It is time... it's been almost two years in the making... but it's time. I hope this is worth the wait. There are two songs that you should listen to for this chapter "Ecstasy of Gold" and "Enter Sandman". Oh ya, and a little warning... gore.

"Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight." ― Sun Tzu, The Art Of War

The sun started to rise over the desert sands. The start of a new, long, scorching day... and maybe something else.

The Dragonets stood on top of one of the larger dunes, being able to view almost the whole desert from where they were. The only dragonets that weren't there were Qibli and Winter who were out scouting.

Nobody said anything, the tension hanging in the air like a thick fog, everyone knew this was more than likely going to be one of the most important days in their life... possibly in the history of the Sand Kingdom.

Glory was sitting partially back from the group, something completely different on her mind. Thinking back to what her and Deathbringer talked about just a couple days ago... she was so getting yelled at for not telling anyone about him.

Starflight surely knew, but he was keeping his promise to not spill any secrets he heard.

"What better time to talk about it than now when an incoming battle is about to happen, right?" Glory thought to herself sarcastically as she stood up.

"So... guys, you want to hear something interesting I found out?" Glory asked worried.

Everyone turned to her confused, why was she acting like that?

"Do you remember that NightWing that almost killed us?" Glory asked.

Clay, Peril, and Tsunami nodded, "We never actually saw him but ya."

"Well umm... I may have been talking with him for the last few... weeks," Glory muttered that last part out quietly.

"WHAT!" everyone roared besides Starflight, confirming her suspicion.

"Why would you ever talk to him?" Tsunami asked angrily. Her eyes grew and she turned to look at Starflight, "You KNEW! Why didn't you say anything?"

"It was her secret to keep and..." Starflight said while smirking at Glory.

Glory sent a death-filled glare.

Starflight nodded his head and his brow furrowed, "I made a promise to not expose any secret thoughts I have heard."

"Ok, but it still doesn't answer our main question, WHY?" Tsunami asked again.

"He never actually wanted to kill us, he said his talons were forced into it by Morrowseer," Glory started to explain.

"Ok, but why did you continue to talk to him?" Clay asked calmly.

"He was actually helping us, he has been keeping the other assassins off our back and spying on the NightWings for us," Glory finished explaining.

Clay nodded, "That's a pretty good reason in my opinion," his head turned to the sky seeing a white dot, "We can talk about this later, Winter is back."

Winter landed on the ground, shaking the sand off his scales, "Blaze is on her way, her army is about 20 to 30 minutes out," Winter looked around, "Qibli isn't here yet?"

Starflight shook his head, "Not yet, and I haven't heard his mind recently so he isn't close either."

Winter nodded, "Hopefully he gets back soon, it would be best if both armies got here around the same time."

Starflight nodded, "We might have to send extra dragons to help him push the army in case they see the fighting too early."

Winter nodded, "I can help with that, but first I have to find him." he took off into the air, kicking up sand as he took off.

Starflight walked up to the MudWing sibs, "Do you guys think you can handle containing the armies after the fighting starts?"

Reed looked unsure, "I'm not sure, I'm not as strong as you guys are," He muttered out.

Clay walked forwards and put his talons on Reed's shoulder, "That's why you have your sibs, and you will have Anemone and Turtle with you... I think you can do it."

Reed smiled slightly, "We can try..."

Clay smiled and nodded, "Thank you," he got a determined look on his face, "Peril and I are going after Burn, I have a score to settle after our last fight."

Starflight nodded his head agreeing, "Then Glory, Icicle, and I will go after Blister, she seems to be the best at escaping somehow."

Starflight turned to Tsunami, "You guys gave me the easy one... I guess me, Riptide, and I'm going to borrow Sora."

Sunny perked up, "HEY! What about me, I want to help!"

Clay looked over at her, "You're going to do what you do best Sunny, make sure nobody gets killed."

"But what about fighting?" Sunny asked.

