//------------------------------// // Meanwhile.... // Story: Adventures Of An Animus Dragon // by Undertotem //------------------------------// "WHERE IS THAT FOREST DWELLING NO GOOD EXCUSE OF A DRAGON!!!!" A dragon with sapphire-blue scales and lighter blue underscales roared inside a sun lit cavern, her voice echoing through the stone walls. She then started angrily shouting out insults mixed with threats to the other dragon she was talking about. This was Tsunami, one of the Dragonet's of Destiny who helped stopped the War of SandWing Succession, the eldest SeaWing Princess and daughter or Queen Coral, and one of the Founders and Teachers of Jade Mountain Academy, she was currently screaming in an isolated cave, away from the students. (Tsunami) "We've been trying to look for him for the past two weeks, and we still have found no sign of him." A small golden dragon with moss green eyes said. This was Sunny, a SandWing Princess, as well as one of the Dragonet's that stopped the war, also one of the Founders and also the Head of Jade Mountain Academy. "We've even tried to contact Queen Glory through the Dreamvisitor to ask her to help find the missing student, since the last thing that your winglet did with Clay was go hunting in the RainWing forest." Sunny said with a sad voice as her ears were splayed back. (Sunny) "Can you not use the Dreamvisitor to find Stargazer?? Something should be done to find him." Lowtide said, pleading at the former Dragonet of Destiny to help find their friend. She was worried that something bad might have happened to her friend Stargazer. These times may be of peace, but there are still bad dragons out there who would be willing to take advantage of you. Her twin brother then hugged her with one wing and curled his tail with hers to reassure her. "Hey, c'mon, don't be sad, we'll find him, we just need more time." Hightide said, until now wondering, what the reason of Stargazer's disappearance is, and what caused it to happen. Sandstorm on the other talon was contemplating on what went wrong on him and his RainWing friend's friendship that caused him to run off into somewhere. Sunny couldn't find a way help relieve her students stress, she could not even help with the search since she was a teacher and that her students need her. This was not like the time when six students then decided to leave the school in order to find a revenge crazed driven tyrannical queen only to comeback bringing a colossal NightWing who brainwashed most of those that he met. No, this just one missing student, who disappeared during a hunting session with one of her friends. Sunny looked at the dragonets infront of her and felt pity for them, because she knew what it felt like to loose a friend, well, almost loose a friend, there still is the problem of if the RainWing dragonet is still alive. "Don't give up hope, things may be bad for now, but we will find him, we promise you that." She said. "But right now, you need to go back to your sleeping caves and rest for the night, we can discuss this tommorrow." The three friends were hesitant to move at first, but soon complied and walked towards their next class, only, carrying faces of sadness and disappointment. Away from the group, in a tunnel, a dragon was hidden inside, listened at the conversation that happened, the dragon moved forward a bit showing metallic copper-orange scales, with wisps of smoke rising from them. The dragon then decided to move towards another tunnel, towards the sleeping quarters of the students to find a particular dragon. Unbeknownst to the dragon, another dragon was sneaking around following the first one. Turtle was in his cave doing what every student in Jade Mountain Academy was supposed to be doing, studying. He has emerald green scales with hints of gold scale bits and brighter flashes of green for his underscales, He was currently doing his homework about MudWing hunting habits, but he stopped midway through as he thought about how peaceful life as become after the Darkstalker incident. He thought back about his younger sister and on how he manage to change her view in life during the the Darktalker incident, as well as help her become a better dragon and make her not use her animus magic for evil intent. He thought back to his life, a simple prince and son of Queen Coral with 30+ brothers, always behind the background, flowing along with other dragons, unnoticed, laid back and complacent, and happy to go along with what others want without much opinion. Until he told his mother that he wanted to go the school with different dragons, created after the War of the SandWing Succession, Jade Mountain Academy. And after that, his whole life changed, from being an unnoticed character from the sidelines, he was sent in his own adventure, along with five other dragons, that soon became his friends. (Turtle) But before Turtle could reminisce any longer, a loud yell came through the entrance of his cave, along with a hot sweeping wave of wind, startling him and making him jump and throw the homework that he was doing up in the air. "TURTLEEEEE!!!" The voice yelled. Peril rushed through the cave of her friend, yelling his name out loud, probably awakening a few students who were sleeping nicely. As she stopped infront of the mouth of the cave, her vision was suddenly blocked by a piece of parchment, that soon turned into ashes as it came into contact with her scales. Peril has copper-orange scales with bright golden veins running through her glimmering red and copper-orange wings. (Peril) Peril has been hearing news about the missing RainWing hybrid since two weeks ago and decided that she wanted to help with the search. But when she heard that the dragon went missing in the rainforest, she suddenly couldn't help with the search. Even her friend (crush/boyfriend), Clay, said that she should let the other RainWings and Queen Glory handle the search for the missing dragon. She could even remember the words that came from his mouth. "You have to let Glory take care of the search, you know how she doesn't like to have fire in the forest, because it might burn the whole forest. Just stay here and enjoy the company of other dragons, if not for them then do it for me, please? The words of Clay rang through her head. She was really annoyed to the fact that she can't go into the forest because it might burn down. And this was the most likely the third time she was reminded that she could not go inside the forest. She sometimes thought of why forests couldn't be made fire proof, and why they had to burn so much at the slightest ember. Peril then shook her thoughts and focused on what the real problem, and now that she found her solution, she went inside the cave of her friend and approached him, careful