Try: 2

"Dude, are you okay?" Arid's clawmate, Garnet, asked as he shot up from his bed.

"Uh, yup," Arid said as he tried to rub the sleepiness from his eyes,

"Well, get up, ya don't wanna be late." The SkyWing said as he left the room.

Arid looked around as he began to feel a serious case of Déjà vu. Hadn't this all happened before? Maybe Garnet had moved back to their room during the night. That made sense. However, Garnet didn't look sad.

"Garnet, how you holding up?" Arid asked as he ran to catch up to him. His clawmate gave him a funny look.

"What do you mean?" Garnet said, looking completely confused. It was as if he couldn't remember yesterday. Maybe he was avoiding it. Arid decided to let him deal with his emotions on his own.

"Nevermind," Arid muttered. They soon arrived at a pile of meats and Garnet's face lit up.

"Chicken!" As Garnet said this, he snatched the mystery meat that Arid had eaten yesterday.

"What should I eat?" Arid asked his SkyWing friend, "I've never had any of these."

"That one is steak." Garnet said giving it to Arid, "It would've been my second choice." Arid noticed that this 'steak' that he now heald was the food that Garnet had eaten yesterday. They soon sat down with Barracuda and began to talk.

It was then that Carnelian came and plopped down in the seat right next to Garnet. Arid gasped, inhaled a piece of meat and began to choke.

"Woah!" Garnet said as Arid was attacked by a fit of coughs. Barracuda slowly began to ask if he was okay and all Arid could do was a nod. As the coughs slowly came to a stop and he was able to breathe normally. How? How was Carnelian still alive? He had seen her dead body!

As Arid began to slowly process this event, Garnet spoke up, "Well guys, this is my cousin Carnelian. Carnelian, this is Arid and Barracuda." Carnelian waved, she and Arid locked eyes for a moment before she broke off and began to eat her food. Arid quickly finished his and tried once more to figure out what was happening.

"Like your earring by the way," Carnelian told him, interrupting his thoughts. He had almost forgotten that he was wearing it.

"Thanks, I found it a few days ago. It's pretty cool." The SandWing replied with a slight smile.

"Oh, we should probably hurry up and head off for History class," Barracuda said the rest of them nodded. Arid figured that he was probably dreaming.

"I have music," Carnelian grumbled as she returned to her food.

Arid felt sick.

He wanted to throw up right then and there. He proably could if he had eaten more. Maybe food poisoning was contagious after all. However, Garnet looked fine. Food poisoning sounded like something you got from food. Maybe it was what he ate.

The bell rung and Arid dashed out of the room. Garnet caught up to him easily.

"Arid, are you alright?" The SkyWing asked him,

"No, I think I'm gonna be sick," Arid grumbled, holding his wings in close. Ermine strode up alongside them.

"May I offer some help?" She asked, her voice clear and confident.

"Please." Garnet pleaded, looking at his friend. The IceWing didn't even look at Arid before talking again. He guessed that she had been studying her clawmate for most of the class. He looked like he was about to puke.

"Most likely food poisoning, I can escort him to the medical cave. It's a free period right now." As Ermine said this, Arid nodded and began to follow her down the halls.

"Eh, what is food poisoning?" Arid asked as he followed the confident IceWing. She gave him a small smile.

"It means that what you ate was bad and your stomach is upset and hurting because of it," Ermine said, kind voice ringing in the air. Ermine was very nice and loved helping others. She'd helped Garnet yesterday when he got sick. Honestly, yesterday was felling the exact same as today but with little differences. Arid had been feeling a strong sense of Déjà vu all day.

Arid's earring hit his head lightly as if a reminder that it was still there, as a NightWing strode past them. The NightWing didn't look at them but, Arid recognized that he was the NightWing that died in the explosion last night.

If this was a dream, why was he here? Arid didn't care about him, no matter how heartless it sounded. This wasn't a dream then, you can't get sick in a dream, can you?

Arid pinched himself.

Nope, not a dream.

"And here we are," Ermine said as they entered a cave. Torches lined the walls and there were a couple of beds coming out of the walls along with piles of moss or leaves on the floor. This was the medicine cave that he'd been in the night before when he told Garnet about Carnelian's death.

However, Carnelian wasn't dead, was she?

Ermine went over to one of the doctors there and told them about his condition. As she began to leave Arid spoke up,

"By the way, thanks for helping Garnet yesterday!" he called, Ermine just turned around and gave him a look of confusion.

"I didn't help Garnet yesterday, he was completely fine." And with that, she walked away.

Arid sat there by himself for a bit, the doctor poked and prodded him for a few minutes before leaving him to himself. He felt lonely and out of place in the cave. He began to roll the day over in his mind, comparing it to the day before.

"Hey Arid!" Arid's head shot up as the dragons entered the room. The speaker had been Garnet and beside him was Carnelian.

"Hey," Arid said, looking up at the two. It made sense for Garnet to be there but, it didn't make any that Carnelian was standing before him.

