Joy couldn't wait. It was currently 10:30 and her parents had told her to go to bed hours ago so they could get up early because Glory had to help the D.O.D get the school ready but joy could not no matter how hard she tried go to sleep. She was to excited to go to bed. Tomorrow she would be going back to JMA with all her friends. Sadly all her friends had been busy over the summer, so joy hadn't seen any of them during the summer. Well none of them in person. Of course she had video~called them all. She missed them all so much she would even except the company of winter and seashell. Joy was filled with so much energy. Everyone in the palace was asleep.

"Are you on a sugar high?"

Joy rolled her eyes. Almost everyone was asleep. Her brother had been watching her jump on her bed for half an hour.

"Just because I have had five popsicles does not mean i'm on a sugar high!" Joy stated.

"Uh~huh, well i'm heading to bed and I suggest you do the same if you want to be able to get up tomorrow." Rainkeeper suggested with a roll of his eyes.

"Ok..." Joy said waving goodbye to her brother with no intention of going to sleep any time soon.

After her brother left Joy looked at her phone as an idea sparked inside her head. Why not see if any of her friends were awake?
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Air was looking out to the cold harsh night. No, it wasn't that she didn't like the night. In fact she actually thought nights were calm and peaceful. But not this one, this refused the sun to shine it glorious light over the land and claim a new day. This night didn't let time pass. This night trapped her in a world of shadows that she felt would last forever. It was if the entire world was against the idea of her seeing her friends and returning to jma again. Suddenly her phone dinged breaking her out of her trance. Surprisingly it was in the JMA Winglet group chat. And it was Joy.

Joy: Hey anyone awake?

Air:I am

Nightflyer: So am I

Kelp: Yep

Seashell: I SURE AM

Winter: Nope

Qibli: Winter definilty is and so am i

Moon:Present

Joy:Great..........Happy new year

Seashell: It's not New Years though

Joy: I meant a new JMA year

Seashell:oooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Nightflyer was sitting under a tree outside his bedroom window, staring up at the sky when he had got the text. He smiled as he replied feeling better that his friends were awake and even better that Air was awake. As he watched everyone reply he couldn't help but feel a twinge of sadness. His friends were so close (at least most of them) yet felt so far away. It felt like torture to not be able so sneak off to Jma in the middle of the night and see Air's beautiful brown eyes light up when she got excited about something or got an idea or felt inspired. Nightflyer shook his head at himself in the dark if he thought about his friends he would only miss them more. If he thought about Jma more he would only long to be there more. If he thought about them he would only be torturing himself and then he might never fall asleep. He smiled at himself knowing fairly well that he would not be able to get any sleep at all anyways. Then his phone dinged again. And again. And again. Then it wouldn't stop dinging. His phone was going haywire! he quickly grabbed it expecting to see nine million text messages from one of his friends but instead...found nine million text messages from his sister. Turns out she was playing her favorite game the one that she texted him starting from 1 going all the way through the numbers till he broke a texted her back or in this case "wake up". Firefly didn't know that nightflyer was awake. But how could he be asleep? Then he heard a small scream followed by giggling and his mother's voice which suggested Firefly had been caught awake. Nightflyer knew that he only had a few minutes before his mother entered his room. Alarmed, Nightflyer hurriedly climbed back through his window, unlocked a small drawer, shut the drawer and relocked it. Just as nightflyer hurried over to bed, threw the blankets over him and closed his eyes nightflyer heard his door open. His mother seemed to stay there for a minute silently seeing if he would open his eyes to prove he was awake. But nightflyer knew better, his eyes stayed shut until he heard his mother yawn, shut the door, and her footsteps back to his parents room. As nightflyer lay there in his bed with the happiness that his friends were awake too the day appeared to finally catch up with him and he closed his eyes and did the unthinkable that night. He fell asleep.

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Moonwatcher was staring up at the moon when she got her text messages from her friends. After all Nightwings were known for living up to their names. She smiled at the text taking comfort in knowing she wasn't the only one of her friends that was awake in the middle of the night. Moon laughed as she spotted Qibli and Winter's response. She felt a small tugging at her heart. She missed her friends. Everyone in the group missed each other (well expect Winter who refused to show any emotion, but everyone knew that he truly cares}.

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Twins lay in the darkness of a small room, listening to the waves splash against the shores of their home. Both of them awake. Their parents asleep. Both knew the other was awake. One of them wished for morning. The other wished for the night to last forever. Both their phones dinged. Kelp smiled at his friend's responses. Seashell rolled her eyes at their responses. Then she fell out of her bed hitting the floor with a thud, nearly screaming at the fact that winter was awake and responded. This caused Kelp to roll his eyes at his sister, watching amused. "Oh shut up!" Seashell grumbled when she saw her brother's reaction to her freak~out. "I didn't say anything!" Kelp laughed. "YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO!" Seashell whispered loudly. The twins laughed but then slammed their eyes close when their angry mother burst into the room. "GO TO BED!" she said sternly.

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Qibli smiled when his phone dinged. Sleep was impossible and he was getting bored. He smirked as he replied to Winter's comment. Then his heart nearly exploded right out of his chest when moon replied. He missed all his friends bot especially moon and winter. "HEY, go to sleep!" Thorn's voice rang out through the halls.

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Winter yawned in the small abandoned house near Jma that he currently called home (he had too much pride to ask one of his friends if he could stay at their houses). Why couldn't he fall asleep? He secretly knew why. 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And nine friends fell asleep awaiting the new day with exciment. Oh if they only knew what was is store for them...

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