as to not step on anything flammable, including her friend. "Peril!!! Don't scare me like that! And why are you in my cave in the middle of the night!?!?" Turtle said as he shakily stood up due to the minor shock he experienced. "Weeellll~, I wanted to ask you a few questions, and see if you could help me with a few things." Peril said as she lifted one of her talons and inspected it, looking as if she was bored, hoping her green dragon friend would wonder if she was asking for a favor. The emerald dragon on the other talon was rummaging through pieces of parchment on the floor looking for the work that he has to finish. "Are you going to ask me to make the entire RainWing forest fire proof again?" He said as he looked up from his search, just to look at the SkyWing. "I already told you last time, you know I won't use my Animus Magic just to make an entire forest, fireproof, just so you can enter said forest. I already told you, I won't use my Animus Magic for selfish reasons, I'll only use it if I really need to, or if its something important." He said, then soon returned to searching for his homework, mumbling something about how much time and effort he put in it, only to be lost, if it was lost. Peril on the other talon stopped looking at her claws when Turtle spoke, but then raised her "brow" when she heard him say about him not using Animus Magic for himself, but for important stuff. Although she was still quite disappointed that her friend, who can do absolutely anything, can't make an entire forest fireproof. But she then set that aside, as she now focuses on her true goal. "Sooo~ not helping me find the missing RainWing from two weeks ago is not important whatsoever??" She asked, and the reaction that she got was what she was expecting. Turtle then froze on his tracks as he heard what Peril said. He heard about the missing RainWing, ether from other dragonets or the teachers due to eavesdropping. Turtle thought that the missing dragon was just lost or somewhere close to that, so he didn't pay much attention to it. But now that Peril brought up the topic, he now assumes that the said missing dragon is still missing. "Um..... Where are you getting at?" Turtle asked, even though he already knew what the answer was going to be. Phoenix was just minding his own business at first, until he saw a familiar dragon with copper-orange scales, crouched near an entrance of the tunnel, as if listening to a conversation. Peril, was his surrogate sister since she was the only one he could relate to, of not touching anything. Because just like her, he also has fire scales. But unlike her, he wasn't used as a champion in a SkyWing arena. Phoenix has crimson-blood-red scales, azure blue eyes, and when you focus enough on his wings, you will be able to see veins of dark orange that seem to pulse every few seconds, looking as if it was it was alive. Phoenix was curious as to why his sister was sneaking around the tunnels, so he decided to follow her. Lucky for him he's good at sneaking around places, due to him pranking and annoying his. He then was forced to move faster as his sister moved quickly through the tunnels, into the sleeping caves. He then saw her storm in a cave yelling a name, a name he was sure was one of his sisters friends. Now, Phoenix was crouched near the entrance of a SeaWing sleeping cave, listening to the conversation that his sister is partaking in, basically eavesdropping. He heard about the missing RainWing, but who's to say who didn't know about the missing RainWing, it has been the whole talk for the whole two weeks. Sure after a week and a half, not much dragons were talking about it, but Phoenix was sure that it was still in the others minds. Phoenix knew the RainWing, Stargazer, due to the fact that they were in the same winglet, but he didn't know him that much since he tended to avoid him, more specifically his fire scales. Sure they talk to each other, catching up on things if someone missed something, and even considered each other good friends, but the RainWing just keeps a good amount of distance between them since he couldn't handle the heat. A dragon that Phoenix does know who likes heat is an IceWing, who's also his clawmate. What Phoenix didn't know was that the SeaWing that his sister was talking to was an Animus Dragon. Sure he knew that there were rumors about the SeaWing princess, Anemone, being an animus dragon, but he never thought that her boring brother was one as well. He kept listening to the conversation, until his sister Peril put up a question, a really good question. "Sooo~ not helping me find the missing RainWing from two weeks ago is not important whatsoever??" Phoenix understood two things. One, his sister was planning on finding Stargazer. And two, Phoenix was certainly sure that Peril was asking the SeaWing to use his animus magic to find said missing dragon. "Um..... Where are you getting at?" He heard the SeaWing ask his sister. "Where I'm getting at, Turtle, is you can use your animus magic stuff to help me find the missing dragon." Peril said. Phoenix knew it, and he couldn't help but smile that his sister was really smart to use someone with animus magic to find the missing dragon. Animus magic does fix everything. "You could probably use that coral of finding that you have with you to find that dragon. I mean, how hard would it be to find the dragon with your magic?" Phoenix heard Peril ask Turtle. "Well, your not wrong about that. But, well I guess it would be that easy if I did use my animus magic huh." Phoenix heard Turtle said. "Sigh* Okay, fine I'll help you. Just, come to the cave pool after sundown tomorrow, then we start the search. And let's not tell it to Moon and Qibli, it's just a simple search, using my searching coral, nothing else." He continued. "Finally, I get to help with the search. As much as I like learning stuff about other dragons, things do get a bit boring when I stay here for too long." Phoenix heard Peril say, but what he didn't hear was the sound of claws walking out of the cave, and was then proceeded to be trampled upon, causing both dragons to fall in the collision. "AAAAAAHHHH!!" "AAAUUUGGGHHHH!!" Peril tripped and fell on someone, and knowing that she had fire scales, she immediately stood up and created some distance between them, hoping that she didn't injure the dragon too much from her active fire, and then proceeded to rant about dragons being in her way since she's just an accident waiting to happen. "Why in the THREE MOONS were you STANDING THERE?!?! Great, JUST GREAT!!! I'm going to be blamed again, AGAIN, for killing another dragon. Here I am doing my own thing, then a DUMB MOON BLASTED DRAGON decides to walk into me!!! I've already gone a long way of not killing anyone, not