Clay shrugged his shoulders, "I never said you couldn't fight."

Sunny got a wicked smile on her face as she nodded.

"Clay..." Peril said as she walked up to the MudWing.

"What is it Peril?" Clay asked the female SkyWing.

"What do we... what do we do after all of this is over?" Peril asked.

"What do you mean?" He asked confused.

"After all of this, the war, the NightWings... all of it?" Peril started to sound worried.

Clay smiled and took everyone into his wings, "Then we start to enjoy life... we can do whatever we want."

Clay let go of everyone except for Peril, "I want to live and enjoy life with you."

Their moment was cut when Starflight started to shout, "Guys, look!"

Peril turned around and looked with her eyes to the distance. A cloud of dragons appearing on the eastern horizon.

Blaze...

A large crackling noise made the group turn to the other horizon. A large storm started on the western front.

Qibli and Winter were closing in with Blister.

Starflight snapped to attention and turned back to the group, "Reed, hurry up and take the sibs and make your way to your position."

Reed nodded and took off, all of the sibs minus Sora took off.

"Clay and Peril, I'd also go ahead and start making your way over to the stronghold," Starflight pointed out.

Clay nodded and both of them took off.

"For now, we will hold out here waiting for the armies."

Winter was a blur in the wind, making his way towards where Qibli was supposed to be searching.

He flew with his eyes closed, focusing on the airflow around him, searching for any disturbances that would be more than likely caused by Qibli's control.

" Come on sand-scales, where are you?" Winter thought to himself.

He perked up when he felt something to his right. It felt like there was a disturbance about a mile to his right. He banked right, flapping his wings harder, making a beeline for the disturbance.

He opened his eyes just in time to see Qibli blur right by him.

"QIBLI!" Winter roared in distress, the wind disforming around him.

Qibli stopped almost instantly and turned around, "Winter, what are you doing here?"

Winter righted himself, "Blaze is almost to the stronghold, we need to get Blister's there as fast as we can!"

Qibli's eyes grew and he nodded.

"If I had to make an accurate guess, she should be getting close to here, she was a bit farther away than what Blaze was," Qibli explained.

Winter nodded his head agreeing with the SandWing, "When we find the army, we have to speed them up, at the pace they are going now, they won't be there in time."

Qibli nodded and started flying again with Winter to his left, "So how are we going to speed them up?"

"Blister doesn't know about us yet, we should be able to make a big storm and put it behind her," Winter answered.

"But I haven't made a big storm yet..." Qibli said worried.

Winter gave him a rare smile, "I may not be able to make large thunderstorms like you are supposed to be able to do, but I do know I can help whatever storm you make grow."

Qibli smiled back and nodded.

They kept flying right on top of the dunes, trying to stay out of sight but staying in a position that would let them spot the army if they were in the area.

It had been almost ten minutes and now Winter was starting to get frustrated, "Are they even com- oomf!"

The air was knocked out of his lungs, Qibli tackling him to the ground from the air.

"I'M GOING TO SLICE YOUR-" Winter was cut off again when Qibli slammed his talons against Winter's snout.

"SHH!"

Qibli got up and motioned over the dune, Winter realized why he had plowed him into the ground now and nodded sheepishly.

Both of them crawled up the dune, finally seeing the army lowly flying over the dunes like they had been doing before, trying to stay out of sight.

It took a couple minutes, after the army passed by, Winter slowly stood up.

"I don't think they saw us..." Qibli muttered.

Winter shook his head agreeing, "Well then... lets get this started."

Both Qibli and Winter closed their eyes, focusing on the air around them, taking their control of the weather out to the coast since the air around them was so dry.

Winter reached out to the ocean, taking ahold of as many clouds as he could, bringing them together and rolling them up till they formed into rain clouds.

"I got some rain coming in, have you started forming the storm?" Winter asked.

Qibli nodded, "I am pulling as much moisture from the air as I can."

