Hello everyone once again! Happy dino month! So... just going to warn you now... there is a lot in this chapter. It was originally going to be bundled up with the last chapter, but that was agonizing to put it all together. I was wanting to write my first chapter that was over five thousand words, but I noped out of that one. I am going to be doing a q and A from all places that I put this. And just saying before I post this part... get a fanfiction account so I can actually answer you via message.
Q&A
C.O.B: I am still fresh overall, trying to match their character. I do it purposefully with the dod, but that's because they grew up with confidence from their powers. I plan to completely re-vamp this whole entire fanfic once I am done with the series. After I get more confident at writing.
ClearsightReader: I am actually going to cover that once we see Darkstalker, which won't be for a Long! Time! I am just going to say it now, he will be 10x more powerful than he was in canon. There will be no bars held back when he is in the fic. When we have a character that can read minds, future sight, and is an animus. I want a character that can shatter worlds. Not some pussy that gets beaten from a fucking strawberry. That's just lazy writing. I already have the "fight" planned out. And I know nobody could ever guess how anything is going to go out.
And that it for Q&A, the song for today is an absolute banger. I recommend listening to "72 Seasons"
Starflight walks up to a map that Queen Ruby provided the dragonets. "Allright everyone, gather around," Starflight said, getting everyone's attention. Everyone gathered around the table.
"We have decided to agree to help Ruby take out Scarlet, she gave us the locations where Scarlet's rebellion was placed, and there were three different locations" Starflight started explaining to the group.
Starflight looked over the map, "Scarlet seems to be spread out in three different areas, there is a camp filled with them east of the town, in a clearing in the woods below the town," Starflight said pointing to the map of the Sky Kingdom.
"Tsunami, Riptide, Reed, Anemone, Pheasant, Sora, Marsh, Crane, and Umber are going to raid the encampment, capture as many as you can,"
"Erm, not that I'm not flattered that you think me and the MudWing sibs think that we can take on a whole camp... but we don't have any special powers like you guys do," Riptide said nervously.
Icicle sitting in the corner cleared her through, "I don't like to admit this, but royal training only goes so far when you are fighting ten to one," Icicle said, brooding in the corner.
Anemone flashed him a grin, "I got that covered,"
Riptide and the sibs were now concerned, "What do you mean, you got that covered?"
"I was thinking last night, almost all of us except for you, Icicle and the sibs all have powers... so why not all of us have powers!" Anemone said excitedly.
"What?" Crane said, confused.
"That's right, we could be one big group that all have powers, all I would have to do would be enchant you guys," Anemone said.
"Waitwaitwait, you mean you're just going to give us powers, just like that!" Reed yelled out in shock.
"Yea, why not?" Anemone asked him.
"It's not that I don't want you to, I know that you're an animus" Reed tried to word his next words carefully, "If you have all this power... why don't you just bring Scarlet to us?" Reed thought of something else, "At that, why don't you just use your powers to end the war?"
Anemone sighed, "It's not that simple, to summon Scarlet to me, I would have had to meet her at one point in time, if I just say teleport Scarlet of the SkyWings Infront of me, I could open up a whole new can of worms," Anemone tried to think of a way to word this, "I could somehow summon Scarlet from a different time or a whole different Scarlet all together, to make sure that I would do everything right, I would have had to meet Scarlet so I would know who I was summoning" Anemone explained. "And for ending the war, it doesn't matter how I would be doing it, I would be forcing dragons against their will... that messed up"
Reed shook his head to show that he understood, "Sounds reasonable"
"So... how are we going to do this?" Umber asked Anemone.
Anemone gave him a smile, "What do you want?" Anemone asked him, putting him off.
"Erm... I don't know, this is kind of out of the blue?" Umber said nervously.
"You don't have to worry about it, it's not like I can't just change it later," Anemone said simply.
Clay walked up to him, "How about you give him a copy of my powers for right now?"
Umber looked up at him, his eyes brightening up, and looked over at Anemone, "That would work for me!"
Anemone gave him a nod, "I enchant Umber the MudWing to have the same powers as Clay of the MuwWings!"
Umber looked at Clay, "I don't feel any different"
"You don't feel anything till you actually use your powers, at least that's how it works for me," Clay explained.
"Ok... so how do I do that?" Umber asked him, starting to move one of his arms like he saw Clay do once.
Clay got a frightened look, "NOT IN HERE!"
Umber stopped what he was doing in fear.
"You don't want to practice in here, the powers can be quite... destructive," Clay muttered.
"You talking about that time you almost destroyed the-" Sunny was cut off when Clay shushed her.
Umber saw Starflight give Clay a dark look.
"-room where Starflight kept all his scrolls" Sunny finished, despite Clay trying to stop her.
"We agreed to never talk of this again!" Clay said embarrassed.
Umber and everyone besides Clay and Starflight giggled at Clay's misfortune.