ONCE, in a loooooooooong TIME. And then this dragon then-, wait...... Pho???" Peril ranted, but soon stopped as she took a better look at the dragon she tripped on, her adopted little brother, Phoenix. Phoenix then chuckled nervously and started to tap two claws to each other, as he looked away, trying to avoid the suspicious eyes his sister was giving him. "Sooooo, what were you doing behind the wall and listening to our conversation?" Peril asked as her eyes narrow, and her electric blue eyes seemed to glow, as if trying to pierce the other SkyWing's soul. Phoenix on the other talon, became more nervous as this happened. He gulped at the saliva that was filling his mouth, and the sound was almost noticeable, then said, "I-i have a very proper explanation to g-give." He said as he chuckled a bit. Meanwhile, Turtle was looking at the two "siblings" and thought, was he listening to our whole conversation he had with Peril. Glacia was walking through the cave tunnels, carrying a reed blanket to cover herself from the cold. She nearly pulled up another all nighter in the library, if it wasn't for Starflight to tell her to stop reading and go to her cave to sleep, she wouldn't have done so. Glacia has ice-white scales along her body, and a few light ice-blue scales show here and there and the same color that runs along her spine, from the back of her head to the tip of her tail. She has small tufts of light blue fur that surrounds the wrist of both front and back talons. She also has fur at the back of her head that overlaps her spines and horns. She was walking towards her sleeping cave, sniffing in her nose, as if she has some sort of sickness. Apparently she was one of those dragons who have disabilities. In her case an IceWing who always feel like its TOO cold, her body is basically attacking nonexistent sickness, basically killing each other, thus making her immune system lower than the average dragon. This was found out by her older brother, Moraine, who is a healer who now works at the newly built Sanctuary found at the foothills of Claws of the Clouds Mountains. He was one of the several IceWings who was interested in living in Sanctuary. Glacia was just too tired and cold from reading lots of scrolls and being inside a mountain, so she decided to move faster and reach her sleeping cave before she would pass out on the floor. As she draws near her sleeping cave she could hear voices coming from the cave. One of the voices came from her clawmate, Phoenix. He seemed to be arguing with someone, but Glacia soon knew who he was arguing with when she entered the cave. It was Phoenix's "sister", Peril. But right now she didn't want to be concerned about their sibling argument and decided to walk towards her rock ledge filled with soft moss, and proceeded to lay into it, as she covers herself with the reed blanket she was holding. "If you two aren't finished squabbling, just keep it down okay? I'm pretty tired and I want to have a nice long sleep okay? Okay." Glacia said then proceeded to look away from the two arguing dragons and curled up. Only to be disturbed by loud shouting caused by the very two dragons behind her. "Like I said, you can't join the search, I'm not allowing you to. Just let the big dragons do this!!" Glacia heard Peril yell. "And I SAID!!!! I'M helping even if you don't want to, he's my friend!!! I'll search for him one way or another, AND NOBODY CAN STOP ME!!!! Plus I've heard that Clay told you to let them do the search, if you plan to do a search even if he doesn't like it, then I can do the search even if you don't like it." Glacia heard Phoenix replied. "NO I SAID, YOU CAN'T...." "NO I SAID THAT YOU CAN'T...." Glacia heard the two bicker like young dragonets arguing who gets to eat the first captured pray. And she was certain that the two of them woke up at most of the already sleeping students in this side of the sleeping caves. That is, until Glacia got fed up at their bickering that she yelled at both of them, if not waking up the rest of the dragons on their side of the sleeping caves, most likely waking up the other side of the mountain as well. "WILL THE BOTH OF YOU TALKING AIR HEADS QUIT TALKING, RIGHT NOW!!" Glacia yelled out loud and looked at the two SkyWings with a fuming face. "And if you don't mind, Peril, can you please, kindly leave our cave before something happens that he three of us would soon regret..... I'm sorry, let me rephrase that, leave now or if you don't, I'll make sure that you would regret your decision of not leaving." She said, as she narrows her eyes and leers at the shocked SkyWing, who looks at her with wide eyes. Peril on the other talon shook her head, then narrowed her eyes as well at the small IceWing. She didn't like it, she didn't like it at all. The fact that she was being ordered and threatened to leave didn't sit well with her. "You know~, I could just burn you into a black crisp right?" Peril threatened back at the IceWing as she touches a piece of parchment closeby, and soon the parchment caught on fire, leaving nothing but black ash and soot on the stone floor. Not that she was planning on killing any more dragons, because she hasn't done that in, like, forever. She's just showing that she's not a push over, and should not be taken lightly. Glacia on the other talon was not fazed my this, and only saw amusement. "Threats like that won't work on me. I may be fun to be around, but back in the Ice Kingdom, I had to dicipline dragons below the third circle." Glacia said, as she then brings up a talon and then proceeds to poke the chest of the Fire Scaled SkyWing, shocking said Fire Scaled SkyWing. "Don't even think that I can't do anything to you just because you have those fameous Fire Scales, because as a matter of fact, I can do something against you. So right now, I suggest that you leave as quiet and as peaceful as possible before things get crazy." She continued. To most dragons, this scene would be confusing and outright unbelievable. The fact that a dragon about four or five heads shorter than Peril, was telling her to move along and be ordered around. And the fact that an IceWing was touching the Flame Scaled SkyWing would probably be more shocking to others as well, since most of them knew that Clay was was the only one able to touch Peril, and he just tolerates the heat. As for Phoenix, he kind of expected this type of outcome, knowing that Glacia gets grumpy when tired, he chose not to speak for a while. Peril on the other talon just stared at the small IceWing with wide eyes, and when her words entered her head she just nodded silently. She then narrowed her gaze at the IceWing and then pointed a claw towards her. "We're not finished." Peril said, then turned around and headed out of the cave. Glacia