Winter got a concerned look on his face, "As much as you can... we haven't really tested how strong we actually are..."

A strong gust started to blow around them, none of it coming directly from their control...

Winter opened his eyes and looked out at the coast, clouds slowly starting to turn an ugly shade of grey and black.

"Qibli..." Winter said worried.

Qibli ignored him, continuing to form the weather.

"QIBLI!" Winter said franticly.

Qibli finally opened his eyes and looked up.

"...oh" Qibli squeaked out.

The storm that he had gone overboard on looked horrible, looking like a hurricane, lightning was arcing across the sky rapidly, lighting up the now-darkening desert. Now making it's way towards them.

Winter gave a look at Qibli, "You didn't need my help at all..."

"Let's do this..." Qibli said excitedly.

Qibli re-closed his eyes, taking hold of the storm once more, making it move faster across the desert. Winter helped by taking control of the wind around the storm, making sure none of it gave any resistance to the storm.

He took to the air and could see the army in the distance now frantically flying as fast as they could to stray from the storm.

Tsunami was frowning while watching the incoming army. The group she was currently in right now was... a bit short-sighted truth be told. They were in the middle of the desert... which was enough said since there was almost NO WATER AT ALL! Riptide and her were practically useless since both of their powers completely revolved around the element. The only one in the group who could do ANYTHING was Sora, and she was still inexperienced with her powers.

She could hear the storm miles out, but it still wasn't close enough that she could take some water from it...

She was going to have to stall... Moons damnit, I hate stalling.

She looked over at the male SeaWing next to her, "So... you like stalling?"

Riptide got a confused look on his face but it quickly turned to annoyance, "I hate stalling but sadly I am good at it," He answered, shivering at the memories that came back to him.

"Queen Coral really didn't like me, so when someone that she found to be very annoying and talkative but still kind of important kept talking to her, she would constantly use me as a decoy to talk to them so she could make her getaway," Riptide explained.

Tsunami sighed and nodded, "Think you can stall a whole army with Sora for about eight minutes or so?"

"What?" Sora said, rapidly turning around. Hearing the conversation.

Riptide got a look that screamed, "are you kidding me!"

"A whole army..." Riptide moaned.

"Don't worry... Sora will be with you!" Tsunami yelled as she took off into the air, kicking up dust that was quickly blown away from the wind coming off the storm.

Riptide sighed, "Fine..."

Tsunami smiled, "Don't worry, you'll do great!" she yelled as she flew off.

A small smile grew on his face, "She thinks I'll do great..."

His frown returned when he turned around, the army almost upon him.

"Ah shit..." both Riptide and Sora muttered.

Glory sat patiently next to Icicle, the white dragon having an anxious look on her face. Glory noticed it and gave her a confident look, "You excited or something?" She asked sarcastically.

Icicle's look turned to a frown as she nodded her head, "I am, but not happy about it."

Glory frowned at the strange answer, "Why?"

"IceWings are not supposed to be excited about going out and flaunting their obvious strength... they are supposed to be cold and calculating, keeping your strength to yourself until it is required to show it," Icicle explained.

"What are IceWings allowed to be excited about?" Glory asked, already suspecting a certain answer.

Icicle remained silent, confirming her suspicion.

Glory sighed, "Icicle, I'm not trying to be rude, but why is your tribe so... stoic."

Icicle sighed and finally spoke an answer, "I wish I could say I don't know why but I do and it's part of the reason Glacier wanted Winter out of the palace."

Icicle turned around looking out at the direction her brother went, "Winter is not... cruel... enough to be in the Ice Palace," she muttered. "Even from a young age, Winter was too nice to the dragons around him... being kind is dangerous in the Ice Kingdom."

"Do you know of the wall?" Icicle asked the RainWing.

"The Great Ice Cliff?" Glory asked back.

Icicle shook her head, "No, that is the gift of defense, what I am talking about is the gift of order."

"What's that?" Glory asked.

