And welcome back, I have an announcement to make...I am now working with a fella by the name of ADMIRALCOLE22. They are a wonderful writer on here so I highly recommend you go and read their story first before coming here as ours are connected.{Under the table as of right now} As well as that I am sorry for the first chapter being so small. Please Review if you believe i could be doing some things better and enjoy this chapter. I'll try to make them all a little longer.
Disclaimer: I do not own wings of fire or any characters made by the author. I only own my OC's in this story.
Admiralcole22's story is "Dragons change"
Chapter 2
Fresh Prince of ice
The Crowd was roaring with joy and excitement. Dragons were throwing their drinks and laughing at the sight before them. Down below. In a small pit there were two dragonets. One was an Icewing, Who had no blue on him but instead had dark grey scales running along his back and up his neck to his head. A very rare combatant indeed. He had been bought for over seventy thousand gold coins.
The other was a small Nightwing that they had found not far from the old academy at jade mountain. For the most part she was a normal nightwing, save a few green scales here and there.
Shaking and crying beneath him. Her black and green scales covered in her Crimson blood. Her wings Had been Ripped off and her leg was missing. The icewing slowly stalked over to her. She looked at him with glazed eyes as he grabbed her head, Blasting His Frost Breath into her face and Killing her.
As he let go of the Now limp Dragonet, he looked at the body with Cold, Grey And Unforgiving eyes.
The crowd roared even louder...It was always good when they roared like this. It meant he would get food. But if they tossed Golden Coins at him...It was even better, because it meant his master would take him to see the outside for a day. He smiled for a brief moment before the familiar sting of a sleep dart hit him. And his world faded to darkness.
14 hard years later...
Frostbite awoke with a start. Looking around Frantically before remembering where he was. The palace, Of course He thought quickly upon seeing he was back in his room.
It was a decent size for a prince really. You could fit around fifthteen dragons in here and move freely.
He Slowly got out of bed before realizing he slept in his Chestplate again. It was made from iron like all chest plates. Although he had painted his own stuff on it and put in padding as well after he first got it when he was younger.
Iceberg, his mentor, gave it to him on his 10th hatching day. It was damaged badly. And it was covered in scorch marks and sand.
Whoever had it before probably took one hell of a beating.
But Frostbite repaired it, it took a few months but he got it eventually. Funny thing is that when he was repairing it, a small orb thing fell out. It had a spot in the middle of the chestplate and was kinda Half and Half in the plate. When you turn it to the right, It starts to get loose and fall out. With the padding he put in you could barely feel it.
He never told anyone about it but he did put some more metal around it and it kinda looked like a Grey sun? It was hard to describe. But he liked it. He never did figure out what the orb thing was.
He just assumed that its a very expensive piece of treasure. So it's fitting that a prince would have it.
There were two green stripes on either side where it wrapped around his shoulder and next to those were some orange stripes. The rest he had left Dark Grey. Like the Scales on his back and his eyes.
It was rather comfortable and he fell asleep in it more than once. His Mentor told him it was not uncommon to sleep in your armour but his joints would punish him when he awoke.
And oh were they ever, his shoulders and upper back felt stiff and sore.
He stretched slightly and yawned before getting up and walking over to his table.
He grabbed his Journal, which had to be kept in a case to stop it from freezing shut, These were kinda new things. A dragon could keep one and read it like a scroll but it had a hard cover on it and pages. He liked to draw in it from time to time. He thought he was bad at it but others had said he was pretty good.
The Rainwings had made this surprisingly Useful invention.
He packed it in a Travel Pack. Which was made by the Mudwings. A small pack that you could strap around your lower waist or midsection.
He strapped it around his midsection so it was just below his chestplate and made sure to close it. As he did, he looked at his reflection in the mirror.
He wasn't much to look at, but he was Tall. Definitely above the average male height. He was built well and in excellent shape. Unlike half the army, He had been getting good food and training for the past seven years and it showed.
He had Dark Grey scales running from his spikes to his tail all along his back with a decent area of grey scales on the top of his head.
Once he was done he sighed and looked at his grey eyes. After a moment he walked off.
Next he grabbed his Necklace off the table. It was a gift from his father or mother apparently.
