Andromeda yawned as she sat up. Her eyes trailed over to the small calendar hanging on her wall, and she gasped as she saw today's date. "Today's the day!" She whispered to herself excitedly.

The NightWing jumped up, wobbling a little with the rush of blood to her head. She grabbed a nearby satchel and trotted over to her scroll rack. She paused, admiring her collection before grabbing one scroll, the only one with a gold embossed title.

She hugged it to her chest, taking a moment to admire the calligraphy of the title and tracing a talon along the length of it. "The Darkstalker," she breathed as she tucked it gently into a pocket in her satchel specially shaped to hold a scroll.

She looked over the scroll rack another time to make sure she hadn't overlooked anything she'd miss, grabbing a scroll on magic and another on Pyrrhia's most infamous dragons.

"Andromeda, come here right this instant!" Andromeda's mom called from outside her room. "Coming, mother!" Andromeda replied as she put one last thing in her satchel, a lidded pot of ink and quill tied with twine to a small sketch-scroll.

"What is it?" Andromeda asked as she brushed past the curtain separating her room from the rest of the hut. Her mother scowled at her. "Andromeda, you left paper all over the place! You need to clean this up at once." Andromeda cocked an eyebrow.

"Mother, that was you from when you ripped up that scroll-" Her mother cut her off with a glare. "Just clean it up and get going already. There's a pig in the kitchen if you're hungry." The dragoness stalked away with a huff. Andromeda ducked back into her room to grab a map, then trotted towards the kitchen for some pork.

After a few bites, Andromeda was full and ready to go. "Farewell, Mother!" She yelled back into the house as dramatically as she could, one foot already out the door. Silence was all that answered her, but she didn't mind.

After all, Andromeda couldn't think of a good villain whose parents showered them with love. Sure, her mother didn't hate her or anything, but every villain starts somewhere. And Andromeda knew exactly where her villain arc would begin. Jade Mountain Academy, the very place where Darkstalker, THE Darkstalker, had nearly taken over the world just a year before she had hatched.

Andromeda pulled the map from her satchel and took flight, obsidian wings glistening in the early morning sun as she beat them to gain altitude. Her mind whirled with all the possibilities. She was going to be the greatest villain this continent had ever seen.

She still had to go to school first, though. She hoped against hope that she would be in the Jade Winglet. That's where the action always happened, and it was those dragonets that had freed Darkstalker. Then again, it was also probably those dragonets who had figured out how to take him down... and do it.

You'd think a young aspiring villain wouldn't want to associate with the dragons who had taken down her hero (villain?), but the truth was quite the opposite. For her plans to work, Andromeda had to meet the Dragonets of Destiny, and eventually, the Jade Winglet as well.

Until she could properly meet all of them, Andromeda planned to sow as much chaos as was possible and make it known who she was. The Dragonets would probably try to reason with her at some point, which would bring them right to her.

Her plan was flawless. All she needed now was to get to Jade Mountain Academy. Andromeda did a flip as the Rainforest dropped away beneath her to expose some plains and in the distance, the mountains that would soon become her home-away-from-home.

She practiced her sinister smile in the reflection of a lake as she flew over it, stopping to get a drink. Andromeda experimented with different evil laughs, but none of them sounded right yet. She'd have to practice that more when she got to JMA.

For now, she took off again, winging her way towards the jagged peaks ripping into the sky. The more she thought about it, the more sinister the mountains seemed. They'd be perfect for an evil lair one day.

The young NightWing examined her claws, making sure they were sharp enough for threats. She grinned nastily when she found some red stains on them. "Jade Mountain Academy is in for a big surprise." She said to herself, then chuckled maliciously. She crinkled her nose at the noise of it. "I'll have to work on that," she sighed.