"Do you see my necklace?" Icicle said while showing the object off. A single circle made out of a silver material.

Starflight, who was sitting a little part aways had his ears perked, interested in the conversation.

"This circle shows what place you have in the IceKingdom, if you're in the first to the third you are important enough to live in the Ice Palace, if you are any lower than the third then you are deemed unworthy," Icicle explained, "Mother would never except a child that wasn't in the first or second and Winter isn't... harsh enough to stay in those circles."

Icicle shook her head, "He can try to fake it all he wants but Winter is not like that at all..."

Icicle turned back away, "That's why Glacier wanted Winter to leave, so he doesn't turn out like everyone else."

Glory nodded understanding, "You're not that bad either..."

Icicle remained quiet, remembering the reason she wanted her powers. Her eyes flicked over to Starflight who was giving her a curious look.

He knew but yet he never judged...

Clay and Peril were slowly making their way to the stronghold, the winds kicking up now from the storm that was surely coming from Winter and Qibli. They flew low as close to the sand as they could, trying to not be spotted.

Peril was right behind Clay, thinking about what he had said right before they had left.

Clay said he wanted to live his life with her and she knew she wanted to do the same... but what else? She had lived her whole life killing and she wanted to do something different. Her mind flashed to the glass sculptures she had seen on her date with Clay. Those looked pretty cool, she wouldn't mind giving them a try.

Somehow, they made it to the compound without being spotted, landing outside the walls. They could hear hundreds of dragons inside roaring and running around, sounding like they were all in a panic.

Clay chuckled, he didn't blame them. On one side they had probably the biggest storm they have ever seen making its way here, and on the other side was Blaze's whole army.

Clay turned to the thunderstorm, now being able to see Blister's army in the distance. Clay looked down at Peril and she gave him a nod, signaling that she was ready.

"LETS DO THIS!" Clay roared, turning back to the wall and punching it, using his powers to turn it into rubble.

The dragons behind the wall went silent in shock, looking at the two dragons who were standing in the new hole in the wall like they were looking into the face of the devil.

Riptide had gone slightly pale, looking at a sight that was like looking into the jaws of a great white shark.

Blaze wasn't even that scary, even in her royal attire she never looked that threatening... but her whole army with spears up giving him a confused look certainly did.

Blaze was staring at him with a confused look, apparently not remembering the two dragons, "Who are you?"

Riptide was left quiet, "Ummmm..."

"My queen, it looks like one of the dragons in the group with the dragonets," a soldier blurted out.

Blaze took another look and almost fell back in shock after she remembered, "WHERE IS THE REST OF YOU?" She shouted in panic.

Riptide cursed to himself, trying to come up with a way to stall, "Oh they are... around... fuck" he muttered the last part after seeing Blaze turn around frantically.

Blaze turned to her army, "We are leaving, this is a trap!"

Riptide panicked, "Wait-wait!" not the best way to stall...

Blaze turned back around, staring at the SeaWing, "What?"

Riptide thought for a second, "... Have you heard of the tragedy of Dark Plagueis the wise?"

"What..." Blaze muttered.

Riptide shook his head, "What I am trying to say is... do you know... the Muffin Man?"

"The Muffin Man?" Blaze asked confused.

"THE MUFFIN MAN!" Sora yelled, not even having a remote clue what Riptide was asking.

Blaze shook her head rapidly, "Enough of your stalling, WE ARE LEAVING!"

She went to turn around again but a large wall of stone blocked the way. Riptide smiled, good to see Reed was ready.

Blaze turned back around with a twitch in her eyes, "You bastards planned this, Didn't you, your group planted that letter!"

Riptide smiled, knowing this would be the icing on the cake, "What letter?"

"Don't play dumb with me you peasant SeaWing!"

"I have no idea what you are talking about," Riptide said with a full smile, knowing that he had her hook line and sinker.

Blaze hissed in anger, "I'm going to have you killed!"

