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Peril POV:

I woke up slowly, feeling much better from last night. The sun was just rising, and I yawned. I looked around the room, everyone was still asleep. I quietly got up and went out for a walk. It was a nice morning, some mist across the ground, the sun rays passing through them looked nice. I found a small watering hole, and took a swig of water from it, but some of it evaporated. Then I had an idea, but not the best of ideas I've had over the course of our journey, or any journey really. There's only one dragon who's made it out ok, and that's Soar, or Chameleon, whoever he is, my father there. I went back to the clinic. "Hey Clay, get up. I need to tell you something." I whispered in his ear. He moaned a little and slowly opened his eyes. "What's wrong Peril?" he asked drowsily. "Nothing's wrong, I'm just leaving to go find some information regarding Ember. I'll be back." I said about to leave, but he grabbed my arm. "Let me go with you, you'll need help." he said, sounding more awake now. "I'll be fine Clay, I'm his daughter anyways, and plus one:He only trusts me, and he hardly trusts me, and two: you're still healing, get some rest." I reassured him. He brushed his snout with mine and said, "Just be careful." I nodded and went out. I took in the nice morning air, and took off to the one place he'd be, the first place I saw him, the valley with no name.

It took longer than I remembered, and it was mid-morning when I got there. "Hello?" I called. No answer. "If you can hear me Soar, or whoever you are as right now, it's me, Peril, your daughter." Still no answer, but I heard a splash, then leaves moving and crunching. I turned to the noises, and saw a dark green seawing with pale green under-scales, and he wore a large hooped earring. "Is it really you?" he asked. I picked up a fallen branch and it turned into ashes. The seawing removed the earring and he morphed back into Chameleon the rainwing. "So let me guess, your here to take my forms like how you took my scroll now?" he sneered. "No, if I wanted your forms, I'd have them already, and then after that, they'd be dust." I retorted but I kept my cool. "Ok, then why are you here?" he asked climbing the tree he was by. "I need your help." I said. "You," he snickered a little, "need my help?" his laughs were getting bigger and louder. "You, Peril," he sad, laughs getting even louder, "the second most dangerous dragon in all of Pyrrhia, needs me, her father's help, whom she already hates." his laughs got annoyingly loud now. "Oh that rich." he said almost falling off the branch he sat on. I rolled my eyes and sighed in annoyance. He looked up at me with a smile and I glared at him, and his laughing stopped all together. "You're not joking?" he said sounding down, and I shook my head. He got down from his perch and neared me, but kept his distance. "You want your firescales gone again, but with no side effects right?" he asked. I shook my head again. "Then what do you want?" he said gritting his teeth. "I need information regarding a certain group of killers, or to be more specific, my brother." I said maintaining eye contact. He gulped. "Oh, that. Well you're in luck, cause I still remeber that time like it was yesterday." he said. "You wouldn't mind if I change to Soar real quick, I'd actually fell like a better father, even if I'm not much of one." he asked. "Make it quick." I said getting impatient. He quickly slipped on a gold ring, and in a few seconds, there was my father, Soar. "So, if you want to find them, you need to look in," I cut him off, "The Claws of the Clouds, that's how far I've managed to get from our prisoner." He looked at me with awe and horror. "You captured on of them?" he asked. "Yes, he was rather new though, a couple years I think he was with them, but he was around seven or eight." I said, and he was a whole lot more interested. "Well, when I went up against them, there was only a mudwing, a sandwing, a rainwing, an icewing, and a fire less skywing," he said, "so who's the new guy, a seawing?" I shrugged. "No, just a nightwing, he wasn't all that interesting. The skywing that was with us managed to get him to tell her everything, and I think she was four or five years old from what I remember." Soar giggled a little. "That's gotta be embarrassing." he said trying to hold back a laugh. "Oh it gets worse, a crowd formed and she made loads of money out of it." I said, and that really sparked his attention. "Money?" he asked vigorously. "Yes, but we all felt like we'd stolen it and we returned it all." I said, and he slumped down. "Well, stealing's not a problem for me, but for you, that was admirable." he said. "Also, I've gotten a lot better with not hurting anyone." I randomly said. "Oh that's good." he said drawing something on a parchment. "And dragons are starting to praise me like I'm some hero after the Darkstalker incident." I said. "Oh that's even better. Even a dragon like me would do the same, but he or she would also avoid you." he stopped and looked down. "Hey, S...," I fumbled with my words a little, "Dad, I know you have a problem with treasure and all that, but I think you can be a good dragon. You and I, we're a lot alike. We both were used by Scarlet, we were made to look like bad dragons, and we're just trying to make our way back into the world." I felt so much like putting my wing on his shoulder. "You think so?" he asked turning around. "I think so, but yes. I can't make any promises though." I said. Then to my bewilderment, he hugged me. "Uh." I said but he realized what I was surprised about, and he let go of me. "Oh yeah, I made some adjustments to this form, I thought it was useless, but I guess not. I'm able to touch you now." he said almost taking his eyes off me. "Peril? C-could you, give m-me another chance? T-to be y-your father the r-right way? And I can't make any promises either." he said sounding a little saddened. I felt a twinge of pity for him, having been kicked out of your own tribe, then forced to work for an evil queen, Then rejected by your own daughter. His life must have been hard. I decided to give him his chance at redemption. "How about when this whole charade is over with, yes, I'll welcome you back." said, and his face brightened. "Really?" he asked. "Of course." Then he went and hugged me again, but I didn't flinch this time. "Thank you." he whispered. "By any chance you kept some of the money you got?" he asked. I laughed a little and shook my head.

