Welcome to the new chapter, this is probably going to be a simpler character-building chapter, the last chapter was more or less "Getting the crew together arc" I'm thinking there are going to be around eight different arcs to this story, each about 5 to 10 chapters long. I'm not going to get into what each arc is, that would be spoiling. If you are looking for OC character I am sorry but I will try to avoid those at all cost, I looked everywhere in the books for a royal Seawing guard and Snail is one of the few I could put into this story without it being too weird, she is a royal guard and I don't know why I even put her in there to be honest, at the very beginning of planning, Peril was just going to kill all the guards that were guarding Webs but I was like, You know what... you get to live because I need filler material. Get ready for a little surprise in this chapter. Anyways like always, I recommend listening to the YouTube playlist I have the url in my profile bio, I am listening to Wherever I May Roam by Metallica. If you haven't figured out yet... I like Metallica, enjoy the chapter.
They have been flying for a few hours know, they were on the way to the diamond spray Delta where they would camp out then fly to the nearest island and island hop their way to the Sea kingdom from there.
The dragonets have studied the map of Pyrrhia before but they still weren't very familiar with the area so they were having Snail lead them to the delta. Said dragon took a little pride in knowing that she was leading six of the most powerful dragons of all time.
The dragonets were in the back of the group discussing something very important while they were flying.
"Don't you think it is a little weird that there are six of us and not five, the prophecy said there would only be five." Argued Glory to the group. "Don't get me wrong I am happy that Peril is alive but the prophecy stated that one of us should not be here... I think there is something going on."
"The nightwing who had the prophecy probably just made a mistake is all, I am sure that it happens every now and then." Starflight tried to defend his species.
Tsunami just frowned at this. "I am not saying it wasn't, all I am saying is that we should at least have it on the back of our minds till it is resolved."
"We need to get on a more important topic." Clay said trying to change the subject not wanting an argument between his friends. "We need to discuss how we end the war."
Sunny nodded in agreement. She didn't care to much for how the prophecy said on how they were going to end the war. She didn't want to have to be forced to kill two of the sandwing queens if they didn't have to. "Ya if the prophecy has already been wrong once, why don't we just scrap the part where it said on how we end the war."
All the dragonets all agreed at this. Now it was just on the how. Starflight got an idea.
"We may be already starting a pretty good plan. It won't matter on who we choose to be queen if we don't have any support from the tribes." Starflight started. "We are already helping the Seawings buy getting their king back, that will definitely get us in their good graces, don't even get me started since apparently the queen is Tsunami's mother, we are sure to get their support after that. Starflight finished his long plan.
All the dragonets thought it sounded like a pretty good idea. "We will eventually have to meet the three sandwing princesses." Glory said.
"From what I heard, it doesn't sound like any of them would be very good queens, they all have their terrible flaws that I could see backlashing and just hurting the kingdom even more." Tsunami said grimmly.
Clay sighed "We will find out that part eventually, let's just get king Gill home for right now."
It was about to get dark, with the sun just on the horizon. They could just see the delta off in the distance, they were still about a day and a half until they got to the edge of the ocean. The diamond spray delta was huge, it had the biggest river system in all of Pyrrhia that stretched almost all the way across Pyrrhia going through three of the tribes.
They all landed in a big opening in the trees to set a camp for the night.
Clay just simply uprooted a dead tree by picking up the earth from underneath it and brought over to them and they broke it into a few pieces, peril poked the middle of it and it was almost instantly a raging inferno.
Gill and Snail just watched shocked because they never got to see Clay or Tsunami use their powers. Gill looked over at his daughter "Tsunami if Clay can control the earth, what can you control?"
Right after Gill said that it started to rain, the fire was about to go out but Tsunami got a grin on her face and turned to her father. "Why don't I show you"
Tsunami whipped one of her claws into the air and the rain around them froze and stopped falling.
The light from the fire that was regaining its size again was glistening off the rain drops that were frozen all around them. It was absolutely stunning because it looked like thousands of tiny little glowing diamonds were floating all around them.
Gill and Snail could only look around in absolute stunned silence at probably one of the most beautiful sights they had ever seen.
Once Gill got over his shock, he quickly turned back around to look at Tsunami "You can control water?"
Tsunamis grin grew even bigger "Yep, I have control of the water." Her smile faded just a hair bit. "Clay, can you please make us some shelter. I can do this all day but I would rather not."
Clay just nodded his head and slammed his back foot into the ground. Four pillars burst out of the ground around them startling Snail into surprise phocos.
