Sunny gasped. ''Really? I thought you said your family is still on earth.''

''That's what i thought too. I think they found me in my human form and took me in. Or something like that. Anyways that's not the worst.'' Said Dusk.

''Worst, what do you mean?'' Asked Sunny draping a wing over him.

''Both my mom and dad are dead. Long dead. They sent my egg to earth over two thousand years ago. Time goes faster on earth than here. I can only meet their spirits in my dreams.'' Said Dusk letting a single tear roll down. Sunny hugs him and holds him close.

''It's okay, you still have us.'' Said Sunny. It was obvious that Dusk was a bit upset about this. His real family is dead and he never even knew. Dragons are known to be able to live up to around a hundred years. But two thousand years is only possible if you are an animus dragon. And even then you have to enchant an object to let you live that long.

''I don't want to lose you all. All of you mean a lot to me. You, Clay, Starflight, Glory, and Tsunami.'' Said Dusk still letting Sunny hug him.

''You are not losing any of us yet.'' Said Sunny with a warm smile. 'Maybe i shouldn't tell him about Starflight. Not yet, They both usually talk with each other when we all are asleep.' Sunny had caught them both awake and talking several times. She had just pretended to be asleep but she heard many of the conversations. They always talked like they were good friends. Despite only have known each other for around two weeks. 'No, i think he needs to know what's happening.' She thought.

''I hope so.'' Said Dusk with a sigh.

''What is it?'' Asked Sunny.

''i am hoping to get out of this damn bed. I want to actually help you guys.'' Said Dusk.

Sunny looked around a bit. ''We have everything under control for now. Glory is going to compete for the throne today. I hoped you would have healed enough to come and watch.'' Said Sunny.

Dusk then tried to push himself up and actually got up but Sunny was having none of it. ''No, you are going to stay in bed. I understand you perfectly Dusk. You want to get up and be with your friends and help fulfill the prophecy. But you are still hurt and if i have to sit here and keep you in bed so be it.''

Dusk understood Sunny. He would do the same thing for everyone one of the dragonets. Sunny didn't seem like the Sunny he befriended in the sky kingdom. This Sunny was different. ''Sunny? Why are you like this? I understand that you were worried but now it seems like you won't even let me out of your sight.''

Sunny didn't really understand this herself. why did she feel like she needed to stay there? She wanted to stay in the healer's hut. She had no desire to even move. ''I don't know. It almost feels wrong to just leave. It's like a small voice in my head saying ''no you stay.'' I think we both need some fresh air.''

It was then that Shimmer came in. ''Dusk i think you have healed enough for you to leave. But i would suggest you take it easy the next few days. No extreme flying, No fighting and absolutely no helping the dragonets. At least not with any fighting or long distance flying. So you stay in the rainforest mister.''

Dusk rolled his eyes. ''Yes mom.''

Shimmer looked upset with his answer. ''Dusk, i mean it. Three moons you are too reckless for your own good. I myself as a healer take my job very seriously and you are just lucky i let you go out now.''

Dusk sighed. ''Ok. You win Shimmer. I will take it easy. And, thanks for your help i appreciate it.''

Shimmer smiled. ''I am glad you appreciate the help. And you're welcome. Now get out of here you have things to do and dragons to meet so stop standing here.''

Dusk gave her a nod with a small smile. He looked towards Sunny which looked happy to see him up and going again. They both got out of the healer's hut and down in the rainwing village.

''Sunny.'' Asked Dusk.

''Is something wrong?'' Asked Sunny.

''No, i just wanted to say thank you for being there and thanks for caring so much.'' Said Dusk.

Sunny gave him a warm smile and hugged him. ''I am happy i could help. You know i will never stop caring right?''

''I know.'' He said.

They went to see Glory compete for the rainwing throne. Glory had to choose four other dragons to help her with most of the competitions. She choose Jambu, Tamarin, Mangrove and Kinkajou. jambu for tree gliding. Tamarin for flower hunt. mangrove for fruit scavenger hunt and Kinkajou for venom shooting. Glory her self was going to compete in the camouflage contest.

Jambu was in the lead for most of the tree gliding contest. Jambu almost won too if it wasn't for several sloths throwing vines around his neck. It was the last round too so this resulted in Jambu losing. Dusk was sure something wasn't right. He saw the sloths climb up the tree. He eyed Exquisite she had several sloths sitting on her neck and hanging around her neck. Those sloths weren't there a moment ago.

He told Sunny about this. She gasped. ''So they are trying to cheat?''

''I think so. I need more than that to be sure.'' He said.

Next up was Flower hunt. That meant Tamarin and Fruitbat were going to compete next. Tamarin won this round because of her extremely good sense of smell. Fruitbat had tried to shove Tamarin out of the way when she had smelled the flower but Tamarin got there first.

Glory had to compete in the next round. She lost because her sloth Silver gave her away.

