A COLD YET BEAUTIFUL RELATIONSHIP (QINTER)

Chapter 2

(5 Years later)

Winter looked up at the sky as he remembers that day, the day Qibli promised to free him and the day he developed a crush on Qibli. He misses his best friend and so did Qibli but they kept each other company by sending letters to one another, some of them were filled with jokes and puns from Qibli and others were filled with stories of Winter's time with his Aunts.

But right now Winter was with his sister, he gagged at that, Winter doesn't consider Icicle or Hailstorm his siblings anymore they were more like slave-drivers than siblings to him. His parents weren't any better they were far too cruel and abusive to even be seen as normal dragons to Winter.

Winter: 'Good thing I spend most of my time with Aunt Glacier and Aunt Blaze.'

Suddenly Winter was forcefully pushed to the ground, he hissed in pain as he scratched his elbow against the hard rocky surface of Jade Mountain. He gets up and glares at his assaulter with cold hate-filled eyes.

Icicle: Move it you damn waste of space.

Winter growled but did as told, he knew that he wasn't strong enough to fight Icicle or even challenge her. They were sent to Jade Mountain Academy by Blaze in hope that they would make friends with other dragons, Winter was completely fine with making friends what he wasn't fine with is the fact that Icicle has to come as well. As they got closer to the Nightwing who was greeting students and informing them about Jade Mountain, Winter could hear Icicle growl as she glared at the Nightwing Winter rolled his eyes at this, he read scrolls about the war between Icewings and Nightwings and thought that it was silly to hate a tribe about something that happened a very long time ago.

Fatespeaker: Hi! I'm Fatespeaker and welcome to Jade Mountain Academy.

Fatespeaker smiles at the two and Icicle snorts at her while Winter gave her his "Qibli" smile, a smile his been practicing to look friendlier to others. He listened to Fatespeaker as she explained everything about the school and what clawmates and winglets were.

Fatespeaker: Winter, your clawmates are-Oh! Look, there's one of them over there! That's Qibli!

Time seemed to slow down as Winter looked at the Sandwing Fatespeaker was pointing at, his heart was racing his best friend/crush was here but he didn't get his hopes up it could be a Sandwing with the same name.

Said Sandwing looked over to them and smiled at them, that's when Winter knew it really was his best friend.... his Qibli.

Fatespeaker: I think you'll like him, he's very friendly.

Winter: 'I don't need to like him when I'm in love with him'

They finish up with Fatespeaker and Winter walks over to Qibli, the closer he got the more it felt like his heart was going to explode.

Qibli: Hi there, clawmate!

Winter: I-um Q-Qibli do you remember m-me?

Qibli looked confused at first then his eyes met Winter's, his eyes widen before he hugged Winter.

Qibli: Three moons! Winter, you're here! You're actually here, I can't believe it! I've missed you!

Winter hugs him back and relaxed into the warmth Qibli was giving off, he missed this but all good things must come to an end.

Icicle: Winter, what is that?

She points at Qibli who was now behind him, Icicle glares at Qibli with disgust in her eyes and Winter growls at her.

Winter: This is Qibli, my best friend.

Icicle: Disgusting. No wonder you're ranked the lowest.

She walks away with a huff and Winter glares at her retreating form. He sighs and turned around to see a worried and concerned Qibli.

Qibli: What does she mean you're ranked the lowest.

Winter: (Sigh) My parents did something, I don't know what they did but they somehow got my brother to the top rank and me to the lowest.... they use it as an excuse to physically torture me.

Qibli's eyes widen in horror as he finally noticed the scars on Winter's face, he gently touched them with his talon and Winter flinched.

Qibli: Sorry... Winter, I swear I will free you from them.

Winter: I know you will.