Riptide heard a set of wings coming up from behind him, knowing she was back.

Blaze roared but was cut off by a torrential amount of water slamming into her.

Riptide turned around to see the female SeaWing laughing, "Thanks for setting that up, that made the trip to get all this water worth it!"

Riptide looked behind her and saw the pond's worth of water being suspended in the air, via her powers.

Winter was guarding Qibli as he focused on pushing the storm forwards at a fast pace, keeping Blister and her army moving.

Winter was at least pretending to look like he was protecting him, surely no idiot would ever come this deep into the storm like they were?

Well... all except for one.

"Dang... you guys got quite a storm brewing up here don't ya?" a voice said from above.

Winter and Qibli looked up to see the blue SeaWing Princess, "Um... Tsunami, what are you doing here?" Qibli asked confused.

Tsunami gave them an innocent smile, "Mind if I borrow some of this?"

"Borrow some of wh- WAIT WAIT WAIT!" Qibli started to panic, feeling a chunk of the storm leave his control unwillingly.

Tsunami gave them a polite nod with a grin still on her face, "Thank you for your generous donation!" she said as she turned around and flew off, a portion of the storm disappearing instantly and turning into a large stream of water that followed right behind Tsunami.

Tsunami left the sputtering duo behind while laughing.

Winter grew a worried look on his face, "Should I go back and get more?"

Qibli thought for a moment and shook his head, "Even after what Tsunami took, we are still in control of the biggest storm the SandKingdom has seen since the scorching."

Winter looked through the rain storm and could see the stronghold in the distance, "We are almost there."

Winter turned to look at Qibli, "I don't care how we do this, do you want to split up or stay together during the fight?"

"Aww the IceWing does care," Qibli joked but then got serious, "In most cases, we should stick together, but we need to spread apart here enough to handle both armies."

"So who do you want?" Winter asked him.

"I'll take Blister, every now and then I'll pass by the stronghold to harass them," Qibli answered.

"Then I guess I'm taking Blaze, that's good since I want payback after she threatened Glacier," Winter said while looking up, "So I am just... going to take this..." he muttered while taking control of half the storm.

"Hey... that was mine!" Qibli joked.

"Shut it..." Winter joked back.

Blister was flapping her wings hard, trying to fight against the winds that battered her and her army.

This storm was strange and not natural at all, no storm was like this the moment it hit the desert, it didn't help that they were so close to the stronghold! That was actually the reason the stronghold was so far out in the desert, to keep away from the tropical storms so it would never get damaged by water.

Something caught her vision in the corner of her eye... another army. She went to yell something to her commanders but the thunder cut her off, making it impossible to hear anything.

The army slowed down, a weird feeling going through the air. Almost as if it was vibrating. A voice cut through the air that got everyone's attention from years of experience, "IT'S A TRAP!"

The moment she said that, all hell broke loose in the army. The air starting to vibrate as the thunder got even louder now, the air filling with static.

Blister turned around just in time to dodge an ice blast that was aimed at her chest, Icicle giving her a death glare.

She ducked down, Glory trying to tackle her and just barely missing the SandWing princess.

Blister went to order a retreat, but a large stone wall formed behind the army, trapping them effectively.

Blaze froze almost shivering... a memory from her mother played through her head, one of the many lectures she heard.

" Place your soldiers in a position to where there is no escape, they will prefer death over flight."

This is what they were planning... the letter was fake like she suspected.

Peril and Clay stood in the debris of the wall, staring down the shocked army within.

The army had no clue what to do, knowing very well who these dragonets were. It was almost impossible to not know.

A roar was heard inside the stronghold, everyone turning around already knowing who it was.

Burn landed Infront of the two dragonets, giving them a menacing look with a slight growl, "I take it this is your group's fault?" she motioned all around the place, to the storm and the armies outside. Her face being lit up now by the flashes of lightning.

Clay didn't confirm it, "It's time Burn... we can do this the easy way or the hard way..." he muttered, already knowing the answer.

