Part 29 - Home

They had been flying for a while, Peril could hear Twilight and Jaguar talking about how their wings hurt. Peril just rolled her eyes,

"Would it feel better if I came back there and set them on fire?" Peril asked angrily, "I THINK NOT!" a flame shot out of her nostrils. That had shut them up, along with some laughter from Equinox. Burn had been transported (Along with lots of tranquilizer darts) To the Sandwing Stronghold for Queen Thorn to deal with. Their troubles were over, she could settle down With Clay her mind added. Soon enough the peaks of Jade Mountain came into view. She put on a burst of speed. Clay! Her heart sang joyfully, she could see him again! She did a mid-air summer-sult. She landed on the landing platform and rushed inside. With the help of her friends they had made it larger then it would've been with the dragonets and some others. Who knows! They might even be able to have 8 winglets their first year!

"CLAY!" She yelled, she stood and listened for a reply. The sound of talons sprinting against stone answered her,

"PERIL!" He suddenly came from around a corner and threw his wings around her, and hugged her. Her heart felt like it was beating a hundred times faster. She hugged him back.

"I've decided to teach." She whispered into his ear.

"Really!" He exclaimed excitedly, he squeezed her harder.

"Clay, I can't breath" She weazed, he released.

"I'm so glad your back." Clay told her,

"I can tell." Equinox said from the back, she turned around to see her friends landing on the platform behind her. She smiled, when she was with Clay, she just felt happy. The youngest ones, Seaweed, Jaguar, Twilight and Equinox rushed up to Clay.

"What can we do?" Twilight asked him,

"Sunny could use your help in the west area." He told them and smiled. She watched them run off, Phoenix followed with a grunt from Sandstone as he followed her.

"Do you think we could be able to have 8 winglets here?" She asked him as she walked over to the edge of the landing platform. He walked up and sat down next to her,

"With the extra help from you guys, probably!" He replied happily, he put his wing around her as he got a scroll out of a pouch.

"What's this?" Peril asked,

"I'd like your help picking out who can be in the winglets." He also showed her a list of names, "And these are all the dragons that applied."

"Let's put Abla, Marsh, Mindreader, Coconut, Pronghorn, Snail and Peregrine in the Copper Winglet." She pointed to the names from the list. Clay wrote something down on a different scroll.

"Ok then, Equinox, Seaweed, Toad, Canary, Frigid, Azara and Mirage for the Silver winglet." He did the same, pointing out the dragon names and then wrote something down.

"What about Anemone, Ostrich, Thrush, Changbai, Sepia, Fearless and Boto for the Sapphire winglet?" Clay nodded and wrote something down.

"And Jaguar, Sunbeam, Flurry, Atlanta, Twilight, Wildfire and Cricket for the Diamond winglet." Clay said as he wrote another thing down.

"Coyote, Ivy, Pebble, Pyrite, Seal, Brainstorm and then how about ummm….. Swamp for the Topaz winglet." She suggested, Clay wrote something down as he nodded. They soon finished getting ideas for winglet groups, Clay showed her what he was writing. It was a list of all the dragons for the winglets.

"Ok, let's go show Tsunami." He said as he got up and she heard, a low, faint rumbling noise, "And then go hunting." he added, Peril smiled as she walked next to him. After they had shown Tsunami they flew off together to hunt.

Sandstone's Point of View

He and Phoenix had finished their work and decided to take a break.

"Those cave are looking terrible." Sandstone stated, I should tell her He thought.

"Let's go and check out your classroom!" Phoenix said as she grabbed his wrist, pulling him along. He was really only doing that class because Phoenix convinced him. His classroom was a good size, he was going to teach herbs and healing. He looked over at Phoenix.

Phoenix's Point of View

She turned to look at Sandstone and met his black eyes. Tell him! Her mind told her, she knew she should but, she also knew that she wasn't good at anything, this was no exception. She gazed into his eyes until he looked away.

