Desire of Evil

Chapter II

She tossed and turned. Her scales felt weird, and itchy due to the sand that snuck into the crevices of them. Luna got up, and walked to the edge of the island, trying to shake off all the sand that was on her.

The sky was dark, and scattered stars filled the sky. Luna looked down at her palm, and spewed out a bit of flamesilk to light her way. It's the only good thing that comes out of having that special ability.

    She looked out into the sea, dreaming. She was tired, but there was no way she was going to be able to sleep with pounds of sand clinging to her scales. She thought about using her flamesilk to make her a nest, and burn away the sand around her. No, that wouldn't work out— I'd end up burning the entire island. She put her talons up to her chin. What about —

Luna whipped her head around, trying to spy every dragon nearby on the island. Moon, Qibli, Bullfrog, Pineapple, Cricket, Sundew, Sky, Wren, Tsunami, Lynx, and herself. Maybe Sundew could make a bed for me? She thought a bit more. No, I can't wake her. She needs to rest. Besides, I can't just use her leafspeak powers for myself, how selfish. She looked back at her talons, clinching.

It's a damn curse, a nightmare! Why have flamesilk if whatever you use it for will harm everything around it?

Ugh!

She guided her head to look at the water as it flowed ever so calmly.

What h— Luna started to hyperventilate. Her breaths, each faster than the last. The water, now red, flowed over her claws like blood. The ocean was filled with blood.

She couldn't move. Her head stayed strictly in place. Her wings and tail flapped, but didn't move more than an inch. She sensed terror. She couldn't see it well, for red covered her eyes but, dragons were there. Dragons in the sea. They had no scales. They'd been skinned? They had no eyes either, just black voids filled their hollow eye structure.

"What's happeni—." The more spoke, the more rushed off her voice sounded.

The blood covered her head. Vines flew up from the bottom of the sea, and wrapped around her body, getting tighter, and tighter. When she tried to scream, bubbles just filled place of the sounds.

She struggled, trashing around violently.

She gathered one of her talons to start spewing flamesilk from her palm, as the other talon was stuck beside her side.

The vines had thorns, and they dug into Luna's scales. She was surely bleeding, carrying into the sea.

Her body turned upside down, her spines, wings, and antenna flowing carelessly. She tried to let her flamesilk out, which it did.

The flamesilk died out. Surely it wouldn't burn out in blood? Unless this really is the sea. Wake up Luna, WAKE UP! This is a nightmare, please wake up!

She spewed more flamesilk, but they died out again. She cut of the pieces of tiny strands of silk, but they sunk to the bottom of the sea floor.

"NO!" She tried to scream, but barely anything was heard. "DAMMIT!" She looked around, for anyone. "HELP ME!" A vine rushed up from the sea floor faster than anything else Luna had ever seen, and wrapped around her snout. She kept thrashing, but when she spoke again, blood filled her lungs. The spiked vines loosened its grip, until she started drifting to the sea floor.

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She had drowned. No one was there to save her. Was this really just a nightmare?

She felt it.

She really had died.

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It felt like an entity before Luna awoke, not departed. She wasn't in her last resting place, however. She was by the sea.

She looked around, checking if anyone saw.

No one did.

She suffered, and nobody was disturbed. She looked back at the vast ocean. It was blue again. No dead bodies, no blood. What happened?

She made her way to a patch of small grass, near brush. She wanted to fly back, to avoid getting sand on her talons again, but her wings felt sore. She couldn't sleep, but she didn't want anyone to suspect what had just happened. She then pretended to sleep. The sky started to fill with yellows and oranges, to indicate a sunrise.

I don't have to rest long.

As Luna got more and more comfortable, she felt no sand. No sand anywhere but her talons.

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Wren spied through the bush, just as she saw the dragon faint, then go back to her bed. What happened?