Clay POV:

I couldn't go back to sleep after Peril left. I was really worried for her. Seeing her father after what happened in the past. I don't know if he'd even talk to her. I looked around to see if anyone was awake, in which no one was. I left a note saying Peril went on a flight, and I went for a walk. I exited at quietly as I could. I got outside and took in the fresh morning air. Then I trudged out into the streets. I looked around, the city was just waking up. I went unnoticed for a good few minutes, then a small group of dragonets came scrambling over to me, tripping on each other. "Clay, Clay!" one was said while the others were more like, "Can we ask you something?" or, "Can you have some fun with us?". I raised a claw to stop them. "Ok one at a time please. You're dragonets, but even I have my limits." A small seawing, around two I'd guess stepped up. "So how is things at Jade mantain?" he asked. "For one it's Jade Mountain, and things are going great." I answered. Then a sandwing shoved the seawing aside. " I'm Dust, I heard you saved Pyrrhia, how does it feel to be a hero?" she asked with great pronunciation. "Well, I do feel like a hero, but most of the credit should go to Sunny, she's the one who thought of the plan." I answered her. Then another seawing stood up on top of a mudwing, trying to get higher. "Don't mind her, she wants to be an announcer." he called, then he slipped off the mudwing's back. I brought him back to his claws. "Well, maybe you should encourage her, like how I encouraged Starflight when he became blind." they all looked up at me with glee in their eyes, then a skywing called them. "I'll see ya Clay." one dragonet called. I smiled and continued on my walk.

I bought a couple pears and ate them both whole. I looked over to a corner to make sure there weren't any assassins around, then I bumped into a mudwing. "Hey watch it." she hissed, then I met her gaze. "Oh, Clay." she said, still sounding mad. "Cattail?" I asked, and she nodded her head. "Well, a surprise to see you here." I said. "Same here, shouldn't you be up in Jade Mountain teaching your sibs?" she asked. "Well yeah, but they can manage, they got my 'other' sibs." She raised her head. "Ah yes, the other Dragonets of Destiny." she said. "So how are Reed, Marsh and Pheasant? Are they well?" I asked. "Oh, they couldn't be happier. But the one I'm really concerned about is Sora. Why is she down here and not in Jade Academy?" she asked. "Follow me." I said politely as possible. I lead her to an alley, and we continued from there. "Well, she's in hiding. She sort of tried to take the life of the icewing the had kidded our sister, Crane." I said, and to my surprise, Cattail's face fell a little. "Oh yeah, I remember that day. I almost lost myself as well that day, and Crane was the one I actually favored. Knowing we don't do parents." I put my wing on her shoulder. "Don't blame yourself, you are who you are. You can choose to care for us or not." I noticed a single tear running down her cheek. "I do care, I'm just afraid of what my sibs will think. Asha lost her life because she cared." she said. "They don't have to know. I've kept a secret or two from my sibs as well. And still trying too." she looked at me with disbelief. "You have?" I nodded. "Like what? I promise to keep it safe." I sighed a bit. "Well, I kinda, but not by much, I kinda prefer the sibs I grew up with over them." I said, and she was shocked. "I know, love the ones you grew up with over your biological sibs, I'm still having trouble with it. Oh that my other secret, I kinda know more than most mudwings would expect." She was still shocked. Then she started to sniff, but not a sad sniff, more like she was trying to smell something out. "Have you been with a female lately?" she asked. "Whoa whoa slow down. Yes that may be true, but unlike normal mudwings, I actually love her, and if we did have dragonets, we'd take care of them like real parents." I explained. "I feel like you're leaving out one crucial detail." Cattail said glaring at me. "Well, she's, different." I said sounding nervous. "Different how? You got me interested." she said leaning closer. "W-well, s-she's a, a." Three moons, I've never been this nervous, and I barely know her, mother or not. "She's a skywing." I burst out. She backed up shocked again. "And not just any skywing, she's the one who has the firescales and used to fight in Scarlet's arena." I said not being able to control myself. She was so shocked, she looked like she might pass out. Then she she relaxed and took a deep breath. "Clay, like you said, be yourself. Oh, and by any chance can you sometime describe to me what it's like to be a parent? I'm rather interested." she said. "Yeah, I'd be glad to." I answered. "I'll see you later." And with that, she walked away and disappeared in the crowd. Sure, I know mudwings don't do mothers, but moons that was as stressful as Kestrel's training sessions!

