Wings of Fire; Beyond The Sea

Chapter 9

"Are you sure were going the right way?" Cacti asked as they walked through the dry, bare and spaced out forest that they had slept in that night. They'd chosen to continue on foot, at least through the forest since it'd be easier to hide if they needed to.

"I'm sure we're going the right way." Robin huffed from where she was walking beside the male SandWing prince. The two of them had taken the lead and had been bickering lightly all day.

Prince Cacti thought they were going the wrong way to the Night Kingdom while Robin believed they were going the right way.

"But are you super sure?"

"Yes! If you really need me to prove it just tell me to get out the map!" Her wings fluttered in annoyance as she let out a huff.

"I was just making sure." Cacti rolled his emerald green eyes with an annoyed huff of his own.

"For the millionth time!"

Snowflake, Trotzen and Python just followed silently behind the two bickering dragonets as they all continued to make their way through the forest. After a few minutes, it grew silent among the group, just the sound of the dry grass crunching beneath their talons.

Robin let herself wander in her thoughts as they continued onwards though the dry and spaced out forest.

I wonder what the Night Kingdom looks like, she thought with a light twitch of her long tail. It used to belong to the Sand Kingdom, so what would it look like?

Robin could remember Auntie Lavender telling her about how she and Salamander helped to rebuild the NightWing's and how they chose a new queen for them.

Queen Misfortunate.

Robin had never met the NightWing Queen, but she had heard that she was a kind and strong hearted dragon, a queen who protected and cared for her tribe as though they were her own dragonets. One time when she was sleeping over at their hut, she over heard Auntie Lavender and Auntie Salamander talking about Queen Misfortunate.

Robin was crouched down in the hallway, her side presses closely against the wall beside her as she hid within its shadow. Her ears were perked up as she peaked out slightly from around the corner to look over at her aunts who were seated at the carved wooden table.

Auntie Lavender had a scroll within her talons from what the little hybrid dragonet could see, but she couldn't see if Salamander had anything within her larger talons since all she could see was the older hybrids back and her two tails that twitched and swayed back and forth slowly much like a happy and lazy cats.

"I'm sure she's just being paranoid." Salamander said dismissively with a wave of her talons and a twitch of her ear, the earrings that clung to it jungled slightly, sounding like music.

"I'm not so sure, maybe she is barren."

Barren? What was that? Robin wondered as she continued to listen.

"Or, think about this," Salamander was silent for a few seconds, her talons together as they pointed at her girlfriend across the table, to which Lavender waited with a raised brow. "She could just be paranoid."

"No, she's not, you dumb excuse of a lizard." Lavender rolled her eyes. None of her words held any venom, just playful teasing as she spoke. "She's tried to have dragonets, even with multiple partners, but she can't. She's starting to believe she's the one who can't have dragonets, not the partners she's tried with."

"Then whats going to happen to the NightWing's if she is possibly barren, which I don't believe she is. She might just be picking out the wrong partners." Salamander shrugged, her wings twitching as she fiddled with her frill with her talons.