chapter 12

I haven't saw Evergreen in the last few days at all, maybe it is finally time to begin my plan.

Had that StormTalon...whatever her name was, was she the reason that Evergreen had left in the first place?

I sit in the Evertree in the center of town that I could overlook the whole village from my point in the high branches.

Do Rosewings still live on there old island before Queen Lily brought them there? Or had they left because something had forced them to like a dangerous other tribe or creature. My mind drifted. I had heard stories that the old Queen had been the one to grow the very tree that I sit in.

Somedays my mind is filled to the brim with questions about the past the present and the future of Plaera.

Once I am the next leader of the Rosewings I am going to make the Rosewings the strongest tribe on Plaera bring this archipelago to peace.

"Fern your up there watching the village again aren't you?" Lichen called up

"So if I was?" I ask as I glide down.

"Isn't that also called spying and is seriously rude?" Lichen asked. Even though his eyes were covered I had a feeling he was scowling at me.

"I just want to make sure no dragon needs anything and if they need help I can know right away. So it's for a good reason Lichen." I inform him.

"Hey Lichen wanna check out my new.....oh fireweed forgot you are blind." Stump called. He dug the spike at the end of his tail into the ground in frustration.

"I can use my plantseeing to look at I'm guessing your new carving." Lichen replies as he walks over.g

"Oh yeah cool come on!" Stump exclaims and leads my brother off.

Herb was carrying a few baskets of fruit into town, I see a branch snag his talon and he tumbles forward the baskets of fruit falling off his back, the fruit flys out and scatters in front of him.

I run over and help him up. "You okay?" I ask.

"Yeah I'm fine just didn't notice the root there." Herb sighs and rubs at the shoulder that he landed on.

We pick up the fruit, taking over to the river to clean it.

"So what would you think if we got Kings and Queens again?" I ask trying to sound casual.

"It'd be cool I guess but I feel like I remember that the reason that Ash made the council because was he was overwhelmed with all the work and wanted to help as many dragon as he could." Herb answered.

"Also I think Mushroom may have an crush on the former princess Kigelia." Herb mentions.

"Oh that's interesting." I say. I look away he didn't know that of how I felt about Mushroom.

Herb stares at me curiously for a moment.

"What's wrong?" Herb asks 

"Nothings wrong I'm fine." I lie dropping the apple I had cleaned back into the basket.

I would rather not tell him about my crush on Mushroom or about the rejection, that was something I would rather keep to myself.

"You know sometimes now that I've got my own dragonets to care for I pity my parents from how hard dragonets can be to deal with." Herb comments.

"Yeah it must have been hard for them, you must have been quite the troublemaker." I give him a grin.

"Hey! I wasn't a troublemaker!" Herb yelps.

"Hm and if I were to go and ask your parents about that what would they say?" I ask.

"Well that doesn't matter but I must be off I've still got this delivery to make bye Fern." He lifted the baskets back onto his back and walked off.

If I earn a good enough reputation around the village my tribe would be fine with me leading them....wouldn't they?

I walk around the village seeing if there was anything else I could help with.

I see Mushroom talking with Holly and Ash.

I walk over to see what is happening.

"-And so I thought it'd be a good idea so we can help one another more." Mushroom said.

"What?" I ask as reach them.

"A task board Fern so the tribe can put out requests for help when they need it." Holly explains.

"It dose sound like a good idea." I state.

"Then I guess it well be decided we'll place it next to the Evertree and let the village know" Ash decides.

"I will go and see that this board is bulit." Holly states before she heads off.

~•-<☆>-•~

I am currently out collecting some wild fruit for me and Lichen.

I think sometimes wild fruit is better then the stuff we grow.

I collect some strawberries and blueberries for us.

Plus it meant Herb didn't have to grow as much for everyone to eat.

We try to make sure no dragon went hungry though if we don't know where someone lives we can't exactly help them.

I do wonder how Cometflights know what time it is, I feel like most if not all of their tribe lives in their mountain.

I looked to the sky to see where the sun was. I could still see the sun peaking out behind the cloud cover.

Looks like it may rain later though.

I stretch my wings out and give them a good flap.

My wings will sometimes fall asleep if I don't use them enough in a day, and I Hate the feeling of them waking back up.

Pov switch

I was stalking a heard of zebra.

I then spot a streak of Cheetahs.

There not stealing my prey...Again.

I take a dash forward and leap straight for an older looking zebra. 

