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"Fight like the moster you were born to be!" A high pitch voice can be heard echoing through the cave the dragonets were born and raised in. Cryo growls a little, knowing that the voice belonged to blackice, one of their guardians that took care of him and was his father. As cryo walks through the cave tunnels, he wondered what the outside world was like, a different guardian named dove had told them about where she lived. "Oh, the rainforest was a beautiful place. There was so much sunlight and the sky was always blue. The ground was always green, there were trees everywhere and beautiful animals. Maybe one day after the war, you'll be able to see it." Dove would tell them just before they fell asleep. Cryo smiled thinking about the rainforest and the icewing kingdom that blackice told him about. As he daydreams,he felt someone touching his wings "sorry bro. I wanted to see if you want to go in the lake" a dark sandy-brown dragon who was his best friend, manticore. Manticore and cryo used to hate each other until last year. Cryo remembers what happened the night they became friends. It was a very cold night and manticore was reading a scroll "manticore?" Cryo said , honestly surprised that manticore actually read scrolls "cryo!? What are you doing up?!" Manticore shouted, hiding the scrolls. "It's nice tonight. I didn't know you liked reading" cryo chuckled, manticore visibly flustered " i-i just like to read the stories about us. These scrolls have theories about how we're going to stop the war!" Manticore almost shouted, a spark of excitement visible in his black eyes. " Really? That's amazing! Did dove give you those?" Cryo excitedly said "yep! She knows i like them a lot. Do you....want to read sone with me?" Manticore timidly said, gesturing for cryo to sit next to him with his barbed tail.
To this day, cryo and manticore were practically best friends. "Of course!" Cryo says, just seconds before he heard a yelp of pain echoing through the caves. " I'm guessing deer and blackice are training again.." manticore growls, cryo knowing that manticore cared about deer. Deer was another one of the prophecy dragonets, he was a very good friend of manticore's and cryo's. Blackice told them that deer tried to kill them the second he was born, which surprised them because deer was a kind dork of dragon, but cryo knew that blackice was being a little too harsh with deer. After a well needed swim in the lake, a dark brown dragonet came over, small shards of ice visible on his wing "deer! Are you ok!?" Cryo yells, rushing out of the water to help deer. "I-i'm fine cryo...it hurts only a little bit.." deer softly groans as manticore tries to melt the ice shards off. Deer whinces in pain and cryo tries to help. " deer...I'll try to convince blackice to go easy on you next time ok?" Cryo says, noticing the pain in deer's eyes "o-ok. Thanks" deer grunts as manticore pulls a rock out of deer's scales. Cryo smiles as deer and manticore walk to the cave where the eat "come on cryo! We don't want to be late for breakfast!" Deer yells "I'm coming!" Cryo runs after them. He could feel a feeling deep down in his heart. Truth be told, he wanted to be free from this cave. They went through a daily routine for so long, wake up, study, practice fighting, eat breakfast, practice hunting, study with blizzard,eat lunch, learning about the world outside with dove, eat dinner, one last fighting practice with blackice, and the go to bed. It felt...so bland. He made a decision that day. Tomorrow night, they'll escape.