After Crystal had been born, she had met almost all of her relatives, including her brother Fox, who was also an animus. But Crystal was just a little dragonet, who had no idea what she was going through. After two moons, she decided to explore the ice castle.

Crystal's P.O.V.

I waited in my room, looking at the sun from my window. It was setting over the horizon, making the sky turn a light red. I scraped my claws at the sky, pretending that I was pushing the sun down, and bringing the night overhead. I jumped down from the windowsill, landing on the glinting ice below.

I pranced across my room, almost tripping on an ice chunk. I creaked open the door and exited my room. I've never got to tour the courtyard, where Frostbite's legendary tree stands. There was still a few Icewings roaming the palace, but I blended in with the walls of ice.

A felt a breeze travel through a doorway, and I followed through the doorway. I sucked in a breath of the cold air as I entered the courtyard. It was filled with tapestries of dragons. I walked towards one, curling my tail closer.

The tapestry had a black dragon, with stars on their wings and silver scales, like teardrops, near its eyes. The weird dragon had blood covering its claws. I dared to look up above the black dragon. There was a male Icewing, who was handsome and had a look of determination on his face.

I darted away from the painting, for I didn't like the way the Icewing looked at me. I ran away from the painting and bonked into a tree. I looked over, to see the tree that I had probably injured. It had globes of light growing on the branches. I breathed a plume of frost.

I started to claw my way up the tree,dodging the branches. My tail scraped against a branch, almost throwing me off balance. I made it to the top, finally just sitting there, looking at the two moons, which were full, while the other one is half way there.

I looked back at the tapestry. I felt the dragon who made it didn't know what the real expression of the Icewing was. Stomp, stomp. I fell silent. I felt the ice tree dig into my stomach as I tried to see who was making the sound.

Hiss. I realized that a rock was moving. Wait. How can a rock move by itself? I saw it then. A black dragon, like in the tapestry, was in the ice castle of Queen Polar! I made myself look even smaller, hoping the dragon wouldn't notice me.

The dragon let out a hot substance out of its mouth. I shrank down again. Suddenly I heard the familiar sound of Frostbreath's feet, running to the courtyard. She started attacking the black dragon, who looked surprised to see a dragon up this late.

Suddenly, the black dragon breathed the hot substance down Frostbreath's mouth. She tumbled away as the black dragon drew closer, slicing Frostbreath's scales, making blue blood spill.

I covered my eyes, not wanting to see what happens next. Would the dragon go on murdering Icewings? Find out Crystal was on the tree? I wish the black dragon in the courtyard would go back to wherever it was before killing Frostbreath.

I opened my eyes. The black dragon had left, leaving Frostbreath's dead body behind. I jumped off the tree and galloped out of the courtyard, not looking back at Frostbreath. I ran into my room, closing my eyes and wishing I didn't see it. But I couldn't get the image out of my brain.