Peacemaker

Prologue

It was a dark night. 

The only sounds of soft rain falling and drumming against the nightwings huts. 

Foeslayer lifted herself from a heavy sleep and blinked, staring around the dryness of her small hut. Sighing deeply, she lifted her wings that were speckled with twinkling stars, that shone in the darkness like tiny diamonds. 

The door opened with a slight creak, and the sounds of the nightwings snores stopped abruptly. 

Have they heard me? Foeslayer thought, freezing in place. 

But to her relief, the snores started again, and Foeslayer stepped onto the soft grass lining the side of her hut. She breathed out a small plume of fire, and it lit up the darkness around her, the moons shining brightly, one full and the others crescents, in the sky. 

The sounds of buzzing mosquitoes around her, as her ears flicked around wildly as she listened to the soft hum of crickets chirping. A wisp of cold wind touched her wings lightly, making Foeslayer shiver. She moved quickly through the overgrown forest. Making sure to not make a noise. Every few seconds, she would look up to the canopies, expecting the rainwings eyes on her back. But no, she didn't see a single rainwing on her way to their side of the rainforest. 

Foeslayer wanted so badly to spread her wings and fly above the canopies, but they would hear the whoosh of wingbeats from far away, and then her plan would be ruined. Soon, the trees spread out into a clearing, and on the highest tree, she saw the queen's pavilion, the rainwings hammocks spread out along the branches curving out of the pavilion. 

The light glow of moon globes shimmered through the leaf windows of Queen Glory's rooms, and Foeslayer ducked her head at the sound of wings beats flapping her direction.

No! No! They can't see me! My plan will fail! Foeslayer thought frantically, covering herself with large leaves as fat as a dragon's talon.

When she peeked through the leaves, she noticed, it wasn't a rainwing but a nightwing.

That must be Glory's bodyguard, Deathbringer, Foeslayer realized, her claws grasping the leaves. 

The dragon turned in all directions, his wings spinning wildly, but he started to flap towards Glory's pavilion. Foeslayer sighed in relief.

Thank goodness, she thought.

She crept along the ground, her wings tucked in so no dragon flying overhead would see her sparkly silver scales lining the undersides of her wings. Soon, she found herself at the hatcherie.

When she looked through the wood walls, she saw the queen's egg, the only one there. 

This is the royal hatcherie! Foeslayer realized.

When she got to the regular hatcherie, she crawled through a small hole she had carved on the outside of the hatcherie. When she had pushed her whole body through, she scavenged the whole place until she found her egg. It was ebony black, with rainbow speckles dotting the top and sides.

Foeslayer carefully clutched the egg in her talons.

I'm the only one who can do this, the only one who knows to do this. Foeslayer said to herself, padding out with the egg in her talons.

There was a small clearing, where the moons could shine down onto the ground, and she placed the egg there. Suddenly, it lit up, sparkling silver, and changing iridescent in the moonlight, no longer ebony black, but it still had the strange rainbow speckles dotting it's sides.

I'm sorry, Darkstalker, my child, but I can't allow you too much power. But I will grant you one gift, because no one else can do this for you. She thought solemnly. Images flashed through her head, Darkstalker. She saw the power coursing through his veins, the most powerful dragon in Phyrria.

She couldn't allow that to happen again, but she couldn't allow him to not be a nightwing.

Suddenly, the egg shell splintered apart, and a small dragonet clambered out of it. It looked up at Foeslayer with huge eyes, and small ruffles on the sides of it's head had sparkly rainbow dots. Foeslayer spread her wings in amusement, and the dragonet copied. Beautiful rainbow stars scattered across the underside of his wings just like Foeslayer's except rainbow. And Foeslayer smiled at him. He snorted in delight.

She noticed he didn't have silver teardrops next to his eyes, so what did he have? 

"Hello my little Peacemaker," Foeslayer said, smiling down at the beautiful dragonet.

"You are going to change the world."