Sakura Tree

~CHAPTER SIXTEEN~

Grasshopper sighed happily as he felt Sakura's smooth scales and wings wrap around him.

Rainbow, Grasshopper, and Sakura had spread the ashes around the kingdom and even beyond the borders of the Forestwing kingdom as disrespectfully as possible when spreading ashes.

Redwood had regained control of her throne and the prisoners that had been released were taken care of and put back in their cells. The kingdom had returned to normal by now, and everybody was happy.

However, Sakura had been hinting at showing Grasshopper something for the last few days. Grasshopper was now happily in Sakura's room, hanging out with her and trying to guess what she was going to show him.

He pulled away from Sakura's chest. "Okay, is it somewhere outside of the kingdom?" Grasshopper guessed with a smile.

Sakura laughed and playfully slapped Grasshopper's shoulder. "You asked that the very first time you guessed!" She giggled.

"Well then it's inside the kingdom and not another secret building. And it's not something that I've already seen or something that you've shown me before, and I have to put something on to go there respectfully," Grasshopper listed the results as Sakura handed him something. "I have no idea what it could be," Grasshopper grabbed the item that Sakura had curled her talons around.

Grasshopper uncupped his talons and a thin, not purely opaque, fabric accessory puffed up. It was black, but because it was see-through it looked dark gray. Sakura lifted it from Grasshopper's talons and wrapped the ends around Grasshopper's horns. The glittering black fabric was a sort of black veil. Sakura wrapped a second one around her own horns.

Grasshopper blinked sadly. He suddenly had a good guess on where they were going. Sakura stared at him in the eyes. Her eyes flickered with grief for a moment, but she quickly regained her happiness.

"Come on, we can go now!" Sakura yelped happily, grabbing his talon excitedly and dragging him out of her room. On their way out of the castle, they passed Joshua and Rainbow. Rainbow smiled and Joshua waved. Grasshopper smiled and waved back before running back along with Sakura.

The two dragons burst out of the castle and Grasshopper smiled at the kingdom. Dragons were talking happily, and everything seemed normal. These last two months were the only times that the Forestwing kingdom and all of it's dragons had felt like a normal environment for Grasshopper. In other words, he finally felt like he was home, and everything was finally calmed down and he could see what the Forestwig kingdom had been like before all of the excitement. Grasshopper took a deep breath and rose into the sky after Sakura. He followed her; they glided and rose up and laughed with each other until Sakura froze and dove downward.

Sakura stepped through a white archway with vines and bonsai willow trees decorating it. Sakura glanced around, and Grasshopper looked up. Willow trees of all sorts of colors rose from the ground.

"You've heard of Wisteria, right? I mean, at times she's kind of impossible to avoid," Sakura snorted sadly.

"You know she's my sister. You know how Chinch killed her, and then it was my destiny to be the next queen," Sakura inhaled. She began walking forward.

"This is where Wisteria lives now. This is the Forestwing graveyard. Not the most exciting or happy place to introduce you to after everything has calmed down, but hey. I need an excuse to see my sister again," Sakura smiled with pain in her eyes. This was hard for her.

Sakura and Grasshopper walked through the forest of willow trees until Sakura stopped in front of a purple willow tree with a dark brown trunk. Sakura clasped her talons together and mumbled under her breath. Carved into the trunk of the tree was the word 'Wisteria'.

Purple leaves waved in the wind, weaving around each other intricately. Sakura unclasped her talons and opened her eyes.

Sakura and Grasshopper sat down next to each other. Grasshopper twined his leaf-tipped tail with Sakura's flower-tipped tail. Both Sakura and Grasshopper wrapped one wing around the other.

Grasshopper leaned onto Sakura's shoulder happily.Sakura leaned her head onto his so they were intertwined. Nothing could tear them apart. Not Redwood, not Chinch, not even Sakura's destiny to be the next queen.

Grasshopper's ears perked up and he opened his eyes from their comfortable position. He thought he saw a dragon. He glanced around and saw a see-through dragon wrapping around Sakura and Grasshopper.

The dragon was a green Forestwing with a stunning purple mane. Grasshopper immediately knew it was Wisteria. Wisteria smiled at him and blinked reassuringly. That was a sign. Grasshopper nuzzled into Sakura and let himself drift into sleep comfortably. He knew now for sure that this was how things were meant to be. Sakura would be queen, and he would be with her. They would be happy, and that was all that Grasshopper needed.

A/N

*SCREAMS*

And so comes the ending

yes this chapter is a little shorter than average but heck whatever TIME FOR EPILOGUE