Against the Current: A Wings of Fire fanfiction
Chapter 1
"Will you please get me that bear outside?" Queen Glacier asked her son Snowball. "It's getting close to the skating rink opening and I want to have a feast ready for a few hours from now."
It was getting very close to the 50th anniversery of the Queen's coronation. A skating rink would open in just a few hours, and all tribes would be able to access it because it would be a few miles south of the Great Ice Cliff. There would be a feast at the grand opening.
"Alright, mother," Snowball said, and at that he went through the large ice entrance hall an began to strategize. Even though killing animals wasn't he exactly his thing, he would have to follow his mother's orders.
After a period of waiting, the polar bear came out of the ice fort it was inside. One sharp scratch from Snowball's claws caused its death. He picked up the polar bear and gave it to his mother back inside.
A few minutes later, Snowball was off to the skating rink with his mother. "How many dragons will be there?" he asked as they flew towards the border with the SandWing kingdom.
"I think that at least two hundred will attend," Queen Glacier said, with much emotion. "Thank you for the bear. If we didn't have that our guests would go hungry!"
While the two relatives were talking, the land they were flying above started to look more desert-y. By the time they flew past the Great Ice Cliff, which would kill any non-IceWing traveling past it, it was about 70° Fahrenheit. In most of the Ice Kingdom, it was about -40° outside. Even if a dragon trying to go to the Ice Kingdom didn't perish at the Great Ice Cliff, they would freeze to death at the northernly part.
A small fortress appeared on the horizon very soon. "That's the skating rink over there!" Snowball exclaimed.
Suddenly, his SeaWing friend Seaweed popped out from behind a rock and beckoned for him to come.
"I'll catch up later," Snowball told his mom after noticing Seaweed. Luckily, his reasons were not questioned.
To be continued...
