A/N: I don't really have a schedule for how often I post on here, so expect sparratic updates. Also, this story has gotten way off the ship, but there isn't much I can to about it because of how i've made this story. Whoops. TwT I hope to make it more fluffy in the future, but anyway, onto the story.

Winter PoV:

Tsunami's announcement cause much conversation of what could be happening. The thoughts of hurricanes and typhoons bounced from student to student.

I, on the other hand, found all of this extremely stupid.

"It's just a little bit of wind! We'll be fine." I rolled my eyes. "In the Ice Kingdom, blizzards far worse than this happen all the time. It's not that bad."

"Oh really?" Qibli said with a mocking tone. "And what would the All Mighty Ice Prince do in this situation?"

I scowled at him. "Nothing. We're in a sheltered cave inside of a mountain, for crying out loud! We're all gonna be fine I say we just go back to whatever we were doing before and ignore it."

"Hmm, a sheltered cave, you say." Qibli made a face of intense thinking. "So why in the world would the 'little bit of wind' be howling through the halls, huh??"

"Winds are more powerful than you think." I growled at him. He scowled right back.

"Fine. Whatever you say. In the meantime, I will be off to the library. I believe there are sleeping furs to be collected." He turned abruptly and stalked off.

I rolled my eyes again, and sauntered off toward our cave.

Qibli PoV:

The library seemed more far away than I remembered, but it was not long before I was walking back to the cave. 

Quick A/N: Umber is still attending school, and he is sharing a cave with Turtle, so Qibli and Winter are alone in a cave. Qibli used to be int he same cave as Turtle and Umber, but his cave arrangement was changed so that Winter wouldn't be alone and there wouldn't be four dragons sharing a relatively small cave. So that's why Qibli thought the library was farther away. Also, plot convenience.

I kept thinking back to how angry I gotten over what Winter had said. It does make sense for him to say, seeing that he comes from an extremely cold climate. But it still upsets me that he can't be even the slightest bit sympathetic.

I suppose I can't blame him, he's used to people doing whatever he wants, and especially with his childhood I don't expect him to have felt sympathy from anyone else. As uncomfortable as I still was, I couldn't help but empathize with his problems. We may be polar opposites, but there are still things we have in common.

I smiled slightly as I reached the entrance to our cave. I was unsurprised to see Winter already there, and I felt happy seeing him.

Why am I feeling this way? I mean, we're just friends. Unfortunately- No, no, that's it, I'm just happy to see him 'cause he's my best friend.

I sighed quietly.

Liar. You know what you feel, stop trying to stop yourself.

I shook my head a bit, trying to get the thoughts out of my mind. I tossed the furs into a corner for the time being, and strolled over to my icy friend.

"What do you want?" Winter hissed.

"Nothing. What, am I not allowed to greet my roommate in my own cave?" I said with a grin. I saw Winter roll his eyes (for probably the third time in 15 minutes) but he didn't reply.

There was a bit of an awkward silence while I cautiously walked over to sit next to him. I felt the urge to wrap my wings around him and give him a hug, but I decided against it, thinking it would be a very good way to get my face clawed. Instead I simply sat there, aware of Winter's agitated soft growls and twitchy tail, but I didn't do anything about it.

If he doesn't like me annoying him, well he'd better get used to it.

I hope I'm not writing them too out of character... If I am, please let me know so I can fix it ;-;  Anyway, I have read some comments deciphering the prophecy, and to you I say...

Perhaps.

You're not wrong, but you're not right. You'll see with time. Meanwhile, everyone stay safe and to the people in the Northwest suffering from the Wildfires, I wish you only the best <3

edit: I changed the internal dialogue Qibli has just a bit because I wrote this chapter when I wasn't very good at writing romance and tried to play along the trope of the characters going "ohh why do i feel like this wuwauwiefdfalflaoo" and it didn't fit with an idea had for both earlier chapters and chapters to come, so yeah.