A female dragonet flew towards the healer's hut. It was a daily routine for her, and she couldn't wait till she got there. Her heart leaped as she saw the hut and began to beat faster and faster. POUND! POUND! BEAT!
The dragon landed on the platform, and calming herself before rushing in. "Breath in and out through the snout," she muttered softly, trying not to look too excited, but the happiness inside of her was about to burst out any second. She entered the room, happy, but much more calmed down. Her inky scales of darkness and stars shimmered in the sunlight through the window. Everything was quiet except for the movement of the animals below the village, and Fatespeaker, of course. One other dragon was in the room, guess who? If you didn't guess Starlfight, well, nice try.
Fatespeaker walked towards the bed next to a neat pile of scrolls. Fatespeaker suppressed a smile, even though he was blind, Starlflight will always be a booklover.
Blind...
Her stomach fell at the reminder. Starflight, her friend, is now blind. He couldn't read anymore, or see anything. She often came to help and read to him, because she, well, I she liked the Dragonet of Destiny. She would tell him, but she was well aware that he had a crush on the cheerful SandWing. Her hopes fell when she found out. Not that she would compete, because the dragonet knew him longer than she did and she was so kind and cheerful. Sunny was truly one of a kind, as well as pretty. Fatespeaker envied her for being so positive and to be able to see the best in somebody, when others can't.
"Hey, Starflight!" she tried to say cheerfully. Starflight, who was napping, rubbed his eye with his talon.
"Oh, hey, Fatespeaker. Why are you here in the middle of suntime?" Opps. She didn't know that.
"Oh, I forgot! That explains why everything is so quiet. Oh..oh! I am getting vision! I think...we will eat a seal soon!" Fatespeaker said happily as she thought hard, and saw a seal. Starflight smiled.
"Fatespeaker...we are in the middle of the rainforest. Where would we find a seal?" He sounded quite amused at her vision, but that didn't falter her hopes. Fatespeaker trusted her vision, because after all, it was in her blood and her tribe. She knew it would happen someday!
"Oh, don't worry. I trust my vision, I know it will come true!" Fatespeaker replied. Starlight shook his head with a smile. She grinned back, but because she was happy to see him even smile a tiny bit!
"Where is Sunny?" he asked hopefully. Her stomach fell, Sunny. He always asked that everytime she came, and it broke her heart. When Sunny was here, did he ask that for her? Did he even like her company? She knew Sunny didn't return his feelings, but Starflight is still struggling with his own. Fatespeaker pushed the thoughts out from her head, because it wasn't her business and she was determined to visit him with a smile on her face.
"She is busy," she tried to say casually. Starflight slumped, but tried to give her a weak smile. Fatespeaker wanted to comfort him, but how could she? It was Starflight's feelings, so she can't help him. Starflight looked in the direction of her voice.
"Can you do me a favor and read me a story?" Fatespeaker nodded, but then realized he couldn't see it when Starflight looked at her patiently. Err, she means turned his head at the direction of her voice, since he can't see, of course.
"Oh, yes. Of course, which one?" she said embarrassed. Starflight smiled at Fatespeaker, making for her more nervous than before, and pointed to the pile. He knew where it was because Fatespeaker and Glory, as well as the rest, donated him all these scrolls and told him where it was. That, and he memorized his surroundings after being here so long.
"It is titled, Crossing Paths. I want to try an ordinary story instead of an informative one," Fatespeaker nodded and began looking at titles, before tossing it to the side. It seemed that the scroll was missing in the pile.
"I know it is in there somewhere," she muttered. After what seemed like years, which was actually ten minutes, she found it.
"Okay, here I go!" She cleared her throat and opened her snout to read for her blind friend.
Paths cross always somewhere. Even if you may not meet them or talk to them, but every dragon's path are connected like a big tapestry. The paths are weaved carefully to intersect or not in the artwork. Tied together by fate.
"Tied together.." Starflight muttered softly, and Fatespeaker smiled. Because he was blind, he tried to memorize everything by everything he hears. It was probably because he didn't want to bother anyone with not being able to read and having to come over and read to him.
Fatespeaker didn't mind, but he still was considerate. All the memorizing made Starflight really smart. Smarter than before. He was probably the smartest dragon in the village, or all of Pyrrhia! At least, that was what she thought.
