Welcome back, everybody! This is the start of the "Ice ark" of book one. Sorry it took me so long to update, I have been working on side projects and schoolwork for college. ALERT! This arc has spoilers for my unfished fanfic "Birth of Wings" and it shows how it ends. Also, there will be NO major Oc's from that fic. There will be no major OC's in this fic. Maybe in book three but not the first two. I like to avoid OC'S at all costs if I can help it.
The group was flying through the cold wind of the north, fighting the wind with Icicle leading the way.
Peril was in the middle of the group, heating herself up to the max, so she could try to heat up the group. She was doing a good job keeping the cold away, but she could do nothing with the harsh winds.
"How much farther!" Tsunami said, yelling against the wind.
"It should be right past the next mountain!" Icicle yelled back.
"Tell me again, why couldn't we just go straight to the Ice Kingdom!" Tsunami yelled impatiently.
"And like I said EARLYER! You would die the moment you went past the border!" Icicle yelled again, thinking of the Great Ice Cliff.
They saw the light of Blaze's fortress in the distance, landing on a flat on the mountain next to it.
Anemone walking up to Icicle, "I have already said, I could just teleport all of us in the IceWing palace?"
Icicle lightly flinched just thinking about the punishment for letting that happen, "no"
Anemone grumbled and walked away.
Everybody turned to look at the fortress. Smoke pouring out of all the chimneys, and firewood stacked all along the walls. There were only a handful of dragons outside, all of them IceWings. There were no trees even near the base, more than likely all chopped down for firewood.
Icicle turned to the rest of the dragonets, "All right, I have listened to your every word up till now, but here, here I am going to lead us,"
Tsunami's brow furrowed, "and what makes you think that!" she asked angrily.
Icicle sighed, knowing this was coming, "IceWings are nothing like the other tribes, not even close," thinking of her own parents.
"All the other tribes are way more free and emotional, with IceWings, If you don't act the right way, they will take that as a direct insult on their honor." Icicle finished explaining.
"Geeze, why do they act like this?" Sunny asked curiously.
"IceWings are a very proud and traditional species, we are the only tribe left that has their history still on record all the way back from the very dawn of our species." Icicle answered.
Starflight ran up to her, "Really, how?" he said with twinkles in his eyes, "I thought that almost all history was lost after the scorching!"
"The north's cold has a way with keeping the past preserved." Icicle explained.
"Please, is there a way I can read or study this?" Starflight asked desperately.
Icicle shook her head, "No, only royalty is allowed to access the records now."
Starflight deflated at those words, his hopes being crushed.
Icicle turned back towards the base, "Let's get this over with, the kingdom needs to know I'm still alive before I fall to the bottom of the ranks," Icicle said.
"If im not already," she thought to herself, walking forwards getting ready to take off.
Glory cut her off, "Now, I don't know about you," Glory started, "But, I don't think it would be a good idea if we all went down there at one time."
Icicle looked at the group, it was getting quite... big. It would almost look like a tiny raid if they all went down there. A strange race mixed raid, but it would still be better to take a few.
"All right, which one of you two is going to go with me?" she asked the dragonets.
Anemone walked forward, "I'll go!" she said excited for some action.
Icicle shook her head no, "It has to be the actual dragonets of destiny, it would look insulting if we didn't bring the real dragonets."
Anemone stomped off again, grumbling "What's this bs"
"I would go but, I think everyone else would rather me be here," Peril said amused. The group of mudwings shaking their heads, standing near her.
"I guess I will go?" Sunny said, stepping forward.
Icicle nodded her head, "That's perfect, the SandWing of the group coming down would look good,"
Starflight walked forward next, but Icicle shook her head no, "It's not me, but IceWings don't really like NightWings all too much."
Starflight just nodded his head in understanding, knowing about that history.
"I guess that means me," Tsunami said, walking forward.
Icicle nodded her head and continued forwards, taking off into the sky, with the others following her.
"So, Icicle... have you ever met Blaze?" Sunny asked her, flapping her wings hard to combat the winds ahead of her.
Icicle nodded her head, "Yes, but we never talked in those moments,"
Sunny flapped her wings hard again, "Why is the wind so bad, there isn't a storm?"
Icicle smirked at that, "There is more of a reason why the IceWings built their palace where they did besides there being the coldest temperatures in that location,"
Sunny gave her a confused look, "Why?"
"There is almost always wind blowing towards the south in this area, its blowing off the ocean," Icicle started her explanation, "It helps us when we need to go somewhere, and it gives us a speed boost when we leave the peninsula."
