Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter up and running, it took me forever to do a lot of things, college, writing the rough draft for this chapter, and also planning the last two arcs of this story, after this chapter, the Ice ark is over and we go onto the SandWing arc,. After this chapter, things are going to escalate quickly, very quickly. If I had to guess, there are only 15 maybe 20 chapters left in this book, then on to the next part of the series. I am thinking about writing a few shorts before the next part of the series comes out, for kicks and giggles. And writing deleted scenes for this book. This book was originally supposed to go a completely different route at the beginning, you would never recognize it. The dragonets were never supposed to have their powers until the Skywing arc.

Either way, Dear season is starting, I'm going to be on break, and I'm going to be in a deer stand for hours all by myself... you know what that means! TONS OF FREE TIME TO WRITE UP ROUGH DRAFTS! YAAAAY!

Glacier was leading the Dragonets back inside of the base, The IceWing guards outside letting them in without question since the queen was with them.

Blaze was waiting for them on the opposite side of the door, "Your back! how did your trip go?" Blaze said in her usual excited demeanor.

Glacier gave her a nod, "It went well, we had no issues with our trip,"

"Good, good, I wanted to invite you all for dinner tonight! I wanted to celebrate tonight," Blaze said with a smile.

"Celebrate what?" Clay asked her, wondering what Blaze was so happy about.

"You being here, of course, it would be rude to not treat the legendary dragonets as honored guests." Blaze answered.

Clay's brows furrowed a bit but he nodded, making his way inside with the group following him.

Clay gave Starflight who was walking next to him a questioning look, Starflight gave him a nod.

Clay started to look serious but continued to walk down the hallway. Winter watched him with a concerned look.

Winter looked to Icicle who was also watching the ordeal with a frown, "What was that about?"

"Blaze is going to be trouble..." Icicle murmured to Winter.

Winter started to panic a little. What did she mean trouble, Blaze wouldn't dare try to do something to the dragonets or the Queen.

"But, Blaze would never hurt the Queen, or betray her, Queen Glacier is her only ally," Winter said in a hushed voice.

"She probably would if she found out that Glacier isn't going to help her anymore," Icicle said back.

"But to attack her in her own kingdom?" Winter thought out loud.

"We never claimed that she was smart..." Icicle said with a slight grin.

Glacier and Tundra were by themselves in a different room, discussing what they were going to do.

"We may not have found what we were looking for today, but that doesn't mean we should stop looking for the artifact that your grandmother spoke of." Tundra said to Glacier.

Glacier was sitting in a chair with her arms pinching the bridge of her snout, trying to get rid of a headache.

"The least that I am worried about right now is an artifact that could or could not exist, I am more worried right now about Blaze,"

Tundra's frown that always permits her face deepens, "You don't seriously think she will do anything do you?"

Glacier leaned back in the chair slightly, "I didn't at first until today, all her guards were tense and never let their eyes off me, and Blaze is acting even weirder than usual, I don't know what she is going to do, but she is going to do something,"

Tundra nodded her head, "Should I alert the guards?" she asked, looking to the door of their room.

Glacier thought for a bit but shook her head, "No, we can't act like we know what is going on, if a guard happens to pass by on the way to the dinner, warn them, but don't go out of your way to tell the guards,"

Tundra nodded her head, "Yes, my queen, what shall we do with the dragonets and what they requested of us?"

Glacier already had an answer for this, "Simple, if Blaze does try something tonight, then we will know they have not lied to us, but if she doesn't, then we will drive them away,"

Tundra nodded her head, agreeing to the plan.

Glacier stood up from her chair, "Let's go, the dinner should start in a few minutes,"

Glacier walked to the door but stopped and turned to look at Tundra, "If it is proven to us that the dragonets can be trusted, I am sending your son with them,"

Tundra glared at her, "You will do no such thing!" she said with a hiss, "He is the only child I have left in the IceKingdom!"

Glacier flared her wings, spanning all the way across the room showing how much bigger she was, making Tundra back down, "You will not talk back to me, I am your queen and I want there to be one more IceWing to go with them!" Glacier roared.

This was only partially the truth, she had been watching how Tundra had been treating Winter recently. It was horrible, Winter would work all day and almost night, and get berated by Narwhal and Tundra every single time that he started to show how tired he was. They were true slave drivers with their kids, and now that Icicle was gone, it had been getting even worse. Winter needed a break from his parents.

She had talked with Winter long enough to know that he could be a very good ambassador one day. He always acted as calm as he could and never lashed out at others. She didn't need Tundra and Narwhal to ruin that.

Glacier walked out of the room, Tundra sulking behind her. They made their way to the main mess hall for the officers, passing by two IceWing guards.

Tundra walked up to them and whispered into their ears. Their eyes grew in surprise, but they calmed down and gave her a nod. They formed up behind the queen and started to follow them into the mess hall.

The room had been cleared out for them, the tables all set up so it could accommodate all the dragonets, Glacier, Tundra, and Blaze.

Glacier sat at the head of the table, Tundra sitting to her right.

The dragonets all started to walk into the room, all of them looking a bit tense as they sat down.

All of them seemed to be looking at the NightWing, seeming to look at him for an answer that hadn't been asked yet.

It was broken when the NightWing leaned back in his chair, all the other dragonets following his motion.

All of them seemed to calm down and loosen up in their chairs, acting like nothing was wrong in the world.

