I've had an extreme case of writers block, and I can't even say how sorry I am for not updating soon enough. All commotion of moving back to Iceland has had me busy, and people have been wondering what will happen to Paragon.

Good thing this story is here.
Also a new dragon has been brought in form thefirethatcaughtyou - Sunrise.
And from White Ice Haven - Galactic
Give them both a round of applause.

Thanks to those who have been apart of my stories. I can never forget them.


Chapter 8 - Return of the Queen

...Queen Coral's POV...

Coral left her eldest daughter in an unknown Kingdom, to see her two youngest daughters, Anemone and Auklet. She stopped abruptly to gather a bundle of fish and seaweed, for she was worried her daughters starved themselves, waiting for their mother to return. As Coral saw the Rainwing Kingdom, she continued past and raced, breathlessly for her home.
'Please be okay. Please don't make me do anything drastic to keep you safe'.

Coral passed over the Mud, seeing that it was completely abandoned.
She gasped and almost fell out of the air, thinking that the Lightwings have already arrived and taken everyone, or killed everyone and hid the bodies, but she couldn't think that way.
The Kingdom of the Sea had risen over the horizon and the first place she wanted to see is the Deep Palace; she would presume her daughters would be hiding in the hatchery, which was a common thing to do when the Queen was gone for an unknown reason.

"The Queen's Back!"

Heads and snouts of Seawings and other raised up to the gray sky to see their Queen swoop down to her subjects and citizens.
"Where are my daughters?!"
Tsunami's boyfriend, Riptide (Wink, Wink) directed her to her daughters. They were placed on one of the far islands of the Bay of a Thousand Scales, that was heavily guarded; as soon as the Queen arrived the guards broke down like quivering milk maids.

"Your Majesty, you're back!"
"Three Moons!"
"Are you alright?"
Coral laughed and cried that dragons were worrying about her. She rushed past through a small room to see Anemone and Auklet splashing each other. They stopped and exploded with tears as their kidnapped mother rushed towards them with her arms and wings were outstretched for them to regale her with strongest affections.

"Bless the stars and the Moons you're alive."
Anemone was in tears. "I thought you were gone forever!"

Auklet clambered up on her mothers lap. "Mommy! I was scared." She grabbed her youngest daughter and pulled her in.

"I will never let you go."

Wanting this moment to last forever, until the flaming rock in the sky that Fatespeaker saw a year ago, crash into the Pyrrhia and wipe out all dragon life as you know it.
Flame and Mightyclaws walked in and stopped at the door waiting for the Queen to notice their presence.

"Oh, apologies I didn't see you," she said wiping her tears out of her eyes. "I have been led to believe that you two are the replacement leaders of the Skywings and Nightwings."
They both nodded. "Boto, Riptide, Changbia, Umber, and Onyx are leaders of the other tribes." Mightyclaws cleared his throat. "What the purpose of this is that the others have been notified of your return, and they wish to have your presence at Burn's Stronghold, which has official been changed to 'Thorn's Domain'."

"As long as I get to bring my daughters."
Queen Coral noticed dragons from all the tribes leaving the Kingdom of Sand, as she flew towards Thorn's Domain. The other leaders were standing outside, waving at her as she landed.
Umber spoke first. "I know this question is becoming tedious, but where are the others?"

...moments later...

The leaders and the Queen sat around a large stone table. The main topic was to bring order back to Pyrrhia and disperse all the panic being released. After the location of the Aurora Region was given all around; small unknown groups began to form a plan to raid the home of the Lightwings and force a surrender on Queen Borealis.
"What's the real plan?" Coral begged to know.

Mightyclaws sighed. "Well, after you told us the what happened to Paragon, Deathbringer's best friend in all of Pyrrhia and Glory's second in command, we are unsure about a full on attack."
"What he really means is, since we don't have descriptive pretext on the whole operation inside and the treatment of the remaining prisoners, we can't just rush in assume everything will go as planned."

"That is where we come in."

An unknown voice erected from the shadows at the wall. A medium sized Sandwing emerged from the darkness and turned sideways to display her self. Her scales were beautiful, they were lightly gold with tan wings like the sands around the Kingdom, her underbelly was lightly orange, white horns, claws and teeth that shimmered like diamonds, and a long venomous tail. Next to her was a small Nightwing whose smile made everyone nervous. Everyone stood up looking shifty; Coral pulled Anemone and Auklet close to her.
"And who would you be?" Onyx asked.

Phoenix, Starflight, and Fatespeaker came in filling in the missing context that kept clicking in their minds. "Good, Sunrise, Galactic, you showed up just in time."

"I'm sorry, you know these dragon, Starflight?"
They all came into open view for further plans were about to be discussed.
"My name is Sunrise. I was recruited into the Silver Winglet a month ago, Pronghorn convinced me to join the Jade Mountain Academy. We go way back. This is Galactic my closest friend."

Boto scoffed. "Glory really needs to make a list of who she adds, or we'll all lose track of who we are."
Coral asked before someone else did. "What is your plan?" She tucked her daughters under her wing.

