When Dust woke up he took a moment to remember what had happened the previous day, the escape and getting chased by the Skywings, after finding a small pig to eat and taking the time to drink from a nearby spring, he then took off after flying for a few minutes he realised he had no clue where the mud kingdom was, or what it is, so he just flew east, trying to find the river the Dragonets went down. After around half an hour he started to see a large marshland, and then, the river. Well he guessed this was the same river, it seemed so, it came from the same direction and looked the same. When he flew towards a waterfall in the river, a movement caught his eye and he saw, Sunny come out of a waterfall? She must have been in a cave behind the water. His thoughts were cut off as Sunny shouted to him.
"Dust! Your ok!" she shouted.
At the shout Tsunami and Starflight came out of the cave as well, calling them over to the area next to the river.
And then he looked down.
At first he thought the ground was frozen. It was so much worse. The ground was covered in dragon bones, hundreds of broken skeletons, all over the ground. Some were burning, some were maimed, some were just skulls.
"Sunny what happened h-" Dust was cut off.
"Yes I know, it's horrible and we don't know what happened." Sunny cut in, not even looking at the ground.
When they reached Tsunami and Starflight, the reaction was not even slightly different than he expected.
"Umm who is this?" asked Starflight.
"Dust! Why did you just fly off and leave us! You could have been killed!" Tsunami shouted at the same time.
"Yeah, I know, but I'm fine and so are you" Dust turned to Starflight. "Im Dust, didn't Sunny tell you about me? Anyway, where are Clay and Glory?"
"They are in the Mudwing village." Sunny said pointing to a small village near the bottom of the waterfall.
"Looking for Clay's family?"
"Ye- here they come!" Sunny said excitedly.
When dust looked towards the village he did see Clay with a dragon he assumed was Glory. But he also saw the group of Mudwings following them.
"They're being followed." Dust said quietly.
"Hide."
They watched the dragons catch up to Clay and Glory, call to them and they followed them to the ground.
"Where are they going?" asked Sunny.
"probably being questioned." Dust said grimly.
"Who are you and what are you doing here." Said a voice from behind them.
The Dragonets and Dust whipped around to see a random sandwing staring at them, with a guard of 2 other Sandwings.
"I could ask you the same question." Replied Dust coldly.
"No you couldn't, in here on orders of Burn."
At the name Burn Tsunami stepped forward with Dust, while Sunny and Starflight hid behind them.
"You will leave this place. Now." Dust said
"No I don't think I will" the Sandwing said "capture them."
4 things happened at once, the 2 Sandwings leapt forwards, Dust and Tsunami did the same, Sunny and Starflight ran into the forest and clay and glory started flying towards them to help. All this registered in Dust's brain in a split second as he begun to, in crude terms, slice the crap out of the soldiers with his tail. This tactic was surprisingly effective and soon after the command to attack was said, two dead Sandwings were on the ground, bleeding from multiple poisonous cuts and only one now very scared sandwing remained.
"what? No! Don't kill me, please!" he pleaded.
"You attacked us, made us kill two random soldiers, and are now begging for mercy and you expect me to not kill you now?" Dust shouted at him.
"Please, I was just following orders, I was told to put a bounty on the Dragonets and detain anyone suspicious, I was just doing what I was told!" the Sandwing practically screamed.
"Your call." Dust said, turning to the Dragonets.
"What happened here?" clay asked, as he finally got up here.
"Soldiers attacked us, we killed them, now this guy wants spared." Dust replied.
"Then let him go." Sunny said.
"Really." Dust said, looking at Sunny. "The dragon who just tried to drag you to prison, you want to set free?"
"Yes."
"Fine," Dust said, turning to the cowardly Sandwing. "take a message to Burn. If she want the Dragonets of destiny, she has to go through me, and no matter how powerful she thinks she is she can't beat me, not now, she lost her chance. Now go coward!" Dust shouted.
In a flurry of wingbeats, the Sandwing was gone.
"Well, that is done, anything happen while I was gone?" Dust asked.
"How can you sound so casual right now? You just killed two dragons?" glory asked Dust.
"wait," Dust said, looking around. "Where is Starflight?"
Suddenly everyone was looking around, trying to find the black Dragon.
Dust was suddenly hit with a random powerful tiredness, before collapsing on the floor.
"The hell is happening!" Dust shouted out to the white void he was in.
"Sorry, you wouldn't go to sleep." Said a familiar voice from behind him.
"Frostburn!" Dust said turning towards the voice. "Now is not the time!"
"As I said, sorry but I have very important information for you, tomorrow you will arrive at the Mudwing village and be faced with a decision, when it comes to you remember this, kill the Sandwing."
"Frostburn"
"What?"
"That happened today, and I let the Sandwing go free."
"Oh no, did the Nightwing Dragonet disappear?"
"Yes"
"I assume you know what in about to say."
"the Sandwing kidnapped Starflight?"
"Unfortunately, yes."
"well wake me then! Now!"
And he woke immediately.
AN:
Sorry for the random break between chapters, in not even sure anyone reads this now, but hey, it's fun to write so why not? Anyway, Dust is a killer now, gonna say now, the person Dust is based on is not a nice person, so he will be fairly cruel to most dragons (angler and the Dragonets excluded) and he is slowly getting his memory back, so he knows things from WOF but he knows no to share it. (That is what he is referring to when he says 'she can't beat me, not now, she lost her chance')