Author's Note: Hey there it's been a long while since I wrote a Siverwing story but here it is. Please read this first. Now I liked both the books and TV series so when it came to a decision I had a problem. Now this story takes place in a mix of the TV series and the book. After Sunwing but way before Firewing. Some elements of the TV show might be in it so I hope you all enjoy what I have made.
Chapter 1: The Storm
The cool breeze of the night ruffled the trees of the forest, the moons light illuminating the darkness around. The chirping of crickets being heard from all around, but the fluttering of wings broke through. A lone tiger moth flew around its home, seeking a place to rest for the night. Landing on a branch it looked around, making sure everything was safe. Hearing flapping it then flew off as something dove for it.
A bat of large size missed its prey as it flew off, growling it circled back as both eyes found its prey in the dark of night and started to pursue it once more. The lone tiger moth hastily flew to lose the predator that stalked it, being able to get some distance away.
The bat saw its prey getting away and out of eyes sight. Slowing down a sec a barrage of echoes was let out in hope of spotting the moth. Luckily one of them hit it but then a whole bunch of tiger moths appeared from nowhere, the moth used its echo projection.
Growling in frustration the bat scanned the area carefully. If he couldn't relay on echoes then sight had to do. Scanning around the moth was spotted on a branch, grinning it surged forward for it.
The tiger moth saw its predator heading for him and flew off again, once again trying to put distance between the two.
"No, you don't!" the bat shouted as both wings flapped harder, closing the distance between the two.
Seconds passed as the tiger moth was being closed in, opening its mouth the bat inched in much closer and was about to swoop the prey up.
Out of nowhere a smaller bat swooped in and caught the moth in its mouth, surprising the much bigger bat. "Hey, that was mine!"
The smaller bat gulped down the moth and let out a satisfying sigh, ignoring the comment that was said, "That was good."
"Shade I almost had it!" the bigger on complained as he flew alongside the smaller bat.
"Come on Chinook you did the same thing to me, remember?" Shade chuckled. Looking around he saw an oak tree not that far way and decided to roost there for a moment.
"That was different," Chinook followed his brother and roosted with him. "Only because-"
"You were the one who got it," the smaller bat interrupted with a smile. "Come on just admit I finally beat you at something.
The larger bat couldn't help but grin also, "No way, that was a fluke, there's no way you can beat me in anything."
"What about that time we tried to see who could eat the most bugs?"
"Upset stomach, doesn't count," he brushed it off easily.
Shade mentally chuckled as he continued to list off things, "How about that one race back to tree haven a few nights back?"
"You had a head start, wasn't fair."
The runt of the colony could list a few more things off but he decided to use his ace in the hole, just to get his brother mad. "What about when I saw the sun and you ran off like a chicken?" He smugly responded with a sly grin.
Chinook just chuckled as his head shook, "Oh I'll show you a chicken runt."
Shade just laughed as he dropped and flew off, his brother right behind him as both of their laughs echoed through the night.
Both playfully chased one another through the tree. Since Chinook was bigger he was able to gain up on him, but since Shade was smaller he managed to fly through smaller tree branches; putting some distance between them.
Shade knew he could keep this small chase up for a while longer, but decided to end it early. Mainly because he had enough fun teasing his brother. Slowing down he then landed on a large branch, but immediately felt a huge impact from behind as Chinook crashed into him. Both bats rolled around in a playful manner as one of them tried to get the upper hand.
Of course Chinook proved to be dominate one as he pinned Shade's shoulders down on the bark, "Ha, got you runt!"
The smaller one only shook his head at the comment, "I let you get me."
"As if you would; I beat you fair and square!"
Shade opened his mouth to respond but then a huge boom echoed through the forest, making both brothers jump.
"W-What was that?" Chinook asked, a little jumpy.
"Uh…I think that was thunder," Shade responded calmly, getting back up once the extra weight was off of him. "Usually it starts to rain when that happens."
Chinook snorted at the logic, "Nah, sometimes it doesn't rain. We get much thunder but no rain."
"But still, I think we should head back to tree haven."
"Come on bro, if there was rain we would have felt it right now. Only newborns get worried over this."
Spreading his wings Chinook was about to take off but only for Shade to get in front of him. "Chinook be reasonable, we should head back now I don't think it's going to be safe."
The bigger bat pushed his way through, "Shade nothing's going to happen; besides I think you're being the chicken now." Grinning he opened both wings and took off into the air.
"Chinook!" Shade called out as he took off after his brother.
A groan came out of the older bat, the topic wouldn't be dropped so easily so he decided to have some fun. "Ok, if you can catch me then we can go back."
"Chinook this isn't a game!" Shade called out as he flapped faster, but his brother was still too many wing beats away.
Laughs came out as the bigger bat flapped more, putting more distance between the two. He could hear his name being called out but only chuckled at it. Another wave of thunder boomed again, but this time louder. This made Chinook put the brakes on as a flash of light appeared in the distance.
The abrupt stop allowed Shade to catch up, "Chinook, come on its getting worse!"
He kept on trying to keep his cool demeanor but it was slowly cracking, "oh…come on lighting doesn't mean that much."
It was then small drops of liquid hit their fur, damping it. Shade gave a look as in saying I told you so, "Anything else you want to add?"
"Ok, ok let's go back then," Chinook groaned, he didn't want to, but he was wrong on this, and they really need to get back now. Doing a U-turn they started back in the other direction, back to tree haven.
Soon Chinook started to regret not going back when Shade told him to. The rain had started getting heavier and a gust of wind had been added to the mix. Chinook looked back at his brother and saw he was flapping hard, going against the wing current was proving to be difficult for him.
"Come on Shade we're almost there!"
"I know…" the smaller bat panted. Flapping his wings like this was burning more energy than usual.
Chinook then looked forward to find a tree branch to land on, since he needed to give Shade some time to catch up and hovering in the air wasn't a good idea at the moment. Descending the larger bat landed on the large branch and looked back.
Shade's eyes squinted as he saw Chinook land a little further than him. Flapping his wings more he got closer to his brother and was only a few feet away.
A long crackle of thunder boomed again, followed by a bright flash. Lighting swiftly struck the top of the tree, setting it ablaze. The lightning also severed a branch from the top of the tree; a small bit of fire began burning the bark. "Chinook!" Shade shouted as he watched the debris falling straight down.
The bigger bat looked up and froze as the burning piece of wood headed straight for him. It was then something rammed into him, pushing him out of the way and onto another branch a few feet away.
Chinook watched in horror as Shade took his place on the branch as the burning piece of wood fell on top of him. Yells of pain sounded as the smaller bat was knocked over the edge.
"Shade!" Chinook cried out as he watched his brother fall and plummet to the ground.
A/N: Hope you all like. Now this story isn't fully completed in my mind so there might not be quick updates. I'm working hard with school and this so I'll do what I can to finish this quick.