I enjoy bringing in OC characters that have been requested by other fantastic Authors of this site. It really brings together all the Dragons that hated each other in the past.

If you see the word 'BONUS' you're in for a real surprise.
Notification - I do not own Wings of Fire. Just OC and this story.

Chapter 9 – DISCOVERY!

"Do we have a specific plan?" asked Riptide as the Sandwing and Nightwing grabbed their satchels. Sunrise turned to the shifty Seawing.

She sighed. "As I explained countless times. I hope this will proceed through your head again; Galactic and I are gathering information such as: maps, scrolls, etc. If we come across anything useful we report back to Queen Coral and the rest of the leaders. The mission is about Discovery. You are just here…for whatever reason you will provide me now.

"I told the Queen I would keep her daughter safe, and I made my promise official." Riptide said in a 'take charge' tone.

Galactic smirked. "You're also the guy who watches."
Boto and Mightyclaws came up to wish them a farewell. "I hope you find something useful for all this to be over."

"Don't get your tails in a bunch," Sunrise scoffed. "I have my own rules at getting information out of people. Look the sun is about to go down, be patient and we can be back by the time the moons are above the horizon."
Coral shouted from afar. "Make sure Tsunami is safe."

…After hour flight…

Sunrise and Galactic are your typical spies. They plan and follow through. With the information Queen Coral gave about the Lightwings, they now have an advantage.
"Nightwings and Lightwings used to be one nation, now only some Nightwings have been recruited." Sunrise explained. "Based on Coral and Paragon's inside look only twelve Nightwings have been seen. Galactic will impersonate one of them, your line."

" 'I found these two sneaking around, can you direct me to the dungeon'." Galactic said the lines he was given.

"Which by my guess is where the dragonets are being held. After we drop you off, we'll scope out the rest."
Riptide stopped her. "Wait, where are you going to go for your information?"
"You mindless Seawing," she hit his head with her wing. "Every Kingdom has a room full of scrolls that are filled with something, right?"

"I guess. But wait…what if it's a trap?"
Galactic laughed uncontrollably. "The Queen is so dense, that she doesn't even know dragons have escaped."
(It's true when Paragon was taken none of the guards bothered to mention that the door to the Queen's room was open, now can you decide who will win this war?)
The Aurora Region became more and more clear as the sun went down. It was like a floating star. No guards were posted outside on the tower as they flew to the top.

"Now find the entrance."

As they flew to the other side they noticed guards flying in a large, bright, crystal gate. Now came Galactic's moment to be one of them. Their were two burly Lightwing guards standing watch at the front. They almost dropped their spears as they saw Riptide, Sunrise and Galactic approach.
"Halt! Who are you?!"
"How did you get here? Talk Nightwing."

Galactic was becoming catatonic when their pale eyes stared him down. One raised his bludgeon crystal tail, ready to knock them out of the sky. The other guard was drooling white fire. Sunrise nudged her partner.
"Um," he cleared his throat. "I...uh found these two sneaking around, can you direct me to the dungeon?"

The guards began to look at each other with doubt in their eyes, but eased up and stood aside to let them past. They told Galactic to take the first stairwell that he comes to and continue down. They walked past other Lightwings and Nightwings, whom did not care who went by. They were fitting in perfectly if their lucky this mission will go smoothly without a single casualty.

"Alright, Riptide this is where we split. You go check on the others and when we get done that room is our escape route."
"Good luck, and please don't get caught I don't want to have to come back and save your hide."

Sunrise and Galactic watched as the Seawing zipped out of sight. If you remember the questions Sunrise asked in Thorn's Domain:
What's the inside look like?
How many of ours are in there?
Galactic needs to know how large the Queen's army is? They were going to make sure they answer them all in order. They already had a look at the inside. It was small in each room. The village took up most of the Region. If anyone had to guess you can say some soldiers probably lived with the citizens.

The only question that can't be answered is 'How many of ours are in there'? That was up to Riptide. Now galactic needs to need to get an estimate of how large Queen Borealis's army. They left through a small window and around to a large courtyard on the far side of the Aurora Region. As they got closer they say over hundreds of guards and soldiers were gathered all together eating. They were able to notice the dragonets and others they didn't recognize.

"There they are. Riptide will be walking down into an empty room. It could be a trap." said Galactic.

Sunrise reassured him. "Don't worry I told him to wait there. How many do you see?"
"About 300!" Spears, crossbows, their fire, and their hard crystal tails were all the weapons they had on them, but that was still enough to go up against Pyrrhia; can the rest of their home handle them?
Galactic tapped Sunrise. "What now?"

