Chapter Two
Yeah, I know chapter one was short. I'll try to make this longer. I'm working on a cover drawing for this.
Eclipse
Eclipse was worried. The large MudWing was approaching her in a menacing way, and she didn't like it. She raised her one SandWing feature, her tail, toward him a bit. He looked strong. She wasn't sure of his name, but if he were to attack her, it didn't matter. That was one rule she had learned defending against bullies. You should not bother trying to figure out why they are attacking you. At least while they were approaching. You could worry about it later when you were beaten up.
The MudWing was closer now. She could see that he had a scar across his snout, running up his snout until it overlapped his eye. It looked painful. When she would scratch him, she would make sure not to hit that scar. It would probably kill him if her venom got into his bloodstream. She hadn't figured that because of experience, of course. She would never kill a dragon, and had never killed.
A few more steps and he would attack. She knew this from experience. She had mastered what other dragons did when they were bullying. She had way too much experience. She raised her tail higher, and he paused. The message was clear. Any further, and this tail will find your scales.
He came at her, his speed renewed. She braced for his claws and felt them tearing at her wings. She roared in pain, but the roar only attracted another bully, an IceWing this time. She knew they hated NightWings from an old legend called Darkstalker. She was strange, and the last thing she wanted was an IceWing's claws. They were serrated for gripping the ice, and hurt a lot when used for scratching dragon flesh.
The IceWing definitely hated her. She could see it in his expression. Eclipse hated herself for noticing a threat that was coming at her instead of the one growling in her face now. She saw his anger. She knew where it came from. She was a pure black dragon, except for the little silver spikes running down her neck and tail and the teardrop scales by her eyes. Her eyes were black like a SandWing's.
She also didn't have to read the IceWing's expression to know he hated her. She could see inside his head, and although it was bright and harder to read, it displayed his anger perfectly.
Some instinct inside of her activated and she lashed out, knowing she had to get the MudWing off her before the IceWing got to her. Her tail flew through the air and hit flesh, softer than usual. She remembered the MudWing's scar. Oh, no. He started screaming.
Secret
Secret loved flying. It gave her time to think about other things, to let her mind wander. Sometimes she just let her wings flap until she forgot about everything. All the schoolwork she had to do, her troubles, problems in life, her absence of good friends. Any other time she would feel worried, but not when she was flying.
She was an AllWing, so she had SkyWing ancestors, and maybe her love for flying came from that.
She paused. Some sound, like flapping, was behind her. She whirled around. Whoever it was, they were flapping like a baby bird.
As they came closer, she recognized Fate. Her NightWing "friend." He was only a sub-friend, so she didn't care if she insulted him. She only had one sub-friend, and no full friends. "You know, you fly like a baby bird." She said.
"I- was- trying to- keep up- SkyWings- are- fast." He panted. She was shocked. She was not just a mere SkyWing. Sure, she might have had stronger wings than other tribes, but she was no SkyWing. She could change her scale colors. SkyWings couldn't do that. She could read minds and see the future. SkyWings did not have any living animus dragons. They killed them when they found out.
She didn't even want to be a SkyWing. She was an animus and it struck her that if she were born into the SkyWing tribe, she would be dead. So that definitely did not help her opinions of SkyWings. She never liked them in the first place, so that didn't really matter.
"Umm... why?" she asked. It was strange that he was following her to talk to her like this.
"I had to say something." He had finally caught his breath. "You have a message. It is from a new dragonet."
Okay. Chapter two done. I might have rushed this one too, but whatever. Thank you for your feedback. This will have a cover photo soon. I am trying to make chapters longer. Published 9/26/2017.
