10 years later

A dark purple dragon was resting in a hammock, a margay was laying next to her on a thick branch that stuck through one of the windows of the tree hut. The purple dragon slowly opened her eyes and yawned. Her eyes resting on the margay. She reached with one of her talons to the cat-like creature, and gently pet it. The margay chirped and woke up as well, blinking at the bigger creature, before washing her pelt. The dragon started making her way around the hut, looking if she had any more food stored. When all she found was a dead mouse, she shrugged and threw it towards the margay, who gladly took the offer. "I'll be right back, Stalker", she called to the margay. The dragon looked for a few more moments at her pet. This was how her days used to go, just her and her margay, alone, isolated in the rainforest. Barely any visitors, no company, just her and Stalker. But things changed, things changed ever since the RainWings got their new queen, which was almost a year ago now. Things didn't change in a bad way, they were just... different. One of these changes was currently awaiting the dark purple dragon at the other side of the door. As the dragon exited the house, she noticed a dark red, nearly black dragon sitting on the balcony, shivering. "Dawnbringer? What are you doing here?" The dragon looked at her. "I was waiting for you to come out, what else would i be doing at your door?" The purple dragon looked questionably at her. "How long have you been sitting there?" Dawnbringer seemed to think for a minute. "Since shortly after the RainWing's suntime." The purple dragon sighed, she walked up to Dawnbringer and wrapped her wing around her. "You know I only wake up when the moons are visible, why didn't you just, wait at home? Come by later?" Dawnbringer looked at her. "Because I forgot. All the other Nightwings wake up shortly after midday, why wouldn't you have, Abysssight?" Abysssight shook her head, it wasn't the first time she found Dawnbringer waiting at her door, but usually she had the sense to come by in the late evening. Abysssight drew her wing back after sitting there for a minute. "Say, i was going to gather some berries and fruits, as well as perhaps some small animal for Stalker to hunt, she prefers her food fresh. You wanna come with me, it'll warm you up." She saw her friend shiver at the mention of her margay. "Sure, I've got nothing better to do anyways. Btw, why do you still call your pet that? Doesn't it make you uncomfortable?" Abysssight shook her head. She had known what went down in the night kingdom a few weeks ago, but she hadn't been a part of it. "Stalker has always had her name, ever since we found each other five years ago, she's used to it. I'm not changing it because of what happened with Darkstalker and the nightwings." "Oh, ofcourse." Abysssight spread her nearly black, star-covered wings, and prepared herself for take-off, and flew out into the dense rainforest. Dawnbringer followed close behind her, her friend clearly seemed to have a harder time manoeuvring through the trees then she did, so Abysssight decided to look for the easiest route.

The two landed on Abysssight's favourite gathering spot, mostly because it held a lot of mangoes, her favourite fruit. Dawnbringer started looking around the various plants, sniffing the flowers, and pulling up her lip whenever she saw a fruit, as she usually did. Her friend wasn't much of a fan when it came to non-meats. Abysssight knew she was close to the RainWing village, and looked in it's direction. It had been a while since she saw a RainWing, in fact, she had not yet seen the new queen up close. She had only been able to see her once, from afar, when she visited the new NightWing village. But she didn't mind, she liked it this way. If she could, she never wanted to see a RainWing again. Abysssight shook her head and concentrated on gathering food again. The two were doing their own thing in silence. Abysssight liked it that way. Despite the fact that everything had changed around her in the past year, she still wasn't used to all of it. She wasn't used to the fact that there were NightWings close by, real NightWings, and she wasn't used to the idea of not being alone. She remembered the first time she went to visit the New village, or at least, back when it looked more like a camp than an actual village. Most of the other NightWings showed no interest in her, she might as well have been completely invisible. She didn't blame them, ofcourse. After all, they had just lost their home, their queen, and had been completely and utterly defeated by a horde of pesky RainWings. She wouldn't want to meet new dragons either. Well, there was one dragon who didn't quite think this way.