"My Queen, we are surrounded, both of your sisters' armies are here!" a dragon roared from the wall.

Burn jerked her head back to Clay, "You.." she turned back to her forces, "Everybody go and deal with the armies, ill deal with this."

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The army left in a hurry, not wanting to be there for the battle that was about to happen, dispersing over the walls.

Clay looked over to Peril, "I can deal with her, go and make sure that army doesn't cause too many problems."

Peril nodded hesitantly, "Be careful," She flew off going over the wall, following the large group of SandWings.

"It looks like I finally get my re-match MudWing," Burn said murderously, Clay ignoring her as the SkyWing flew off, watching her leave.

He turned back around with a hard glare, not saying anything. Burn started to circle him, Clay keeping his eyes on her.

Out of all the SandWing sisters, she was the largest and strongest, it wouldn't surprise him one bit if she was also the fastest. It was proof enough that she was strong enough to break through the stone walls he has formed before during their last battle in the Mud Kingdom.

"Are you going to say anything MudWing?" she hissed out.

Clay glared at her, "You have killed countless innocent dragons, it ends HERE!" Clay roared as he started to charge the dragon in front of him.

"LETS DO THIS THEN!" Burn roared, charging Clay as well.

Clay covered his claws in stone, raising his talons.

Burn raised her talons as well as her tail, going to pounce on Clay.

Sunny was flying around frantically, the battle had just started and she was already busy!

A couple stray bolts of lightning that came from Qibli struck a few poor dragons, she had to slow down their heart rate just so they didn't die of a heart attack. No SandWing has gave her any trouble yet, apparently not realizing who she was in the chaos. So many dragons were getting hurt so quickly at this rate she would never be able to help out with the fight.

"Hey, who are you!" A soldier said to her left. A smile forming on her face.

" Finally, a fight!" Sunny ran up to the soldier but a pinkish-blue blur fell from the sky, Anemone knocking the soldier out.

"Anemone! He was mine!" Sunny shouted, annoyed.

Anemone flashed her a smile, "Got to be quicker than that," she laughed as she flew back into the fray, leaving Sunny fuming.

Reed was relieved, this was all going way easier than he thought it would. It seems after the battle fully got under way, his job was pretty much over. He looked over to see Umber smack a soldier back into the battle, the SandWing not even knowing what hit him.

Reed let out a sigh, this wasn't bad at all... the air suddenly started to chill.

Reed started to shiver at the sudden chill in the air, he slowly looked up at a odd sight... snow.

He looked up even more and saw his male IceWing companion hovering in the air.

A smirk appeared on Winters face at the fight that slowed down around him, almost the whole battle stopping at the shocking sight, snow falling around them. A sight that many have never seen a day in their life or even in these lands.

Winter almost shook at the power that he felt from this, being able to shock so many dragons in such a way.

Many of the SandWings started to shiver from the cold, but not Winter.

Winter started to relax from the sensation, the cold making the uncomfortable warmth from earlier disappear entirely.

Winter let out a breath, preparing for his attack, intaking air into his lungs, a light white glow appearing around his maw.

The armies started to panic, knowing whatever was about to happen wasn't going to be good.

He opened his maw fully and realized the power from his lungs, the glowing white beam shooting out of his mouth, heading straight for the army.

He didn't want to hit any dragons directly, it would kill them.

Winter just wanted to scatter them.

The beam hit the ground, making all the SandWings jump back, never seeing anything like this before.

Anemone and Turtle were both flying over the battlefield, being as big of nuisance as they could.

Anemone was using her enchanted gauntlets to use some of the lightning from Qibli's storm, buzzing a couple of soldiers that got too close to killing each other.

Turtle helping her aim the lightning and find targets to disperse.

Before the battle started, Starflight had specifically told her to not use her powers to enchant both sides, they didn't need a whole tribe to hate them for enchanting them unwillingly.

