The sun was shining down from above by the time Sunny arrived at the Scorpion Den at noon.  She was in a good mood today.  She was planning on celebrating both Nocturnal's supposed birthday, which made him twelve, along with the day Thorn had become the new Sandwing queen.  Thorn was planning on doing the same thing at her palace, which made everyone happier.  It was like a sign that everything would be alright, and that the world was becoming a much more peaceful place.

          As she walked into the Scorpion Den, she noted that the party she had heard about last night was still going on.  Hundreds of dragons were singing and partying, while others were taking advantage of the excitement, and selling as much food and merchandise as possible.

          Sunny quickly ran to the center of the den.  She had some outclaw friends which she was planning on meeting.  Maybe they would be able to give her some advice for the party she had planned.

          She was dismayed to see that there were only a few outclaws at the time, and most of them were out in the shopping areas making sure nothing bad happened instead of being by the oasis.  Luckily, she knew one of the dragons that was present.

          "Six claws," she said with enthusiasm, running over to the older dragon.

          "Long time no see," he said, shaking her hand.

          She made a funny face, and shivered when they starting strolling through the camp.  "I'm not trying to be rude about this, but I don't think I'll ever get used to the whole six clawed dragon hand thing.  So, where'd everybody go?"

          Six claws chuckled.  "Sorry you wanted to see all of us today, but most of the outclaws went to celebrate with Thorn.  Even with her being the queen for twelve years, they still see her as their leader.  I mean I guess she is, since she is the Sandwing queen."  He syed, looking at the outclaws that were walking around the oasis, keeping guard.  "I'm still not used to this whole leader thing.  Ever since Thorn has had her new role, and gave me her original job, all the outclaws have come asking me all the questions.  I get that I'm supposed to tell them what to do, but I just don't think I give off the same sense of strength that she does."

          "You'll get the hang of it," Sunny said.  "Thorn got used to being a queen, my friends and I got used to being teachers, so you can definitely be a leader.  Don't try to be like Thorn though.  If you try that, who knows what everyone will think of you."

          "Thanks for the reassurance and advice," he said walking off into the den.  "Sorry, but I've got to go check and see that the party hasn't gotten out of hand.  I'll be back in a few minutes probably.  You'll probably find Sandstone somewhere around here.  Last I saw him, he was at the other end of the Oasis."  With that, Sixclaws waved, crouched, and leaped into the air, flying over the Scorpion Den.

          Sunny wandered in between the faded colored tents, until she saw a near white Sandwing that was pacing around a prison looking structure.

          "Hey Sandstone, how's it going?"

          Sandstone looked confused at first, until he realized who was talking to him, and then he waved.

          "What was that face for?"  She tried to stop herself from laughing, but failed miserably.  "You looked like a one year old dragonet trying to understand the concept of reading."

          Sandstone syed.  "I don't know to many dragons, so when someone calls my name, it's kind of weird for me."

          In most cases, Sunny would have given a sympathetic look and a pat on the back, but her attention had went to the strange red and silver Skywing in the building next to her.  He looked extremely underfed, and looked like he was trying to sleep, but was failing miserably.

          "Who's the prisoner of war?"

          "Oh him?  He's some strange Skywing that was found wondering around lost like an idiot.  We had to lock him up when he started yelling about being a scavenger and a human, and how there was only supposed to only be one moon."

          Sunny's face became concerned.  "Are you sure he isn't this way because of malnutrition?"

          "Are you kidding?  We've been trying to give that guy food ever since we caught him.  He'll just nibble at it, and then he spits it all out and throws all the food at us.  I know we don't have the best cooking in all of Pyrrhia, but our cooking can't be that bad can it?"

          "I could probably try and get him to at least talk if you give me about five minutes," she suggested.

          Sandstone shrugged, going into the party in the streets.  "Watever floats your boat.  You probably won't have to worry about him attacking you either.  He hasn't even blown any fire at us."  His voice slowly disappeared as he left.

          Sunny turned back to the Skywing, intent on getting him to at least talk a little.  "Hey!  What's your name?"  The Skywing slowly sat up, staring blankly back at her.  He didn't look angry, or upset.  He just seemed a little nervous and tired.  "Come on, you've got to have a name.  I'll tell you mine.  It's Sunny."

          The Skywing just kept starring at her, the blank expression on his face not changing or moving a bit.  For a while, Sunny was sure he wasn't going to talk, and was about to search for Sandstone, when the Skywing opened and closed his mouth.  He struggled to talk or even make a noise at first.  Then, he coughed, and he finally spoke.

          "Why.....  Do yo...  Want.. Know my name?"

          The question seemed fair enough, and she was happy had decided to talk, so she came back to the bard up opening.  "I want to try and help you, so knowing your name makes it a whole lot easier to talk to you and do that."

          The Skywing struggled to breath for a second, and the sound that came out of his mouth was a long weas.  "Sorry to say this, but I can't recall any names.  In fact, I can only remember my eye color, that I'm fifteen, how to talk, how to move, that there should be one moon, and that I'm supposed to be a person, or a scavenger as everyone seems to call them."  At this, his expression became a little sad.  "Everyone thinks I'm insane when I say I was a person, and there should only be one moon.  I guess that means you do to."  His grey blue eyes were reflecting off the light of the sun, which didn't help because he looked like he was trying to search Sunny's brain like a Nightwing.

          Oh crud, what am I supposed to say to that, she thought.  It looks like if I said that he was crazy he would commit suicide or something.  At the same time, he seems kind of paranoid, so wouldn't he just suspect I'm lying anyways?  "Look, I'm not sure if you were a Scavenger before or not.  I'm sorry you can't remember that much, but I'd be happy to help you when I have the time."  She grinned at this.  "I'm planning a party for my friends."  Then seeing his distant expression, she thought of something else.  "Hey, I work at a school near here, and one of my friends Starflight is a teacher there too.  I'm pretty sure that if I can't figure out your past, he can."

          The Skywing seemed to be considering this now.  "Hmmm...  Is there a library?  Are there any books?  Will I be able to read at all?"

          Sunny raised an eyebrow at this.  "You remember reading?"

          To Sunny's surprise, he started laughing uncontrollably.  After a while, he started coughing, a little bit of smoke coming out his mouth.  "Ow, everything burns," he said, grabbing his head and stomach.

          "You okay buddy?"  Sunny didn't think that sounded to normal.

          "Ya, ya, I'm fine.  But are you kidding?  I love reading.  According to what I can recall, it's one of my favorite things, aside from talking, writing, drawing, and daydreaming."

          "What's a book?  We have a few hundred scrolls now, but I've never heard of a book."

          The Skywing looked like he was about to say something, when all of the sudden he was interrupted by a flash of light in the air, the sound of fire, and then all of the sudden an explosion.  Sunny yelped in surprise as smoke began to rise from the center of the Scorpion Den.  This happened again and again, balls of fire going through the sky and crashing into the Den.  Soon the smell of things burning, the crackling of fire, and dragons screaming and shouting was everywhere.  The Skywing in the building just stayed huddled in the corner, looking out the opening in fear, his eyes wide.

          Then as Sunny was about to go into the action, Sandstone ran up to her, an expression of terror on his face.  "Sunny!!!  We need to get out of here!  The Scorpion Den is under attack!!!!!!!"

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A.N.

Hey, hey, hey, sorry to say that I'm gonna leave you at that for now.  Don't worry, I'll update soon.  So how do you like the story so far?  FYI, the Skywing is my character, so if you want to use him for anything, it would be awsome if you would ask me first.  Also, I will take OCs.  All I need is your dragons name, gender,species/tribe, age, history, and other.  That's all for now.  BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!  :-)