was then staring intently at the cave entrance after the SkyWing left. She then sighed and looked behind her, towards the other SkyWing Peril was arguing with. She then proceeded to narrow her eyes at said SkyWing, and said SkyWing was chuckling nervously. "So...... Now that she's gone, why were the both of you yelling in the middle of the night when you're supposed to be sleeping at this hour. Phoenix?" She said, looking intensely at the other Flame Scaled SkyWing. Phoenix on his part was letting of steam, since he can't sweat, due to his sweat being literally evaporating as it goes out of his body. He then chuckled nervously and then spoke. "W-well~, I was just minding my own business, then -" Phoenix then told Glacia what happened before the noisy discussion. From Peril sneaking around the mountain, to the part where Phoenix was eavesdropping at Peril's and Turtle's conversation. At the moment he mentioned about a possible chance to find the missing RainWing through animus magic, Glacia squeed in delight at the news. "EEEEEEEEEE!!!! Is what you're saying is true, that we can find him, if we ask Turtle?! Ooooh~ this is great news!! We should tell the other dragonets in our winglet, they'll probably be ecstatic with the news, especially the twins and Sandstorm. I'm sure they'll like what we say to them." Glacia said in a joyful voice as she raised both her talons in the air and proceeded to grab the shoulders of the other dragon in the room. Glacia then gave Phoenix a big smile, that then made the SkyWing look to the side in embarrassment. Phoenix on the other talon still found it fun, amusing, and cute to find his friend act young, he always liked and preferred this side of Glacia than her serious commanding side, although he did not show it, in his mind he was blushing at the joyful and beautiful smile of her aimed at him. Ahhh~ please don't change Glacia. He thought. But his smile then vanished as he remembered the argument he had with his sister Peril. "But I doubt that we could do anything, Peril got mad when I wanted to help. Chances are, she would probably tell the teachers about the plan, and I especially don't want to be scolded by Tsunami." He said as he made a heavy sigh as he looked down. "Well~ we don't have to do it with them. It's not like Turtle is the only dragon who has animus magic." Glacia said as she shrugged her shoulders. "We just have to make the first move, and find another animus to help us. By then we would be in a journey to find Stargazer, and soon when we find him, we'll be back like normal." She continued and then gave Phoenix a cheeky grin. "But, how are we supposed to find another animus dragon that can help us???" Phoenix ask, confused as to where to find an extra animus dragon that would help them in their search. Meanwhile, Glacia grinned even more when hearing this. "Don't you remember? There's another animus dragon in the school that could help us. Although, I think one of them won't use their powers any more." Glacia said as she taps a claw on her chin. "W-wait, what do you mean that there's another animus dragon that could help us?" Phoenix asked still confused. "There's another animus dragon in the school??" "Did you already forget it silly? Turtle's sister, Anemone is an animus dragon, as well as Stonemover, but I hardly expect Stonemover to actually help, but maybe Anemone might help us, if we convince her enough and properly, she might help us find Stargazer." Glacia said as she clapped both her front talons together. "O-oh, right, I forgot about her, hehe." Phoenix chuckled as he rubbed the back of his neck. But then, Phoenix wondered about something, "But, how are we going to tell the others, they're going to look for him tomorrow afternoon, we might not have enough time to convince Anemone to help us, and even if she did, we still have to explain to the others our plan on finding Stargazer." Phoenix reasoned, feeling like the plan might not really work. That is until he saw Glacia with a thinking face, eyes scrunched up, while releasing a deep "hmmmm", and he was curious as to what the IceWing had in mind. "Aha! I've got and idea, I'll explain it to you tomorrow, the only thing I can tell you right now is to follow my lead once our classes start. Okay?" Glacia asked, although somewhat hesitantly, Phoenix nodded, putting his faith on the plan his friend made. "But right now, it's really late in the night, so I suggest we better start sleeping if we want to have enough energy for tomorrows adventure." She said. And at the mention of sleep, Phoenix gave a loud yawn and his eyes started to drop. "Now, go on to the rock ledge and let me cuddle with you, it was cold tonight, and its colder now. I don't want to get sick before our adventure starts." She said as she also gave a big yawn. Phoenix climbed up the rock ledge and curled up, as his tail reaches his snout. Glacia on her part, climbed up over Phoenix's body, and put herself between his arms for warmth. "Nite Phoenix" "G'nite G" Mudturtle woke up feeling restless, again. And for him that only means one of two things. The first one is that the day is going to be really slow, and the other one is that something great or amazing is going to happen that would knock the restlessness out of him. In his younger years, he learned to trust his guts, and somehow connected on how the day would go depending on how he woke up from his slumber. Waking up feeling giddy, means something bad might happen or the day goes faster for him, waking up restless, means the day would feel really slow, or something big would happen. He didn't know how or why the way he wakes up has any connection for the entire day. What he did know is that when he was young, when days turned to weeks and weeks to months, always, after waking up, to start the day, something always happens in his life that he couldn't explain. Mudturtle shook his head and stretched his muscles, his brown-blue scales on his back up to the joint of his wings, were catching sunlight from the vine window of his shared cave. The light seemed reflected off his sea-green scales and wings and absorbed by his slightly faded amber underscales. After stretching his body, flexing his wings, and grasping his webbed talons, he walked towards a rock ledge, which he considers as a table, and took his small pouch filled with some things that he owns. Mudturtle noticed that his clawmate was not with him in the cave, he wondered why, since both of them usually wakes up at the same time. But his answer immediately came to him with the sound of a large gong. Bong~, bong~, bong~ Mudtutle's eyes went wide as he heard this, the sound of the gongs meant that he only has a few minuets left before the start of his winglets group discussion. He ran as fast as he