Borealis winced, as the hot, humid air of the Rainforest hit him full blast as he shot into the sky.
He bit angrily at the branches threatening to claw his eyes out, as he crashed through the canopy of trees.
He couldn't believe Blossom had sided with the Mudwing on this, after that moment.
Shaking his head, he pinched himself. It was good she was being so chummy with the Mudwing. It was good she was choosing to fly with the Mudwing, instead of Borealis, chatting her head off as he smiled indulgently. He didn't want her to think he had felt something earlier, because he hadn't. He most definitely hadn't.
Blossom paused, waiting for him to catch up, which made Borealis feel a little bit better, even though he knew it shouldn't.
"We land here." She gestured toward the collection of wooden huts, with black dragons milling about.
"Here? You live in the Nightwing Village?" The Mudwing said, confused.
"No, silly,' Blossom giggled, nudging him with her wing, which made Borealis think how lucky that Mudwing was, and how grateful he was that the Mudwing didn't seem to care that Blossom had just touched him.
Then he mentally slapped himself. Moons, what was wrong with him? He had only felt this way about one other dragon, an IceWing named Aurora. That was before she, and her entire family had been eaten by giant mutant seals.
Borealis hated seals.
"Yoo-hoo, Borealis" Blossom sang, snapping her talons in front of his face.
"What?" He growled. Blossom pointed downwards, at a little hut right snug in between the Nightwing and Rainwing villages.
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Blossom pushed open the doors to her miniature bamboo cottage.
"Do you like it? It's a little snug…" Blossom trailed off, wiping imaginary dust off of her counter.
The Mudwing, Totem, he'd said his name was, smiled shyly, rubbing his head, which he'd bumped against the roof.
Borealis had a look on his snout like he'd smelled something awful.
Blossoms face fell.
"It's nice, Blossom," Totem reassured, clearing away a spot for himself to sit. "Now, we need a plan…"
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"Hm? Oh, thank you Destiny," Stardust came back to earth, ripped out of her cloud-soaring fantasies by the Nightwing offering her coins.
Stardust swept the currency into her own talons, and bid farewell to Destiny's small, hybrid dragonets.
Thank you. the mute Nightwing projected into Stardust's mind, before turning away and sliding the door shut.
Stardust hummed faintly to herself, as she looked up at the starry night sky.
As she walked past the hut of that Rainwing, the one she often heard talking to herself, she heard a deep, velvety voice, that definitely didn't belong to the Rainwing.
Peeping through the crack in the window shutters, she saw a chocolate brown Mudwing, a grumpy looking Icewing, with silver scales to match her own, and the Rainwing inhabitant of that hut.
"Totem how do you expect us to find your father without any leads?" The Icewing grumped.
"He already gave us one, stupidhead!" The Rainwing said.
"Really, Blossom? And what, pray tell, is this mysterious lead?" The Icewing smirked.
"Really Borealis?" Blossom mimicked "Don't you remember? The talonprints leading to the Sky Kingdom!"
The Mudwing, Totem, looked between the two with a bewildered expression.
"Look, you two have been arguing like this all night, when what we really need to do is come up with a-" The Mudwing froze, looking directly at Stardust. Blossom and Borealis's heads both turned in the same direction.
Too late, Stardust ducked down from their line of sight, muttering curses.
The shutters banged open, and an angry, red Rainwing head poked out.
"Stardust!" She shrieked.
"Hold on, if you would just let me explain-" Stardust stammered.
"No! No! No! There will be no explaining! You were spying on us!" Blossom pointed an accusing talon at the Nightwing. "Apologize!"
Stardust felt herself swell up with anger. For once she had heard all of what someone had said, and she didn't like it one bit!
"Just because you hatched a few weeks before me doesn't give you the right to patronize me! It's a free Kingdom, and I can't help what I overhear!" The Nightwing yelled, crossing her arms in indignation.
"Don't talk to Blossom that way!" The Icewing reared up in defense.
"Yeah, don't talk to Blossom that way!" Blossom crossed her arms as well.
Stardust sighed, glancing at the sky.
A Nightwing poked his head out of a nearby hut.
"Would you keep it down?" He hissed, glaring pointedly at Stardust and Blossom, before pulling his head back through his window.
Blossom sighed, and uncrossed her arms.
"Come inside."
There you go! Another chapter!
No, you did not read that part wrong, I really did say that Aurora's family was eaten by giant mutant seals, XD. You see, it's because I knew that she had to have left Borealis's life in some heartbreaking way, and I couldn't think of a good way to have her betray him, so I figured she should just be dead. How would she die? Giant mutant seals of course!
There will also be several cameos to my sisters OC's in here. The first such cameo was in this chapter, with Destiny. There was one sort of reference to a sort-of-OC-but-more-of-an-unnamed-side-character-she-developed-further in the first chapter, Jaguar, from her Unseen, or Untold Fanfiction.
Reviews are appreciated! :)