Flare

Backstory (flashback)

Flare woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't get back to sleep, so he  decided to go for a walk around the palace. It was basically silent other than the rain outside and the armour of the night shift guards clunking, flare walked around for a while then went outside into the old arena, which was now just somewhere for recreational activities like sports and shows, the sand was very damp due to the rain and squelched under his paws as he walked around the perimeter of it, the hissing of the rain as it touched his scales was one of the only sounds left here as he noticed the marks on the wall and the stains of dragons who were previously here, it was horrible to think that the majority of these claw marks and stains were the product of his girlfriend, peril, fighting dragons for queen scarlet. He had always despised the old queen and would never even think of serving for her like peril had done, but he couldn't blame her for anything, scarlet was a cruel and manipulative dragon and had always made peril think she was in the right. A shiver went through him when he saw scorch marks on the wall and a somewhat outline of a dragon imprinted onto the wall. He laid on the sand and stared into the sky, it was clear that night and two of the moons were visible, one being full and one crescent, he laid there for about an hour listening to the rain sizzle against his scales and the sand underneath him slowly melt ,eventually flare got up and felt something on his underbelly, he wiped it off with his paw and it looked like lava, but it wasn't, it was just molten glass, flare brushed it off his paw and put it on the floor where it rapidly cooled due to the rain.
He went back inside still dry and checked up on Argentavis ,who was fast asleep, before going back to his and peril's room, he went back to sleep only to wake up again about 2 hours later to a nightmare of the last day he saw his mother.  it was midday and she had just came back from hunting, he remembered very fondly that she bought back a reindeer from one of the mountains nearby as a treat for flare and he thanked her a lot as they ate it together, then there was a knock at the door, she told him to hide in the small cubby in the cave she had covered with an array of vines and stay there until she said so. he heard voices and a lot of shouting outside and wanted to go see what was wrong but didn't want to anger his mum. So he waited, and waited, and waited, until all the voices had gone, when he came out of hiding the house was completely trashed, paintings ripped off the walls, scroll shelves burnt and destroyed, blood everywhere, there was even a nearly dead skywing guard on the floor slowly bleeding out in a pool of their own blood, they saw flare and gasped before grimly asking him for help, flare tried to help them but any of the medical supplies that were left behind just burned in his talons. He kept trying to help them but after a short while the guard looked him straight in the eyes clutched their throat as their eyes rolled into the back of their head and they took their final breath, then fell limp to the floor as the pool of blood only got bigger.
Flare was shocked by this, he was only a dragonet, where was his mum? Why is there a dead dragon in his home? What or who's voices were those? Why was the house trashed? What is the blood on the walls?
He heard talons scratching the floor nearby and quickly ran to hide, he heard a hiss as something moved around their house. 'How pleasant of a sight this is' this dragon said. 'Come out come out little dragon' it said.
Flare was trembling as he recognised the voice that was speaking to him, it was scarlet, she had personally come to take him. 'Little flare come out, I won't hurt you I promise' scarlet hissed through her teeth. Flare could hear her gold plated armour clunk on her as she prowled around the cave. Flare had remembered what his mother had always told him 'never trust anyone' he said to himself in his head 'that's what mum said!'
A suspenseful 30 minutes passed by of scarlet trying to persuade flare to come out of hiding, after she finally gave up and left saying to herself 'that runt must have flown away already..'
Flare came back out of hiding after Scarlet left and took one of the scrolls his mum had made for him. It was fireproof so he could read it by himself if she were to ever not be there, it was a nice little story about a scavenger and how they lived their life.  flare had always found scavengers cute and before scarlet wanted him he would go near their dens and watch them do whatever they did, he wish they  wouldn't be so scared of him and would speak to him, but he knew they didn't know dragon so didn't even bother trying to befriend one. He carried the scroll with him as he flew out of the destroyed cave and flew off into the forest.

Flare woke up with a gasp and accidentally had accidentally woken peril up with his fidgeting during that nightmare
'Hey flare, are you ok?' Peril asked 'you looked really distressed...'
'Oh, I'm ok, just a nightmare, I'm fine now, I love you peril' he hugged her tearing up a little
'Awh I love you too flare' she said hugging him back and kissing him on the forehead
Flare nuzzled her and cried a little before falling asleep in her comforting wings.