I had startled the herd but I didn't care. I kill the zebra quickly making sure that I wouldn't lose thr catch

The streak of Cheetahs glared and growled at me then turned and ran off.

I pull the zebra up and heft it onto my back making sure it's secure up there before I use my Swiftclaw speed to dash off.

I come to an acacia tree and set my meal in the shade and sit to eat.

I hear what sounds to be the nearby roar of an lion. I brust up to my feet, then I notice the drongo perched up in the tree.

"Your not stealing my prey ya dumb bird!" I call up to it. I finish eating my meal, I knew that if I just left the bones there some other creature would come and take the last little scraps that I hadn't finished.

I walk off from the tree in tent on finding somewhere to sun myself. Sunning myself always feels like I'm recharging my super speed.

I lay down stretching my wings out as far as they could go.

We Swiftclaws have short fur over our scales.

I hear two Swiftclaws pass me nearby.

They are probably racing. I think to myself

Then I hear them shouting at one another. Not my problem I don't have to go interfere.

"It was my prey I was handling catching it!" The first voice shouts.

"So what if I wanted to join you!" The second growls back.

"I don't need your help Flash." The first one complains. I hear a set of pawsteps coming this way, I fold my wings not wanting them stepped on. But they of course trip over my tail.

"Sorry! Sorry! I didn't see you there!" They apologize quickly getting to their feet and taking a few steps back.

"Okay it's fine." I say hoping to get back to being able to sun myself in peace.

"Oh by the way I'm Dash." The other Swiftclaw introduced themself.

"PhasesStripe."

Pov switch

ForgottenMist had suggested that we got something to eat.

We had agreed to head to the restaurant that ShadowSeekers sister worked at.

"Hey Shadow I wasn't expecting you to be here today." The Cometflight at counter commented.

"Yeah Nightsky we decided to come by." ShadowSeeker responds. "These are some of my new friends." ShadowSeeker introduces us.

"Ah now you all know what you might like?" Nightsky asks.

After we all order we sit and wait.

Cometflights seem to be a very unique tribe.

"So where do you think we should head next?" Aquamarine asked Gale.

"Maybe we could try for the Winterhorn." Gale suggests.

"But how would we stay warm?" I ask.

"Hm I don't actually know." Aquamarine responds.

"Well me either." ShadowSeeker agrees.

"Wait what's a Winterhorn?" Niea asks.

"An icey and fluffy tribe of dragons that have two pairs of horns." I answer.

"Ah well I don't think I've seen them before." Niea replies

"Yeah well Winterhorn's usually tend to stick to their own territory." I explain

"Though there's been a few who come by to our market island." Aquamarine states.

~•-<☆>-•~

We had returned back to the prophecyr cave.

"Well I think you all should be off." ForgottenMist suggests.

"Yeah that probably is an good idea." Aquamarine agrees.

We got ready to head out on the hunt for our next member of the group.

I filled a bag with fruit to take to the Winterhorn islands well we searched for the Winterhorn. Windrider was preening his wings on the table beside me.

"Do you really need that much fruit for one trip?" Niea asks me.

"We don't know how long we'll be there so I'm gonna take a bunch just in case" I explain.

"Ah that makes since" Niea replies.

"We almost ready?" Aquamarine asks the group as she walks into the room. She had often been taking charge.

"Just a bit more fruit and I'll be ready." I reply. The others had already finished and were just waiting on me now. It did drain me to grow all the fruit I was taking along.

"Okay ready." I tell Aquamarine.

"Then let's go." Aquamarine says leading the way out of the cavern. We had came up to an cave that was closer to the exits of the Cometflight kingdom.

We take off and start our journey to the Winterhorn kingdom.

Niea road on my back again. Windrider flew at my side

The wind blew at us hard. I could feel Niea's arms tight on my neck as she clung on.

"Hey Gale can you make the wind go another way." Aquamarine asks.

"Yes that'd be very nice." Seafoam agrees poking his head out of the bag he sat in.

"It's just going slowing down our pace to get there if we keep fighting against it." ShadowSeeker agrees.

"Okay uh I'll see what I can do." Gale replies.

Gale's flight turned more into gliding then flying as the wind changed direction.

"So she has to glide to do whatever she's doing?" Niea asks.

"I guess so." I answer

Gale flew back up and next to us. "I'm not the greatest at it so I have to really concentrate to do it." Gale explains.

"So it's not as easy as flicking a wing." I comment 

It looked like Seafoam and Aquamarine were having there own conversation over where Aqua was flying at.

