He hated his kind. He was disgusted by them. He hated how lazy and useless Rainwings was. Just sleeping in the sun and eating fruit that was all they did. He was nothing like them. He was a spy and an animus. He had been taken by one of Burn's soldiers when he was an egg. He was glad they did too. He didn't like the rainforest at all. All the insects and the muddy ground was more than enough to make him stay out of that place. He was now on his way to Burn's stronghold to report. He was a very fast flier so he didn't use much time to reach the kingdom of sand. Only a day or two at most.
He had only used a few hours from the diamond spray delta to the rainforest where he was now. He wasn't down in the rainforest. No i hated the place more than enough he was flying over it. He was sure that he was the fastest rainwing alive. Mostly because the rest of the rainwings is too lazy to even fly.
Burn had flown back to her palace in te kingdom of sand. She was angry. Very angry. Those stupid dragonets had ruined her plan. She had sent her spy after them a while after she had stopped looking for them with her guards. She had more important things to do. She had stolen a rainwing egg to be her spy eight years ago. That rainwing was the best spy she had. She had gotten a letter from her spy just a few hours ago. He was on his way to the stronghold. Her stronghold was the palace of Queen oasis eighteen years ago. She had claimed it as her stronghold around that time as well. She had not done much with it since then. Only mounting a few heads of traitors at the top to show that she was not messing around.
The spy had arrived just a few minutes ago. Burn was almost excited for the news. She knew it involved the dragonets of destiny of course. Since her spy had told her a few details in his letter.
The opened slightly. ''Princess Burn? You have a guest'' Said a voice behind the door. One of her servants.
''Let him in.'' Said Burn.
''Greetings mother'' Said her spy, her son. He was treated as her son since he was in a way. He was the only dragon she ever smiled to. She had raised him to be a spy but she also raised him as her son. Burn was maybe the least fit dragoness to have a child. She didn't care for children. She proved this six years back when she had tracked down the icewing that stole that Skywing egg, she had dropped the egg from a cliff without a second thought.
Her son was bowing.
''Oh for the love of the three moons don't bow to me Thunder. You should not bow to me.'' Burn said annoyed. ''Do you have any news of the dragonets?''
She had chosen the name Thunder because she wanted her spy to have a terrifying name.
Thunder nodded. ''They are heading towards the sea. The little seawing wants to meet her family. I think she will be disappointed with Queen Coral. I also planted a fake vision in one of the nightwings. The hybrid to be exact.''
Burn smiled. ''Very good my dear. You have been of great help. Good, we have skywings patrolling the area they are in.''
Thunder grinned ''I am happy i could help mother.''
Our group was very close to the sea. They were all able to see it in the distance. They had woken up for just about an hour ago and Dusk felt happy. This was going to be a good day. He closed his eyes and smiled. The landscape was beautiful. Lush forests were under them and he could see the tall mountains of the sky Kingdom when he looked east and when he looked west he could something that looked a lot like a rainforest?
He looked towards Tsunami. He could see how excited she was. She was ready. Dusk too was ready. It was a long time since the last time he had been swimming in the sea. It was late winter/early spring when he had been teleported away from earth. So the sea was naturally cold at that time of the year. So it had been at least eight to nine months since the last time he had been in the ocean. He looked around in the group and it looked like everyone was happy. Even Glory, and she was known to be a little grumpy. Glory's scales were now pink which Dusk had guessed meant happy.
They were only hours away now.
A day had passed by and they were sleeping in the forest right next to the beach. All the dragonets were piled up together sleeping. Dusk woke up to rays of sunlight hitting his face through the thick forest. He was sleeping next to Sunny with his wing draped over her. He had found out that this was normal. The others had done this under the mountain every night. Dusk had to admit that he felt a lot more secure when he had a pair of wings draped over him. The wings that were draped over him belonged to Glory and Starflight. It was also a great way to keep each other warm during the night when it was a lot colder.
Dusk tried to get out of the pile without waking the others. He wasn't even close at succeeding as he woke up most of the group. The only one left sleeping was Clay. That didn't really shock Dusk at all.
''Well look who is up.'' Tsunami said annoyed to get waken up early.
Dusk was trying very hard not to laugh.
Sunny giggled and Starflight just sat there on a rock rubbing his eyes.
''Why don't we wake up like this every morning.'' Glory said sarcastically.
Dusk rolled his eyes at Glory's comment. ''I am ready for a bath.'' Said Dusk walking towards the sea.
''I will never understand why you like water so badly.'' Said Sunny to Dusk. She looked back at Starflight which was sitting on top of that rock. He shrugged.
''I have no clue.'' He said. ''Glory?''
''Nope.'' Said Glory.
It didn't take long before they saw Dusk swimming on his back. He had a big smile on his face. He loved swimming way too much. It didn't take long before Tsunami was running towards the sea too. She flew a few meters up in the air before she let herself fall towards the ocean with a big splash. She landed right beside Dusk who yelped when he saw her falling towards the water. Both Dusk and Tsunami ended up laughing together while swimming.
Sunny could not do anything else than smile at the sight. 'Maybe Tsunami will trust Dusk more now that they have something in common.' She thought.
Sunny looked back at where they had been sleeping. Clay was still there. He had not moved a single muscle. She would have to wake him up. She sighed This was normal. She made her way to Clay's sleeping form to wake him up. She would have to shake him to get him up. And that is what she did. It did not work. She then remembered that Clay was ticklish on his stomach. That got him up in no time.
