We woke up early so we could align ourselves with the Claw Star so we knew that we were going the right way. We took off from the island and started to see land a few hours later. “Land!” I shouted seeing more and more come into vision the more north we flew.

“Hooray.” said Torque dryly.

“Finally.” said Fireball out of breath.

“Wait, aren’t you a skywing? How are you tired, aren’t you supposed to be better than us at this?” asked Beaver.

“I mostly take short flights around where I live, never really flown anywhere.” he replies.

“What’s that?” asks Fox, coming and flying next to me.

“What’s what?” I ask.

“That.” he says pointing ahead.

“I don’t know. It’s hard to tell but something is happening.” I say. “Fireball, can you tell what it is?”

“I can try.” he says before focusing on what’s happening. “It looks like there’s a bunch of dragons fighting over there.”

“A battle?!? Here!?!” Sulfur says, startled.

“I’m not entirely sure but that’s what it looks like.” Fireball says. Sulfur takes off suddenly flying towards the battle.

“Sulfur! Wait, come back!” I shout to no use, he keeps streamlining it to the battle.

“What do we do?” Fireball asks.

“Go after him.” Torque says before taking off after Sulfur.

“Wait, are we sure that’s the right thing to do?” Fireball asks.

“Don’t be a smoke breather, come on!” shouts Beaver, who then takes off followed by Kakapo and Gull.

“Try not to get involved!” shouts Fox as him and his siblings also take off.

“A battle!” shouts Turkey

“Awesome! Let’s go!” shouts Chicken before both him and Turkey take off too. Leaving just me and Fireball there hovering.

“Should we go?” he asks.

“Probably, since everyone else is.” I reply.

“What if I die?” he asks, his voice quivering.

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“Don’t be scared, I’ll protect you and I’m sure Canyon will too.” I say.

“Alright, I guess let’s go.” Fireball says, “But let’s keep our distance.”

“Alright.” I say before taking off to join the others and as I fly towards the battle I look back to see Fireball following me. We get to the others who are hovering there besides Sulfur.

“Where’s Sulfur?” I ask.

“Down there.” says Fox pointing to the mountains on the island below us.

Sulfur’s down there and he’s fighting off dragons with another dragon who looks like him except he has clear back spines.

“Should we help him?” I ask.

“I say we should.” Torque says.

“I don’t think that’s a good idea.” Fireball says.

“Why not?” whines Torque.

“Sulfur is a ruler who’s protecting his own people, well we’re non-natives. I think it’s best not to tick off the natives.” he says.

“Ergh, why do you have to have such good points?” Torque says.

The battle lasts a few more minutes and only ends when dragons all of a sudden drop around Sulfur. He waves us to come down a few minutes later.

“Welcome to Hailaxia.” he says as we land.

“What was that?” I ask.

“Just made a stink to knock out some of these dragons which made the armies scatter, now excuse me well I go organize a defense.” he says before flying off.

“Well that was great. Guess we wait here now?” Torque asks.

“I guess we do.” I reply. So that’s what we did. We waited a few hours just hunting around in the rocks, sleeping, and talking about whatever. It was all pretty boring. Thankfully before I went insane from boredom Sulfur returned. “Thank the moons.” I whispered under my breath.

“Sorry that took so long, I had to try and figure out what was happening and make sure everyone was okay.” Sulfur says. “Follow me. I’ll show you where you can stay.”

“What happened?” I ask flying up next to him.

“There was a battle happening between the Peakwings and Ramwings that we got roped into.”

“How?” I ask.

“They were fighting near our homes so some of us flew up to make sure they didn’t get too close and each side thought we were fighting for the other, and we ended up fighting both sides at once.”

“Why did they start fighting over your homes?” I ask.

“It sounds like each group was going to attack the other when they ran into each other and a battle broke out.”

“Why are they fighting?” I ask.

“Sounds like the leader of each tribe thought the other leader killed me, and one was upset about sending one leader somewhere thinking that she would be killed by the tribe she was being sent with to negotiate.”

“Wait, how’d you know that the two raiding parties ran into each other?”

“Prisoners from both sides have said that.”

“Huh, so what’s gonna happen now, with both the prisoners and the war?”

“I guess I’ll have to call a meeting to tell everyone I’m still alive. Then I guess I’ll trade the prisoners for something.” Sulfur says before landing at a building, “Here’s where you can stay for the night, I’ll come get you in the morning.”

“Alright, see you then.” I say before going inside and being followed by my friends. We go inside and a dragon helps direct us each to our rooms, but it’s two dragons per room. So we have to split up into pairs, Mint & Gopher in one room, Turkey & Chicken in another, Torque & Kakapo, Gull & Fox, Me & Beaver, and Fireball & Canyon. Our room is next to Fireball and Canyon’s room, which is in the corner and that makes us their only neighbor. It’s also next to Gull and Fox’s room too. I try to sleep but it’s a bit hard too, with the noises coming from the room besides ours but eventually I do manage to fall asleep dreaming about what tomorrow holds.