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Huh, really? An Icewing? I hope he isn't too stuck like mum said they are. Hey, he kinda looks familiar, Moon thought, observing his face for a bit while he looked at his directions scroll. Hmmm maybe I saw him NO WAIT REALLY!? Is he the one who glared at me for like 10 minutes!? Oh god this is gonna be good isn't it? I hope he just made a wrong turn somewhere.

The white and blue dragon glanced at her, then muttered something under his breath. He stormed into the cave without a word and coated a rocky ledge with ice, then he lay down on it facing the wall.

God dammit, looks like this is my clawmate. Not really talkative, but then again I'm not either. I hope this goes alright. He's probably going to be all stuck up to me for some "ANCIENT REASON BLAH BLAH".

Moon was curious to see if he was thinking about that, since she wanted to find out more but was too afraid to ask anyone, and opened her mind to read his.

Really she's| this is outrageous|pretty|ugly|STOP WINTER|Disgrace|Always better than you|LOST HIM!|go die in a hole|you're no icewing|Blackheared snakes|nightwings|not so bad.

Moon closed her eyes and took some deep breaths, luckily the icewing didn't notice. My god his mind is a mess. He must have been through a bunch of trauma. Moon felt kind of bad for the icewing seeing the mess of words and memories. She glanced over at him for a second and saw him check his scroll again.

Moon thought to when she had hissed at him. She had been trying to say she wasn't afraid of him, but that wasn't entirely true. Her mother had approved, seeing as how she, like the other nightwings, hated the cold dragons.

I wished I got to stay home in the rainforest. At least I wouldn't have to deal with all the school homework, other dragons and drama and maybe bullies.

I only got to stay with mum for a few years and now I'm stuck here. And it doesn't help I need to hide these stupid powers.

Instead of focusing on everything bad, she went back to reading the scroll she had been reading before. At least there were a bunch of different scrolls for her to read here, and even more in the cave! She had seen the titles and a lot had been now obvious hints she would be partnered with an Icewing. But this Icewing, really. A lot of the scrolls were really sophisticated, even though she is only four, she had probably read more scrolls than all the nightwings and rainwings combined.

At least her bed was made of leaves and moss, it felt just like the rainforest, just like home. When she had to sleep alone for months when Secretkeeper had to be with the rest of the tribe.

She decided to open her mind again to the cold dragon's. Luckily it was more calm now.

Can't believe i have to share a cave with a Nightwing. I can't ask for a new cave since there's only three and they are probably occupied by now.

Suddenly his thoughts shut off with a protective wall unconsciously. Moon had seen dragons like this, namely Queen Glory, when she is uncomfortable she brings up a protective wall on her thoughts automatically and unconsciously.

"Where did you get the map?" the Icewing asked gruffly.

Moon looked up from her scroll, "W-what?"

"That map you have. Where did you get it?" The Icewing repeated, sounding a little more grumpy.

"Oh, Fatespeaker gave it to me. You know the-"

"I know who she is," he interrupted. "The most talkative dragon I ever met. I'm just wondering why I didn't get one. I thought you might know."

He walked over to look at the map and the layout.

Moon felt a slight bit of her hope that maybe this was him being nice before-

"Or are Nightwings only allowed to have them, is it some Nightwing secret?" he said with venom in his words as he looked up at her.

Moon ignored this. "Maybe they're in short supply, like only one per cave.

Did you get a schedule scroll at least?"

The Pale blue and white dragon shook his head. "No, what about you."

He frowned even more when she nudged the schedule scroll towards him.

WE HAVE ALL OUR CLASSES TOGETHER! REALLY!? Winter's mind roared, but he remained somewhat polite on the outside.

Moon had no idea why the Icewings hated her tribe so much, but she thought she could at least 'try' to be friends with this one.

"M-my name is Moon" Moon blurted. "Well Moonwatcher but you can call me Moon."

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His bright blue eyes narrowed, studying her expression with a mix of suspicion and curiosity.

Mother and father said to not talk to Nightwings unless absolutely necessary so...so should I not tell her my name. I should at least do that so we can communicate, why is she looking at me like that?

Moon looked back down to her claws quickly, realizing she had been looking at him too long.

"My name's Winter. Prince Winter."

"Your mother is Queen Glacier!" Moon said in bewilderment.

"Of course not" Winter said in a sharp but slightly surprised tone. "She's my aunt, so even though me and my sister are her nephew and niece we are still royalty."

"Oh, that still sounds nice, to be royal."

"You'd be saying something different if you walked a day in my shoes."

"What do you mean?" Moon replied, confused.

He didn't answer

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BONG BONG!

Moon sat up at the sound of the gong, Winter was alert as well, not seeming to know what the sound was for.

"That means we have two minutes to get to class," she informed him. "Two gongs mean two minutes and 1 gong means 1 minute. Do you need the map? I've already memorized it."

The Icewing rolled his eyes and looked slightly smug. "No, I don't need a piece of paper to tell me where to go. I memorized it too."

"Which class do we have then?" Moon asked.

"Hunting" Winter replied.

Well he got that right.

He walked and she followed, but she then realised he was constantly looking behind him not-so-subtly to check she was still behind him.

"Are you sure you don't need the map?"

"HMM" Winter turned down the wrong corridor.