''I am up i am up.'' Clay said with a yawn.
Glory was laying on the beach relaxing in the sun. She then rolled on her back and opened her eyes. She spotted red dots flying towards them. Skywings. ''Guys, Skywing patrol.'' Yelled Glory to the others. Dusk and Tsunami came running from the sea to hide with the others. The dragonet's dove into the forest and remained silent.
The patrol flew right over the dragonets without knowing that they were there.
Dusk sighed in relieve. ''That was a close one.'' He said.
Sunny nodded from under his dark wing. ''Too close.''
Tsunami had now decided that they had to continue. Everyone followed her since she was the leader of the group.
(Okay so i got some music you guys can listen to this scene. NFS The Run stage 4 intro music is perfect for this scene. This first sentences is like a small intro to the Sea Kingdom. Think of it as images of the islands.)
The bay of thousand scales. Also called the tail of Pyrrhia. Thousand islands. Perfect place to hide something.
Since Tsunami was the only one to be able to breathe underwater, so the others would have to be in the summer palace.
The dragonet's had been flying for four days. Only resting when they found an island. And even then the rest only lasted for a couple of hours at a time before they had to start flying again in fear of the Skywing patrols finding them. Dusk was worried, why? Because he could sense a storm. How? He didn't know. He saw black clouds getting closer and closer as they were flying. He had sensed the storm for a day and they could clearly see it now.
It started to rain. Heavy rain and strong winds. Lightning struck the water a few hundred meters away.
''WE HAVE TO FIND A PLACE TO WAIT OUT THIS STORM!'' Dusk Yelled to the others.
''THERE!'' Tsunami yelled back as she pointed to a cave on a small island.
'Perfect.' Dusk thought. 'An extremely small cave for all of us.'
Everyone got in the cave. It was just big enough for all six of them. Dusk found himself a comfy spot right next to one of the walls. There was some wood in the cave. Probably washed up with the tide. It was dry as well. Could be used to make a campfire.
''There is dry wood here.'' Dusk said. ''We can make a campfire if we need to. I don't know if nightwings have fire but i know sandwings do so maybe i can learn to breathe fire.''
''I can teach you if you want'' Said Clay.
Dusk nodded. ''Sure but maybe we should wait out this storm first.'' He peaked his head out of the cave. The storm was still going on and it looked like it was night soon too.
Clay smiled. ''It is freezing in here.''
''I agree we need a fire to keep us warm.'' Glory said shivering.
They made a fire and fell asleep.
Dusk found himself in that strange room again. The one with no light but no dark either. This time there was no screen. But he saw a vision. A rainwing. Fierce and dangerous.
He and Dusk were fighting during a thunderstorm.
''You will not defeat me. I am going to make sure that my mother becomes queen.'' Said the rainwing.
Dusk spat some blood on the ground after being hit in the face. ''i am afraid that's not how prophecy's work.'' Dusk used his fire against the rainwing and missed. He also tried to hit the rainwing with his poisonous tail but failed at that too. The rainwing was quick to dodge the attacks before sending several blows back. The rainwing hit his attacks more often than Dusk since he was trained to fight and Dusk barely knew anything about fighting.
There was lightning striking all around them. And the loudest thunder Dusk had ever heard. It was also raining a lot. Dusk knew he was defeated. He was tired and every part of him hurt.
Dusk could feel his future self's pain and he did not look forward to this.
''I am not gonna kill you, yet. I will look forward to our next meeting.'' The rainwing said with a grin. An evil looking grin.
Dusk looked up confused at him. ''Who are you?''
The rainwing snickered. ''You can call me Thunder. Son of Burn.''
The vision ended with that.
Dusk woke up after that vision. his stomach hurts. He had to take a walk. He hadn't piled up with the others this night. He didn't know why but he felt like sleeping next to the wall instead. The cave was warm after the campfire so he wasn't worried about getting cold. He was more worried about stabbing someone with his tail which he often forgot about. He was careful with it and tried not to use it on someone.
Dusk glanced back at the cave. 'I hope i didn't wake up anyone this time.' He thought.
The storm had calmed down and there was no more rain. Just a light breeze with a few clouds now. He could see stars between the clouds. A beautiful sight as always.
He sat down on the beach of the small island. 'Thunder, He said he was the son of burn. Not good. He was probably her personal spy. A rainwing spy? probably the most perfect assassin with their deadly venom and camouflage abilities. He was going to be tricky to deal with in the future. I don't think i will tell the others about this. It's for the best.' He thought.
He started to walk back to the cave.
Thunder was sitting on a nearby island. ''So he had a real vision this time. I better keep an eye on those dragonet's some more time before i fly back to mother.'' He said thoughtfully. He had followed them from the beach where they had spotted the skywing patrol. He had flown back to the sea to spy on the dragonet's some more. Burn wanted him to continue with this. He was going to take care of Dusk. Thunder needed him out of the way to continue his plans. He had also sensed the vision. Thunder had enchanted a necklace to sense visions. A useful tool. That didn't mean he could see what was shown in the visions.
He grinned as he thought about it all. This was going to be fun.
Okay, so i am late with this one. I am trying to upload at least once every week but i didn't have much time last week because of exams and school. You guys get the idea. So we now know who this mysterious spy of ours is. And our heroes are on their way to meet Queen Coral and the seawings. I am going to try to stay true to The Lost Heir in the next 2-3 chapters but at the same time make my own version of it.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter see you guys in the next one.
