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Clay was eating some type of fish while Starflight was reading one of the scrolls he took with him. Glory and Sunny were talking with Peril trying to get to know her a little bit better.
It did not take them too long for them to learn that besides Peril's life as Scarlet's champion, she lived a very boring life. Since Peril had fire scales, she didn't really get too much. And with her being an executioner and all... well let's just say that didn't make her very popular in getting friends. The only thing she could talk about was all the stupid stuff she caught Scarlet doing because Peril was around her so much.
"I am not joking, if you were actually around Scarlet that much you would realize that she is actually not that smart. I mean just look at me, she kept me alive even though she knew who and what I was thinking she would be able to get away with controlling me with tricks." Peril said while shaking her head.
Peril then got a grin on her face "And let's not even talk about her obsession with weird pets, Scarlet once personally went to a scavenger den and caught a few of scavengers." Peril continued slightly chuckling at the memory. "She was so proud of herself that she even built them a little pin and everything. She let them out and without a second to spare, one of the scavengers stabbed her tail and they all ran away," Peril then started to laugh out loud with all the other dragonets giggling at the image. "If I remember correctly, all the scavengers escaped too. Scarlet was pissed, where the scavenger stabbed her, it made it to where she couldn't fly for almost two weeks."
All the dragonets were laughing out loud at this point, even Starflight stopped reading his scroll and was laughing at what Peril was saying. "Oh, three moons, I would have loved to see that," Glory wheezed out.
"Yea, it was probably one of the greatest days of my life, right up until I got to meet you guys obviously."
Once everybody calmed down Clay asked the big question "Do any of you guys know what we are going to do when Tsunami gets back?"
Everybody just looked at each other and just shrugged their shoulders. "Not a clue." Peril said.
"I guess we just wait and see how everything here plays out then we go from there." Sunny continued on.
"Is there anything we can do while we wait?" Glory said impatiently.
"Not really," Starflight sighed "I hope Tsunami is having a good time."
WITH TSUNAMI
"I don't care if you think he is handsome or not, he has pedo written all over his face and he is creepy!" Tsunami yelled at her mother with Whirlpool standing behind her
"That's not true, it's not true is it Gill?" Coral asked Gill who was standing there bored out of his mind.
"He looks like he stalks little girls," Gill said flatly with Whirlpool giving him his are you freaking kidding me, look.
Coral looked over at Anemone "Is that true?" Anemone gave her an annoyed glare. "I have literally caught him stalking us before."
Back with the Dragonets
"Ya, I am sure that she is having a good time," Starflight said while nodding at the thought of Tsunami with her family.
"What are we going to do if Blister shows up while we are here?" Sunny asked everybody.
"Even know that we know for sure we could kill her easily, we probably shouldn't until we get a good judge of her and the other two." Glory said with Starflight nodding in agreement.
"I truly don't think killing them is the answer to the prophecy, even know it said it is," Sunny said frowning at the thought.
"We more than likely won't kill them unless they attack us first, at that point it would be just self-defense." Starflight said "But if what we heard about all of them "Burn will definitely strike at us first, Blaze probably won't, and Blister is a wild card."
Everybody was quiet after that thinking about the situation until Sunny brightened up a little bit.
"I think that we should try to get them all together and let the Sandwings do a vote," Sunny said brightly.
Starflight just shook his head "That would be perfect and would more than likely work if we got past the issue of getting them together." Starflight sighed then continued "They don't need to do that because they have all the tribes fighting for them, they don't have to do hardly anything besides sit back and watch the war."
Starflight then shook his head again "I am willing to bet, that even if we do let the sandwings vote it won't go that great. They will all get tied in votes, then there will still be war between the sandwings."
Glory's eyes grew in size when a thought came to her. "If it was just the sandwings fighting... they would be the only casualties, they could face a species-wide extinction if they don't have others help them in their fight.
Starflight just gave her a confirming nod. "And I am starting to see an issue with us just going around to get to see how the three princesses are, we would have them do a fake it till you make it."
Clay gave him a confused look. "When we would be watching them to judge them if they knew they would either fake it to make it look like they would be a pretty good queen or just straight up try to kill us," Starflight answered his look.