"How you feeling?" Garnet asked as he sat down by Arid, Carnelian aqwardly copied her cousin.

"Better, why are you guys here?" He asked, more about Carnelian that Garnet. His SkyWing friend gave him a small shrug.

"I wanted to check up on you. Carnelian and I were hanging out and she decided to tag along." Garnet explained.

"This way I get to skip class." Carnelian put in as if it made more sense than what Garnet had said. Arid realized that if she had done this yesterday or the real-time- whatever happened before, she wouldn't have died.

Arid faked a smile as Garnet told him about what they had been doing before they came to see him.

There was silence again.

Then, like the time before, a loud noise rang through the air.

There was chaos.

There was death.

Identical to the day before.

Both Garnet's and Carnelian's eyes widened. The shock came from both pairs of eyes but, no fear was shone it Carnelian's eyes. If she was scared, she hid it well.

"What the-" Garnet began, but Arid cut in,

"Go, see what it was!" He told them, lashing his tail. Carnelian was already out the door when Garnet hesitantly got up.

"You'll be fine," Arid assured him, "Now go!" The SkyWing gave him a quick nod before running out the door, leaving the SandWing to himself.

What was going on? Was this some form of animus magic? Surely there weren't any animus dragons left, were there?

Arid touched his earring again as if it would give him answers to his only question.

How? How was any of this possible? It had to be a dream. However, it couldn't be one, could it?

That ment it had to be animus magic, no matter how improbable it was. Could animus magic turn back time? Would he be stuck like this forever? Maybe it was a one-time thing. He'd have to find out tonight.

Dragons came in carrying the RainWing from the day before -or was it try before- and laid her softly down onto the bed she'd been on before. If Arid wasn't mistaken, her name was Tamarin and a little RainWing would come by later to sit with her.

Garnet came back to tell him about what happened before leaving again to get a good night's sleep.

It wasn't long before the small RainWing came in.

"Hi," Arid said, giving her a small wave. She looked a little startled, her scales turning shades of orangey purple, blue and violet. Arid had no idea what any of them meant. The dragon's scales quietly turned to a blue and pale blue mix.

"Hello!" She replied, voice sounding with fake delight, "I'm Kinkajou." Arid could tell that she had been somewhat irritated or annoyed when she had come in but was now curious about him and worried about her friend who lay injured before her.

"I'm Arid." He told her calmly, ignoring the silent twisting in his stomach. Reminding him that he was still under the effects of food posioning.

"Why are you in here?" She asked, looking at him. Arid saw her claws fidgeting with a small stone as she sat there. Her tail twitched every now and again, he got the impression that she always had loads of energy.

"Food poisoning." He answered, "You?"

"Well, my friend, Tamarin, got hurt." Kinkajou gestured to the sleeping RainWing before her, "And, I really need to think…" She paused before looking up at him, "What would you do if your best friend kept a huge, gicantic, important secret from you because she thought you wouldn't like her?"

"Depends on the secret," Arid told her, looking at her.

"Hmm well…" She stopped, thinking up an example, "What if your NightWing in your winglet had powers? Like mind reading and future sight, and they kept that from you? And, they were your BEST FRIEND in the WHOLE WORLD!" Kinkajou asked, tail curling up behind her. Arid snorted at the thought of him and Mightyclaws actually being friends.

"Well, I'd be frustrated but, she told you. That means she trusts you to not tell anyone." As he said this, Kinkajou looked guilty as dark purple spots began to appear on her scales, "Also, think what it's like to be her for a moment. Always hearing everything, that's got to be annoying. Along with the fact that, would dragons like her if she knew their every thought?"

Kinkajou was silent, rolling what he'd said over in her mind.

"I should apologize to her, shouldn't I?" Kinkajou asked, mostly to herself, "I yelled at her and left. I feel terrible." Arid nodded to the dark purple RainWing, encouraging her to go and talk to her friend.

"Come back and tell me how it went!" He called as she bounded out of the room, determined.

Arid sat there, going in and out of sleep as he did. Kinkajou didn't come back, that he knew of, she may have returned while he was asleep. He wasn't sure.

He opened his eyes again as time turned to midnight. He got up in fear as he watched his earring begin to glow eerily.

The earring's glow began to blind him.

"Talons and-" He began to shout as he felt an odd tingling sensation fill his body as time turned back once more.

AN:

So, second chapter. You'll probably see a lot of repeated things, like what Garnet says each time Arid wakes up. Arid will probably spend time with each dragon in his winglet along with some other dragons if you want to give ideas, feel free.

There is no character option for Arid, Garnet or Carnelian. They are all canon but I can't figure out how to add them to the character list. If someone does know how, please tell me!

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Honky Honk - Now I want to write about an insignificant character because of you lol This was a good idea. I checked the book to make sure Arid was a character. - Thanks! Yeah, Arid is a character. I picked the winglet with like, no important characters so now I can do whatever I want! THE POWER I HOLD!

Thanks!

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