could, nearly toppling a few dragons on the way due to his size. He may be nine years old, but since he was the first born and the only dragonet in the family, he is technically a big wings, only with no other siblings to be with him. The second warning of the gong was heard and Mudturtle started to panic and nearly got lost due to the rush. "Why did I have to sleep longer?!?! Aaaahhhh~ I blame all that yelling I heard last night for waking me up!!!" He thought to himself as he passed through the entrance of the library. He then turned left on the third tunnel and found his destination. He did not want to miss todays group discussion, since it was Clay who was going to be talking with them. As he entered the cave, he was greeted by a delightful sight, his friends, or sibs as he would like to call them, although in secret, talking to each other. Glacia seemed to be talking with Pheonix near the vine window on the left side of the cave, as he saw the SkyWing nod his head. He then saw the twins, Hightide and Lowtide talk to Sandstorm, as they exchange words with each other. Then he saw his clawmate from the same cave he sleeps in, reading a scroll in her talons, Starbloom. For Mudturtle, she looks very beautiful and elegant. Her deep purple scales mixed with midnight blue scales cover her body. Different hues of blues dotted her wings both inside and outside. And a ridge of white scales crawl up from her talons to her shoulders. Starbloom then noticed Mudturtle enter the cave, she said nothing, but smiled towards him. Mudturtle smiled back at her, he always liked the way she greets other dragons, they always said that actions speak louder than words, and for the dragons that receive Starbloom's smile, is like having told to them that their the best thing in the world. But there was a reason why she doesn't say anything, some say that she's really shy to speak to others, instead she just shows it through actions politely, others say that she doesn't really like to talk to other dragons, and just gives actions when she's talked to. But in reality, she was born mute. She explained that she was born under one full moon. And that gave her mind reading powers of the NightWings. But when she was born, not even a single squeak was heard from her the moment she was born, but as she got older her mind reading "adapted" to her disability. She was now able to talk to others using her mind to compensate for her lack of voice. Mudturtle would forever cherish his friends, since he treats them as his brothers and sisters (except for Starbloom) due to him being lonely before he entered Jade Mountain Academy. He would always protect them and look out for them. But ever since two weeks ago, he couldn't help but feel useless and helpless. Every time he entered the Sapphire Winglet cave, and look at the empty rock ledge filled with moss, the regular spot where Stargazer always lays in before discussions start, he always felt sad that one of his friends (younger brother) went missing. The teachers (Dragonets of Destiny) said that some close dragon friends were looking for him. Even the RainWing queen was part of the search. But Mudturtle, couldn't help but worry about his friend. Mudturtle then sat down on one moss pile on the floor and dropped the scrolls he almost forgot to pick up from his shared cave. And in a few minutes, the last of the gong warnings rung through the tunnels, and a few seconds after Clay entered the through the tunnel. "Okay! I'm here! Phew. Okay so, I'm going to be checking on your self defense skills later on the day, along with the Silver Winglet. And as usual, Peril would help Phoenix as well. But for now, if there's something that you would like to talk about or discuss with for the moment before we do some activities you can do so." The strong, muscular looking MudWing said. His name is Clay, one of the Dragonets of Destiny. He has thick brown scales with underscales of glowing amber and golden colors. He is large and powerfully built and has warm hazel-tinted brown eyes. "Hey Clay, I have something in mind, or at least I thought of something we could do. But for it to work we need you to find us a certain type of pray, a 5 types of the certain flower in abundance, two cauldrons of water, a scroll from the RainWings about different plants if possible, some wood and some stones, and some food not from the Pray Center since I bet some of us here are kind of hungry." Mudturtle heard Glacia speak in a chirpy tone. He didn't know what was going to happen so he just went with it. "Uuuhhh.... Um, okay, uh, sure thing. But I would need someone to help me in finding the things that you requested, If that's alright?" Clay asked Glacia, confused as to what she was planning. "Don't worry, we'll help you in finding the things needed. But I have to first tell the others the plan, and it's going to take a long time. I wanted you to start the material gathering, so that after i explain to the others what I'm making, we could help with the other missing ingredients." Glacia explained smiling towards her teacher. The others might not know of it, except for Phoenix, that this was part of the Plan. And the first step to achieve the plan is to distract the teacher long enough for the rest of the plan to succeed. "Now go on, find the items, while I try to explain my bright idea to everyone else!" Glacia said happily clapping both her front talons. "Aren't you going to tell me first what you plan on making?" Clay asked the little IceWing. "Nope! Its a secret, and don't worry, you'll know when you return." She replied while grinning at the large MudWing. Clay on the other talon didn't understand what the reason behind the request, but he then thought that, at least the students have something to share to the others, so he decided to let it go for now, and promptly left the cave. As soon as Clay left the cave, Glacia waited for a few moments to make sure the MudWing teacher was nowhere near the vicinity. Then, she sprung into action, explaining to the rest of her winglet the current situation, as well as their plan on how to find the missing RainWing. "So there's a chance to actually find Stargazer with animus magic." Sandstorm said as he ponders for a moment why he hadn't thought about it for two weeks. "If we're going to talk to Anemone about this, we should convince her not to tell her brother, I heard that whenever she would try to enchant something or use her animus powers, she would have to consult her brother before further enchanting. We should probably say something to not get her talk to her brother. Threats would be out of the option, bargaining may work, but that depends on what she needs, and what she doesn't. A favor would probably hold us down in the long run, but its the safest