WoF One shots (kinda)

Adoption

Moonlight was a normal IceWing dragonet growing up. She was hatched to a loving family in the fourth circle that found their way around the war, avoiding it completely. She had everything she ever wanted, despite her name sounding close to a NightWing's. She was teased a bit for that, but her beauty and kindness mostly made the bullying stop. She was named this way because she hatched at night under a full moon, and her parents said she was so beautiful in the moonlight that they had to name her after it.

Everything was fine until she turned three. The memory was hazy, but she supposed that a serious brain injury would do that. What she did clearly remember was a knife held by an unknown IceWing cutting into her father, then her attacking him for it. The next thing she saw was a mace flying at her face before waking up in a hospital, her left side numb, her vision blurred and altered.

Turns out some thugs tried robbing them when Moonlight's father fought back. They escaped, but not before killing her dad and almost killing her. The mace took out her right eye and large portion of her orbital bone.

Moonlight hated how she looked in the mirror now. She used to be so pretty, now dragons pointed and laughed at her deformed face. The way her right eye socket squished inward, deforming the scales around it and making it very concave, made her so upset with how she looked. It wasn't helped by the fact that now she struggled to walk and speak. Moving any muscle on the left side of her body was so strenuous and tiring.

The doctor said the injury also caused a brain hemorrhage, essentially causing a stroke in her right hemisphere and semi-paralyzing her left side.

Her physical therapist did everything she could, but Moonlight was left flightless and limping for the rest of her life.

Her mother sold everything they had and they moved to Possibility in hope of starting a new life. Her mother had to carry Moonlight on her back, which exhausted her much more than anticipated. During their flight is when they found out her mother was pregnant with another egg.

Moonlight's mother bought a house and started looking for a job before laying her egg. But when it was time for her to go into labor, she got very sick. After she laid the egg Moonlight could hear her mom in the other room groaning and crying in pain.

"Moonlight!" She screamed.

The young dragonet limped as fast as she could into the room. "Yes, mother?"

"Go get a doctor, please!" Moonlight could see a lot of blood on the floor and the egg pushed against some blankets to help it stay upright.

"O-ok!" The dragonet rushed out of the house and down the street. She didn't actually know where the doctor's office was, but she knew the general direction.

By the time the young and immobile dragonet got there, and the doctors got back to her house, her mother had already passed away.

Moonlight was distraught. Having lost both of her parents in just a few months. She felt like she could've saved her mom if she was only a bit faster. If she could fly instead. Maybe her mother carrying her is what caused this.

Possibility officials put her and the unhatched egg into the orphanage. Moonlight was only three still, there was no way she could provide for herself and her brother. At least she hoped it was a brother.

The egg was the only thing they made her happy. She loved to curl around it and sleep when the orphanage keeper let her. Then of course she'd have to go in there and wake the young IceWing up to attend the schooling that the orphanage offered.

She turned four last week, and all she could do was lay down in her bunk bed with dozens of other orphans and quietly sing happy hatching day to herself under the covers. It was bittersweet, but she imagined her family gathered around her, singing to her. Her family and friends celebrating her getting into the third circle and turning four years old.