MoonBli - Through It All

Chapter 14 - JMA

Hey guys, this chapter is when both Dust and Rattlesnake will meet their CRUSHES!!!!!! 

The night before Dust and Rattlesnake left for JMA they were both thinking the same thing , "AM I GOING TO MAKE A FOOL OF MYSELF? WHAT IF NO ONE LIKES ME? WHAT IF..." and so on and so on. 

As they flew through the clouds the next morning they each flew on opposite sides of their parents, and never talked to each other. Their parents sensed the tension right away and tried to start conversations but they both refused to talk, which made for a very awkward flight. 

When they first walked through the huge arch, they were greeted by an overenthusiastic nightwing. "HIIIIIIII! I'm Farsight! I'm Fatespeaker and Starflight's daughter!" I just graduated from JMA last year! I assume you guys are Dust and Rattlesnake?" "Um... yeah..." Dust said still confused where the crazy dragon had come from. "OK! Well..." Farsight said, running her claws down a long list "Dust, your cave is down the 5th corridor, 7th cave on the right! Rattlesnake, your cave is down the 7th corridor, 5th cave on the left! Ha! Isn't that funny you guys are complete opposites!" She said in her annoyingly cheerful voice. Dust snorted, "In more ways than cave placing."

As Dust walked into her cave she was shocked by what she saw. Colorful glass globes lit up the room and scroll racks were everywhere. There was a mossy bed of leaves and other plants, a strange looking hammock-ish thing, a mound of fluffy blankets(which she assumed was hers) and a dip in the ground filled halfway with dark brown dirt. There was a half-filled scroll rack beside each sleeping spot.

Dust walked over to her spot and prodded the blankets to find that they were the softest she had ever felt. She flopped down on them and looked at the rack. It was full of fantasy stories, ancient legends, adventure stories, and myths. All her favorite kinds of stories, then she remembered the survey that her dad had given her one day full of questions about what she liked to read.

"Hello."Dust jumped up and whirled around looking for whoever had spoken. She startled the dragonent who had apparently been the one who had spoken. "Oh sorry! I didn't mean to scare you!" Dust apologized "It's fine. I shouldn't have snuck up on you like that." he said, "I'm Infernece, nice to meet you!" "Oh, I'm Dust! I'm Moonwatcher and Qibli's daughter!" He smiled a kind and gentle smile, and Dust's heart did some weird fluttery-thing that it had never done before.

One, by one their other clawmates showed up and were introduced. The others were Peaches, Kinkajou and Turtle's daughter, and a shy mudwing named Crane, Umber and some other Mudwing, Sepia. As Dust met them all she could think about was Infernece, every time she looked at him or he spoke to her, her heart did the same, the fluttery-thing that made her want to give him a huge smile, but she was confused so she held back.

A few corridors down Rattlesnake was experiencing a similar situation. He too was startled when an unknown dragonet padded into the room. He also felt the same fluttery feeling in his chest when she told him her name, Firefly, and that she was Glory and Deathbringer's youngest dragonet. As he met the other dragonet he would be sharing a cave with, an Icewing named Polis, Winter and Lynx's daughter, and the youngest dragonet of Riptide and Tsunami, Oyster, all he could think about was her. The soft way she spoke, the gentle,calm look in her eyes, and the beautiful sunset scales with stars on the wings and black scattered on her legs and snout.

As they both met those that made their heads spin, they were having one identical thought in their heads, "This is going to be a VERY interesting year!"