Wings of fire A story of the sands

Chapter 3 The purpousful meeting

The next day Sandtail woke took sun beating down on his scales. He slept under the shade of a palm tree that night not far from the pool of water. He sighed. That Nightwing wasn't careful enough with her words. She said the Nightwing island. So they didn't live on the mainland!

He clutched the green grass and pulled himself up.  A lizard was drinking in the pool. Hey! He thought. That's my water! He slowly crept up behind the yellow lizard and stabbed his claws into its back. Cold blood bubbled out of its scales. It scrabbled under his claws but quickly stopped struggling and accepted its faith.

He shoved it into his mouth and it's juicy flavour spread across his tongue.

In the corner of his eye he saw black and purple tinted scales. That Nightwing! Joy bubbled up inside him. He bounded over to her. She smiled. "Hi!" She said shyly. "Why'd you come back?" He asked her tilting his head to the side. "Well...your my only friend..." He smiles at her. I have a friend.  Maybe I'm not so alone anymore... "You never told me your name" she said. "Sandtail,you?" "Starburst"

The name suited her bursts of purple instead of silver was across her wings. Her tail was also purple fading into black. They talked for awhile. "I bet the kingdom of sand is awesome!" Starburst remarked. "Not when your hunted and an outcast!" He hissed. She was was taken aback. "Your not? But...your nice!" "I was framed" She twined her tail around his. "I'm sorry I asked about your kingdom" Sandtail huffed. "It's ok..." She sat by him in silence. "I'll tell you...but don't tell another soul?" She flung back. "Never!" She yelped.

"Ok...it all started one day... I was the Queen Oasis favourite dragon, she treated me like royalty. I was the best friend of Burn..."
"Wow! Friends with burn what an honour!" Starburst interrupted.

"Anyways...we were training in the courtyard of the stronghold. Then Princess Blaze came up to me and I accidentally trod on her talon...the guards came out so did Princess Blister and-and she framed me of trying to kill Blaze!" He cried. Starburst gasped.

"Why would she do that?!"  Sandtail spoke but in a horse voice. "Because she knew me and Burn were friends" he stared at the black jewel taken out of his scales. He sighed.

"I'll tell you my story if it helps.." She recommenced. "Ok..." he sniffled. "I was just a dragonet...my mother had escaped the island,and she left me to rot.  I had to live with  these four other dragonets in the Nightwing fortress they were horrible almost pushed me into the volcano, hurt me, bullied me by burning my scales on hot rocks, said awful things to me...so now I run off everyday so I don't have to be with them" wow her whole life has been awful. And I've just been happy living in the sand kingdom. Nothing too bad happened to me. "Wow, that's worse then me thats just awful!" A sudden shape looked over head casting a large shadow across the dragonets.

They dragged there tails away from one another and stared up. No! She can't be found with me! A giant Nightwing loomed over head.