"Thats the wrong way!"

"I don't care." He replied in an angry huff.

The small Nightwing hurried to hunting class, being somehow not late. The back wall of the cave was gone entirely, but there was a green/aqua sheet there. There were five dragons sitting on the floor in a circle.

"Hey!" A big blue Seawing called to her. "You must be Moonwatcher, right? Glad you made it on time, come sit with us.

"Ok" Moon said softly. She started towards an orange skywing, She bared her teeth at Moon and growled softly. Instead she picked a spot by a brightly coloured Rainwing.

"Hi' the Rainwing said, "I love those silver scales by your eyes, they look so pretty."

"O-oh, thank you" Moon replied, uncomfortable with the joyful energy radiating from this dragon.

But the bright rainwings mind was the opposite to her friendly demeanor.

Oh mangoes. Why did she sit by me. Couldn't she have sat by the Sandwing or something. Well I guess it's better than being near Carnelian. I hope my 'PTSD' doesn't kick in like a few months ago.

"Do you know where Winter is Moon," the Seawing Moon guessed was Tsunami from the royal patterns on her wings, "You're clawmates right?"

Before Moon could answer Winter walked in looking even more grumpy than he had before.

"Ah there you are Winter" Tsunami said, "You're a few minutes late but I'll let it slide this time only, since you probably took a wrong turn."\

He didn't hesitate at all and sat next to Carnelian, she bared her teeth at him and in response he blew a little frost breath at her tail. She didn't look bothered in the slightest but moved a little closer to the Sandwing next to her, who was trying to contain his laughter.

"Ok, since you're all new here today and most likely don't know each other, why don't you go around in a circle and say your name and something about yourselves. Winter, since you seem like this is stupid and you where late why don't you go first."

Winter mumbled under his breath and then said, "I'm Prince Winter and the nephew of Queen Glacier."

"Wow", the rainwing said excitedly.

Moon resisted the urge to massage her temple from the sudden burst of colour, pictures and words from the Rainwings mind.

Moon blanked out for a second while Tsunami told them about herself, but had to hide giggles when Tsunami said "And Turtle over there is my brother, and apparently I have thirty others and only found that out this morning."

Moon went next. "Umm my name is Moonwatcher and I grew up in the rainforest instead of the volcano," she said softly.

"Oh that's why you look like you're not a Nightwing like the others! You look so much healthier. Well, I'm Kinkajou and I LOVE sloths, I mean, they're just SOOOOOOO cute! Hmmm your turn now Turtle.

Moon winced internally when Kinkajou said she looked like 'not a nightwing at all".

"Ohh I'm Turtle. And I have this really cool wristband with pieces of a meteor I found."

Moon didn't hear what he said next since she was focusing on what she could hear in his mind. Or really what she couldn't hear in his mind. All she could hear was a weird fuzz.

Moon noticed while the others were talking that the Sandwing was called Quibli and the Skywing was Carnelian.

"Ok now that that's done, we're gonna go hunting guys! Since you and the Silver winglet have two hunting classes every week instead of one like the other winglets, whatever you catch you can keep in a small pile for your Winglet in the Prey Centre.

(In this story whatever they catch goes in a community pile and then everyone gets to eat whatever they get their claws on first.)

Tsunami opened the curtain and flew outside, hovering and waiting for them to follow.

But as Moon was going to start flying, she was pushed and fell down by the Skywing, Carnelian.

"Watch it, Nightwing" she growled menacingly.

"O-ok," Moon said with a slight tremble of fear in her voice as the skywing flexed her claws at her.

"How bout you watch it skywing" Winter retorted as he pushed past her.

"Excuse me, stuck up Icewing" Carnelian growled at him.

"You heard me" Winter said, flying off.

Moon was a little flustered but didn't show it as she was surprised and grateful that the Icewing had stuck up for her. Then again he could have just been trying to keep him and Carnelian on bad terms.

Carnelian decided to continue to pester Moon.

"Bet you liked having your boyfriend stick up for you. What are you going to do if you're in trouble and he's not there" She said menacingly. "Nothing, since you're too weak to stand up for yourself.

"Well for your information I had to survive for months at a time in the rainforest alone, I had to survive snakes, spiders, poisonous frogs! So think about that next time you try to push me around." Moon said in an angry huff.

Carnelian's mouth hung telling Moon not a lot of dragons had stood up to her before, Moon left without a word.

Wow that was impressive. Good thing she stood up for herself. Quibli thought.

I can't believe I did that! I wonder what Winter will think if I tell him. Oh wait he probably won't care but still! Wel... he did stand up for me there, I wonder why he did that, I thought he hated me?

Her thoughts stopped when she spotted a mountain goat, quietly chewing on some grass. Moon gained some momentum from flying and then dived toward it. The goat let out a shriek when she seized it in her claws but stopped when she snapped its neck.

"Hey Moon!" Quibi called to her.

"Have you seen Winter?" Moon asked.

"No, sorry Moon, anyway I have to go now to find some prey, Bye!" Quibli said a little sourly.

She was about to head back to the cave when she heard a faint trail of thoughts.

Need a weapon, come on! There's only small rocks here. How could I have been so stupid!? Why is he attacking me?!

Moon immediately dropped the goat and flew off to where she thought Winter was.

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