Hello guys! I am finally out of school, so be prepared for more chapters in a shorter period of time.

A song I realized that would fit in with Ripnami: Everybody Talks by Neon Trees

(Galactic's POV)

I was shocked, finding out that Freakwave was an animus and all.

Mainly because of what Freakwave said to me a week after the dance. Well, the dance was amazing, considering I got to spend three hours with Waterfall and the music was awesome to dance to.

I turned around to look at Cel, who just had his same unsurprised look, but he was a bit more cheery the day after the dance. I asked him about what happened, but he said it was personal, so I left it there. I whipped back around to look at the SeaWing Prince, who was just waiting for our surprised responses.

"So you're an animus," I told him, and he nodded. "Like your two cousins."

"Yep. Fathom and Turtle know too," he responded. "Pretty cool right?"

"I guess," I responded. "But, isn't their like a limit to how much you can do before losing your soul?"

"Well, yeah... but my aunt's don't really care, they just want to be powerful and threatening."

"So your not going to tell anyone except us, your sister, and your two cousins."

"Pretty much, don't tell anyone. Okay?" Cel and I nodded, then he furrowed his eyebrows. "Where's Starflight?"

Cel and I exchanged glances, then the IceWing spoke up. "He's hungover. Don't know how it happened. Last time I saw him he was stumbling around in the main room, then went to his room. Haven't seen him since I found out he drank."

He gave both of us a slow nod and walked out of the room as Cel and I gave him a goodbye wave. As soon as he shut the door, I walked over to the couch, and turned on the T.V. to the news. It was currently starting, so it was going over the several breaking news topics. Cel sat next to me, and we started watching the news report.

"Welcome to Pyrrhia News. I am Storm, your host. Let's get started with the first topic. The media has risen the price to $100,000 to whoever finds out who GalaxyPlayer is. One of our reporters has evidence that this celebrity studies at Jade Mountain Academy."

I just stared at the T.V. while Cel just gazed nervously around the room. I looked at Cel with a frown: he was never this nervous about anything. I decided to shrug it off, the media was the bigger problem right now. I just sighed, standing up from the couch and going to the counter. Grabbing my keys, I made it to the door, where I was interrupted.

"Where are you going?" Cel asked me.

"Somewhere to be alone," I responded, not turning to face him. I could sense that he wasn't going to stay with that answer. "To my house."

"Kay," he responded, looking at the news. "Freakwave told me he was working on a new song right now, he's at the music department. Maybe you should visit him."

"I said I needed to be alone," I responded, opening the door. The hallway was quiet, which was strange. I could usually see dragons bustling around, some throwing a ball across the hallway and hitting the innocent targets, making it look like an "accident". Others would just bump into me with all their books and scrolls. It was strange for a Monday. I started to the stairs and easily made my way down the lonely passage. I exited the building and made my way to the Trion, but I saw a two groups of dragons gazing at it. I rolled my eyes at the sight: this was going to take a while.

As I made my way to the car, I noticed that the dragons had cameras and microphones. A SkyWing was talking into the microphone, facing the camera. I was about to yell at them to get away from the vehicle, but claws grabbed my shoulders and pulled me behind a Buick. I went to strike my attacker, but it was Cel with the rarest look I've ever seen.

His expression radiated fear all over. His eyes were wide pupils, looking over the hood of the car every few seconds. He was shaking the most I've ever seen him. His claws dug deeper into my shoulders the longer we stayed behind the car. After a few minutes of me struggling against him, I spoke up.

"What is it!" I practically yelled at him, and Cel looked up cautiously above the car, then sighed in relief as he looked back at me. "Just tell me."

"Not here," was all he answered, before grabbing me, leading me back to the Gold Winglet Building. He took me upstairs, our talons tapping against the stone stairs. Opening the door to the second floor hallway, he practically bolted down to the dorm room. I followed him in a less rushed manner, but was still confused on what was happening. After I entered our room, he shut the door and looked through the peephole, then locked it.

"Okay, what the hell is going on," I demanded, lashing my tail out, hitting one of stands over. The IceWing looked at me, then grabbed the remote and turned on the T.V., showing the current news. As soon as I absorbed the screen, my eyes widened.

It was the same SkyWing with the microphone that I almost confronted. My Trion was in the shot too, which made things worse:

I was so close to being revealed. "This is not good."

