Whispering Crystals- A WoF Fanfiction

[SandyFox]

**May contain spoilers for the Wings of Fire book series**

───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─────

Salamander awoke to the sound of scales scraping against rock. He froze, straining his ears to see if he could make out the direction of the sound. It sounds awfully close, he thought to himself. It was probably only the guards doing their usual night patrol around the prison. Yes, that was it. He was just being paranoid.

"Hello, little one."

He scrambled to his talons, wincing as his wounded wing snagged on a rock. "H-hello?" He called out nervously, poking his snout from between the bars of his cell. "Anyone there?"

A deep, raspy chuckle –no, cackle– came from behind him. He whirled around, but only found the walls of his cell. He lashed his tail, more out of frustration than fear. Am I hearing things? Maybe one of the ghosts from Momma's stories?

A thump sounded from behind him. It sounded like a dragon getting thumped on the head with a wing.

"Cloud! Stop scaring the poor thing!" A female voice said, coming from the same direction of the first voice. "Can't you see how young he looks?!"

Salamander puffed his chest out, trying to look intimidating. "I'm not young! I'm super old! Like, older than Darkstalker was when he awoke!! And he was like a MILLION years old!!!" That's what Momma said! Act scary and tough when I'm scared, so the bad guys will go away!!

A booming laugh sounded, making Salamander jump. He heard another thump, and he swore the air before him rippled slightly. They must be RainWings! He realized with a jolt. Momma told me that they can turn invisible!

Momma...

He felt his body deflate, and he buried his face in his talons. Momma, where are you?! You said you'd come back...you promised… He sniffled, not wanting the scary invisible dragon to see him crying. That certainly wasn’t a very scary thing to do.

"Aw, look, they're crying! Look what you and your fat mouth did, Cloud!”

“Hey, don’t call my mouth fat! You called me a handsome idiot yesterday!”

“I think you’re forgetting the keyword there Cloud- idiot.”

“HEY!”

Salamander buried his face deeper into his talons. He just wanted to be alone, and for Momma to come back.

“Cloud, let’s come back to this later. Right now, this kid needs some help.”

“Hmph. Fine.”

Then two dragons materialized out of thin air.

───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─────

I'll update this lil story as much as I can! If you're reading this, congrats on reading it all and tysm for reading it! <3