New chapter let's go! The song for today is Metallica's "My Friend of Misery". I am saying it now, this song goes perfectly for the character that's being introduced in this chapter, I recommend a live variant of this song. Hope you enjoy the chapter, and I hope you review it.

The group was winging their way toward the Sky Kingdom, with their newest member in tow.

Icicle agreed after thinking about it after the party. Sunny joking that they "Caught em all!". Icicle agreed, knowing it wouldn't look good on her if she came back from being captured, empty-clawed. She decided it would look better on her if she decided to actually help them win the war. Glacier would be pissed, but it would look better on her for everybody that wasn't for the war. Icicle was already sure that her placement on the board was rock bottom, until she made it back anyways.

The dragonets were all talking sociably, the tips of Jade Mountain in sight. They all agreed that they would stop there for the night to rest before they made their way into the Sky Kingdom.

It was starting to get dark so they landed about halfway up the mountain, landing on a flat. All of them spreading out, setting up for the night.

Clay made a bunch of small huts, making stones sprout of the ground and forming small rock tents for everybody to sleep in for the night, it wasn't dark yet so everyone was exploring the mountain, looking at all the sights around them.

And that is what we see Starflight doing now, a scroll in tallon, while walking around, jotting down all the interesting things around him.

Starflight was currently writing about how the most common tree that grows in these mountains were the Pine trees.

Starflight was smiling, happy with what he was doing right now, admiring the sight around him and doing what he loves the most, learning.

Imagine his shock when he heard somebody in his mind that wasn't supposed to be there. It wasn't loud, so it wasn't close. But he did hear the single word in his mind "Dinner".

He didn't recognize who the mind belonged to, but he was cautious and started heading toward the way the mind was coming from. It was faint, almost on the other side of the ridge that he was on, closer to the main body of the mountain.

Starflight kept a lookout, wondering if he would see the dragon flying, figuring that it was just a SkyWing out hunting for some food. He couldn't tell what the dragon was thinking anymore, but he could still sense it.

It started to get stronger when he was almost to the main body of the mountain, a cave in sight. the thoughts from the dragon were a lot stronger.

"That was a good squirrel, I hope that Dinner got himself something to eat," The Dragon's mind said.

Starflight was confused, at the thoughts and where the dragon was at. Why would a dragon be way out here, waiting for another dragon called Dinner to give him a squirrel?

Starflight started walking into the cave, walking around all the stalagmites. The thoughts were getting clearer and clearer until it was like he could hear everything the dragon could think.

"The water dripping today sounds more lovely than usual," the dragon thought, confusing Starflight even more. Who has thoughts like this?

Starflight eventually made it so far down that there was no sunlight lighting the cave, having to let out spurts of fire to see where he was going.

Starflight walked farther and farther down, till he came to a dead end. "I wonder who this strange dragon is?" Starflight heard the dragon think, confirming that the dragon had saw Starflight.

"Hello, I know that you are there, my name is Starflight!" Starflight said into the cave, not knowing how he had missed a whole dragon down there.

"You are stepping on my wing?" the dragon said, close to Starflight.

Starflight jumped into the air scared, busting his head off the ceiling of the cave.

"Wha- where are you at?" Starflight said, rubbing his head, trying to get rid of the headache he has now.

"look down, young dragon," the dragon said.

Starflight looked down, and was shocked to see a NightWing on the ground, or what was left of one anyways. The dragon was covered from head to claws in stones that seemed to cling to his scales.

Starflight had no idea what he was looking at besides that it was like talking to a living statue, "Who are you?"

"I am surprised that you do not know me, I figured you were with Morrowseer, trying to find me," the stone dragon muttered, "My name is Stonemover"

"Morrowseer and I, don't exactly see eye to eye if you catch my drift," Starflight said to the stone dragon.

"I see..." the stone dragon muttered out, "then are you with the talons?" the dragon asked.

"No, but I got some friends who are," Starflight answered truthfully.

The stone dragon lowered his head in disinterest, "Then who are you, young dragon and why are you here?"

"My name is Starflight, I am with my friends, the dragonets of destiny," Starflight answered truthfully once again, censing no hostility from this dragon, if anything he seemed... almost nonexistent.