"We need to find their library, and gather whatever scrolls we can find."

They were able to slip past more guards leading to the a large library. Scrolls and maps ran up and down to walls.
But as they entered their was someone there.
It wasn't a Lightwing. It was an Icewing. Sunrise and Galactic watched the unknown dragon rummage through the scrolls, ripping them to pieces as if she disapproved the literature, or just couldn't find what he or she was looking for.

Sunrise motioned her companion to sneak up behind the Icewing. Galactic kept his wings low, trying to fit in the Icewing's shadow. He kept his head low and leaned in on the dragon ready to snatch the dragon away.
"Gotcha!"
The Icewing jumped smashing Galactic against the top of the room.
Sunrise then dashed in tackling the 'interrupting of plans' Icewing to the ground. They both rolled around until Sunrise ended up on top with her claws touching the dragons throat. The Nightwing jumped up and held down the attackers talons, then turned the dragons head to prevent ice breathe touching their scales.

"Who are you!?" demanded Sunrise. "Friend or foe?"

The Icewing relaxed, so she (now that they closer they can tell the Icewing is a female) could answer properly, but knew the Nightwing and Sandwing wouldn't let her up.

"My name is Mint." (Proud owner 'frostbiteicewing')
Sunrise calmed down and let mint up. "Alright...why are you here?"
"I'm a assassin hired by Queen Glacier. We made an agreement that if anything were to happen to her I would find out why." They were kind of shocked to hear that Glacier needed protection or someone to help her at all. Her and Queen Moorhen are like an army on there own.

"What are you doing here?" asked Galactic.

"After I found out Glacier was missing I was asking around who saw anything. They said 'strange light was vanishing south of Pyrrhia', so as usual I had to investigate. I've been here as long as the Queens been gone. Staying high away from these new dragons. I've here in this library finding answers on how to beat them. Then after I kill them I'm collecting their scales." Mint revealed a satchel full of bloody scales from different dragons.

"Did you hear that?" voices began to echo through the halls.
"Someone is in the library!"
"Get as many sober guards." And they were getting closer. Shadows began to appear on the wall, which was ridiculous because their light dragons. Sunrise, Galactic began to stuff scrolls in their satchels as quick as they could.

"Hurry!"
Before any guards showed up they managed to escape through the sky hole at the top of the room.

...Back at Thorn's Domain...

With a new ally agreeing to work with the dragons, they were able to carry out half of the scrolls in the room. They dumped them all over the table and began to look through.
"Can someone tell me what they say?" Starflight asked. Fatespeaker grabbed six and pulled him aside.

"Anything important?" Onyx asked as he burned blank ones.
Umber stopped to read. "YES! Here something that might make sense." Everyone began to crowd around the Mudwing like a egg about to hatch. He unrolled the scroll more to get a better look.
"It's the date their home is going to fall." Queen Coral ran up and snatched it out of Umber's hands.
She sat down slowly. "This is less than four days. We have to act now!"

"Wait!" they all jumped at the sound of Starflight's voice exploding from the background of the room. They turned to see Fatespeaker dragging Starflight. "You really need...to...see this."
The scrolled she had was labeled 'Experimental Test Subjects'.
Changbia and Mint both unrolled the scroll from each end and began to read.
"This one was dated three years ago: Subject-Spark the Skywing; Sibling of Glow (Female) and Redeye (Male); Experiment-Transference of animus jewel to heart; Results-Fail."
"This was a month ago: Subject-Seaweed the Seawing; Sibling of Hermit (Female) and Tidepool (Male); Experiment-Animus acid; Results-Fail."

Anemone gasped. "They used dragonets? Just kids in there experiments."

"Here's three more for this month," Changbia rested for a moment because of the horrifying images flashing in his head. "Mint, can you finish?"
She went on saying their names who their parents are and the experiments that were used on them. Queen Coral took Anemone and Auklet out of the room, but stayed by the door so she wouldn't leave them alone. Starflight sat down remembering when he found Orchid chained against the wall by his father, having the venom being drained out of her.
"Subject-Paragon the Nightwing; unknown parents; Experiment-Stroya; Results-Success."
Fatespeaker gasped. "No, no, no not Paragon!"
"Subject-Luminous the Lightwing; Sibling of Cloud (Female) and Jyber (Male); Experiment-Species change; Results-not complete."

