Elm woke up, and realized he wasn't in the tunnels anymore, he was in a royal medical firm with Ivy to his left, gasping. She exclaimed "How did you survive that?" "What happened?" Elm replied.
"You got hit in the back of the head with flamesilk, and you were knocked unconscious" she went on, "You had a burning gash in the back of your head, and you've been out of it for a week."
"We have to strike the Silkwings!" said Elm, "No because that would be stupid" Ivy replied.
"We have to", Elm said
"NO"
"YES"
"NO"
"YES"
"Fine, I'll discuss it with Aunt Sequoia"
"Thank you.", Elm said.
Only one month later Elm was in Ivy's platoon headed toward a Silkwing camp. Ivy had convinced their queen to start pressuring Monarch's forces out of the war. He and Ivy led the group and they were attacking stealthily in the cover of trees. He could hear the voices in the distance, they were getting closer. They had a strategy this time, Elm and three other dragons would throw tree bombs and cripple the Silkwing forces and then they would have control over the second peninsula and be in place to disrupt Wasp Palace. He saw the first Silkwing patrolman, with his back turned to the Leafwings, silently, Elm got behind him and struck. The guard fell and the camp was exposed. In unison, the Leafwing bombers opened their bags and grabbed a handful of seeds, just as Ivy shout to charge, the seeds exploded into large trees midair. He heard a few shrieks and followed the other soldiers. The camp was under defended, no Silkwing would have predicted them flying over the northern part of the Dragonfly Bay.
Instantly, Elm jumped onto the back of a mostly silver and blue Silkwing and started to claw him. The Silkwing jumped up and slashed at Elm, which hit him just below his shoulder. Elm then used his tail to stun the Silkwing and then he cut at the Silkwing's throat, opening a wound there. The Silkwing put his talon to the throat and fell to the ground. Elm had another challenger, one much bigger and spewing flamesilk from his wrists. Elm ducked to the side and slipped underneath the Silkwing, extending his claws and slashing at its stomach. It roared in pain and grabbed Elm by the neck he struggled to get loose but couldn't lose the large claw on his throat. He could feel a burning pain spreading from where the Silkwing was touching him, most likely the flamesilk. Elm whipped his tail around and hit the Silkwing and slightly stunning him. He then kicked it and sent him falling into a group of Silkwings like bowling pins.
After a few minutes the Silkwing lines had seemed to dissipate and the final one flew away snarling "This isn't the end of the Silkwings!". Elm and the group start to loot what's left of the Silkwing camp, they looked into the biggest tent and saw a pile of gold. They quickly collected the gold and found a small box of flamesilk. They flew back to the Grove Palace. "So, how did it go?", the queen said, eyeing some of the nastier wounds on Ivy. "It was a resounding victory, your honor", said Bayberry, one of the captains who fought in the battle. "We were able to secure the peninsula and find gold and flamesilk.". The queen looked more intrigued, because of the Leaf Kingdoms lack of flamesilks. The queen said "Well then, we must keep going".