Every single part of the tapestry is unique and different. Different tribes and strong suits for each color string. Imagine a single red rose on a tapestry. The red petals symbolize SkyWing for being a fierce dragon tribe. The stem symbolizes the IceWings from being strong in the coldness of the north. The thorns symbolize the RainWings for being peaceful, but painful. The rose is beautiful, and yet painful for its beauty. The SeaWings symbolize the center of the rose where the pollen is. The SeaWings love to spread their writings among others of their tribe(or mainly Queen Coral)and ect. Even though the rose is made up many different parts, but it is just a part of the big picture. Each part create something wonderful, beautiful, and painful all at the same. Like the rose, the threads also create one whole picture.
Everywhere or nowhere, paths cross one another to make up something big. Bigger than anything a dragon could imagine.
Our story begins in the tribe of the sky. One dragon was as ordinary, as she could be, and she always had the same routine. But that was about to change. Falcon was a regular female dragon who worked under Queen Scarlet's rule as a soldier. She headed towards the arena the same way she did on a regular day, but something was about to happen. She flew quickly and fast as she could, because she was late.
"Oh dear, I hope I won't get in a whole ton of trouble," she muttered. She felt flying straight and fast as the wind, almost like a bird, but a dragon slowly flew into her path.
"Ahhhhhh!" She screamed and the dragon turned to her direction, and his eyes widened. But it was too late. Falcon collided into the dragon and both fell into the ground, stumbling into the dirt below.
"Ouch..."the male dragon said as he rubbed his head and looked up, only to see Falcon was ontop of him. Falcon lifted her head and gave him a weak smile.
"I'm sorry I crashed into you," she said apologetically.
"It is fine, but can you please get off of me," he said slightly annoyed. Falcon's eyes widened as she realized they were tangled together and she was ontop of him.
"Sorry..." She got off the dragon, and helped him up.
"Hi, my name is Falcon," she said politely. The dragon glanced at her and nodded, but barely. Falcon grew annoyed, because is it that hard to be even the tiniest bit of politeness?
"Hey, I am talking to you!" She demanded. The dragon turned to her in suprise, and she felt satisfaction when his eyes widened.
But it didn't last long. His eyes went back to normal after a millimeter of a second, and him sinking into a boring expression. And she didn't like that. She opened her snout again, but the dragon beat her to it.
"My name is Fury," he said bored. She blinked, before grinning widely.
"Hello, Fury!" And that was the start of their friendship...
The two dragons got into a routine. The routine was to crash into each other, greet each other, and Falcon running off, hoping she wouldn't be late. The two grew to be close, even though Falcon is a talker and Fury doesn't really listen, but they were the best of mates...that doesn't sound right or what I meant.. Oh well!
Falcon hummed as she flew towards the regular route and pretended to look at the dragon passing by, knowing the place where she crashed into Fury is coming up...one minute...twenty seconds...ten seconds...five...four...three...two..ONE...huh?
She flew right by it. Falcon turned around, and waited for five minutes, hoping perhaps he was late or she was early, but he still didn't show up. She glanced around, it was the same time, so where is he?
The sky dragon shook it off, no biggies. Maybe tomorrow...
It was been a whole week, but no sign of the dragon she knew. Now, Falcon was worried. Where was Fury? A flair of panic rushed through her, perhaps he is dead! Immediately, it disappeared. She know Fury wouldn't-no, couldn't die. She tried to smile and bare her worry, but she couldn't shake off the bad feeling...
She sighed and went into a decision to ask one of the guards.
"What do you mean sent to the war?!"
"I repeat, Fury was sent to the war for the SandWing sisters," the guard said grumpily. Horror sunk into her scales..no. No! Fury couldn't have gone to the war. He could..die.
"Now run along, I have prisoners to watch," and the guard walked away yawning. Falcon was panicking in the hallway.
The guard turned around and yelled," I said to leave!" Suddenly, she had an idea.
"Where was Fury sent to?" She asked. The guard gave her a blank look.
"Will it get you to leave?" She nodded.
"He was sent to the marshes for an invasion. While you are at it, can you get me a snack...?" The guard turned around, but Fury was long gone.
She flew as fast as she could and she felt that something terrible was going to happen. She had to hurry. She felt that every second counted..counted for his life.
The wind beated her wings around and tried to push her back
Go home...go back.
"No," she screamed back," I can't!" The wind tried to push her back, but she kept fighting forward. There was something she was fighting for.
Fatespeaker paused. She could connect to the dragon, Falcon. She was fighting for the hope that Starflight's sight could come back, and if she was in Falcon's position, would do the same. She resumed the story.