"This is the last one...Subject-Starwatcher(Proud owner of AVC03); Sibling of Farsight (Female) and Mastermind (Male)..."
"WAIT!" Starflight roared. "Those are my parents!" Fatespeaker assisted him over to Mint. "Read the rest now!"

Mint continued. "Experiment-Animus spirit exposer; Results-Success."
Starflight felt as if his stomach was eating himself. The thought of having another brother and then realizing he was taken, really puts him in a state of distress. He sat next to Fatespeaker laying his head on her shoulder. Success of the experiment means that he's alive, but the condition he could possible be in worried everyone. Mint looked through the scroll searching for Glacier's name.
Mightyclaws clapped. "That means Paragon and Starwatcher are still alive."

Boto hollered. "We can go get them."
"We need the whole army!" Starflight suggested. Coral pulled him back into reality. "And start a war early?"

ROAR!
They all stopped and turned around to see Mint on top of the table.
"You want your long lost brother back, then we do things my way. I need your toughest Nightwings and Icewings to go with me. The Icewings will pose as Lightwings, even without the extra wings and bludgeon tail, and Nightwings will pose as Lightwing allies. Everyone will follow me orders...any questions?" Sunrise raised her hand. "If Galactic goes, then I go. You might need me to pose as a prisoner."

Mint nodded approvingly. "All right. Let's get a group going."
The Nightwings that were asked to volunteer were: Phoenix, Mightyclaws, and Galactic.
The Icewings that were asked to volunteer were: Icicle, Changbia, and Mint. Now all that mattered was getting Starflight's long lost brother and Paragon and if any Lightwing gets in their way they won't hesitate to kill them.

Bonus Deleted scene

Mastermind reached under his cart and pulled out a spider like object with a white diamond in the center. "Mastermind, we have work to do." Borealis used her scalpel and jabbed eight holes in Paragon's chest; four on the left and four on the right.

Paragon squirmed and screamed. "Ahhh! Gods! Nghhh!"

Queen Borealis placed her cheek against his and stroked his head. "Shh. Shh. Shh. That wasn't the worst part!" She stood back as Mastermind walked towards him with the spider like object.
"When I snap out of this...I'm coming for you!" Paragon hissed at Mastermind. Mastermind placed each of the legs in the whole and slammed it into his chest. The legs began to close clamping on the Paragon's ribs.

"Ahhhhh! Is that the best you can do?!"
Borealis slithered up in front of Paragon. "Now this is where you become mine." She tapped on the diamond and it opened. Then breathed a small puff of white fire in the center. Paragon screamed but nothing came out. His eyes began to turn white and he slowly began to slip away. Until he passed out.
"What now your Majesty?"
"Now we wait for the results. If he wakes up then it worked, if he doesn't then we dump the body. Go get the 'test subject scroll'. I'll go check on our other patient." smirked the Queen.

Mastermind sighed. "You mean my son?"
"Of course."
Borealis left Paragon nailed to wall and went down to a stairwell deeper into the 'Experiment Room'. Guards followed her down. More screams began to erupt from the bottom. Other scientists like Mastermind came out and told the Queen the results on their pervious subjects. She became disappointed when they told her over and over 'fail' 'results incomplete'. Her plan to use Animus dragons to conquer Pyrrhia was slowly failing. Paragon was the only success so far; him and Mastermind's son, Starwatcher. The whole backstory happened before Starflight was given to the Talons of Peace. Farsight had two eggs, then she died. Mastermind had a choice of which one to give to the Talons of Peace, and the other would be used to help Borealis. You already know which one was chosen.

"How's my number one success?" Borealis laughed as she walked into a dark room with torches. A small dragonet was in the room, moving bones around the room with his mind. He looked up at the Queen and the bones dropped. He sat up and hissed. "I'm doing fine, your Majesty."
She went over to Starwatcher and hugged him. "How far has your father brought you in your test?"

Starwatcher laid down looking depressed. They treated him nice, but what he really wanted was to leave this place. "I've been able to move objects on the other side of the Region."

"Excellent! Now remember the main goal is to keep this place in the sky. We only have three days, then everything remains on you to keep us up." She backed away and left him alone.
Mastermind came running down the stairwell. "Borealis...Borealis. He's awake. Paragon is awake. The Stroya was a success, he's now in your command." Borealis laughed with a sinister grin. "Let's pay the dragonets a visit."

Whooooaaaaaaa! Big surprise! Starflight's long-lost brother has been revealed.

Sorry for not updating soon like I promised I was debating whether I would add the deleted scene in the story, but I found out it's absolutely necessary. This may have been my longest chapter in this story.

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