Wings of Darkness

How could he know

Welcome back, one and all, to the new installment of the series, "Wings of Darkness"! As always, listen to some of your favorite music, bang your head, and enjoy the fic.

The Dragonets stood together as they always did... but this time... it was different. They were ragged, torn, bloodied... beaten. The world shivered as if it had been beaten as well. Even the stars above were wronged... two of the three moons were gone.

Clay, though he was beyond injured, stood in front of the dragonets, his wings held out in a feeble attempt to shield them... from the large shadow in front of them that stared at them with a crazed, maniacal look on its face.

The world trembled even more as the shadow stepped forward. Clay's muscles tensed, his wings trembling not only from exhaustion but also from trying to hide the fear he felt.

"Soon, little dragons..." the shadow whispered, pausing before leaping at them. "YOU WILL BE MINE!"

Starflight shot out of bed, gasping as he lightly hyperventilated from the panic. He sat there for a while, grasping his chest as his heart almost felt like it was about to beat out of it. His breathing eventually calmed, and his head fell back onto the bed.

He could feel the warm sunshine through the window of his sleeping cave... but yet, he saw nothing.

Starflight sighed, getting out of bed and opening the door to his room. He stepped out and down the hall that made up his friends' home inside Jade Mountain. He could hear his friends waking up as well as their thoughts. A smile crept onto his face as he felt his talons step onto the smoother floor of the main room, memories flooding back from the last three years.

All the Dragonets, now adults, had pledged their lives to keep the world at peace—helping officiate every meeting, hunting down criminals, and just keeping the peace altogether.

Icicle and Winter had gone straight to the Sky Kingdom after the war to try and find out what happened to their older brother, Hailstorm. Unfortunately, what they did find only made them more confused, discovering that he wasn't dead, but nobody knew what had happened to him—not even Scarlet's old advisors who survived her before her demise.

Icicle was actually out right now with Crane in the Sky Kingdom, looking for more clues on their break.

The last couple of years for the IceWing siblings had been... well, eventful, to say the least. After the war ended, Queen Glacier decided to keep Winter with the dragonets, which infuriated his parents. What really pissed them off was when Icicle decided to stay with them as well. Winter often joined Icicle on her searches, but he was almost always training with Qibli when they weren't doing something for the group.

It's actually kind of funny—those two are almost polar opposites, but they've become such close friends. They often team up for missions. The progress they've made with each other and their powers is... staggering. It wouldn't surprise him at all if, in the next couple of years, they became the most powerful.

And their teamwork...

Starflight shivered as he slowly found one of the chairs in the main room and sat down. Last year, Qibli and Winter decided to test how strong they were by challenging Clay to a one-on-two... They had to stop early, almost bringing down the whole mountain during their sparring match.

Starflight smiled again as he thought of the MudWing. He'd caught him last week practicing proposing to Peril. After the war ended, the two of them only grew closer. When they weren't busy running around Pyrrhia, Clay would watch Peril practice her new hobby, or they'd go hunting together.

Peril had found a hobby in glass-making and sculpting. Her firescales and skillful control of fire made her a natural at it.

Starflight winced as he heard yelling down the halls. "Wake up, squid-for-brains!" Poor Riptide. He felt bad for any dragon who happened to fall for Tsunami of all dragons. Riptide and Tsunami had started dating last year, with Riptide claiming, "He was into that..."