Dusk woke up again after that night's event. That vision scared him greatly. To think that a dragon had been following them for so long. The others were up as well. Getting ready for the long flight to find the Seawings. Should he tell the others? Warn them of the danger to come. Probably, did he want to? No. Did he have to? No. But he could not see his friends get hurt by that dragon.
They were all still in that cave. The campfire was only a few charred wood pieces. And they didn't have any food. Tsunami had gone out to get breakfast. Not that he complained but he was getting tired of fish and he saw that the others thought that as well. Sadly there weren't a lot of options. They could eat crabs and lobsters but those were either too small or too hard to get, plus the only ones to probably eat that would be Clay or Tsunami. Tsunami returned again with a few fish, a giant crab and a few shells.
Sunny looked at the shells. ''What are does?''
''They are shells. You open them and eat the meat inside.'' Said Dusk.
Sunny tried to open one but had a hard time.
''Let me try?'' Asked Dusk.
Sunny gave him the shell and he opened it with ease. ''How?'' Asked Sunny.
Dusk gave a grin. ''It's easy.''
Sunny then whispered. ''Did you eat lot's of these as human?''
Dusk shook his head. ''No. Never liked shells.''
''Then how do you know how to open them?'' Asked Sunny.
''I'll tell you later.'' Whispered Dusk.
Sunny nodded.
A few hours later
Ocean and small islands as far as the eye can see. Nothing else. It was a beautiful sight but gets boring quickly. Everyone was bored and there wasn't a lot they could do about it. They landed on another island. This one was quite small. with just a few palm trees and some rocks.
''We need a break.'' Tsunami said walking towards the ocean to take a swim.
''I agree, but is there any food here?'' Asked Clay.
Starflight looked around. The palm trees. There were coconuts hanging from them. ''Yes. There is food here. Coconuts.'' Said Starflight pointing at the coconuts hanging from the palm trees.
''What is a coconut?'' Asked Sunny curiously.
''It is a type of fruit Sunny.'' Answered Starflight.
''Oooohh'' Said Sunny.
Tsunami was swimming around. It was a lot heavier to swim in the ocean than in lakes and rivers. The ocean was beautiful though. There were coral reefs everywhere with fish in all the colors Tsunami could think of. Breathtaking. She saw a shadow swimming beside her. It was fast. She now felt something or someone drag in her tail. She was dragged onto the beach by two seawings.
''Who are you and what are you doing this far out in the ocean.'' Asked one of them.
''My name is Tsunami and i was simply going for a swim while my friends were resting.'' Said Tsunami glaring at the two guards.
''Wait, Riptide look at her patterns.'' Said one of the guards.
''Royalty.'' Said Riptide with a gasp.
''Wait what!?'' Said Tsunami.
''You are the missing heir.'' Said Riptide.
''We need to inform Queen Coral.'' Said the other guard.
''Wait i need to get my friends first. I am not leaving without them.'' Said Tsunami.
''Fine.'' Said Riptide. ''What is your name anyway?''
''Tsunami.'' Said Tsunami.
''hm.'' Said Riptide
Riptide and the other guard mistook Clay for an enemy and tried to attack him. They didn't succeed in that since Tsunami didn't like it when people were trying to kill her friends. They were suspicious of Starflight and Dusk though. All of the dragonet's had to have seaweed in front of their eyes so they couldn't see where the summer palace was hidden. They were led underwater and had to hold their breaths.
Dusk had problems keeping his mouth shut while underwater. He wasn't very good at holding his breath.
It didn't take long before they arrived at the summer palace and it was breathtaking. Dusk gasped. He had never ever seen anything like this. He let out a small wow.
Riptide led the dragonets to the top of the pavilion. ''This is the summer palace. It was designed by an ancient seawing animus. The spire was enchanted to grow over time.'' Explained Riptide. ''It looks like the queen finally arrived.''
The dragonets walked back down again to greet queen Coral.
Queen Coral looked like an older version of Tsunami. She had pearl necklaces and a weapon of some sort attached to her tail. She did also have a dragonet attached to her with a leach. The dragonet was a mix of silver, grey, pink and blue. She didn't look older than a year.
Tsunami eyed the dragonet for a moment before looking back at Coral. ''Mother?''
Queen Coral gasped. ''My missing daughter. I knew you would come back to me. I knew you were out there trying to find your way back. I never stopped searching for you.''
Tsunami could not believe this. She was home again hugging her mother. But who was this dragonet attached to her?
''Mother who is this?'' Tsunami said pointing towards the small dragonet.
''Oh your younger sister of course. Anenome.'' Queen Coral said.
'Wow, i have a sister.' Tsunami thought
''WHY IS THERE A MUDWING IN MY SUMMER PALACE!'' Yelled Queen Coral in anger.
''Mother wait. He is my friend. They are all my friends. We grew up together.'' Said Tsunami to Coral.
''You grew up with a Mudwing, a deformed sandwing, two nightwings and a rainwing?'' Asked Queen Coral.
''One, Sunny is not deformed. two, I actually only grew up with one of the nightwings the other one with the tail barb kinda joined in after we escaped from the skywing kingdom.'' Said Tsunami.
Queen Coral looked angered at first but calmed down and sighed. ''Guards take the dragonet's to Queen Blisters cave.''
Tsunami's eyes widen. ''What!? Mother!'' She said.
