(Autumn's POV)
A new energy surged through her, and Autumn took off, crashing through the undergrowth.
Soon she could see and hear the village, and she slowed down.
Autumn sat, puffing, in the tree Hopeseeker had first shown her the Nightwing village.
As she surveyed the village, she spotted a dragonet that she could probably ask where Hopeseeker's hut was.
She flew quietly as possible down to the dragonet, who noticed her immediately.
Autumn jumped in surprise as what she THOUGHT had been a NightWing turned blue with curiosity.
"Hi there!" The dragonet yelped. "I'm Sightseer! What's your name?"
"Um..." Autumn had no words. "Autumn."
Should I have told her that? Can I trust her?
Sightseer tilted her head at Autumn.
"You can trust me." She said, and Autumn stared at the dragonet.
"How-"
"Mind reading." Sightseer chirped.
Oh.
"uh, I'm looking for someone. Do you think you could help?"
"Yeah, sure!" Sightseer yelped, obviously happy to help. "Who're you looking for?"
"His name is Hopeseeker." Autumn replied.
"Oh. Uhm... He's gone." Sightseer replied nervously.
Autumn stared at the dragonet in pure shock.
"He's gone?" She cried. "Where? When? How?"
"I dunno." Sightseer shrugged her shoulders. "He disappeared a week ago, nobody knows how. Futuresight's in a rage."
"Futuresight?" Autumn tilted her head at the dragonet. "Who's that?"
"Hopeseeker's dad!"
Futuresight... Where have I heard that name before?
"Sorry I couldn't help you. Maybe you could stay a bit longer?" Sightseer asked hopefully.
Autumn winced.
"Sorry. I can't." She replied.
"Oh. Ok." Sightseer said sadly.
"But- Uh- I'll come back sometime."
Hopefully.
Autumn spread her wings and turned to face the dragonet.
"One more question. Where is the princess?" She asked.
"Follow the river upstream and turn to the left." Sightseer replied before wandering away.
Follow the river upstream and turn to the left. Alright.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sometime later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Autumn fidgeted with her tail, waiting for the line to move. It made her nervous, all these dragons around her. Thinking about her. Looking at her.
She shivered.
At long last, it was her turn.
Autumn took a deep breath and stepped inside.
As soon as she saw Autumn, Princess Starwing's eyes widened. before the Princess could say a word, Autumn was already talking.
"Hello. Uhm, I've noticed that Hopeseeker is missing, and I would like help to go find him." She muttered.
Princess Starwing blinked.
"So she DIDN'T have anything to do with Hopeseeker going missing." The Princess murmured to herself.
"What?"
"Nothing!" The Princess yelped. "Alright. So you want to go find Hopeseeker. But why? You've only met him once."
Autumn slowly shook her head.
"I've met him more times than that. I- we've been meeting each other for a while."
While she was speaking, Autumn tried to hear what the Princess was thinking. But all she could hear was a strange hum, just like Hopeseeker's mind. She frowned.
"What do you mean?" Princess Starwing asked.
Autumn told the Princess everything, about the meetings, about Hawk, about the dream she had, and how she could suddenly read minds. She left out the bits about her curse though.
Somehow, the Princess did not seem surprised.
"I suppose you could go looking for him. But you would have to take some of his other friends with you. Not to mention a guard." She thought aloud.
"Anything to get Hopeseeker back!" Autumn growled.
"Very well then." She pointed at a guard beside her. "Go find Eclipse, Silversecret, Dusk, Earthquake and Cometgazer."
She pointed at another guard.
"You will go with them."
The guard- his name was Shadowcreeper - dipped his head.
A few minutes later, five dragonets and the guard who was sent to find them arrived back at the hut.
There was Cometgazer, who Autumn already knew.
Eclipse, who was Hopeseeker's sister, was quite large for the age of ten. She had large, green eyes, and navy and purple scales.
Earthquake, a NightWing-MudWing hybrid with a MudWing build and stars under his dark wings.
Silversecret, an unusual NightWing with silver scales that blinded Autumn when she stepped into the sunlight.
Dusk, a RainWing with scales the colour of midnight and a fruit called an orange.
Shadowcreeper - the guard - a small, mainly mute, skittish dragon with eyes the colour of the night sky. He gripped the floor of the hut as if his life depended on it.
And of course, Autumn. The 'New Dragon' with big ideas. 'The Freak', as Earthquake referred to her as. Which Autumn thought was unfair, since he was basically a large bit of what humans called 'horse manure.'
