Hey! So the second arc begins! Just so you know, you're all amazing, in about six days, I already had all the votes for the next season. And as of now, I've had two THOUSAND views. That's a lot of people! In this chapter I introduce one temporary character (possibly permanent) and one definite character. Frostbite, WinterWatcher-Forever's (winner of the last challenge) character, and AshEmber, my personal OC. Thanks for all the support, and please enjoy The Broken Queen Rises!

Point of view is...Qibli! Request of Dragondrawing333

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Why I must say this, I don't know

All I can say is that It goes to show

I can prove that I'm not a liar

By saying I don't own Wings of Fire

A poem of annoyance, by AshEmber

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Enjoy!

"Hey, Qibli?" Winter asked.

"Hmm."

"Do you miss living in the desert?"

"We've been at school for three months now, I couldn't care less about the desert, even though this place feels like one."

"But is there anything you wish you could have taken with you?"

"No, my family is pretty horrid."

"That makes two of us, buddy."

"Do you miss the tundra?"

"Not at all."

"What about your friends?"

"Well, I do miss Saiba and Frostbite…"

"It's a good thing you had friends before here, Winter."

"You didn't?"

"My family didn't let me."

"Oh."

"It's alright, I don't mind talking about them."

"Alright, but I'm gonna shut up anyways."

"Alright."

It was October, and a nice time of the year, everything was a beautiful color...for them. Winter was still color blind, and was obviously sad about it, although he kept his spirits up. Qibli just wished he could help in any way.

Everyone was doing great in school, Moon and him had straight A's. He had joined the robotics club, as Moon had, and found that he was actually really good at it! And it was fun, too! Everyone was completely content, except for Winter. He needed someone to cheer him up…

It was late at night, and Qibli had grabbed Winter's phone, they'd trusted each other enough to exchange passcodes. He was searching through his contacts, and found who he was looking for, Frostbite.

After looking through texts, he found that Saiba was currently unavailable, and not very rich, so he couldn't fly in. He'd also found that Frostbite had wanted to join the academy, so he copied the phone number, and sent him a text reading.

"Hey, this is one of Winter's best friends, Qibli, don't know if you've heard about me or not, but ask anything, I can confirm that we're friends. I don't know if he's told you, but he was poisoned, and survived, but lost the ability to see all colors. He's been feeling really down, and I heard you wanted to come here. Want to help out a bit?"

He hit send, and tried to go to sleep, making sure to close out of the apps on Winter's phone, wanted his possible surprise to stay secret.

"So!" Tsunami said, jolting Qibli from dozing off, "Anyone have any good things? I have a special one that I'll save for the end."

Qibli took a sip of the highly caffeinated soda again to try to keep him awake. Not many knew, but he was an insomniac, and it was a tough time for him in the day. Mornings and evenings were fine, but he almost fell asleep in school, a lot.

Good things was basically a time in home room where people in the class would talk about good things that had happened to them recently. It was Tsunami's idea.

"Well, me and Qibli are almost finished with our pet project. We finally fixed that glitch." Moon commented.

"Wonderful to hear, keep going," Tsunami said, excited to see the finished program, "anyone else?"

"I've planned a surprise which I hope will be executed, don't worry though, it's a good one." Qibli said slyly, having received a yes from Frostbite.

"Ooh!" Tsunami said, curious but not wanting to seem rude, "Good luck, Qibli."

"I beat Turtle in a swimming race!" Umber exclaimed, and Turtle beaming.

"Wow, nice job!" Tsunami encouraged. No one else continued, so Tsunami said,

"My turn, the others and I were talking and we decided, a new student can be added to each class, and he should be here any second."

As if on cue, a kid that looked way too young to be a high-schooler walked in, obviously nervous. He was wearing an indigo hoodie and black sweat pants. With sneakers that were a shade of gray, jet black eyes, pale skin, and black-blue hair.

"Ash!" Moon yelled, jumping out of her seat to hug him. "You did it! You actually did it!"

"Uh…" Winter said, "Did what?"

"He worked hard enough, and passed the test to skip a grade! I'm so proud of you!" Moon exclaimed, obviously happy.

"Uh...yeah! I did! Thanks!" Ash said, looking more confident that he recognized at least some of them...or maybe by the look on his face, all of them, "So, from what you've told me, that's Kinkajou," Kinkajou waved, excited to have a new friend, "that's Carnelian," Carnelian gave a nod, and a grin, "that's Winter," Winter smiled, "that's Umber and that's Turtle," they both gave thumbs ups, "and that's Qibli!" Qibli waved and smiled, ready to see everything unfold, he was honestly expecting it to be Frostbtie, maybe he'd get here later.

