Just hit over seven thousand views on the time I am writing this! And we are off to the Mud kingdom now, so excited. I am going to have to write this from scratch with no information at all! Also, I wrote a fanfiction that goes with the timeline from this fic, its going to be on the scorching. There isn't a song for this chapter.
"Goodbye! Come back soon!" Coral yelled at us as we flew away. Gill, and Anemone were also saying their goodbyes as they left. Tsunami sheading a few tears, "Don't worry, we will end the war, and I will visit as soon as I can." Tsunami said turning around and lifting off. Everybody else, following her.
Not even five minutes into their trip and everybody was already starting to get bored. "Hey Clay, you excited about getting to visit the Mud Kingdom?" Sunny asked him.
"I would be lying if I said I wasn't, it's not the fact that I get to see what it looks like. I am more excited to see if I could find my family." Clay said with a smile on his face, thinking about his parents and potential siblings.
After that everybody else was quiet, thinking about their own parents. Peril, depressed that she barely ever got to even know Kestrel, and Tsunami was happy that her parents loved and respected her. And everybody else was wondering how their parents would turn out.
"Does anybody know why the Mudwings joined the war?" Glory cut the silence with the question. Clay shook his head no, "No... but it's probably going to be more difficult, I heard that the queen lost one of her brothers in the war..."
Everybody cringed at that, thinking of losing one of each other.
"So, how long is it going to take us to get to the mud kingdom?" Sunny asked the group.
"Hmm... about a day and a half." Starflight answered, "We are heading for the Delta, spend the night there, then we are heading for the Mud Kingdom."
The trip to the Delta was quiet, nobody had anything to talk about and it was a boring flight there. It was almost dark when they got there.
Clay looked to the group, "You guys go look for a place to spend the night, I am going to go look for something for us to eat tonight!"
"I'll go with you!" Peril said enthusiastically. Everybody just shook their head yes starting to look for somewhere secluded that nobody was going to be able to find them easily.
Clay and Peril broke off from the group heading to the ground to look for something to hunt.
"Do you know anything to hunt around here?" Peril asked Clay, who was looking around.
"Not a hundred percent sure... I remember Webs saying something about alligators living in the delta, but I am not sure?" Clay answered still looking around, starting to walk deeper into the swamps. Peril followed right behind him watching where she stepped, so she didn't start a fire.
Peril started remembering about what happened back at the Sea Kingdom, "Hey... sorry about back at the Summer Palace."
Clay stopped and looked at her confused, "What do you mean, you didn't do anything?"
Peril was confused now, "I almost got you killed, you ran straight into me, it was complete luck that you had fireproof scales."
Clay smiled at her after that, "Is that what this is about?" Clay asked completely turning towards her, "Peril, that wasn't your fault, it was Blisters fault that I ran into you."
Peril looked down after that concerned at herself, "It doesn't matter, I still should have been more careful and stayed back farther."
"Peril, you're fine it was an accident." Clay said starting to get concerned at how she was acting, "You were just trying to catch Blister, truthfully it's my fault that I ran into you, you should have been the first one to go after her since you are the fastest out of all of us."
"How can you not be upset at all, you almost died!" Peril said looking back up at Clay.
Clay walked up to her standing next to her, putting his wing over her partially, not caring at the partially uncomfortable heat that she produced, "Like I said Peril, it's not like it matters, it was an accident."
Peril relished that Clay truly didn't care at all about the accident that they had, "Thank you, I have been worried about that since it happened." Peril said rubbing her head against Clay's neck.
Clay lifted his wing off her after that, blushing slightly at the contact "Now let's go! It's getting dark and we still need to find something for everybody to eat tonight."
Peril jumped up at that, "Hey, I remember when I was here not too long ago, that there is a pond not too far away from us" Peril said remembering when she was here.
"Lead the way then." Clay smiled happy that Peril was acting a little bit happier now.
They both jumped in the air, heading towards a pond.
With the rest of the group
Everybody was already laying down under a canopy of branches and vines, Via Glory. Already done setting up the camp for the night.
"So... I have been thinking..." Sunny said to the group, laying down on her back, looking at the group upside down.
"Ya..." Starflight said, asking her to continue.
"Peril has firescales and everything, and she can control fire..." Sunny continued.
"What about it?" Glory asked, wondering where this was going.
"Sooo... couldn't she just, turn off her or... I don't know like, turn her firescales down or something?" Sunny asked, shocking the group with that thought.
"Never even thought of that." Starflight muttered.
"Going to have to ask her when she gets back." Glory said thinking about it.
Tsunami lifted her head up from thinking about Clay and Peril, smiling, "Speaking about Peril... 10 gold coins, that Peril and Clay become a couple before we are done with the prophecy."
"I'll take some of that action, you're on!" Glory said back, smiling "I say they will be a couple after we are done with the Ice kingdom"
"You see and now you are both wrong" Starflight said smiling at the bets being placed, "I'm betting that it will be after we are done with the Sky Kingdom."
Sunny was just confused, "What are you guys talking about?"
Glory scoffed, "You would almost have to be blind to not see the looks Peril gives Clay, and I mean look at them, they are almost a perfect match, I mean, Clay even has fireproof scales and everything, it's like they were made for each other."
Sunny smiled after that, "Well in that case... I'm saying after the Mud Kingdom!"
"Jeez, pretty quick, don't you think Sunny?" Tsunami asked confused at how early Sunny said.
"Hey, I like to play it dangerous when it comes to betting!" Sunny said like she was scolding the group.
Everybody gulped at that, even though Sunny was the nicest in the group, she has legendary luck when it comes to betting, so much so that even Kestrell or Webs wouldn't even play with her when it came to games like poker, and things like what they were betting on now.
"Speaking of, here they are now!" Starflight said, sensing Clay and Perils mind.
"Hey guys, have you ever had alligator before?" Clay asked the group, dropping two alligators right before he landed in the middle of the group with Peril also landing, avoiding the canopy that Glory made.
"No, but I am sure that it tastes good, oh hey Peril, Sunny had something she wanted to ask you." Starflight said, heading over to the alligator.
Peril looked at Sunny wondering what she had to say.
"So, we were talking... you can control fire, and you have fire scales, right?" Sunny asked her, "Soo... shouldn't you be able to turn off or... turn down your fire scales."
Peril's eyes grew wide in shock, "Wait a second..." Peril closed her eyes, trying to get a hold of the flames she always felt inside of her scales.
If you were looking at Peril right now, the glow that was constantly around her scales was starting to dim slowly but surely. Peril opened her eyes, "How do I test this?"
"Think Fast!" Tsunami shouted, throwing a stick at Peril. Peril quickly threw out one of her arms and grabbed it before it hit her... it didn't burst into flames.
Peril started tearing up, looking at the stick she was holding, "Its... it's not burning." a smile was instantly put on her face. She threw the stick away and jumped at Clay, "ITS NOT BURNING!" she yelled hugging Clay.
Everybody who made the bet was worried now, well... all except Sunny. Who was grinning evilly, knowing she was going to win.
Peril let go of Clay and looked over to Starflight, who was cutting pieces of alligator off the corpses. "Starflight, throw me a piece, I want to try something that isn't burnt for once!"
Short one for today, but the next one will be a lot longer. So, Peril can turn off her scales now. A little bit of fluff. And Sunny is apparently really good at gambling. Also, another thing, has anybody here tasted alligator before, I have, and I loved it.