Chapter 1
Cobalt waited for her friend Algae by the underwater hatchery. It was the most common meeting place of all dragons, being located at the center of the village. As Cobalt waited she started to think of her mother. She loved her mother, she would be gone for days getting Cobalt whatever she wanted, but thank goodness she didn't ask for much because she couldn't stand to be away from her for very long. Now her dad was a different story. He seemed like he didn't care for her as much as he should but she just assumed that was because of what happened to all the other eggs.
Cobalt grew up listening to the stories of her now gone brothers and sisters. There was a hatching of three, two boys and a girl, that got attacked by a shark while playing outside one day and another girl that didn't make it far past its hatching because of the sickness that went around a couple of years ago. Sometimes when she felt lonely she would talk to them like they were still here. Lilly, Pearl, Pomfret, and Marlin were their names, and she loved them all even though she has never meet them.
"Hello" someone's glow in the dark scales flashed, bringing her out of her thoughts. "Hey Algae, how is it going, anything new to report." "Tons" replied Algae looking around "but can we go to my house first?" "Sure" said Cobalt. She knew Algae didn't like to be out in public too often. It was probably do to the odd coloring of his scales.
Algae was a pale almost transparent green with very light blue eyes, and his glow in the dark scales worked half the time. No one knew what made him this way since he had no parents. The seawing queen found him somewhere outside the ocean and brought him back to her palace. She wouldn't tell anyone anything about him other than he's important to her. They became friends right away and since then they were inseparable.
Once they got to the farthest coral cave from the village they went inside. They came up to a pocket of air that Algae used as his house. It wasn't very fancy but it was cozy. As they sat down on some flat slag mites Algae said "OK, so in the library I found some references to some pale blue and green dragons in the southern part of the ocean, but the information dated back fifty years ago so I doubt they are still there." Algae explained. "It also said their paleness had something to do with what they was exposed to when they grew up." "I also found a scroll on deformities that have to do with color of scales all the way in the queens' castle two days journey from here, but I wanted to read it with you." Algae said as he pulled a scroll out of his satchel.
"WHAT?" said Cobalt. "How did you get the queen to let you take that from her library?" "I didn't say she let me take it" said Algae. "You're going to be in so much trouble" said Cobalt. "I don't care as long as I find out who my parents are" replied Algae hotly. "OK, if I can't stop you than read it"
"Hmmmmmm" Algae said as he scanned the scroll "here." When a seawing is born with pale or translucent scales" started Algae "it means the seawing…" "What, what does it mean" asked Cobalt. Algae looked up "the scroll is blacked out from there on" replied Algae. "Ugg" said Cobalt. "maybe if you told me where you was born we could figure this out." Algae just turned his head. He didn't like to talk about where he came from and Cobalt didn't want to pressure him to hard.
"Right, so we look for another lead" said Cobalt. "No" said Algae. "What?" replied Cobalt. "I thought I had it this time" said Algae, crying "I thought I was finally finding out where my parents came from." "Well" said Cobalt "Just leave me alone" Algae said as he dived into the water.
Cobalt looked into the water at the fading ripples left behind. No one hurt her friend like that. "I'm going to find out who your parents are one way or another" she silently promised.