Yay! Another one down! I'm so eager to get this finished so I can start the next one. Anyhow...

Soon, I'm going to release a chapter that takes place before the attack explaining the past of the Skywing above, same guy that's attacked our two protagonists. 

But I don't want to write it yet so I'm continuing on for now till I feel like doing that.

I'll put it in my extras book, full of different characters perspectives that we've met in this book so far. It's not up yet, but soon.

Anyway, enjoy!

-Logatos

Rogue...

I feel the exact moment Dark's powers return.

I want to stop him now, do something.

But I'm barely able to think, let alone tell him otherwise.

Instead I just fall to the cold stone tiredly, blinking back pained tears as his silver slitted eyes glow through the inky black.

But after a tense few seconds, I feel the pain begin to fade, and watch as my burns slowly disappear back to their purple hue.

"I'll be right back Rogue" he says, almost scarily calm.

I want to stop him, but I still can't seem to think straight.

"Don't bother, you won't be able to use any magic for a few more minutes. Just for now" 

He walks around me towards the doorway. My talons feel frozen to the floor. It's almost like Thysan all over again.

But I don't feel as scared as before, soothing feelings and blurred words being sent my way by him. Reassuring me.

I guess I have to trust him.

Darkstalker...

Stepping back into the throne room, all my fear is replaced by excitement.

Finally, I can do something useful.

Luckily for me, I don't have to look far for our enemy.

He walks through the other side of the room, locking eyes with me, a shit eating grin breaking across his face.

In quick succession he spits fire towards me.

I just watch quietly as they approach me, and once they get close enough to seemingly kill, I lift up a talon, and they extinguish.

I give him a cold silent look.

His grin is gone, but he doesn't look less deterred. Maybe even the opposite.

The Skywing cracks his neck and rushes me. Fool.

The ground shifts and rolls beneath the running dragon like water.

Somehow though he still makes it over to me, and I make a pushing motion boredly, wind suddenly blasting him backwards.

He lands on his feet, but just gives me a small knowing smile before flicking a small blue teardrop earring on his ear. And he vanishes.

Huh.

I look around furiously. I still haven't gotten him back for what he did to Rogue. 

I can't sense him anymore, so either he's invisible, or he teleported. 

Either one is extremely frustrating.

"Darkstalker?" I hear faintly Rogues voice from behind me and remember she can't move. Or at least, she shouldn't be able to, but here she is walking out behind me with an angry expression.

Uh oh.

With a small twist of her matching silver ring, I feel my power fade out again. I feel empty without it, becoming unbalanced a moment.

"What, did you think I didn't know you would try something like that?" She spits angrily, tail lashing, and spikes raised. This is not what I expected.

"But- I saved both of us! Didn't I? You should thank me for my quick thinking!"

She snorts, some smoke coming from her nostrils.

"Oh? And if we hadn't been in danger, what would you have done with your returned power then?"

A tense silence follows as shame fills my scales.

"I thought so. I knew you would do something like this, and that's why I was so careful making these rings" she gesture to the matching silver circlets we both wear. So simple, yet so dangerous.

"It's my power though! I should be able to keep it!"

"Oh? Really? You mean the same power you used on Clearsight. On your father. On Indigo. That you tried to use on Fathom? I'm not stupid Darkstalker. Never have been. These rings connect our minds, our memories. I thought letting you tell me your side of things would show me you weren't so bad, that I could redeem you! And now?..."

I await her answer with baited breath, feeling the floor sway beneath me.

She's going to kill me.

Trap me again.

Torture me.

Something bad.

"...I still want to help you" her anger is gone, and suddenly she looks so small again, vulnerable.

"But I can't trust you with magic. Ever. Your too easily seduced by it. You put a spell on me without a second thought! It's just not the right time"

I'm relieved she isn't going to do anything to me, but the thought of never using my magic again... I can't even picture it. It's been a part of me my whole life. It's shaped everything I've ever wanted in the future.

But that futures long lost. 

"So now, you need to decide, what do you want to do with your life Darkstalker. Something that doesn't need magic or powers. Whatever you want, tell me"

I've never had anything else but Clearsight and being king one day to look forward to. No other future seemed good enough back then.

But now is different. I'm alone. Everyone I knew is long gone.

I don't even know where to start.

"Stay with Rogue"

Clearsight's last words echo back to me. 

Maybe she saw something in my future and hers, a life for myself. I trust her.

"I want to follow you"

Rogue...

".....what"

"You heard me. I don't have anything better to do, and you do want to do extraordinary things. I want to be a part of that"

I would have thought he was joking if it wasn't for the serious and determined look on his face.

And as much as I want to turn him down... I don't want to be alone again. I miss Void, and Harpy, and my dad so much. I've gotten used to pushing it back. I don't want to miss another, even if it is a stuck up ancient evil idiot who's unaware of other dragons feelings.

"Alright. But I'm not sure where to go from here. I did have glimpses a while back of a strange tree, and a dragon made of bones over the ocean..."

Those images stuck with me the most. I knew that type of pink flowering tree didn't grow on Pyrrhia anywhere. And a dragon of bones.... Well yeah. 

So wherever it is is across the ocean. I think. Maybe.

"Tree? Bone dragon? Ocean? What are you talking about?" 

"When I first heard your name, months ago, it triggered visions. I don't remember all of it very well but those ones stuck with me all this time. I'm pretty sure they're important"

He looks down thoughtfully.

"Well that sounds like a great place to start. How about we go somewhere else though, I'm still worried that Skywing might come back"

I nod in reply.

"Where then? You know the night kingdom better than me"

"I know just the place"