Icicle roared as she clawed the soldier Infront of her, trying to get around the soldier to the Princess, " How did we miss an opportunity like that!"

After their first attempt at capturing Blister, she had hidden deep in her army, trying to stay out of the Dragonet's sight.

The only reason Icicle wasn't pissed was from the solstice she got knowing there was almost no way she could escape, with both Qibli and the MudWing sibs watching the area.

She summoned a snake with her breath, using it to tie up the soldier in front of her, the moment he was tied up, Icicle pushed him out of the way.

Starflight was actually having a bit of a hard time, the rapid flashes of lightning breaking his connection with his shadows, making it hard to control anyone.

Glory on the other hand was having no difficulties whatsoever, throwing dragons left and right with her vines.

Qibli was having a blast, the first time he took ahold of his lightning and able to use it. It was actually pretty easy. Fly up into the static-filled clouds and take hold of the static, roll it up into a ball and throw it like a spear!

Pillars of glass started to form around the desert where his bolts hit, flash-melting the sand into glass where it struck.

Qibli took another bolt and threw it into a group of soldiers, making them go flying.

"How is this even fair?" Qibli asked himself.

He dove down, using the wind around him to give a boost, displacing the air around him, making soldiers fall down.

Tsunami slammed a dragon against the sands of the desert, knocking him out, Riptide right next to her using his water spear to ward of dragons around him. He liked using the water to form a spear since he had been trained with them since he was a young dragonet.

Sora was tying up as many dragons as she could with her vines, trying to stay out of the fighting as much as she could since she wasn't very skilled yet, but she was having a hard time keeping up with all the dragons Tsunami was putting out of action.

Tsunami growled, "Where is the princess..."

Clay dodged a left hook that was aiming for his throat, Clay jumping back and sending a boulder at the princess.

Burn punched the boulder, shattering it into dust, not even showing any signs of battle.

Clay wasn't tired either, but he knew he couldn't take a hit from her like she could him. He could have finished this battle a bit ago but that would only be if he tried to kill her, he was just trying to capture her.

He was wracking his brain for ideas, he didn't have the obsidian like before, so he couldn't trap her with just regular stone, and knocking her out was proving almost impossible, she was practically just a living tank!

Burn saw the distress in Clay's face and smiled, "What's wrong MudWing, having issues when a fight is actually fair?"

Clay didn't make a retort back, knowing if this was a true fight to the death, she wouldn't have lasted a minute.

"What, crocodile got your tongue?" Burn mocked.

Clay snorted, "No, I just know if this was a fair fight, it would have been over three minutes ago."

Burn roared in rage, pouncing again at the MudWing, going for his exposed side.

Clay dived to the left, summoning the earth to wrap around his talons, going for Burn's face to try and knock her out again.

Burn took the hit, not even flinching, grabbing ahold of his talons in a death grip with a murderous look on her face.

Clay's eyes went wide, "Ah shi-"

Burn shoulder checked Clay, HARD. Throwing him across the stronghold into the wall.

Starflight was running through as many minds as he could, trying to find the princess that he was after. It was hard to pinpoint one specific dragon with all the chaos going on around him.

" Everyone, we need to make a push for the stronghold if we want to win this!" Starflight heard in his mind, instantly knowing who that was. The thoughts were coming from his far left.

He jerked his head to the direction and saw a large group of dragons, "Everyone on me, she is over here!" Starflight roared to the group.

Icicle immediately jumped into the air, diving into the group of SandWings, tackling the group of soldiers to the ground with ice breath at the ready. She summoned her snakes and immediately had them choking the soldiers out, leaving the princess with only a few remaining.

The princess and her group started to try and make a run for it, Starflight stepping up, "Let's finish this..."

Tsunami was watching the army slowly thin out now, but Blaze was still nowhere to be found... this made Tsunami angry, surely the SandWing didn't manage to escape from the sibs?