"Okay, you are just a NightWing, meeting other NightWings. There is nothing to be ashamed of. You just haven't, you know, seen or talked to any NightWings in the entire nine years that you've lived. See! There's NOTHING to worry about!" The purple dragon was pacing back and forth between the massive trees that formed the Rainforest, just outside the soon-to-be NightWing Village. "Come on Abysssight, you can do this. I'm sure they're going to be better than the RainWings were." Abysssight, the dragon still needed to get used to her new name. She had chosen it after she had decided to visit her real tribe. Abysssight sounded NightWing-like, right? She hadn't known her parents when she was young, she always assumed she was just some mis-formed RainWing, the fact that the other RainWings thought this of her as well, didn't make things much better. But she wasn't a RainWing, she never wanted to be seen as one again. Abysssight looked through the trees at the camp. The truth was that she had no idea what NightWings were like. In fact, she only learned recently that there were more dragon tribes other than the RainWings and the brown ones she sometimes saw when she was out exploring as a young dragonet. She used to fantasise about the idea that there were more tribes, but she never thought there would actually be more. If the information she had was correct, there should be 7 tribes total. How could she possibly have missed out on seeing 5 more, completely different tribes? She shook her head clear, it wasn't the time to think about that kind of stuff. She took a deep breath and made her way into the camp. She looked around, the space was filled with all kinds of black dragons, or at least, nearly black dragons. None of them were fully black, as she had assumed. She looked at her own dark purple scales, and let out a sigh of relief. At least her scale colour wasn't as weird as she'd imagined. She noticed that most of the NightWings were either working, or clustered together in small groups of 2 to 4 dragons. 'Families?' Abysssight assumed, a pang of bitter jealousy seeping through. The RainWings didn't do "families", looking at the small groups, of which most seemed to be happy despite the circumstances, really made her heart ache. She would never be able to know what that felt like, living with a loving family. Not now she knew who her parents were, and why they weren't there for her when she needed them. One of the workers walked her way, Abysssight, waved at him, rehearsing her own introduction, but the worker didn't even look at her while he walked past. Her confused gaze followed the worker. "Well that was rude" she half-whispered to herself. She took a few steps forward, still staying close to the outside of the camp, she didn't want to draw too much attention to herself. Suddenly, she heard someone yelling. Abysssight turned her head, to see where the sound came from. Two nightwings seemed to be fighting about something. The eldest one looked quite big. She had dark scales that gave off a red shine, she also looked quite ill. The other dragon, a blue-ish black male dragon who didn't look much older then Abysssight herself, seemed to be upset about something. She couldn't quite hear what the two were on about, it also wasn't her business. She decided that she'd best leave these two alone, they didn't seem in the mood for meeting new dragons anyways. Just as she was turning to make her way further, the youngest dragon ended the yelling match and started running away. Abysssight wasn't able to react in time, and he clearly wasn't paying attention to where he was going, causing him to run into her. She was just about to say "I'm sorry" when a burst of pain ran through her head. 'Not again... Not now' she thought, but she wasn't able to stop it, the other dragon seemed to say something to her, but she couldn't understand him. She held in her breath, trying her best not to scream at the sudden pain, the last thing she wanted was to make a scene. After a few seconds, that felt like a whole minute, the pain finally ebbed away. "Are you okay?" she heard a voice say. The male dragon was gone, the voice instead came from a reddish dragon, who'd come to sit next to her. "Need to find something." Abysssight whispered. "What?" The other dragon was staring at her. "No, need to find someone." she whispered again. 'Wait, who do i need to find?' Her head was still hurting, she could feel the other dragon shaking her. "Hey, you there? Can you hear me?" Abysssight looked around in confusion "What happened?" she asked. The other dragon shrugged her shoulders. "I would actually like to know the same thing." she answered. "You were muttering something about finding someone. Are you lost? Are they lost? Are you okay? You seemed to be in pain." "I don't..; know?" Abysssight noticed that by now a lot of dragons were staring at her. "Well, how about I take you to my mom's hut. She usually knows what to do. Can you stand?" Abysssight tried to find her footing, and slowly let herself be led to a small, wooden hut. "Watch out for your head, it's still a work in progress". The dragon said. It took Abysssight a few minutes to come to her senses. The dark red dragon was discussing something with two other dragons, one of which Abysssight had learned was the red dragon's mom. That dragon had also given her some kind of calming drink. The red dragon turned back to Abysssight. "How are you feeling?" she asked. "Better, thank you." "Soooo... What happened?" Abysssight shrugged her shoulders. "Headache attack. It's happened before." "And the whole looking for someone thing?" Abysssight shook her head. "When I get these headaches, my brain gets confused, which causes me to sometimes say random things. I wasn't looking for anyone." The red dragon nodded, and seemed to think for a minute. "Say, I haven't seen you around, who are you?" This was it, either she'd be the outcast again, or she'd prove to herself that NightWings were indeed better. "I'm Abysssight." she started. "And yes, I didn't grow up amongst the other NightWings. Which is why you wouldn't have seen me before." The red dragon looked at her, her eyes shining with interest. "Nice to meet you Abysssight. I'm Dawnbringer by the way. My mom's named Bloodmoon, and the other dragon, my dad, is called Stormbreaker. I could give you a tour if you're feeling better." Dawnbringer was smiling at her, it had been a long time since anyone smiled at her. Maybe things would be better here, and maybe, she would be able to live amongst the other NightWings. No more living in isolation. Maybe finally, she would have some place to call home. "That would be nice, thank you."

