Here is chapter three of Shadows of Rain!! I changed the title again, but I hope you enjoy it :)

This chapter is a lot darker than the last two, so unless you can handle it, you may want to skip it lol

anyways, enjoy :)

As the long days went on, RainShade rasped for air in the cold crisp sky. They almost touched the clouds, and she spent most of the trip drifting off her brother or riding on his back. Her stomach snarled with hunger, and she twisted her lip as she whimpered.

She knew better than to cry to her sire for hunger. The stallion grew angrier and colder each passing day, and she was scared that any moment he would hurl her and her brother out of the sky. They only stopped when he wanted to stop, only slept when he wanted to sleep, and only ate when and where he ate.

RainBreeze’s dappled chestnut pelt was soaked with mist and sweat as he panted, his crimson and ash wings beating heavily with every passing minute. Heavy bags were under his eyes like a plague, and he faltered, nearly falling out of the sky as he carried his tiny sister. Unlike StormSky, RainBreeze would not rest unless someone was watching RainShade. He never ate unless she was close by, he never slept for fear of something snatching her in the middle of the night, and he never rested unless she was being monitored.

StormSky pinned his ears and angled his crimson wings down towards the ground. RainShade nickered in her brother’s ears, and he nodded. He too soon crashed to the ground, and was asleep in minutes.

RainShade giggled, surprised by her brothers strange nature. She dipped her head and nibbled on the moist grass blades. She brayed in complaint, but her stomach complained louder.

StormSky snorted. “Quiet you two! I have a job to do…”

RainShade watched her sire disappear into the trees, and she cocked her head. He had been doing this for days… land and stalk off, then leave just as quickly. She snorted softly as her curiosity got the better of her.

RainShade followed her father into the trees, leaving her sleeping brother.

She followed the stallion’s musty scent of storm clouds and blood, until she strained her ears, hearing three distinct voices. Somewhere farther away, there was a soft bawl of a foal. She beamed, thinking her father had found friends, but as she shook her pelt free from water, the talking turned to shrill screams and whinnies of fear. The baby started crying, and RainShade could only stare.

Their were bodies… scattered in the meadow. She stared at her sire, then back at each different body. There were four so far, but RainShade watched her father dig his hooves into another mare as she fell. He soon cornered the final voice, a stallion’s.

“StormSky! I-I don’t know where my cousin is, why would she come here?!” The gray brindle flared his worn out white and blue wings as the large muscly chestnut leopard appaloosa came stood over him.

“Come now BlueFire… I have no intent of finding her… good riddance to that mare anyways. I just want to scare her in case she really is alive.” StormSky trumpeted, and reared, striking the old captain down with one blow. StormSky panted, and wiped his wings on his pelt, smearing blood. He took one final look at each of his victims, like his own bloody art work. His eyes came to rest on the foal that had cried earlier, who now cried over his dam’s broken form.

StormSky chuckled as he reached his wings toward the tiny foal.

RainShade whinnied in fear and sadness as she bolted in front of the foal. “Daddy please!” She sobbed, tears running down her face. She trembled weakly, shedding crimson and cream feathers onto the grass looking with blood.

StormSky panted, all his pent up anger done with. He slammed his wing over his daughter, swatting her like an unwanted fly.

RainShade tumbled in the grass, and she fell near the dead captain. “Daddy no!” She screamed as the stallion snapped the foal’s neck. An eerie snap echoed the meadow, and RainShade trembled, sobbing and crying.

StormSky panted as he began to trot away. “Now we can move on…”

RainShade ran at him, and bucked and fought, trying to hurt him. “How could you! You monster! I hate you!” She sobbed and panted as she tried beating her father.

StormSky roared in rage and annoyance as he tossed her again. He grabbed her by the roots of her mane, and dragged her back as she flailed and squealed in pain.

StormSky threw RainShade’s crying body onto RainBreeze, who startled awake. His sister was cut, her head and neck bleeding as she crawled close to her brother. “Get up, we’re leaving.” The large stallion snorted.

RainShade sobbed as she hugged her brother with her wings. RainBreeze stared in fear and astonishment. “What did you do to my sister?!” He trumpeted.

StormSky snorted as he cleaned the blood off himself in a tiny creek. It soon became tainted with the blood of his kills. “I showed her my job… she got in the way, so I had to teach her a lesson.”

RainShade’s back was also bruised and bleeding… as if she had been bucked and stomped on. RainBreeze growled. “And we here do you think you’re taking us?” He said bitterly as he kept his sister away from this crazy stallion.

StormSky smiled as he stood over them. “To the last place I can stay out of the canyons… the leader of the rebels. And you are my access ticket.” He chuckled as he stared murderously at his young colt.