"My dad won't like this 'meeting'," Firefly protested.

They were in the royal garden, waiting for the queen and her loyal bodyguard to arrive. Lychee had sent out a Rainwing to inform Glory that they had something important to discuss. That was, of course, the tiny scavenger currently rampaging in the beautiful flower beds.

"Right, he's terrified of scavengers," Lychee said.

"No he's not. He just thinks they look really weird," Firefly bellowed sarcastically.

They giggled together for a minute while their other companion ripped numerous flowers from the ground with its patched up paws.

They weren't able to use any of the leaf bandages provided in the healers hut, so they grabbed a pouch (supposedly used to carry around darts) and tore it to tiny shreds. The scavenger was surprisingly smart enough to wrap its own paws with the tan cloth.

"I'd just like to point out that I heard all that," said a familiar voice from behind the two dragonets.

They wiped around to see Glory and Deathbringer sitting behind them. One had an unamused expression on while the other looked both skeptical and like she's trying to refrain from laughing.

"Mom ! Dad !" Firefly exclaimed.

"Good afternoon Queen Glory ! You too King Deathbringer," Lychee greeted. The queen nodded, signaling the peachy-pink Rainwing to start explaining.

"We found a scavenger near a river we wanted to know what you think we should do with it."

"Why don't we just give it to a Nightwing to eat ?," Deathbringer said, keeping a close eye on the creature destroying the garden. Lychee's snout crinkled in disgust as he said this.

"She doesn't want it to get eaten," Firefly remarked.

"I guess we could drop it off at the scavenger den north east from here," Glory offered. "Is that all ?"

"That sounds like a good idea, your majesty," Lychee started. "But don't you think it's weird ? Why would it come to the rainforest ? What was it doing here ? Where did it come from ? Are there more here ?"

"Uhh.. You're going to have to ask Sunny about this. I only know the basics."

"Then can we go visit her ?"

"I'm afraid your going to have to wait a while before you can dump all you questions on her. Which brings us to our next topic of discussion." Glory looked at her dragonet. "You've been invited to join Jade Mountain Academy."

Firefly didn't respond directly. Of course the princess of the Rainwings and Nightwings would get invited, but did she want to leave ? Yes ! It would give her a chance to explore Phrryia more and she'd get to meet dragons from all the different tribes.

Maybe there will be hybrids like me !

She didn't realize Lychee was grabbing her by the shoulder, shaking her violently while begging for her to accept the offer and take her with her.

"Okay, okay ! I'll go !" Firefly said, a little dizzy.

"Alright then. Now... Deathbringer ! Could you please stop that tiny demon from murdering anymore of Tamarin's innocent flowers and escort it to its new home ?"

Deathbringer looked horrified for a second. "No way ! What if ... another assassin tries to kill you again ?"

The two dragonets started laughing while the older Rainwing just rolled her eyes.

"Come on, you !" the Rainwing queen said, pointing her snout at the trees to say it's time to go. "I'll see you two girls later."

The royal pair took off side by side, the Rainwing seemingly teasing the Nightwing relentlessly while bumping wings slightly.

"Bye !" Firefly called after them.

"They're still the cutest couple in the whole of Phrryia even after they're all married and with dragonet," Lychee sighed dreamily.

Firefly raised an eye ridge. "I don't even know what to say to that."

Meanwhile, their scavenger friend had plucked a red flower from one of the woven vine pots Tamarin uses to plant the flowers that don't grow in the rainforest in. It put the flower behind its right ear and walked over to the dragonets calmly, totally different from its mood a minute ago.

"Oh look ! It's wearing a poppy," Firefly announced, pointing at the scavenger in front of them. It swatted her claws away almost immediately.

"Maybe that's her name. We should call her Poppy from now on," Lychee said.

"Her ?"

"Yeah !"

"Ok then."

Note : Nothing really special happened here, just some talking and stuff. I'm currently working on a illustration of Poppy so that I could get started on making a book about the scavengers in this one (Yes, there will be more)