Turtle POV:

I woke up when it reached mid-morning. I stretched and noticed Peril and Clay were gone. I looked at my talons and noticed a piece of paper. It read that Peril went for a flight and Clay went for a walk. More likely both went for a walk, they just can't be separated. I walked out and saw no sign of either of them returning, so I went to find Clay. I walked around and looked around. All the normal. Not much has changed. Then I noticed a seawing. But he's not normal! He was a fairly large seawing, light green, and unmistakable green eyes. I tried not to look suspicious and followed him. He went into a building, and a short time after, I went in. We was nowhere to be seen, until the door close behind me. I turned to see the seawing with his claw on the handle. "I named you Turtle for a reason." he said in a low, but raspy voice. "I knew it was you." I said running to him and hugging him. "I missed you. Well, more like we all did. Things were extremely boring without you, and mom barely payed any attention to us, she was all too focused on her daughters' survival during the great war, and still is." he only pulled me tighter. "Well, that has to change now doesn't it?" Gill asked. "And did you say daughters, as in plural?" I nodded when he released me. "Yep, There's Anemone, who is the one mom guarded for that whole year. There's Auklet, she's only a year old now. Then Tsunami, whom you met in the arena. The Arena! Didn't Tsunami say you died?" I asked. "Well, when it comes to me, I'm not killed so easily. I faked my death, the loud crack heard throughout the arena was just a bone popping out of place, I never died, and it's also the reason my voice is so hoarse. And when the skywings dropped me into their 'killed pit', it was knocked back into place." he explained. "Wait, Tsunami also said that you were insane, and you dove straight for her to kill her." I asked, still having many questions. "Well that's a little more complicated. I was on the verge of going insane, but when Tsunami arrived, I noticed her spiral stripe pattern, and I knew, she was my daughter, and I had to keep myself together. I was merely trying to give her a hug and tell her that I was her father, but given my appearance then, I did look insane." he explained more. "You always know how to make things interesting huh?" I asked. He smiled. "So, you eventually heading back to the Kingdom of the Sea?" I asked. "Well, now that's the problem, I've considered it many times that I've lost count, but each time I tried, I thought it through and it ended up awkward and scary." he explained more. "I really missed your explanations dad." I said leaning on his side. "Hey, maybe after I'm done with our adventure, I can help you get back." I exclaimed. He smiled and said. "Of course. Now go run along with your adventure. I'll be here waiting." he said opening the door. I waved and he waved back. I can't believe he's still alive after all this time! Note this: first person to tell, Tsunami.

I got back to the clinic and saw that Preyhunter had woken up, and Peril and Clay had returned. "See your parent?" I asked. They both nodded their head. "Well, turns out that my father had a few possibilities on where Ember and the rest are hiding." Peril said laying down a map with a few X's on it. "Hey Preyhunter, which one is it?" Clay called. "I honestly can't remember." he said trying to look at the map. I saw Skystrike get up and smile. "I said I forgot! No more Please, I'm hurt enough." he squealed. We all sighed. "So first thing in the morning, we set out." Clay said. "But first some extra sleep. It's been a long day." I said falling on my back. We all nodded and we quickly fell asleep.


Wow, My longest chapter in history of my writing. Over 3,000 words. I'm blown away at my work, I hope you guys are too. Again, leave a comment, and check out my other stories please. Mystyc signing off.