Hearts of Fire and Ice

Chapter One~ Snowdrift

Get out! Nobody wants you here, Snow! You're not a true IceWing... 

The thoughts raced through my mind as I flew over the tundra, away from the IceWing palace. My home. Or what was my home. The sun shone down, reflecting of the endless expanse of ice and snow. Thank goodness IceWings could withstand bright light. 

It was Queen Glacier who had said those nasty words to me. It was Glacier who had forced me to leave the palace forever. Why was I even at the palace if I wasn't even appreciated from the start? My parents always favored my siblings over me, probably because I had a twin. I was the iceless twin, without any power and the weakest frostbreath of any IceWing alive. Queen Glacier despised me because of that as well. She always told me as a young dragonet my twin sister would become an important position in the IceWing army because of her abilities as an iceborn dragon. Anything she touched would freeze on contact. 

But then there was me, Snowdrift. Pale blue scales, average height for my age. I looked like a normal IceWing, unlike my twin sister. Her scales were a very strange shade of blue, symbolizing that she had taken all of the frostbreath out of me when we were still in our egg. Forever I had tried to hide my feelings, and I tried to act like a normal dragon. I spoke out about whatever I thought was correct, and I spoke clearly. Another reason for my parents and Queen Glacier to hate me. At least my sister cared for me. She is the only dragon who does now. 

The Ice Kingdom is huge. Come to think of it, I've never seen the whole thing because I was trapped in the palace with a bunch of dragons who loathed me. I probably should've run away when I had the chance instead of having Queen Glacier kick me out for life. The kingdom is a beautiful snowy paradise, filled with ice floes, tundras, and places of frozen ocean. As I flew farther south away from my former home, I couldn't help but think, this is amazing. I can't believe I've been living here for so long and never seen all of this!

Further and further south I flew. I had no idea where I was going or what I was doing, but I was free. Free from the dragons who despised me, free from my prison that was the Ice Palace. I was alone, on my own, in this vast and icy world. For a dragon like me, it was paradise.