As we swam on under the water of the sea, we met a SeaWing dragonet about our age with her scales a sky blue, aqua green wing membranes and eyes. Her name was Tempest. She guided us through the water and I looked around as we past through seaweed and bright yellow anemone. It was all breathtakingly gorgeous.

We broke the surface of the water as we took in breaths of fresh air. Then we prepared to dive back into the water but two large SeaWings came up out of the water just as we were all about to take a deep breath and dive back down.

"Tempest, what are you doing you insolent brat! Your mother has been worried sick when you had swam off without telling her. Your a Princess and you need to have a guard with you at all times." Tempest just rolled her eyes and flapped her wings.

"Stingray! Calm down. She's only a dragonet for moons sake. Princess Tempest, who are these dragonets?" The other SeaWing chimed in, stepping in to defend Tempest.

"These are my new friends, princess Icefire and her friends, Icicle and Willowmint." Tempest explained as she gestured with a wing at me, Icicle and Willow.

"We wish to speak with Queen Bluebell," I say, staring up at the smaller SeaWing. She smiled warmly at us as she spoke up. "Well then, it's your lucky day. We'll show you the way, oh, and my name's Shoreline." The deep blue SeaWing said as she spread her wings and took to the Skys, leading us to where the Summer Palace was located.

We flew for a while before we came to a small outcropping of islands, then we dived down into the water and swam down to where the palace was located, it was very cleverly hidden behind rocks and bright yellow anemone and pearls of the deepest blue and the lightest purples.

"THREE MOONS! THIS IS SOOOO AMAZING!" I exclaim, looking around at all of the fish swimming around us in large groups. Tempest smiled widely and lit her luminescent scales. I smiled widely and nodded to the SeaWing Princess. I was part SeaWing, but no one except me, my friends, my parents and my younger sister know that.

"You know aquatic? But you're an IceWing," Shoreline exclaimed in aw and surprise. I just grinned cheekily up at Shoreline and followed Tempest into the palace with Icicle, Willow, Shoreline and Stingray following close behind. "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?" We all halted in our tracks, causing a stream of bubbles to blind us for a moment, we all spun around to see a large sky blue dragon and two smaller dragonet's following close behind her.

"Uh-oh" Tempest says in a small squeak.

"WE'VE BEEN SEARCHING EVERYWHERE! DID YOU GO SWIM PAST THE BORDERS OF THE PALACE OR SOMETHING? THREE MOONS, I THOUGHT I RAISED AT LEAST SLIGHTLY DISCIPLINED DRAGONETS! BUT NOPE!"

"Mom. Chill." Tempest says.

"I don't normally agree with Tempest, but she's right. You seriously need to chill." Aquaria steps in.

"Well, look at the runaways" Shellfish says, joining the conversation. Tempest flashes her scales and her face screws up into an exasperated expression.

"Shellfish, go stick yourself up your own butthole" She says, already exasperated with him.

"Well hello, miss snarky!" He says with a sneer.

"Shut up. Just shut up."

"Tempest, that's no way to treat your future mate!" Queen Bluebell says. She sighed and flashed her scales and gave a frustrated hiss.

"Who's Shellfish?" I whispered to Tempest once we had left the throne room. Tempest sighed and gave another frustrated hiss.

"Shellfish is a disrespectful SeaWing, but my mother thinks he would make a good future mate." She spat, her luminescent scales flashing brightly, I was the only one who knew what she was saying.

"But why in the Three Moons would your mother be trying to find you a mate at such a young age?" I asked her with a confused frown on my face. Tempest just shrugged her wings in response.

"I honestly have no idea, I don't like Shellfish. He's a disrespectful, snaibrained, fish-eating lizard!" Tempest exclaimed, with a roll of her eyes. I bursted out laughing at the SeaWing princess's comment about Shellfish.

"Don't let mother or Shellfish hear you say that." Came a voice from the entrance of Tempest's room. We all looked up to see Aquaria, one of Tempest's sisters.

"Aquaria? What are you doing here? I thought you were out catching fish with mother." Tempest said, and Aquaria just shrugged her wings in response. "Well I was, but I got bored, and so I decided to come back to the palace and wait for mom and Pearl to return with dinner," Aquaria replied, swimming into the room and taking a seat on her coral bed.

"I love fish," I said excitedly, and Aquaria whipped her head around and stared at me in shock. I just laughed an looked to Tempest, Willow and Icicle who all nodded. "I'm part SeaWing," I replied and Aquaria's eyes widened with understanding and aw.

"Wow! Really? No kidding? That's so cool!" Aquaria exclaimed with a wide grin on her face and amazement shinning in her eyes. "So is that how you know aquatic and how you can swim and catch fish so fast?" The younger SeaWing Princess asked, to which I nodded my head in confirmation.

"So, why did you and your friends leave the IceWing Kingdom?" Aquaria asked, tilting her head and staring at me with wide and curious eyes. "Well, the truth is that I don't really agree with the IceWing aristocracy," I explained, sighing softly as I shook out my wings.

"Icefire is from the circles, though she's much more... open in her opinions about it." Icicle explained, answering for me. "At the quarterly summits the queens attend at Sanctuary... let's just say she's caused some IceWing spikes to rattle." Icicle added, clearly poking fun at me good-naturedly.

I rolled my eyes at Icicle. "Haha, IceWing puns. Hilarious and original! What's next, coming up with the cool and cold jokes?" I asked, clearly sarcastic, but Tempest noticed there was no mean spite in my tone to Icicle.

"So you're like, what, against the circles?" Asked Aquaria, frowning.

"Not necessarily." I added. "A hierarchy or chain of command is certainly needed. I'm not an anarchist or anything... but in practice, the system of the circles are flawed and dated. It doesn't have to go away, but it does need to change." I explained.

"Ohh... I get the joke! But what are the circles?" Aquaria questioned, tilting her head in confusion. Icicle looked up from her scroll briefly and added, "The IceWings have rankings and they go up depending on how high up in the circles you are. Most of the IceWings are really... Let's just say there all pretty cold to others. They are also very strict in their traditions." Icicle explained.

"IceWing Royals are instantly placed at the highest ranking in the circles. I'm from the circles, I'm actually pretty high up in the rankings, but I don't really agree with the IceWing aristocracy," Icicle continued, though the IceWing's expression changed slightly at the mention of the circles.