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Stormy didn't exactly think the sand kingdom was for her, even though being a Sandwing herself—irony, right? Sandwings usually loved the sand and the warm sun. Stormy didn't. She only stayed because it was where she had to be. She was still young to wander off across the whole continent. And she didn't have any parents that could take care of her. But she had something. Something even better: Magic, Animus magic. She'd learned that by accident when she had made a bunny that each time she took a bite of it, the bite would regenerate and she'll have infinite food. But she also once used it in public, and that taught her that other dragons would want to use her because of her magic.
"You know, Stormy... This bunny is so delicious! How did you make a bunny that regenerates itself?" Asked someone who was once a friend of Stormy as he took a bite out of the bunny. He was a smaller Sandwing, his color was a pale yellow and had some soft pink patches around his neck and wings. He was called Cacti.
"Magic!" Stormy had said, and then she grabbed a rock that was nearby. "Tell me something you want me to make!"
Cacti thought for a second, and then spoke innocently, "I want that rock so that whenever I ask for food, it brings me some!"
Stormy chuckled and then she nodded as she leaned her forehead to touch the rock. "I command this rock to when Cacti asks for food or ever feels hungry, this rock shall bring him some food!" Stormy finished her sentence and she could feel some sort of magic aura around her. As she looked up and looked at Cacti, she handed over the rock. "You should try using it now!"
Cacti looked excited and content, she gently grabbed the rock and whispered. "Bring me some food."
The rock laid in his hands for a moment, and Cacti looked up at Stormy and she shrugged. "Maybe I casted the spell wrong or—"
WHOOSH
The rock went flying away and after a while it brought some dead prey. But not only prey. Dragons too. Dragons that seemed surprised and shocked to see a rock floating.
Cacti joyfully took the prey from the rock on his talons and started chewing on it. Stormy smiled but the glances from other dragons made her uncomfortable. She looked up at them and one of them spoke.
"Who of you two did THAT?"
"Oh! My friend Stormy, right here!" Cacti said between his chewing.
"We haven't seen an Animus dragon in so long!" Whispered a dragon to another–and that was the first time Stormy had ever heard the word "Animus" and learned about it.
"Say, Stormy..." A strange dragon said as he came closer to her. "Mind working with me to control your powers? Ooh yeah I know a lot of Animus magic and I can teach you how to use it!.."
Stormy felt weird, she didn't know what to do, before, it was only Cacti that knew, not, a random bunch of Sandwings knew too, and it all felt too much.
"We could make wonders! What do you say Stormy?"
Stormy didn't wanna work for nobody, she wanted to make her own decisions, but she couldn't seem to find a way to escape this place, everywhere was so crowded and Stormy couldn't think straight with the offer and whispers from others that where making for her. But then something in her brain clicked...
She just had to erase everyone's memory. Or at least that they ever saw her or met her. Which meant, even Cacti had to forget, she liked him, but this might be for the best, nobody knowing and her staying away from public for probably forever if she wanted to be free and use her powers however she wanted.
She gently grabbed a stick and thought to it for a moment.
'make this stick so that when I break it, everyone that has ever met or seen me and what I can do, forget me.'
She then broke the stick, and she ran away, as fast as she could.
Once she was far away, she looked back and saw Cacti one last time, who seemed to not pay attention to her, he didn't know her now, she was now all by herself.
She sighed, as she left before anyone could watch her.