Anemone cleared her throat, "All right, Reed, Pheasant, Sora, Marsh, and Crane, what powers do you want?"
"I'll take what Clay has as well" Reed started, all the sibs were agreeing with him, saying that they will all take the same. All except for Sora, that is.
Anemone looked to Sora, "Sora what do you want?"
"Umm... I would like to be able to control plants like Glory?" Sora said shily.
This shocked and flattered Glory, not expecting her to say she wanted the same powers she had.
Anemone nodded her head, "I enchant Reed, Pheasant, Marsh, and Crane of the MudWings to have control of the earth like Clay of the MudWings!" Anemone took another breath to finish the spell, "I also enchant Sora of the MudWings to have control over plants like Glory of the RainWings has!"
Reed and the rest of the sibs looked around, "Huh, your right... don't feel any different?"
Sora shook her head, agreeing with Reed.
Anemone turned to Riptide, "And what would you like?"
Riptide sighed before speaking, "I guess I can take controlling water like Tsunami?" Riptide paused before continuing, "I can see ways that I can use it with my training as a guard."
Anemone nodded and did the enchantment, "I enchant this dragon to be able to control water like Tsunami of the SeaWings!"
"Huh, your right... don't really feel any different?" Riptide agreed.
"Icicle, your next!" Anemone said, walking over to the brooding IceWing.
Icicle shot up in surprise, "You're giving me powers?" Icicle tried to say without sounding too interested, "You guy's hardly knows me,"
"All in good faith," Clay said, giving her a smile.
"So, what will it be Icicle, do you want to control water or something else?" Anemone asked her.
Icicle snorted, "An IceWing princess like myself wouldn't copy off someone else!" Icicle started to think for just a bit, she already had a pretty good idea on what she wanted.
"I would like to be able to use my ice breath to be able to create animals and other creatures that will do what I want them to, and be able to dispel when I want them too and also last as long as I want them" Icicle explained to Anemone.
"Fancy, alright then... got to word this correctly," Anemone said, thinking carefully.
"I enchant Icicle of the IceWings to be able to create animals and other small life with her ice breath, be able to control them and make them do what she wants, the life that Icicle makes with her breath should be able to also last as long as she wants," Anemone finished the spell and took a deep breath.
"Do you feel any different?" Riptide asked her in curiosity.
"No," Icicle said plainly.
Anemone walked up to Turtle, who looked like he was trying to not get noticed, "And what about you Turtle?"
Turtle looked up and saw that Starflight was giving him a look that showed that he knew. Turtle was grateful that he hasn't said anything yet.
Turtle took a deep breath before continuing, "I'm... an animus..." Turtle muttered.
Anemone's eyes grew in shock, not being able to believe what she just heard. She thought she was the only animus alive in the SeaWing tribe. She wasn't expecting what she just heard.
"What do you mean you're an animus, why didn't you tell anyone?" Anemone said angrily.
"Erm, I didn't want anybody to know," Turtle clenched his eyes shut before continuing, "I knew that if I told someone, they would be scared of me"
Anemone gave him a look that said, are you kidding me? "Your literally traveling in a group with arguably the most powerful dragons in the world, and you think that we would be scared?"
Anemone shook her head to get rid of the sarcastic thoughts coming to her, "Look, do you have any items that are enchanted that could help us?"
Turtle shook his head, "I got a few, I didn't use my powers very often," Turtle said sheepishly.
"Ok... so what do you got?" Anemone asked curiously.
"Ok, I got this rock that heals cuts, sores, and some cramps that I get," Turtle started.
"Sunny covers that," Anemone said bored.
"I got this piece of kelp that makes me go faster than Cerulean and Fin!" Turtle said, remembering the kelp.
"You enchanted a piece of grass?" Anemone said, now starting to see what kind of animus Turtle was.
Turtle ignored the rude remark, "I got a bowl that will copy anything that I put into it,"
Anemone raised one of her brows, "anything... what about dragons, this sounds like that could be a problem"
Turtle gave her a sorry look, "and you, I enchanted you,"
Now Anemone was confused, "What do you mean?"
Turtle sighed before continuing, "I am sure that you remember the animus test we all had as dragonets,"
Anemone shook her head in understanding but then got concerned, "WAIT A SECOND! You didn't use any powers when that happened!"
"Before I did the test, I already knew that I was an animus... but I didn't want the attention, so I kind of directed all the attention to... you," Turtle said, shooting his head down in guilt.
Anemone's face darkened, "What... do you mean?"
"I needed something to distract everyone so I could enchant the coconut to not work when I was going to be tested, so when the testers got to you, I enchanted you to be an animus to distract them," Turtle explained, fearing Anemone's reaction.
"You straight up gave me the power to do whatever I wanted, destroy the world for crying out loud... just so dragons wouldn't know that you were an animus?" Anemone said darkly.
Turtle took a deep gulp before continuing, choosing his words carefully, "Maybeeeee..."
