It was dark. Too dark to see something else than her own talons. It was quite and the air was fresh. Sloth closed her eyes.

The first good dream since I arrived here. When she opened her eyes again the darkness was gone. She stood in front of Jade mountain but everything was silent.

How odd. Normally you can hear the dragonets miles away. And than she saw how the sky got a ugly color.

Red. But how? How can the sky be red? Than Sloth remembered the prophecy Madhead spoke:

With the wind comes the Rain
and with the rain comes the snow
and with the snow comes the storm
and with the storm comes the blood.

And if there is enough blood the seven will come.
And if there is enough blood the queens will fall.
And if there is enough blood the stars will come down.
And if there is enough blood the seven will bring more.

If the wind howls like a wolf,
If the shadows are as big as the sun,
If the seven find together,
then the sky turns red and it starts a reigen of blood!

It was like the wind was whispering it to her and suddenly Sloth could feel fear crawling her legs up and let them feeling stony and heavy. The voices got louder and louder. And than she saw a dragonet.

He smiled evilly and hold up one talon. With once six other dragonets appeared but they were shadowy and not clear. Sloth tried to run away but it was too late the last thing she could think of was: I know this dragon.

Sloth opened her eyes. Where are I? Than she remembered that she was a student at Jade mountain now and that she was in her sleeping cave.

The other dragonets were all sleeping. Great I don't want them to worry about me. Than she saw Amber opening her eyes.

She gave her a scarred glance but she didn't said something. Was I screaming? For how long is she up?

"Uhm...Hi?", Sloth said. Amber just glanced at her with her big brown eyes. Today is the first time of real school. And I totally forgot!

Yesterday River tried to be friends with Amber but the little Mudwing hasn't answered. They met Galaxy too and checked Dawn. She was sleeping all the time.

I will find out what happened today. But at first I have to eat something. "I'm going to have breakfast now do you want to come with me?", Sloth asked quietly. Amber shook her head.

Well. It's better like that. Maybe I will meet Shadow or Ripple. She walked out of the den but she didn't came far.

"Uhm...Sloth!" She turned around and saw Ripple and Galaxy together with a Sandwing and a Icewing with a Sandwing tail. More hybrids?

"What are you doing here this early?", Galaxy asked. "I'm hungry", Sloth answered.

Have I to tell her? Why is she here together with the other dragonets in her winglet? What are they doing? And what's with Ripple? Don't he want to help us anymore because Shadow...

"We too. Do you want to eat with us?", Ripple asked. "W-what? Y-yes", she answered.

"Well. Ray, Beauty. This is my friend Sloth. Sloth the Sand-Ice hybrid here is Beauty and the arrogant swot you can see at my right side is Ray", Galaxy explained.

"What! Hey! You forgot totally amazing and smart!", the Sandwing cried. Somehow Sloth had the feeling that he wasn't joking. Galaxy just rolled her eyes.

"Well I think she knows now too that you're a idiot", she replied. "Let's go", Ripple said.

"How is Dawn?", he whispered. "She didn't woke up yet the last time we checked her", Sloth answered quietly and watched a little lizard running over the stones.

"Do you- do you found out who wrote the message?", he asked again. So he cares about it. "No", she replied shortly.

"Hey were are you both talking about?", Galaxy shouted. "N-nothing", Sloth stuttered and Ripple blushed. Ray made a ugly sound and than he smiled.

"Shut up", Galaxy said. "Hi Ripple", a new voice said. It was Shadowclaw. "Hello Shadowclaw", he answered and gave him a angry glance.

"Don't you know that the lessons will start soon?", Shadow asked. What? That early? "No thanks Shadowclaw", the hybrid answered and gave him a ugly glance.

"But the others. We have to wake them up", Sloth said. "Good idea Sloth", Shadow replied. She blushed a little and looked down at her claws again.

"What's with our breakfast?", Galaxy asked. "You can eat later and now come Sloth we have to wake our winglet", Shadow answered.

"Your winglet is here", somebody hissed. "It were BlackIce and River. But what's with the others? But it was already to late. They could hear a loud gong.

"OUR FIRST LESSONS STARTS! YAY", River shouted. Yay. "Let's go now!", Ray said. He and his winglet turned around and walked away. "Do you know where our meeting room is?", River asked. "BONG BONG!"

It took them nearly fifteen minutes to find the right room and the rest of their winglet was still there.

Sloth studied the big and red Skywing in front of her. He didn't looks friendly and he didn't spoke a word with them too.

"Hello. I'm Qible one of the Jade mountain teachers here. Today we will start with a little welcome game", the teacher explained. BlackIce made a odd noise and the big Skywing lashed his tail.

"I will begin. My name is Qible and I'm a Sandwing and a teacher at Jade mountain. I like joking and fighting and my favorite color is a pale yellow. Before I came to Jade mountain I was one of queen Thorns guards", Qible said.

"BlackIce you're next." She stepped forward and gave the Sandwing a grumpy glance.

"Well you all know my name now and how you ALL can see I'm a Ice-Nightwing hybrid. That's all", BlackIce explained and stepped back.

"Shadowclaw you're next", Qible said. "My name is Shadowclaw and I'm a Rain-Nightwing hybrid. My parents are the rulers of the rainforest and I like annoying my friends and random dragons. My favorite color is black", Shadow said. Sloth smiled.

Than River started speaking. "My name is River and my mom is TSUNAMI the head of the school but most the time I'm with my aunt Auklet. I'm a Seawing and I LOVE being royal! My favorite color is green and blue and yellow and pink and red and orange!" Silly little Seawing.

Amber came next but she didn't said a word. She just looked at them with her big and brown eyes. "By the way. Amber is mute", Qible explained.

"And you say it only NOW?", the Skywing snarled. "Well I'm Thunder and I was a Skywing soldier until my queen ordered me to stay in that silly mountain", he hissed.

Definitely not friendly. The next one was Hunter. "Well I'm not telling you SOMETHING about me!", he snapped.

"But wait! That's unfair!", River cried. "That's right why should WE do that but he not!", BlackIce shouted. "You don't have to if you don't want. Sloth you can start", Qible explained.

"M-my Name i-is Sloth and I-I'm a Rainwing. I-I like..." "Let me guess sleeping?", Thunder shouted.

How can somebody be such a idiot? I wish I could KILL HIM RIGHT NOW! But she stayed calmly. "Who don't?", she answered gently.

"But I like Reading too. History books are the b-best. My favorite one is about t-the great s-Sandwing war. M-my favorite color is..."

"That's easy! Red!", Thunder snapped.

Breath in. Breath out. You just can't rip his head off when there are too much other dragons. Breath in. Breath out. Calm down. Just try don't to slit his belly. Calm down Sloth. Stay gently. Stay calm. Stay friendly.

"No. my favorite color is blue. I-I can't camouflage", Sloth explained calmly. The other dragons stared at her. What did I wrong?

"Now where we're ready we can go and meet another winglet. We'll have fight training now", Qible said.

"Fight training? Why do we need that!", River cried. "Because something odd is happening and when a war begins we have to be ready", Qible replied.