"They could've made it bigger." He grunted before turning and walking away. Phoenix sighed, if only she had the courage to tell him. She had been trying to build up that courage, it had reduced her talking and she had been lost in thought during some of their flights. She hurried to catch up with him, TELL HIM! Her mind roared at her.

"I-" She started to say before she forced her snout shut,

"You what?" He asked,

"I would like to go eat food!" She replied before opening her wings to start flying, "Want to help?" She asked, her habit came up again and she started to rub her dagger, wondering what he would say. As she looked at him she saw Equinox chase Twilight into another room behind him and smiled.

"Fine, I'll come." He grunted. She smiled as they took flight, together.

Shiver's Point of View

Shiver and Willow walked into the library and saw Fatespeaker and Starflight organizing scrolls,

"Can you two help us?" Starflight asked politely.

"Sure thing!" Willow said cheerfully,

"There's some scroll stacks over there that need…. Help" Starflight explained, Fatespeaker closed her eyes and rubbed her temples behind him.

"I see incredible catastrophes…." She murmured,
"I doubt that would happen, seeing how they're just sorting scroll I don't see how…" Starflight started to tell her,
"IT WAS IN A VISION!" Fatespeaker protested, Shiver just rolled his eyes and started to walk away.

"Let's get started." He said to Willow as he handed her a scroll called 'A Natural History of Unnatural Dragon Abilities' and one called 'Legends of the Hive'. She nodded, he picked up a scroll called 'Animus History' and one called,'Tales of the NightWings' and they got started.

Willow's Point of View

After putting in 'A NightWing Guide to the Dragons of Pyrrhia' and 'The Nightwing Exodus' and 'The Rainwing Royal Challenge' Willow finally pushed 'The Sluglike Qualities of MudWings' (She may or may not have burnt the edges of that one, SHE WAS NO SLUG)

"Finally!" Shiver groaned, he sat back against the bookshelf behind him.

"I think I know the catastrophe that Fatespeaker was talking about." Willow said as she eyed the rocking bookshelf that Shiver was up against, the scrolls on the top rack wobbled towards the edge, threatening to fall onto Shiver's head.

"What?" He asked, "My tired body?"
"No…." As she said it the scrolls fell onto his head and she bursted into uncontrollable laughter.

"AW COME ON!" Shiver yelled in anger, she could hear Fatespeaker though the shelves,

"TOLD YOU SO!" That just fuled Willow's giggles even more.

"Ok, ok, lets clean this up." Willow said as she reached a talon out to help him up. He smiled as he took it.

"Let's get going." He mumbled as he picked up 'War of SandWing Succession' and 'The Missing Princess', 'The Tragedy of Orca','A Longitudinal Study of Peculiar Scavenger Behaviour','A Tail of Blood' and 'The Claws of Murder'. Willow grabbed 'Tales of the NightWings' and 'The Royal Lineage of SeaWings, from the Scorching to Present' and they started.

Twilight's Point of View

He, Equinox and Jaguar were flying to the Rainforest. They were going to go home and pack before going to school. Seaweed was already heading back to the Kingdom of the Sea. Equinox did a flip in the air.

"You excited much?" He asked her,

"YES!" She replied happily, Jaguar just smiled at her from the side lines.

"I haven't been home in a long time…" Jaguar said, inhaling deeply. Twilight did the same, the smell of the rainforest filled his nose. He wanted to dart right in there and never come back, but at the same time he couldn't wait to go back to Jade Mountain Academy.

Equinox's Point of View

She landed on the familiar ground of the forest. Jaguar and Twilight landed beside her,

"I need to eat fruit." He decided,

"I'll come." Equinox told him, stepping forward to stand beside him.

"Well, I'm going to go pack." Twilight said as he started to walk away.

"Your choice!" Equinox called, "Besides, maybe we'll discover a new fruit or something cool!" and off they went. Orchid and Mangrove found new fruits before, so can we! She thought. She saw a delicious looking ripe rubbery red fruit sphere growing on her left. She walked over and picked it off and took a large bite. There's a lot of seeds in here. She thought as Jaguar turned to look at her, his eyes widened,

"Don't eat that!"

