Alright! Another chapter out! Ye! So, I can't remember if I ever said there was going to be a sequel to this or not, but, I've decided to not continue with that idea, for, I want there to be a different main character until-

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Me: See? Only one spoiler, the name of the next main character for one of my stories! Anyways, onto the chapter!

Chapter seven: We will find a way

"I will win" I heard Glory's determined voice say. "I have to" She finished as I approached the hut.

"I don't really need to learn all these fruits, do I?" I asked. "Considering I can't even touch them without them dying" I said, bored after a few hours of learning fruit names.

"Come on, if I'm being tortured, you should be too" Glory replied sarcastically.

"I'd rather be hugged by ten electric eels" I replied bluntly. "Come on, I should be working on my stealth, considering I can actually become invisible, instead of changing the color of my scales" I said.

"Do you really know that you're even allowed to participate?" Glory asked.

"Well, Magnificent might not be the brightest dragon out there, but, she'll know that you really don't know many rain wings, and she'll use that against you" I replied. "She's planning on you choosing the other dragonets" I finished. I decided to quickly pick up one of the extra fruit, and quickly put it in my mouth. I ate the fruit and stared at Mangrove, who was smirking. I raised an eyebrow and felt an energy start swelling in my throat. My eyes widened and I tilted my head at a 45 degree angle, a huge laser three times more powerful came out of my mouth, reaching through the clouds, and making a hole through them.
"The heck man! Why didn't you tell us the specifics about that one!?" I yelled at the dragon.
"I did, you just weren't listening"

"Hm" I huffed and laid down, head to the sky.

"So, what's next?" Glory asked.

"Sun time!" Kinkajou exclaimed.

"Excuse me? I don't have time to be lazy, I'll study on my own and you two can go and sleep"

"Sun time is not about being lazy, it's about recharging, and no, you will not study on your own" And there sparked another argument.

The Arboretum, apparently, was in the heart of the rain wing's village. Lovely, so, I had to be around so many dragons. Just great. Currently, however, I was standing beside Glory.

"So, why are you deciding to help me?" Glory asked.

"Let's see, one, I don't want to be in that crowd. Two, because I'm so nice. Finally, because you're not the only one who wants to see Magnificent being beaten today" I smiled.

"So, who are the others?" I asked. Kinkajou went over the other queen's names.
"Dazzling, Exquisite, Granduer, who's the last one? Wait, let me guess, Splendiferous? Astonishing? Too beautiful for the eyes to see?" Glory asked sarcastically.
"That's Fruit Bat" Kinkajou told us.

"HA! Are you serious!" I asked laughing.

"Wish me luck" Glory said as I walked up with Glory to the stage like thing in the Arboretum.

"So, what's the plan? I have to defeat all five of you?" Glory asked.
"No, the challenger on has to compete against the current queen" Handsome replied, I recognize this dragon as the one from before, in the royal hut/platform.

"You're going to need a team" I heard Magnificent reply.
"But-hm" Glory said. I looked at her in interest, knowing that I had practiced my tree gliding a lot. Spending time even at night doing it.

"I choose, Kinkajou, Mangrove, Crescent, and Tamarin" Glory said confidently. A gasp wen throughout the crowd, I looked at them, confused.
"Why shouldn't I choose Tamarin?" Glory asked.

"You can" Kinkajou paused. "It's just that, she's blind" Kinkajou said.

Kinkajou ran over to her friend and whispered some things in her ear, then she led Tamarin over to us.

"Why would you pick me?" The dragon asked.
"Kinkajou told me about you" Glory answered, then proceeded to ask some questions.
"Let's begin! Unless you've changed your mind?" Magnificent asked proudly.

"We're ready"

"You're going down" I replied, full of determination.

"No inspiring speech?" Jambu asked, sounding disappointed.

"I did one yesterday" Glory complained.
"So? Just do one for us" Kinkajou replied.

"Um. Alright. Do your best. And thanks and stuff" Glory said, making me chuckle.

"Wow" Mangrove said sarcastically.

"I feel so moved" I sarcastically replied to the grand speech.

"Let's start with fruit gathering" Magnificent said. "Dazzling will compete for us, you?"

"Mangrove" Glory replied after she went through who would do what.

"Next, the treetop race" Handsome said.

I was ready to start flying as I stood on the platform. I could sense something was wrong, but, I already had a plan for cheating. I had already scoped out the racing area, knowing the only spot where any trap could've been placed.

"You will start flying once you hear the toucan call, three, two, CAW!" He screamed, jolting me into immediate flight mode. I burst forward, wings scattering leaves and fruits nearby. I heard some encouraging words from some dragons, not focusing on which ones they came from. I added more force to my wings and sped forwards, beating my wings hard and fast.

I only had to do one more circuit, and I was rapidly approaching the spot that I thought would be the trap, Exquisite was on my tail, quite literally. I quickly dived down at a less than 90 degree angle and dodged some silver arms, I unfurled my wings and did a few spins in the air to keep up with Exquisite. I beat my wings super hard and fast, passing Exquisite, and I landed on the platform with a thud. I took two minutes to catch my breath after doing that move. After looking back to an annoyed Exquisite, I smirked.
"Sorry, but, your trap failed" I simply said, before walking back over to Glory and the others.
"I, have, never, flown so fast like that I a short amount of time, I feel like collapsing" I panted as I sat down.

