Wings Of Fire: Thorns And Roses

"Healed"

Please get me out of here, Radiant thought as she followed after Locust and Adonis, sticking close to them. She looked around wildly at the tents and lanterns, all having fire in them and not that small glowing substance inside of it. Radiant looked around at the strange new dragons, fully realizing that her life could change forever.

"Nice little camp you have set up here... Deathbringer," Locust complimented.

Even his name is setting off every alarm. 'Deathbringer'? Sounds like he'll kill us all in our sleep. Radiant zoned out for a bit, accidentally bumping into Adonis.

"Ow," Adonis whispered.

"Everything alright back there? Don't want—"

"We are fine," Locust assured. "Maybe just bring us to our tents in silence, I have a headache..."

"Understood, Greenie." Deathbringer clicked his tongue upon finishing the sentence. Locust took in a sharp breath, though said nothing.

"That over there is where the healthy Pantalan dragons go. Often times they have somebody to help them through with this tough time." Deathbringer motioned his left wing over to a circle of tents to the side.

"And Salamander should be there..." Tide grumbled to himself.

"She'll be okay, Tide," Charcoal comforted. "Besides, I don't think she'd like to see all of these dragons hurt."

"That's just because you at least have somebody with you..." Tide snapped back.

"No, you also have Carpathian and I. Speaking of which he's probably waiting for m—"

"Hey! Charcoal!" A voice called from the left of Radiant echoed through the still night, startling her. She looked over to see yet another odd dragon, but this time it really did seem like he was off. They came over to Charcoal, a happy look in its unnatural looking blacked-out eyes. It had pale scales with spikes on both his underbelly and his back, though the spikes on the belly stopped right before the arms. The spikes eventually ended right at a icy blue barb at the end that was covered in spikes.

Get me out of here. Radiant backed away, keeping her eyes on the dragon.

"Oh, hi Tide," the dragon greeted. "Sorry about Salamander..."

"I don't really need your pity right now, Carpathian; thanks." Tide looked away, trying not to make eye-contact with him.

"Alright then, want to come to the bonfire with me, Charcoal?"

"Sure, haven't seen you all day," Charcoal agreed, walking towards the dragon, who's name seemed to be 'Carpathian'.

"Did you miss me?" Carpathian asked in a playful manner. The conversation faded away as Radiant and everybody else was left in silence.

"Well they seem happy, unlike Toad over here—"

"Get my name wrong ONE more time NightWing and I'll bash your skull in. I'm going, hope I never see any of you again," Tide growled aggressively, storming off into the surroundings tents.

"Hope so too!" Radiant called after him.

"Hey, leave the dragon alone." Locust whispered as he bumped Radiant's tail.

"Well now that those two are off, time to show you your new homes for a bit. Don't be shocked if only a few dragons are there. Heh, there's... Quite a lot still missing, so you can make as much noise as you'd like." Deathbringer tried to joke, which ended up just making Radiant more uncomfortable than she already was.

"Hilarious." Adonis noted.

"Agreed, now off to the Healers for Red and Greenie over here."

"Our names are Radiant and Locust, Deathbringer..." Locust sputtered out the last name.