Shootingstar of the Night

Chapter 5

"Rainwatcher, are you sure that we can't rest?" Shootingstar asked, exhausted, and Sleet gave her a mango. "I don't want to eat fruit. Especially that pineapple you just handed me."

"That is called a mango," Answered Sleet and Rainwatcher in unison.

"Who cares? Let's concentrate instead," said Shootingstar.

They flew for a few more minutes and the arrived a well-hidden bit of the Rain Kingdom at last. The dragonets had been flying slowly, no wonder they arrived later than the estimated time.

Getting on to their mission, they had to use their powers. Shootingstar and Rainwatcher used their mind-reading powers to try to locate where Darkstalker was, whilst Sleet decided to use her animus powers (Qibli already solved the problem of animus magic). 

"Dude why would you need mind reading when you can use animus powers???" Sleet asked. She then enchanted a piece of grass, and told the grass to lead the way. It led them to Darkstalker, and he was standing straight in the doorway, towering, hovering over the dragonets. 

"Oh welcome, my friends, I knew you would come. It looks like you really want to know about this rock. Guess what? I can control this rock and no animus magic can do anything from it. I am going to control the rock, and you can't get away from that," Darkstalker said. 

The rock was cursed. Shootingstar was depressed. Controlled? Why? Why me? Is it because Qibli turned you into Peacemaker? 

"Want to see how the rock works? Let's do this!" Darkstalker exclaimed, "Shootingstar, lock Kinkajou into jail. After all, she fed me that strawberry."

Shootingstar's eyes went azure blue with fire, and there she goes, using animus magic to lock poor Kinkajou into the jet black jail. 

"Nice," Darkstalker said with an evil grin.

"Why? Why doing this? Darkstalker?" Sleet asked, in horror and pain. Seeing her grandmother locked up in a dark prison sure made her felt bad, as if she had fell into a pit which was a thousand meters deep. Rainwatcher comforted her, as Shootingstar's eye changed back to her normal black colour, and fainted on the floor. Darkstalker ignored the dragonets, and left 

"Why did you lock my grandmother up? Why did you do that? Why? I thought we were nice friends... Why did you do that to me? You knew the closest family member to me was my grandmother!" Sleet exclaimed with fury, her ferocious look, with blazing fire shining in her eyes, which can kill you with one glaze... Sleet looked like she wanted to slaughter Shootingstar.

Shootingstar trembled, and open her eyes. "What? What did I do? What happened? Why am I on the floor?" she asked, puzzled on what was happening around her.

"It doesn't work like that, Sleet, she was controlled. Let's free Kinkajou now. Shootingstar, are you okay?" Rainwatcher said, thoughtfully.

"Yes. What happened?" Shootingstar was still curious to know the answer.

"Long story. I will tell you later," Rainwatcher replied.

"Oh wait your eye colour had changed," Sleet said.

"Of course. Are you as stupid as that? Now let's get on with work. We need to free Kinkajou, then go find Qibli and Turtle, let Qibli put the anti-animus earring on Turtle's duplication bowl, then Qibli and Shootingstar can have one each. Then they would probably be free from Darkstalker," Rainwatcher explained, using her high IQ.

"Whoa... the genius is here..." both Sleet and Shootingstar said in unison.