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"Get that moon-forsaking egg already!" Shadowlurker hissed to her daughter, Silencekeeper.
"There's still a dragon in there!" She said, motioning over to the sky hole. In it, not only was a multi-colored egg, but a just barely full grown RainWing who curled around the egg.
Shadowlurker glared at the NightWing-SandWing, and growled. "If you want something done right, do it yourself." She muttered, jumping off the roof of the small RanWing cottage and gesturing for Silencekeeper to follow. "Even if you die, I'm going to teach you how to be useful."
Silencekeeper, well, stayed silent and nodded. Shadowlurker handed her a piece of fruit.
"Throw this into that bush." She instructed. "Maybe hit a dragon while you're at it." Once Silencekeeper did as she was told, Shadowlurker nodded to a tree. "Now climb!" The two dragons climbed up the tree closest to them and the RainWing poked her head outside.
"Hm?" She said sleepily as she looked around. Shadowlurker pushed Silencekeeper out of the tree, and she walked towards the dragon.
"Hello," Silencekeeper said. "What are you looking for?"
Shadowlurker was glad her daughter finally learned something from the other two eggs they stole, and the one they couldn't get away with in time, and shot for the sky hole. Carefully squeezing through, she grabbed the egg just as the RainWing said "Well I better get back to my egg….it's supposed to hatch today."
And right before the RainWing saw Shadowlurker, she was already back to the tree they were hiding in. Silencekeeper flew beside her, then when Shadowlurker turned away, she heard the RainWing crying.
"Come on, Silencekeeper. Our job here is done." She growled to her daughter when she hesitated. Shadowlurker burst into the air, and heard Silencekeeper's wingbeats right behind her a moment later. 'Good. You aren't allowed to get attached to anything. You have to listen to what I say, Silencekeeper, or these dragonets may die. And I'm sure you don't want that, do you?' Shadowlurker thought darkly. Silencekeeper shook her head, but she knew it wasn't because she heard her thoughts. She was just another defect hybrid. The exact kind that Shadowlurker planned to use to get what she wanted.
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As soon as they got back to their hideout near Jade Mountain, one of the eggs—the one holding a RainWing-NightWing—grew a long crack right down the center. And then another, and another.
"Which one is this?" Shadowlurker asked Silencekeeper as she watched the dragonet pathetically try to claw out of the egg.
"Umbra," Silencekeeper said quietly. "That's what her parents wanted to call her." Then when the dragonet finally made it's way out, it carefully wobbled over to Silencekeeper before sitting down and looking up at the stars.
Then the other egg started cracking, the NightWing-SkyWing. "That one?" Shadowlurker said, gesturing to the egg.
Silencekeeper sighed. "It should be Darklight, but you'll insist on calling her Dimglow."
"Dimglow it is!" Shadowlurker said with a grin. The dragonet tumbled out of the egg and ending up rolling over to Silencekeeper. Umbra batting her playfully. Then finally, as the sun was coming up and touching the final egg, it started to crack. "The final one?"
"That one's Firelily." Silencekeeper said. "Her parents chose the name to represent the two tribes she was born into. 'Fire' for SandWings, and 'lily' for the RainWings."
"Yeah, yeah, I don't need her life story." Shadowlurker said.
Firelily scrapped out of the egg much more efficiently then the other two did, and once she got fully out, she looked around. Once she saw Shadowlurker, she growled. Shadowlurker could hear Silencekeeper quietly laughing, and she flicked the newborn in her direction. Then without another word, Shadowlurker got up and left.
Silencekeeper stayed, though, and pulled all the dragonets in her wings. "Hi," she said quietly, letting them go. They all stared at her with big eyes, all filled with amazement at the sight of the dragon much taller then them. "I'm Silencekeeper. That mean dragon that just passed was Shadowlurker." She looked around, and then continued more quietly. "But don't worry, Umbra, Dimglow, and Firelily. One day, I'll help you back to your homes where you belong. Or at least dragons that can help you. I promise."
Silencekeeper's mind was full of futures. Some where they all died under Shadowlurker's talons for disobeying, but most where they were all happy and living with their parents. All of them loving parents. And if she hurried, she could even see a few futures where Firelily met her brother. Where Dimglow did amazing things with her currently unknown animus powers. And where Umbra found a nice dragon worthy of her time. But she saw all the things that needed to happen before that. One of those possibilities…involved killing some dragons…more specifically, Shadowlurker. And well, after seeing that part of the possibilities, she never saw herself anywhere anymore.
She shivered at the thought and brought the dragonets in. "I promise. No matter what. I. Will. Bring. You. Home." She whispered.