Next was fruit scavenger hunt. Mangrove won this competition with one point. Dazzling tried to cheat but lost. The whole point of the competition was to find as many different types of fruit as possible. The score was now two-two. The last contest was venom shooting. It was Kinkajou's turn now.

Grandeur won the first round. Dusk could see that Kinkajou was struggling to win this one. Grandeur made a mistake the next round by accidentally shooting at an unaware sloth who had made it way down from a tree and on to the shooting ground. kinkajou had jumped in front of the venom shielding the unaware sloth.

Dusk and Sunny gasped and ran together with many others to make sure Kinkajou was okay. He could see Glory in full panic not knowing what to do.

''What are we supposed to do?'' Asked Glory in full panic.

''Someone related to Grandeur has to use their venom on hers.'' Said Shimmer who had made her way to Kinkajou who was now screaming in pain.

''Do you know anyone related to you that is still alive?'' Asked Glory turning towards Grandeur.

''I don't know. I am not sure any of my children or grandchildren are still alive.'' Said Grandeur also in panic.

''What about me?'' Asked Glory.

''Go ahead. Try.'' Said Grandeur.

Venom spat some of her venom on Grandeur venom and was relieved to see the venom neutralize. kinkajou had blacked out and was unconscious.

Dusk and Sunny went with Tsunami and Clay while Glory went with Grandeur to talk.

Tsunami, Sunny, and Clay looked at one another.

''What is it? Something happened while i was in the Healer's hut?'' Asked Dusk.

''Lots of things have happened while you were there.'' Said Clay.

''The way you all looked at one another. And where is Starflight? I haven't seen him today.'' Asked Dusk.

''About him.'' Said Sunny sadly.

''He left us. Probably to warn his beloved tribe.'' Said Tsunami angerly.

Sunny smacked Tsunami in the back of her head. ''Stop it Tsunami. You know Starflight isn't like that. He most have been captured.''

Dusk stood there thinking. If Starflight was captured then that would mean. The Nightwing's had given him orders to make sure they picked Blister. That meant that he was indeed captured. Probably to give him new orders and question him about everything they had done up to now.

He could hear Tsunami and Sunny fighting. Just like sisters would do from time to time. Clay was trying to stop them.

''Please stop fighting. I mean Sunny does have a point. It's not like Starflight at all to just disappear like that. Something must have happened.'' Said Clay.

Dusk took this opportunity to make a dash for it. he ran as fast as his legs could carry him before jumping into the air and flying towards the animus tunnels. Sunny had told him were the one which led to the Nightwing island was. That was his destination. He was going to help Starflight or at least try to find him and talk to him. Starflight had become a good friend of his as they were often talking when the others had been sleeping a while. He found the tunnel and entered it.

Tsunami had stopped fighting and were apologizing. It was then that Clay saw that Dusk was gone.

''Wait. Where is Dusk? I could swear he was here just a moment ago.'' Said Clay looking around.

''Damnit! Now he is going to play hero again and get himself captured or worse killed. Why did we have to take him with us?'' Yelled Tsunami.

Sunny almost glared at Tsunami. just almost.''Hey if it wasn't for him we would not have gotten out of the kingdom of the sea. And he has been a good friend all the way.'' Said Sunny defending her friend.

''We would have gotten out of the sea kingdom eventually. And that rainwing assassin. probably just a lie. I didn't see any rainwing in that storm that's for sure. he probably just stabbed himself a few times with rocks and let himself fall from the sky a couple of times to hurt himself so it looked like he was in a fight.'' Said Tsunami.

''That's not what happened. He told me everything in great detail. That is not something made up. Not that specific.'' Said Sunny back.

''Would you two stop!? We are not getting anywhere with you two standing there and yelling at one another.'' Said Clay tired of all the yelling. ''Let's try to find Dusk's footprints and see where they lead.''

Sunny walked beside Clay and tried to spot any footprints on the ground. 'By the moons Dusk. What are you doing? Are you trying to get yourself killed? Sunny don't think like that. Stay positive. We'll find him and talk him out of it. He can't just go the Nightwing island and rescue Starflight alone. That is suicide.' Thought Sunny as they walked towards the tunnels.

I feel kinda lazy with this one. And if someone is wondering why i just skipped through the Rainwing competitions then my answer is that i had no idea how to write them so i took a simple path. Anyways i feel like Dusk should at least try to rescue Starflight since my original idea was for him to get captured as well but since i got new ideas and that idea was scrapped. That's why i am doing it like this instead. The next chapter will take place in book four the dark secret. And i am excited because i loved that book. And i can't wait to write book five.

Anyways some things i need to get out. School is starting for me next week which means that updates will be a lot slower. Just saying. And the last thing is, that this story is now over 20K words. I know it's not a big deal but i feel like i can take a bit of pride for that.

See you in the next one. bye bye.