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Part 1: Escaping Ashes
Starflight could see out of the corner of his eye the door opening in the front room. He kept reading, assuming that it was just his father coming back from work. Mastermind came rushing into the room.
"Good news Starflight. Morrowseer and Princess Greatness are going to tell you about the plan!" Starflight shrugged. He had already read his father's notes. He knew that they were going to try to dump all the lava into the middle of the ocean using a magical artifact. His father needed a better hiding place for his notes.
"Starflight, it's not what you think it is, those were fake notes." Starflight rolled his eyes. It was exactly a thing his father would do. It was a bit annoying, but he knew that other dragonets didn't have as lenient parents as Mastermind. Starflight loved his father despite his questionable actions.
"So you lied to me? Unsurprising" Starflight muttered. He saw a flash of frustration in his father's eyes, and then excitement returned.
"Well you get to know the real plan now. The meeting is at 5:00." Mastermind had a smile on his face like "my little dragonet is finally growing up." They hugged, and Starflight went back to his scroll.
As soon as he walked into the cave Starflight felt out of place. He knew for a fact that the only reason he was here was because of his father. The only dragon he knew of that had this much responsibility at this young an age was Deathbringer, and he didn't know Deathbringer that well, so he had no idea what Deathbringer did to have such a high place in their society.
This cave dubbed "the strategy cave" by Mastermind, was brighter than most of the caves gloomy on the island, and it seemed eerie. There were also battle maps with little notes like SkyWing general killed here, or troupe of IceWings captured by Queen Scarlet hung on the walls and pinned to a table. But it wasn't the room itself that made Starflight uneasy, it was the dragon in it.
Princess Greatness was sitting down and messily writing. Starflight was curious, but he didn't dare look. Not with Morrowseer in the room.
Morrowseer freaked out all the dragonets, but Starflight had to spend the most time with him. The Queen had made Morrowseer take on an 'apprentice' incase something happened to him, and Starflight was the unlucky dragonet who was chosen.
Morrowseer was scowling. He always scowled. Even as his apprentice, Morrowseer was a mystery to Starflight. Starflight loved to complain and gossip about Morrowseer with Fatespeaker, but he wasn't as nonchalant about it as her. He wanted to know why Morrowseer hated the world. Right now, Starflight didn't care about that, as much as he wanted to deny it, he wanted to know what the plan was.
"So, Starflight, I assume your father told you what this is about," said Morrowseer.
"Yes sir."
"If you tell anyone you'll regret it."
"Ok sir," Starflight replied.
"About 7 years ago, there was an animus who built tunnels, connecting us to the Sand kingdom and the rainforest." Starflight nodded along. Everyone knew about the tunnels.
"We're going to use the one leading to the rainforest to invade them." Starflight forced his expression to stay calm, though he was worried. Something seemed to tell him that invading was wrong, like even though the island was horrible, an invasion wasn't the answer. But he couldn't say that, Morrowseer would punish him.
"The RainWings won't know what hit them," chimed in Greatness.
"Your father is currently working on getting rid of an obstacle in our plan, but once that is figured out we are invading." Starflight lowered his head. He could feel Morrowseer staring at him. He made a snap decision.
"Where will the RainWings go?" There. He said it. He instantly regretted it as Morrowseer's face twisted as he frowned. At last he said,
"It doesn't matter where they go. Don't think about them. We deserve the rainforest." Starflight let out a deep breath. He thought Morrowseer would be way harsher than that.
"You can leave now, but do NOT tell anyone, do NOT ask questions, and don't you EVER think about the RainWings except how to KILL them!" Starflight involuntarily shook, and ran out of the room as fast as his legs could take him.