Chapter 4
"Where is the Sea Kingdom?" Raina turned to face Shadow, they had both stopped in the desert to rest. Shadow had been getting tired of carrying Raina, the RainWing hybrid had suggested they stop in a forest on the edge of the SandWing Kingdom.
"In the sea, where do you think?" Shadow was gnawing on a goat he had caught and Raina refused to eat.
"Good point, but how are you going to carry me across the entire sea?" Raina blinked at him as her glared back at her.
"We aren't going to the Sea kingdom." The NightWing growled, "Your only gonna get killed, while I'm shoved in a prison." He added, his yellow eyes narrowed.
"Yes we are, whether you like it or not!" Raina stamped her foot, she wasn't having Shadow's annoyingness get in the way of her plans for stopping any wars.
"No we aren't, you need me to get across the sea anyway!" Shadow hissed in her face.
"Two arguing dragons trying to get to the SeaWing palace eh?" Raina saw a light blue snout peek out from a bush.
Raina growled, "who are you?" She hissed, baring her fangs at the new comer.
"I'm Princess Storm of the SeaWings." A small, light blue SeaWing stepped out of the bushes and flapped down in front of Raina. She looked exactly like Rain, only a light blue instead of pale purple, she was a bit taller, and she was adorned with pearls.
Raina bowed before her, "I'm Raina of the RainWings." She introduced herself, "and that idiot is Shadowstalker of the NightWings." She flicked her tail at the bowing NightWing.
"Your majesty, this dragonet," Shadow flicked his tail at Raina, "is the one the RainWing Princess stole from, I believe your sister, Clownfish."
"Oooh, another Royal SeaWing. Exciting. Follow me, I can take you to my mother, Queen Dolphin." The SeaWing Princess piped, beckoning the two dragonets with her tail.
"Princess. Sorry to bother you, but I can't fly. I also don't exactly have gills." Raina said quietly.
"Can't fly? No gills? Wow. What did the RainWing Princess do to you?" Storm laughed, very much earning a glare from Shadow.
"Jewels raised her as a Royal RainWing. There's nothing wrong with a two year old dragonet not being able to fly." Shadow hissed, very defiantly at the SeaWing Princess.
"What about your gills? And your scale colour? That's not SeaWing colour at all." Storm waded into a knee deep river.
"Genetic mutation. It can happen y'know?" Shadow padded along the river bed as Raina splashed into the water beside Storm.
"Genetic mutation? Causing her not to have gills? Sounds like we're going to the Summer Palace." Storm flicked Raina with her tail as the river got deeper.
"Looks like it." Raina said as Shadow rolled his eyes.
"So? Raina? What was it like growing up in the Rainforest? Are NightWings really scary? Ooh, does Shadowstalker have mind reading? I have so many questions." Storm splashed river water on to Raina's snout, which somehow got a snort out of Shadow.
"The Rainforest is beautiful. There are so many different kinds of fruit. The next two questions, Shadow can presumably answer." Raina said, over enthusiastically.
"NightWings, other NightWings are very cruel, trust me, you don't want to run into either of my parents. And no, I'm a totally normal dragonet, no mind reading or foreshadowing powers." Shadow explained, glaring at the two princesses.
"Oh, okay, my parents are amazing, well my mother, Queen Dolphin, is I never actually met my father. King something-or-other. None of that matters now, I found the missing SeaWing Princess." Storm said, not paying attention to the growl coming from the NightWing dragonet.
"I never met my father either..." Raina said, her face falling at the thought of her family, would Jewels try to stop the RainWing Queen from killing her daughter? Or would Jewels be mad at Raina for running away? Those were questions she could get the answers to later, not now when she was on her way to the Sea Kingdom.
"You've never met your mother either, Clownfish isn't exactly the nicest sister I have, not the meanest either, she has another daughter named Waves." Storm thunked Shadow in the head with a fish.
"First off, that hurt, Princess whatever your name is. Second off, Raina is not Clownfish's daughter, she's Jewels' daughter. I will explain never actually." Shadow said, rubbing his head.
"You will explain how on earth that's possible right now!" Storm stomped her talons in the water, splashing water in Raina and Shadow's face.
"So, my mom, Jewels of the RainWings met my dad, Seahorse—yeah that's his name—of the SeaWings when she was out exploring one day. My mom events started having feelings for him and started trying to impress him—which she presumably or else I wouldn't be here, or I'd be a full RainWing— he eventually started having feelings for my mom and they had my egg, Jewels was carrying me back toward the Rainforest and found out Seahorse was—wait, now I know why the SeaWings are mad at Jewels, my father had two wives, Princess Clownfish and Princess Jewels." Raina explained, gasping as she figured it out.
"Three. Queen Cactus of the SandWings, she was Princess Cactus then, they have a daughter named Sandstone." Storm stuck her nose up like Raina did whenever she knew she was right.
"I have another half-sister?!?! How disloyal is my father?!?!?"
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