Qibli's eyes squint as the blazing sun hits his eyes as he walks out of Thorn's tent. He walks out of the compound and takes notice of all the dragons that were VERY out of place. Especially the two IceWings that were in the group.
He could see one of the IceWings looked like he was practically melting in the sun and was annoyed at just about everything around him.
Qibli walked up to the group, "That's something you don't see every day!"
Winter turned to look at Qibli, already annoyed at the SandWing, "What?"
"A melting IceWing," Qibli said with a smile.
Winter looked offended and was about to say something but was stopped by Starflight.
"Was Thorn Sunny's..." Starflight hesitated with his question.
Qibli's eyes grew, how did this NightWing know, Thorn said that no NightWings ever really had mindreading and it was made up to scare other dragons. Well... this NightWing already knows what they are talking about in there.
Qibli nods his head, "Yeah, but how did you know already?"
"I can read minds, and Thorn was both right and wrong about NightWing powers," Starflight answered.
"How can she be both?" Qibli asked, baffled at the NightWing in front of him and he immediately started trying to make it to where the NightWing couldn't read his thoughts.
Starflight smiles making Qibli uncomfortable, he knew what he was currently trying to do.
"We recently had Anemone write down on a scroll why I seem to be the only NightWings with these powers and it said that to have the power's you have to be born under a full moon, and the other two make you stronger," Starflight started explaining, "During the time of Darkstalker, he did something to frighten the NightWings so much that they stopped putting their eggs under the full moons in fear of making another Darkstalker."
Qibli shook his head, "Geez, that's a bit much, wonder what he did to scare them so bad." Qibli paused before continuing, "You said that you had Anemone write it down?"
The younger SeaWing in the group nodded her head, "I'm an Animus!"
Qibli's eyes grew even more. An animus, he was in the presence of some of the most powerful dragons in the world right now.
Clay was wondering what Starflight had been talking about, "Starflight, what's going on?"
"It seems, Sunny has just found her mother," Starflight answered.
Clay was immediately happy for Sunny, "Let's go meet her!" he said while taking a step toward the gate of the compound.
Qibli held up a wing to stop Clay, "You can see her later, Thorn wanted to see her one-on-one first."
Clay deflated a bit but nodded, "What are we going to do while we wait?"
"Thorn wanted me to take you on an extravagant tour around are absolutely vividly colored and diverse home, the scorpion den," Qibli said in a very obviously fake bravado way.
Everybody got a chuckle out of that.
"Here follow me, we can start by showing you all the town square." Qibli said, leading the group around the town and showing off all the "Wonderful" places.
Along the way, Starflight noticed that it didn't seem like any crime was happening around them.
"And right here, this used to be where the old SandWing barracks were before the war," Qibli said while pointing to what was now a warehouse.
"Hey Qibli?" Starflight said, getting Qibli's attention.
"Yes, me dark scaled friend." Qibli joked.
"Every time that I would study the Sand Kingdom, it has always said that this place was filled with crime?" Starflight asked.
A thought flashed through Qibli's head of a female sandwing slapping him across the face and some younger SandWings started to beat him up.
Starflight cringed at the memory.
Qibli frowned at first, but then he smiled, "You remember Stonemover, right?"
Everybody nodded, who wouldn't remember the weird NightWing who was once made of stone?
"Well, Stonemover was Thorn's mate and Sunny's father," Qibli started to explain, "When he came back here, he immediately started using his powers to make the Scorpion den a safer place."
"Wait a minute, that NightWing is Sunny's dad?" Glory asked.
"Correct, at least that's what both Thorn and Stonemover said," Qibli answered.
"That explains Sunny's tail," Tsunami said with a smile. Sunny got to meet both her mom and dad.
"anyways, revelations aside," Qibli started back up his explanation, "Stonemover had cast a spell that made it so that if any dragon tried to break the law, they would be teleported outside the scorpion den for three days, and if they tried to murder or kill somebody, it would teleport them into the few prison cells in our compound." Qibli finished explaining.
"Wow, that's pretty clever," Tsunami said, impressed with the idea.
Qibli smiled, "Thanks, that last one was my idea.
Qibli continued the tour. Qibli never said anything, but Starflight could read from his mind that he was avoiding a part of town that he didn't want to go near.
