Alright, feel free to blast me with fire and frostbreath, and stab me with Riptide, etc, etc. I know it took forever to update, but I'm working on four different stories right now! And it's all my fault because I was the one who started them! LOL! Please forgive this poor writer for taking a break during Thanksgiving to spend time with grandparents and play some . Also, check out my other stories! Thanks for reviewing, Mystic The Animus, wolvesandwerewolvesprotector, Kariah Dreams, and Voidheart! Thanks for following Ebony-The-Dragon, and thanks a lot for following and favoriting Mystic The Animus, and wolvesandwerewolvesprotector! Also, shoutout to Kariah Dreams on her story, also Percy Jackson/Wings of Fire! I enjoyed it thoroughly. Also, please review, I really appreciate it! Lastly, I made this chapter extra lengthy to make up for the long wait. Enjoy!

Annabeth:

When we finally arrived at the Sky Kingdom Palace, I was in awe. The architecture was amazing! How had the dragons build this? It looked like... it was done by... magic...

"How did they build this?" I asked Queen Glory.

"I dunno, ask them," she grunted, pointing a claw at the Skywing guard standing beside us while we waited at the huge mahogany doors to the throne room.

I repeated my question to the guard, and he guaffed loudly, and grunted, "Animus build it. Duh. Course you scavengers wouldn't know that..."

I remembered that the scrolls had said that animus dragon could enchant things, but they lost a little bit of their soul in the process. Which meant, if they used their powers too much, they went nuts. Sunny had told Annabeth that her father, Stonemover the Nightwing, was the animus that created the tunnel. Sunny had promised her that it wasn't Stonemover who had created the tunnel to Camp though.

Finally, the massive doors swung open, creating a small breeze that rustled my hair. Glory walked into the throne room, her claws clicking loudly on the stone floor. I looked around in awe at the amount of gold in the room, covering the wall, in spirals, and in elegant vases. A fully bronze throne, embellished with gold filigree, sat at the far end of the long room, and upon it sat a beautiful dragon.

The Skywing was blood red, with perfectly shaped scales, and claws so small and neat, they almost looked dainty. Her teeth were filed to needle sharp points, and her scales blended together perfectly.

She was wearing a gold necklace with thousands of tiny rubies woven into the curls, and one perfect ruby the size of my fist, hanging from the beautiful necklace in the shape of a teardrop. On her brow was a dainty sparkly tiara, which I realized was painstakingly cut from the mother of all diamonds. I mean, that tiara had to have come from a perfect diamond the size of beach ball! And I wasn't even exaggerating a bit! It had so many facets, and sparkled so bright, that it was almost hard to look at.

But the biggest surprise came when the Queen of the Skywings turned to look at us. And it wasn't the jewelry, or even that she had rubies implanted around her eyes. No, it was the light, reflecting off of her jewel shaped scales, turning each one into a magnificent ruby that shone like the sun, and turned the Queen into a living work of art.

I gasped, and heard several other gasps as well... Now I got why the dragon's name was Ruby. Because she was a living gem-stone.

Queen Ruby growled something in dragon at us, and Queen Glory growled back. Ruby looked confused, then had a quick argument with Glory. Then, she spoke in Greek," So, who are you, scavengers? You are truly that ignorant as to come into a kingdom of hungry dragons? I myself do not care for scavenger meat, but most of my guards would be happy to devour you,"

My stomach swirled with nausea. They were eating humans, and they didn't even seem to think that was cruel. They acted like we were chickens that had somehow gotten the ability to talk. I guess that made sense though. Before we came, they had no idea we were even civilized creatures.

"I am not ignorant!" I huffed. "You underestimate us. Your entire army would be slain before you got your hand on one of us!" I wasn't entirely sure how many of them there were, but I was pretty sure that we could take them. After all, me and Percy had fought through three quarters of the population of Tartarus. Granted, we had a Titan on our side then. Also, dragons weren't stupid like earthborn, cyclops, and dracaena.

The dragon queen huffed and rolled her eyes, but I could tell that we unnerved her.

"Tell me, young dragonets and scavengers, why are you here?" she said sternly, eying us distrustfully.

"We are here to ask your assistance in stopping the war," Glory bravely announced. Ruby slowly nodded, and the negotiations began...

Two Months Later...

Tsunami:

Tsunami still didn't know if she could trust the new scavengers that were headed for Jade Mountain Academy this very moment. They had been found crashing through the forest, being pursued by the entire Nightwing population, by Deathbringer. Glory had told her that he had a very hard time trying to convince the nutty dragons not to eat the scavengers. That was almost a month ago, while the negotiation for territory disputes were still going on. Their team of dragonets and scavengers had managed to convince all three Sandwing queens, and the other tribe's queens to end the war, and accept Thorn as the Sandwing queen. Which was a pretty good deal, considering she was Sunny's mom.

