Frozen Truth

Chapter 8

Do you guys think I should start naming chapters? If you say yes I will try... but don't get mad if I can't think of anything... ;D

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Moon's POV

Moon looked down at Winter, then at Qibli standing over him.

"Why..." She muttered, tears dripping down her face. A single tear landed near Winter's wound, he flinched, and tried to roll over, but he weakly yelled in pain.

Qibli stood there emotionlessly, watching Winter struggle.

"Why did you do this?" Moon choked out, not tearing her eyes away from Winter's body. She reached toward him then stopped. His arm was bleeding badly now... it needed to be fixed, desperately.

"He needed to learn a lesson,"Qibli said, turning to face Moon, he spread one of his wings to block the IceWing from her view, she angrily pushed  his wing aside.

"There's a cactus that can reverse the effects of SandWing venom... right?" She asked, no matter how hard Qibli tried, she wouldn't.... she couldn't... leave Winter to die.

Qibli paused before answering. Come on Qibli... he's your friend... please help him.... Moon silently pleaded.

As if her prayers had been answered, a look of horror washed I've Qibli's once calm features. He backed away,'his talons already blue from the spreading blood.

"I- I did that..." he said, his voice struggled to make noise, as if there was some unknown force, willing him not to speak, and he had to break that.

"Yes..." Moon's quiet voice rang out, she could hear blood pounding in her head. "Why would you do that?" She asked, her voice steadily rising.

"Moon.... I swear I didn't..." Qibli started.

"NO!" She yelled, standing up and looking at him with fire in her eyes. "I will NEVER EVER love you!"

Those words she could tell stung... he flinched and stepped back, his wings dropping noticeably.

"NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS, WILL I EVER LOVE SOMEONE LIKE YOU!" She yelled, her tail lashing as she stepped toward him again.

"Moon I-" then, without another word, Qibl disappeared around the corner.

"Winter..." Moon turned back toward him and hung her head. "Winter... I'm so sorry..."

Sunny's POV

Sunny sighed, setting the scroll back into its place.

"Thanks for letting me read here for a while Starflight," she smiled.

The NightWing behind the desk smiled toward her. His ears twitching.

The small golden SandWing padded down the hallway, humming to herself. When she suddenly heard someone... crying..?

She ran around the corner and saw Moon, a dragonet from the Jade Winglet, crying next to a silver body.

It looked like... Winter... but he left for Sanctuary a long time ago...

"S-Sunny!" Moon snuffed, looking up.

"Moon!" Sunny rushed  to her side, examining Winter's limp body. "What happened?"

"A SandWing accidentally scraped him.... I don't know what to do..." she looked at Sunny hopefully. "Could you help?"

Sunny smiled. "Of course I'll help!" She dashed down the hall, running into a small storage cave, taking out some of the cactus she rushed back to Moon, the pricks in her palms stung, and they even bled a little, but she ignored it.

Moon saw her rushing back and smiled happily.

Sunny used her claws and cut the cactus open, squeezing several drops onto the wound on Winter's arm.

"Do you know who did this..?" Sunny asked hesitantly.

The NightWing looked down, as if reluctant to tell her.

"Please don't punish him, he wasn't thinking straight!" She said quickly.

"Don't worry..." Sunny said, before her smile faltered. Wasn't thinking straight? Does that mean that this was an attack..? That it was on purpose..?

"It was Qibli..." she said quietly, almost to the point where I couldn't hear it. And I usually hear everything... even if I don't want to...

But... Qibli... why would he attack Winter? They're friends.... I'm definitely going to have to talk to him... as well as Thorn...

Why would one of my best former students do this? Winter could've died.... there's something going on that we don't know about... and I'm determined to find out.