"Not good at all," Cel agreed, watching the television. I put my claws on my head, panicking.

I heard a knock on the door, and Cel put a talon to his mouth. I nodded and he walked slowly to the door, looking through the peephole. After a few seconds of gazing through, he unlocked the door and opened it. He gestured the stranger outside to come in, who revealed to be Waterfall.

I slumped. This is just perfect. She was gazing at me with a neutral stare, but it turned into a slight glare. I looked around the room nervously, but then noticed that she was closer than where I previously saw her. "Hey Waterfalll... what a nice surprise."

"So," she started. "When were you exactly going to tell me that you were GalaxyPlayer." She poked me in the chest with one of her talons, and I looked at her. She was mad, but I saw the betrayal in her eyes. "Or if you were ever going to tell me."

"I can ex-"

"Don't start it," she snapped, and I flinched back. "We were supposed to trust each other. It would have been nice to know that you were living a double life, possibly with another dragon." She was now glowering at me intensely.

I stared at her, wide-eyed with disbelief. "No! No, I would never do that. You know I wouldn't!"

My first response from that was a hard, a hard slap right to the face. I yelled out in pain as I stumbled over the couch. After a few moments, I heard a door open, followed by a long pause. I looked up, dazed, only to see Starflight just watching us. I looked back to Waterfall, who was just fuming.

"Or do I," she responded, taking threatening steps forward. "Why should I believe you now. Maybe you're just like Silt! Maybe you're just using me!" She then stepped away and turned to look at Cel, but I now noticed that tears were starting to stream down her face.

"Celsius," Waterfall began, causing the IceWing to step back. "Did you know about this?" Cel just looked at me, then back at Waterfall, and nodded. "Starflight?"

The NightWing nodded, but he kept his gaze on me. The SeaWing princess stomped her foot in outrage. "Who else knows about this ?"

"Your brother is the only other one," Starflight responded, and Waterfall just stood still, before turning to me.

"We were suppose to trust each other!" Waterfall cried, tears falling down her face. "Why didn't tell me you were living a double-life!" After she said that to me, she rushed out the door, crying.

"Wait!" I cried. "Waterfall! Let me explain!" I tried to chase after her, but Cel grabbed me before I could get anywhere. I tried to pry myself off, but it was all in vain. "Let me go!"

"It's just going to make things worse, Galactic," Cel responded in a strained voice. "You have to give her room to calm down."

"I-I can't," I stuttered. "I can't lose her!" I collapsed to the ground, out of energy. Cel let go of me and patted me on the back. Tears were forming in my eyes, but I ignored them. I just stared at the ground as my emotions roared, deafening the sounds outside my body.

This was the worst day of my life, and I didn't know how to fix it. This is the moment I felt my heart break into a million pieces.

(Freakwave's POV)

"Okay," I looked at Qibli. "You ready?"

"Hell yeah!" The SandWing grinned at me, and I returned the expression. Lighting feeling the chords of my guitar, I had a good feeling that this would be the time that we got the beat right to the song, or at least, I did. I was impressed on how fast Qibli learned the beat to the song. Now, it was time to shine.

"Okay. A one, two. A one, two, three, four." Qibli started beating the bass drum as I waited for my cue to start strumming. After about seven seconds, I started to play the guitar, and started to sing the lyrics to the song.

(Song: Believer [Parody]) (Author: Imagine Dragons)

First things first

I am through with how everything has been

I'm ready to attack and always to defend, oh, ooh

And always to defend, oh, ooh

Second thing

Second don't you watch me as if you were always me

I'm the one at the- damn it!

I stopped playing and sighed as I looked up at the ceiling. After a few moments, I looked at Qibli, who gave me a sympathetic look.

"Freakwave, we've been working on this song for only a couple hours," he responded. "Even though your good, not as good as me, there will be mistakes, it's just life."

"I guess," I responded, and the SandWing gave me a grin. I then heard a buzz and whirled around to see my phone's screen lit up. Apparently I got a text, and I looked at it. Not surprising, it was from Celsius. "Well, gotta go meet friends. See ya tomorrow?" Qibli gave me a quick nod as he started to tune his equipment. I placed my guitar back in it's case and closed it. Walking out the door, I made my way to the Gold Winglet Building.