Queen Glory was ruling the Nightwings and the Rainwings peacefully, although rumors were slipping out that the Nightwings never had any powers and had been fooling everyone. Which was true of course, but Queen Glory didn't want them to be mistreated because of their past actions or something along those lines.

Then, Sunny had the idea to start an school for all the tribe's dragonets, under Jade Mountain. Three days later, Sunny had convinced hundreds of different dragons that used to be soldiers fighting each other, to join forces and carve out the magnificent hallways and arches of the new school. With so many workers, the school was done a little over a month. Everyone had been so busy, the word hadn't gotten through that there were four more scavengers found.

Finally, Queen Glory got a letter through to the school, on its opening day, that Moon was going to bring the new scavengers to the school to find their own dragons friends. Tsunami snorted. Sure, she kind of enjoyed her scavenger, but she wasn't really friends with him. Ok... Maybe a little...Meh...Fine! Maybe a lot!

You okay? Percy asked her.

Fine... Oh, by the way, there's new scaven...sorry, humans, demigods in fact, well one's not a demigod...

More people? When did they come?

About a month ago, actually. The word just didn't get through because everything was so crazy building the school.

What're their names? Please tell me it's not Clarisse!

Glory told me they said their names were Lamea, Jock, Kaleida, and Rachel. She also said that Rachel told her she was not a demigod like the others, but that she had the gift of prophecy.

Yeah, she's our oracle. But I've never met the others. They're new I guess... I can't wait to see what their powers are!

Oh, Glory said that one of them was ice, and the other was earth. She liked the last one because she could change colors!

Kaleida I presume? That's pretty weird. I wonder who her parent is?

Yeah. Being a Rainwing, Glory admires the talent of color changing. Haha...

Well, I hope they're nice. If they're anything like Drew or Clarisse, they'll get eaten in five seconds.

Oh, I forgot to mention... They were actually snatched from your camp place by a group of Nightwings planning on eating them... Only four out of the six made it out alive...One named Drew got eaten when they were trying to get away from the Nightwings.

Percy grimaced, and nodded solemnly. He chuckled weakly.

Well, nobody really liked her anyways...Who was the other one?!

I think it was Wall...Or possibly Wool...

Will?!

Yeah, Will. They said he was accidently dropped while they were flying.

Percy broke off the mind connection, shouting out loud, "OH GODS! WILL IS DEAD?! NO!" They were sitting in a circle, all the scavengers there, with the dragonets of destiny sitting beside them. The only one not present was Queen Glory.

All the scavengers stared at him in shock. Annabeth cried in anguish, "Will! Will Solace from Apollo died?! How?!"

"Dragons kidnapped six campers, and were going to eat them, but on the way, they dropped Will!"

"What in Hades?! When did this happen?"

"Almost a month ago! The four that survived are on their way here right now! And... get this! They're all new, except for one, and it's Rachel!"

"Rachel?!" cried Annabeth, and Percy grinned, "Looks like she finally gets a quest!"

"Just not the quest she was thinking of..." laughed Annabeth. "A educational quest at a dragon school!"

The scavengers laughed, but it sounded more like loud chittering to the dragons who were present.

Then Annabeth's expression darkened.

"Wait a second..." she murmered. "This isn't adding up... You said four out of the six survived. Will Solace died, which is devastating... But who was the other one?"

"Oh..." muttered Percy. "It was...a...um...the old head counselor of the Aphrodite cabin...um...Drew..." he stuttered.

Everyone sighed in relief.

"Well, guess it's our lucky day! Because no-one liked her anyways! How'd she die? Falling too? Or shock?"

Everyone laughed uneasily, and Tsunami knew they were not really finding this as amusing as Piper did.

"No, she got eaten by a Nightwing..." Percy muttered.

"She deserved it," said Piper, scowling. Annabeth glared at her. "Hey, all demigods are valuable, no matter how rude they are," she scolded.

Tsunami wondered who Will was, and why they cared so much about him.

Will:

Will had crawled all the way back to camp, and was out for three days. Finally, a week later, he was fully recovered. And now he was about to go back through the portal, this time, leading a massive quest to save anyone who had entered the dangerous world. The entire Ares cabin, and most of the Athena cabin, along with three Hepheastus camper, were following Will to save the seven, and the other four who had been kidnapped with Will. They hadn't gotten an IM from the seven, and when they tried to IM them, it didn't go through. So they were either dead, or had magical spells hiding them. Will hoped it was the second option. If Percy, Annabeth, if any of the seven had died, the camp would be thrown into chaos.

"Alright team, let's go kick some dragon butts!" yelled Will, and everyone brandished spears and yelled, charging into the forest.

But then... To their shock and horror...

The

Portal

Was

GONE!