Who is the crowd, that peers into the stage... just not today! Man, I love listening me some metal. New chapter, as always, recommended listening to your favorite music but the song that inspired this chapter is Primo Victoria.
Blaze stared down the five SandWings in front of her with a hard judgmental glare. The five dragons in front of her were here five strongest and most skilled dragons in her army.
"I hope you all know how important your mission is..." Blaze muttered.
The middle dragon in the group who was also the largest nodded, "Yes your majesty!"
"Remember, if you can't get her hear cleanly and silently without the dragonets seeing you, kill her on the spot," Blaze explained, "We can't let this opportunity pass."
The whole group nodded their heads and the leader kneeled in front of the princess, "As the captain of this mission, we will not fail you!"
Blaze nodded her head, "Good, the moment the raid starts and we draw the dragonets out of the city, get into the town and capture Burn," She finished, the group nodded and left the tent.
Blaze snorted to herself as she turned around to go and lay down for the rest of the evening. They were more than likely going to fail but it was worth a shot.
Glacier was so handy having her elite guards train a few of her dragons. The "Desert Storm" were her own group of elite dragons for her own use.
Her mind started to wander over the last phew day's events. Many of her soldiers had started questioning their loyalty to her but after the strange teleportation incident, they has started to believe that she had been "picked" to win this war.
Blaze sighed as she laid down, she had no idea what had happened, but it was smart to play it off like she had a clue.
She was just happy that she didn't have to fake being an incompetent idiot anymore. Tthe last couple of years, she had been giving herself a migraine from just how annoying it was.
It didn't matter, tonight they were going to "raid" the town and a contender would be out of the game... just another day of using deception.
Glory was basking in the bright sunlight, enjoying the warming rays. Resting up against a black dragon to her right.
A loud cracking noise went off and Glory's pleasant dream was ruined, her eyes opening of groggily. She looked out the window to her room and saw a building catch fire from an explosion.
Glory hissed as she ran downstairs and out the door, looking up at the offending SandWings, "Can't you literally attack us any other time of the day!"
Clay burst out of the door right behind her with the other dragonets behind them, looking up into the sky at the raiding army, all of them looked pissed at being woken up at such an hour.
Starflight shook his head, trying to get rid of the sleepiness, "They are here for Burn like we talked about!" Starflight yelled over the roaring offenders, "We need to protect the town, just make sure you don't kill anyone!"
The group nodded in agreement and launched into the air, all of them having bags under their eyes and pissed.
He said no killing, he didn't say anything about beating the shit out of them! Tsunami thought to herself as she punched a SandWing getting ready to breathe a stream of flame.
Glory was the next one up... you don't get in the way of a RainWing and their sleep. She had grown some wood and wrapped her claws in it, currently using the wood like brass knuckles, slamming her claws into any dragon that got close to her with a fiery rage.
Tsunami took a bit of water from the oasis nearby, but not too much... she didn't need that much. She took a puddle's worth of water and spread it out in the air to where it was just water drops and slammed it into the nearest dragon's face.
"GA-!" the SandWing roared in pain.
Tsunami grinned wickedly. Not many dragons know, but when water moves that fast and hits you like that, it feels like needles being stabbed into you, but it doesn't do any real damage.
Winter and Qibli were off away from the fight, working on something, focused on the air above them.
"Are you sure this is the best way to help them?" Winter asked Qibli.
"One hundred percent, Tsunami and Riptide will be more powerful," Qibli explained while nodding, "also, SandWings practically think raining in the SandKingdom is a holy event."
"Then why are we doing this then?" Winter asked confused.
"It's an old tradition, but it goes back generations, almost no matter what was going on, if it ever rained in the SandKingdom, the Queen let everyone drop what they were doing to enjoy the rain," Qibli explained, "Do you know how pissed the army is going to be that they have to fight while they could be enjoying the rain... I know I would be."
Winter just shook his head. He was already sweating from the desert heat even during the night... Blast this desert, there were no clouds anywhere to use their powers!
"I don't think we are going to be able to do this..." Winter said annoyed.
"We have to try, look farther out," Qibli said concentrating while closing his eyes.
Winter nodded and closed his eyes again, reaching even farther out with his grasp...
How far could he reach? Anemone never said they had a limit...
He started reaching out towards the coast that he and Qibli trained on yesterday. It didn't take him long to find moisture in the air. He actually felt no resistance at all while reaching out and taking control of the water in the air. He started forming more and more clouds until he had what he thought was a storm.
