The Night Rising

Prologue
Two dragons stared at the small silver egg in front of them. “Why is it silver?” The first one asked. “NightWing eggs are black, not silver. Is it half IceWing?” “I don’t know.” A gruff voice replied. “Wasn’t it black yesterday? WHAT IF IT’S HALF RAINWING?” The first one asked. “Maybe someone swapped it with an IceWing egg. Or painted it silver,” The second one offered. Two dragons flew down to join the first two. “Hello, Stinger and Queen Scorch.” The second one said. “Hello.” The fourth, or third one said.

Shadowstalker noticed four dragons sitting around a NightWing egg. A RainWing, a SandWing, a HiveWing, and a SkyWing. ''Why do they have the egg? Did they steal it?'' “So,” The HiveWing said. “Will we destroy the egg now?” They’re going to destroy it! Shadowstalker realized. Keeping himself hidden in the shadows, tucking in his wings, he raced forward as quietly as he could, and grabbed the egg. He quickly flew off before anyone noticed.

Shadowstalker soon reached his cave. He set the egg onto a bed and looked around. It was a small cave, only having an area to write, an area to sleep, and an area to eat. He already had two beds, the other was a bed he could take with him, while assassinating dragons. That was his job. An assassin. He slid onto the other bed, watching the egg. ''It will read minds. Or see the future. Or maybe, both.''

Chapter 1
Midnight was getting ready for school. It was her first day attending Jade Mountain Academy. Shadowstalker handed her a scroll. “Here,” he said. “It should have who your clawmates are.”

Midnight opened it up and looked at it. Her dormmate was a RainWing named Berry. The rest of her clawmates were a SandWing named Sandstorm, a MudWing named Vine, a SkyWing named Cloud, a SeaWing named Aqua, an IceWing named Blizzard, a SilkWing named Firefly, a HiveWing named Honeybee, and a LeafWing named Acacia. “Wow. That’s a lot of dragons,” Midnight said. Shadowstalker looked at her paper. “Not many,” He replied. “Well, you better get to school.” Shadowstalker began looking for something. “Here!” He said after a moment, giving her a small necklace. The necklace was a small diamond necklace. She put it on. “What’s it for?” She asked. “Nothing.” Shadowstalker replied quickly. Something was up, but Midnight wasn’t sure what. She spread her wings, and flew off. Which way? She looked around for a bit, before spotting it in the distance. There! She flew toward it, landing on the hard, cold ground. She spotted a group of three IceWings. One of them, a white dragon with ice-blue wings and horns, and light blue horn rings, turned to face her. ''A NightWing? Really?'' Midnight was confused. Those weren't her thoughts. How was she reading the IceWing's mind? Then, she remembered. ''Shadowstalker said I might have NightWing powers. Mindreading is one of them. But, why can't I read his mind?'' She thought. ''Oh. It's because he has skyfire. He keeps it on him so that when stalking his enemy, they or someone else can't read his mind and mess him up.'' She answered herself. She wandered around a bit. Where is my sleeping cave? She wondered. Over here. Someone thought. There was, in fact, another mindreader in the school.

Chapter 2
Midnight easily found her sleeping cave, since the other mindreader helped her. The RainWing, Berry, was already there, curled up and sleeping. Or, at least, what looked like sleeping. Midnight watched as Berry woke up out of nowhere, and changed her scales to bright pink. "Hello!" She said, excitedly. Midnight jumped back, startled. Berry's scales flashed yellow, before returning to their normal color. Midnight saw that she had a lime scales that faded at her tail, and a dark blue underbelly, wings, and head. Her eyes were gold. Midnight noticed that her wings faded from blue to purple. Midnight could hear Berry's thoughts. ''Wow! A NightWing! NightWings are kinda cool. Of course, not as cool as a RainWing, obviously. Wait... doesn't the silver teardrop next to her eyes mean she's a mindreader? OHMYGOSH MIDNIGHT I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SORRY IF I OFFENDED YOU.'' Midnight watched as Berry pulled out a skyfire. "Now you CAN'T read my mind! BecauseallmythoughtsareweirdlikeallRainWings. " Midnight didn't quite catch that last part.

Midnight was running to class. She was a little late, but she hoped she wasn't too late. She burst into the room. Many dragons turned to stare at her. Thoughts like Who is she? and Looks nervous. echoed in her head from other dragons. She turned to one of the teachers, Blackclaws. "Am I late?" She asked, still out of breath. "No." Blackclaws said, shaking his head. Midnight sat down next to Berry. "What took you so long? I got here on time." "Yeah! Why are you late?" An IceWing chimed in. The IceWing was blue and green and purple. She also noticed a small ring in her horn. ''Ice... cap? That's her name, right?'' Midnight tried to remember the scroll she'd been given. Not the one that Shadowstalker gave her, but another. It had listed all the students at Jade Mountain Academy. ''Icecap. Age 4. An IceWing enchanted to be an animus, but her powers are broken. Gold Winglet.''