His mind was quiet, hardly producing little to no thoughts. It's a wonder how he even heard this dragon.

The stone dragon lifted his head in interest once again, "The Dragonets... but... it's a fake prophecy?"

Now Starflight was interested in what the dragon had to say, "What do you mean it's fake?"

"I was there... when the prophecy was planned out," the dragon muttered.

Flashback

A young Stonemover was jogging his way into the Council chamber, a major meeting was announced to all important dragons to attend as soon as possible.

Stonemover ran and sat in his chair that was specially reserved for him. Being the only animus dragon in the NightKingdom made him quite important.

Everybody else in the council quieted down when they saw Morrowseer walk in.

Even at a younger age, Morrowseer was a giant. He was destined to be important to the Queen with his size, strength, and mind. He was a gifted Dragonet. Everybody knew that his word was law and he held the will of the queen.

"NightWings, I am here today with something very important..." Morrowseer paused before continuing. "I had a... dream last night, that will lead us to a new glorious kingdom!"

End Flashback

Stonemover finished the story, telling him how Morrowseer said that it came to him in a dream, an image of dragonets leading them to a glorious new kingdom and that the dragonets would do it by killing off all the sandwings princesses. They planned for the dragonets to kill all the queens but Blister. And the NightWings would join Blister in an alliance and get rid of her after they have their new kingdom

Starflight scoffed, "Trust me, we have met both Blister and Burn, and neither of them will become queens if we have a say in it!"

Stonemover nodded his head, "Blister isn't the most... hospitable dragon, is she?"

"You can say that again!" Starflight exclaimed, "The first thing she does when she sees her, tries to take the Sea Kingdom by force,"

Stonemover furrowed his brow, "I thought they were in an alliance?"

"you're out of the loop?" Starflight asked him, Stonemover was literally living under a rock.

Stonemover shook his head, and laid it back down tiredly, "It's actually not that bad here, the talons of peace use my cave as a rest spot, I get the news of the war every other week or so,"

"Ohh, well I am surprised you haven't heard about the Sea Kingdom yet," Starflight said a little surprised.

"Me and my friends were recently a part of helping the SeaKingdom leave the war," Starflight explained.

"But you're not actually a part of a prophecy, it's all fake?" Stonemover asked.

"Look, I don't doubt that your right about Morrowseer making something up, but um... me and my friends, all of us have powers never seen before," Starflight said, trying to explain the situation.

"Animus..." Stonemover said, a little shaken.

Starflight shook his head, "Not animus, we have already seen what that's like, it's something completely different?"

"I feel sorry for you," Stonemover muttered.

"What for?" Starflight asked, wondering what he could be talking about.

"Having to see the curse of animus magic and its work," Stonemover said, sorrowfully.

"what's wrong with it, it was used to help a tribe in a major issue?" Starflight asked him.

Stonemover shook his head, "the issue is with what it does to your soul,"

Starflight shook his head, "Nope,"

"What do you mean no?" Stonemover asked him, "I am an animus, I should know," Stonemover said a little heatedly.

"Wrong, Anemone, the animus in our group found out it almost does nothing to your soul," Starflight said matter factly.

"What..." Stonemover said, wondering what he was talking about.

Starflight rubbed his still aching head, "Here ill just tell you the story,"

Flashback, back to the celebration in the MudKingdom

Starflight was talking to Anemone, remembering one of the scrolls he read on animus magic. "So, Anemone, may I ask you a question?"

Anemone gave him a smile, "You just did, but go ahead and ask another,"

Starflight rolled his eyes, "I was reading a scroll a little while ago, it was about animus magic,"

"What about it?" Anemone asked.

"Well, you have animus magic and all so... how is your soul?" Starflight asked her.

"Ahh yes that," Anemone nodded her head, "It's complete bullshit," Anemone said casually.

"What?" Starflight said, shocked at what she said.

"I read in a scroll that it might affect your soul too, reading about what happened with Albatross and Darkstalker and all that stuff," Anemone said, remembering what she read.

Starflight nodded, remembering the stuff of nightmares about the stuff nightmares that Darkstalker and Albatross did.

"So I decided to finally answer the lifelong question, does animus magic affect the soul!" Anemone said, smiling at how simple it was to find out.

