Wings of Fire- Frost Biting (BOOK ONE)

Chapter One

Frostbite landed, ending her exhausting flight. She felt hard stone underneath her talons, making a clicking sound as she walked toward the entrance. She only had a quick chance to take things in before there was a dragon up in her face.

"Welcome to Jade Mountain!" A cheery Nightwing wore a big smile as she greeted me- that was obviously Fatespeaker.

'Oooh Icewing glittery scales, hey, Nightwing too, ooooh Frostbite!' Frostbite let herself drift away from containing Fatespeaker's thoughts in a snowflake. She loved to listen to others thoughts, it was fun- and dangerous. Nobody but she knew about her Nightwing powers, and it was important to keep it that way.

"Frostbite!" The Nightwing gleamed, "I like that name!"

"Thanks," hi smiled shyly back, "but just call me Frost."

I preferred to keep my name shorter, it was nice and easier to remember for others.

"Okay," She nodded, "hears your map and schedule, your room is the first cave on the right, then third cave on the left, enjoy your stay!"

Frost looked around, There was a big gong in the middle of the cave. On each side, there was two caves. A banner that said 'Welcome to Jade Mountain' hung over the gong, and the room was filled with flowers.

She tip-tapped down the hallway, 'okay, first tunnel at the right.'

She wove in between dragons too busy to notice her, she took a right and continued down the path.

Dragons gave her harsh, thoughtful glares so Frostbite tore away from her mental snowfall and listened in.

One Sandwing's mind was complex and jittery, 'Oh, look at that strange Icewing- no wait, Nightwing? She's a crossbreed? That's explains why she ducks her head and tries to avoid dragons. And those silver scales near her eye are beautiful.'

She shut him out before anything got weirder. He stood beside another Sandwing that just thought about the scorpion den.
Frost smiled slightly at the complex Sandwing, earning a grin back.

She continued down the hallway, head low so no one noticed. She did not feel like listening to others right now.

Turning a corner, she entered the fifth room on the left. It was pretty nice, it was decently large with one leaf window that hung over a pool of water.

'Seawing,' Frostbite noticed, putting a talon in the warm water.

There must of been a Rainwing too, because there was a hammock standing across from her bed. Polar bear furs were laid out on the ground, a rack of scrolls, ink and parchment sat beside it, along with an unlit candle.

'No ones looking...' Frost looked around to make sure it was safe to blow fire. She picked up the candle and focused on blue flames.

A burning, yet soothing, flame brewed inside her. Making a glow come out of her chest, a blue glow to be exact. She let a small, blue flame spill out of her mouth. Lighting the candle and setting it down, the flame slowly faded to red as it got colder.

A few seconds later, a Seawing the colour of blue with an ice blue underbelly, horns and eyes slithered into the room. Not noticing Frostbite, she walked toward the pool of seawater and happily slid into it. Did she see that?

"Hi," Frost sat up straight, tucking her wings in and curling her tail around her talons.

"Oh!" The Seawing jumped a little, obviously alarmed, "don't do that."

The hostility in the room faded into welcoming air as the Seawing's scowl grew to more of a smile, "I'm Cascade, who are you?"

Frostbite's mind drifted to her and herd, 'so strange looking, but I'll give her a chance.'

Her hopes raised, maybe she had found one friend in this cruel world, "I'm Frostbite- really just call me Frost- and I know I'm weird, I'm half Icewing half Nightwing."

The lie of leaving out the Rainwing part made a lump grow in her throat, that's what her life was. A whole big fat, stinking lie. But if she told, they would all never trust her.

'Keep secrets, must lie.
Be strong, don't comply.
Hide truth, do well.
Stay safe, never tell.'

We're the words her father told her constantly. Although he hated her, like all her family except her stepmother Snowfall, he was bound on some oath he told her mother.

'Is an oath the only reason he still keeps me?' She worried.

"Hellooo, are you still with me?" Cascade waved her talons in front of Frostbite's eyes, breaking her concentration, "I was trying to ask you a question!"

She shook her head and blinked, "oh yes- sorry. Just thinking. What did you ask me?"

"I thought Nightwings and Icewings were in a feud, why did one of each fall in love?" Cascade wondered.

Oh great, mor lies for her to tell, just what she needed. Well, here she went.

"First of all, my mother was a normal Nightwing and my father a. Normal Icewing," lie one. "She seduced my father for a secret mission," lie two. "But she actually fell in love with him," true, their love was by accident. "They had an egg, and my mother left me with my father," true again. "I was born with no fire, or ice, or anything special," lie three. On the first talon, She had Nightwing powers. On the second, She was animus. On the third, She's also a Rainwing. On the fourth, she had fire, ice and venom. The four major lies she MUST never tell. Her father only knew two, the Rainwing thing and the animus part, the others were hers to keep.

"Oh," Cascade blinked. She opened her mouth to speak, but a bright yellow Rainwing with rose pink details shimmered into sight, right infront of Frostbite's face .

"Interesting facts Frostbite!" She wore a big smile on her face.

"Agh!" Frost stumbled back rubbing her eyes, "my eyes!"

The Rainwing giggled and her scales toned down a bit. Frostbite was too busy talking-and telling lies, to notice the 2 year old dragonet. That was the only flaw about her Nightwing powers, they don't automatically work when she lies.

"My names Kinkajou!" She smiled, "and of course I know yours."

"Can you not do that?" Cascade cocked her head, "I don't like to be spied on."

'Haha, well she doesn't know I can read minds,' Frostbite thought to herself.

"Fine," Kinkajou rolled her eyes, "but anyway, aren't you super exited for tomorrow? First day with our winglet!"

Frost was exited, but worried too. The more lies she told, the bigger the reaction dragons would have if they learned the truth. But they wouldn't, Frost was sure to lie good and never tell.

The three wing mates settled down for the night. Frost held the Polar bear skin bag her step mother gave her. Snowfall was the only other one that knew, other than Chill, her two secrets. Inside this bag was three animus touched objects. The Emerald heart, a green heart stone that finds other dragons and tells you where they are. The Memory snatcher, a crystal star that can take memories from other dragon's heads and tell them to you. And the Venom reaper, a small, black egg-shaped smooth stone that removes venom, toxin, acid or poison from dragons. She also had a mind-blocking stone that Frost called Mindlocker is not animus touched, but can block mind reading. The Mindlocker does not work on her though, because of the necklace she enchanted. It is a long, silver chain that holds a full moon on the end; she enchanted it so that it held all her animus magic (can be used whenever, wherever so Frostbite doesn't loose her soul), stops MindLocker, doesn't allow reading her mind, glows brightly in the dark, and can only be taken off by her (willingly).

Frostbite hid her bag behind her stand. Laying down, she closed her eyes and wondered how much she'll have to lie tomorrow.