The forbidden fruit

Thoughts

As Iceberg flew, gaining speed by every second and trying to blend into the white snow, the dark green forest came to sight on the horizon. His heart jumped a little and he lifted his wings to swoop above the trees and landed on the ground, claws burying in dirt to stop himself.

An orange head with long brown horns popped out of the nest at the sound of Icebergs arrival and huge skywing wings flapped behind it.

,,Hover!" Iceberg ran into his arms and gave him a huge hug. He felt his scales get warmer as he leaned against the skywings chest.

,,Woah, hello there." Hover laughed and closed up his large wings so they covered Icebergs whole body.

,,Why in such a hurry?"

Iceberg shifted on his talons to sit.
,,It's... my family." he replied. ,,My stupid brat of a sister found out that I haven't been at the palace the other night and she probably told my mom. Aaand then a guard tried to drag me to the throne room to talk to her, but he met the hard way. "

,,What do you mean, "hard way"?" Hover asked and pulled away.

Iceberg felt colder than ever all of a sudden. It was very uncomfortable. He never felt cold, he was an Icewing for moons sake.

Should he tell him the truth? It definitely wouldn't sound great, "I used my magic to enchant his chest plate into making his mind blank and then burning through his body."

But he could trust Hover. He knew he could.

,,I eh- enchanted his chest plate to make him disappear..." he replied with guilt in the tone of his voice. As he realized,what he did to that guard was pretty nasty and he could've done something less... cruel.

,,Disappear?" Hovers golden eyes were full of worry.

,,Yeah, something like that." Iceberg mumbled. He decided not to go further in detail, so that Hover wouldn't start to believe the obviously false legends. He didn't go insane, he could still think straight and he was completely fine. That guard was just unlucky to catch him in a bad mood, that's all. Was it?

Before he could think about it any more, Hover took his talons in his and tangled their tails together. It really threw Iceberg off guard, but his heart jumped a little when he felt the warmth of the skywings presence again.

,,I want to thank you for everything you've done for me Ice, it really means a lot to me." the orange dragon squeezed Icebergs talons.

,,I want to thank you for... you." The prince stuttered meanwhile the nickname Hover gave him repeated in his head.

,,Ice? It's so stupidly simple and yet so... sweet." he blushed and continued.

,,I mean you really saved me from all that bear crap happening to me in the kingdom. Thanks to you I realized how horribly I need to get out of there."

,,Get out?" Hover echoed. ,,What do you mean?"

They fell silent for a moment and Iceberg thought about what he said.

Did he really want to leave? "Is that even an option" was a better question. He never genuinely thought about being completely free of his royal family and their expectations. He could do whatever he wanted!

,,And I could do it all with Hover."

This episode is so short again I'm so sorry, I've been lacking motivation to write lately but hopefully it will return to me soon. Until then, these episodes will be shorter than usual.

And I have major artblock so they wont have banners (I will add them later don't worry)

Thank you for reading and see you in four days!

~Dopey