As I made my way on the sidewalk, I noticed a group of dragons near Galactic's car. I frowned at the sight. That's weird. What are a bunch of dragons doing around the Trion? I squinted at the group of dragons, and noticed that some were holding microphones and others were holding cameras. Oh.

I started to speed up a little bit, just wanting to get out of sight, but I guess luck wasn't on my side. I heard talon steps behind me, and I glanced back, only to see a RainWing with a notepad rushing up to me. Oh great.

"Sir! Sir," she called out to me, and I stopped and looked at her. "Do you know who the owner of this car is?"

"No, I don't," I lied, but I wasn't worried: I was a great liar, but I didn't want to talk about it. It would take about half a day to explain how I mastered it. "I need to be somewhere right now." I started to walk away, but was then stopped by the RainWing.

"Sir, I need to ask you a few more questions."

I rolled my eyes without her noticing: reporters were always annoying. I put on a mimicked panicked expression. "I need to get to class, and my professor would be furious if I was late." After I said that, she nodded sympathetically and headed back to the group of newscasters.

As soon as she was out of hearing range, I sighed in relief and headed into the Gold Winglet Building. I rushed up the stairs and walked to Galactic's dorm. Knocking slowly, I waited a minute before the door opened. I was greeted by Celsius, who was silent. He then walked away with me following him, and I saw the room. It was out of order. One of stands next to the couch was broken in several pieces. There were a couple dents in the walls. The room looked like as if there was a fight.

The worst part was Galactic. He was sitting on the couch, his claws covering his face. I could hear him talking to himself and his sobbing. I never seen him like this.

"Galactic?" He looked up to meet my gaze, and I was horrified by what I saw. There was a bruise of his left cheek, and his eyes looked tired. "What... happened?"

"She found out," he responded, before running his metal claw on his head. The gears in my head began to turn. The next thing I knew he was breaking down. "I should have told her when we met. I was going to tell her, but the damn news ruined it!"

"Hold on!" I told him. "Tell me the whole story."

"Okay, it all started when I heard the news of my secret identity being close to being exposed," he started explaining. "I wanted to be alone, but soon found out that my car was in the middle of the news. After I figured that out, Waterfall came in and confronted me for living a double-life I didn't tell her, and she was pretty angry."

"The worst part was that Waterfall had a thought that I was with another dragon in my second life; I would rather kill myself than do that to her. She ran off, broken, before I could stop and explain to her."

I put the facts together and sighed: I knew what Waterfall was thinking, something that was ruined long ago. I began to pace around the room, only to receive confused looks the Galactic and Celsius. "Listen Galactic, it's not your fault. Her trust was ruined from multiple heartbreaks before you."

"What do you mean?"

"She wasn't thinking right, okay? Her mind immediately begins to think "why didn't he tell me?"

"But she never wants to see me again."

I chuckled a little, only to be greeted by a glare from the NightWing. "I bet you she's in her room, taking this hard. I also bet she wants this to be a big nightmare. She thinks that you were seeing another dragon, but her heart says the opposite. She knows you would never do that, but her mind is playing with her with all her other heartbreaks." I stared down at Galactic, who just looked at me, surprised. "You can fix this, I'm positive."

"I'm ready to do anything to help her."

I turned to the window and looked out of it. The news reporters were still there, but there were fewer of them. "I just need to get you two alone. Then," I turned to meet Galactic's gaze. He was in a mix of sternness, depression, and determination, which was confusing. "You two will get back together."

"Are you sure?" Galactic walked up next to me, and we both gazed out the window to examine the sight.

"Positive, but it won't be easy. Aunt Coral will want your head once she hears about this, but I know how to get inside."

"How?"

I pulled out my phone and tapped one of my contacts. The phone started to ring in my ear. "It's time you meet Riptide, the master of escaping the Queen of the SeaWings."

I am done with the chapter! I am so sorry guys for not being able to complete this sooner and for it's short length. I was getting lazy and confused on the plot. Please understand.

I will be posting a poll in about a week for these three characters: Qibli, Winter, Moonwatcher. The type of relationship will affect the story; please do not put your choice in the reviews, there will be a poll soon.

Stay tuned for more and I will see you in the next chapter.

Cya,

Zmike6