Rainbows In The Dark

Chapter 1

Oleander

The day started off as normal.

Oleander woke up, met with Lavender, and snacked on a fruit. Her guard watched over her as suntime came but when she woke up, everything fell apart.

Firefly came stumbling over to the platform with Peacemaker holding her up with his wing.

"Have you guys seen Silver?" Peacemaker asked.

Oleander stood up and stretched. "Now that you mention it, I haven't."

Peacemaker bit his lip. "I thought that he had snuck off to go see Gold but he's been gone for nearly a month now."

"A month!?" Oleander asked.

Firefly had a dizzied look on her face. "Yeah, it's unlike him to be gone this long..."

"Especially since the kingdoms have been on edge since last year." Lavender commented.

"I'm sure he'll be back soon, right Firefly?" Oleander asked. Firefly looked down at the floor. "Firefly?"

Suddenly, Firefly took a sharp breath, like she was gasping for breath and then she spoke in a voice that was nothing like her own.

"The Prince of Night has disappeared,

Pyrrhia shall fall unless they're found,

Blood and tears shall soak the fields,

Unveil the truth or war will consume the tribes."

Firefly choked out the last part before collapsing against Peacemaker.

The three of them looked at her, even Lavender had horror written on her face.

"Lavender!" Oleander said, shaking her shoulder. "We need to tell my mother about this. Peacemaker, take my sister to the infirmary!"

Peacemaker nodded and hoisted her onto his back, making his way hurriedly to the healer's pavilion.

Lavender unfurled her violet wings before taking off into toward the Queen's hut. Oleander took off after her.

Oleander pushed the curtain aside and entered the throne room. "Mother!"

Inside was Queen Glory, sitting on her throne, Deathbringer, standing beside her, and a purple and gold dragon who was nearly twice as big as Glory.

"Oleander, I'm in the middle of a meeting, is this important?" Glory asked.

"It's incredibly important." Oleander said. "Firefly just collapsed."

"What?" Deathbringer was on full alert right now.

Glory's scales flashed green before fading back into her usual emerald and orange. "Magnificent, can you leave us please?"

Magnificent scowled and walked past them. Her and Lavender gave each other equal looks of disgust.

Glory strode over to them. "Where is she right now?"

"At the healer's pavilion, Peacemaker should have her there by now." Oleander said.

Glory didn't need to hear anything else. She headed out of the hut with Deathbringer trailing behind her.

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After Peacemaker recited the prophecy, Glory and Deathbringer had mixed reactions.

"At least this one doesn't have any cryptic rhyming..." Lavender mumbled, but she still looked shaken.

Deathbringer groaned and sat down. "Not another prophecy..."

"Seriously? I'm not in this one either?" Glory scoffed.

"You're too good for a prophecy." Deathbringer assured her.

"Besides, Your Majesty, we need you to guide our kingdom." Peacemaker pointed out.

Glory paused. "Right. Of course. We need to figure this out."

Oleander sighed. "We're on the brink of war, we shouldn't have to deal with some stupid prophecy."

Deathbringer raised an eye at Glory, who stuck her tongue out at him in a very dignified way.

Lavender glanced outside. "Your Majesty, I agree with the princess. We're already worrying about the tensions between the tribes, but now we've lost something of our own. Silver was one of the best weapons we had and our ambassador for the royal summits. It's possible one of the other tribes kidnapped him."

Peacemaker shook his head. "That's impossible. It's too high of a risk to kidnap a prince in his own territory and if they did, the repercussions would be immense."

"So you're saying it's a third party?" Deathbringer asked.

"That's the only conclusion, isn't it? Perhaps it's safe to assume the other stolen items from the other tribes were taken by this group as well." Peacemaker said.

Oleander froze. "Hold on, I think we're forgetting something. Firefly has powers."

"She was born under a single moon." Peacemaker said to himself, looking back at the unconscious body of Firefly. "So it does make sense that she would have one of the Nightwing's powers."

"Yeah, but why are we just now finding out?" Oleander pressed.

Peacemaker shrugged. "She only seems to have prophetic powers so I'm guessing they would only activate when she needed to deliver a prophecy."

"This is confusing. We need to try to figure out what this prophecy means." Deathbringer interrupted.

Glory sighed. "Ok, I have a plan. I'll talk with Starflight, but first," She pointed a claw at Oleander. "With Silver gone and Firefly being out, I need you to run an errand for me."

"M-me?" Oleander stumbled back and Lavender caught her with a wing.

"Yes. Thorn and I plan on an alliance in case we do go to war. I usually have Silver go to meet with Sunny but seeing as he's not here, I'm going to need you to meet with her."

Oleander frowned. "Alright, but Lavender will need to come with me."

"Good idea, we can't lose you too." Glory said. "Lavender?"

"Of course, Your Majesty." Lavender said, saluting with a wing.

Glory nodded. "It's settled then, you two will need to go to Possibility tomorrow morning."

Oleander smiled nervously. "Okay then, I'll do my best."