And we're back with another chapter. So I've created a new story, it's called Darkness Rises. Go check it out, I think you'll like it. And check out my other stories as well. Leave a comment about what you think, and so uh yeah, that's pretty much it. Let's get to it then.


Peril POV:

I slowly opened my eyes. Then the pain came, not too bad, but it was there. I looked down and saw my stitched up stomach. Ouch. I looked to the side, and saw Turtle trying to doze off. "On your left." I muttered. He looked up and smiled. "Nice to see you awake." He said. I looked around, but saw no one else. "I thought there'd be more waiting for me?" I said, and Turtle face-taloned. "Oh, well to sum it up, Clay and I decided to come and help, and he's in the room next door." Turtle explained. My eyes widened when the memories returned. "What about Ember?" I asked, and Turtle shook his head. "He disappeared after he fished you out of the water. Along with the Rainwing, but the others are returning home. That's good news right?" I nodded, then tried to get up. I nearly fell off but Turtle caught me. He quickly got me to my claws and got his healing stone out. "Thanks." I said regaining my balance. "It's me that I'm worried about." Turtle said rubbing his claws with his stone. I chuckled a little. Then a skywing came in, but he wasn't any skywing. "Oh Peril, you're awake." He said hugging me. "At least you're ok, what about the others?" Soar let go of me and smiled. "They're fine. Here, let me help you to Clay."

Soar led me to Clay's room. I peered in and saw Clay, awake and eating away. "Clay!" I squealed running to him. He was startled and dropped his fruit. I hugged him, well more like squeezed him. "Peril, my injuries." He winced. I let go of him. "Oh sorry. I forgot this is a hospital." He laughed at that. "So how'd you wind up in here?" I asked. "Well, you can thank my sister." Clay responded, "My sister thought dead." My eyes widened. "Wow, we both have a supposed dead sibling that's a trained assassin." He smiled. "Well, one thing that brings us closer together." He said while pulling me into a kiss. Then someone cleared his throat. I groaned. I totally forgot my dad was standing there. "Think you could tell Ruby that we're awake?" I asked. "Oh right, I thought I was forgetting something."

"Well, you never answered my question." I said after Soar left. "Oh, well I a bruised rib cage, and a really bad headache." We both laughed. "So, can I meet her?" I asked. "Oh yes of course, just need a little help moving." He shuffled off of the bed and slung his wing over my shoulder. I partly carried him all the way to were his sister was. After a few stumbles and trips, we finally got to her room. "Let me first, she trusts me." Clay whispered. I nodded and let go of him. He slowly opened the door, and looked in. Then he came out. "Ok she's asleep, so be quiet." I nodded and we crept inside.

Clay slowly closed the door. And quietly walked over to a mudwing almost the same size as Clay, but obviously a little smaller, her being female. He nudged her shoulder. "Crane." She didn't move. "Crane get up." He asked a little more loudly. After a second, she started to move. She groaned a little and slowly opened her eyes. "Morning sis." Clay said with a smile. Then her eyes widened. "Clay!" She said jumping onto him. "Oh my moons, I thought I'd never get to see my Bigwings." He laughed. Then she noticed me. "Uh, Clay. Why is fire-scales here?" She asked. "Oh right. Crane, meet my girlfriend. Peril." She waved, but was a little concerned. "She's your girlfriend?" Crane asked like it was a bad thing. "Yes, and I love her very much." Clay said walking over. "Clay wait!" Crane yelled. But Clay put his wing around me anyway. "How are you? You know, not burning into ashes?" Crane asked stunned. "Oh, my egg was a red one, meaning my scales are fireproof. So I can cuddle Peril as much as I want." Clay explained while cuddling me. I smiled. "It's true, plus he's the whole reason I am who I am today. Before he came along, I was a killer. A merciless, fire-scaled killer." I said looking down. Crane wanted to but her wing on my shoulder, but she couldn't. "Hey, I feel ya. I've killed so many dragons I've lost count. So we both relate. We're both known killers and we love Clay." Clay then grabbed Crane and pulled us both into a huge hug. "Thanks Clay, I needed that." I said. "You're welcome." Clay said with a bit of humor in his voice.

"Hey I just realized. The rest of your siblings don't know your alive." I exclaimed. "You're right. So, I guess we'll see each other in a bit?" Clay asked. "Obviously. Now go have fun." I said shooing them out. They laughed and then flew off to their home. I was walking to my room when Ruby crossed my path. "Oh Peril, already up and about. I didn't expect you to be awake till tonight." I nodded. "I had people to see and not worry them." I responded. "Oh, and turns out Cliff didn't want to go to Jafe Mountain just yet, so I had Skystrike go in his place. So far her letters say she loves it there." Ruby said. Then Cliff suddenly jumped on Ruby's head. "Hey Peril. Are you ok? I hear you got hurt." Cliff, still the little ball of fun and happiness. "I'm fine Cliff. It's just a little scratch. Right?" I made a small movement that said, "he doesn't need to know.' "Yes, just a scratch." Ruby assured. "Hope you get better. I no like scratches." Cliff said. "I'll see you later." I said waving. "Bye!" I heard Cliff call behind me. I rolled my eyes and laughed.

When I got to my room, I was surprised by what I saw. Ember, right there on my balcony. He must not have expected me back yet, cause he turned in surprise. He dropped a scroll and leaped off the balcony. I rushed over to see where he went, but he was gone from sight. I looked at the scroll. Thankfully it was open so I didn't need to asked someone to do it for me. It read:

Peril,

I know that you know that I'm your brother. I know you're my sister. But I'm still having a hard time believing it. My memories are tripping over each other and I can't think straight. It'd probably be best that you don't follow me. Not that I don't care for you are anything, I just need time to get my mind under control. If you still want to find me, you'll know where. I just don't want trouble.