It was an odd kind of Rock. He couldn't remember his Father or mother at all. When he was younger his egg had gotten into the sand kingdom somehow and the royal guards, along with his father had tried to take it back but were ambushed and killed on the way back.
Frostbite could only remember a guard that had lived because they were both put into the fighting pits and where the guard was older he got into more fights than Frostbite.
He was killed by a Mudwing one day.
While he didn't care much about who his father and mother were, the nobles did. They came up with theories on who it was, some said Prince Hailstorm, As he and Frostbite looked the same in height. Others said Prince Winter. As his face looked similar to his. As far as his mom goes, she was apparently friends with Iceberg for a while but died while he was in the pits. They didn't talk about her much and Frostbite got the impression that Iceberg liked her alot.
He put the necklace he walked over to his balcony and look out at the palace and surrounding city.
As he took a breath of fresh air and spotted a body lying in the middle of the street. A sight that was becoming more common as of the past few years. The United Tribe alliance had cut routes long ago which resulted in many Icewings dying.
Frostbite then heard his door open.
"Frostbite." Came the sound of Icebergs Deep Voice.
He turned and looked at the massive icewing that was his mentor. "Hello Iceberg." He said to him.
"I thought we weren't training for another day." He said to the massive Icewing.
"The Queen wants to speak with you i'm afraid" The older dragon informed him
"What does she want now?" He asked.
"She never told me why. Only said she needed you to talk to her." He replied.
Frostbite looked back out the balcony at the body before turning back around to Iceberg.
"I hope we can discuss how to fix this issue." He said as he motioned toward the body before turning again to walk out of the room with iceberg.
As they stepped into the Hallway a servant walked by Coughing. Other than her, there was no one else in the hallway. A Lot of Servants had died due to hunger, Like many others in the kingdom at the moment.
The United Tribe Alliance Blocked all trade with the Ice Kingdom after a few years of them not joining the alliance.
Their move was supposed to be simple. Kill a few dragons from hunger and wait until the Royal family had no choice but to save their Own kind and join them.
But the Icewings got the message in another light. The Alliance was softening up the icewings and Spreading Discontent and hatred for the royal Family In order to spark chaos and war amongst them. When this realization occurred the Alliance lost most of their support in the ice kingdom.
No longer seen as peacekeepers they were seen as monsters who only wanted power and every tribe under their control. Many dragonets had died due to the blockade. And Frostbite would never forgive the Alliance for that.
Entire towns, Dead. Male, Female, Young, Rich, Old and poor. They did not care who they killed. So long as the icewings Kneeled to them in the end. But it would never happen.
Back in its early days, The Alliance only had the Skywings, Mudwings and Sandwings in it. Other Tribes could of course go to the meetings freely and each kingdom kept their own army. The Alliance also got dragons jobs, homes and peace, life was good. They helped stop many conflicts too, including a rather large war that almost kicked off between the Nightwings, Icewings and seawings.
A group of Nightwings had been found kidnapping and experimenting on Seawings in the rainforest. Once they were found the Seawings marched on the rainforest almost with a few days. They were stopped just outside by the Mudwings, who wanted to see if anymore dragons were in on it.
An investigation took place and it was found that some Nightwings that were close to Queen Glory were in on it. The Alliance Brought her to a court, respectfully and peacefully as Glory said she would gladly go to avoid conflict.
Glory and the Rainwings were found innocent. However as this all went down the Nightwings killed some of the Seawings they were experimenting on and moved locations. But they also found Icewings amongst the dead.
The Seawings were enraged, with the Icewings. when they came back to the Rainforest they had many more dragons and Princess Tsunami and Prince Hailstorm at the Front.
It looked like a war would start but they talked behind closed doors and worked together to find the Nightwings. Who were in the south of the rainforest.
They defeated the Nightwings but on one of the bodys there was a note warning them. Many said it was from Glory However it turned out to be remnants of the changewings. Awful dragons who wanted to dominate the continent but were defeated long ago.
After this event, the Sandwings joined the Alliance. Followed by the Rainwings and Nightwings. After them the Seawings joined and the Icewings attempted to join, but were told that they must get rid of their army. The Icewings were mad of course because the other tribes got to keep theirs, when questioned the Alliance said it was a request from the Nightwings, as they have had blood spilled with Icewings recently.
