Sunny was silent throughout the flight. She desperately wanted to hear Starflight's comforting voice but he seemed unwilling to speak. They had been flying all night and waited for an hour to avoid seeing Glory until she left the mountain. When they took off towards the beach, Sunny wasn't sure how far they would be flying but if her memory served, only a day or two if they were quick enough. She felt her wings slow and the Sandwing turned down to land under some trees to avoid being seen and the Nightwing followed. When they landed, she flashed Starflight a reassuring smile that turned to a frown and she turned away. How could things have gone so wrong? "I can't believe she wants to trust that…that…"

"She really isn't all that bad." Starflight said behind her. He knew that she would take offense to this and he raised a wing in a waiting signal. "I just mean that I've been with her for a few days and she really cared about Clay. He was the only person that treated her like a normal dragon. If she killed Clay, it wasn't by choice. She just needs a friend."

Sunny sat down in a huff. "Then why didn't you stick with Glory? Go ahead and be her friend if you really think that's all she needs to not be a murderous killer."

Starflight considered getting closer and resting a wing on her shoulder like Clay always did. He definitely tried but figured he wasn't good enough for that. "Sunny, I know you better than that. Please, just think about it. She was isolated for so long. Scarlet was the closest thing she had to a friend and she just used her. Imagine if she had a friend like you!"

Sunny considered this but wasn't so sure. How could she look at Peril without thinking about the burning pile of ash she saw on the floor in the arena? "I-no…fine. I'll think about it. But she has Glory now, doesn't she?"

Starflight flinched. "I don't know how Glory sees her…she keeps her close but if Glory really wants to hurt the Talons;She may see Peril as a weapon and not a friend." The days with Glory had been different. She wasn't the same dragon he once knew. She seemed to take pleasure in hurting the Skywings and didn't mind when Peril killed one but even Peril wasn't as ready to hurt them. "I just know that Peril really wanted to save you."

Sunny felt her heart leap a little. She always wanted to believe that everyone had a bit of good in them. Could Peril have that as well? Was she truly being too judgmental? And what about Glory? "Do you think she's going to try and end the war?" She asked quietly.

"I don't know. First she just wanted to find you. I think she expected us to want to avenge him as well. Now that we aren't matching her desire, she may not know how to react." He tried to smile at her, seeing Sunny turn to him. "When we find Tsunami, the three of us can talk to her. Together. I'm sure she'll listen and we can end the war as a team like you always wanted."

Sunny quickly hugged Starflight who felt his face flush before gently hugging her back. "Thank you, for not dying I mean." She muttered. She released him and turned back to the direction of the ocean. "I know everything will turn out right in the end. It has too."

(Deep in the sea)

Three days. Tsunami had been swimming around for three days and she STILL couldn't find ANYONE! Just how big WAS this stupid ocean?! It wouldn't be that bad if the waves and currents didn't keep pushing and pulling her where she did NOT want to go. "I am a SEAwing! Stupid currents, you should obey ME!" She growled in her mind. At least fish were easy enough to find and catch.

When she escaped her execution, she tried to find her way around the kingdom until she found the ocean. The Seawing had been trying to find the Seawing palace and convince Queen Coral to save her friends. An army of Seawings, the greatest tribe in all of Pyrrhia, what could go wrong? Well, getting stuck in currents, that's what. "Just stay alive until I find them. I know I can do it and I trust you guys." Was it the best idea? Probably not. Did she care? Not remotely. Any way that she could save the four dragons she knew her whole life was worth the risk.

That was when she saw a dragon. A Seawing. A rather handsome Seawing. Why was she thinking about that? "Finally!" She tried to flash her scales at him and he noticed her. She flew up from the water and waited for him to follow. When he did, he was narrowing his eyes at her. "Hello fellow Seawing. My name is Tsunami and I am possibly the long lost daughter of Queen Coral. I ask that you take me to the Queen." That sounded so stupid. "Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid-"

"Oh, well…um, I-then why did you say you were a daughter of a walrus?" He asked with deep confusion written all over his face.

She stared at the Seawing then frowned. "I didn't?"

He narrowed his eyes at her. "You definitely did. I saw your scales flash that. I don't remember our Queen being a Walrus so one of those things is a lie."

Tsunami bristled. "I most certainly did NOT say that I was a daughter of a Walrus. Second, I DON'T lie unless someone deserves it. How could you have even heard me say it? We were under water." A dark rustling made its way through her stomach at the fear of what he was about to say.

"I didn't have to hear it. That's what your scales flashed…right?" He asked with a questioning stare.

Tsunami really wished there was a fish she could kill. "We talk with our scales?" It was as if all the air was pushed out of her lungs. An entire language and way of life that her species definitely needed to speak under water and she never questioned it. "Why didn't Webs TELL ME THAT?!" She roared in anger and let her tail lash at the water, sending ripples through the water. "That SLUG! How could he just leave me high and dry like that? SIX YEARS and he NEVER thought to MENTION THAT?!"

