Light and Dark - A Wings of Fire Fanfiction

Chapter Twelve

Cascade and Ivy stared at eachother for a little. Finally, Cascade spoke. "I don't understand. You don't look like you're a one-year-old dragonet...but we've only had dragonets a year ago. Also, I remember 2 eggs in the nest. I don't see how you fit. Also, I don't understand why you wouldn't know Aquatic."

"That's because - " But she was cut off.

"I would have noticed. Kelp seems a little mad, but...I don't understand why. He was perfectly fine this morning." Cascade chattered. Ivy lashed her tail.

"Cas - mother!" The word sounded weird on her tongue. However, it got Cascade's attention. "That's because I'm not Kelp's daughter. My dad was Lichen." 

She hissed on the word Lichen. "Lichen's daughter?" She yelped. Her wing jutted back, cutting a hole in the kelp barrier. 

She nodded, giving her mother a rueful look. "I've been his daughter for my whole live. I wanted to meet the other half of my family and I decided to go to the sea kingdom to find you - " Her mother cut her off again. 

"I thought Lichen would kill his dragonets ages ago. He wasn't the smartest dragon." She added. If she was a Rainwing, her scales would probably be gray-blue. 

"If you thought that...why'd you send me away with him?" Ivy wanted a positive answer.  An answer that told her she didn't send Ivy away with him. An answer that told her the truth about everything. Cascade's reply was none of that.

"Because I didn't want to be an outcast among the Seawings. I didn't want to raise a dragonet that would be, too. I wanted you to have a good life in the rain forest, and I wanted to benefit from that, too." She didn't seem at all ashamed. Ivy's scales prickled angrily.

"You cast away you're dragonet because you wanted to be popular?" She flared. Her anger burst out, and she couldn't help it. "I grew up without a mother. I lived my life with a father who couldn't remember who he was. Now I come to find her, and I realize she just wanted friends, so she didn't want me!"

Cascade shook her head. "That's not how it is. You wouldn't have been happy. You wouldn't have any friends. You would have been tortured."

Ivy felt her scales turning red. "I wouldn't have cared! I would have had two parents, and maybe even brothers and sisters! Family is enough. Thanks to you, I didn't have that. I didn't have anything."

Her mother eyed her with an 'I disagree' face, but Ivy didn't care. Her scales were suddenly itchy and felt too big. She never thought of being a hybrid meant having a parent who might not love her. A parent who would give her up for her own happiness. She expected Ivy to die when she let her go. 

Suddenly, Cascade's eyes lit up. "Wait, if you've come here...Lichen must have took you! I can see him again. Where is he?" Their eyes met. Ivy choked out an answer.

"I don't know." 

Before Cascade could say anything, water filled up the hole. Ivy plunged into darkness. The last thing she saw was her mother's heartbroken expression as she slowly got smaller and smaller in the dark waters.