Clay started to look like he was phocosing himself when he started to slowly lift up his paw. At first Gill didn't think Clay was doing anything until he started to feel the earth shake just a hair bit. Gill forgot to look up, when he looked up he was shocked to see a huge slab of rock floating above him and slowly lowering onto the four pillars. When the slab made contact there was a quiet boom.
Clay loosened up a little bit after being done and smiled "Done!".
Tsunami flicked her paw and all the raindrops in the makeshift pavilion went flying away like pesky nats. After that Tsunami loosened up too. Controlling a thousand tiny little pieces of water was almost ten times as straining to control as a huge wave.
The group all surrounded the fire, quietly enjoying the warmth the fire produced.
The silence was cut off when Glory asked "Who is going to take first watch tonight?"
Starflight just raised his paw and nominated himself for first watch. The rain was starting to slow down and the clouds moving out showing how bright the moons were out tonight by lighting up the woods around them.
Starflight got an idea, right before everybody goes to sleep, he was going to see if he could find something to eat.
He told the group what he was planning and started to walk out of the pavilion into the brightly lit night. He was only a few dragon lengths out of the pavilion when he started to stumble a little bit like he was suddenly tired.
All the dragonets watched him in confusion at this because they knew he wasn't that tired, he just nominated himself to look out for the night. They were suddenly shocked when Starflight just collapsed right where he was standing. "STARFLIGHT!" they all yelled at the same time scared for him. Dragons especially ones as strong as the dragonets of destiny.
All the dragonets besides Peril who didn't want to catch the woods on fire, ran over to Starflight trying to find out what was wrong with him. They looked all around him finding nothing broken or bleeding. The only thing that was different about Starflight was... his light gray teardrop scale next to his eye was glowing white now.
They tried to wake him us but he wouldn't move a muscle. They picked him up and brought him under the pavilion, and set him not to far away from the fire.
"This... is not good, we are still in hostile territory and Starflight is conked out" Clay echoed out what everybody else was thinking.
"What are we going to do?" Sunny asked worrying for Starflight's wellbeing.
"The only thing we can do is wait until he wakes up, the moment that happens and we make sure he is fine we get to the seakingdom," Tsunami said.
Gill was not pleased. "WHAT! We need to get there as soon as we can, Coral is waiting for me."
Clay didn't like that. "Quiet, the only reason you are even here is because of us, unless you want to go by yourself and get captured again, you are going to wait with us."
Gill was upset and walked over to the far end of the pavilion. Clay was still lightly growling and turned to his friends. "Everybody get some sleep, I will watch first then Tsunami will get next watch." Clay said with his bigwings tone.
Everybody just nodded and went to their own area to sleep for the night. Clay walked over close to Starflight's prone form and guarded over him in case he woke up and needed help while looking out for threats.
When it came time Clay woke Tsunami up and went to sleep for the rest of the night.
Tomorrow morning
Clay woke up with a big yawn and stretched himself out. He looked over to Starflight and saw he was still asleep. Clay just frowned at this. He looked over to Tsunami and saw she was starting to doze off.
He smirked at Tsunami "lazy claws," he thought to himself. He was just joking to himself, he knew she had to be drop dead tired from coming all the way here and not getting much sleep. He was going to let her sleep all she could for now.
His eyes quickly flipped over to Starflight when he saw him flinch in his sleep. Clay walked over to Starflight and he quietly pocked Starflight trying to wake him up. Clay was shocked when Starflight's eyes shot open.
Starflight shot up clenching his head. There were pictures flying through his head.
A giant dragon standing Infront of him and all his friends. A huge explosion and a flash of light. A group of dragons consisting of an Ice wing, nightwing, sandwing, seawing, and rainwing. The earth was rumbling and a huge dragon bursting out of the ground. And darkness. A lot of darkness.
The pictures were quickly gone and he was still having a killer headache. "What was that!" He thought to himself. He started to hear a voice "Are you ok Starflight?"
Starflight opened his eyes and Clay was standing Infront of him. "Ya Clay, I am fine." Starflight nodded "I just got a killer headache.
Clay sagged in relief "great, that's good" Clay said calmly "You collapsed last night when you started to walk out of the pavilion."
Starflight nodded, he could still remember that. He had just stepped out and his head started to feel like it was splitting open.
All the dragonets started to wake up and his headache suddenly got worse when he all heard them yell "STARFLIGHT IS AWAKE!"
