Disclaimer: I only own the characters of whom are not from Wings of Fire, by Tui T. Sutherland.
Into the story
"Are we done yet?" Echo whines to me as we continue to clean the tables in the dining room after the students have eaten dinner.
"Not yet Echo," I answer for the tenth time in the past 5 minutes.
"Hey guys," Red smiled coming out for the Kitchen for a bit. "Rider is coming and so is Rio."
"Rio!" I whisper yell. Rio is a student and Mistress Mink's top student at that who has a secret friendship with Rider, since they are cousins.
"Sorry Val, he come up on me and Rider when we're talking. It was the only way I could make sure he wouldn't tell Mistress Mink. This is also why I voted against inviting Rider," Red added before going back into the kitchen.
"I guess that's the risk we took," I whisper to myself continuing to clean.
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"Sorry we're late," Rider said when he and Rio arrived, "It took forever to get out of Spell Tower, (The tower the boys stayed in which is the Blue Tower now due to Mistress Mink) and even longer to get into the Dragon Tower without being noticed but at least I turned the security cameras off with the help of Rio." Rider added probably trying to make it seem like Rio wasn't really a pest for being here, which he was.
"Now that everyone's here let's go," Red smiled not commenting on what Rider said wanting to find out more secrets that were held in our secret place. Red than opened the mystery door, "Breeze, lead the way," Red smiled. Breeze nodded and went first. After her, one by one we all follow. The door leads out to a 3 ft. wide platform before going to a long spiral staircase. Along the spiral staircase are seven 12 ft. tall stain glass windows. All stain glass windows had a dragon on them. The first one is of a sandy pale gold dragon with sandy white underscales. The dragon had a black forked tongue and a barbed tail like a scorpion. The dragon itself was in a desert scenery standing like a dog pointing to the prey he found through scent.
The next dragon was huge a bit bulky. It had dark brown armored scales and amber-like-gold underscales. The dragon had a flathead with nostrils at the top of its snout. The dragon was in a swamp and was sitting down looking into the water ready to pounce at any given sight of prey.
The dragon to its right was like a usual dragon you might picture. It had red-gold scales with orange underscales. It also had enormous wings with horns that reminded me of Maleficent. The dragon was flying in slightly clouded sky and breathing fire at what seemed to be the next dragon.
The next dragon had blue/aquamarine scales with green underscales, webs between its claws, gills on its neck and slightly glowing stripes on its tail/snout/underbelly. The dragon was under water with some fish swimming in the background.
Next was a dragon with silvery white scales like the moon with pale blue underscales like ice. It had ridged claws that griped the iceberg it was on, a forked blue tongue and a tail that went whip-thin at the end.
Next was dragon that was asleep on what seemed to be some kind of hammock between two trees. Its scales were bright and had all the colors of the rainbow that changed as you walked by due to the light that shined through it.
Finally, the last one was a purplish-black dragon with scattered silver scales in the underwing, like a night sky full of stars. The dragon also had a black forked tongue like the first dragon. This dragon was on a rock and faced right toward us with its black forked tongue sticking out us like a snake would as lava surrounded the background with a smoky skyline.
Rio took a lot longer when looking at the windows, amazed. Echo and Zinny were behind him and urged him to keep moving when he stopped to look at the windows. "You can see them again when we come back down," Echo would say and Rio would continue on to the next window. When we all finally reached the 9 ft. wide platform at the top Breeze opened the oak wood door that lead into the first secret room.
The first secret room is dusty and old. It's small too but has so many bookshelves, one could easily get lost. The girls and I found this, seven months ago. We found some amazing books such as Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling and Wings of Fire, by Tui T. Sutherland (although those aren't the only books we've read). Red and I have read all the books in both of those book series. Echo and Zinny are both halfway through both of them and Breeze has only read Wings of Fire and is currently on the seventh book.
Echo was the one to find the book that you take out that makes the bookshelf go away and reveals another secret staircase. This is smaller with regular windows. All though we wouldn't have found if Rider hadn't been looking for a book about Lions, which the tittle of the book that reveals the staircase was called, All about Lions.
Zinny takes the book this time making the wall move. One by one we again follow Breeze up the smaller staircase. This time without a stopping Rio we reach the top twice as fast. Breeze opens the ebony wood door to the room we found yesterday. This room is three times the size as the last one and is full of piles and piles of random knick-knack clutter. We all follow Breeze around many piles of this clutter but I stop when I find a shiny gold mirror. I look into the old, dusty mirror seeing my dark green eyes, brown braid and light freckles that are along my nose. Than my face changes. My eyes become ten times their normal size, my skin becomes red-gold scales and maleficent like horns grow on my head. My nose and mouth grow out becoming a snout and my teeth grow 50 times the size and become sharper, pointer and whiter. I was now starring back a dragon, like the one I had seen in the third window.
I almost drop the mirror in surprise but don't coming to my senses quickly. When I do the mirror goes back to my own my face like nothing had happened at all.
"VAL! WHERE ARE YOU?" Rider called.
"DON'T WORRY! I'M COMING!" I answer putting the mirror in my pocket of my sweater that I put on before this. I run over to where Rider and the others are. Rider is almost the same height as Zinny. He has dark brown hair, green eyes and same kind of freckles I have. He wore a pair of black pants, black dress shoes, a long sleeve white dress shirt with a gray sweater vest. Rio on the other hand had black hair, brown eyes, he was Thai and he had a thick British accent. Rio wore a pair of blue basketball shorts, blue and black shoes, a red t-shirt and blue hoodie.
Breeze was standing in front of the north wall. She took her hand and pushed against the wall until she pushed against a button that was a square on the wall. She pushed it with both hands and the ground began to shake. Some knick-knack clutter began to fall as the ground shook. Slowly the shaking stopped and the pushed in square on the wall melted back into the wall.
"Why isn't anything happening?" Red asked after a minute or so.
"Just wait," Breeze replied. Sure enough, as soon as she said it the north wall began to slide sideways reviling an 8 ft. tall, 5 ft. wide hallway.
"Breeze, lead on," Red smiled. Breeze went in first with Red close behind. Than Echo, Rio, Rider, me and Zinny went in that order.
We walked on and on and on. As we did the walls become closer to us and the ceiling lower until we had to crawl to get by. Just when we were thinking of turning back we heard the wall closing behind us and then shut.
We didn't talk much wanting to save oxygen. It felt like hours (actually 12 minutes) before we saw a light a head. "Come on guys you have to see this!" Echo cried who must have been in the light.
We continued on and soon I found myself coming out a small square as Red held up something that I think is a tapestry that must have been covering the tunnel.
"Holy cow," I gasp once my eyes adjust to the light.