"Hey, I got a storm out on the coast that we were on earlier, think you can help me?" Winter asked the SandWing next to him.
"Sure... Ya I feel it, I'' add what I got onto it," Qibli answered.
Winter nodded and started to bring it towards where they were, he could feel it grow in size as it moved.
"It should be here in around ten or fifteen minutes, Im moving it as fast as I can," Winter explained.
"How big do you think it will be by then?" Qibli asked.
"I don't think I grabbed allot, but I don't know?" Winter said while shrugging his wings.
Winter kept of focusing on the storm, pulling the storm to their location. He could start to hear a faint rumbling sound in the air, he opened his eyes and they grew wide at the sight Infront of him. The clear night sky was now impossible to see behind the flashing dark clouds above them.
He looked over at Qibli who was staring at the sky with a look of wonder, like he wasn't on this planet at all.
Qibli reached a talon up into the air like he was grabbing onto something, almost shaking slightly while doing so.
He suddenly threw his talons down as if he was throwing something.
The world flashed a blinding light, blinding Winter and deafening him at the same time as the earth in front of him exploded in a white blinding light.
CRAAAAACK, SNAP!
A lightning bolt came from the sky and landed about twenty yards in front of the two dragons, making them both jump.
The sand that the bolt hit flew up into the air and flash melted into glass, a jagged pillar of glass forming up out of the ground.
Anemone was right... Qibli could control the lightning inside the storms they controlled. And from the way it looked, it was even more powerful than his own supercharged ice breath.
It was almost annoying at the fact that Qibli had a weapon that was probably more powerful than his own...
Anemone said that he could control the storms to make them like the winter storms...
SandWings hate the cold.
How could he make the storms so cold? All he was able to make rain storms, Qibli was the one who could make powerful thunderstorms.
Winter slowly walked away from Qibli while thinking, getting an idea as he took a couple of steps away.
He opened his mouth and started taking large breaths of air, feeling it fill his lungs at an impossible rate.
Qibli snapped out of his wonder when he realized what Winter was about to do, "Winter, they said to not kill anyone!" Qibli said panicking.
Winter ignored him and kept on inhaling more air. He finally stopped and aimed his head up to the sky above. The beam of white glowing ice shot out of his mouth and hit the clouds above.
The rain slowly started to stop.
The fighting happening in the town died down, all the invading SandWings looking at the white beam in awe.
The wind around them started to cool down, almost becoming pleasant... then the cold started to come.
The SandWings had never felt anything like this here, first it had started raining... the invading forces almost recoiled in shock at what came next... snow.
The invading forces started to panic, realizing something.
They already knew that these dragonets were no ordinary group of dragonets with their powers.
But they have just done something thought impossible. For the first time in Pyrrhia history, it was snowing in the Sand Kingdom.
The SandWing army started to back away from the dragonets they were fighting, just now realizing how over their heads they have gotten. Just now realizing that NONE of the dragonets have even broken a sweat and now there were unnatural forces in play.
"RETREAT!" a captain yelled in fear.
All the dragons that hadn't been knocked out started to fly back to the dunes that they came from, there was no way they could win this!
Blaze watched from the dunes, hissing in anger. She didn't order a retreat.
She was about to yell out to keep pushing forward until she saw a sight that made her smile slightly.
The dragons she had sent out early were on their way back, making their way to her.
She was smiling happily but it turned to a frown when she saw they didn't have Burn with them.
The group landed in front of her and bowed in guilt.
"Where is she!" Blaze roared, her frown turned into a smile, remembering her orders, "She's dead isn't she?"
The leader frowned, "My queen... she was not there, she wasn't in the town at all."
Blaze roared, "WHAT!"
"We looked everywhere, we even found the cell she was being kept in but the door had been pried open, it seems she somehow escaped without even the dragonets knowing," The captain explained.
Blaze sighed, rubbing the bridge of her snout. The day was lost.
"Sound the retreat, we are heading back to Agate Mountain," Blaze muttered.
The group nodded and flew off.
Winter and Qibli flew back to the group who were now all celebrating.
They saw Winter and Qibli land, "Good job you two, that thing you guys did scared the SandWings so bad that they ran away.
They both worded their thanks.
Winter saw Icicle give a nod in approval and Winters's smile grew slightly.
It was hard to get his sister's approval.
His smile grew even more as everyone gave him compliments.
Icicle was watching with a very faint smile.
Glacier was right, Winter did need this.
Their celebration was broken when Thorn ran up to the group, "Bad news, Burn is gone!"
The group all groaned in annoyance.