"Hey, Abysssight, are you listening?" Abysssight shook her head clear, her memory fading back into the background. "What is it?" She looked at her friend, who seemed to have been picking flowers while she zoned out. "I was wondering why you haven't come to the village ever since, you know, Darkstalker happened. You know the place is safe now, right?" Abysssight let out a huff. "I've never been afraid of that dragon. I've never met him, and he's gone now. It would be a waste of time for me to now get worked up about him. No, I just didn't feel like I was needed there right now." "Oh, I see." Dawnbringer looked kind of taken back from what she had said.The truth was, that Darkstalker did have something to do with why she didn't want to visit the village. But it was not in the way Dawnbringer would think it is. No, Abysssight had been trying so hard to fit in, to belong. But the events that happened proved to her she would never be like the other NightWings. She had always known she wouldn't belong, just like she didn't belong amongst the RainWings. But there was a time she had hoped that she was wrong. Her mind quickly going back to her first time visiting the camp. How naive she had been. But in the end, all NightWings except her were put under Darkstalker's spell. Proving for once and for all, that she didn't belong. "Why, is there a reason I need to be there?"Abysssight asked, while picking some more mangoes and stuffing them in the little bag she brought with her. "No, not really. I was just, you know, curious. That's all." Dawnbringer fell silent for a minute, she seemed stressed about something. "Are you okay?" Abysssight asked, some concern seeping through her usually monotone expression. Dawnbringer suddenly started talking without leaving any breath-breaks. "Actually, I sorta, kinda wanted to know if you'd maybe be able to come eat with us tomorrow night. I know you usually refuse the offer but it would be really nice if you'd come. As it's kind of, you know, my 14th Hatchingday and I hoped you would be able to come as well. I know this won't change your mind but there are also some new dragons that I believe you would like to meet..." Abysssight looked with a stone-faced expression at her friend while she rambled on. "Wait... It's your Hatchingday tomorrow and you're telling me this now?" Dawnbringer stopped talking and took a few breaths. "Well, I thought you wouldn't be interested in it since you never told me yours." She eventually said. "I never told you my Hatchingday because I don't know when I hatched. The RainWings never bothered with things like this. All I know is that my egg hatched about ten years ago. But of course I want to come over!" Dawnbringers eyes lit up, "Oh, Thank you Abysssight!" Abysssight could feel her friend's arms and wings wrap around her. 'Hugs', something else Abysssight wasn't yet used to. "Hey, how about we go drink something at my house? I've gathered enough fruit for the next couple of days anyways, and I can always let Stalker out of the hut if she wishes to hunt, she always comes back about an hour later anyways." Abysssight said after her friend had let go of her. "I'd love to. Hey, maybe we could celebrate your Hatching day tomorrow too. You may not know when it happened, but it has to have happened at some point, sooo..." Dawnbringer made one of her 'Look, I'm so clever' faces, which almost always caused Abysssight to leave a chuckle. She was glad that she had a friend like Dawnbringer, that made at least one dragon that didn't want her to be as far away from them as possible.