Hello! Welcome back to another chapter! I'm making this chapter earlier than expected because I got an OC submission from Lynxtheicewing, which btw, I read your story, cool huh? Be sure to check out Lynx's story! Anyways, I'll be sure to use your OC Lynx! Thank you! Now, onto the story!
Chapter eleven: The Three Sisters
"You bet I'm mad!" Glory yelled. "Wherever you went better have been important!" Glory glared us down, Ion the meanwhile, was not all as uncomfortable as Sunny and I, as he didn't exactly leave without telling anyone. I suddenly remembered the map I was given, where did it go? Suddenly, my sight was replaced by a map, all I could see was the map, when I stopped thinking about the map, it went away and I could see normally again. Odd…then again, anything that's magic is odd. I thought, zoning out Glory for the time being.
When I was back in the conversation, Deathbringer had appeared, Glory had a smug look on her face, and Tsunami and Clay wanted to know what the two of us had been doing for the past week.
"Well, I met my parents, Burn's brother as well, and I saw Peril again! Though she was savings Scarlet…but she waited until after we escaped Burn's fortress!"
"Sunny, maybe we should start from the beginning" I offered. Sunny nodded and started speaking.
"Ok, well, it started with these three night wings…"
"And confronting scavengers, that too" Deathbringer replied after hearing the whole story. "No, no, no, thanks. Not for me" Deathrbringer shuddered.
"You're scared of humans?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
"What did you call them?" Glory asked, tilting her head.
"Alright, let me first recall points while I was with Sunny. We met Thorn, I healed a dragon on the brink of death, met a friend from my own world, I'll get to that later, got a dragonbite viper as a pet (still need a name! Please review a name for the viper, it would be greatly appreciated!), made Burn mad, wrote down symbols, and found this underground oasis where I gained the power to throw knives, so, yeah…" I shrugged, still not sure how it all happened. "Anyways, I don't come from this continent, not even this planet. Something brought me here from my world where dragons exist in only myths and legends, a world ruled by humans, which by the way Deathbringer, humans can think and speak like dragons. Dragons and humans just can't understand each other, excluding Ion and I, who are from the human world" I explained, letting them adjust to what I said.
"Yeah, it's true" Ion simply said, shrugging. That's when Deathbringer fainted.
"Some bodyguard you are" Glory snorted, making all of us laugh, well, except for Deathbringer that is (I'm laughing so hard right now).
"But, we can't stop the war, the prophecy isn't real, remember?" Clay asked.
"So? What the harm in trying?" Sunny asked. I agreed with her.
"Yeah, so what? The night wings probably based the prophecy after an actual one anyways" I pointed out, shrugging.
"He has a point" Ion replied.
"Maybe it doesn't have to be us" Starflight quietly said. Then added: "Maybe it has to be us…"
"No! It doesn't have to be you! You've done enough already!" Fatespeaker tried to offer.
"Fatespeaker, sometimes we all have to do one more step or action that we don't want to" I said, not only addressing Fatespeaker, but really the whole group.
"We have to do this, for my brothers and sisters" Clay said.
"For Anemone" Tsunami said.
"For the sand wings that need a unified kingdom" Glory said.
"For Rose!" I yelled, pumping my fist (do dragons have fists?) in the air.
"For Phyrria!" Ion yelled.
"So, will you help me?" Sunny asked. I nodded and said: "What's the plan?" I asked.
"We're not killing anyone" I firmly stated.
"So how do we do this?" Ion asked, skeptical.
"Sunny, while the idea of the sand wings deciding is good, I don't think that's enough" I paused before continuing. "We need all the tribes there, but most importantly, we need all the sisters there as well" I finished.
"So, who is in?" Sunny asled.
"I'm in" Clay said.
"Me too" Starflight nodded.
"I'll help as well" Glory answered.
"Of course, I'll help" Tsunami replied.
"Why not" Ion shrugged.
"Obviously I'm in" I responded.
"We start by sending a message to Blaze, Burn, and Blister" Sunny said.
"We'll start with Blister, and we'll reach her through the Talons of Peace"
"This is awesome," Tsunami said. "I'm so excited. Going to visit my very favorite dragons in all of Phyrria" Tsunami sarcastically remarked.
"Are being Glory now?" I asked.
"Yeah, Queen on Sarcasm" Sunny added.
"Hey! I can be sarcastic! Glory doesn't get to be queen of everything!" Tsunami exclaimed, brushing her tail along the edge of the shoreline.
"Also, isn't your boyfriend in the Talons?" I asked, making her glare at me.
