Well, sorry for the long wait, I've been having a tough time focusing on this, and from that, this chapter will be shorter and there might be a couple of not so well done parts, oh, there will be an action scene.
Chapter 4 – attack from the sky
Magiah was pacing around a cliff, thinking of how to make this day exciting. Maybe I could use another spell on the dragonets, or maybe their friends, they won't find me though. And even if they did, ha! They don't know who I am, so they can't even begin to comprehend my potential. Hmm, well maybe I could get some help to derail those six. Magiah looked at out to the sea to see two Skywings flying near to the cliff. Flapping his wings he lifted himself into the air, and took of after the two red dragons, but first he turned himself invisible with a spell.
"So, why do you think Her Majesty sent us out here?" The first Skywing asked.
"Well, she said that there have been reports of strange things going on around the coast. You know, no one has been out this far, maybe we found the Nightwing island?" The second Skywing said.
The first Skywing replied, "I heard that their volcano blew up about five weeks ago and now they are living with the Rainwings. Isn't that a bit ironic? Well, even if this was their island, it isn't now."
"I'll say. So did you hear about what has been going on?" The first Skywing asked, retorically.
"Not really, did you?" The second Skywing replied.
"Just a bit. Most about all kinds of oddities with the weather. Did you hear about the snow that was on the ground near the palace?" The first Skywing asked.
"That? I thought that was normal?" The second Skywing replied.
"Did you just hatch yesturday!? It was too warm for there to be snow." The first Skywing said, shocked.
"I only dismissed it. So what else have you heard happening around?" The second Skywing said nonchalantly.
Magiah took this time to undo his spell, "Well, I've heard that there is a mysterious purple dragon messing around with the locals." He said, laughing as the two Skywings nearly dropped out of the sky from his sudden appearance.
"By the moons, what or who are you?" The second Skywing gasped.
Magiah thought for a few seconds on how to answer that, "Well, I am a very powerful dragon from another world. My interests include causing mischief and chaos. Oh and as for the reason I'm telling you this, you won't have any other purpose in this world other than to serve me." Magiah said as his eyes gave off a yellow glow. The glow pierced through the minds of the two Skywing's, erasing their will and allowing them to be controlled.
"Man, that never gets old." Magiah said laughing, "Alright you two, I need you to find several dragons currently at Jade Mountain. You can kill them if you want."
The two Skywings, now hypnotized, bowed their heads as they turned to the direction of the Jade Mountian.
"They won't last long, not with Peril and Thorn and Deathbringer there." Magiah said to himself, knowing that he sent those two on a suicide mission.
"So what should I do next?" Magiah said out loud to himself, "Maybe I should mess around with one of the queens, or perhaps I could start another war, that would be fun. I've got it, I'll make a charm, one that could allow me to communicate with humans, or as these dragons call them, scavengers. Oh what fun I could make doing that."
Meanwhile, Peril woke up from a slumber. Looking around, she recognized that she was still in Stonemover's cave and around her was Stonemover himself, Thorn, and the others. She noticed that Stonemover, Deathbringer, and Fatespeaker were the only one's not awake, probably a Nightwing thing. Peril thought to herself.
"So should we wake them up?" Peril flicked her tail at the Nightwings.
"I guess, we do need to figure out what to do to find Magiah." Riptide said.
"So who wants to do it, because I don't." Jambu said rather calmly, probably from lack of sun time.
"Allow me." Thorn said, and then poked the three sleeping Nightwings with a talon.
"Uh is it sunrise yet?" Stonemover asked, still half-asleep.
"I think it might be past that. Now we still need to find a way to find Magiah." Riptide answered.
"Agreed, I can't stand Glory being so lazy, she always brightens my day with activity." Deathbringer said, getting dreamy-eyed.
Stonemover sighed one of his long sighs, "I don't think I have enough strength in me to do anything else."
Thorn growled, "But we can't just leave Sunny and the others as the way they are."
"I know but I don't see how I would be strong enough." Stonemover sighed again.
"You are hopeless, can't you at least try?" Fatespeaker said.
