"There is always next time," he muttered. And as if the universe heard him, a angry, loud, and scary roar caused him to jump.
"What is with these poems!? And you, Glory, why are your scales like that! Go to your cave and undo it. What is going on!?" He heard a very angry SkyWing yelled. He sighed; his guardians had returned and it looks like they were caught.
"It is Valentine's Day. It is scavenger holiday. We decided to celebrate it," said a faint brave Clay. Starflight facepalmed himself and his snout wrinkled up at the smell. The smell of smoke. He sighed again.
"Looks like there won't be a next time," he muttered as he sagged to his room and decided to read his favorite scroll in college peace.
Why did he even look for that scroll as an excuse to tell Sunny he loved her?
Poor Starflight D: No next time for you. Well, better luck next time. Sunny didn't get your poem, so try harder!
This was a secret project for Love Day! I hope you liked it and it just came to me. This was obviously set before they ran away. Please review and fav and I hope you got the light humor!
Kate: Clay, why did you tell Krestal. -_-
Clay: She looked like she was going to attack Tsunami and Glory.
Kate: Oh, but still! Starflight can't tell Sunny his feelings.
Clay: What?
Kate: Oh, never mind. At least do the disclaimer as an apology.
Clay: Ok? Kate or mysteryreader6626 doesn't own anything.
Kate: Good job! And please check out my other stories and tell me if you think Monster should have a sequel and maybe this one too!
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