Clay then understood what he meant "So how do we get around that issue?"
"Simple, we will watch and listen," Starflight then smiled at him "We will go around and see what people think about them, we will watch and see if they do some obvious red flags, like war crimes or something like that."
Everybody nodded at Starflight thinking his idea was pretty good, "sounds good to me".
Peril then asked the next question "Ok, I love that idea it sounds simple and easy... but, what are we going to do about all the tribes fighting and killing each other, we can't just let that keep happening," Peril asked frowning.
Starflight still smiling gave her an answer. "That's the thing, we are already starting step one in that part, I have another idea... We convince all the tribes to stop fighting for the three sandwings"
Sunny jumped at starflight and wrapped him up in a hug "Starflight that would be perfect" Starflight blushed when Sunny hugged him and gave him the compliment.
Sunny let go of him and gave him a confused look. "But how would we convince them to stop fighting, heck... most of the offerings that the sanding's gave was straight up land."
"Any way we can, bribery, blackmail, or just straight up convincing them if we have to," Starflight said grimly.
Glory shrugged her shoulders "Seems like a good idea to me." everybody just nodded and agreed with Starflight's plan.
Everybody was quiet after that, pondering random thoughts. "I guess now we just wait for Tsunami" Starflight finished.
With Tsunami
Tsunami was glad that she found her mother, she really was... but this, this was hellishly boring. She was bored out of her mind as her mother was bragging about her books to Tsunami. She was not alone on this, Gill was standing there looking like he was about to fall asleep standing up. He more than likely had practice with this. Anemone was sleeping behind her mother, still with that tether attached to her "I wonder what that is for"
Whirlpool on the other hand was being a suck-up and positively commenting at everything Coral said.
"Three moons please release me from this boredom with the sweet relief of anything else," Tsunami thought drooping and zoning out of what Coral was saying.
A seawing guard burst through the doors Waking up Anemone, who shot to her feet startled. Webs and Tsunami straitening up a little bit.
"Queen Coral, we have an issue," The guard said to the queen.
"Yawn... what is it," Coral answered, not bothered at all by how distressed the guard was making Tsunami frown.
"We found a dead dragon on the island closest to this one," The guard said grimly.
Coral still looking through her scrolls "That's sad, send the dragon's family my condolences," she said dismissively.
"My queen... it was a Skywing," with that Coral stood up straight and focused. "This close to here, how?"
"We do not know my queen, we just found the body and she looks like she has been dead for days." the guard said.
"Take me there," The queen said getting up and following the guard out of the palace with Tsunami, Gill, and Anemone following.
They all dove into the water, heading to the Summer palace exit. This was the first time Tsunami took a trip under the water. She only had enough time to take a few dips in the ocean on the way here. She was nowhere near as fast as everybody else, slowly falling behind them.
She was getting slowly annoyed, at the thought that her little sister was even going faster than her. "Wait a minute" Tsunami had a grin come to her face at the idea. She started to pay attention to the water around her focusing on how it was flowing in random ways. "All I need it to do is just push me a certain way and-"she was cut off at an audible swoosh as she shot forward without even having to move her tail, already almost to her mother.
She made the water slow down a little bit and stopped speeding up right next to her mother.
The rest of the trip was pretty uneventful with it only being a straight shot to the island.
They made it to the island, it had noticeably huge rock cliffs all around it, tall but nowhere near as tall as the island the Summer palace was on.
The guard flapped up to the flat above the beach, Coral, Anemone, and Gill flapped up to him where the body was. Tsunami stayed on the beach, knowing that whatever was going on was none of her business. She just watched from a distance. Coral looked at the body in disgust, Gill on the other hand stumbled back in shock with his eyes growing wide.
"Tsunami, you might want to see this!" Gill yelled down to her. Tsunami frowned in thought before flying up there. "What does this have to do with me"
She knew immediately what Gill was talking about when she saw the body. It was Kestrel. Like Gill, she stumbled back in pure shock. Kestrel had died what appeared a very gruesome death, with her throat being slashed open, and a huge gaping hole through her chest.