Starflight's paws flew to his head again in pain. "Please don't yell!"
All the dragonets just looked at him in confusion. "We... we didn't say anything." Sunny whispered.
Starflight's eyes shot open bloodshot as he was realizing what was happening. He could hear their thoughts. Should he say something.
He was already feeling guilty already right after that thought. They were all practically brothers and sisters from where they grew up together, they would always worry about him.
Starflight was still hearing their thoughts and it was loud. Gill and Snail had already woken up and their thoughts didn't help either. Starflight slowly stood up and looked at the dragonets "I... I can hear your guy's thoughts."
Clay stumbled back in shock. "Wha... what, I thought you couldn't" he stuttered out in shock.
"I never have been able to... till now anyway." Starflight muttered out to the group.
Sunny smiled at him. "That is great Starflight. I know you have always wanted to be able."
Starflight was shocked that they weren't upset. "You guys are not upset, with me being able to read your thoughts there will practically be no privacy."
Glory just scoffed at that. "Ohh please, like we have any secrets between each other" She smiled faintly remembering some of the embarrassing things that they did as dragonets. "Even if you did here a thought that you shouldn't have heard, we trust you not to tell anybody you shouldn't."
Starflight gave her a slight smile thanking her for her kindness.
"Glory is right, don't worry Starflight, you know I trust you." Clay said.
"And me too." Sunny and Tsunami said at the same time.
"I am not going to lie to you, I don't know you all that well." Peril said. "But I guarantee you that I will learn to trust you too."
Starflight gave her a nod and a slight smile, appreciating her honesty. "Thank you, you guys... this means a lot to me." Starflight said.
Starflight's smile faded when he remembered another thing. "Guys one more thing."
Clay just looked at him and asked him "Ya bud, what is it?"
"I think I can see the future to... I think I can anyway, it was weird." Starflight said confused at his own weird dream he had.
"You can, that's awesome." Clay said quietly but exited, remembering about Starflight's headache. "What did you see?"
"I am not going to lie to you." Starflight said still confused. "I have no idea. First there was this big dragon, then a big explosion, a weird group of dragons who looked angry at us, and another huge dragon bursting out of the ground."
Clay and the rest of the dragonets looked just as confused as Starflight was. "You don't even have a clue what all that could mean, you are the smartest one out of the group."
Starflight shook his head. "Not a clue, I didn't recognize a single one of the dragons in that and I did not recognize where that explosion was at, all I know about the explosion was that it was big enough to blow up a whole mountain and that's fore sure."
Clay was suddenly worried "You said you didn't recognize the area, right?"
"It was definitely nowhere near here, I do know that." Starflight said reassuringly. "It was somewhere really dark."
Clay became relaxed at that. "Good, I can fight against a lot but I have no way to defend against that."
Gill suddenly interrupted them. "As interesting as all this is, can we please get on our way, my wife is waiting for my return home."
Clay sighed "Starflight, are you good enough to fly?"
"Ya my headache is starting to get better now, I think I am starting to get used to this mind reading thing." Starflight answered truthfully.
"Ok then, everybody pack up and let's get on our way." Clay said.
All the dragonets just nodded and packed up the small amount of stuff they had on them like scrolls. They were on their way again in just about five minutes leaving the pavilion behind.
It took them about three hours to get to the edge of the delta and they took a quick rest before they were going to start their way to the first island.
While they were resting Tsunami was standing in the surf enjoying the feeling of the ocean for the first time in her life with a huge smile enjoying the beauty the sea has to offer.
"So how long should it take for us to make it to the Sea kingdom?" Starflight asked the King.
If it was just me and my seawing guards we could be there by the end of tomorrow, but with you having to stop at an island every now and then it will probably take us a little while longer... probably the day after tomorrow.
Starflight just nodded to this and went to spread the news between the dragonets.
They all launched off four the first island that they could see way off in the distance.
Thank you for reading this chapter. I know allot of you are surprised that I gave Starflight mindreading and forseight. But if you go back to chapter to at when the dragonets were born, remember that clay had busted a hole into the roof of the cave where the moonlight shined down on the eggs so Starflight was born under the THREE moons, but I will tell you know, it isnt like darkstalker's powers that he got from the three moons where it made all of his nightwing powers strong. Most of the three moons powers went to mindreading to Starflight making him stupidly strong in that regard, his foresight powers are about average. Starflight's extra strong mindreading powers will come in hand in later chapters, it already showed a little bit by him allready being able to get over the headaches most nightwings get.