(well folks, didn't I tell you, I am so feeling the flow with my recent progress. So, I introduce to you my newest story, Wings of Fire - The dark Animus (exclaims over-dramatically). Hopefully, this will be just as thrilling as the last one, but I do have hopes that this will be longer, for TPS, I had the events of each chapter already planned out, but this, naw, I've still got some ideas to work in. Well, without futher adu ...)
Chapter one – a new threat emerges
It was just a week after Magiah left Pyrrhia, and everyone was happy. However, back on the Nightwing volcano, something was stirring. Dark clouds were gathering above the barren ground, and the wind was blowing hard. All of a sudden a lightning bolt struck the ground and a chasm opened up, revealing a buried Nightwing.
The Nightwing stirred, "At long last, I have returned." He stretched his aching limbs, the silver scales under his wings glowed. However, they did not glow with light; they glowed with an absence of it, which made those scales look not at all like silver. His dark purple scales were a shade away from being black, and his eyes were purple.
The Nightwing spoke to himself again, "Brother, it's time I avenge your death, the Doombringer shall make sure of that.
Doombringer flapped his wings and rose out of the chasm; a couple streams of lava were flowing anew thanks to the lightning bolt.
Doombringer landed on the ground with a thud, and looked around. Using his animus powers, he could feel the bodies of many dragons that were dead on the island. "Perfect, I have slaves." He laughed manically. He then proceeded to channel his power throughout the volcanic island, and many of those dead dragons rose again anew; all under his control.
The two days later, Thorn sat on the rocky ground glumly, earlier that day, she had gotten word of problems surfacing all over Pyrrhia via the dreamvisitors. And now, she, Glory, Coral, Moorhen, Glacier, and Ruby were meeting to discuss the topic at Jade Mountain. They had made it there so soon thanks to Stonemover and Anemone creating more wormholes to each Queens' palace.
I suppose Magiah did some good after all; curing Stonemover and Anemone, and giving them to ability to not lose their soul when they use their magic. Thorn thought to herself.
"Pyrrhia to Queen Thorn! Are you there?" Glacier asked sternly.
Thorn shook herself out of her thoughts, "Ah sorry Queen Glacier, I was just thinking. So what are we going to do about the deaths on our border? There aren't really any clues as to who did it." Thorn felt a twinge of embarrassment from getting distracted during the meeting, hopefully she wouldn't have to do this many more times.
The six of them had also decided to always add "queen" when speaking their name as well to show respect, even though they were still equals and could have skipped using their titles.
"Well, that is a something that we can't determine. The suspect doesn't leave behind any defining clues." Glacier said, but then she added, "Except for the talonprints of a Nightwing. Or so I think."
"I don't think they are any of mine. We Rainwings have kept them within the Rainforest." Glory said with a smudge of arrogance; thanks to the fact that Rainwings were finally being seen as equals in Pyrrhia.
"And you're not the only one with a dead dragon in your borders. We've found some too." Ruby replied, looking at Moorhen and Coral.
"Is that same purple dragon responsible?" Coral asked.
"No, I used the Obsidian Mirror on him, and he literally said "Whatever is it, I'm not responsible," so, yeah." Thorn answered.
"Are you sure anything that creep says can be trusted?" Ruby asked suspiciously.
"Well, he hasn't lied yet." Glory spoke up, "Anyway, all thoughts aside for him, we should ask our subjects if they've seen anything weird."
"Then let this meeting be adjourned. Let's all go now." Moorhen announced.
After the others left, it was only Glory and Thorn, "So how has Sunny been?" Glory asked, "She hasn't really visited within the last several days."
"She's alright. You remember when I told you about that charm, the one that that purple pain left behind? Well, Sunny has been enjoying talking to Flower; it's still disturbing, knowing those small creatures are just as smart as us." Thorn said, her tail twitched, the barb on the end made a spark on the ground.
Glory chuckled, "Well, that's to be expected from Sunny, always making friends."