We flew for most of the day. "Maybe we should find somewhere to land for the night it's getting late." Aquamarine suggests.

"Yeah that sounds like a good idea my wings are exhausted." ShadowSeeker agrees.

We fly down to the nearest island.

Rosewings weren't an typical nocturnal tribe so I have no night vision.

"It's probably super dark in that forest." Niea comments.

"Yeah it does look pretty dense." I agree.

"Well would you rather sleep on the beach or in this shadowy forest?" ShadowSeeker asks.

"I can work with the beach." Niea answers

We set up camp for the night and I let Niea off my back.

Niea begins digging through her bag.

"What are you searching for?" I ask her

"A portable bed I packed." Niea answered.

"Humans are so smart with creating stuff like that." I comment.

"We like to do this thing we call camping where we go and sleep in the forest outside our home for a few days so we have this kind of stuff."

Niea makes us an fire, offering us warmth during the night though Aquamarine and Seafoam slip into the ocean to sleep.

I lay down and try to fall asleep to the crackling flames.

I awake later in the morning.

I get up and stretch. It looked as though everyone else had already woken up. "Finally awake ya sleepy clam?"

I turn to see Aquamarine was grinning at me.

The fire had died out over night. 

By the fish bones at her and Seafoam's feet I guessed they must have already ate.

I inform the group that I am going to head off to find some food in the forest so I don't eat into my supplies. Niea asks me to bring her something back.

I find an apple tree and picked from it. Grabbing a few extra for Niea.

I return to our campsite.

"Here I brought you a few apples." I say handing her two.

"Thanks." Niea smiles and takes a large bite out of it.

"My groups apple harvest wouldn't be ready for another few weeks, so this is awesome I love apples" Niea comments.

So the two of us eat our apples.

"Wow I don't think I have ever slept that long." ShadowSeeker comments.

"Yeah I don't typically sleep long either." Aquamarine agrees.

"Wouldn't it be because both of you would have stuff in the mornings?" Gale asks.

"Yeah I guess that would be the reason." ShadowSeeker agrees.

I wonder if there would be any special powers that the other tribes would have like how my tribe has Plantseers.

"We should get going after we eat we don't want to waste time." Aquamarine states.

"I've already ate so I'm fine." Gale replied.

"What about water? We'll need something to drink." Niea asks.

"We can stop for a drink if we get thirsty." Aquamarine answers.

"Actually we can't it's saltwater it'll only make us more thirsty." Gale offers

"Okay let's go find some freshwater get an drink then leave." Aquamarine states.

And so we head into the forest to find freshwater.

Niea walks beside me this time.

"So what kind of things do you humans make?" I ask.

"Stuff to help improve our life like stuff for late night patrols and the people of my island are trying to make a machine to clean salt out of water." Niea rambles

"Well that all sounds like a good things to make." I comment

"Yeah it is." Niea agrees

"So what do you do in your group?" I ask. My curiosity sparks up

"I create armor and tools" Niea answered.

"Why do you need armor and weapons?" I ask Niea.

"Incase we get attacked by dangerous creatures obviously." Niea answers.

"Oh...I guess that makes sense." I shift my wings not sure what else to say.

"I miss my group." Niea comments

"Yeah and I miss my older brother." I add.

"You have also been gone from him longer then I have been away from my group." Niea says.

"Oh yeah that's true." I respond. We were flying over the ocean with no current nearby islands.

"So are there a lot of people in your group?" I ask.

"Yeah there are quite a few who live in my group." Niea answers.

"And are there many uh plant dragons on your island." Niea asks.

"We are Rosewings and yes there is a whole tribe on my home land." I answer.

"So do you know how many dragons live on Plaera?" Niea asks.

"No definitely not" I answer. "I would never be able to keep track of everyone."

"So there's that many huh." Niea comments.

"Well there's enough to crowd a smaller island and more who don't go to our market" I explain.

"We'll reach the arctic islands by nightfall if we don't make any more stops." Aquamarine glances back to us as she speaks.

"Okay then let's try not to make stops then." Gale replies.

"Wait Aqua how do you know exactly where we need to go?" I ask.

"A mental map I've scouted most of the ocean in Palera." Aquamarine answers. "It's what I'd do when I didn't want to fight."

"Oh so I am just assuming you often didn't want to fight" I comment.

"Well obviously I hate the idea of taking another dragons life so why would I want to go out to the battlefield and attack Featherscale's." Aquamarine swished her claws around in the air as she spoke.

I glance down at the sea far below them and I swear I see a TideStream that I recognize.

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