Wings of Fire; Claws of Betrayal (EDITING)

PROLOGUE

Before you start reading, i'd like to mention that this is a sequel to Wings of Fire - Creature if you didn't take the hint from the description. Please read it before reading this so you can understand what's going on in this story. Thank you. I hope you enjoy this story! 

- luna/kat

In the rainforest, it was quiet. Especially at night, which happened to be right now. In the rainforest, all that could be heard was light snores as RainWings dozed in their treehouses or hammocks or platforms. In the rainforest, everyone was asleep.

Except for Spectacular. 

Every RainWing was 'lazy', they said. All they did was sleep, and if they weren't sleeping, they were napping. But Spectacular didn't feel lazy this night. 

She felt disturbed.

Something was tugging her into the rainforest. Something that screamed 'DANGER DANGER' and 'CHECK ME OUT, I MIGHT BE DANGEROUS TO YOUR TRIBE'. Spectacular couldn't resist, and if she tried sleeping, she knew the feeling wouldn't go away until she explored. 

So, she did. Whilst her tribe was in a slumber she flew into the deep jungle. As she got farther and farther away from her tribe, she shivered. Several different animals chirruped in the trees overhead, but they didn't sound as cute and friendly as they usually did. Spectacular instinctively shifted into camouflaged mode, just in case something was lurking out there. 

She soundlessly moved through the trees, using her tail to swing on branches and gliding through vines and places where she couldn't rely on her tail. Spectacular was flying for ages, and just when she thought that she should turn back because her worries had been all for nothing, she heard something. Or rather, saw something. Or both. 

A black creature was crawling through the woods.

Spectacular landed on a branch, staying still, hoping the thing didn't hear her wingbeats. The creature lurked through the rainforest, looking around warily from time to time as if it were doing something wrong. It was walking like it had a purpose, so it couldn't be grub-hunting.

Huh, Spectacular thought, examining the odd thing. 

She watched as it went further into the undergrowth and waited until it was out of sight and hearing, then moved forwards a bit to sit on another tree and watch it further. 

The thing suddenly stopped and raised its snout to sniff the air. Spectacular's heart jumped and she coward against the branch, even though she knew it couldn't see her. She prayed with all her might that the creature couldn't smell her.

"I can smell you," the thing said. "Come out." Its voice was strangely... familiar.

Spectacular's heart was drumming, wondering whether or not she should expose herself, but before she could another thing came out of a tree.

"Ah, finally," it growled in a raspy voice. "I was wondering what was taking you so long." It flapped its wings angrily as if stretching the muscles, and then Spectacular saw something.

Speckles of white.

But surely... it couldn't be...

"I'm sorry, Phantom," the first thing said, bowing its head in shame. "I just didn't want my tribe to see me,"

The dragon named Phantom grunted. "See that it doesn't happen again."

It was a NightWing! The dragon named Phantom must be a NightWing, which meant the other dragon has to be a RainWing, if he 'didn't want his tribe to see him'. But what were they doing that was so secretive?