Power of Destiny: Fly Trap

Chapter Four

Prismarine flew towards the setting sun, keeping an eye out for the Mud Kingdom. The only thing he saw was trees below, and he also saw several puddles that glittered in the dying sunlight.

"Sooo...." Saturn said, breaking the silence.

Prismarine looked at him sharply, and he accidentally crashed into a tree. He felt the pine needles stab him, and he fell to the forest floor, crashing through more needles until he landed. His ribs ached, and Saturn landed next to him.

"Are you okay?" He asked, worried.

Prismarine nodded. His stomach roared with hunger, and he looked around. He heard a growl behind him, and he saw Saturn with a light embarrassed blush.

"Whaaaaaaaaaat," he said. "I'm hungry!"

Prismarine nodded. I know that we should stop and hunt, but my heart says to keep going.

But if I don't stop, then I might not be able to help them.

Prismarine then swooped down, grabbing a bird mid-flight. He offered it to Saturn, who devoured it in a single bite. "Thanks, Prismarine."

Prismarine nodded, and he found some nearby fruit. It looked like a normal mango, but it had green and black flecks. He bit into it, and offered some to Saturn. "This tastes really good, for a mango."

Saturn nodded, and he finished it off.

"So," said Prismarine. "We're going to a small village in the Mud Kingdom."

Saturn nodded. "Whyyyy do you want to know? Did you forget or something?"

Prismarine shook his head. "I don't think so." He felt darkness pressing against his vision, and he gestured to Saturn to lay down, so they could go to sleep. Prismarine closed his eyes, and darkness flooded his vision.

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He is standing on a rock, seeing a vine twisting over several dragons, choking them, flooding their vision until their eyes are going blank. White as the inside of coconuts, the color of maggots. They all shambled forward. He then saw several unknown dragons rising up to defeat them, and his heart sank as he saw a familiar dragon sitting on a rock, her entire body covered in blood and a green-and-yellow vine, covered in a familiar red-and-green plant with tiny white flowers.

The breath of evil. Venus is covered in it, and some unknown plant, possibly a different version of the breath of evil.

He turned, seeing a blue dragon's face flash behind him, then cycling to show several dragons: one was white, then pink, and one was him. He stumbles back, before he sees a faceless IceWing reaching for a ball of white, then they are flying away, holding a ball of light, and then the world goes back, and he wakes up.

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Prismarine jolted up, seeing Saturn lying beside him.

I wonder if that was a vision, he wondered.

But even if that was a vision, it will never come true.

None of my visions will ever come true, so all of those dragons must be safe, right?

Prismarine turned to look down at his talons, his goggles slipping, covering his eyes, so his talons seemed blurry.

I'm not that brave, even if one of my frenemies is evil, and I have to stop her.

"Hey, Saturn...."

"Yeah?"

"Have you ever been in a prophecy?"

"No....why do you want to know?"

"Um....no reason."

"Did you have a vision?"

"Sort-of? I mean, it wasn't clear. I don't think it'll really happen, though."

Saturn nodded with acceptance. "Okay."

Prismarine nodded. He looked at the hybrid, then turned towards the brightening horizon.

"Ready?" He asked his best friend.

Saturn nodded, and they leapt into the sky. Prismarine felt the wind on his face. He wondered again who had sent the scroll to Jade Mountain. He wondered if he and Saturn were too late, and he sometimes wondered if all they would find would be a dragon corpse.

Prismarine landed on the edge of the Mud Kingdom, waiting for Saturn to catch up with him. Wingbeats behind him signaled his best friend's descent. The obsidian hybrid turned to look at his friend. He ignored the slight flutter of his heart when he saw him, and he opened his mouth to greet him.

"Hey, Saturn."

Saturn nodded, and he dropped more of the fruit, plus some dead goats. The hybrid grabbed the fruit with his tail, and swept them towards him. Saturn grabbed the goats, and the two hybrids started to eat silently. Prismarine felt the wind blow into his face. Prismarine felt the mud squelch underneath his talons, and he wondered what was happening to the in-distress dragon that had written for help.

They must have thought that maybe one of the dragonets of destiny would come to help, not some half-starved dragonets.

Prismarine wondered what was going through the dragon's head. Prismarine tried to use his mind reading to search for the dragon.

Hello?

Mystery in-distress dragon?

Are you still alive?