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Hey! Just a lil introduction here :3 Serif is a dragon OC that I made based on Wings of Fire, the book series. He is mostly pure RainWing with a little bit of NightWing. This is his story before he came to Jade Mountain Academy. (He is a student a few years after Winter, Moon, etc.) He is 7 while telling this story. Enjoy!


Heya. My name is Serif. I'm a normal male RainWing dragonet, who goes to Jade Mountain Academy and learns stuff. Or, at least, that's who I am on the outside. I don't let myself be an angsty, mopey dragon though, I do my best to stay positive, but it's hard when you've been through what I've been through. I usually act like I don't care about anything...because that makes things easier. I should know. And my friends love me, but they can tell something's wrong. So they told me to write it down...actually, only Ella said that, but she counts as all of them sometimes. And she's probably right, she usually is, when she says it'll help. So here I am, ta-da. This is my story. Of RainWings, NightWings, science and nightmares, lava, steel, venom and blue. Listen up, 'cause it's a wild ride.

I guess it all started with my family. I'm a RainWing - well, mostly. I had a great-grandfather NightWing, but that didn't matter at the time. I'm starting where I was about one year old. My mom and dad were named Apple and Worthy. My mom, Apple, was very lively and bright. She was like a living rainbow, always so colorful and all over the place. My dad was kinda the opposite, well, before he met my mom anyways. Worthy was kinda grumpy and a little boring before he met Apple, but as a father he was better. Still a little distant, but watchful and kind all the same. Most RainWings don't have super great families...we actually don't really do families at all, but my parents were different. They loved and took care of me more than I'd ever seen. We were happy.

Then one day, they just..disappeared. No one noticed. That might seem shocking to those of you outside the RainWing tribe, but back then, we were all just sort of mixed together and we all figured they were out doing something. Well, more they then we, since I noticed they were gone. And I couldn't find them. It was so strange, and so...just, wrong. It felt so out of place, nothing had happened like this before. I tried not to worry too much, I really did, and my trainers were really kind to me, but I must have acted off, because their scales would always go the color of pity whenever they saw me.

A few weeks passed, and something actually happened. I was walking back from venom practice with my trainer, Dragonfly, when Mangrove crashed into me.
"Uff! Get- off- get- off-"
"Sorry! I'm sorry," he apologized, pulling me up. "Are you okay? Have you seen Orchid?"
"Orchid..?" As I stopped to think about it, I realized I hadn't. For days. Just like my.. "No, Mangrove, I haven't."
My voice came out all serious and subdued, and as our eyes met we knew something was up.
"Please, help me look for her," he said, quietly and pleadingly.
Dragonfly rested his wing on my back. "Whatever you want is fine with me," he said before taking off.
I just nodded.

We turned and headed back, deeper into the forest, reaching where I had just finished practice. "Do you know if anyone else is missing, Serif?"
I paused.
Right off the bat, I could tell him one. "Kinkajou. I haven't seen her in a few days, which is unusual. She's usually having a shouting match with Bromeliad or racing around the Arboretum." There was another dragon...he was kind to me after my parents disappeared, and I didn't remember seeing him around recently. "I think...Gibbon, was it?" Thinking more, something else clicked. "And we skipped one of the queens, remember? She might be gone too."

Mangrove nodded darkly. "I know," he said sadly, trailing his wings. "But we've got to find them. Come on." We made a plan to search all of the venom training grounds nearby, then return to the Arboretum at dusk to discuss what we found. I headed near to the border of the forest, to check the last training ground I'd seen Kinkajou and Bromeliad heading towards. Touching the decayed leaves gently, I sighed. "Where did you all go..?" I glanced around one last time. "No clues here either." Looking down, I bent to sniff the remaining white blossom of the bush, when pain shot through my head and I blacked out.

I groaned and opened my eyes to...nothing. Darkness surrounded me, and there was a steady din and a scraping noise. Then I felt it. THREE MOONS, MY HEAD HURTS. I realized the scraping sound was me being dragged along the floor in some sort of bag or wrap, and my scales burned as I was pulled along the rather rough floor. Finally they stopped, and opened the bag. I stumbled out, gingerly holding my head. "Wha...?"

Suddenly, a blur snapped something around my neck, and I leapt back with fear and surprise, my scales going lily-green and white as I hit my head on a rock. Yelping, I collapsed onto the dirt to the harsh laughter of my captor. Burning with rage, I hissed at him, but unable to do anything else, I satisfied myself by turning my scales a violent red.

"Think you're all that, huh? Stupid, puny RainWings. How old are you anyway, one? Don't know what they were thinking, bringing you, doubt you'll be that useful. Whatever. Not my problem." He snorted disdainfully and swept out of my prison. Picking myself up slowly, I tottered to the opening of the cave and peered out. Blackness and smoke filled the air. Glancing straight down, I gazed upon a oozing, intimidating flow of bright red lava just below me, in a sickening sort of river. Drawing my eyes up again, I saw a flash of silver. Wow, I thought, I didn't know RainWings could do that to their wings. She flew closer and winged right by my cave, flaring her starry wings and obsidian scales for all the world to see. That's when I realized that was no RainWing. This was the home of the NightWings - and I was their newest prisoner.