''They will be fine.'' Reassured Coral. ''Now you and i have to talk. I want to know everything. I want to get to know you dare.''
Dusk and the others were thrown into a mostly empty cave. Probably Blisters sleeping quarters. There was one guard right outside the room. He didn't say anything at all.
''Well this is just great.'' Said Dusk. ''Captured again.''
''It isn't that bad.'' Said Sunny trying her best to be positive.
Two days later
''Okay it is that bad.'' Said Sunny as the water was starting to rise.
Dusk laughed a little bit. I found this a little funny. Sunny had said two days ago that it wasn't that bad.
The others glared at Dusk for laughing. He muttered a silent sorry while looking the other way.
Clay had been chained up the day before and as expected none of the dragonets could leave. They had gotten no food and from what they had gathered from the guard's conversation was that there was an ongoing storm now.
Clays chains were too thick for Glory's venom and claws didn't really work either.
Dusk suddenly heard a familiar voice.
''You gotta let them go, Please. As your princess, i order you to let them go.'' Said none other than Tsunami
to the guard right outside.
''I can't i will be punished.'' Said the guard.
''No you won't i will make sure of it.'' Said Tsunami.
''Alright then.'' Said the guard.
The door burst open and Tsunami just stood there, in the door opening. ''Hi.'' She said with a bit of shame in her voice. She looked up again to see Clay chained up and the others trying to help him. She quickly grabbed the keyring from the door and searched for a key for the locks. She found one in no time and got the chains of Clay. ''I am so sorry for this.'' She said with shame.
''I won't say that i forgive you just yet.'' Said Dusk with a hint of anger until He saw the egg. ''Who's egg is that?''
Tsunami looked down at the egg in the harness. ''It's my mothers. I am watching it for her. Maybe we should find a dry cave for the night?''
''Yes, please.'' Said Glory.
They found a dry cave for the night, after a bit of searching.
Everyone piled up near Clay as normally. Sunny was given the task of keeping the egg warm. All sandwings posses the warm body heat. Dusk too have this as he is half sandwing but Tsunami trusts Sunny more.
Dusk was having another vision. A desert. A giant fortress. Dragons from every tribe. The three sisters. Dragonbite vipers. Peril. The eye of onyx. Thorn.
A bunch of images flashing in his mind with voices of the future and a voice explaining the image. This was too much. It all became dark again.
The next morning
Dusk woke up with a huge headache. 'That vision was weird.' He thought. 'Only pictures, and those voices.' His head was pounding. he clutched his head. ''Oww.'' He didn't realize that the others were up as well.
Sunny dashed to Dusk's side. ''Are you okay Dusk?'' She asked truly worried.
''Those damn vision's are killing me.'' He said laying down to rest his head. Sunny draped a wing over him.
''Visions?'' Asked Starflight. ''What did you see?''
'Should i tell them? It might be important.' He thought. He stopped when a new wave of pain came. ''Oww. It was a giant fortress in the desert. And dragons from all the tribes were there. We were there. The three sisters were there. Dragonbite vipers. Peril. The eye of onyx. And a dragoness named Thorn. That's all. There were weird voices in my head as well. Everything i saw was images but the voices, they sounded like they were from the moment the image took place. This worries me.'' Dusk clutched his head again as a new wave of pain came over his head.
The others looked at each other.
''Thank you Dusk.'' Said Glory with a smile.
Dusk nodded slightly before resting his head again.
''At least we now know a few things about what is going to happen in the future.'' Said Starflight.
Clay nodded. ''And you mentioned Peril Dusk?''
Dusk nodded again. ''All i know is that she is very important for the future. She is our wings of fire.''
''It kinda makes sense.'' Said Tsunami.
They all went to find Queen Coral again. After all, chaining Clay to a wall and locking everyone in a room was not okay.
Queen Coral and the rest of the council were having breakfast. All sorts of seafood.
''Mother! Care to explain why Clay was chained to the wall and the others locked in the room?'' Yelled Tsunami.
Queen Coral looked angry. ''Care to explain why my egg is in the hands of a deformed sandwing.''
''Body heat, she can keep the egg warm.'' Said Tsunami.
''I suppose that is a good reason.'' Said Queen Coral defeated.
''Now let us all eat breakfast.'' Said Tsunami to Coral.
''No.'' Said Coral.
''Oh i think it would be a wonderful idea.'' Said Blister.
''Fine then.'' Said Coral.
After the breakfast
''Now Coral, You were going to show me your secret weapon, Right?'' Said Blister.
''Why of course, This way. Come along Anemone. And Tsunami.'' Said Coral.
They went up in the palace to a level were Tsunami hadn't been on. Whirlpool stood in the room.
''Now, Anemone. Would you please make these pearls crawl across the room please.'' Said Whirlpool in his super slow voice.
''Why can't i do something more exciting?'' Whined Anemone.
''Do as your told.'' Said whirlpool.
''Fine. I enchant these pearls to crawl across the room like a snake.'' Said Anemone.
Tsunami stood there in shock. Anemone was an Animus?
Coral and Blister talked about how they were going to use Anemone to win the war.
Tsunami heard something. It came from the canopy. Tsunami saw Blister fly up and drag a dragon out. it was Webs.
So this is not my best chapter. Not at all. But it's okay. Note i also had a writers block when i wrote this chapter. School haven't helped either and the fact that i also work takes a lot of time away from writing. I will have the next one out faster. I promise.
