Jerboa II

"I believe this is our first visitor from the lost continent. She blew in with the storm."

— Jerboa II to Moonwatcher and Qibli about Luna, The Lost Continent

(Not to be confused with Jerboa, her mother and the "original" Jerboa from Darkstalker's time.)

Jerboa II
Gender	Female
Tribe	SandWings
Special Powers	Animus magic
Status
Status	Alive (as of The Poison Jungle)
Relatives
Mother	Jerboa
Book Appearances
Appeared in	Talons of Power, Darkness of Dragons
Appeared in	The Lost Continent, The Poison Jungle
Mentioned in	The Hive Queen

Jerboa II is an adult female SandWing who was introduced in Talons of Power. She first appeared after Darkstalker casts a spell that summoned all living animus dragons to his throne room. She lives in a Jerboa's hut beside the sea, near a border shared by the Ice Kingdom and the Kingdom of Sand. She is also immortal.

Appearance

Jerboa has pale yellow scales. She is tall, long-necked, and graceful, with wide black eyes and a dappled light brown triangle pattern on her wings.

Personality

Jerboa is quiet and thoughtful, similar to Moonwatcher, and also appears to be kind and considerate. Despite being an animus, she doesn't seem to use her magic much. She is shown to welcome and trust others easily, such as taking care of Luna; and welcoming Moon and Qibli into her hut, despite them being strangers. She seems to dislike animus magic very much, even though she herself is an animus dragon. She seems to hate the attention of the IceWings her powers give her, such as at the end of The Poison Jungle she thinks "useless, just like I've always wanted" when she reveals animus magic is broken to Snowfall.

Biography

The Jade Mountain Prophecy

Talons of Power
Jerboa was first seen in Darkstalker's palace for a few split seconds by Turtle when she was summoned along with all other existing animus dragons. Jerboa then disappeared with a surprised expression, leaving Turtle to believe he imagined her.

Darkness of Dragons
She makes another mysterious appearance in the epilogue of Darkness of Dragons when she leads Moonwatcher and Qibli into her home to meet her. She then confirms to the two dragonets that she is the daughter of the first Jerboa, and that she is immortal. Jerboa shows them an injured dragon, who she has been taking care of. The dragon is Luna, a SilkWing from Pantala.

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The Lost Continent Prophecy

The Lost Continent

Jerboa appears in the epilogue when she finds Luna, lost and severely injured on one of the Kingdom of Sand's beaches. Jerboa says that it is lucky Luna speaks Dragon. She introduces herself to Luna, and Luna does the same. Jerboa brings the lost SilkWing to her home and offers her fish stew, but Luna declines, saying that she doesn't eat meat. She welcomes Moon and Qibli when they arrive and brings them to Luna, as seen in the Darkness of Dragons epilogue.

The Hive Queen
Her hut is mentioned twice in the prologue. She is also mentioned when Tsunami asks if she can enchant something for Luna to get back to Pantala, but Moonwatcher says that she is an animus that doesn't use her magic.

The Poison Jungle

In the epilogue, Jerboa II is seen flying to the edge of the Ice Kingdom to meet Snowfall. It's revealed that Jerboa II knew the current Queen's late mother as Jerboa thinks how Queen Glacier usually arrived after she did when they met up. Queen Snowfall, already traumatized by Darkstalker's return and paranoid about getting attacked, is panicking about the sight of hundreds of dragons flying in from across the ocean. She wants Jerboa to expand the Great Ice Cliff, but Jerboa stops her, proving that her animus magic did not work anymore, also stating that no one else's animus magic was working either. It was also said that after Queen Snowfall flew away in a fit of rage, Jerboa thought to herself: "Completely useless. [...] Yes. Just like I've always wanted.", prompting the idea that she cast the spell to prevent animus magic to work. It is also likely that the hundreds of dragons flying towards them is the group of SilkWings and LeafWings that are coming to Pyrrhia to escape The Othermind, along with Cricket.

Family Tree

Jerboa

Jerboa II

Jerboa III

Quotes

"I'm Jerboa, [...] Not the original Jerboa, [...] Her daughter."

― to Moonwatcher and Qibli

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"Yes. My mother cast a spell to make sure nothing could ever harm me. [...] I've been waiting a long time to fulfill my purpose."

― to Qibli

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"I guess I thought your continent might have a different language, [...] I'm Jerboa."

― to Luna

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"Shooting ice spears at any dragon who crosses the border that isn't an IceWing, [...] That's why we meet on this side of it."

― to Queen Snowfall about the Great Ice Cliff

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"It's too cold for anyone to do that, [...] The truth is, other tribes are not the slightest bit interested in stealing your kingdom."

― to Queen Snowfall

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"Completely useless. [...] Yes. Just like I've always wanted."

― thinking to herself

Trivia

• Her mother, Jerboa the First, enchanted her to make sure nothing could hurt her. This seems to have resulted in her immortality.
  • Jerboa is the second known dragon to have immortality.
• Jerboa is the only known living SandWing animus and one of two known SandWing animi, the other being her mother, Jerboa I.
• It is implied that Jerboa has information about all the animus magic disappearing, as this was hinted in The Poison Jungle when she thought, "Completely useless, [...] Yes. Just like I've always wanted."
  • Tui has hinted that someone (a 'she') knows more than she is revealing of the situation going on at Pantala. This may be Jerboa II.
• Jerboa II is one of the known characters to have a reused name.

Gallery

Reference by Platypus the SeaWing