A group of dragons in coldwater thought the offer was generous and fair, so they started a revolt with a few other towns and a city. Princess Icicle led them. The civil war lasted only a few months. With the Royal army crushing the rebels. The last tried to surrender but were rounded up in the city of Bright Mountain and killed after King Coldhart gave the order.
Frostbite wasn't proud of what he did that day, And he knew Iceberg wasn't either.
But The Icewings knew better now. And Although many died and suffered. It brought every icewing together for one common goal. Survival. There were rumors of an Island big enough for the whole tribe somewhere far to the north.
Too cold for any other tribe to follow, but they had to find it first. And they had to buy time. So construction of Large Forts like the Fjord had been made. A massive Fort facing the skywing border.
It could hold back any assault for a few years at least.
As Frostbite and Iceberg Rounded the Corner that led to the throne room Iceberg turned to him.
"Frostbite." He spoke in his Serious tone "I think she may be sending you out to the Jewel." He Said.
The Jewel had been the capital of the Alliance, It was going to originally be in the capital of the skywings but was moved a few hundred miles south to connect with the other tribes.
and was a massive city in the center of pyrrhia in an old mountain range that sprawled out into some spots of the desert. And the Dragons there...They Hated Icewings. They saw them as warmongers and killers because of the propaganda that had been spread.
They are half right i guess. Frostbite thought.
"There is ways she could kill me in a less obvious manner isn't there?" Frostbite Said, Matching icebergs tone. Iceberg hated when he did this.
"Well the Alliance has been massing troops to the east and southern borders so maybe you showing up will make them relax a bit." He said with mild annoyance as he Walked past the guards and opened the doors to the throne room.
The place had stayed the same ever since it was made. Or so Frostbite Assumed. It was dull. Six Pillars on either side and a staircase leading up to the throne. There were doors on either side leading to separate rooms that he had never been in.
Even though he was related to these Dragons. He never did like them. Nor did they like him. Because where they did nothing and the same all day every day. Frostbite wanted to do different things like Draw or maybe go flying for fun.
As he walked in he saw her instantly. Queen SnowFlake Or was it Snowfall? He never cared to remember her name. She was a horrible dragoness.
"My Queen." Iceberg said as he and Frostbite Both bowed quickly
"Iceberg you may leave us." She said in a casual voice as she inspected her talons.
Iceberg looked at her and nodded. Then he looked to Frostbite for a moment and left.
"Frostbite." She spoke "You may be of some use to us yet. I have an important task for you that you might actually enjoy."
"And what would that be?" He asked Tilting his head sideways a bit.
"I want you to go with two guards to the Jewel. There you will give a small speech and address everyone that we are...Reconsidering their offer to join the Alliance. You'll be back in a few months." She informed him
"As you wish." He said as he stood
He knew it was just to buy time of course. The Alliance would not attack them if they said they may still join. They were going to show fake weakness and hope they take the bait.
When he began to push the doors open to leave He heard her say; "And Frostbite. Keep your necklace on. It's rather important in these types of meetings." She said with a smug look on her stupid face.
"As...you...wish." He said slowly before adding "My queen." at the end.
He left and started down the palace stairs. When he got to the bottom of the them he Glanced left out a window. He didn't know why. He just did. And when he did he could have sworn he saw the most Beautiful icewing he had ever seen.
When he looked again he only saw the piled bodies of icewings being thrown into a mass grave. Moons...Get a female Frostbite. He thought as he stood there a second longer and then began to walk off and out the main palace doors.
He should have asked when they leave because the moment he stepped out two guards came up to him. "Are you ready to leave My Prince?" One asked. He quickly sighed, Looking down at his talons It's going to take ten days at least. Damnit. He thought before he took a look at them.
"Yes." He said. "Lets not keep them waiting." And with that they took off. Completely unaware of the Dragoness watching them from behind a tree.
-StarWatcher-
Star and her parents were staying in the sky kingdom for a few days and today was the last day of that trip.
Her father, Qibli Was inspecting the guard posts along the icewing borders while Her Mother, Moonwatcher was well...Sad.
It was an odd thing to see really. Her mother was never sad. But ever since they got rolled up in this icewing business, She was sad and crying and...Well it was rough.
