Backstories: Luminatio, part 2

Gathering her wing muscles for flight, Morpho flapped her wings with twice as much energy she would normally use for normal flights, trying to lift the injured dragon from the marble stairs he fell on. It took some time, but soon , Morpho was headed for her cave, where her parents live, it was lucky that she was born into a family of water dragons, since water dragons are well known for healing abilities. She may be both water and Moon butterfly dragon, but she is as useful as any water dragon, although she is still too young to heal anything but minor injuries. The flight was long and arduous, since the dragon had lost his wings, there was no guarantee he may ever fly again, and not much of a chance of getting the wrongdoer caught, since the one at fault was the Moon butterfly dragon ruler himself, which begs the question, why did he try to kill his own son?

"Morpho! Where have you bee....... oh my... what... what happened?"

"No time for questions mother! You have to heal him before it;s too late!"

"Alright, Morpho, see if you can find your father, he should be somewhere among the rolling hills."

"Got it."

The water dame had never seen anything quite like this, a young dragon with both his wings forcibly torn off, and a hole through the wing joints, originating from a stab of a hooked dragon claw, she may not know who this youngling may be, but a life is a life after all, to let him die now would be like letting 2000 years of life go to waste, along with a reputation and opportunities galore. No questions were asked even after Morpho got back with her father, a Moon butterfly dragon from the imperial guard force, and he had recognised the bloodied dragon immediately.

"Is....is that?!"

"What is wrong?"

"No....... why...how...what is going on?"

"Father, what is wrong?"

"This dragon.... he is Voile's successor!"

"The prince?"

"Yes....."

it took three hours for Morpho's mother to fully heal the young prince, but even then, he was lacking his wings.

"Morpho, do you know what happened to his wings?"

"I saw a navy blue dragon, with yellow hooked claws have a dig at him, then he sliced through his underbelly and sliced the wing joint sockets."

"But..... why... why would Voile's heir do such a thing?"

"Now is not the time to talk about this, the real question is, where are we going to find him a new pair of wings?"

"I.... I don't know..."

The conversation ended there as the three dragons decided that sleep may help to clear their heads of the sudden events of today, before they start to think about their task ahead of them tommorow.

Luminatio was constantly plauged by his nightmares during the entire time he was out, he would repeatedly go back to the few seconds before he fainted, the searing pain, the evil look in Umbra's eyes, his lovely wings falling onto the ground, before the darkness consumed him completely. But between these shots, he could see someone, and it wasn't a dragon of some sort, it was one of those complicated creatures many call a 'human'. This human had long jet-black hair, reaching a few centimetres beyond her shoulders, her skin was rather pale, save for the slight tinge of a colour similar to goldenrod. Her eyes were as dark as her hair, and they exuded a comforting warmth, causing the entranced prince to stare into the two sparkling black orbs. She was wearing a full-length pale blue dress, almost touching the floor, but still not quite there yet, there was a blue ribbon tied into a butterfly knot around her waist and a white stripe down the middle, lined by frills. The sleeves were longer than her arm and hand combined, ending in a sort of slightly cone like shape at the end, there was a yellow butterfly on her hair and a beckoning look in her eyes, almost as if she was asking him to come with her, to a whole new world.... But everytime he tried to accept her offer, his mind will slip back into darkness, and the turmoil began again.

Three months have passed since the prince's disappearance from the palace, Paschal had just laid her first clutch of eggs with Umbra, the new official ruler of the Moon butterfly dragons, who's heir is within one of Paschal's  five eggs. Paschal needed some time to get over the 'death' of her younger brother, after all, she had promised to her father on his deathbed to take care of Luminatio until he becomes the new ruler, and now she had broke it. Umbra had convinced her that Luminatio was murdered by the very same assassin that had killed Paschal's mother, and he will do everything possible to find out who did such a horrible thing. But, under the fake mask of love and concern he had been showing to Paschal, Umbra plotted, plotting on how he will exterminate the royal linage, and make his DNA the dominant one in the many descendants to come.

After all, he was the assassin that murdered Paschal's mother in the first place, and the one who slipped a bit of snake venom into Voile's drink.

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Luminatio awoke after three months of staying in his unconscious state, upon waking up, he realised that he still had wings, but of a different colour, in fact they looked oddly familiar......

"Wakey wakey sleepyhead, have a nice nap?"

Luminatio turned to see Morpho, he blue wings and antennae glowing in the dark interior of the cave.

"Who are you?"

"MY name's.... Oh, er... I gotta go now, catch you later!"

"Wait! Where are you going?"

"Going to take my beginners flight test! See ya!"

Without another word, the young female darted off, off onto the clear blue skies of morning.