Love, Copper/Ember

I say there for a few minutes, pondering what I read. "He needs help, that's what he needs." I whispered to myself. "Don't worry Ember, I will find you. And I'll bring you home." I said with a single tear running into my face and turned into steam.

Clay POV:

I flew on to the swamp to where my sibs were, along with Crane. Along the way we played a little bit, like a shoving each other, or seeing who could glide longer. She won, but I was better at strength. The small village of mud huts appeared ahead of us. We both had a race to see who was faster. I was in front, but I turned my head to see where she was. Behind me, but not far off. I turned back forward, but my landing zone was blocked by Reed and Pheasant. "Look out!" I called right before I crashed into them. We had an ok landing, until Crane crashed into us and we all fell down. We were all laughing.

"It's nice to see you again." Reed said hugging me. "Same here Reed." I looked over and saw Sora and Umber here as well. "What are you guys doing here?" I asked running over to hug them. "Well, we made our way back here, and it just so happens that Queen Moorhen was here." Sora started. "Wait, she was here? She didn't throw you in prison or something?" I asked. Umber then said, "Well she was actually looking for us, and apparently we caught her in one of her happy days, so she let us go with a warning." I smiled. "Man this has to be the best day ever." Then Pheasant asked, "Hey Clay, is this your girlfriend?" I turned and she was pointing to Crane. I laughed, "Oh moons no." They rest were all confused. "Then why was she with you half the way here?" Marsh asked. "Well guys, I'd like to Reintroduc, our sister, Crane."

Then they recognized her. "Crane!" They all screamed as they piled on top of us. We all laughed. "I knew you were still around. I just knew it!" Pheasant said happily. "The whole group back together." Crane said. "Oh yeah, turns out Clay was out Bigwings all along, but since he was taken for the prophecy, I took the role." Reed added. "I thought you look quite big." Crane said jokingly. "I think this calls for a mud bath?" I said. Then we all jumped into the nearest, muddiest spot we could find. "This is what we need every day." Sora said sighing happily.

"Well, you guys would say that, but there's still Peril for me." I said. They all looked at me weird. "Who's Peril?" Reed asked. "Wait wait wait, you're not talking about the Psychotic fire-scaled killing skywing that was at Jade Mountain right?" Umber asked. I looked down. "Yep, that's the one." Crane got up. "How about a wager?" The others got up and looked at her. "I saw that you guys have to meet her, and actually have a nice chat with her, without mentioning one thing about her scales or her being a killer." Crane said with a smile. "And if we don't manage to?" Marsh asked a little nervous. I decided to step in, "You have to spend the whole rest of that day with her." All of them looked at me wide eyed. "Bro that's perfect ." Crane said punching my shoulder. "Now that's a punishment. I love you even more now." I smiled. "What can I say, I know how to make things work out. Think of it as a bonding exercise." We all agreed and went back to relaxing in the mud.

Preyhunter POV:

I was on my way to the rain forest. So apparently the nightwings excepted Glory as their Queen. I didn't have any family, but I had some friends. Not many, but some. When I think about it, they're kinda like those siblings you never had. I kept getting hit by branches and vines. After a few minutes of hitting objects, I finally got to the nightwing village. Wasn't as great as it should be, but then again it's a work-in-progress. I landed at the front gate, no was stopped by some guards. "State you're name." One said. "Preyhunter." I said casually. The other looked at a list of some sort. "You're not one of the nightwings here." He said. "I was presumed dead, but I'm back now." I explained. They believed me and let me in. There was only two real friends that I had; Feirceteeth and Strongwings.

I looked around for a bit. Some nightwings gave me a look of disbelief. Some whispered, "Is that Preyhunter?" And others said," I thought he was dead." I just continued walking. It took me a while before I finally found them. They were just dozing off in the sun. "Hey guys, how's it going?" I asked them. As usual, Feirceteeth grumbled. "What now?" She said angrily. But her expression went from anger to perplexed. "Preyhunter? I thought you were dead?" She asked. And that alarmed Strongwings. "Preyhunter?" He asked getting up. "Yep, it's me. Not so dead after all." I said half smiling. Feirceteeth smiled, "Welcome back. And besides the constant rainwings flying around, this place is so much better than the volcano." I nodded and we just plopped back onto the ground.

Qibli POV:

I was relaxing in the Jade Winglet cave. Winter and Moon were hanging out somewhere. Kinkajou was wherever. Me, just chilling in my room, writing away in a scroll about our adventure. "Hey Q, what's up?" Said a voice all to familiar. "Well, took you long enough. What held ya back Rattlesnake?" I said, adding no feeling whatsoever. "Oh many things, but over the course of being an assassin, I've learn a few things." He said getting closer. I raised my tail just in case. "Really, like what? Killing, think you got that down long ago." I retorted. "Oh come on Q, I've learned to respect others. Even how to make others feel like they belong, but of course I'm still me." He said. He came closer. "Listen Qibli, I just want to say," he was right in front of me. "I'm sorry. For all the times I've ever hurt you. I was a bad brother." He looked away. "Would you forgive me?" I only looked at him in disbelief. "Of course I will." I said putting a wing on his shoulder. "I actually, in my deepest dreams, hoped that some day that at least one of you would come around." He looked at me. "Thank you. Now if you won't mind, I'll go see the others?" I smiled. "Go ahead. They need to know." He waved and I waved back. "And tell them about me ok." I called. "Doubt they'll like it, but ok." Rattlesnake called back.