An hour later, the dragonets and guard were ready to leave.
A few small sacks were tied to Shadowcreeper's wings, making it hard for him to fly.
Autumn fiddled with her tail, regretting her choice.
I only have... What? Five weeks until I have to kill again? I don't wanna hurt any of these guys... Even Horse Manure.
Horse Manure was, to Earthquake's anger, Autumn's nick-name for him. She had thought of that name when she saw the colour of his scales.
Looking at the dragons around her, Autumn realised that everyone had a small black rock either embroidered in their scales, or as a piece of jewellery.
Skyfire. Autumn realised with a jolt.
THATS why I can't hear their thoughts. They have Skyfire.
The princess walked towards her and handed her a Skyfire of her own.
"You might need it." She whispered to Autumn.
Then she was gone, as was her guards and the villagers who had gathered to watch them.
Autumn gulped and turned to look at her companions.
"Well." Autumn said shakily. "Let's get going, shall we?"
"Yes. Let's go." Murmured Shadowcreeper nervously.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
While flying over the Bay of a Thousand Scales, Earthquake decided to be difficult.
"I'm tired. Can we stooooop yeeeeeeeet?" Whined Earthquake.
"Shut up Horse Manure." Silversecret snapped.
The others had heard Autumn calling Earthquake 'Horse Manure', and now all the dragonets called him it.
"I told you to stop calling me that!" He snapped.
"Fine," Earthquake's moment of relief was cut short as Silversecret added: "Horse Manure."
Earthquake roared and threw himself at Silversecret, causing them both to plummet to the ground.
Cometgazer dove to stop them as Autumn, Dusk, Eclipse and Shadowcreeper watched, grins on their faces.
As Cometgazer pulled them apart, Earthquake tried to claw Silversecret, but instead tore Cometgazer's wing. She yelped as her torn wing flapped lamely.
With no one to stop them, Earthquake and Silversecret went back to their fight.
Autumn snarled.
Stupid dragonets!
"Eclipse, go catch Cometgazer." Autumn snapped.
Hopeseeker's sister nodded and dove.
Autumn dove after her, stopping level with Silversecret and Horse Manure.
Not thinking at all, Autumn raked her claws across Earthquake's back leg.
He snarled at her and backed off, seeing that he was outnumbered.
With Cometgazer wounded, and Horse Manure refusing to go on, they had to stop and rest.
Autumn chose an island, and they all agreed to rest there.
After setting a fire, Autumn went hunting.
She came back with two pigs, some fish and fruit for Dusk and herself.
Dusk mumbled her thanks and nibbled on a mango.
As Autumn sat down to eat her pineapple, Silversecret walked up to her.
"Thanks for what you did back there. Horse Manure can get... violent. Extremely violent." She muttered, sitting down next to Autumn.
"No problem." Autumn replied happily.
After a good nights rest they were flying again. As the sun went down they stopped at the ruins of the summer palace.
Sadly, there was no food to be found, and the dragonets went to bed hungry.
A few hours later, Autumn awoke to rustling in the bush.
Shadowcreeper, who was on guard, turned his head slowly towards the noise.
A shadow loomed above him.
As he scrambled to get away, he let out a yelp of fear.
The shadow jerked, and then long, black tentacles burst from its body, wrapping themselves around terrified Shadowcreeper.
He screamed, and the shadow pulled him back, back, back into the bush.
By now, all the dragonets were awake.
Without thinking, Autumn ran after Shadowcreeper.
His screams echoed through the night air, and Autumn flinched.
Autumn jumped into a tree and tracked the monster.
After what felt like hours, but was actually minutes later, the shadow stopped.
Autumn snarled and threw herself at the shadow.
Long vines wrapped around her, and she could no longer move.
And what do we have here?
The shadow turned to inspect Autumn.
Ah. A twelve year old dragonet called Autumn. On a mission to find Hopeseeker, her only friend.
"He's not the only friend I hav-" Her protest was cut off as a vine wrapped around her snout.
And what's your relationship with this dragon?
The shadow stepped aside, revealing a terrified Shadowcreeper.
Autumn could not reply.
So you're not friends, hm? Then you won't mind if I kill him.
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Well.
That took a dark turn.
Uh, I did have a more... violent part. But... it- it was too violent. So. Yeah. Uh, sorry. The more violent part would probably be rated 16 so-
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