Tears ran down her face as she glanced down, only to see the littered bodies of SkyWings, MudWings, and the dragons who they were fighting against: SeaWings.
The moans and cries of soldiers fighting continued up north, so she went west instead. The glanced around, hoping to see the familiar gleam of red scales. Out of the corner of her eye, the light bounced on a body with that gleam. Happiness hot up, but too soon squashed. Her stomach fell; she was too late. She changed her direction towards him. His body was covered with blood, and a spear stabbed into his stomach. Her talons touched the ground and she walked over. The pain was envient on his face and she leaned down...it was silent. There was no beat.
He was gone.
She drew the spear from his stomach and broke in half of her anger. More tears ran down her snout as she felt something break in half, her heart. Now that Fury was gone, she realized that she loved him. She bowed her head and sobbed, before picking up the spear and flying away. Farther and farther she flew, but the tears never stopped.
Falcon hoped, that someday, their paths would once again cross. The only thing she could do was wait.
The end
"That was a sad story," Fatespeaker stated, as she rolled the scroll back up and placed it neatly on the top of the pile. Out of the corner of her eye, Starflight was nodding in agreement.
"What do you want to do now?" She asked. She was expecting him to say to read another scroll, but said something else.
"Let's go out? I am kind of stiff, being stuck in this but all day," he suggested. Fatespeaker agreed with him. Fatespeaker grabbed a basket and went to pick some fruit, before they left. It was dinner time, so why starve?
"Cmon, let's go!" She said happily as she and Starflight flew to the treetops.
Fatespeaker's heart rate, once again, grew as she touched her crush. She guided him to the tallest tree, where it was a perfect view to see a sunset or stare at the stars. A very romantic spit that she wanted to share with Starflight, except for the fact that he can't see.
Fatespeaker wished she could help him, but that is impossible. Only time can tell. She sighed.
"Are you okay?" She heard Starflight say.
"Yeah, I am fine," she replied a bit glumly, but before he could question her, Fatespeaker stopped.
"Here is the place where we can relax!"she told him. Starflight nodded and the two got comfortable and Fatespeaker stared at the setting sun.
'This is such a romantic place for couples,' she thought, before blushing. She just implied that she and the NightWing were together. She took a not-so-secretive glance at the studious dragon next to her. Fatespeaker peeled her banana in as she watched the sun slowly set on this day.
Even though she read sad story, she sighed in content. It felt like all was perfect in the world. Perhaps, if she looked down, she would've noticed the tender looks Starflight had for her, or that their tails were perfectly intwined, like their hearts already were...
I know, I know, not one of my best chapters. Probably the hardest to write, without a flashback. I wanted to do one without a flashback, but maybe not my best. Do you think I should stick with the flashbacks? When I first started, I wrote a flashback unintentionally, but the second chapter as well. The third chapter, I was like, why not when I realized? But I wanted to try one with none. So, do you think I should? I probably will do another with this couple, because it wasn't that good. So don't complain about the OOC characters, make fun of the metaphors, or the story takes up most of it, but I didn't want them to walk out of the hut, and not much inspiration to write this one-shot, so I WILL make another, but hopefully better.
I am sorry that I took so long because I have been writing one-shots, like Claril, Blisterseer, Ripnami, and light Sunnyflight. I a, also making another also making more one-shots, so look out for those, and another fic, but details are a secret.
But I want to make this clear, NO MORE VOTES! THE VOTES ARE OFFICIALLY CLOSED! The winner of the votes was Sunnyflight(and wow, I was surprised how many voted), followed by Sunny and Quibli, but then Smolder and Sunny last. Thanks for all the votes! Please review and fav this fic, obviously, and my other fanfics! (Though, I am sure you guys are annoyed that I keep telling you guys). Anyways, the reason why I posted this today...is because it is my birthday! Yay! Well, technically tomorrow, but who cares! But I am not telling you guys how old I am, but I sure feel not that much older, especially since today is school. D: Please check out my new poll that some of you already voted, but please vote or else I am stopping this fic! Jk, but seriously, please? (*puppy eyes*)
Kate: Glory, do the disclaimer.
Glory: Why?
Kate:Because it is my birthday.
Glory: No, until it is past midnight.
Kate:Please?
Glory: Fine..Tui own my and the others, but not Kate or mysteryreader6626.
Kate: Thanks! See you next time!
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