Well before I begin my first Wings of Fire story, I have a couple of things to tell you all. First off, I personally didn't agree with Clay stuck with a limp and Starflight being permently blind, so i'll fix that up here. Also all I own is the plot and my OC('s). Well enjoy.
Prologue- aftermath
It was a peaceful day in Pyrrhia, just about five weeks after the Dragonets of Destiny saved the world from the war started by the Sandwing sisters. Sunny, Clay, Glory, Starflight, and Tsunami were now heroes and were making plans for the first ever inter-tribe school. However, as one purple scaled dragon was thinking, peace wouldn't last long. He looked like any other normal dragon on Pyrrhia except for that fact he was completely purple from head to tail, and two gray-yellow horns were on top of his head. He was pacing on gray rocky ground, as there was once an active volcano there. He knew that the volcano could still be active, but he wasn't worried, for that he had magical powers.
"So this is pyrrhia, well I wonder what mischief and chaos I can dig up."
After that thought, pictures appeared in front of his snout. He looked at the hovering images; there were five of them, each one showing a different dragon. A female Sandwing, but minus the barbed tail, the normal size of dragons her age, and a couple of other features. She was with an adult Sandwing in a palace within the desert. Another picture showed him a brown dragon sitting in mud with five other Mudwings, and the brown dragon looked over to see a red and gold female Skywing walking over to him but avoiding touching anyone. The purple dragon looked at the third picture; it was of a bunch of Seawings on an island, scorched by battle. There were at least a dozen dragons there, and they looked like they were debating about something. The fourth picture showed a Rainwing sitting on a platform talking to a black Nightwing, they were obviously together. The purple dragon chuckled as he looked at the last picture; it was in the rainforest just like with the previous one, but this one showed a group of Nightwings, one of which had bandages on his face, preventing him from seeing.
"Oh yeah, this is so going to be fun." The purple dragon chuckled evilly, "And all I have to do is wait for them to fall asleep."
Meanwhile, in the mud kingdom, Clay was enjoying a day with his brothers and sisters, telling them about all of his adventures.
"Wow, so you guys want to build a school In Jade Mountain, I'm so going once it's finished." Umber said after hearing Clay's finale part of his tale.
At that time, a Skywing was walking over to the group of siblings, "Hey Clay, how's your leg doing?"
"Peril, it's nice you to meet you, here of all places. Well my leg is doing fine, thanks for removing the poison." Clay called out as Peril cautiously walked over to the Mudwings.
"Well, it's not like Ruby will let me come back, despite saving one of the world's hero's. Sometimes I wish Scarlet was back on the throne, at least she kept me around." Peril sighed.
"I dunno, she isn't the best queen around, after all, it's thanks to her that we didn't get reinforcements and lost Crane." Reed said sadly, remembering the battle where Crane died.
"You've got that right, at least Ruby has given us some post-war support, where as Scarlet might be fiddling her talons around as she forces more dragons to kill each other in her arena." Marsh said then.
"I guess so, well Peril what would you think about joining our school in Jade Mountain? Maybe you could help with battle training, not that we'll need it anymore." Clay asked Peril, but then, to ruin the moment, his stomach rumbled.
Peril laughed, "Clay, your stomach just won't give you a break, wont it? Hmm well I don't know about the school, I'm trying to become as less of a fighter as needed. Thanks to you, I've realized that I don't have to always be a fighter, but I guess I could give it a try."
At the same time as their conversation, another one was in full swing, but this one was more of a debate.
"And that's why no matter what you will do, I will still accept Riptide. He may be good at keeping secrets and a traitor of sorts, but he's better than anyone else I've met here." Tsunami was telling her mother, Queen Coral, of why she would rather be Riptide's mate than any other Seawing.
"Well I don't know whether to punish you or praise you." Coral growled as her thick tail swept the ash-covered ground of the ruins of the Summer palace.
"I say we get rid of her, if it weren't for her, this place would still be standing." Shark said, staring at Tsunami.
Tsunami's gills flared, "Haven't you listened to the story, I thought I told you of how Crocodile followed Webs here, if it's anyone's fault, it's hers."
"Which is a very good reason to kill Webs, if you would just bring him here." Coral growled and looked up into the sky for any dragons flying overhead.
"Mother, you know Webs didn't know he was being followed." Anemone protested.
"Perhaps, but hmm, arrg! Just why do things have to be complicated?" Coral roared in frustration as she recalled Starflight's revelation that Webs indirectly saved Tsunami's egg.
"Anyhow, would you know of where Whirlpool has been for the last six months or so?" Moray asked curiously.
Tsunami and Anemone exchanged glances, both knowing where this was going.
"Yeah, the only reason we are out here is because you still haven't finished learning Aquatic." Shark growled.
"Whirlpool was not a good teacher, that's just one of the things making Riptide better." Tsunami replied with disgust to Shark.
"The question remains the same, what do you know about Whirlpool's disappearance?" Coral asked.
At that time, Urchin flew over to the group of dragons, mostly the council, and they all noticed several blue and green dragons carrying a Seawing out of the remains of the prison.
"By the moons, it's Whirlpool, but how did he die?" Pearl gasped as the body of Whirlpool was set down on the ground.
"Yes, in the prisons, what do you have to say for yourself Tsunami?" Coral questioned slowly.
"Well, alright, you see, Whirlpool was the one who tried to kill me before we went over to the royal hatchery. And well, he told us that it was because he didn't want to marry me, which I didn't want to marry him either." Tsunami said as she turned her head up in contempt, "We found out thanks to Anemone's powers."
"So, how did he die?" Moray asked.