Glacier got her answer at the weird sight when Blaze came through the door.

So that was what they were doing, they were waiting for Starflight to give them a signal for when Blaze was at the door.

Blaze came in with a bright smile, "I am so happy that all of you could make it tonight, I have some of the best food that we could find being served tonight!"

The dragonets gave her a kind smile and nod.

"So how did your guy's trip go, you never even told me what you were doing?" Blaze asked.

Glacier gave her a slight smile, "It went well, I was giving them a small tour of my palace,"

Blaze gave her a nod, "Nice, I hope you all enjoyed it, the Ice Palace is a beautiful place,"

And there it was, Glacier knew for a fact that she had made sure that Blaze knew they were heading south right before she left...

And Blaze didn't ask a single question about it. She knew Blaze wasn't the smartest one, but she knew that she paid attention when she told her the direction she was going.

SandWings started to come into the hall, carrying plates of food. Glacier noted that all the dishes were already put together, not letting the dragons pick what they wanted to eat like a regular dinner.

Glacier could tell that Tundra also noticed this, seeing her tense up even more.

If the dragonets caught on to this, they never showed it.

The SandWings put out the dishes, giving one to every dragon at the table.

Nobody started eating, trying to keep up the oblivious act.

Blaze was waiting for them to start eating with a smile, especially looking at Glacier.

She was waiting for her to eat.

Glacier sighed and pushed the dish away from her, "Blaze, I don't recommend doing this,"

Blaze frowned, "That's Queen Blaze,"

"You... are no queen, not even a princess would betray their only ally just because they don't want to fight anymore," Glacier said starting to get angry.

"A queen must get rid of those who are useless," Blaze said, starting to look behind Glacier.

Glacier's eyes grew, she knew what was coming. But, it was already too late. How could she forget the SandWing server that was behind her?

But the attack never came. Blaze hissed in anger seeing her plan had been messed up.

Glacier turned around and saw the SandWing wrapped up in something that looked like it was made of ice. She realized that it was a snake that had wrapped around the SandWing and was hissing at the almost assassin.

"WHAT!" both Glacier and Blaze shouted.

Glacier turned back around and saw Icicle standing up with frost coming out of her opened mouth with her claws outstretched.

Apparently, the dragonets didn't say everything.

Blaze roared and they were all surrounded by SandWing guards.

The two IceWings were trying to do their best to keep spears pointed at the SandWings to keep them away from their queen.

The tension was thick in the room, everybody was waiting for a command or something to happen.

"Glacier, you were useful for a long time, It's a shame that I have to get rid of you now," Blaze said with a smirk.

Glacier didn't say anything, she actually started to smile, almost even laugh.

"Did you forget who you have surrounded in this room, you have almost all the most powerful dragons in the world in this room," Glacier said, making Blaze look at the dragonets.

Blaze almost stumbled back when she saw all the dragonets glaring at her in anger, it was like looking down the jaws of a dragonbite viper

"You know what, I hope you try something, I want to see what they can do!" Glacier said with a wicked grin.

It was either fight or flight for Blaze.

Blaze started to take a deep breath getting ready to give an order.

CRACK, SNAP!

Gone.

Blaze and her guards were gone. Vanished into thin air.

Everybody's eyes had grown wide in surprise. Then they looked at Anemone and Turtle, this obviously had something to do with animus magic.

"Don't look at us, we didn't do it," Anemone said, defending her and Turtle.

An IceWING ran into the room, "My queen the SandWings..." The guard stopped when he saw the queen was standing up with guards standing around her brandishing their spears.

"Are you ok my queen?" The IceWing asked confused.

Glacier nodded, "Please continue what you were saying," Glacier commanded him.

"The SandWings, all of them disappeared right in front of me, they were threatening me at one point then they just disappeared in thin air!" the guard said.

"Guys don't worry, I got this," Anemone said confidently.

"I wish Blaze of the SandWings to be teleported right in front of me right now," Anemone said...

Nothing happened.

"Well, that's not right?" Anemone said with a frown.

Glacier remembered that the young SeaWing was an animus. If that didn't work then there were some serious implications to what was going on.

Turtle also tried but it didn't work either.

"I enchant for a quill to come here, write on this napkin on what happened to Blaze!" Anemone commanded.

A quill shot through the door and hit the napkin but stopped there, not doing anything.

"What?" Anemone said confused, the spell only seemed to work halfway. Her powers obviously still worked, so what was going on.

"I enchant this quill to tell me why it won't write anything down" Anemone commanded.

The quill did start to write now.

"There was an enchantment cast that prevented me from being able to discover what happened..." Anemone said out loud for everybody to here.

All the dragonets had concerned looks on their faces. What animus helped Blaze?

Tsunami looked at Glacier, "I am sorry, but we have to leave and try to find her, she may still be close,"

Glacier gave her a nod, "I understand, but before you leave, I am leaving the war and also one more thing,"

Glacier looked at Winter, "I would like you to let Winter join you, I think it will be good for him."

Winter was shocked, him, go with the dragonets. Why did Glacier want him to join them?

Clay gave her a kind smile, "We would be delighted for him to join us,"

Glacier nodded, "Then go, and if you find out what happened, please tell me."

Ohhh my gosh. I have been so busy, and I am panicking. This is the busiest time of the year for me. The semester finals are coming in, hunting season, trapping, and a hundred other things are keeping me busy!