The dragon tried to approach her and waved his wings reassuringly. "Webs? You know Webs? How?" He asked with eyes that saw her as a last hope of sorts.

Tsunami shook him off and growled at the water. "Yeah, I know him. He took my egg and stuffed me in a cave with my friends so we could hatch away from everyone." What did it matter if this dragon knew? She doubted he was as important as he was handsome. "I'm one of the dragonets of destiny and I was HOPING that I could go tell Queen Coral that my friends are trapped and we would be super grateful if she could assist me to go save them because they might die in Scarlet's arena and I need to stop that!" She was talking without thinking. Her breath quickened as she recalled the events of the past days. "Then she tried to have me executed because I refused to kill that insane Seawing, Gill, escaped and got lost because this ocean SUCKS and now I'm here talking to a dragon with weird scars on his snout!"

He grimaced. "I see…First, this dragon's name is Riptide. Second, you mentioned Gill? Is he…is he dead? I mean, like if you didn't kill him would he be-"

Tsunami nodded and grew tired of flying and fell back into the ocean but kept her head above the water. "Scarlet had him executed…I couldn't save him but I didn't kill him myself. Not to give that lizard the satisfaction. Why? Was he important?"

Riptide, wow that was a pretty name. "Stop thinking about that and focus!" Riptide flew down to swim next to her with a deep and thoughtful look on his face. "Tsunami, right? I think I have a lot to tell you…well that is, I need to take you to the Queen for so many reasons."

"Why? I want to go there but what's so important to you about it?" She asked suspiciously.

Riptide took a deep breath and looked into her eyes. "Six years ago, Webs stole an egg from the royal hatchery. We haven't seen him since. Queen Coral has been wanting to see him dead ever since after he stole her daughter." Tsunami felt her eyes light up. "But, something else happened. King Gill took charge and…he was captured. The Skywings were holding him and if you are speaking the truth…then you…he-" He was trying to say the next few words but couldn't find the words.

"No…" Tsunami really wanted to kill that imaginary fish now. She WAS the lost princess…"And I failed to save my own father…"

Riptide seemed ready to give her a comforting hug but didn't out of respect. "Yeah…but now, you're back to take your place as an heir. I don't know if the Queen will offer her services, but I know she will want to see you. Especially about Gill and Webs. I mean, I'd like to know about him too…"

She needed a minute, no days, to let this all sink in. "I don't have days. I have to save the others." "Ok. Take me to my mo-mother. Wow, that sounds really weird. Like I always WANTED to say it but now that it's true it feels…odd. Wait, why do you want to know about Webs?"

"Information is power and I don't have a lot of it." That was somehow that lamest and coolest thing Tsunami had ever heard. "Not a lot of dragons talk about him in the tribe so I figured you would be able to tell me about it."

Tsunami could understand that. She reached out a talon. "Fine. You take me to my mother and I'll tell you how awful that slug belching lizard was as a guardian." Riptide winced as she said it but Tsunami didn't take mind to it. "Actually, I COULD complain about him the whole way there. I have a really long mental list."

Riptide nodded but didn't seem to be paying as much attention. "If you'll have time later, we could talk about it. But for now I need to take you to the Queen which is underwater so not a lot of talking. Maybe she won't absolutely hate me if I bring her daughter back to her, huh?" He said with a smirk.

Tsunami smiled nervously at him, feeling her face heat up before shaking her head. "Ok, let's go. My friends are counting on me. If she can't help me, then I'll figure it out myself." Clay, Glory, Starflight, Sunny…they were all trapped and probably scared to death. "Hold on guys, I'm going to save you. Just hold on. I promise you'll either get an army of Seawings or a Seawing with enough rage to topple any castles." Riptide dived into the water and Tsunami turned to look at the Moons and nodded to no one in particular. "I'm going home. Where I should have grown up. But not for long, I have work to do. I really wish I had Sunny's optimism right now."

(In the Skywing watch tower…)

Dagger stared at the face reflected by the water and glared at it. The right side was showing bone with his scales melted off. When the wind blew he could hear the whistling of his teeth without meaning to. He wasn't great to look at before but now he was somehow worse. And he knew who did this to him. The Rainwing, the same one that had killed Scarlet and the same one that had taken the Nightwing from under his snout.

His team was dead. He was all alone. He couldn't return to Ruby, not like this, He had failed. "Maybe not." He tapped his exposed tooth and smiled wickedly. "A token. That Rainwing's head on a stick…that would please her." Was he truly thinking about that for Ruby or just for his own revenge? "I'll kill her. I'll make her pay for challenging the kingdom of the sky." He thought darkly and slashed his talon at his own reflection. "That Rainwing will pay. All of those stupid prophecy dragons will." He turned to take off. First he'd check the mountain home the Skywings had found. Then he'd tear Pyrrhia apart to find her.

"You made a bad enemy, Rainwing. I'm not like most dragons." He spat at the ground as he flew. "I won't rest, I won't stop, nothing will halt me from ripping you apart with my bare claws."

Consider this the end of Part 1.