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Winter's Scavengers

Holly~ I look around carefully for any flashes of dragon scales before climbing the ladder to go out of the small village where me and Harper live. I pull out my bow, scanning for squirrels or other little animals. My brother's head pops out a moment later, and I quickly pull him up. "Stay close," I tell him. "I've seen a white spiked dragon lurking around here recently, and I think maybe it has a home nearby." Harper doesn't seem to hear me. He clambers quickly up a tree and starts picking apples. Stupid, reckless Harper. Harper didn't understand what dragons can do- he didn't see what happened when Forest tried to steal treasure from one. I shake my head, trying to focus on the task at hand. I don't hear or see any other small animals nearby, and I don't want to leave Harper while I'm looking for food, so I take a basket and start gathering nuts. A sound in the bracken makes me jump, but when I look around, nothing's there. Still, something's worrying me. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I tell Harper, "Finish up and let's go in, okay?" He hears the worry in my voice and jumps down. I pick a last few berries and turn to head in- but then a net appears out of thin air and entangles me in its folds. "Harper!" I yell. He shoots an arrow at the pink and purple dragon, and the dragon yells in outrage. The white dragon from eariler flies down from wherever they were hiding and picks up the net that's trapping me. Harper can't even fight one dragon- they'll die if they have to fight two. "Go!' I tell him. "Run!" Harper stands there for a second, then runs into the village. The white dragon hooks his claws around the net and takes off, carrying me away from my home. Like I said, I know what dragons can do to small humans like us. And it's not good.

Winter~ "You did it!" I say happily. 

"Yes, I know, I'm amazing," Kinkajou said. "What are you going to do now?"

"Get them settled in the sanctuary, then check for news of Moon." I answer.

"And Qibli," Kinkajou adds dryly.

"Well, yeah." I can't believe this project is actually going to work! Well, hopefully it'll work, anyways. I dip my wings to land in the large, walled off area, then put the scavenger down and settle on the wall to see what they do. Kinkajou watches for a bit, then turns to head into Santuary.

Alright, so this is a solo write I'm making about Winter's scavenger project! If you haven't read the Wings of Fire series, well, you should, but Winter is a dragon who's really interested in scavengers (i.e. humans.) After a failed attempt at keeping one as a pet, he decides to build a santuary for them to live in where no dragons will attack them and he can watch them as much as he wants. This solo write has places for 9 humans/scavengers including Holly, and 2 dragons(not mains) as I will mostly be using real characters from the books for dragon characters.

Here's the charrie sheet~

Human or Dragon:

Name:

Personality:

Appearance:

Tribe(hybrids are ok but not too many, humans just write which part of Pyrria you lived in):

Other:

And here's Holly's sheet:

Human or Dragon: Human

Name: Holly

Personality: Hates dragons, independent, fiercely protective of her little brother, Harper.

Appearance: Long dark curly hair, darkish skin, hazel eyes.

Tribe: Not a dragon, lives in a forest near the Diamond Spray River.

Other: Her dad is fine but her mom is currently in the Kingdom of Sand because weird dragon reasons (look in The Hidden Kingdom where they're at Blaze's hideout...)