"Qibli, I'm not trying to be rude, but why don't you west side of town?" Starflight asked.
"You're not being rude, that side is the only part of town that is still dangerous," Qibli answered.
"I thought you said that Stonemover cast a spell on the town?" Peril asked.
Qibli's frown deepened, "My camel spit of a grandfather runs a gang on that side of town, and somehow, he got ahold of something that makes him and his gang impossible to enchant or use animus magic on."
Anemone groaned, "Him too, a couple of days ago, we were trying to capture Blaze, and something happened that wouldn't let me enchant her."
Qibli frowned at that, "I wonder if they are connected somehow."
"Why would they be?" Starflight asked, "I thought that the Scorpion Den was against the war."
"My grandpa could care less about the war," Qibli shook his head, "whatever gets him more power or treasure, that's what he is there for."
The group continued through the town after that and eventually made it back to Thorn's compound.
Clay looks at everybody in the group, "Guys, go on and talk with the town Peril, me, Tsunami, Starflight, and Glory will go inside and visit."
Nobody complained, it would have been cramped if they all went in there at once.
Clay and the group headed on inside the compound. Being greeted by everybody who had obviously been told about the group by Thorn.
Qibli comes up upon the biggest tent in the compound and holds up a wing to tell them to wait.
"Thorn, we are back, I was just wanting to know if it was fine if Sunny's friends could come in?" Qibli asked.
"Yeah, I want to meet my daughter's friends," Thorn answered from inside the tent.
Qibli nodded and let his wing down, "If she asks, tell her I'll be in my room in the main hut."
They nodded and headed inside the tent.
Thorn was still at the table, but now with a smile, and looked way calmer than when the group first got there.
"It's nice to finally meet you all, Sunny has talked very nicely about all of you," Thron said, nodding her head to them.
"It's good to meet you too, the moment we found out that Sunny's parents were here, we wanted to meet you immediately," Starflight said, nodding his head back politely.
Thorn laughed, "You're the second only NightWing that I have ever been glad to talk to,"
"Why is that?" Starflight asked, even though he had a few good guesses from the thoughts in her mind.
"You brought my mate back, and you are Sunny's friend," Thorn started, "And... we both hate Morrowseer."
Starflight laughed at that, everybody else chuckling at that. "You don't even have to say anything past Morrowseer."
Thorn calmed down from laughing, "Sunny said that you all had questions to ask me?"
Starflight nodded, "I am sure that Sunny has already told you, we are trying to stop the war, and we were just wanting to know a few basic things, like who should be the queen of the SandWings? If any of the princesses should be the queen, if not them then who?"
Thorn nodded, getting serious, "All three of the princesses shouldn't even be allowed to think about ruling a town, let alone a kingdom."
"And we agree on this," Starflight nodded, "We decided about a week ago, that we were going to go around the SandKingdom, and find out what dragons thought about the war, and just about everybody that we talk to, think that all three are not fit to even touch the SandWing throne."
Thorn nodded, "The next question, I have no idea who should rule."
Everybody nodded at that, "And that's fine, we have been thinking, in the end, after everything is dealt with, we will just have the town leaders of the Sand Kingdom pick." Clay explained.
Thorn nodded at that, "That sounds way easier."
Starflight remembered what Qibli talked about earlier today during his tour around the west side of town.
"Do you need any help against Vulture and his gang?" Starflight asked.
This made Thorn sit up in her seat, "Sunny told me you all have powers and she showed me hers, do you think you can help with dealing with him?"
Everybody nodded their head, "Absolutely,"
"Then yes, I would gladly take your help in dealing with that pile of camel shit," Thorn answered. Thorn looked outside and saw the now dark sky, "But we can deal with that tomorrow, It's getting late and I need to process everything that has happened."
"That's fine, is there somewhere hear that our group can stay at?" Clay asked.
Thorn nodded her head, "Qibli told you about the hut, there is a room there with a bunch of bunks, go find him and he will show you where the room is."
I think that is enough for this week, for now on, I am going to update every week, next week will be Birth of Wings, and then the Week after is Wings of Power. Go check out God of the Multiverse's fics. He had been the Beta reader for this story and his stuff is cool.