Hi guys, guess what, I'm not dead. Long story short, I lost all my writing for a while, and imp still getting it back but this is the next update, sorry if its not as good as normal. Now, this chapter is shorter then usual, sorry, I wanted to what I had out as soon as possible. Plus, it has my favorite thing in the world, cliffhangers. Anyway, I've realized that I'm turning into one of those writers I hate, the ones who never update, and I want that to change. My current plan is to get one chapter up every one or 2 weeks. That's the best I can do right now, so please stick with me.

Chapter 3: A new kind of love

~Starflight~

Why did this have to be so hard, I had stayed in the sandwing palace to get over sunny so I could be with fatespeaker more comfortably? And yet somehow I managed to realize something completely different. I had known sunny for most of my life and had been in love with her ever since I could remember, but I had only met fatespeaker recently. No matter how much I denied it, sunny gave me a feeling that fatespeaker wouldn't be able to give me for a long time. I really did want to love fatespeaker, and I did, just not as much as I loved sunny, and it didn't seem like that would change any time soon.

I didn't know what to do, and as that thought echoed through my head I finally realized what it meant. For the first time since the war had ended I was stumped. I was supposed to be the smart one, but since I had lost my sight I was becoming more and more helpless. As I tried to get my mind off that topic the thought got louder and louder in my head until it was the only thing I could hear. Growling, I turned towards the door of the guest chambers I had been given, only to be interrupted by someone knocking. I went to open it, but before I did I shook my head in another vain attempt to clear my head, emphasis on vain.

As I opened the door I could identify thorn immediately because of the way she pushed past me into the room. After a minute she finally asked, "do you know where sunny is?" I wasn't surprised she had come to me, I always knew where sunny was, and because of that it didn't take me much thought to answer. "She went for a walk with smolder." Thorn growled, "of course, why does she have to be friends with everyone. If she wants to be queen one day she'll need to learn to have enemies." I opened my mouth to say something in sunny's defense but before I could I heard thorn walking off. Probably to some other queenly event, I knew she meant well but in my opinion she needed to schedule more time to spend with sunny or even for herself, I know I would have in her position.

Actually speaking of which, I decided to do just that, spend time with sunny that is. It had finally dawned on me how long I had been here and that fatespeaker would be coming to see me soon. I knew, no matter how vain the attempt, that I should try a few more times to get over sunny before she came. And with that thought still in my head I walked out my door and into the hallway. Despite my blindness I was getting pretty good at navigating, and sunny had lead me around enough that I had a decent idea of where I was going. The first part of the trip was easy because the parts of the castle for special guests and such were close to empty. But as I started getting to the more inhabited parts walking became more difficult.

Luckily, it was well enough known that I was blind and people tended to stay out of my way, some even helped me with directions. As such it didn't take me very long to get to the courtyard where sunny said she would be. As soon as I walked out into the open I heard her calling my name, "starflight what are you doing here, your not supposed to be walking around without a guide." Sighing the thought passed my mind that she was wrong, there was actually nothing prohibiting it; she just wanted to make sure I didn't get lost, despite my constant protests that he was able to travel around by myself. But it's not like I put up much of a fight, not with her, so I just accepted it, "I'm sorry, I just got bored of sitting in my room with nothing to do."

Smolder, who I assume had walked up with her, made a sound like he knew that wasn't true. He, like some of the others who knew the dragonets well, was aware of my feelings towards sunny, so it wouldn't have surprised me if he found an excuse to leave. And as if on que I heard thorn calling for him, "Well, looks like a have to go. See you two around." Then I heard him fly off towards thorns voice. I was surprised when she had let him keep a job working for her, but he was quite knowledgeable about the sandwing royalty, outside of that I was pretty sure she couldn't stand him. As the sound of his wing beats faded away I felt a tap from behind me.

I turned quickly, surprised, but as soon as I did I was able to tell it was sunny by the cute giggle she made. She always seemed to enjoy using my blindness to play tricks on me. Suddenly her tail tapped me on the nose and I could hear her walking away, "come on, slowpoke." I followed her up to what I eventually discovered was her room. I was relieved when we got there because I could finally be alone with her, but as she started talking my relief turned into panic. "Starflight, what was the real reason you left your room." She said this so sincerely I tilted my head in question. "I may not be able to read you, but the face smolder made when you said you were bored told me something was up." Unfortunately, she had become quite the detective since the incident with those nightwigs, and as I realized that I would have to tell her the truth I was suddenly filled with panic.

~Sunny~

I didn't like doing this to him, and seeing him standing there stuttering made me feel guilty, but I needed to know. Smolder had explained to me about why starflight had stayed, not that I hadn't already known, but he showed me how hard of a time starflight was having. All I wanted to do was help him, and this was how I had to do it. In the time it had taken me to think that he had finally built up the courage to tell me, "I stayed to try and get over you," he mumbled under his breath. I had expected that answer and had already planned what I was going to say next, "and how is it going?" I asked as sincerely as I could so he would understand that I was trying to help him, but I don't think it worked.