Sunrise and Galactic sat down. "Well. We first need to see the inside of this Aurora Region and get all the information I need before any of us jump to any conclusions. What's the inside look like? How many of ours are in there? Galactic needs to know how large the Queen's army is? All need to be answered before my brilliant mind goes to work. So with that said I need someone to take me back in to gather my information; who's willing to take me back?"
The others looked at each other like she was delusional.

Coral hissed. "So you want to go back to the place, that was hard to escape from, and where we lost a close friend?"
Sunrise nodded cheerfully, Galactic frowned for hearing about the Nightwing.
"I'll go." volunteered Riptide. "I made a promise to Tsunami to always be there for here and I will not break that promise."

...Aurora Region...

The dragonets were forced to work for Queen Borealis, a lot of the Lightwings switched sides to avoid being forced into hard labor. The job for them was to feed the army for the big invasion, and since the whereabouts of Paragon were unknown to them they had no choice but to do as she said. Soldiers were constantly harassing them saying it was pointless now to save Pyrrhia.

"Cheer up, Zero. Don't let them bring you down. Queen Glory said she was plan that will stop all this." said Beam.

The Icewing scoffed knowing that his luck is not the best, so his outcome of an escape is dwindling into single digits. "I understand. It's just I'm worried about casualties. Who knows how many might die during this; all this is making me feel like shit."
The Lightwing placed her wing around him and pulled him along away from the guards. The Nightwings were getting the most scorned because Nightwings and Lightwings were suppose to be on the same sides. Atlantis was taking all this hard the most, she didn't know what they were doing to Paragon. They tried to request an audience with the Queen, but all they got was 'she's busy with someone' and 'wait your turn others are more important'.

"Glory how long do we have to wait?" Tsunami saw soldiers with keys to the chains right in front of her.

Glory grumbled. "I told a thousand times before and a thousand times again I have to say it. We can't do anything until we get word from the outside and an update on Paragon."
"Please quit mentioning his name. I'm already on edge just thinking what horrible things they're doing to him."

Then you know who walked in. "Well, my dear worry no longer!"
Queen Borealis walked in from a ledge above them. She was on Paragon's back.

"Paragon!" Atlantis exclaimed. "You're..."
Everyone stopped to get a good look at their missing companion. He was pale around his chest which had a large spider like object, with a white gem in the middle it made him look sick and dead; his wings had holes in them probably preventing him from flying away; his eyes were white like those of a Lightwings. it was almost horrifying. "What's wrong, dragonets. Don't you like your new and improved friend?" She rubbed his face sensually and turned his head to kiss his cheek.

Shadowbreather growled. "What do you do to him?"

"It's simple. I made a hybrid dragon. Something that can't be beat, and this glorious little device," Borealis tapped the device on Paragon's chest. "I call the 'Stroya' was made by Morrowseer and Mastermind to allow me to control any dragon I damn well please. Another interesting feature is its ability to suck the life out of him, but that was banned, so now as you can see he's slowly becoming one of us. The Stroya is draining the Nightwing out of him making him a Lightwing. Soon he will be all mine, maybe even a mate. Hahaha!"

(Wow. She's delusional. How will the rest of the story play out after that statement? Could Queen Borealis use Paragon for a far more devious plot that just Pyrrhia?)

This woman was mad. All other villains the dragonets encountered just used intimidation to get their way, but now Borealis is using Pyrrhia's dragons again them and it was working. Blood was seeping out of the corner of Paragon's eye, you can practically tell he was dying on the inside. Zero was disgusted by all of this; dragons that looked like Icewings are threatening his home, he wants to be the one to put the Queen down. Glory wanted to speak but knew words wouldn't be helpful at a time like this. All she could do was wait for someone on the outside to fix this.

Atlantis leaned forward hoping to reach Paragon but her chains pulled her back. "Paragon. Don't you recognize us...me? You're stronger than her tricks, fight this! Please I need you. Pyrrhia needs you."

Borealis laughed hard with a menacing grin.
"You must be naïve. This dragon doesn't know you anymore he's under my command. I own him! There's no other way to get him back, except in the afterlife. In fact, there's another dragon I would like to try this on...Ehecatl, bring me Luminous!"
(No not Luminous. This will be two of my characters that are taken)
Ehecatl and four other guards pulled away Luminous from Sunset, the two Lightwings who pledged their loyalty to Queen Glory for their freedom.

Sunset panicked. "Wait...no!"
The guards placed a clamp over his snout, and knocked him out. Queen Borealis snickered. "Come on, my pet. We're giving you a companion." She left the dragonets bewildered and in shock. They were going to lose Paragon and Luminous if they didn't do anything, but what to do?
Jet was the first to say anything. "Well...that happened. I can't even think of anything to say."

"Paragon...just left with her. Glory, what..what is going on?"
Glory was rendered speechless as well. "This is nothing we've ever faced before. Deathbringer?"
"All I can tell you is, next time I see the Queen it'll be the end of her."