Thread:Stardust the IceWing-RainWing/@comment-36583452-20190705142836/@comment-38158014-20190716192630

wait that's part four

Here's the last viewpoint of Chapter 3, Dreamfinder!

I'm kinda hoping that since neither Hailrain nor Grasshopper were very developed, they could dislike each other at the beginning. Then as the story progresses and they get development, they could reconcile and learn to accept each other.

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Brilliant golden beams erupted into the air from inside the chimera’s belly, literally tearing the monster apart. Its body seemed to dissolve in the light, and it writhed in pain as it began… disintegrating. Into dust.

Dreamfinder stared in horror as the chimera spasmed wildly on the ground. “What’s happening?” she yelped in the loudest voice she had ever mustered, dashing out into the clearing. Her other friends were open-mouthed, backing away slowly. Except for Burning, his eyes still clouded with rage and pummeling away at the chimera’s head.

“Shield your eyes!” a familiar voice cried from inside the chimera’s belly. A relieved smile spread across Dreamfinder’s face, and she covered her face with her talons. Even through the webs on her talons, she could see a golden glow, which was getting more intense by the second. It’s a good thing Garnet warned us.

With a final unearthly scream, the light flared and died. Dreamfinder cautiously uncovered her eyes, only to find a scene that was so horrifying she wanted to turn around and vomit.

Most of the chimera was gone, and only the head was left, spattered with blood and wearing a demonic expression. The jaw was agape, and the tongue lolled out limply in a terrifying grin. The rest of the clearing was blanketed in a heavy layer of dull gray dust. It lay over everything - the chimera’s head, the bushes, the dragons.

Garnet stood amidst the chaos, staring at her talons. Or rather, her blood and dust-covered talons. The expression on her face was impossible to read, but it wasn’t good.

Everybody flew to Garnet’s side, the burble of sudden chatter filling the silence. “What was that?” “We actually have powers?” “Are you okay?” “Do we get to keep the head?” (That last one was Tembo.)

The small SkyWing waved her talons for silence, and amazingly, everyone shut up. When she spoke, her voice trembled slightly. “I think this is confirmation. Grasshopper wasn’t lying.” Over by the edge of the clearing, the HiveWing leaned against a tree and gave everybody an I-told-you-so smirk.

Garnet took a breath and continued. “I’m a demigod. We’re demigods. The myths are true.”

Dreamfinder trembled on her feet. Words spilled out of her mouth as she fought for coherency: “How - why - it can’t be!”

Garnet’s amber eyes were unusually intense, and they seemed to smoke with some unknown feeling. Burning glowered quietly behind her, looking like a vaguely annoyed shadow. “Oh, but it can.”

“Well, I don’t believe it,” Hailfall said loudly, thumping his tail onto the grass. All heads swiveled toward him; he seemed to shrink slightly but continued with his tirade. “This - this chimera or whatever you wanna call it - could easily be… a costume. Yes, that’s it, a costume.” He glared at Grasshopper, and Grasshopper glared back. “You just stroll into our home, interrupt all our friendships, and tell us that everything we’ve been taught our lives is fake? Nope, nope, no sirree, I refuse to believe it.”

Tears pooled in Garnet’s eyes, and she held out her talons. A single blade of blinding yellow light danced between them. “I might not want it, but I have power. How do you deny this?”

Hailrain opened and closed his mouth like a fish gasping for air, at a loss for words.

Grasshopper took the IceWing’s silence as an invitation to continue. Dipping his head slightly toward Garnet, he announced, “Garnet is the daughter of Luminous, the god of light. She has real and true powers-” he shot a miffed glance at Hail- “and so do all of you.”