route. A request would be a no-go, there's probably a low chance she's going to agree with helping us and use her powers for charity." He commented, and as soon as he stopped, the cave became quiet. He looked around only to see the other dragons look at him in utter shock. "Um.... What??" He asked. "Since when did you become perceptive and observant??" Phoenix asked as he tilted his head sideways. "What??? What do you mean perceptive??? I don't know what you're talking about. Well, maybe. I think Qibli is rubbing off me." He said as he rubs the back of his neck and chuckled. "Well you do make a good point there. I say that we try to bargain with her, if that doesn't work, we reason our selves as to why we need her help, and ask her for a favor. What I think the worse case scenario is that either we get found out, or she hold son to that favor." Glacia said, as she pointed out some things to keep in mind. "We finally have a chance to go look for him, but I suggest is to start the plan now." Phoenix said as he raised a balled up talon. "YEAH!!!" The other dragonets said. Hightite and Lowtide were really thankful that there was a way for them to help with the search. Mudturtle was excited to finally find search for his missing friend and see something interesting once in his life. Sandstorm was taking into consideration of the things that might happen before the search and already planing on how to fix or defuse the situation. And Phoenix and Glacia were grinning to themselves, now that they have a way to find their friend, every thing would be back to normal soon. "NN!!!!" A "voice" said, so soft, yet loud enough that the rest of the dragonets in the cave were able to hear it. Everyone then looked at where the sound came from, only to find Starbloom with a serene smile, while both her front talons were curled into a ball, and was slightly pumped downwards. Everyone, so to say, was shocked. Due to Starbloom always being quiet because of her being mute, but this is the first time anyone has heard her give a small sound of acknowledgement. Meaning it was the first sound that she made. Everyone in the Sapphire winglet was running though the tunnels as quickly as possible towards the Silver winglet cave, to talk to Anemone and convince her to help them with their plan. Soon they saw the cave to the Silver winglet and started to slow down. Phoenix for his part was behind the group as to not accidentally burn anyone he's running towards to. They had to move faster than their initial plan, due to their sudden distraction from the sound Starbloom made. On the way towards the Silver winglet cave, they have already decided that Glacia was the one to confront the young SeaWing princess, due to her bubbly attitude for obvious reasons. Glacia then entered the Silver winglet, apparently there was an ongoing discussion about whether scavengers could be tamed properly or if they would probably escape if you turn your back. Fortunately they were being supervised by Sunny, so they wouldn't have to make an elaborate excuse to borrow Anemone. "Hey Sunny!!! Can I borrow Anemone for a while? A few of us just want to ask her a few questions, it's just for our group discussion." Glacia said in a upbeat tone. Sunny was slightly shocked by the sudden voice calling her, so she looked at the entrance of the cave and found a bubbly IceWing that could rival a NightWing dragon named Fatespeaker's bubbly attitude. "Oh! Ummm.... Sure thing, I didn't expect that you would need someone else to accomplish your group discussion. Well then, Anemone, you are excused in the discussion for a while. After the questioning, do come back." Sunny said, curious at first as to why Glacia was in their cave, but then got her answer though. Anemone was then looking between the two dragons who were talking about her. Her attention was then caught when Sunny excused her in the middle of a discussion. "Uuuhhh.... Ooookaaayyy???" Anemone said as she stood up and headed towards the cave entrance. Glacia then saw the near white, blue dragon with light pink wings go out of the cave with unsure eyes. "Soooo.....- What with the rest of you guys outside?" Anemone asked, shocked seeing other dragons at the other side of the cave wall. "You said a 'few of us', don't think this counts as few. But what ever, what are you asking?" She continued. "I-I don't know..... I promised Turtle that I would tell him if I'm using my powers." Anemone said, having heard their questions and reason. Apparently they need help to find the missing RainWing, and in order for that to work they need an animus dragon. But since the group of dragonets were not allowed to help, they went behind the teachers back, as well as Peril and Turtle's back. But that also means that, asking help from Turtle, since he's an animus dragon, is out of the equation. So they resorted to the other animus dragon in the mountain. "We know that you have to, but, think about it, if you don't tell anyone, then no one will know, plus you're helping us find our missing RainWing friend that's been gone for two weeks." Glacia reasoned out. "...... I'm still not sure, I mean what's in it for me? You guys seem like you want to find him so eagerly, but what about my return? What do I get from this, other than I might get caught." Anemone said trying to get some compensation from their request. "Hmmmm...... Weeeellllll, once we return back after finding Stargazer, I could do some distractions and excuses just so that you and Tamarin could get your alone time and start bonding together!!" Glacia said happily. "Wha- Hey!!! Don't say that out loud!! And for your information, me and Tamarin bond pretty well and we know alot of stuff about each other." Anemone said in a matter-of-fact tone of voice. "I see you every day, trying to get close to her and talk to her, but can't. But when she talks to you, you make an excuse about something and then sprint to the end of the tunnel and look at her from a distance. Not to mention that you leave her gifts of different flowers everytime you you have the chance." Glacia replied as she deadpanned at the white-blue dragon. "W-well, thats because-" Anemone stuttered. While this was happrning, the other dragons were observing Glacia's "convincing" conversation with Anrmone. Most were at shock, now knowing that the young SeaWing princess has a crush with their resident blind female RainWing, althought a few of them already knew it due to some connections or just by observing. "Aaauuugggghhhhh!!!! FINE!!! But you owe me on this one G. *sigh* I'll help you find that stupid RainWing. But, you have to keep you promise, okay?" Anemone said, giving in to Glacia's "convincing" request. The other dragons around sighed in relief, finally ending the conversaition, now they