Overcast

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Umbra was always the favourite of the disliked trio. He like his sister was never exactly appreciated by his mother, but her anger had always been toned down for him, for the sake of his siblings though, he stuck out.

"Hey I'm sure she does appreciate you," Erianthe had said to him one day, as he had been complaining to her - outside of Toxin's earshot and sight.
"You sure?" He responded to her flately. "Just because Twinkle still likes Stormwater even if he's magical defective, doesn't mean Toxin has to like me or my brother because we look weird."

He always appreciated Erianthe's optimism. It made him feel warm inside, a kind of odd feeling he couldn't name, that he only got around her.

"Hmm...🤔"
The pink skydancer hummed in thought as he watched her.
"I got it!"
"What now."
Her having an idea was great, but her not elaborating wasn't doing anything for him.
"Get your brother and meet me at the largest island near the border of the sea of a thousand currents. The one we share with them. I think I know what I could do to boost you and your bro's self confidence. Or self image. Not sure which one."

"Sure, okay. Whatever you say."
"Kay good. Now I just gotta ask my mom is she's gotta bring us or if we'll be allowed to do this on our own."

"Yo, Aim."
"What is it?"
Whenever he actually spoke to Aim, he saw a reflection of himself, personality wise. He always felt kind of cold, and he just assumed that was how most dragons felt when speaking to him. He just assumed Aim could get away with it because he was practically good at everything.

"Erianthe wants to meet us at this place on the largest island we share with water. She says she needs to do something."

"Fine, I'll go. When?"
"In half an hour or something. Okay thanks bye."

When he and his brother had arrived at the designated place, Erianthe was there waiting.

"Great we're all here! So yeah, we need to get to the spiral keep. I have a map, and where we are so we just need to get there!"

"You realize the spiral keep is under water, right?"
Aim had said to Erianthe.
"Oh yeah! We need a water dragon to help us get there."
"Then how come Syrle didn't come along with us?"
"She was busy. When I asked her she gave me the map and told me one of her friends who lives on this island should be available. Soooo.... Let's go!"

As she took flight, he and Aim followed suit. The further west they flew, the less shadowy and the more watery it became, until Erianthe started to descend, the two spirals copying her until they were on the ground.

"So now we have to walk straight until we find a whirlpool. Then we have to enter that to get down to the fishspine reef. "

"You mean that whirlpool?" Aim asked, extending a claw to point at the spinning water a hundred meters ahead of them.

"Yeah..." She said, looking at it. "You know, I really hope the instructions are right."

The trio moved slowly towards the pool, before diving in. As soon as they entered the cool water, it felt rather calm. A variety of fish swam around, as well as other smaller marine mammals. Many water dragons and non water dragons hung around, talking to each other.

"Okay, that worked," Erianthe said in relief, bubbles coming out of her mout as she spoke that eventually floated to the surface. "Now we go left until we see an area decorated in purple shells."

Using her wings to propel her forward, she slowly started to move. Umbra did the same.

"Both of you aren't doing it right," Aim scolded them, somehow moving ahead of them despite previously being behind the two of them. "If you looked around you would see everyone uses their tails and for legs. Wings for steering. Get it right."

"Don't be so rude," Umbra mumbled under his breath, even if the bubbles did appear, he batted them away before the other two could notice. Falling behind Aim and letting Erianthe lead, now he was at the back. They passed other dragons swimming by, until they came to an area outlined in various shells in shades of purple. Standing guard was a mirror dragon.


Without hesitation, Erianthe swam up to him.
"Hi! I'm Erianthe, of the Twilight Circle. The two spirals are my friends from the same clan. We were sent to seek out Elise the pearlcatcher."
The mirror nodded, before getting the Fae on guard with him to go fetch her.
"I'm required to stay here until we have the clear you are the right dragons."

A few minutes of silence passed and no dragon made a move. Eventually the Fae came back and was followed by a pearlcatcher he presumed was 'Elise.'



"Oh yeah Gnaf don't worry these are the dragons I'm supposed to go with," she said to the mirror, before turning towards Erianthe. "Nice to meet you! Our parents were friends so I was like 'of course I'll take you guys to the shop' so yeah, come on!"

