The Hybrid Sisters

Chapter 6: Ermine Is a Princess?

I stared shellshocked at what Tsunami had just told me. I stare at Tempest with wide eyes. "What? Are you serious? How do you know?" I stuttered out in shock and confusion. Tsunami nodded and I asked another question.

"Is Tempest royalty as well?" I asked, and Tsunami turned to the younger SeaWing. "Yes, she is, in fact." She replied, after looking under Tempest's wings for the star-spiral patterns under her wings. "So who's my mother?" I asked, looking up at the SeaWing. "Your mother is Queen Glacier." Tsunami said, I nodded in understanding. I still couldn't wrap my head around the idea.

"How did you find out that I was a Princess? i didn't even know." I asked, looking at Tsunami with curious pale blue eyes. "Your mother had come during conference day to visit her other daughter, Winter. She's a NightWing/IceWing hybrid, just like your friend Nightwave, and her sister Clearfrost, but there parents were captured by some revenge-seeking SeaWings, and they were killed in the end." Tsunami said, her expression turning from happy and exceeded, to Pained and sad. I gasped in shock, and turned to Tempest, who looked just as horrified as me.

"Three Moons! That's horrible. Nightwave never told us about her parents, she only told us that it was just her and Clearfrost. But that's all." I spoke up quiatly. Tsunami nodded and after that, we headed back to the Quartz Winglet's study cave. "What should we do?" I asked quietly, as I looked at Tempest with worried and nervous pale blue eyes. Tempest frowned and I sighed quietly.

The others looked up in surprise once we entered the common cave. Zephyr was the first to regain her voice.

"Where were you two all morning?" The SkyWing dragonet asked, tilting her head to the side curiously. Tempest was the one to answer her question, "We just found out something interesting about Ermine," The SeaWing said, with a wide smile on her face. "Well what did you find out? Tell us! Tell us!" The SandWing exclaimed, grinning widely at both me and Tempest.

TEMPEST

I turned to Ermine, who just shrugged and walked to the other end of the cave to go back to reading her scroll. I just sighed quietly and shook my head in amusement at my IceWing friend.

With a sigh, I took a seat beside Ermine, I could feel the stares boring into my back from the other members of the Winglet, but I just focused on my school work for the week. I would answer there many questions later but for now, I just studded with Ermine.

Ermine and I slowly walked over to Nightwave. I was nervous. Would she be mad? Would she be upset? Those thoughts kept racing through my mind as we went up to Nightwave.

I looked at Nightwave with worry. I never knew that her parents had been kidnapped by SeaWings. I felt guilty, I am a SeaWing. But she made friends with me, having no problems whatsoever. I wanted to ask her about it, but I didn't want to upset my friend. I looked at Ermine who had the same thoughts as me. Her face said it all, that's how I know what she's thinking.

"Uh, hey, Tempest? Should we ask her?" The IceWing asked nervously. I frowned and thought for a moment before I answered. "I'm not sure, Ermine. I'm not sure." I said, I turned to look at Nightwave, she was quietly chatting with Zephyr.

NIGHTWAVE

"Yeah, my parents were takin by SeaWings who had a grudge against my parents, but I have no idea why." I said, trying to think of any reason of why some SeaWings would want to get revenge on my parents.

"I was really young when it happened. I do remember that I had just learned how to fly, and my father was flying beside me, while my mother watched from bellow." I replied, a thoughtful look on my face. After a few secons of silence Tempest spoke up nervously, witch was so unlike the normally cheerful and happy SeaWing. "Umm... well, I was wondering. What made you become friends with me? I mean... I'm a dragonet from the same tribe who kidnapped your parents." I stared in compete shock and confusion at my SeaWing friend.

"Oh, Tempest, I don't hate SeaWings. I've learned to be more careful and cautious around adult dragons." I said giving my friend a comforting hug.

"What were your parents names?" Ermine chimed in, nervously. "My Father was a IceWing named Arctic, and my Mother was a NightWing named Foeslayer." I replied after a moment. Tempest then asked another question.

"What happened after your parents were captured? Where did you and your sister go?" The SeaWing asked, I lowered my head at that question. "We got captured as well, we were in a cage or cell of somesort for about two years. And that's how I got these," I then lifted my wings and my two friends gasped in horror at what they saw. There were scars lining the undersides of my wings.

"Okay, I think that's enough questions for today." Ermine stuttered out, in a quiet and tarried tome of voice. Tempest and I nodded in agreement, then Tempest and Ermine went back to studying there scrolls.

TEMPEST

I was not expecting Nightwave to tell the whole story... that was... that was... way more gruesome then I had been expecting. I turned to Ermine with wide aqua green eyes. "I was not expecting that... not in a million years," I replied, still shaken up by the whole thing.

I took a few deep breaths to calm my racing heart... Now I know what the right time for asking questions is. And sometimes it's not the right time or place to ask such personal questions.