can find the missing RainWing with no problems, but also they have to uphold their end of the bargain. The group of dragonets was now landing by the lake near the entrance of both the Mud Kingdom and the Rainforest Kingdom, after a very "sneaky" travel. The group have been traveling for a few minutes now, and the time is near noon. Meaning they only have a few more hours for searching, before they themselves are searched for, as well as a few more minutes before Clay notices that they are missing, and searches for them. "Alright, so we're here, the place where you four first entered." Anemone said as she points towards the SeaWing twins and the SandWing. She was standing near the tree line next to the lake towards the rainforest. Anemone then took a small smooth stone from the shore of the lake and took a look at it for a while. She then closed her eyes and was in deep thoughts for a few moments. Once she opened her eyes she then mumbled something. "I enchant the stone that I hold to find the dragon that the holder of the stone seeks by saying the dragons name on the surface of the stone. The stone then takes shape of an small spear head pointing to where the dragon currently is." Anemone whispered as she held the stone between her talons. The other dragons looked at Anemone as she enchanted a small stone. They waited until Anemone finished the enchantment. "So, is it finished?" Sandstorm asked "It's just like that right, you tell stuff to do things you want them to do, right?" "Yes, you are correct. From what I learned, from that eel faced NightWing "King", that animus magic is more or less commanding things, and other dragons, and making them do what you want it to do, because your word is law." Anemone replied "And here take this, just say the name of the dragon that you need to find near the stone and it would direct you to where they are." She then said as she threw the stone to one of the dragonets. Hightide yipped, as he nearly fumbled on catching the stone that was roughly the size of his palm. He looked at it then looked at the other dragonets around him. They all then nodded, and he then raised the stone near his muzzle. "Stargazer....." Hightide said and waited for a few moments, after that, he felt a movement in his talons and saw the stone soon take form into a small spear head. "Now just open your talon and let it balance on your talons." Anemone then said. "O-okay then." Hightide replied. The others were now looking at the small smooth stone spear head that Hightide was holding in his talons, looking in awe at the enchantment done. Hightide opened his talons hesitantly, expecting for the spear head to just fall from his clutches. But as soon as he held out his claws, he still felt the stone on his talons. When he looked at the stone spear head, the stone was balanced on his talons, pointing towards the forest. "So it points towards the forest, that, was actually expected since, you guys entered the forest in the first place." Anemone commented to herself. "Wait wait wait, so we have to head into the forest? Then what about me?" Phoenix asked. The others then looked at him questioningly, and for a moment they forgot that Phoenix has fire scales. Phoenix then looked at them, then proceeded to put a claw over his face as he groaned. "Uuuggghhh. GUYS!! I have fire scales, if I enter the forest, it's gonna burn down!!!" He explained, and as the others heard it, a sudden realization came to them, and an 'oh' reaction was then received. "Ohhh, right..... Um, well, hold on a sec." Anemone said as she took some vines from the near by trees and another small smooth stone from the lake. She then proceeded to enchant both of them, combining the two into one, making an enchanted necklace that would only work for dragons who have fire scales, for any dragon with fire scales were to wear the enchanted necklace would make them control the flames in their scales. "Okay, here, wear this. And don't worry about burning it, it's immune to fire so you could take it on or off if you want." Anemone said as she tossed the necklace to the SkyWing. "I made it so that you can control your fire scales mentally, so that you won't have to speak some fancy words just to turn it off." She continued. Phoenix caught the necklace, and true to her words, the vines didn't erupt in flames. He then wore the necklace clumsily as it wouldn't go through his long horns. But when he did get it to rest on his neck, he then followed Anemone's directions, and mentally told his fire scales to disappear, like telling another dragon to properly leave the cave. A few trial and errors occurred until he successfully controlled it to the point that his scales only emits a higher temperature that normal that it would probably only burn you through prolonged exposure, but not high enough to alight things on fire but heat them up. "Okay, so this is pretty cool, hehehe see what I did there......" He joked, only to get stares from the other dragons. "O-okay, fine, let's just find Stargazer in the forest. Hightide, come on, move!!! You have the enchanted tracking stone so start tracking!!!" He said, as he tried to change the subject to avoid his failed joke and pushed the SeaWing towards the forest. Hightide on the other claw yelped at the sudden heat that reached his back, and was then pushed forward into the forest. "Hey! Wait for me!!" Lowtide yelled as she was left behind by his brother. "I'm gonna make sure that nothing bad happens to them." Sandstorm said as he hurried towards the dragons who entered the forest. "I'm, uuuhhhh, gonna follow them. Yeah, I'll just follow them." Mudturtle said as he hesitantly left the last three dragons remaining. "Huh, well I guess that that's our time to find him. Thanks again for helping us, we owe you one. Hehehe." Glacia said and giggled. "Yeah sure, but just remember the deal you made when you guys get back okay?" Anemone replied as she giggled with the small IceWing. "I'm gonna go now!!" Glacia yelled as she entered the forest. "Stay safe!!!" Anemone yelled back. The only ones that are left near the lake was Starbloom and Anemone. The mute NightWing then looked at Anemone for a moment. Anemone then regarded at the gaze of the silent NightWing and spoke out of concern. "Um, if you don't hurry they might leave you..... Is there something else that you need?" Anemone asked the NightWing that kept staring at her. The NightWing then shook her head, then something unexpected happened between Anemone and the other dragon, that shocked the SeaWing tto the core. "No, there is nothing else I need from you. I just would like to thank you for helping us find our friend. Although, I do have a small favor, please do not tell anyone what I can do, I feel like they are not ready to learn