" Please Darkflame. Do it for me please. They'll stop me. You have to do it." Moon pleads.
I Glance down at the six molted red colored eggs I front of me.
" Moon, isn't there anything-"
" No!...No. This is the only way."
I look back down at the six eggs that hold six tiny little lives.
" I trust you to do what's right. Please. I can't stand to think of haven't to look at them everyday of my life. Take them." Moon says pushing the eggs closer.
Everyone one else is asleep. Moon's eggs where already a few weeks old. I had failed to find them a new mother.
Moon walks way from me leaving me to decide the fate of six lives. Six lives I had been interested in being a part of... But it doesn't look like by of that will ever happen.
Don't feel. They aren't alive. I whisper to myself. I lock any emotions away. Just as I do every time I'm forced to lead another raid.
Moon means more to me. There is no proof that these hatchlings are even alive after not being warned continuously by their mother. And they might be born wrong from being a wrongly paired dragon.
I look over the ledge that falls deep into the queens feeding area. I push the first egg close to the edge.
But their hatchlings. They haven't lived.
Then they have nothing to give up. I counters with my thoughts.
I nudge the egg over the rock, covering my ears. I don't want to know if it makes it or dosent.
Your no better then the Shade-lights who killed your whole family! Your killing innocent lives for no purpose!
But it's for Moon! I'm doing it for her.
I lunge forward pushing the rest over before I chicken out. I cover my head with my paws. When I'm sure I won't hear any of the eggs fate I let go of myself, openings my eyes.
Only too soon.
The harsh crack of one of the eggs smacking into the rock bellow travels up to my sensitive ears.
You aren't worth to live, you should toss yourself over that ledge with them. You deserve it.
I stand near that ledge for a while longer. Internally fighting with myself. Trying to decide if I should throw myself over. Tuck my wings close to myself and force then to stay shut as I plummet to the ground.
I decide not to, I have still to make up to Lightflame...
Later, six black flowers appeared, growing out of Moon's nest. They where molted with a dark scarlet on the black petals like they where splattered in blood. Being around them sent shivers up my spine. I ignored my discomfort around them and still picked them. I let each one float silently down to where the eggs lay.
They would have at least one act of memorial.
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No one asked where the eggs were the next morning.
Nor for any of the years to come.
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Life was now just a cycle.
Raid.
Fight.
Report.
Eat.
Sleep.
Repeat.
I rarely ever get to actually socialize. The Queen keeps me too busy. I've been here eleven. Long. Full seasons. I'm now at the age of thirteen full seasons. I'm no longer a hatchling in size compared to the Nightmares.
Hookedclaw is no longer with us. Captured by the vikings. Forced to live in a small rock room. I promised I would come back. He wouldn't die there like others had before him. It's been a full moon since I made that promise...
Lightflame still lives, He has become weak while living here. Not fed well enough. Firebird, I haven't seen my best friend in about a week. He has been working on a new plan on how to escape the queen. Every time the queen's voice pulls him back. Or she orders me to retrieve him or else she will kill Lightflame. Next time i'm sent out, I'm going to get him out of here. He can't avoid the queens whispering commands. But I can. I can save him. I can take him away from this deep hole. Where he is forced to watch dragons and other animals painfully die. He is stronger than he was when I first met him, but he isn't strong. He can't lock away feelings, he can't protect himself like I do.
Moon. I should help her escape too. Maybe the light would return to her eyes. Maybe she would return to her old happy, clumsy, silly self. I miss her. She hasn't protected herself well enough. She has lost some of her sanity. She has locked herself inside.
You need to save them. Sacrifice yourself. Pay back your debt,
"Find the unloyal one. He is in need of punishment. You will kill him, and bring back his tail for me to devour." The queen commands as if she had been reading my mind
"Your chance has come, now take it." The mysterious, crystal like voice rings in my mind.
I tense and jump into the air. I need to find Firebird.
So, if you haven't noticed, Darkflames a little mentally unstable. ( the way he kills six babies ergot much remorse after a couple seconds later. How he kills without a second thought or guilt. )
And hope your ok with the time skip of, well years. But what really would be super important that would happen? Sure the brutality of living in the nest, and the killing raids. But, I think you all already can imagine that.
And sorry about not updating in forever! I have no internet until Sunday σ_σ
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