"How did you do that?" Starflight said curious.

"It's so simple, I mean, I don't know how all the other animus dragons were so stupid!" Anemone ranted.

"Can you just tell me already, please!" Starflight asked desperately for the answer, it was such an interesting topic.

Anemone nodded her head, "I enchanted a scroll to tell me the information on how animus worked with the soul,"

Wow, that is simple, Starflight thought to himself.

"Imagine my surprise that the scroll said that animus has almost no effect on your soul," Anemone said, rolling her eyes at all the drama on animus magic.

"You put an "almost" in there?" Starflight asked her.

Anemone nodded, "Yep, it said that you would have to do a ridiculous number of spells in a really short time to really do anything," Anemone answered, "It says that your soul "refills" too quickly to do any harm to the user"

"What happens if you do too many?" Starflight asked.

"It said that you would be like an empty husk of a dragon, no emotions, no soul, and no going to the afterlife," Anemone said casually.

Shocked at that last part, "You want to run that last one by me again?" Starflight asked, his eyes the size of dinner plates.

"No going to the afterlife?" Anemone asked curious.

"Is that what the scroll said?" Starflight asked, reaching for something to grab onto.

"Ya?" Anemone asked, not knowing where he was going with this.

"Anemone, your scroll just confirmed the longest question in dragons' existence!" Starflight started to yell.

"So?" Anemone said, not really caring.

Starflight just let it all go.

Flashback end

Stonemover was quiet the whole time, listening attentively.

Starflight was finally done telling the story, "Yea, it was crazy learning all that stuff!"

Stonemover took a deep breath, "So, what your trying to tell me is that, for the last twenty years of my life, ignore the love of my life, never get to meet my unborn dragonet, I have forced myself to stay here, turn all of my scales into stone to "Stop" my soul from corrupting me, and it was all just a joke,"

Starflight was quiet after that, but finally nodded his head, "Dude... that's rough,"

"You don't say," Stonemover said, starting to cry. "Thorn... I am sorry,"

Starflight was quiet, waiting for Stonemover to calm down.

Stonemover started to talk again after a few minutes, "Starflight, do you trust this "Anemone" and what she said?"

Starflight nodded, "I do, she is one of my best friends, and a sister to somebody that is pretty much family,"

Stonemover nodded, "Very well," Stonemover started to take a deep intake of air, "Scales, I ENCHANT YOU TO TURN BACK THE WAY YOU ONCE WERE, AND BE RID OF THESE STONES THAT CLING TO YOU!"

It was like watching a rock to start crumbling to dust, all the stones that were stuck on Stonemover started crumbling to dust, showing his now graying scales, and his feeble frame.

Stonemover tried to stand up but couldn't hardly move, "NO, no more, I will not be trapped in this CAVE!" Stonemover took another breath of air, "I enchant my body to return to the shape it was in twenty years ago"

Now this was strange to watch, apparently watching muscles grow at a rapid rate was something else. It was like watching a balloon inflate, all the muscles in Stonemover's body grew at a rapid rate.

Stonemover tried to stand up again, this time doing it without any effort.

"May I ask you, what do you plan to do now?" Starflight asked him.

Stonemover gave him a confident look, "I am done sitting around and doing nothing, thank you for giving me this information!" Stonemover ran out of the cave, Starflight running after him.

Stonemover made it out of the cave first and launched into the air. Starflight knew it wasn't his business at what Stonemover did, so he just watched him leave, noticing that he was making his way toward the desert.

"Hu, bye I guess?"

On an island north of the mainland "Pyrrhia"

Morrowseer was not happy. His plans were not going the way he wanted them to, he didn't know where the dragonets were at, and now the MudWings weren't even in the war. He knew when to fold before things got ugly.

He looked to the advisor in his part of the palace, "Get me Deathbringer, there are some dragons that need to die..."

Such a shame too, it was a long con plan and now it had to be canceled.

Yoooo, can I just say, there was a little bit of spite from me in this chapter, it always rubbed me the wrong way that the animus dragons never did a "confirmation that it affected your soul". Bunch of idiots. I am sure that we all know where Stonemover is off two, I had a different plan for him, but I decided not to go with that plan.