about me yet." A voice spoke in Anemone's head shocking her. Anemone on the other talon looked around finding the source of the voice, questioning as to what happened and who did it. Only to find Starbloom looking at her and giving her a genuine smile. "W-wait was that y-you???" Anemone said, only to receive no reply, as the NightWing flew towards the forest, looking back for a while and waving good bye to the SeaWing and promptly left the SeaWing to herself. Anemone sat near the lake in silence, the water hitting her back talons and tail, as she thought about what just happened between her and Starbloom. The words left to her by the NightWing, repeating through her head. I do have a small favor, please do not tell anyone what I can do, I feel like they are not ready to learn about me yet. Who really was she? What did she do to her? What happened between them? Were the questions that were running through her mind, trying to piece together what she knew about the mute NightWing. Her thoughts were then interrupted by a loud roar that made her jump a few talons length away from the ground. A roar that she was very familiar with; her sister. "ANEMONE!!!!!" A SkyWing, two SeaWings, and a SandWing were waiting in a clearing for their friends. It took them a few minutes to find Mudturtle, due to him looking like a small lake covered by trees in a distance. In a few minutes they quickly found a white dragon run through the forest. And lastly Starbloom managed to find her way towards the other dragons who were waiting in the clearing. The group of dragonets walked towards where the stone spear head pointed, marching through the large expanse of trees and shrubbery. They followed the directions of the stone spear as it curves left and right as they reach a turn of the "tracks" that they follow. Soon after a long walk, the "tracks" then led them towards a large sycamore tree, with different shades of pink, blue, and red flowers sprouting in between the trees leaves, and long vines hanging on the branches of the tree. The tree almost looked sacred, as it rested on a clear, near still, shallow lake, with a few reeds with beautiful white flowers, as well as flowers floating gently on the shallow lake. The lake had some sort of floating lights surrounding the tree, that reminded Glacia about The Gift of Light, or The Moon Globe Tree back in the Ice Kingdom. The tree looked out of place among the other trees that surround it, but that is what made the place unique. The dragonets were at awe as they saw this place and carefully tread through the shallow lake. Every dragonet was oblivious to the stone spear head, as it spins uncontrollably, except for Hightide, who noticed the stone start to move again. "Uuuuuuhhhhhhh....... Guys.... I think you need to see this." Hightide said, unsure as to what was happening to the stone that was on his palm. The others looked at him then looked at the stone that was spinning out of control. The spin goes to the left, then quickly to the right, and then keeps alternating at random times. They honestly did not know what to make of it. "I~ think that that means were near where Stargazer is, or.... at least...... was." Sandstorm said as he looked around. He took note that this place was undoubtedly beautiful, enchanting even. But something told him that there was more to the place they are in. "Let's spread out, circle the whole tree and see if there's anything we might find that might hold a clue as to where Stargazer is." The others nodded and started to spread out. Hightide, Sandstorm, Phoenix, and Mudturtle went left, while Glacia, Starbloom, and Lowtide went right. They started to observe anything and everything. Checking the reeds, the nearby trees, under the water, for anything that might give them a clue as to where their friend might have been. They then met again at the other side of the sycamore tree, finding no clues as to where their friend is. The last thing that they have not checked yet was the tree itself. Some doubted that they would even find a clue in or on the tree, but still decided it was worth the try. The some of the dragonets went near the tree, and nothing happened, some of them touched the tree, and nothing happened. But as soon as Hightide got his chance to get near the tree, the stone on his palm started to spin erratically, and as if some sort of force held Hightide's talon into place, as he tried to pull his claws away from the fast spinning stone spear head. Hightide yelped, and soon shouted for help from the other dragonets. "AH!!! Guys!! Help me!!! I-I can't pull my arm out!!!" Hightide yelled, now panicking in fear since he's trying to move his immovable arm. The other dragonets then hurried beside the SeaWing, held his arms, and back and started pulling backwards. But their efforts were proven to be futile as Hightide started wincing at the pain of being pulled. And slowly and surely, the group of dragonets were slowly being dragged towards the tree. They struggled at pulling Hightide's arm, and soon his claws hit the bark of the tree. As soon as his claws hit the surface of the tree, the stone spear head stopped spinning sporadically and stood straight up, spinning in place. That's when things went out of control, the dragonets then were frozen in place, unable to move. The only thing they could do was watch the stone spear head spin in place. They were starting to become afraid, of what might happen to them. Slowly but surely, they saw the stone spear start to shift its form, into what looked like a six pointed star. The stone star then spun faster than before, and soon started to emit light. The floating lights around the tree started to converge to the stone star, and the dragonets were blinded by the bright light. The light soon devoured them, and in a flash, the dragonets disappeared. The shallow lake that surrounds the tree soon went still, and life around the lake then continued to live on. The dragonets on the other talon, were inside a dimly lit cave, unconscious. And near the cave's entrance was a crystal tree. Banana couldn't believe what she saw, seeing a group of dragonets disappear infront of her shook her. She was one of the camouflaged bodyguards of Queen Glory, but her job right now was to stealthily scout the far side of the forest to search for the missing RainWing. During her recon, she found a group of dragonets within the forest, so she decided to follow them, thinking to herself that they might help in leading her to the missing RainWing. And what she found was most certainly a surprise. Now that she knew what might be the problem of the missing RainWing, and seeing seven more dragonets disappear infront of her, she hurriedly glided back to the RainWing village, to inform the Queen of her discovery.