"So...I'm AshEmber, but please just call me Ash, I don't know why, but where I live, people give us the weirdest names.

He sat down and for the rest of class, the attention was mostly on the would be eighth grader with them. Qibli came to the conclusion everyone would get past it, almost like he could read the minds of his friends. Like Moon...wait...could Ash do that too?

He put that to the back of his mind of questions to ask Moon, and they continued for the rest of the day with no sign of Frostbite.

That was until the end of the day when Qibli got a text saying, "Where do I go to find you?"

That was his cue.

He texted back to go to the cafeteria and find somewhere to sit and he'd meet him.

"Hey Winter, you hungry?" Qibli asked.

"Nah, but I could go for a drink, want me to come with?" Winter replied.

"Sure." Qibli said, almost unable to keep a calm face.

"Um…" a voice said from behind them, "Can I please come, too?" It was Ash, "It's okay if you say no...but I just wanted to check."

"Hold on, Winter, wait for me at the doors." Qibli said, desperate to keep his plan from shattering.

"Alright." he said, walking off.

"What's going on?" Ash asked, confused.

"It's a surprise for Winter, I get that you'd like to be friends, but I want this to be special." Qibli explained.

"Okay." Ash said, his eyes glinting.

Qibli ran off, and was able to catch up to Winter as he was walking inside. When they walked in, Winter stopped dead in his tracks, staring at the one who was presumably Frostbite looking back.

"F-Frostbite? Is that you? It's hard to tell." Winter asked, amazed.

"Yeah, it's me, what's up?" he said weakly.

There was no need for words, Qibli just left and let them have a talk about life, not wanting to interrupt.

"Thanks so much, Qibli, that meant a lot to me." Winter said, dumbfounded.

"So you don't mind that I broke into your phone?" Qibli asked quickly.

"Wait what?"

"Nothing." Qibli said with a grin.

Qibli walked toward the parking lot, hoping to catch Frostbite on his way out. He managed to, and started a conversation.

"So you're Qibli, right?" Frostbite asked.

"Yep, that's me, thanks so much for coming, how'd you get here so fast?"

"I got in my car late last night, got permission, and drove here, it's not that long, maybe five or six hours?"

"Wow, thanks again."

"So...this is a nice school, do they have room for one more?"

"I'm not entirely sure, they might not be accepting new students for a while, but I can check."

"And also, how'd you get my phone number?"

"I checked Winter's contacts…"

"Oh, alright."

"A question for you, are you comfortable talking about your conversation in the cafeteria?"

"Yeah…"

"Mind if I ask about it?"

"Not at all…" Frostbite concluded, and began his story,

"So he walked over to me, and we chatted for a bit about what had happened since he went to school. I heard in more detail about that crazed queen story, and more detail about that sub-tonic, which sounds awful. I talked to him for a bit about what was going on in the tundra, how we were holding up, and then somewhere one of us brought up the side effects of sub-tonic, when Winter's face fell… "He talked a bit more about what it was like to be color blind, but also how he was getting used to it. I mentioned one of my old friends who was partly color blind, and he always said it wasn't that big of a deal. You can live a full life without color, it's just less pretty. Winter seemed okay after that, and we talked a bit about relationships, as you do. "It seems like Moonwatcher is helping Winter through all of his troubles, and that's fine by me. I enjoyed being able to talk his sister, who I had a crush on, Icicle. He didn't seem uncomfortable at all, just happy. I eventually finished it by saying that I hope I get to stay here, cause it would be awesome."

"Well, good on you Frostbite. If you want to go home or camp in your car for a few days, I can check whether you stay or not." Qibli said, moved by the story he'd heard.

"I'll go home, just keep me updated, okay?"

"Got it, Frostbite."

"Thanks."

Frostbite got in his snow adapted sports car, and like that, he was off. Qibli went back to the dormitories, as it was getting dark, and decided to see if he could sleep any better tonight. Just in case, he bought a soda for if he under slept.

Getting back to the dorm, Qibli saw it was nine, and plopped on his bed, charging his stuff as well.

"Hey Winter?" Qibli asked.

"Yeah?" Winter said from his own bed.

"Good night, buddy."

"Night."

Everything was well, everything was at peace. Everyone was content, there were no major or minor threats. The worst thing that could happen was Scarlet returning, but that wasn't possible…

Right?

Oh yeah! Season two! Let's get this train rolling! So what did ya think? Did you like the (possible) two new characters? And a vote which I'll put up on my profile (which I'm updating in case it looks unfinished), should Frostbite be able to go the Jade Academy or not? Just so you know, this isn't a major plot point, sorry WWF, but just thought I'd ask. Also, who else got nostalgic when reading about good things? Leave a request and I'll be right on it! AshEmber OUT!