Growling he shouted, "I don't know, ok," upon saying this he bent his head down and I could almost feel the emotion coming off him. I walked over to him and placed my wing on his shoulder saying, "starflight let me help you, please." This time my sincerity seemed to get through, he looked up at me sullenly, "why?" I slowly moved across from him and sat down before saying, "Look, I may not love you like you do me, but I still love you. Starflight you are like a brother to me, you are my family, just as much as thorn and stonemover and the rest of the dragonets. We may not share blood but we share a bond because of all we have been through."

He seemed more comfortable as I said this, more absorbed into my words, and now that I had his attention I had to get to the point. "You have said how much you love me, but there is one thing I don't get, if you have those kinds of feelings for me then why are you trying so hard to get over them?" He answered immediately, "I want to be comfortable with fatespeaker, and the only way to truly do that is to get over you." I smiled at his answer, I think all the time I spent thinking about how to help him were about to pay off. "Don't you see starflight, that is love and you know it. You do love her more then me, the reason you feel so strongly is because of the bond we have."

Now he started piecing things together himself, a large relief for me, "your right, its not just you I love, it's the other dragonets to, you were just my link to them, the source of the bond." His attitude changed quickly, and he practically jumped up from where he was sitting. As soon as he did get up he went over and hugged me, saying thank you into my ear. After that I took him back to his room, where he thanked me again then went to his bed to get some sleep, talking about how after he woke up he was going to go the rainforest to see fatespeaker. I shut the door to his room, and as I was walking back to the courtyard I noticed a thought hidden in the back of my mind.

As I focused on it I stopped, it was something I never thought I would feel after finally achieving this. At first it was just a hidden worry that my fix wasn't permanent which kind of scared me even though it was probably true, he loved me more deeply then that, but that is not what worried me. The next thought that came to me was the thought that maybe it was permanent, and for some reason that was the thing that made me stop dead, it almost terrified me. I needed to find out why, but just as I was about to go back to my room and think about it I saw queen Glory run past me. And as pressing as my own problems were my need to help took over and I followed her.

She ran out of the palace and out into the sand dunes. Luckily it was easy to see her because of the color of her scales, which were slowly changing from pink into a light green. I tried calling her name but she didn't seem to hear me, and because of her hurry I fell behind. As I finally got up over another sand dune to be able to see her again, she was standing if front of the portal to the rainforest talking to a nightwing. At first I thought it was deathbringer, but the dragon was too small. However as glory went into the portal and the nightwing ran towards the palace I could tell who it was.

"Fatespeaker," I called when I thought she was close enough to hear me. I saw her look to see where I was, and then run over. "Hey sunny, how are you?" I smiled as she came over; it was good to finally have someone besides starflight to spend time with. "I'm good; I thought you were supposed to be in the rainforest?" She smiled, "I was but I came to see starflight. Do you know where he is?" For some reason saying that she could go and see he didn't feel right to me. Instead I ended up saying, "He just went to get some sleep, you want to spend some time together while you wait for him." I don't know why I said that but for some reason when she agreed I didn't care. We went back into the main courtyard and sat on one of then benches so we could talk. It was just a simple conversation between friends, but something felt different to me.

As we were talking I began to notice why, that emotion was in the back of my mind again, but this time if wasn't bad. It felt, well I can't really describe it, it felt... good. No that's not right, more like amazing, and it was so strong it sent a shiver down my spine. As the shiver hit the base of my spine I suddenly couldn't hear her correctly, but my sight had increased, and that's when things started to go wrong. She looks beautiful,it's not how I usually would have described her, but the thought invaded my mind before I could stop it. It was as if I was in a trance, with that thought echoing throughout my head. It was almost like I wasn't actually in control of my body. Which I soon realized was true, because what happened next surprised even me, and I was the one who did it.

Before I knew what was happening I had leaned over and placed my maw against hers. It wasn't for very long, as soon as I realized what I was doing I stopped but it didn't change what I had just done. Suddenly the terror from before came back, and my attempts to explain myself came out as a jumbled mess. Finally the panic overtook me and I ran. However as I was doing so I noticed another emotion under everything else and for the second time today I stopped dead. As that emotion overtook my panic there was no mistaking what it was, my guess confirmed as a smile crept over my face. Then I realized fully what had happened, I had kissed fatespeaker, and I had liked it... a lot.

I thought a lot about this chapter and this pairing and this was the only reasonable solution I could think of. No matter how hard I looked Fatespeaker was the only person I found who was right for sunny. Yes they are both girls, and I don't know where you live, but here in Minnesota gay and lesbian marriages were just made legal and I fully support them myself. This is my way of showing support for those affected by the law. Also this is not a set in stone deal. this will evolve into something I hope everyone will like, but you cant please everyone, so if you do hate me for writing this I beg you to stay with me until the next chapter with these 3 as characters. And as always, stay tuned...