Anemone snorted, "Dumbass"
Turtle was shocked, "That's it, I straight up gave you deadly powers and you just call me dumb?"
"What do you want me to do?" Anemone asked him, "Curse your name and hate you?"
"Well, I mean... Kinda ya?" Turtle said confused.
"I already called you a dumbass, you don't need to sell it to me," Anemone said smirking, "How am I supposed to be pissed when you literally gave me the power to literally do anything I want to?"
"But I didn't even ask, I just ripped out whatever future you had before you had powers and threw it away!" Turtle said guilty.
Anemone shook her head, "Well talk about this later, we got stuff to do,"
Starflight cleared his throat to get everyone's attention, "as interesting as all this is, we need to finish planning," Starflight paused before continuing, "Like I said before, Tsunami, Riptide, all the MudWing sibs, Riptide and Anemone, you are going after the camp that the rebels are staying in,"
"Me, Sunny, Turtle, and Icicle are going to go through the city to take out any hostile SkyWing in the area," Starflight said, pointing to the city on the map, "There are supposed to be a group of rebels that are held up in the northern part of the city, closer to where Scarlet is holding out,"
"Clay, Peril, and Glory are going after Scarlet herself," Starflight said looking to them, "She is held up in the old abandoned fort in the mountains north of the palace,"
Clay gave Peril a smile, "Ready to go make a friendly visit," Clay said sarcastically.
Peril rolled her eyes and gave him a smile, "Cant wait!"
"The raid on the camp is going to happen first, that way Tsunamin and the group can draw as many SkyWings away from the fort so Clay's group doesn't have a harder time," Starflight looked over the group to make sure everyone was getting this, "Any questions... no... ok then go out and start learning how to use your powers, we are leaving tomorrow morning!"
All the newly empowered dragonets walked outside and went into their respective groups with Clay and Tsunami leading them, Icicle wandering off just a little ways away.
The moment Clay's sibs get far enough from the house, Reed motions one of his arms like he saw Clay do once, with nothing happening.
"Why did nothing happen? I saw you lift up a bolder or a chunk of ground doing just that same motion?" Reed asked Clay.
Clay laughed, "It's more than just going through the motions, actually the motions matter the least," Clay explained.
"Well, how do you do it then?" Umber asked him.
Glory was getting along greatly with Sora. She already has a small vine coming out of the ground, slowly but surely.
"This isn't that hard," Sora told Glory with a look of wonder on her face.
Glory shook her head agreeing, "Ya, it only gets hard when you're trying to complex things with them, or wood... wood doesn't bend very well so it's like trying to move through water," Glory explained.
Sora nodded her head, noting what Glory was explaining.
Riptide and Tsunami were also getting along very nicely. Riptide was smiling while a coating of water was going over his claws like a glove.
"This is different," Riptide said in wonder. Tsunami just giggled at the sight.
Anemone was watching what was going on, sitting by with Sunny and Starflight.
"As fun as this is, watching them, I have a few items I want to enchant for the battle," Anemone said.
"What are you going to enchant?" Starflight asked her.
Anemone flashed him a crazy smile, "Something... shocking,"
Icicle was standing by herself, away from all the other groups, letting out a small blast of ice breath, trying to use her new powers. So far, she hasn't been able to make anything.
Icicle hissed in anger at the recent failed attempt, wondering what she was doing wrong.
Icicle heard somebody shout in happiness, looked over, and saw Umber cheering as he made a small rock pop up out of the ground.
Icicle was starting to get even angrier now. How could some peasant MudWing get it right before her, an IceWing princess?
She tried again, still nothing happening, "What am I doing wrong?" Icicle grumbled to herself.
"You're not thinking about what you want when you try to create something," Peril said behind her.
Icicle whirled to look at Peril, "I didn't ask for your help, leave!"
Peril scoffed, "Whatever"
Icicle turned back around, waiting for Peril to leave before she continued practicing.
This time when she let out a breath of frost, a small fox made from ice was sitting where she used her frost.
Icicle turned around and saw Peril giving her a smug smirk from where she was sitting.
Icicle gave her a dirty look and continued what she was doing.
"I don't need anybody's help, ever" Icicle muttered to herself.
And that will be a wrap for this chapter. Did you catch the fanfiction reference in this chapter? Icicle is pretty fun to write, being a snobby IceWing who thinks everyone else is filth beneath her feet. It's going to be really fun to get to write Winter, and I can see now why everyone enjoys writing fanfiction on him. The next chapter is going to be the battle, and boy oh boy... I don't think a single soul is going to be able to guess what happens in the end. I was going crazy when I was imagining the end when I was writing the rd for all these chapters. If someone could guess what's going to happen next chapter, they deserve a badge and a cookie all at the same time. Either way, it might be a hot minute until the next chapter comes up. Even though right now I don't have a job, I'm so busy with everything in my life. It might be sooner though, depends on how I feel. Adhd am I right?