Stonemover sighed, "I guess, but it may take some time for me to make something to find that dragon."
"Well, until then, we should get something to eat." Thorn said. And so the six dragons went hunting, well give or take for Jambu, who settled on relaxing out in the sun. When they returned to the cave, much to Jambu's displeasure, they found Stonemover with his talons clutching an orange glowing stone.
"So what do we have here?" Thorn asked.
"I think this should be able to help. I've designed it so that it glows when you hold it in the direction of that Magiah dragon." Stonemover explained. However, everyone noticed how petrified his scales were now; it looked like Stonemover could hardly move a muscle. He sighed as the others inspected the look of his scales.
"Well, it looks like you won't be doing much of anything else anymore." Riptide commented.
Worry entered Thorn's eyes seeing Stonemover as he was, but she knew she couldn't let it get in the way, "Alright, we should start looking for this dragon, Magiah is going to pay." She held out Stonemover's newest creation and it glowed in the direction of the Skywing kingdom.
And so the group of six said their good-byes to Stonemover, and set out to the Skywing kingdom. It took them a couple of days to make it to the Skywing kingdom; near the Diamond Spray Delta. When they arrived, they noticed a patrol of two Skywings coming their way.
"Um hi, we are just passing through. We are here to look for someone." Fatespeaker said as the two Skywing landed.
"We can't let you go any further." The first Skywing told them.
Thorn noticed the strange monotone of his voice and that his face was void of emotion, which was uncommon, even with soldiers. But now that the war was over, they shouldn't be acting as they were. "Then I suggest you take us to Queen Ruby." Thorn growled.
"Not going to happen either." The second Skywing stated.
"And you think you can stop us? You don't have the authority." Peril threatened the two as she spread her wings like a queen, letting the heat from her scales hit the faces of the two Skywings.
However, Magiah's spell prevented the two from running away like a sensible dragon would do; they had their orders and were determined to obey. Even then, they knew what Peril was capable of, so they spread their wings and jumped over her, and went straight for Thorn. Thorn was ready for them, as she had spotted the small movements of their body and knew what they were planning. So she ducked and then slashed out at the first Skywing with her talons. Chaos then erupted as Riptide, Peril, and Deathbringer joined in to subdue the Skywings; while Jambu and Fatespeaker, whom weren't great fighters, stepped back from the fighting. Peril was cautious enough to avoid burning the others and just the Skywings as she grabbed the second one by the tail. That same Skywing slashed out at Peril dispite the burns and successfully hit her, even though his claws were almost no more. She hissed and let her fire blast him in the face. She finished him off by slashing his neck with her talons. The first Skywing wasn't in better condition as Riptide and Deathbringer struggled to keep that one down so Thorn could get an opportunity to use her tail barb. Jambu had pale green spots all around his scales as he watched the fight in horror, so Fatespeaker used a wing to cover his eyes, though she was equally horrified.
The fight was done rather quickly though and they caught their breath as the two Skywings' dead bodies lay on the ground.
"What in the three moons was that? Why did they attack us?" Thorn was seething with anger as she looked at the Skywings.
"Maybe Ruby means business when she told you never to come back." Deathbringer said to Peril.
"No, that doesn't make sense. Attacking a queen is the last thing someone would want to do right now, not with the war over." Riptide replied.
Fatespeaker and Jambu walked over to them and Fatespeaker held out Stonemover's stone, which was glowing in the direction of the Skywing palace.
"Looks like we need to go visit Ruby, come on." Thorn growled.
(after story notes- so, what do you think so far? Now we have even more of an idea of the character that is Magiah, and as starflightthenightwing described him (of which is the perfect word); meddling. So any ideas of what Magiah might have in mind with scavengers? Also, I am going to need some names for the Skywings, starflightthenightwing gave me some; Rust and Cardinal are my favs among the ones given, so anymore ideas? I will put up a poll (if I figure out how) once I think I've found enough. Okay, as of this edit (8-1-14) I am no longer accepting names, the story is in progress)