"NO, BACK AWAY!" Tsunami's head shot in the direction from where the shouting was coming from.

A flash of movement caught her eye and then there was screaming.

She flew over to where the screaming was coming from and what she saw shocked her to her core.

Clay was leaning against the wall of the stronghold, groaning in pain. Cracks ran down the wall from how hard he had hit it.

Burn started to saunter up to him, "It's over MudWing! TIME TO DIE!" Burn roared as she charged the MudWIng.

Clay's eyes expanded rapidly from the adrenalin rush, shooting his talons forwards instinctively, shooting a pillar of earth out of the ground towards the pouncing behemoth of a SandWing.

SCHRP!

Most of Blister's army was tied to the ground or knocked out, Blister and her royal guards glaring at the dragonets in front of them, knowing it was over.

"Stand down Blister!" Starflight roared, "You're defeated, accept your surrender peacefully!" he commanded.

Blister was hissing in anger but then calmed down... this wasn't over, not yet anyways. She still had her backup.

She loosened up and smiled at the NightWing in front of him, "You're right NightWIng... I surrender."

This shocked the group but they didn't show it, they were just happy she surrendered.

Glory wrapped the group of dragons in vines, tying them all up.

Blaze was writhing on the ground in pain, black lines starting to appear in the veins on her foreleg... a Dragon Bite Viper attached. She had been hiding by one of the few rock cliffs in the desert, trying to stay hidden from the battle.

"SUNNY!" Tsunami roared, trying to get her friend to hear her... no response, shit!

The SandWing started to spasm, "DON'T JUST STAND THERE, DO SOMETHIGN!" She roared in pain.

Tsunami glared and walked forwards, cutting the dragon bite viper in half killing it.

It was already to late for the Princess, the black lines making their way towards her chest.

"DAMN YOU! DAMn you all to... all to hel-" She started to choke, "Thi- is your... faul-"

Tsunami was happy none of the other dragonets were here to see this, they didn't need to see something as brutal as this.

Black blood started to leak out of the SandWing's mouth, making her choke, but silencing her.

Tsunami turned around to see Sunny finally landing there, covering her mouth at the sight.

Tsunami ran up and covered her eyes with her wing, "No, don't do anything, she is already dead, it's just mercy now."

Blaze stopped shaking... dead.

Clay was panicking, the pillar he summoned went straight through Burn's right lung, currently choking on her own blood.

"Three moons... damnit," Burn muttered out in pain, spitting up a wad of blood, "You got me good with that one," she chuckled out.

Clay ran back over to her, "Wait-wait, dont speak, I can go get you help!" Clay shouted.

Burn grabbed the MudWing as he tried to leave, "No... don't... I have something you NEED to know..." She choked out.

"What, that I was your favorite Dragonet of Destiny?" Clay tried to joke to ease the tension.

She gave him a glare, "Fuck you... go to my mother's grave," she ordered.

He was confused but nodded, the least he could do was listen to a dragon's dying wish.

"Dig it up," She muttered, spitting another glob of blood.

He dug into the grave, uncovering the skeleton of the previous queen.

"Open... the jaw of the skull," Burn instructed.

Clay obeyed and found a burlap sack inside, grabbing it and bringing it over to the dying princess.

"In this sack, there is a magical item, I don't have the time to explain it, go and find my brother, he knows what it does," she rasped out.

Clay nodded slowly, "Anything... else?"

Burn didn't say anything for a while but nodded, spitting another glob out, this time coughing while doing so, "I know that I wasn't the best dragon ever, but I did truly love this kingdom..."

Clay's frown deepened, not making him feel any better about what was happening, "I will... I will make sure they know and you are buried with your mother..."

Burn took another gurgled breath, "I would... like that,"

She didn't say anything after that, continuing to choke on her own blood.

Clay closed his eyes, "I'm sorry," he stomped his foot on the ground again, another pillar of earth went straight through her chest into her heart, putting her out of her misery... it's over... this war is over...