This is only the beginning of this, so expect more. I'm also relatively new with anything like this so don't be surprised if you notice anything odd. I'll give some information on the characters right now because you should know. Ashreader is a Nightwing Skywing hybrid and he was born under 3 full moons. This story takes place almost 100 years after the brightest night, so everybody in Wings of Fire doesn't really exist anymore. Cryptid is an albino Nightwing who always has a hard time with things. Sunstreak, Ashreader's mother, is a Skywing animus. There was one Skywing animus that escaped back when they were all killed around Darkstalker's time. Shadowseeker is his father and doesn't have any abilities. I'll post a different story giving their bios eventually.

Disclaimer: I don't own Wings of Fire. Ashreader, or the main character, belongs to me, and Cryptid belongs to my friend. Cover art belongs to me. Anyways, lets get on with the story.

Prologue

Another morning, another day to be free, Ashreader thought to himself as he slowly woke up and walked through his home. He walked outside into the cold, crisp, morning air and breathed it in. He enjoyed his life as it was. He never had to deal with other dragons. Living in isolation allowed him to have as much freedom as he wanted, and he had loving parents. He didn't have any siblings, but he didn't care much. He was an animus, which could've made his whole life much like other dragons, but he decided to choose differently. He only used his magic when he felt like he would need it, or if there was a spell that would benefit him in any way.

Even though his life was great, there were a couple flaws. He's extremely shy because the only dragons he's ever talked to are his parents, he's never interacted with other dragons, so he never had any friends, and he doesn't know what love is. He didn't really care much because he had wanted to stay with his loving parents his whole life.

He shook his wings and flew for some prey, only to eat some food because he was hungry. He flew off in a Southwestern direction for about 10 minutes, weaving in between trees and around small cliffs along his way before landing, and he immediately started searching. He had been searching for a while before finding a lazy goat standing around, almost motionless, and eating the grass.

This kind of goat, however, was common in the Claws of the Clouds Mountains. The goats out here are always still and be extremely dumb all the time. He used an enchantment to quiet his footsteps and breathing until he could hardly even tell he was doing so, and slowly moved towards the goat. He was about to lunge for it when he was hit in the side, knocking him off the ground and landed a split second later with a loud thud.

He was dazed for a couple seconds, not knowing what hit him and he tried to get up and regain his breath that was knocked out of him from the impact. He got up with a groan and looked for what had hit him. He saw something white laying on the ground a couple feet away from him, and took a couple more seconds to realize that it was a dragon. A female to be exact.

What's a dragon doing out here? I thought that nobody ever came here because of how dangerous it is, he thought as he got up. The new dragon immediately cried out, "I'm sorry! I wasn't paying attention to where I was going, and I'm sorry!"

He looked at her, now seeing that she had stood up and only reached up to the middle of his neck. He studied her and saw that she had dark, crystal blue eyes, reflecting the sunlight shining through the trees. Her scales were also an unusual color. Her scales were a pearly white, so it meant she wasn't an Icewing.

They made eye contact for a short period of time, and he noticed her studying his features shortly after. His eyes are so pretty. How did he get them? What species is he? I've never seen that kind of dragon before. Why does he have those patterns on his scales? It looks so cool. And what about the silver scales on his neck and next to his eyes? What do those mean? Maybe if I help him he'll be nice to me and give me some answers, but I have so many questions, he heard in her mind.

He started backing away when he heard her thoughts. When he was at what he thought was a good distance, he blurted, "I just lost my food because of you" and immediately turned around and started walking away, going to look for a different area where it was nice and quiet so he could find food.

"I can find you some food," the new dragon offered. He stopped, turned to look at her again before backing away, seeing how close she was. He was nervous and didn't know what to do because this was the first dragon he had ever encountered. He shook his head and started walking off again to find some more food.

He was walking for a couple minutes before he heard her footsteps behind him, so he whipped around, almost hitting her face with his own, and asked, "What do you want, and can you stop following me? It's weird and I don't even know you."

"B-but I just want to know your name" she stuttered, disappointed, before continuing, tilting her head to the right with her final words, "I might as well tell you my name. It's Cryptid. What's yours?"

Author's Notes: First chapter and probably not the best I can do, but it'll do for now. I will allow people to DM me on discord for any art they want from each chapter, and my discord name is in my about me. I'll have the next chapter out within the next month, hopefully. Keeping my username short because it's a little long.

Until next time,


Ashreader