Seaweed's Point of View

Seaweed swam into his home.

Crab! He flashed, then he flashed all his stripes to make a large light. I hope he didn't go to the war and die…. He thought. All his theories that could've happened while he was gone dropped away as his brother ran up to him and hugged him tightly.

Seaweed! Crab flashed happily, Guess what!
What? He flashed,
Trench is home! The light blue dragon told him, a bigger cerulean dragon poked his head around the doorway.

Hey little brother. He flashed at him,

Trench! Seaweed cheered as he went over to hug him. His parents, Prismarine, his mother and his father, Wave and Crab joined in too. His mom was a rich green like himself while Crab took mostly after their blue father and Trench took off of both. Although, Seaweed had his dad's dark blueish green eyes. Soon the questions of 'WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!' started to come up so Seaweed told them about his entire adventure, he kinda felt guilty because he had chosen to stay with Equinox and help get Jade Mountain ready instead of coming home right away. But then what if Scarlet had killed her if he wasn't there?

I'm also going to attend Jade Mountain Academy. He announced, To be with Equinox. He thought, To keep her safe.

Well then. Trench flashed,

I can introduce you to one of the other students that are going so you know someone. Prismarine offreed,

Ok. Seaweed flashed reluctantly. But I know some dragons that are going! He thought, Equinox, Jaguar, Twilight….. Equinox.

Seaweed, I believe that Atlanta and possibly Pebble are at the beach right now if you want to head there. She flashed, He nodded and headed off. He swam through the warm water until the shore came into view. His head broke through the surface of the water and he saw an egyptian blue Seawing sitting down, looking the other way. He emerged from the water, the droplets rolled of his scales and slipped onto the ground, making a splashing noise. The dragon's head whipped around,

"What do you want?" She asked, her aqua eyes locked onto his.

"Just wanted to introduce myself." He explained, "I'm also going to Jade Mountain."

"Oh, so you just wanted to meet me then?" She asked, Is this Pebble or Atlanta? He thought, he couldn't decide weather Pebble was more of a boy name then girl name.

"I'm Seaweed." He said as he went up to sit next to her.

"Atlanta." She replied quickly.

"Have you met Pebble?" He asked,

"Yes, He's annoying, a lot annoying, super annoying, I really don't like him, he talks to much, but just to me, he annoys me. He's also is kinda a jerk. He likes to play pranks on other dragons." She explained. He nodded and they talked a bit more.

Jaguar's Point of View

It was already fully into Equinox's mouth,

"Hmm?" She asked,

"Awww…." Jaguar facepalmed, I should've warned her, I know the fruits here better he thought.

"Whht whowng?" She asked him,

"Well you kinda ate a fruit." He explained, Equinox tried to say something again, "It will take you about an hour to swallow it and days to get all the seeds out of your teeth."

Equinox crumpled to the ground and yelled something that Jaguar really couldn't understand, he opened his mouth to speak.

"Le-" He started, Equinox suddenly jumped up, yelled something and shoved one of the fruits that she had eaten into his mouth. He closed his mouth in shock. Equinox broke out into fruit muffled laughter. Then they sat down and finished their fruits together.

Author's Note -

HELLO! Ok, so I MAY have started watching Game Theory and GTLive non stop. So that MAY or MAY NOT of made this chapter take longer. The only thing I added to JMA was that I moved the Silver Winglet into being the Sapphire Winglet. I shall be doing the sequel... soon. I introduced ATLANTA! She is named after the greek hero Atlanta and also it is a wonderful non-canon name.

Ivy belongs to NovaSpiritWolf.

ALSO! Thanks so much for all the kind comments! ALSO! I had a snow day on Friday and one today (A.K.A MONDAY!) so it kinda feels like I'm done with school. But alas, I am not.

FUGUE!

- ME!