"Where is that blaster mud wing?" Tsunami asked.
"I wish we didn't have to bring him along" Sunny remarked.
"He's the only one we had available to get us to the Talons" I pointed out. Sunny sighed and Tsunami shook her head.
"I know, and now we're looking for-"
"Your favorite dragons" Sunny and I said at the same time, rolling our eyes.
"I don't trust them" Tsunami replied.
"Trapping you guys in an underground cave comes to mind" I mused, my attention however was brought to the sky. "Isn't that Ochre?" I asked.
"He has a few dragons with him" Tsunami observed.
"He's trying to communicate something" I observed, seeing the flashing. "I think he wants us to land" I said.
"I could of figured that out" Tsunami snapped. "Riptide!" Tsunami suddenly exclaimed. I nearly fell over as she went by me at a fast speed.
"You're alive!" Riptide exclaimed.
"That's far enough" Another sea wing blocked his way.
"Don't be such a pessimist, at least have some pessimistic optimism" I grinned, obviously confusing the dragon. I tend to do that.
"Of course, I am," Tsunami replied, ignoring the green sea wing. "What are you doing with these-" Tsunami was cut off when Sunny kicked her. Tsunami glared at her but, she seemed to get the message. "With the Talons of Peace?" she finished.
"Queen Coral threw me out," Riptide said sadly. "She considered killing me, or imprisoning me again, but she said I'd fought bravely in the battle at the Summer Palace. So she let me leave with my life, and I didn't have anywhere else to go, I thought the Talons might know where you were, but…" he trailed off.
"But we had no idea" The sea wing said with a cold voice.
"You can't really blame them, you kept them in a cave for six years" I waved off the cold voice as if it were nothing. Tsunami gave him an incredulous look.
"You're not seriously mad at us, are you? This is not how this works, I'm supposed to be mad at you; that's how this works"
"This is Nautilus" Riptide interjected. "The leader of the Talons of Peace" I stopped paying attention as I saw something flying towards us.
"Is that Flame?" I stopped the conversation, I squinted at the sky.
"It could be, he could've followed us" Sunny replied. "Maybe he changed his mind" she finished. We explained why we needed the Talons after a pitying moment between Flame and his mother. Maybe I could heal the dragonet…
"Hey Flame, could you come here?" I asked while Sunny and Tsunami were talking to the other Talons.
"Why?" He asked, his eyes were wet.
"Just trust me" I replied, holding out a claw. Flame grabbed the claw and a light flowed from my claw up his arm and to his face. He was shocked, needless to say, and grabbed his face when the light stopped. I smiled as I told him to look at his reflection as soon as possible. He didn't need to do that though to know what happened, his mother's reaction and his sight was enough. I smiled and waved as we flew off. Healing something like that was not nearly as bad as almost bringing a dragon back from the dead, that's for sure.
"I'm sure the three sisters will show up, that part will work, it's when they get there is what worries me the most" I looked to the forest as we flew over it.
"Just send Jambu and I to the stronghold, he knows how to change his scales to look like an ice wing, and I can be his backup" I suggested to Glory. Glory gave me a skeptical expression. "I'll keep your brother safe" I promised, placing a claw on where I thought a dragon heart would be.
"No, I need you here, send Mangrove with him" Glory replied. "Be safe, that's and order from your queen" Glory told the dragons.
"Yes, your majesty" Jambu answered.
"Stay camouflaged and stay safe" Glory ordered.
"Yup, just like you said five minutes ago, and five minutes before that, and-"
"Alright, go away" Glory shooed them away.
"Ready?" Sunny asked Clay.
"Sure, I've eaten breakfast, what more could do? Ooh, maybe more breakfast" Clay said, his eyes gleaming. We all laughed after he said that, the tension around was finally dying down. I watched the two fly off and thought to myself: I hope everything works out.
I was watching from the walls of the palace, watching as dragons came from all directions. I was glad that Burn had removed all the heads mounted on the palace walls, the stench was barely lingering now, but I had no doubt that she hadn't gotten rid of them. Burn also seemed to notice me, giving me a glare that could've killed me three times if looks could kill. By looking at the amount of dragons, I assumed that 99% of each tribe had come down here, even the ice wings. I then returned to the other dragonets.
"This place is freaky, Starflight, are you sure you should be here?" Fatepseaker asked. I was amazed that Starflight hadn't noticed the huge crush Fatespeaker had on him.
"I have to be here" Starflight replied.
"What is that, there's a fourth moon in the sky" Fatespeaker asked, looking to the sky.
"That's a comet, or something like that" I replied, squinting.
