The ✨Below✨ (WoF Fanfic)🐉

~*Chapter 2*~

Unfortunately, Oren and everyone else in the cave woke up unnecessarily early in the morning to Clay screaming: "NO! CHICKENS, GET BACK HERE!"

Last night was pretty boring since they all sat silently until sleep overcame them. Any attempt at conversation had been dissolved within the first few seconds, and, as awkward as this was, it gave Oren time to examine his surroundings.

It was a relatively big cave that was made purely for each of their tribes. The cave was originally big when they first saw it, but when they all got situated it suddenly seemed that it wasn't as large as expected. It had just barely fit the comfort of 6 dragons.

The cave had vines adorning flowers decorating the walls, as well as also consisted of a moon globe tree that had graciously been donated by Queen Glacier when JMA started. This tree was on a small ledge, which was covered in soil. The tree slowly grew on the roof with the small globe, providing light spreading across the roof, almost like the night sky. The cave had its areas for each tribe, however Oren couldn't see some of them since dragons were covering it.

On his small leaf pile below him, he heard Hornet groan and try to turn before scraping his horns on the cave wall, startling himself awake. Cautiously peeking down, Oren saw Hornet, half-awake, thrash his tail against the wall angrily–a mistake. The crack and shout of pain that came after caused every single dragonet in the cave to stir.

"Shut the fuck up," Frost muttered, turning around.

Seeing as they weren't going to wake up anytime soon, Oren quietly crept out of the cave, considering his options. His sisters often rose early, finding sleep a waste of time. He could visit them but worried that other dragonets would laugh at him for going into the other cave for his sisters after just one evening. Therefore, he decided to go explore the school instead of waking anyone up.

Walking slowly to the food cave, he passed the library, which was run by Starflight, who had been blinded when the Nightwing volcano erupted, assuming Oren got his history correct. Making a mental note to check it out later, he moved on. He also happened to pass the music cave, art cave, and theater cave, all furnished neatly with little plants. With each cave he passed, he was becoming increasingly excited about the activities to come.

Upon reaching the food cave, Oren saw that Clay had finally caught the helpless chickens; he had one in each of his front talons and was trying to put them back in their cage and probably planned to release them when there were more dragonets in the cave. Glancing around the cave, he saw a few early risers also looking around the cave for their favorite foods. Picking out a mango, a few pouches of nuts, and some juice, he found an unoccupied corner and started peeling the mango with his claws.

Just as he was finishing the mango, he saw two of his sisters, Acacia and Aurora, walk into the cave. Deciding to wait patiently for his sisters to join him, he watched as they picked out foods of their choice. He waved them over, and they came over; some of his siblings were vegetarian, others were not. Astraea had insisted that she would never eat meat again upon watching someone choke down an entire cow leg.

"Mornin'!" Acacia said brightly.

"Hi there!" Oren happily greeted her.

Aurora simply grinned at him.

After finishing their breakfast, they decided to go find their other sisters. Suddenly, Oren heard a loud boom. He and his sisters immediately ran to the cause of the noise and arrived at the cave where the other half of his class was. He then heard them laughing.

"Are you guys okay?" Acacia asked, concerned.

"Yeah we're fi-"

"WHAT HAPPENED?" Tiger yelled, cutting Chili off.