"Well, you did an amazing job" She said.

"Come on, I saw the sloths right there, but, is it really worth arguing about?" I asked Grandeur, the only one not participating in the argument.
"Hm" She only said. I rolled my eyes and watched the dragons argue.

I watched as Tamarin flew around the Arboretum. She was flying around, sniffing the air.

"She must be able to recognize the flower" I realized.

"Huh?" Glory questioned.
"Think about it, if this flower is so rare and pretty, it's probably in the royal garden. Tamarin, as it seems, knows her way around flowers/plants, she probably knows all flowers just by scent" I said, thinking about my words carefully. I watched as Tamarin dove to the platform where the tree gliding race took place. She took out the flower and held it high, "Maggie" and Fruit Bat hissed loudly. We congratulated her and looked at "Maggie".

"What's next, Auntie" I said in a teasing tone.
"Camouflage contest" She hissed.

"Do you remember-" Handsome started saying to grandeur, but was cut off.

"Of course, I remember. I remember when we actually needed to use our camouflage to avoid dragons, protect ourselves! It wasn't a game back then" She hissed. This caught my attention.
So, they weren't always like this. I thought. I watched as Glory was blindfolded.

"You may begin" Handsome said after a few moments. I watched as Glory easily found the current queen. Not breaking a sweat.
Impressive. I thought to myself. I watched in disgust as Magnificent charged at Glory's sloth.
"Wait, what!?" I yelled. "Is she really allowed to do that?!" I yelled at the old male dragon.

"I'm afraid there's only one rule: find the hider" He said shrugging.
"Stupid rain wing rules" I mumbled to myself, catching the attention of Grandeur, but I didn't notice. I watched in annoyance as Magnificent won the round. That left it 2-1.

"Hey, the fruit gatherers are back" I pointed out. I watched as they counted their fruits, Mangrove looked a little on edge. I watched as the fruit was counted.

"Nineteen to sixteen!" He declared. I watched as Mangrove sulked over to us.
"What happened?" I whispered to him.

"A screamer monkey fell on me, causing me to drop four in some quicksand" he said, sounding defeated.

"It's fine, it's 2-2 anyways" I said, shrugging, even though I knew that Kinkajou only had a small chance of winning. However, a small chance, is still a chance.

I watched in awe as Grandeur shot some venom at the target, reaching the very end of it. I thought about whistling, however, none of the dragons would probably understand it. I watched as Grandeur actually smiled when Kinkajou hit the target portion of the trial with skill on par with Grandeur's. Kinkajou did the same a second time, my hopes were skyrocketing. I watched in horror however when the third targeting round took place, and Grandeur shot her venom, however, a sloth fell, and Kinkajou jumped in and pushed it away. This caused the venom to land on her.

"Kinkajou!" I yelled.

"Who's related to you?!" Glory demanded.
"I don't know, I haven't had any eggs in decades!" Grandeur told her, she was in panic mode.
"AH! I screamed out. "WHY DON'T YOU DRAGONS KEEP TRACK OF ANYTHING?!" I yelled to no dragon in-particular. I watched as Glory combated Grandeur's venom with her own. The venom stopped and I rushed over. I didn't even realize what was happening to them as I saw the small dragonet in pain. I didn't even think when I took the dragonet in my arms. I held Kinkajou close to me, as bright blue-ish green flames were all over my body. Kinkajou's pain went away and the wounds were starting heal. However, I didn't know, as my eyes were sealed shut. I felt myself start too loose energy and collapsed, leaving Kinkajou only with some scars. I then fell unconscious.

I woke up in the strange dream-land again and looked to the three dragons in front of me.
"What…happened?" I asked.

"Your ability, it isn't to kill living things, or to heal things, it appears, that it works both ways" Clearsight observed.
"Yes, my theory is, when you heal someone, bright blue-ish green flames will crawl up you body, verses when you return to draining touch, black flames will crawl up your body. Considering that-" Fathom was cut off by Indigo.

"You've separated the abilities now, so when you don't use either, you'll have no flames crawling up your body" Indigo finished Fathom's statement. I looked down at my claws, so relieved that I no longer had to deal with my curse as much.

"This, changes, everything" I told myself.
"It already has" Fathom stated.

"To the hall of Fame" Indigo started.

"And back out to do more" I finished, smiling.

I woke up in a good mood after spotting Kinkajou okay in a cot next to me. I slowly got up and walked out, nearly colliding with Glory. I immediately knew something wrong.

"What's up?" I asked.

"Well, there's good news, bad news, and interesting news"

"Let's start with interesting" I told her.
"Well, let's see here, I'm related to Granduer"
"Good news?"

"I'm the new queen of the rain wings, forever" She replied.

"Nice! So, what's the bad news?" I asked.
"Starflight, he's gone to warn the night wings"

I walked around, somewhat stressed out.
"While Starflight didn't like the idea of attacking the night wings, I don't believe that he would warn them. It's more likely that he either wanted to talk to them, and instead got dragon knapped. Or he just got straight up dragon knapped" I told the dragonets.

"So, what do we do now?" Sunny asked.
"We train these dragons, set out on a rescue mission, and save Starflight" I responded. "We have no other choice"

So, shorter chapter than eight or ten pages, however, again, it's the end of a book. Also, most likely, the fourth book won't take place at the island, rather, instead a journey of Crescent, as he's sent to retrieve something.