Tsunami looked at Anemone, and the younger dragonet nodded, "Well that would also be because of me." Anemone replied, "You see, after Whirlpool revealed his plan, I took the spear I used to get him in the prison caves and smacked him with it. I tried to stop him from falling into the moat but I was too late as the eels gave off their electric shock."
All of the council looked at Anemone in surprise, including the Queen, "Anemone, I don't believe it, but why would you do it?"
"I had to try and stop Whirlpool before could use me, also there was the fact that Tsunami promised to protect me, I had to help her be able to keep that promise." Anemone glared up at her mother.
Coral looked relieved, "At least I know you are safe, if only we could have stopped Marble Orca before it smashed your sisters' eggs." She clutched Auklet in her talons as she sighed.
Meanwhile, in the desert, Thorn was listening to Sunny talk about her adventures, "So you convinced the scavengers to find some of the treasure, wow, I wouldn't have thought of doing that."
"Yeah, it was kind of tricky convincing them to do it; I had to kidnap Hollar for the other one to understand." Sunny explained.
Thorn sighed and the Eye of Onyx bumped with her moonstone necklace, "If only Stonemover would have just kept on trying to contact me. That fool is so going to get it once we cross paths." She then took a bite out of a lizard that was scurrying on the sandy floor.
"He did seem rather depressed, with all of his sighing and not moving. Well we might see more of him once we open the Jade Mountain School." Sunny said hopefully.
"Perhaps, well," Thorn began thinking to herself, looking for something to do, "oh Smolder!"
Smolder turned from the hallway and entered the room with the scavenger Flower perched on his shoulder, "You called?" He asked, bowing.
Thorn chuckled, "You know you don't need to bow to me, just because I'm the queen doesn't mean I need to be treated as one. Anyway, how is the library doing? You get all of the scrolls and other notes organized yet?" Thorn remembered the mess that room was in during Burn's occupation of the palace.
"Yup, I just finished today. Say, would you happen to have seen Blaze lately? I can't find her anywhere." Smolder asked, wondering where his only living sibling was.
Thorn shook her wings out of the fact she had been sitting down for a good while, "Have you checked her room, or maybe a pool. I'm sure she's probably admiring herself."
"Ahh yes, I forgot about that. Well, have fun, in the sun. You look like you need it." Smolder said laughing as he left the room.
"He certainly loves a good laugh, and he is right. We need to get some sun, I've been telling you about my adventures all day." Sunny commented as she stretched her wings and tail.
In the rainforest, Glory was sitting on a platform with Deathbringer. She had gotten used to his presence in the last half-dozen weeks that was in between the eruption of the Nightwing volcano and right now.
"So, how about a mango for my dear Queen?" Deathbringer said seducingly.
"If you do so much as one thing wrong, you know I'm going to kick your tail back to the island, and then I'll get Clay to put a boulder in the way so you can't come back." Glory replied smugly but her scales turned a shade of yellow.
"And that's why I haven't killed you yet; you're just too good of a queen to be gone with. You know, I've been thinking, why don't we find our own little place of our own; away from assassination attempts, and annoying dragons. Speaking of such, I know you're there Jambu." Deathbringer said as a male Rainwing came into view, scales turning pink.
"Ahh my little sister, falling in love." Jambu said, happily.
Glory sighed, "Jambu, you really know how to ruin a moment don't you. Well, how has Kinkajou been, you know if her wings have healed yet?"
"Well I haven't checked the healer's hut so, yeah I don't know; want me to?" Jambu replied.
"Yes, and while you're at it, why don't you see if Webs is doing okay, I haven't seen him around much." Glory replied. Jambu nodded and flew off, scales keeping the color pink.
"Ahh, so you care about the Seawing who never helped you, you're so nice." Deathbringer teased.
"Oh shut it, why don't you go find me a mango, like you asked." Glory scowled.
On the other side of the rainforest, the Nightwing camp was bustiling. Today, Starflight was told he could take off his bandages. So as he poked a talon underneath them, and pulled, he soon blinked as his eyes adjusted to the light.
"Starflight, you can see again! I just knew it." Fatespeaker gleefully cheered, and several others did too. That included Fierceteeth, whom was brought back to the rainforest along side Strongwings shortly after Thorn became queen. Although she was happy to be out of the desert, she wasn't so happy to not be in the Rainwing village.
"Of course you did, you know that we don't have powers right?" Starflight said smiling.
"That may not be fully true, you remember what Sunny said Stonemover said, you know, that it was like centuries since one has had a power. Maybe I actually do have visions." Fatespeaker replied, feeling insulted. She then noticed Starflight looked rather sad, "You alright?"
"Well, I just wish Sunny was here, she would make today even better." Starflight said glumly.
Fatespeaker remembered something Starflight told her, that Sunny approved of her and Starflight, He's probably still torn, having to choose between us. But if she could make Starflight happy, then things might get better with him.
"You know, you ought to cheer up, after all, your eyes are healed. You should be ecstatic, come on, lets go do something. Maybe we could go to Queen Glory, or to the sand kingdom, I heard Sunny is there." Fatespeaker tried to think of something to cheer him up, but only after she said Sunny's name did he lift his head up. She let her tail kick up some dirt thanks to some disappointment.
"Really, Sunny's in the sand kingdom, she's going to be so happy." Starflight said with a glimmer in his eyes.
Fatespeaker sighed, well if it was going to make him happy, "Hmm I think we should wait for tommarrow, she might go to sleep soon." She said as she noticed a little bit of one of Pyrrhia's moons in the sky.
So after a couple hours, two of the moons were rising in the horizon, "Alright, time to work my magic." The mysterious purple dragon chuckled.