"Yes, I agree, it's more of a comet" Starflight said, backing my statement up. I rolled my eyes as Fatespeaker exclaimed having a vision.
"It's not completely impossible to have some powers like that, even if they're faint" I told the bickering night wings beside me.
"Are you a mysterious power expert now?" Starflight challenged.
"I know more than you do" I replied, smirking. "Who can become invisible, heal, drain energy, and throw magic knives?" I asked, making Starflight open and close his mouth repeatedly. I smirked before turning to Tsunami after she asked: "Where's Glory?"
"Right behind us" Clay replied. The only two tribes that didn't have most of the tribe were the rain wings and night wings. Fifteen rain wings and five night wings, plus Deathbringer, were what Glory had brought. She put Grandeur and Mangrove in charge while she was gone. She also let Deathbringer choose said five night wings who he thought were more trustworthy than the rest.
"What if they start fighting?" Fatespeaker asked.
"Then hundreds more dragons would be dead, that might end the war itself" I replied. "I couldn't heal that many dragons so quickly, I could heal probably a max of five before going into a coma" I finished.
"We'll stop them if we have to" Sunny added.
"How? By asking nicely?" Tsunami asked.
"You'd be surprised how effective asking nicely can be, maybe if you tried it sometime you would see that" Sunny replied.
"Yowch" Glory said with a grin, causing Tsunami to glare at the both of them.
"Let's get down there before anything happens" I offered, flying towards the palace, while Sunny thanked us on the way.
I watched as Glory made herself look like a sky wing and joked about the irony, however it didn't last long, because there was a low growl from the palace as Burn stepped into the moonlight.
"The war is over" Sunny said as loud as she could.
"Really? Because you say so?" Burn asked.
"Because they all say so" I replied, stepping out from behind the dragonets, I had the most determined voice and posture I had ever had in my life. Silence ensued as all the dragons stared at me, however, my focus was on Burn and Burn alone.
"Interesting," Said Burn. "But I see a problem, two problems in fact, flying this way right now" Burn finished.
"You're alive, that's a pity" Blister said, pausing. "I'd hoped you'd be dead along with my sisters before I got here" Blister glared at me while she said this.
"I think I have the record for the most royalty hating me more than any other dragon in history" I whispered to Deathbringer beside me.
"It's a wonder you're still alive" Deathbringer whispered back. While I was whispering to Deathbringer, the dragonets were talking about how tonight was going to go. Burn barked a disbelieving laugh.
"I have a better idea, how about I kill my sisters, then you all, stuff you, and spend the next hundred years talking about peaceful solutions?" Burn asked.
"How about no, I'm here to make sure that doesn't happen" I replied, not intimidated by Burn in the least.
"You, against me? Unbelievable" Burn replied.
"Maybe, but I have a certain animus sea wing on my side, his name is Fathom, I could introduce you" I grinned, no dragon knew who I was talking about though, but they all seemed to think he was a powerful dragon, and indeed he was.
"I've already made a gesture of peace, didn't you get my present, Burn?" Blister asked. "I sent you something you've always wanted" Blister said. I had a feeling this was something bad, in fact, I had left my viper back in the rainforest (still need a name!).
"Smolder, bring me the box" Burn ordered.
"Now?" He asked.
"Don't argue with me" Burn growled. I heard a familiar hissing as the box was brought out.
"Dragonbite viper" I whispered.
"What?" Fatespeaker asked.
"Rare and deadly" Starflight replied. Burn ripped off the top of the box and brought out the rope of scaly fury.
"It would be amusing when this kills you instead of me" Burn growled.
"Did I leave out that I gave you two?" Blister asked. Another viper lunged out and bit Burn, making the crowd scream. Burn was already dying it would only be a minute before she was dead. I was surprised how fast the viper moved and pushed Starflight out of the way, unfortunately, the viper bit me instead.
"Gah!" I yelled. I couldn't hear the cries of my friends and only focused myself on slowing the venom down. I picked up the snake and threw it at the box, I ignored the pain for a few seconds, and I flipped the box over. "And stay in there" I wheezed. I looked at my foot, black veins were inside it. I sat down and grabbed my foot, squeezing it as hard as possible, slowing down the blood flow. I kept my leg up so that the blood flow was even slower. I then saw a red glow shoot through the sky and land beside me.
"Peril...burn the venom!" I ordered, crying out again from the extreme pain.