"ah," Sunny said in understanding.
Icicle and the group were now out in the open, three IceWings that were guarding the fort making their way up to intercept.
The group started to hover, waiting for the guards.
Tsunami gave Icicle a look, "Icicle... you're not in trouble, are you?"
Icicle didn't say anything, just glaring at the group of IceWings that were now almost up to them.
"Princess Icicle!" the frontward guard said in shock, bowing as good as he could while hovering in the air, "I thought that you were currently captured by the dragonets of destiny?"
The guard's vison turned to the dragonets next to her, "Are these the...?"
Icicle gave him a harsh glare, "They will not be harmed unless you want to face the wrath of my family!"
The guard gave her another bow, "I am sorry Princess Icicle, I was just making sure that you were safe,"
Icicle calmed down her glare, but still held it softly, "We need an audience with Blaze, now."
"Yes, Princess Icicle, please follow me." The guard said, making his way back down to the fortress with the dragonets following.
They made their way into the much warmer fortress, fireplaces burning all around them. Every fireplace was loaded to the brim with wood, trying to stave off the cold from the outside.
Sunny and Tsunami made light comments about the tapestries around them as they walked through the halls.
They made it to the door of Blaze's room, the first guard looked to the other two IceWing guards, "Take her in, I must go and inform Queen Glacier of this news." the other guards gave him a nod, understanding him.
Icicle was a hair nervous now, if she wasn't in trouble before, she surely will be after Glacier heard about what's going on. It would be difficult to talk her way out of the bottom of the wall, or even worse... being banished. What she did would almost count as her going off on her own.
She could lie and say she had been captured the whole time she was gone. But the IceWing way is to not lie. She wouldn't throw away what she had going on right now. She is so close to having more power than Glacier could ever hope to have... all of Pyrrhia indebted to her, with magical powers to boot.
The guards opened the door to Blaze's room, "Queen Blaze, you have an important guest."
"Who could it be to interrupt my sleep?" Blaze said annoyed at the guards.
"It's the dragonets of destiny, your majesty," The guard explained.
Blaze was silent for a moment, "The dragonets of destiny?"
"Yes," the guard answered.
"We'll let them in, don't worry I won't need you," Blaze commanded the guard.
The guard opened the door wider and let the dragonets in and closed it behind them.
The dragonets were now in awe, looking at all the decorations around them. There were tapestries, fancy furniture, and gold objects all around them.
Their attention was cut from the decorations when the dragon in front of them gave a small cough.
They were in awe once again, the dragon in front of them was arguably one of the most beautiful dragons they have ever seen. Jewelry covered her and she was giving them curious look.
Icicle was waiting for a response, did Blaze not remember her?
"I wasn't told an IceWing princess would be here?" Blaze started.
Blaze's eyes turned to look at Sunny, "You look weird,"
Then her gaze turned to Tsunami, "I like how your scales look on your wings, it's pretty!" she said while looking at her wings, wondering if they could copy that design on her wings.
Icicle shook her head, Yep she hadn't changed a bit at all, her brain was still scattered.
Blaze shook her head, trying to get a hold of herself, "Where is the rest of you?" Blaze said looking for the others, "I thought there were supposed to be more of you?"
"That's actually what we were about to ask you, We wanted to know if the rest of our group could come inside," Tsunami asked her.
"Sure, I don't care at all!" Blaze said excitedly, "I don't know why you didn't bring them all down here anyway?"
"We just didn't want to accidentally start a fight," Sunny tried to explain.
"The IceWings wouldn't attack anybody without my permission first" Blaze answered, "Me and Glacier are really good friends, she wouldn't do anything without telling me first!" Blaze said happily.
Icicle thinks of the battles they had at the border without Blaze's permission at all... ya right. How did Queen Oasis not produce a single proper heir to the throne?
Blaze was very kind, but not the sharpest tool in the shed. Burn wouldn't be terrible if she wasn't a crazy Blister is straight-up evil and would probably be the worst thing to happen to Pyrrhia in decades if she became queen.
Blace claps her talons twice, calling for a guard to come in.
The guard walked in looking annoyed, being called for so soon.
"Guard, please go fetch these dragonet's friends, I'm sure they would like a warm place to sleep tonight!" Blaze ordered.
The guard almost looked impressed, she must ask him a lot of stupid things quite often.
Icicle looked out of Blaze's bedroom door, remembering what the first guard said before he left... Mother knows where I am now.