Little Small Horns

Day Four

Stem woke up at the foot of Lizards bed in the infirmary, forgetting for a moment why she was there. Until she remembered the IceWing who had stabbed her claws straight under his scales, into his back.
Only the fourth day at this school and she already: got attacked, got attacked again, made multiple friends, fell in love, and watched him plummet to the ground. Stupid IceWing!
Sunny walked worryingly in to the room, her scales reflecting off the shiny rocks around them. She risked a glance at Stem, and for a moment it was like Stem could have read her mind. Clearly Sunny's eyes proved that she was horrified at everything happening this year.
Sunny shoved her expression aside and said "I have received word that you're parents will be dropping off a pig for you. I believe his name was Dirt."
Stems heart leaped. She had missed playing with Dirt everyday, and she often wondered if he was doing the same. It never did seem likely.
Stem looked over her shoulder and realized that Lizard was twitching. Is he waking up? Please, please wake up! Although he didn't awaken, she had been given the slimmest bit of hope. He roared in his sleep, startling Stem and Sunny.
He then suddenly sat up. And with another roar of agony. His snout twitched as if he were trying to speak, though no sound escaped. He whimpered, and Stem wondered if she had seen a tear roll down his face.
"Healer!" Stem cried, "He woke up!" But no one came. "HEALER!!!" She called again... nothing.
Fricken blubbering frog heads! She thought, to herself, then a dragon, one she hadn't seen before approached the entrance. At first she couldn't determine what tribe he was from, until she realized the scattered red and blue scales. Proving to be an IceWing/SkyWing hybrid.
Sometimes Stem wished she were a hybrid, she remembered a time back at the cave, when a SandWing/MudWing hybrid walked by. She'd never seen one before, and she was fascinated by it.

"Mom! Are you sure that I'm not a hybrid? Like, yeah yeah. Dad's not a hybrid you're not a hybrid... wait are you sure you aren't a hybrid? Like maybe, just maybe, you're a MudWing/SkyWing hybrid. You're scales are slightly oranger than normal MudWing scales!"
"Stem I told you I'm not a hy—"
"But you could be! Maybe grandmother never told you that you were part SkyWing because she didn't even know! Maybe I'm only 1/16 SkyWing, because I inherited 50 percent of your genes, which would make you 1/8 SkyWing! Aha I think I've cracked the case! Since I'm 1/16 SkyWing, that makes you 1/8, which makes grandmother 1/4, which in turn makes great-grandmother 1/2 SkyWing! Which leads me to believe that my great-grandmother was a hybrid and one of her parents were a SkyWing!"
"Stem... breathe, okay. I'm not—"
"Exactly! I need to breathe because I talked for a long period of time, but MudWings can hold their breathe for an hour, so why would I need to breathe unless I was part SkyWing, and that 1/16 of me were causing me to need to breathe. I KNEW IT! I AM PART SKYWING THATS WHY MY SCALES ARE WEIRD!"
"Ya know what I don't care anymore."

Mother had been very unhappy when she had gone off on that tangent. She refused to talk about the conversation after that, and when Stem brought it up during dinner, she would leave the cave.
Later Stem headed to the prey center, but the moment she walked in, Dirt jumped on her back. Before she knew it she had run back to her sleeping cave, and away from the maniacs trying to bite Dirt off of her.
He cried, and whimpered in fear. So she lied down with him in her leafy bed and fed him berries she stored under one leaf, until they were both asleep.
Later she found out that Lizard wasn't able to speak because the IceWing had broken part of his vocal cord, but with surgery he would heal and speak again.

Soooooooooooooooo... yeah sorry I haven't posted in a long time. I've been very busy this summer, also if WattPad decides to say I tweaked this chapter a little, I did. I went back to check for errors, and it had literally not added half the words I typed. Also for the healer who walked in, I meant light blue scales, not blue like a SeaWing.