King of The Dragons (Wings of Fire X Monster Hunter)

Part 2: Chapter 14, 15, & 16

(3rd Pov Glory)

'Death bringer.
Waiting for someone. A few someones.
You haven't seen any seen of the dragonets, have you?'
Glory's head was spinning as she flew away. Was the NightWing here waiting for them?

Deathbringer. Seriously?
The only dragon she knew of who the NightWings wanted dead was her. As soon as Morrowseer had laid eyes on her, back under the mountain, he'd decided she was going to mess up the prophecy. So he'd ordered the guardians to kill her, which was why she and the others had escaped. Had he sent Deathbringer to finish the job? Why waste all that energy hunting her down?

But Deathbringer had sounded as if he was waiting for more than just her. She wondered if that meant the other dragonets were in danger, too.
Surely the NightWings wouldn't kill off any of them. That had to mess up the prophecy much more dramatically then Gory could.

She landed next to her friends and nearly gave Starflight a heart attack.
"IceWing!" he yelped, flailing over backward. Tsunami leaped to her feet, teeth bared. Stormcaller looked amused. "Look out! It's - oh." Starflight took a deep breath as Glory's scales shifted back to brown and gray. "Glory! Why would you do that to me?"

"Because it's hilarious," she said. "And shhh." She thought they were far enough away from Deathbringer, but she wasn't sure how far sound would carry in the cold, crisp air.
"You looked very sparkly," Sunny said sleepily.

"I nearly clobbered you with by tail," Tsunami said in a severe voice.
"And I nearly bit your snout when you were snoring last night," Glory said. "So I guess we're both models of self-restraint. Jambu, wake up." She poked her brother, who was the only on who'd slept through Starflight's alarm.

"Too cold," he mumbled, flopping one wing over his head. Stormcaller had turned off the heat when Glory had returned.
"Too bad," she said and poked him again. "Besides, if you get up and move you'll feel warmer."
"More sleeping," he insisted, folding the other wing over his head as well.

Glory sighed and left him alone. "Starflight," she asked, "do you have any idea how literal a NightWing's name is? Like, does it always signal something about what they do?"

The other dragonets started getting up and stretching. Starflight scratched his head. "Well, there's Morrowseer," he said. "He can see the future and deliver prophecies, so that's what 'seeing' the 'morrow' is about."
"Yes, thank you," Glory said. "I figured that one out."
"And there's Stormcaller," he continued, "but we haven't seen him call in any storms, yet. So, like, a fifty-fifty chance."
"We just haven't been in a situation where one would be needed," Stormcaller said ominously.

What was that supposed to mean. When is there a situation dangerous enough to need a literal storm? Because one would have been useful when they were in the Sky Kingdom.

"But they didn't know Morrowseer would be a prophet when they named him?" Sunny asked curiously. "Not all NightWings are. So how would they know that?"
"Maybe another prophet foresaw it," Tsunami joked.

Starflight poked the frozen ground with one claw. "I don't know any more than that," he said. "Morrowseer hasn't told me any NightWing tribe secrets. And you've all read the same scrolls as I have."

"True," Glory said. "Lots of epi nonsense about wonderful NightWings. They have all these awkward mouthful names. I think in the stories their names do usually match their skills, if I remember right."
"Why are you asking?" Starflight tilted her head at her.

"Because I just met one," Glory said, "and I thiiiiiiiink he's here to kill us. Well, me, at least."
That got their attention in a hurry. She told them about Deathbringer and everything he'd said. Almost everything, anyhow. She didn't want them to figure out that she'd though he was kind of cute. That is, before she realized he was there to kill her.