Hi! Remember the animus I mentioned in the summary? Well, now we'll get to hear abit about him! Enjoy!

The blue IceWing store at Queen Blizzard, terror and anger swirling inside him. "I will not let you use my gift for your own evil purposes!" He cried, facing her.

"Really. Well, that would be such a shame. Your sister is so full of potential. I'd hate to waste a young IceWing life." The queen told him, eyes colder than a snowstorm.

The IceWing felt his heart plummet. His eyes widened. "Aurora? Where is she!" He demanded, searching his queens' gaze for any hint that might lead to his younger sister.

"Oh, her? She's right here." Blizzard told him. "Aurora, you can come out now." She told a little silver dragonet, who was quivering behind the towering figure. The little dragonet stepped forward. "Aurora!" The animus rushed to meet his sister. "Are you okay? Did she hurt you?"

The replied came "I'm fine, Polaris. She hasn't done anything to me yet."

Yet. Polaris thought. But she will.

"How touching. But Polaris, if you want your sister to stay safe, you'll do what I ask." Blizzard interrupted the two. "Unless you want Aurora to die, in which case, I'm sure your mother could be used."

"No, please."

"Then enchant this diamond to give me animus powers."

"But Blizzard I'll-"

"Lose your soul? I don't care. It's just one diamond. Or your sister." With that, Blizzard scratched Aurora's scales. The tiny dragon shrieked as blue blood began to seep out. Polaris looked back and forth between Blizzard and Aurora. "Choose quickly!" Blizzard taunted, gesturing to the steadily forming pool of blue blood forming around his sister.

At last Polaris cried out "Fine, I'll do it. Just don't kill Aurora!"

A malicious smile spread across Blizzards' face. "I'm glad to hear that. Let's begin."

Blossom watched as the Nightwing fell, writhing in pain as the venom melted his eyes. Why was he a NightWing. It was strange. He was a BattleWing! No one could know about this. Nobody. "Are you going to stand there or are you going to celebrate?" She heard a voice in her ear.

Blossom didn't replie.

"Come on. You won your challenge! Your in sixth circle now! Celebration time!" The BattleWing told her.

Blossom shook herself out of the trance. "Who are you?"

The BattleWing looked offended. "I'm Silver. I'm supposed to show you to sixth circle."

"What circle are you from?" Lynx questioned Silver.

"Second circle."

Aha! Blossom thought. Now I remember her. Yes. Lynx remembered seeing Silver at the other challenges, or when Queen Blizzard made them all stand at attention while she inspected them. As far as BattleWings, Silver was fairly laid back and loose, especially for second circle. Blossom wondered if she was also a NightWing. Under the mask. Or maybe she was a RainWing. Blossom didn't know if Queen Blizzard had kidnapped dragons from other tribes. If she hadn't, she would have had to kidnap quite a few Rain and Nightwings.

Blossom got back to thinking about Cold-spell, and why he'd suddenly turned into a NightWing. Maybe it was because I was touching him. No. That couldn't be. I was touching Cold-spell for a while, and he didn't turn into a NightWing right that instant. Maybe it just had a delayed affect, what ever I did to him? But I was grappling with Jewel for longer than that, and she didn't turn into a different dragon. But I've seen her while she was asleep, as a RainWing. And I never touched her then. Maybe there's a weakening point in the band, where, at a certain time each day, the band gets week enough that you can see through the armor. So when is my time? And could anyone else see the NightWing?

"Did you see anything strange going on with Cold-spell?" Blossom asked Silver as they walked to find the leader of sixth circle, claws leaving marks in the reddish brown dust that covered this part of the Island.

Silver gave her a funny look. "No. Why?"

"I was just wondering." It was half true.

"Did you see something?" Silver inquired.

"Well, not exactly. I just touched his band, like this." She reached out to touch Silvers' band, and suddenly a bright, fiery red rippled out from the band. Silver closed her eyes. The red covered her whole body. She opened her eyes, and now they were an intense yellow, like a hawk's.

Blossom blinked "Who- Who are you?" She stuttered. "My name is-" the SkyWing fumbled for a second "I'm Cardinal. More importantly, What are you"

"I'm a-" wait. What if I touch my band. Maybe I could become a RainWing again. Blossom raised her hand to touch her band. She found the warm piece of metal, slipping it of her talon. As soon as she touched the band, a bright array of colors rippled outward, covering her entire body.

"What happened?" Cardinal questioned Blossom, whose scales were blossoming with bright yellow. "You were just a BattleWing, and suddenly you're a RainWing?"

"I don't know. I touched a dragons arm band, the one that turns him into a BattleWing, and suddenly he turned into a NightWing. Then I touched your band, and you turn into a SkyWing. And when I touched my armband, I turned back into a RainWing." Blossom paused. "We shouldn't talk out here. Someone will see us."

Cardinal's eyes creased. "Why should I listen to you? Your a RainWing, for the moons!"

"I've noticed." Blossom replied dryly. "But if anyone sees us in theese forms, we'll be in even more trouble."

"More? We're already in trouble? Why didn't you say so! Come on, let's find a place."

Cardinal turned away, and Blossom hurried after her.

"So Blizzard kidnapped us, gave us magic armbands to turn us into super death weapons, and is probably harnessing an army of death machines to either wipe out or take over all the other tribes? Do you know how much that is to digest?" Cardinal and Blossom had found an empty cave where they could talk, and Blossom was telling her about the situation.

"Umm... A lot?"

"Three Moons. My wings hurt just trying to digest that."

"Well, deal with it. We need to figure out how to avoid getting caught." Blossom told her.

"We have to warn our tribes. Queen Falcon needs to know about this." Queen Falcon was the SkyWing Queen.

"Yeah. And escape, and figure out what Queen Blizzard is doing, and free the other dragons." Blossom spewed it all out and then paused to take a breath "The point is that we have a lot to do. So priorities."

The two dragons paused to think. "Escape and warn all the tribes. With the power of the queens behind us, we should be able to stop Blizzard." Cardinal said at last.

Blossom shook her head. "But how would we figure out their plans? We need to wait."

"But the tribes should know. We need to prepare for the attacks."

"But if we leave, we won't be able to come back and spy."

The two dragons sat there brooding in silence. Finally Blossom spoke. "I have it!"

"What?"

"We split up. You go warn the tribes, and I'll stay here and spy."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah. I'm the only one able to remember who I was with my band on anyway. You wouldn't be able to spy."

"True. Alright." Cardinal agreed. "But be careful."

"I will be. When will you leave?"

"When can you cause a distraction?" Cardinal asked.

"Leave it to me." There was a sparkle in Blossom's dark green eyes. For soon they were going to escape.