Chapter 3: Silverwings

I'm so nervous! Today is the first day of school. I got accepted in as Silverwings the Nightwing. I've practiced being a grumpy Nightwing for the past couple days, but I'm so terrible at it that I'm just going to be me. Hopefully no dragon will notice.

"I'm so glad that you're coming to school!" My guide, Kinkajou says excitedly.

"Yayyayayay! A new student! A new friend! Ohmygosh I'm so excited! We're going to be the best of friends!" Kinkajou thinks loudly. Yes, thoughts can be loud. Her scales are also being very loud. They keep flashing bright colors. I'm assuming that she's happy. Cone to think of it, I'm pretty happy right now too.

"Yeah me too," I say nervously. Kinkajou just seems like such a loud dragon that I'm not sure if I can be friends with her. We keep walking for a bit. I'm glad that I'm not in her Winglet.

"And this is your sleeping cave," Kinkajou tells me. I look inside and the cave is lit by the soft glow of lamps. There are a couple shelves filled with scrolls. I hope that no one cares that I can't read. There are also two beds, one is a rocky shelf-like thing and the other is a leafy bed with soft moss as a pillow.

"Sorry about the beds. There was originally going to be a Rainwing here, but they decided not to enroll," Kinkajou says. I hold back a laugh. If they only knew.

Then I see an Icewing. I assume that she is Froststorm. Her spikes are pale blue, her wings were a light periwinkle, and the rest of her was a pure white.

"Froststorm, hi!" Kinkajou says to her.

""Hi Kinkajou," she says, quietly. So she is shy. I'll try not to annoy her too much, and maybe, just maybe, we can be friends.

"Froststorm, this is your clawmate, Silverwings. Silverwings, this is your clawmate, Froststorm!" Kinkajou says excited, her scales still flashing bright colors.

"Hi," we say at the same time. I see her smile just a little bit, but then it fades.

"I'm sharing a cave with a Nightwing? Oh well, at least she seems nice. I think that she and I can be friends." Froststrom thinks.

"I can be nice," I think and I almost say it out loud, but not too many dragons like that Nightwings have their powers back. Especially after they were just told that the Nightwings powers we're gone. And considering that Icewings and a Nightwings hate each other, well, I don't want to scare Froststorm.

"Ok, I'm going to leave you guys alone so you can settle in." Kinkajou says and then walks off to go somewhere.

Me and Froststorm are left by ourselves and we just stare at each other in silence.

"Which bed do you want?" I ask Froststorm, breaking the silence.

"You're letting me choose first?" She questions.

"Not all Nightwings are mean and grumpy you know," I tell her, "But if you don't want to choose first that's ok too…." I add.

"This Nightwing really is nice. Maybe we can be friends," Froststorm thinks.

He he, I have everydragon fooled that I'm a Nightwing!

"Um, well, can I take the rock cliff?" she asks.

"Yeah sure. I like the leaves and moss anyways. Rocks are too hard for me." I tell her.

"In the Ice Kingdom, we sleep on ice shelves. It's kind of like this rock cliff, but made of ice."

"Cool. Pun intended." I say and we both laugh. Her laugh is lighthearted. I thought that Icewings were mean and grumpy. Wait, that sounds a lot like the Nightwings. They have more in common than they thought.

We climb onto our beds and she asks me,

"Silverwings, can you read?"

Uhhhhhhhh. I can't lie to a potential friend.

"No….." I whisper.

"Don't worry, I can't either."

"Thank goodness!" I exclaim, "I thought that I would be the only one."

We both smile.

"It's getting late. We should get some sleep so we're not tired for our first lesson tomorrow." Froststrom says

"Yeah…"

"Good night."

"Good night."

I think that I've made my first friend!