Fire can only burn. When touched upon, it consumes everything in its path. The rage of fire can not be stopped. It can only destroy from just one tiny spark to a flame to a burning fire like a dragon's rage that simply cannot be tamed.
The tiny spark that can ignite the flame can also spark the feelings of hatred, anger, power, sadness, weakness, and… fear. A dragon's fire can be used to destroy or protect whenever they choose. Their flame can destroy their enemy in a moment's notice and can engrave the feeling of the scorching pain into their mind. They can also tame their fire to give them light inside a cave, like a tiny sun shining amidst the darkness.
Peril never had the opportunity to be able to control rage and warmth whenever she wanted to. She can only ignite fear inside other dragon's hearts. Her power of the fire was hers, but that power can never grant her the warmth of the flame. It can only grant the strength of rage and fear. The warmth of friendship was a forbidden fruit because of this.
That didn't make Peril sad though. If that power could make her Queen happy, then she was proud to wear that fire as a badge of honor. Even if people avoided her and flinched at her every movement, she was happy. She was the Queen's Champion. Peril was the only one who gave Queen Scarlet a thrill with the Arena. Her Queen gave her a home and accepted her for who she was, even when the accusing gazes of fear poked at her soul.
Despite the fact that she claimed she was happy, it could and would not change the fact that Peril was lonely. The fact that no one was able to lay a talon on her, the fear in their eyes is something her fire could not shield her from. Her fire made her Queen happy but it took a missing piece of Peril's heart. She hide the gaping hole away from the world though and turned her full attention to her only light and comfort in her life: Her Queen. Queen Scarlet saved her life when she was a child and continued to save her life. Queen Scarlet was her World and Peril will continue to make Scarlet happy as long as she could.
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Peril narrowed her eyes in accusation as the guards flinched at her every movement. She then rolled her eyes at their foolish actions. It didn't bother her as much as before. She had friends now and Queen Ruby and herself had reached an understanding. She was now welcomed in the Sky Palace. She had no reason to be afraid of what other people thought of her and she didn't try to resort to violence as she once did inside the Arena.
It was a life she once could never imagine once upon a time. Peril was always focused on serving Scarlet and pleasing her. She made her battles entertaining as possible as she slowly tortured her victims for Scarlet's twisted entertainment.
Her life changed a lot after she met a certain someone. In fact, it seems her whole life changed after their encounter. From meeting him and then betraying, then Queen Scarlet's face being burned off, being banished Sky Kingdom by Ruby to only search for Scarlet and helping Sunny, meeting Turtle and her father, meeting Queen Ruby/Tourmaline and being accepted, finally, finally making friends with other dragons who weren't afraid of her, and so, so much more.
It feels like a huge burden has been lifted off her shoulders and the world seemed to be so much brighter than before, as cheesy as that sounds, but it was true. It felt like Peril was seeing the world through new eyes with new experiences.
Perl grinned as she look at her scales with steam curling out of them. So much has happened since the Dragonet of Destiny false prophecy and The Jade Mountain Prophecy. But, Peril was finally happy with everything. She was proud of the fact that she had too much fire and was no longer afraid of others' accusatory and fearful eyes because…
Peril flew around the palace and watched to see a familiar MudWing.
"Clay!"
...as long as she had his kindness, love, and friendship, she was more than just happy.
This is just a short chapter for F. The reason why these are so short is because these are mostly drabbles for when I am in the mood. If I feel like it, I can do a one-shot, but I am just doing this short one because I have time after finals and wasn't in the mood to do a long one (mentally exhausted), so yeah. I was really stressed.
I left the end VERY vague because I have only read up to Escaping Peril so I don't know what happens beyond the pages. Who knows what the brilliant author has up her sleeves?
Concerning some requests for G. I would love to do G is for Guilt, but unfortunately I have yet to read the book starring Darkstalker yet so I will have to sweep that one under the rug. *sighs* I hope I get to do that request someday. As for G is for Gay, that is a bit… vague to say the least. If you give me a certain word for that pairing, I will be glad to do it, but I dunno if I can do Gay because it is VERY vague.
I think I will do G is for Gold starring Flower or someone relating to the time when they stole from the Queen. Of course, through on more requests for G is you like and I might also do that one combined with another request (like this) or choose to do the other, but who knows. Please submit request for the next letter which H or any other letters!
I am glad you liked the chapter! It got very poetic in the beginning. I don't know why, but I guess I was just in the mood. It is almost by birthday on February 18th. Jeez. I feel old and glum because all my close friends are moving away. *sighs*
Anyways, please review and fav/follow! I adored all the reviews I got and loved every single one of them. I laughed even laughed at the review from I AM THE ONE. Some people feel very passionate about their OTPs, huh? I wish I had that kind of passion.
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