𝑁𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟...

Anemobee laid on a ledge in a cave, fiddling with her necklace.
She's been stuck in there for five entire years.
Sometimes, Anemobee would wonder whether if everyone would even be here if her father haven't left her when she was two years old.

"Anemobee!" A young female voice yelled and the princess looked down and saw a two year NightWing. Of course, it's Moonshine.

"What is it, Moon?" Anemobee sighed, raising her head.

"Play with me!" Moonshine replied, jumping up and down.

"Oh, Moon...I'm an adult now. Maybe Reef can play with you." Anemobee replies and Moonshine looked upset.

Oh, how could Anemobee ever say no to that face? After all, she did raise the young NightWing after her parents died scouting in the outside world.

"Fine." Anemobee agreed hesitantly and Moonshine cheered.

Anemobee stepped off of her ledge, and at the exact moment, Prince Hailstorm returned from the outside world through the waterfall.
The second he landed, the whole cavern started to quake.

All the older dragons switched to protective mode immediately. Parents wrapped their wings around their own dragonets while the others wrapped their wings around orphans.

Anemobee, almost instantly, wrapped her wings around Moonshine as the stone ceiling started to crumble.

Reef, on the other hand, couldn't find her mother anywhere. She was lucky enough that Princess Auklet ran to her side immediately and enveloped the younger princess in her wings.

Moray was seeking for cover when an older NightWing suddenly wrapped his wings around her. Boy, she does not like this at all, she was old enough to seek cover for herself.

Snowblast was hidden safely in his mother's wings. He hated it when the cavern started to collapse, it always felt like the world was ending. He held onto the Autobot earring on his right ear, praying deeply to his father that one day he will return.

The quaking soon stopped dragons came out from far and wide in the cavern. Moonshine peeked out of Anemobee's opened wings and looked around.

That was only minor, but they won't be as lucky as that all the time.

"Thanks, Auklet." Reef smiled as Auklet slowly opened her wings to let the younger princess out. "It's nothing, really." Auklet replied, smiling like a sister should and fixing Reef's horn jewellery, wrapping them back in position on her little sister's azure horns.

Moray was finally free from the NightWing's grasp, and well, she glared at him. "What?" He asked teasingly and Moray pouted. "I can fend for myself." She argued but the male NightWing didn't bother "Name's Peacemaker. See ya around." He said and then disappeared into the shadows. Moray glanced back at the NightWing, then went back to re-rearranging her herbs, again. And like always, she held onto her earring on her left ear, hoping that one day, just one day, one of her fathers will return.

"Hey Anemobee?" Snowblast asked as he went over to the yellow, SeaWing princess who was watching over Moonshine.

"Ugh! I've had enough of this place! I'm leaving, to find my father!" She yelled, stamping her front, webbed talons.

"Look, Bee?" Snowblast said, then suddenly realising he had called Anemobee by the final part. "Can I call you Bee?" He asked and Anemobee shrugged, and Snowblast took it as a yes.

"You can't just leave this place whenever you want. You'll make everyone worried." Snowblast explained, only to make Bee even more tensed.

"If we stay here for another year or two, it going to collapse! I know we only came here for protection, but it can't hold us forever." Anemobee objected, facing the waterfall, the only way to the outside world where she once lived.

"Uh...hello? It's The Era of Scavengers out there. We can't survive." Snowblast returned Anemobee's message.

"I don't care, Snow!" Bee yelled out, it sounded like her voice could make the cave collapse now.

Snow gave in, he took little steps away from Bee and went back to his mother, Queen Snowfall.

~•~

Anemobee crept through the shadows of the cavern.

She's sneaking out, trying her best to not wake anyone. Especially her mother, Princess Anemone.
She was lucky enough to have reached the waterfall without making any sort of sound.

Anemobee spread her wings as quietly as she can and she zoomed out towards the waterfall.
In three seconds, Anemobee was outside again.

She was finally home.
The place where she didn't see in five years.
The place, where her father is.

"I can't believe you actually snuck out!" Snowblast yelled out and Anemobee turned around, spotting the IceWing prince following her.

"Why?! Why?! Snow, I am an adult, I don't need people watching my back." Anemobee yelled, baring her teeth at him.

"You're not the only one, Anemobee." Moray spoke up from behind Snowblast.

The two royals turned around and saw her, she really didn't care about the looks they were giving her.

"Well, just wait until I'm queen of Panrhia! When I'm queen, you guys won't ever have to watch me!" Anemobee yelled.

"But..." Said Reef as she flew up to their level.

"I may not be queen yet, but your safety is my responsibility." She added in, pointing at the trio in the sky. "I mean, we were friends for our whole lives." Reef added when she saw the glares she was receiving.

Anemobee took her time to think, yes, Reef was right. She, Snowblast and Moray have always been together since they all hatched, so they were friends for life. They also all have the Autobot symbolisation, she and Reef had their necklaces, Moray and Snowblast had their earrings.

Anemobee smiled.

"Friends for life?" She asked, holding out her front, webbed talon.

"Friends for life." Moray agreed, putting her talon on top of Anemobee's.

"Me too." Snowblast agreed too, placing his talon above Moray's.

"Me three." Reef tagged on and she placed her talon above Snow's.

With that, all four friends threw their talons up into the sky and they flew off into the galaxy. This was just the beginning of their quest.