The sun shined brightly as the group of four dragonets stood below the beautiful blue sky, the white strokes in the air seemed as if the clouds had been painted there. The wind was playful and soothing as it moved its way across and around their scales, the mountains below glowed green like Emeralds in the sun's light. It was beautiful, yet they couldn't help but feel unease as they stood there.

"This feels wrong." The gold dragon muttered quietly. "He should be here with us." She said sadly as she leaned on the swamp dragon's uninjured arm, the other limb equipped with a cast to cover the burn wounds he had.

"We'll find him, don't worry Sunny." Tsunami assured Sunny as she wrapped her wings around her while giving Glory a glare, Glory said nothing in return and instead looked at the Nightwing beside her.

"Has there been any news about him, Deathbringer, any at all?"

Deathbringer shook his head sadly. "No signs, but we've reduced the amount of guards, if we're right, it should be any night now." He reports.

Glory let out a soft growl before waving him off.

"Sunny, do you really think it'll be possible? That we could really build something like that?"

Sunny nods as she has the view of multiple kingdoms from up high on the mountain, before looking back at the nearest peak. "It'll work, and we'll make it perfect."

"Yeah, we can use the caves inside for classrooms, but we can keep everyone outside for most of the time." Tsunami mused.

"Yeah, it's important they get a lot of Sun." Glory piped up, but quieted down as Tsunami gave her a glare, albeit softer than the last one.

"We should also have field trips, that way all the dragons feel sand, mud, ocean, snow while also eating whatever they want." Clay added in.

There was silence for a moment as they looked at what would be their school. "We should have scrolls... Starflight would love to have added scrolls." Sunny said quietly as the rest went quiet. "Glory, you promise that if you do find them..." Sunny trails off.

Glory nods. "They can come as well."

***

The Nightwings were huddled together in the cells, a scrawny dragonet curled up against their equally scrawny mother. He was trembling as they saw a shadow pass by, believing it to be another Rainwing guard, one who had ripped everything they had away.

Instead, there was a quiet, whistling sound, before a sharp clank could be heard from the cell's latch. The door swung with a loud creak as the dragonet ran to their mother. "Mom... look!" He whispered.

She groggily woke up along with some other Nightwing prisoners.

One picked up the shattered glasses he had managed to put them on. "Son?" He asked.

The Nightwing outside of the cage just put a claw to his lips as he motioned for them to get out silently, using the darkness of his wings to try and cover up the entrance as much as he could in the shadows, that was a little hard with a large hole in his wing though.

"I hope the others didn't get caught." He said quietly to himself.

They all followed his orders without complaint as they quietly climbed to the bottom of the trees, before following Starflight as he led the way to the shores where they would then fly like their tails were on fire.

"Starflight." An unfamiliar voice asked him.

He turned his head to see another Nightwing, a little more bulkier than him and definitely older.

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"There's no time for us to stop, we have to get to shore before-" He was suddenly pulled by the Nightwing into a small clearing, he was exposed, at least that's what he thought when he saw a familiar set of green and orange wings cover him.

"Starflight." the Rainwing queen said softly as she got on top of him to cover him with her wings.

"Glory, what do you want, how did you know-"

"Did you think we lowered the amount of guards for no reason?"

Starflight sighed in defeat. "Three moons, I should have known it was a trap."

"I'm surprised you didn't Starflight, you..." Suddenly she felt something sharp pointed at her chest, and saw a small scavenger in his pouch with the tip of their steel claw touching her scales.

"You brought River with you, cute, but what's a scavenger-"

"Do you smell that?" Starflight asked.

Glory tilted her head and took a long sniff, before her eyes widened.

"How did you get dragonbite viper?"

"I have my ways, and he's trained enough to-"

"Relax Starflight, I didn't come here to fight, I came here to talk, to find you." Glory said. "Sunny's worried about you, every single day."

Starflight's eyes turned to look at the floor as he tried hiding his tears.

"Starflight... I know you... may never be able to forgive but please listen to what I'm about to say."

Starflight was silent food a moment before nodding. "Go on."

"Me and the others, now that the war is over, want to open a school. A school with all the dragon tribes... even Nightwings."

His eyes widened. "Wait, you'll-"

"Not the adults." She quickly cut him off with a soft yet stern tone. "The adults I can never forgive, but the dragonets, they didn't do anything wrong. So feel free to send them to our school, feel free to visit, we really miss you."

He looked down for a moment, then looked back to River and motioned for him to put the crossbow down.

River let out a squeak to both of them before putting his crossbow away.

"Maybe we can have pet scavengers too." Glory offered as she gently petted River, River tried pulling away and pushing her talons off but gave up as she scratched the top of his head.

"He doesn't trust you."

"That's a weird way of saying he doesn't like me." She mused. "Starflight, why did you get so into scavengers in the first place, I know they're endangered but-" She asked.

"Let's just say if it wasn't for him, me and several other Nightwings would be at the bottom of the ocean right now."

"So where's your kingdom- I see..." Glory said sadly as she saw Starflight shaking his head.

***

"What do you think, guys?" Wren asked as she sat by their fire as she laid on Sky's side.

"He's definitely better than the Dragonmancers." Sky said. "But I think... I think he knows about me."

"That's impossible-" Leaf started but was cut off by Ivy.

"Not if he's a teardrop." She said quietly.

Everyone paused at that.

"What do you know about them?" Wren asked.

"I've Heard stories, dad-... Heath was terrified of them, they could see visions and read minds, at least that's what he told me. He was always worried they'd come for the treasure." Ivy announced.

"You really buy into that?" Leaf asked.

"I met this one, Palm, she seemed to know exactly what to say to me, and even what to say to Sky."

"So you think..." Ivy started.

"Perhaps we should pay him another visit, see how much of home... is still home."

***

It was dark, no stars were visible due to the dark grey clouds, the moon barely shined through. The rain pelted down on the human and dragoon, the most light being from the bright lightning that boomed across the landscape.

"You're a monster." Pebble snarled at Palm's draconic form, exhausted from keeping his own blood inside him from where Palm had bitten him.

The black and purple dragon rolled their eyes. "Us Teardrops have to stick together, and he killed Toucan!"

"You're insane!" Pebble soon shut up as she slammed one of her talons right next to him, crushing a goat that got too close to a pulp.

"Shut up. Together, doesn't mean you have be alive." She growled.

"So you'll kill me?"

"If you piss me off too much." She hissed before looking down the mountain.

"What happened to you, Palm?" Pebble asked.

No response.

Pebble sighed before being picked up by her. "I'm getting water." she said as she started to fly them over the delta, close to the river as she looked for a spot that was somewhat dry.

"You'll just kill me when you think I've outlived my use." He murmurs.

"Maybe even after I drink, you've been nothing but ungrateful that I kept you alive for so long, humans are so..." She trailed off before spitting.

"Then I'm done with this." Pebble said as he stopped control of his own blood but stretched out to the river as they flew above it.

"Wait, what?" Palm asked as she felt his blood seeping through her talons, before a sudden tendril of water reached and wrapped around her body before pulling against her. "Stop! What are you doing!" She cried out as she tried to stay hovering but was pulled closer and closer to the angry river below. The river was overflowing with currents that made the water splash loudly as they hit the sharp rocks.

"You'll kill us both! You'll kill us bo-" She screamed only for her head to be smashed against the rocks and her body impaled on the rocks. As Pebble's corpse drifted out of her claws and was pulled under by the current caused by a series of rocks, a mask continued to flow down the river, Palm's body was gone for good.