Without even waiting and at a speed much faster than the other three, she took off before turning to look back. "Oh sorry I forgot you guys aren't used to swimming."

Continuing at a slower pace so the three shadow dragons could keep up, they swam deeper and deeper until Elise stopped.

"Okay, so if you guys need the scry shop and don't know your numbers, you gotta say your name, then the name of your father, then mother. Then you need to say your father's father and mother, and your mother's father and mother. In that order. Otherwise it won't work. So for me it would go like Elise, Minka and Rivien, Galeblaze and Sonika, Maren and Heather. Then the proper numbers will be there and you'll be able to test whatever. You guys can enter, I'll wait until you're done."

"Alright. Aim, you're older then Umbra by a few seconds, you can go first," Erianthe said, once they were in.

"Fine, I'll make this quick then. Aim...less, Whirlwind and Toxin, Sea and Darkdeset, Vesi and Fiore."
As he spoke those words, an image of him appeared, along with different options on the side.

"Now", Erianthe spoke, switching a few options to different things. "With a few scrolls, you could look like this!"



"And have no one recognize me and I would develope an intense fear of water and only be able to eat fish? Nah. Not my thing. Besides, just because we're a pretty rich clan, there's no way I'm breaking into our vault just to look like that."

"Okay. More simple then. What about this?"

Changing some options, but keeping the colours perfectly the same, she redid it.



"But that's not me though. Are you trying to make me feel bad?"

"Nope. Just showing you that you can look more unique how you are than you think."

"Not sure that worked. Just do Umbra so we can go."

"Sure. Alright, do your thing."

Umbra spoke out his name, his parents's and his grandparents's names. Instead of Aim appearing, it was him.

"Now, if Toxin really has a problem with how you look that's stupid. Maybe she thinks your pattern is too crowded. Think you and her would stop complaining if you looked like either of these?"





While the tundra one was a flat out no, the skydancer one looked alright to him. I'd be the same breed as Erianthe. Even then it didn't feel right.

"Okay you did Umbra let's go."
Aim left, leaving the other two alone.

"Both of those are magic breeds though. I'm a fighter. It's just not my thing. You know I think I feel a bit better knowing I don't have to practise magic. Thanks I guess."

"Glad to help. Before we go, I wanna see me and your sister. I bet we'd both look awesome as Coatls."

Giving in the information needed, she played with the options until she found something she liked.






Seeing a picture of his sister again made him wonder if she was happy wherever she was. Erianthe as a coatl just looked different to him.

"But do you want to be a coatl?"
He asked her.
"Not in reality. Probably not. I like knowing how other dragons feel. Like, did you know Gnaf was actually really curious about us? I like knowing things about the Circle too. Just so I don't screw anything up for anyone. It's a power that comes with flaws though, but I'm happy to live with it."

As the two of them left, Aim didn't mention them taking longer to leave as Elise led them back to the surface. Waving them goodbye as they flew up, breathing in normal oxygen, Umbra had never been more happy to breath in air. The water oxygen was fine, but air felt refreshing.

"Look at that!"
Erianthe pointed to a pink piece of ribbon in front of them. Picking it up, she handed it to Umbra.
"I know your brother won't want it, but you should wear it. It'll look better on you then me."

"Fine."
Tying it around his neck, he gazed at his reflection in the water. It looked alright. He didn't have to change himself for others, but it didn't mean he couldn't wear the bow.

"Hey Umbra, remember how I said I was a skydancer and all that jazz?"
"Yeah? What of it?"

It had been a few days since their adventure into the sea. Since then he hadn't complained about Toxin, and oddly enough, Toxin hadn't complained about him.

"The feeling is reciprocal."

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He is very pessimistic and almost always just sees the bad. He has an appreciation for Erianthe though, and doesn't mind her presence and is nicer around her, as well as her sister Mania.

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Has a platonic crush on Erianthe.

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Umbra is a watchdragon, this is his Watchdragon blurb

Overcast, more commonly known as Umbra simply was bored. That's what lead him to being a watchdragon. Due to his upbrining he has a less than positive attitude. Ever since he was rescued though, it's toned down a bit.

Bow was given to him by Erianthe

Has a part time job as a watchdragon
Doesn't know how to fight