NOTE: I'm currently accepting OCs. I can't guarantee I'll use them, though.

~fantasytwin0930

Missing

Tamarin was exhausted. She'd been at the royal gardens all day, and it was evident that Queen Fruit Bat had been there. The flowers were wilted and it smelled like burnt rubber. She'd had to spend all day cleaning it up.

But finally she was finished. She peeked at the sundial in the center of the gardens. The sundial said it was half past two. That meant she'd better start flying towards the old banyan tree. She was supposed to meet Kinkajou there at three.

Tamarin got there only bumping into two trees. In the past year, Kinkajou had always been by her side. She'd helped her learn her way around the rainforest and develop keener senses of smell and touch. And she'd gained a lot more than that. She now had confidence and a great friend.

She'd even learned to change her scales when she was relaxed. Or at least Kinkajou had told her that. "Just relax," she would soothe. "Relaxation is the key to camouflage."

But when she got there Kinkajou wasn't there. She could tell because everything was silent. If Kinkajou were here, she'd hear leaves rustling from Kinkajou hopping from foot to foot. And when Kinkajou was there, the air got a bit hotter, as if she were radiating heat like a SandWing.

Kinkajou was probably just late. But images filled her head with worry: Kinkajou got abducted by those creepy NightWing guys every dragon talked about, she decided she didn't want to be Tamarin's friend anymore, she heard other RainWings talking rumors about Tamarin and believed them.

The last one wasn't that improbable, actually. Dragons tended to talk about her. They'd look at her eyes and jump back, then make secret faces at each other.

Tamarin hated secret faces!

And worse were the whispers she'd heard, and the name-calling. She was all to familiar with the words "weirdo," "freak," and "moon-eyes". Only she didn't know what a moon was. Yes, she knew that there were three of them, and she knew what full moons meant. But she didn't know what it looked like, or what it meant to "light up the sky."

Kinkajou had taught her comebacks, or how to ignore them, but sometimes her anger just bubbled over.

"Just because I'm blind doesn't mean I'm deaf!" Tamarin had yelled at Anaconda, after she'd heard the dragonet jeering to a friend with a husky voice- probably Toucan.

"I wasn't talking to you, freak-eyes!" Anaconda snarled.

"Hey, leave her alone," Kinkajou had said.

Toucan had groaned. "Here comes your weirdo friend, freak-eyes," she said nastily.

"C'mon, Tamarin, let's go," Kinkajou had said, pulling her away. "Let's go play somewhere else. Toucan and Anaconda don't know what they're talking about."

Now Tamarin hopelessly slumped down against the banyan tree, waiting for Kinkajou to arrive. It must have been half past three now, and Kinkajou still hadn't arrived.

She felt a skitter of tiny feet scampering from her shoulder to her stomach. Tamarin hugged the fluffy lump, whose fur was easily recognizable as her pet sloth. She'd named her Mango, because her fur smelled like mangoes, and she didn't know what the little sloth looked like.

Mango wrapped her arms around Tamarin's neck.

Tamarin waited... and waited... and waited. Finally she stood. It had to be five o' clock and she'd given up all hope of Kinkajou coming. She carefully flew back to the rainforest village.

"Hello? Hello?" She asked. "Has anyone seen Kinkajou?"

Her first ask wasn't so great. "What's it to you, dragonet?" He growled, turning away. The next two just ignored him. The fourth was Anaconda, who called her 'freak-eyes' and shoved her to the ground. It wasn't till the seventh dragon till she had any luck.

"Hello? Have you seen Kinkajou?" Tamarin asked anxiously.

"Oh," said an unpleasant voice. It was Bromeliad if she wasn't mistaken, Kinkajou's venom trainer. "Kinkajou's little friend. Ran off in the middle of venom training, probably to annoy me."

"That doesn't sound like Kinkajou!" Tamarin cried, walking forwards to keep up with Bromeliad.

"Go away, dragonet," Bromeliad growled.

"But I need to find her!" Tamarin cried. "What if something happened to her?!"

But Bromeliad was already gone.