"But-"
"Do it!" I yelled, giving Blister a death glare. "Catch the other snake!" I yelled to Ion, who looked troubled but did so anyway. I felt something stab into my ankle and stay there until the black veins went away. I kept my eyes open and weakly fell to the stone. I took deep breaths and waited until the wound started rapidly closing up. The pain still lingered though and I leaned against Clay while still taking deep breaths. I kept my right foot from touching the ground and glared at Blister.
"Can't get rid of me that easily" I smirked, before taking a deep breath. Not all that many seconds passed before a rain wing was wrapping my ankle with bandages.
"You should rest" The rain wing said, reaching for a dart.
"No, I'm witnessing this event" I replied, ignoring the pain. "You can make me black out the second the new queen is decided" I told the dragon, thanking him as well for the bandage (did any of you notice that the books say poison and not venom? That's weird, right? Snakes have venom…). I watched as Blister fought Blaze. "Find the eye!" I suddenly yelled out while the dragonets were discussing how to end the battle. "It's the only way to stop the fighting!" I exclaimed, hobbling over to Smolder. I looked to Flower, Smolder's human friend. I started talking to Flower, stopping most dragons from watching the battle.
"Flower, you were there when the queen died, do you know where the rest of the treasure is?" I asked, catching the human off guard, however it didn't take long for Flower to recover.
"That statue!" She yelled, pointing to Oasis' statue. I flew over to the statue and started digging at the sand. The other dragonets joined in, along with Thorn and maybe Smolder. We soon uncovered the bones of Oasis, I opened her jaw and found sacks inside. I untied the sacks and started sorting through them. I soon saw the Eye of Onyx, and picked it up by the chain with a dagger.
"Is this it?" I asked, catching Blister's attention. Around the eye of Onyx were dragon wings, that glowed when I touched them. I was currently now holding Eye in my claws. I could feel magic on it. "It's enchanted" I observed.
"With this, Sunny could even be queen" Tsunami said. I waited for a few seconds, I had the power to entrust this with any female sand wing. I was just currently trying avoid Blister.
"Could you all make up your minds!" I yelled while zooming through the air.
"Give it to mother!" Sunny yelled, the other dragonets nodding.
"Got it!" I yelled, diving towards them, I threw it to Thorn, but before it reached her, Blister caught it with her tail. When she landed, she had a painful expression and tried to fling it off. However, before she could, right before my eyes, she started glowing and was turned into a pile of ashes.
I landed where Blister once was and carefully picked up the Eye. I walked over to Thorn, and slowly held it out to her.
"Me? Are you sure?" Thorn asked.
"The dragonets have decided it best" I said, nodding. Thorn reluctantly took the Eye, and like a fantasy film, the Eye floated above her claws and hung itself around her neck. I grinned and turned to the dragons have Phyrria.
"Tribes of Phyrria, sand wings! Welcome Queen Thorn!" I yelled to the crowd, extending my arms and wings. "Your majesty" I smiled and turned around.
"I hope you two will help me figure this out" Thorn said.
"We will" I replied, Sunny nodded as well.
"And I think many other dragons will be willing to help as well" Sunny said. The war was finally over, but not all the prophecies were…
One month later
"Wouldn't it be perfect?" Sunny asked as we stared at Jade mountain.
"I think a school is a good idea, we could have Tsunami as the principle, since she never got to be queen" I grinned.
"I can see it, we could use the caves as classrooms, but we'll need light, lots of light" Tsunami ignored my comment.
"And field trips" Clay added.
"And scrolls" Starflight added.
"A library is a great idea" I responded.
"Do you think anyone will actually come?" Tsunami asked.
"I'm sure dragons will" I replied. "It will be a big success" I smiled, not knowing if I'd see it to the end though...
"Please no more prophecies" Tsunami said.
"Well, than I guess I'll have to deal with mine, starting with this map" I said, taking the map out of my bag.
"And you still need a name for that viper" Ion pointed out, making us all laugh.
"You should remember I'm not good at naming things!" I yelled.
"Yeah, it took you three weeks to name that frog you got from school, and you ended up naming it Froggit!" Ion laughed. I smiled as I looked at the map, just one last prophecy, hopefully.
Boom! Another chapter done! Sad news, my headphones broke two days ago…thankfully I had an extra pair! Again, thank you Lynx for the OC! I hope you enjoyed the ending to the first arc, and before you ask, yes, I will do the second arc after Crescent's adventure. Man, he just can't get a break, can he? I don't know if you can tell…but there's some foreshadowing in here for the last fanfic I'll do before the fanfic where all the heroes meet (it will be after the WoF modern AU, btw). If you want to, you can guess in a review! Anyways, I hope you enjoyed and I'll see you next time! Bye!