Star herself believed that her mother was only acting like this because she was friends with an icewing. Prince Winter. They saved his brother, Hailstorm together and went on a big adventure.
They were the ones who saved the world from the likes of Darkstalker and the changewings.
Although she never talked about it much. She was a total Hero. Her and Father. But what Star couldn't understand is why she was so against war with the icewings. Father had been friends with the same icewings and he was willing to fight them.
Besides. The icewings were weak right now. They had no food and every report said the Royal Family had died and the kingdom was in a civil war. The Alliance had Thousands of troops ready to march in and kill any who resisted. But still. Only half the Alliance court wanted war.
It was stupid! The icewings were always bad to every tribe. Especially the nightwings. They were mad at them because they stole a prince apparently and killed prince was said to be their last animus.
In her opinion, it was good that they didn't have magic on their side because it would only make taking the kingdom harder for the Alliance.
But also everything about the Icewings gave her the impression that they would not use animus powers for good. They restricted all they're dragons and had no room for emotion, a big part of what dragons are is emotion.
But still she had some Respect for the icewings as well. No matter how many times they got beat, They always came back and tried again. They were also Brave. They took on Darkstalkers Force's at the battle of jade mountain.
The nightwings were all enchanted to have strong powers. And the icewings were just recovering from the loss of their queen and a plague that killed hundreds before her father gave them animus earrings.
You had to respect Dragons who still took on a fight. Even weak and outnumbered they still fought today, Not for a Queen apparently. But for each other. They were very loyal.
She lost her train of thought as she heard her father come home.
"Moon? Star?" He called out. "You might want to see this."
Star was worried immediately. Her father's Voice was anything but happy.
Her and Mother both entered the main room at the same time. She was doing a little better now which was good. As for the room, It was decently big.
Covered in Priceless art and was Queen Ruby's personal house by a wonderful beach. Just across you could barely see the Ice Kingdom. Her father was by the door with a grim look on his face.
"What is it Father?" Star asked
He only nodded his head outside toward the beach. At This Her and Moon both walked past her father. And were greeted. Not by the sunny warm days of the past week.
But by cold rain and a terrifying sight. Bodies...Bodies Everywhere Had washed up outside.
She looked at the beach and then back at her mother. Moon was in tears And Qibli was trying to comfort her.
When she looked back at the bodies she noticed something. They all had white scales. And spikes on the back of their heads. Icewings? She thought to herself. What happened?
They had never come this close, and the house was only eighty talons from the beach. Had this been an assault?
She began to walk closer and get a better look at them. She noted their size as well. They were all small like...Like Dragonets.
She stepped back and immediately felt tears in her eyes. They were all extremely skinny and had Sad expressions. They looked like they may have been crying in their last moments.
She looked left and saw that there were Skywing Alliance guards checking the bodies. There had to be a hundred bodies at least. She noticed some of the dragons looked bigger than the rest. They must have been Guards.
She almost jumped out of her scales when it she began to hear someone's thoughts, It wasn't the skywings as they were too far away. She looked around and saw one of the bigger ones was limping. She focused on his thoughts.
He was confused and scared. He felt he had failed. He'd lost his own son and mate. He was the commander of an Evacuation.
Upon seeing this they all came running. The Icewing lifted its head to look at the Dragons running towards it. Qibli had also run down and jumped in front of her to block her from the Icewings view.
But from what she could tell, he was a large Icewing. And had a Blue and White Chestplate.
The Skywings showed up and began to surround the Icewing, It lifted its head up and looked around, His breathing was ragged and laboured.
"Easy there Commander." Qibli said, once he recognized the colours on the armour.
"What happened and why are you here?" Her father asked while he got closer to him.
"You." The Icewing said.
Her father looked confused for a moment.
"You came to kill me?" He asked the icewing
The icewing shook his head 'no' Before responding with "The Alliance, You've starved all of us, bloody cowards...Can't even face what you've done." He said in between breaths.
Her father went silent before nodding.
"For what it's worth im sorry, I don't make the rules of the Alliance and I didn't want this, Now you look like you need help so let us help you alright?" Her father tried to reason with the Icewing
The icewing growled as her father went closer to him. Her father reached his talons out to the icewing.
