Chapter Five: Why Are My Scales Trying To Turn Pink?!

Still Frosty's POV:

History was really, really, boring. Our teacher was a Seawing named Webs and his voice just made me want to fall asleep. I don't usually feel this way, but Webs sounded like he didn't want to be here.

After History, we have free time.

"Silver, what do you want to do for free time?" I ask Silver as we're walking out of the classroom.

"I don't know. I was hoping that we could go to the art room. I wanted to try some painting," she tells me, "but if you don't want to….."

"I was kind of hoping that we could go to the library. I'm sure that somedragon there could teach us to read," I say. That was my original plan.

"Oh," Siver responds, sounding disappointed, "well I guess that we can go to the library."

She really wants to go to the art room, I can tell.

"How about you go to the art room and I'll go to the library and we can meet up at our next class."

She smiles and says, "Thank you. Our next class is music, right?"

I actually have forgotten what our next class is.

"Ummm. I'm not sure," I tell her.

"That's ok. I'm sure that somedragon knows," Silver replies.

"Yeah."

We go our separate ways and the library come into view. I'm so excited I could dance! I'm finally going to learn how to read!

Silver's POV:

After Frosty (I love her nickname) let's me go to the art cave, and we go our separate ways, I run into Rock.

"Oh, hey Silver," He says to me.

"Hi, Rock," I say shyly. I've only just meet him and I don't know what he's like. Although, judging from his thoughts, Rock seems like a relatively nice dragon.

I feel my scales trying to turn pink. It takes all of my concentration to keep the pink from showing. Why did my scales want to turn pink? Surly I can't… No, not happening.

"I wonder if Silver likes art too. She seems like that kind of dragon," Rock thinks, "Maybe I should ask her. Wait, am I blushing?!"

It feels so weird to be hearing other dragon's thoughts. It's so quiet in the Rainforest. At least it's not the prey center. That place was loud.

What? Why are you looking at me like that? I can't control my powers, you know that. Wait, there's only been, like, five chapters in this book. Well, now you know.

"Hey Silver, are you going to the art room?" Boulder asks me, breaking the silence.

"Yeah, do you want to come?" I ask.

"Sure," He tells me.

I swear that he's blushing right now. Wait, my scales want to turn pink again! Please tell me that this isn't happening!

I follow him to the art room because I can't remember where it is. When we get there, he rushes to the door and holds it open for me.

"After you," Rock says, politely.

"Thanks," I say and enter the room.

"She's pretty," I hear him think, "I wonder if Silver likes me. She looked at me! Boulder, be quiet, Silver has looked at you before! Why am I feeling this way? I do not, I repeat, do not, have feelings for her. We just me each other a few hours ago!"

Ok, this is getting uncomfortable.

I take my gaze away from Rock and look into the art room.

I've decided that the art room is now my favorite place in the whole academy.

"It's so…so…." I stutter, trying to find a word to describe what I'm seeing.

"Breathtaking?" Boulder offers.

"Yes," I breath.

Sunlight was flooding the room through the many windows in the walls and ceiling. Art supplies was everywhere and they had so many things: brushes of every size, every color of paint imaginable, blank scrolls, sculpting clay, wood, glass, and metal beads, and they even had a loom!

Moonwatcher and her Winglet were painting their friend Kinkajou. Each dragon had a different idea of what they should do and ideas kept flooding their minds, which means that ideas kept flooding my mind. I don't know how I'll concentrate with all of these ideas clogging my brain.

Then I remember something.

In the prey center, I got so overwhelmed by thoughts that I thought of my home in the Rainforest. I thought of the bright, warming sun, the beautiful flowers, the calls of the animals, the leafy, green canopy, and the rain.

The rain had always always been my favorite part of the Rainforest. I didn't like getting wet and I hated not seeing the sun, but the beauty of everything after the rain let up— that was my favorite.

The dewdrops gleaming on the leafy, green plants, the smell of wet dirt, everything just seemed…brighter after it rained.

That's when the thoughts stopped.

It was when I remembered the sound of rain.

So that's what I did now. I closed my eyes, imagined rain, and immediately, the thoughts stopped.

I open my eyes and see that Rock has set up a canvas on an easel. He has gathered paints, all in a different shade of blue.

I follow in his footsteps and set up an easel and get a canvas. I proper the canvas on the easel and go to get paint and a brush. I gather bright blues, some greens, a coral color, a brown color, and I grab a couple brushes, all in different sizes.

I go back to my easel and see that Rock is painting an ocean. I would love to paint an ocean, but I have other ideas in mind.

I close my eyes, imagining what I want to paint, open them, and get started.

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It's not long until I'm done.

I check and double check that I've included everything I wanted in my painting.

"Wow, that's so pretty," I hear somedragon say over my shoulder. I look over and it was Rock.

"Thank you. Your painting is pretty too," I tell him. His ocean scene was finished and it really showed off the beauty of the sea. Actually, I've never been to the sea. Yet anyways. I've seen pictures, and his painting has captured it perfectly.

"Thanks. It's not quite done yet," Boulder replies.

"It's still pretty," I say and turn back to my painting. I have painted Earle. He's bright blue parakeet that me and my mom saved from a storm one day. He was in midair with his wings spread out majestically. Behind him were tall trees with a light canopy and sunlight filtering down through the leaves. I framed the painting with bright, coral heliconia flowers.

I take the painting off the easel and set it down in the sun, on a drying rack. I'll come back for it later. Right now, I need to go out for a quick fight and stretch my wings before music or whatever it is that we have next.

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A/N:

Hey, 1FunkyMonkey here.

I am planning on having Rock and Silver get together (eventually) and I was hoping that you guys could help me with a ship name. I would prefer it to have their full names, but if you guys create a cool name with their nicknames, then I might use that.

I also was planning to have a love triangle too, but I'm not quite sure yet.

Anyways….. Thanks for reading and have a fantastic day!