Painted Skies

Chapter 3

We all glanced at each other nervously. What were we sapless to say? "You are all going to tell us about yourselves. You will say your name, favorite food and color, things like that." Webs said and I was the first to stand up.

"Hi, my name's Hyena. I love eating charred lizards, my favorite color is gold. I have a younger sister named Onyx and an older sister named Lioness." I then sat down next to Flurry once I had finished

"Hi, my name's Flurry. My favorite food is frozen fruit popsicles, my favorite color is silver and I have a younger sister named Silverscales." Flurry sat down quietly next to me, Seashell, and Phoenix.

Shadowflight went up next, he smiled at me as he turned to look at Webs. I blushed and looked down at my talons. "Hi, my name's Shadowflight. My favorite color is purple, I love to eat ravins, I have a younger sister named Dawnmist and a younger brother named Windchaser." Once he was done he took a seat next to me.

"I'm Swamp, my favorite food is cow, and my favorite color is green, I have a younger brother named Leach and a sister named Crane. My other siblings were killed by IceWings," he said, lowering his head. I winced at the statement. My claws curled underneath me and my tail kept twitching back-and-forth as I looked up at Swamp.

Next it was Lemur. He slowly stood up and turned his attention to Webs. "My name's Lemur, I like bananas. My favorite color is pale blue or silver. I have a younger sister named Leaf, and that's all." He said, nodding to Webs before taking his seat beside Shadowflight.

"Hi, I'm Seashell. I like salmon and tuna, my favorite color is sky blue. I have a younger sister named Luminescence." The SeaWing nodded to Webs and took her seat.

The SkyWing cleared her throw before she started speaking, "The name's Phoenix, I like to eat mountain goats, my favorite color is sunset red, I have a brother named Eagle and a sister named Kindle." The SkyWing then sat down and smiled at the rest of us.

Webs nodded at the seven of us with a small smile. Then after a moment, he spoke up, "As you all know, you don't have any homework for the next week or two. So use that time to get to know each other better, you are dismissed." Webs announced and with that we all made our way to the Pray Center for diner.

"Well, now what do we do? We have two weeks until classes officially begin," Shadowflight said, tilting his head to the side. I shrugged and smiled shy at the NightWing dragonet.

I sighed and looked up from the scroll that I had just finished reading. I then stood up, stretched and walked over to Flurry and Seashell. We had gotten to know each other over the past few days. "Hay, Flurry, Seashell, whatcha doing?" I asked my two friends with a bright smile on my face. The IceWing dragonet jumped and I smiled sheepishly in response. Seashell just blinked and laughed quietly. "Tee hee! Sorry about that," I said with a nervous laugh. "I didn't mean to scare you, Flurry."

"Do you two want to go exploring with me?" I asked, smiling brightly at the IceWing and SeaWing. They both nodded, Flurry sighed and rolled up the scroll that she had been reading. "Where do you want to go?" Flurry quietly asked me and I just shrugged my wings in response.

Flurry ducked her head when Shadowflight looked her way. "You like him?" I whispered into her ear. She blushed a deep scarlet and stared down at her feet. I smiled at my friend and even Seashell looked amused at Flurry's expense. We then left the sleep cave and we walked down the hallways. We explored the library as well, we even got to meet Starflight, the school's librarian and a former dragonet of destiny.

We even met Sunny and Clay. Fatespeaker and Starflight's daughter, Flashlight, was really sweet and kind. And unlike her parents, Flashlight had NightWing powers. She was walking beside a SeaWing and an IceWing, witch I guessed were her clawmates. "This is Tempest and Ermine," Flashlight said, nudging the IceWing with a wing to get her out of her scroll. I laughed quietly at the IceWing. She was just like me and Flurry.