Hello! I promised you all an early chapter, so here is one in under a week! I hope you are happy :). I have literally nothing to say here except that I am really tired of raspberry and wish that she would just 'Get over it already you stupid she-dragon.'as Nightfall so eloquently put it.

Also, I will start replying to reviews in this section if I get a couple more.

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Chapter 10

Nightfall

Nightfall stared as Raspberry cried out "everything is rotten, and I wish that…" and leapt out of the cave. The dragon was hidden by the pounding sheets of rain almost the moment she cleared the opening. One moment green scales were lit by a flash of lightning and the next moment swallowed by the darkness and thunder.

"Someone should probably go get her," Delta said calmly from the back of the cave.

Nightfall whirled on her. "How can you be so calm about this!" she snapped, her anger flaring. She felt like Raspberry's anger had lit a fire in her veins, and now the heat of shame and anger were coursing under her scales.

"She just flew out of here after yelling that you two love each other. I'm not exactly calm but I'm not too worried either!" Delta snapped back, baring her teeth in a snarl. "She won't get very far, and then she'll come flying back in no time. No one is stupid enough to stay out in a storm."

"Raspberry would." Palm's dismal voice came from behind Delta, and she glanced at him. "Ah, ah, I don't mean because she's stupid!" he said quickly after seeing her look, "but I mean that she is stubborn enough to. It would hurt her pride to come back here after that."

"I should go." Nightfall said quietly. It's all my fault in the first place she thought dismally, I never thought about us that way, but thinking back I guess that it might have seemed like that. I just wanted a friend for the first time in my life, but I just came between them!

"Nightfall, you can't! You'll get lost or hurt if you go out there!"

"I have to go! This is all my fault in the first place!" you are only proving her point!

And Nightfall followed Raspberry's lead and leapt out into the storm.

Instantly the cave was lost to the rain and darkness of the storm and the island was merely a slightly darker smudge against the black expanse. Rain drummed on her wings and she felt laden and heavy. She still hadn't slept and her scales felt like they were made of stone (instead of the light carbon mix that they actually were).

"Raspberry!" she called out. "Where are you!"

She knew that she couldn't hear her. The wind snatched up her words and spun it away from her in an ever loosening spiral of sound. Lightning struck not far from her and bathed everything in a momentary silver light.

She stopped flying as a sudden inspiration struck her. She glanced around, hovering in place. The rain beat against her streaming eyes but even through it she could see the shape outlined in silver against the darkness. The shape that looked like the outline of a slim green dragon (not that she could see the color of the scales on the shadow's wings, but what other dragons would be flying out here in the middle of nowhere during a storm?).

Nightfall flew doggedly on, trying to keep the figure in front of her always within her line of sight. If she ever lost sight of Raspberry she would reorient herself as soon as the lightning next struck. The storm was intensifying, the wind roaring to a screaming fever pitch all around her. The maelstrom (for that was the only thing this storm could possibly be called) swirled around her and Raspberry in circular patterns of rain and sleet. The thunder was barely audible over the howling within and without of Nightfall's head. Her mind was filled with thoughts of what Raspberry had said, her past, her future and, of course, her mind strayed around the problem that was her brother.

When she was a very little dragonet, her brother had looked after her. They had hidden together away from the prying eyes of the day when she was just over two years old they had had an argument which ended with her brother stomping off and shouting that he was never coming back. She had called back that she hoped he never did. And he hadn't. She wasn't overly upset (they had had arguments often enough that she did not hold much fondness for him, even at such a young age), mostly she was just worried about how she was going to survive without someone to look after her. That hadn't stayed a problem for very long. She built herself a little house and lived on for the three more years until the comet hit and swept her and everything else away in the cold clutches of the ocean.

All of a sudden, she burst out of the pounding rain and into the eerie calm that she supposed was the eye of the storm. She saw the green shape winging away from her clearly for the first time. The pale moonlight filtering down through the haze gathered in the eye turned the thick clouds below her to silver.

"Raspberry!" she called and heard her own voice for the first time since flying out of the cave. It was strangely muffled by the clouds around her but it carried to the other dragonet.

Nightfall saw Raspberry stop flying, but she didn't turn around. Her shoulders trembled, but whether from tears or fatigue it was unclear. Either way, Nightfall new that they had to get back as quickly as possible.

"Why did you follow me?" Raspberry said, her voice soft.

"Because flying out into a damn hurricane is insane!" Nightfall had stopped flying as well and so the other dragon's next words were crystal clear.

"I mean, why would you follow me out here when I would just get in your way?"

"What?" Nightfall was startled, "Raspberry, no, I'm not in love with Palm! And I know he's not in love with me either! I'm sorry if it seemed that way, but I've never really known how other dragons act! If it seemed like I was making some kind of advances I swear to the three accursed moons and any human god that I wasn't!"

"Raspberry finally turned to face her. Tears streaked her cheeks and Nightfall was startled by the look in her eyes. She was expecting anger or apology, or perhaps even contempt, but she just saw the eyes of a fearful self-pitying dragon. Nightfall hated how Raspberry seemed to be wrapped up in self-pity. She couldn't believe that she had chased after this dragon, but she couldn't stop now.

"I promise you that if you come back I will stay far away from both you and Palm. After we find the 'new home that Delta wants us to we will never have to see each other again."

"Do you promise that you aren't lying?" Raspberry said in a suspicious, quavering voice.

Nightfall sighed. Get over it already you stupid she-dragon.

" Yes, I promise." she forced a smile onto her tired face. "We should really get back to the others. It's a good thing I caught up to you when I did. It seems like we both have just enough energy to get back."

Raspberry silently flew up to join her and the two dragons forced their way back into the swirling vortex of the storm.