"Tsunami... isn't that Peril's mother?" Gill asked sadly. "Yes, yes it is." Tsunami answered with her head down in respect. Kestrel may not have been the nicest dragon ever, but she did raise them and teach them how to fight. Tsunami then lifted her head "Father, pin respect. Kestrel may not have been the nicest dragon ever, but she did raise them and teach them how to fight. Tsunami then lifted her head "Father, please tell mother who this is, I must go inform my friends at once," she finished and quickly launched into the air and dove back down into the water.
Tsunami did not waste any time and formed the water around her. This time she didn't hold back on how fast she went. If you were to catch a glimpse of her as she was going, you would have had no idea what it was. Tsunami was back to the palace in just around three minutes.
She quickly shot through the entrance of the island and went straight to where her friends were staying.
She landed on the floor of the cave her friends were staying in. Clay shot up from where he was sitting, he ran over to her giving her a questioning look. "Tsunami, I didn't think you would be back so soon"
Tsunami looked down trying to think of a way to bring Kestrel's death up. "Tsunami... is everything ok?" Clay said concerned "You're not hurt are you?"
"Clay I am fine, it's just...Peril, Kestrel is dead." Tsunami said with everybody gasping in shock.
"What do you mean Kestrel is dead, how would you know?" Clay asked.
"I was with my mother listening to her rant about her stories, a guard came in and said they found a dead Skywing, we went to the body and it was Kestrel." Tsunami finished.
Peril sucked in a deep breath and muttered "Can you please take me to her?"
Tsunami just quietly nodded and turned to the exit with the other dragonets following.
It was probably the most depressing flight she has experienced yet with nobody saying a single word.
When they made it to the island, Coral, Gill, and Anemone had allready left. Peril sat down right next to the body with the dragonets sitting behind her. "What do we do?" Sunny asked starting to tear up.
"It's Skywing tradition to say a few words and then burn the body, something about releasing the dragon's spirit and letting them fly freely." Peril muttered out sadly still looking down at her dead mother.
Everybody was quiet at first trying to think on what to say. "I guess I will start." Glory muttered.
"Kestrel... Kestrel was not always the nicest dragon in the mountain, when I was younger, she would bully me first for being a Rainwing, and she would go extra hard on me in training," Glory frowned at the various memories "But, then came the day I beat her training for the first time, after that she started to insult me less and actually started to respect me, after that... she slowly actually started showing kindness in her own way, by either giving me advice or making small conversations," Glory finished awkwardly.
Clay started next "I know I am speaking for almost everybody here, she was not always the nicest dragon, but she was the closest thing to a mother that I had, she would teach us how to do basic things, she trained us in how to defend ourselves."
Tsunami, Sunny, and Starflight just nodded at this agreeing with what Clay said.
It was then Peril's turn, she took in a deep breath before starting, "I... I didn't get to know much about her," Peril paused before continuing. "The short amount of time I got to talk to her was some of the favorite times of my life up until now, all I ever known before I met her was Scarlet," There was a slight sizzling noise she could hear now, she was crying. "When I first met my mother, it showed me I had a choice to be who I wanted to be." Perils breath rattled after that. "I promised that I would get to know you after the war, I won't get to do that now."
Peril bent down to her mother's body. "I will miss you," Peril bent down and hugged her mother's corpse. It wasn't even ten seconds and her mother was nothing besides a pile of ash being blown into the wind.
Peril dint say anything, just looked down at the ground thinking. Clay came up beside her. "Peril do you need anything?"
Peril lifted her head, Clay saw something that he had never seen from her yet. Pure, unadaulterd, rage.
"Tsunami, do you know who did this?" Peril asked turning to look at her.
"No, I am sorry Peril, when I got here, she had been dead for days and I went straight to you leaving my mother here."
Peril then remembered something "She had a hole in her chest, a sandwing killed her" Peril was even angrier now, she didn't know anybody who was a sandwing besides Sunny, and she wouldn't kill Kestrel.
"I don't know who killed mom... but whoever did it is going to die a very, very painful death."
