The Lost Island (Wings of Fire Fanfiction)

Prologue

It was a normal rainforest night. The insects buzzed. The dragons slept. But under the watchful eye of a full moon, an egg hatched.  

"He's beautiful!" the dragonet heard. Somehow he knew that the speaker was his mother. Then he could see her. She was standing there in the moonlight, her scales pink with blotches of indigo. His father was standing beside her, pride showing in every part of him. He was dark as the night, with one wing wrapped around mother. On the underside of the wing, there were stars. "What should we call him, Glory?", the dragonet's father asked. "How about Fig?" "Hello Fig", the dragonet's father said, "I'm Deathbringer, and I'm your father. This is your mother, Glory." The dragonet just cocked his head in response. His parents started talking in hushed tones. Fig decided to look around. He was inside of a building made of wood. It was a small hut, with comfortable places to sleep and moonlight filtered in through a small hole in the roof covered with leaves. His parents were standing by the door, still talking. His eggshell lay in splinters around him. His parents stopped talking and turned to him. "Fig", Glory started, "it's time for you to go to sleep. Come here, Fig!" Fig got up and tried to waddle over to his mother, when she laughed and then said, "I forgot! You haven't really learned to walk yet!" She walked over to Fig and scooped him up. Fig gave a little noise of contentment as he snuggled in and shared his mother's warmth. Then she and father went to sleep with him in between them. As the animals outside continued their endless song, Fig yawned. He was sleepy. And so he slept.