"She was already a friend with that scavenger before then, but now, it's … strange. I don't think anyone could have guessed that prey could put a good conversation." Thorn continued on, wondering just why things were so quickly getting stranger and stranger in Pyrrhia.
"Well, I'll talk to you later; better make sure no one did anything stupid while I was gone." Glory said, thinking of the Nightwings.
Thorn walked over to the Sandwing tunnel, which was among one of the six tunnels placed evenly in the circular cave, the usual crawling sensation was felt as she walked through and entered the palace. She exited the tunnel in the formerly-known tower that was once Burn's collection. She had gotten rid of all of Burn's things once she had taken up residence at that palace.
Once she closed the door to the tower, she was greeted by Addax, and she frowned.
After his stunt with kidnapping Sunny, he was not her favorite dragon that was still alive; and yet, Sunny's words remained fresh in her mind, he did it for his family. Perhaps it was for the best; after all, if Sunny didn't make it to the palace when she was kidnapped, she wouldn't have made friends with Smolder and Flower, and then they probably wouldn't have uncovered the Eye of Onyx.
"Hello, Your Majesty, so how was the meeting?" Addax said as nicely as he could manage.
Thorn continued to frown, "Skip the pleasantries, has anything happened?"
Addax let his smile fade away, "Alright, well, there hasn't been much of anything, except for a couple complaints about the scavenger.
"And that's all?" Thorn asked, stretching her wings to take in more sunlight, the warmth comforted her.
Addax then frowned too, "You won't be forgiving me anytime soon, will you?"
"Not until you can prove your loyalty." Thorn answered.
Addax sighed, "Alright." He then left Thorn and headed off towards the barracks.
Thorn flew the short distance to the door inside the palace, and almost collided with her daughter, "Sunny! Talk about timing, I wanted to talk to you."
"Wow, Mother, didn't expect to see you back already." Sunny replied, but then Thorn saw something sitting on her shoulder; it was Flower. Whose appearance made Thorn nearly sigh, especially since Sunny was wearing the translation charm.
"For creatures that are so big, you certainly have trouble seeing what's under you. We almost got ran over." Flower protested.
Thorn tried to ignore the scavenger, whom was making use of talking to dragons as often as possible. Despite being easily aggravated, Flower could at times be a kind creature. As far as Thorn could tell, the only thing bad about Flower was her comments, which weren't very common, just on certain occasions.
"Well Sunny, it seems that the deaths still don't have much to go on. Except that the talon-prints belong to a Nightwing." Thorn said, eying Flower to see if any comments would come.
"You don't think it's one of Glory's do you? She wouldn't let them do something like this." Sunny said with worry.
"No, she told us during the meeting, her Nightwings have been stuck inside the Rainforest the entire time, and the wormholes are under surveillance." Thorn replied.
"I guess dragons and danger can't separate easily." Flower said sympathetically from on top of Sunny, her little paws holding onto Sunny's horns.
Seeing the scavenger gave Thorn an idea, "Sunny, I think we might have a way to find the culprit."
"We do? How?" Sunny asked curiously.
"We send in a spy. A very small spy." Thorn smiled, giving Flower a look.
It was a look that informed Sunny and the scavenger instantly. "Not Flower!" "Not me!" Sunny and Flower said simultaneously.
"Either of you have a better idea?" Thorn asked with a hint of skepticalism.
"Perhaps a decoy could catch this dragon." Flower suggested.
"That's not a bad idea. Though we'll have to think about it more." Thorn found herself hating the fact that Flower had a good idea.
A decoy was what Glory had used to get herself captured by the Nightwings before learning about them. Even though that plan backfired a bit, the Nightwings were, from then on, discovered.
"Come on you two, Flower, you might just be useful yet." Thorn walked with her daughter and the scavenger to the throne room, and began forming a plan to catch this new enemy.
(so what do you think so far, any ideas or such? I feel as if I'm missing something, oh yeah, as for previously made reviews for TPS and TPS Fail, well mostly for TPS Fail, sorry, tis was just a one-shot, so there won't be any continuation on that version of events.)