The icewing looked at them before snapping his jaws around her father's arm and pulling him towards him. Her father caught himself and got up after a quick roll. He then got into a defensive stance as the Icewing stood on his hind legs and blasted a mix of Frost Breath and blood towards him.
Qibli jumped out of the way and slide under the icewing stabbing him with his tail on the icewings underbelly. The Icewing roared and swung his tail at her father who caught it in the face.
The icewing then jumped on her father and wrapped his talons around his neck. One of the skywings got ready to spear the icewing but her father put his hand up.
The Icewings began to lose his grip and get dizzy, Her father's poison was working.
The icewing then fell on its side next to her father. Qibli got up and looked at the dying dragon.
"I'm sorry." He said as the Icewings head lowered and his breathing stopped.
He then nodded to the Skywings and they began to search the beach for anymore dragons.
Once they left she stepped closer to the dead Icewing. She was amazed by the Fight he put up. He clearly had not been getting good food or rest, He was already near death and he still almost took out her father.
She looked closer and saw what looked like the edge of a note sticking out from his chestplate. She carefully grabbed it and read it.
"Prince Frostbite is heading to the Jewel to talk to the Alliance. While he is there you and your guard are to evacuate the town and cross the water into the sky kingdom. We have shipped the last of our Food stocks to you. Make sure every dragon who is going is fed before you leave. When you arrive. Look for a place to create a small camp that's out of sight. Good Luck and Safe Travels."
Signed by General Iceberg of the Royal 22nd Attack Battalion
Prince?! She thought The Royal Family's dead. Maybe it's a new family? She finished her thoughts and came back to the real world and read again.
She finished reading it and looked back towards Qibli who was walking up to her with Moon, who was fussing about the small bite wound on his arm.
She handed him the letter and he read it. When he was done he gave it to Moon who upon finishing it had tears streaming down her face.
"This is awful." Qibli said as Moon handed him back the note.
"They're running out of food…" Moon said quietly.
Qibli read the note one more time. "Prince Frostbite." He read. "Did Winter ever mention him?" He asked Moon. "I don't believe so." She said. "When do you think it was signed?" She asked him as she stood over the icewings body.
"Maybe last night?" That's when they probably tried to cross...But they were too weak to fly or swim." He spoke in his "Thinking tone" As her and moon called it. He did it whenever he was trying to piece something together.
He looked up and down the beach at the bodies. "For all we know Prince Frostbite could be anyone of these bodies." He stated
He turned back to the guards. "Clean this up and send a letter to the them We are calling an emergency meeting." The guard nodded and Her father started to walk away.
Right when Star and Moon began to walk away from the scene. A skywing called out.
"What do we do with all the bodies?!" He yelled out.
Her father turned and thought a moment. "Get some help and bury them Properly somewhere nice. Face them towards the ice kingdom."
The skywing nodded and they began to move bodies. Once they were all back in the house, Her father began to talk to a servant and informed him that they were leaving. He turned and instructed them to pack anything they needed. Moon walked off to her room and Star went to hers.
She didn't need much. She only had a travel bag and nice pearl necklace.
She took one last look in her mirror.
She was in wonderful shape after all that flying around they did last year. Just like her mother. She had the gift of reading minds and also emotions.
And also like her mother she had teardrops under her eyes, Her mother's were silver and hers were gold. And like all nightwings she had stars on her wings. But her stars were golden.
She also had those golden scales running from the base of her neck all the way down to the tip of her tail. She was average female height. Which she hated. But she had to admit. She looked Wonderful, No not Wonderful. Stunning. After she was done Looking and being mesmerized by her own self, She went out into the main room.
Once she was there she and her mother and father went out the back door. As she was the last one out she turned to shut the door. When she did she could have sworn she saw a sandwing standing in the doorway. When she took a second look she saw nothing. That's..Nothing...Its nothing. She thought and closed the door. As her and her parents took off. No one noticed the door Slowly opening.
Hello again i hope that chapter was okay? I tried to make it longer but time is kinda screwing me over and such so i give you this. Also any suggestions would be appreciated. The next Chapter will be bigger. I am sorry for any spelling and things that may drive you off a cliff. Goodbye lad's