Once in Three Moons

[10] Secrets and Excitement

Sunny was playing around with Euphemia and Whisper was using different little stones and rubbing them together like flint and steel. There was a blue stone with black markings inside it and it looked a little like a glass stone. He was constantly rubbing different stones and gems for different times and as he did, it either sparked a bit or gradually changed it's tone of colour.

"Whisper, what are you doing?" Sunny strutted over to the male SandWing and watched intently as he stroked an indigo stone across the blue gem in quick, hard strokes. From a pale blue, the stone turned to a cloudy blue. He did this with a pink, yellow and black stone, and the base gem soon turned to a dark blue.

"Making a dreamvisitor," he replied in an offhand way, lifting the gem in his talons and flipping it around to check its sides. Then, he quickly lashed his tail up and pierced the little blue stone, the SandWing venom making it's way into it. The stone fizzed a bit, and Whisper placed it gingerly on his work space, which was a large, cut off chunk of boulder.

"Oh wow," Sunny awed, smiling at her companion's achievement. She had never seen such a peculiar method of making something. Especially not something this complex.

"Whisper, I-I've been wanting to tell you something..." Sunny let her sentence trail off.

"Yes?" The SandWing replied casually, admiring his new piece of art.

"Um, I want to go to the rainforest. To, you know... Check out Queen Glory and stuff." It felt unnatural for Sunny to call Glory a queen, but she shook she feeling off.

"What for?" Whisper further inquired, interested in his companion's sudden urge to go where he was constantly avoiding all this time.

"Oh, well I've heard from passing dragons that Queen Glory has found two dreamvisitors, and she says that there's only one left and that she has to find it or something," Sunny replied, trying to sound casual. Something in that made her voice quiver a little, and Sunny worried whether Whisper would oblige.

"Oh. OH, those dreamvisitors. Yes, I made them when I was held captive by Queen Glacier, back when the war hadn't ended yet. I dropped them while escaping, and she must've found them. Well, I'm going to take them back!" He sounded so determined, and Sunny wondered why he needed them when he could easily make more. Deep inside, she was excited to go back.

"Alright then, we'll go tomorrow. I've got to being some meat along because I'm not sure whether Euphemia eats fruits." Sunny told Whisper as she patted the little dragonet's head in a motherly way.

"Oh and Whisper, you'll need to take off the dreamvisitor on your ear. They'll have the advantage if its there," Sunny reminded her friend, who was pushing his stones into a corner.

"Okay," was his reply, as the male SandWing bounded over and removed his earring, dropping it into Sunny's open talons.

"Now go sleep. Its late," Sunny said softly, placing a talon on Whisper's. He smiled and nodded, then went to his side of the cave to go sleep.

Sunny sat there with open eyes as she watched Whisper fall asleep. When she was confident that he was in a deep slumber, Sunny finally relaxed and placed the little blue stone to her forehead and closing her eyes. She thought of going into Tsunami's dreams...

Sunny was hovering over the sea, watching her blue friend swim around in the ocean.

"Tsunami!" Sunny called, hoping that she would be able to hear her from underwater. Luckily, she did. Tsunami swam up and flapped into the sky, then the two headed for land.

"Whats up?" Tsunami inquired, water dripping off her glowing scales.

"I'm using a dreamvisitor to visit you. This is a dream, Tsunami. There's this dragon called Whisper, a SandWing. He was the one who stole your dreamvisitor," Sunny informed her.

"That devil! I'll have him as a squid-brain in no time!" Tsunami growled.

"There's no time to be angry!" Sunny scolded. Tsunami's eyes casted down.

"Tomorrow, Whisper and I are coming to the rainforest. I'll secretly return you your dreamvisitor, this one, but promise me one thing - you'll pretend to think that I'm allied with him, and that I'm the bad dragon. When you put him in the dungeon or something, put me there too. But not for real. Put me far away from his cell thing and make him think that I'm also captured. I'm also bringing a dragonet called Euphemia." Sunny paused for a little while, then continued, "no, I didn't have an egg with Whisper. I'll explain when I come tomorrow, and tell everyone the plan. Tell Starflight not to be so happy when I get here, because he has to act angry or surprised, like he doesn't know me. Alright? I trust you on this one because you're great at battle tactics and plans," Sunny gave her a smile.

Tsunami grinned back at her. "I'm excited. Are you going to tell Glory as well?"

"No. I trust you to do it for me. Don't wake up and forget about it, or I'm leaving. Okay?" Sunny looked at Tsunami square in the eye, and the two dragons grinned. Tsunami nodded and smirked.

"Can't wait to have revenge..."

Sunny woke up abruptly. Tsunami must've been shaken awake or something, she thought. Tomorrow, here I come.

A/n: sorry for the long wait!