Battlewinner groaned in pain as she leaned back in the stone cauldron that now made up her permanent living space... her prison... her throne... her own hell. She had been forced to live in it for weeks now after she... did not truly recover from the ice blast into her stomach.

She had flown all the way back to the island after her ultimate failure as a dragon... not even being able to protect the two she loved the most in this world...

This world... she scoffed at the thought of her life. What a MOCKERY it was! Her life up until this point had been nothing but blunder after blunder, failure after failure, LOSS AFTER LOSS!

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She was no "Battlewinner."

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She was lucky enough when she made it back to the island. Her kingdom was in shambles, but there were survivors... hardly any, but there were some.

Many had died in the explosion itself, or getting trapped in the volcano as the lava poured down the side, entombing the dragons inside and likely cooking them alive... her remaining two sisters were among that group...

Practically her whole army died, and the whole population in total was cut down into just a quarter of what once was. What was even worse, most of the dragons that died in the eruption was mainly there able bodied soldiers and workers.

Most of the elder NightWings would always get dibs on the outside of the island so they could live their last phew years left in peace...

Her palace was either gone or buried in the lava. Where it once stood, now a large lava river flowed through.

It was as if the whole world mocked her and her existence.

What was somehow even worse, the explosion brough on a whole lot more than just death and destruction. Ash now filled the air and the lungs of all the dragons on the island. Most dragons have developed a violent lung disease and killed of the already sick elders...

Battlewinner roared in anger as she pounded her talons into the wall of the cauldron.

A large NightWing ran into her room, "Your majesty," Morrowseer said as he ran in, "Are you alright?" he asked worriedly.

Battlewinner hissed in pain as she leaned back down into the lava, feeling her throat crack as she did so.

"No Morrowseer, I am not fine!" she hissed in anger at his blatantly stupid question, "My empire has practically collapsed, everyone I cared about is dead," she started hissing as she continued, "I find out that I am with eggand the father is dead!" Battlewinner continued on, now roaring, "And my invasion on the mainland is now completely out of reach!"

Morrowseer shuffled on his talons after she finished, now realizing the question he asked her was miss placed. "I am sorry your majesty," he said while bowing, "But, I do bring good news."

She slightly leaned forwards now, "Ohh..."

She needed some good news right about now.

"A dragon was born after the volcano exploded, he was named Stonemover by his dying mother..." Morrowseer said, a grin now coming to his face. He knew that Battlewinner would love this news.

"Why does this matter!?" Battlewinner said, now fully sitting up and hissing at him in anger.

The grin on Morrowseer's face grew, turning wicked, "The dragonet started babbling that he wanted to see his mother after we took him from her," Morrowseer said, continuing, "We thought that she had died, imagine our surprise when she jumped up like nothing happened and she took the dragonet from us, all her injuries healed instantly." Morrowseer paused before continuing.

"He, is an animus." Morrowseer finished.

Battlewinner fell back in her cauldron, shocked. She hissed in pain when she fell, but a evil smirk still came over her face.

This, was indeed good news.

A glint came over Morrowseer's eyes as he spoke again, "I have a plan how we can still invade..."

Battlewinner's grin grew even larger, "And what would that be?" she asked, genuinely curios and excited at the new opening that started unfolding right before her.

"I has to do with the new civil war going on in the Sand Kingdom," Morrowseer started, "I had a dream about five dragonets."

AND THATS IT FOLKS, WRAP THIS MINI FIC UP AND SEND HER OFF! I came up with this idea by a complete joke... me and my beta reader were playing Minecraft together and it was getting late, I had to wake up early the next day and wanted to get off so I could go to bed. I told Wanderer this (My beta reader) and he made a joke that I wouldn't sleep. I made a joke back saying, "With my luck, something is going to pop into my head and it won't go away."

And go freaking figure, this popped in... I didn't sleep at all that night because all I could think about was this fic and how it would go down... deer lord bless my heart.

The titles for all the chapters is some of the lyrics off the Avenged Seven Fold song, "Sheperd of Fire"

I thought, "What better song to use than one that told you to pay attention since he was your pride..." anyway...

Back onto the regular updates and such.

This is the order how it's going to go this month. Wanderer and Dave is making a comeback with a new chapter. Birth of Wings, going to take a BIG lore dive, so prepare yourself. Then we get onto Wings of Darkness, get ready for some RipNami... and then Diamondback, Armadillo is getting his gang ready for new waves of crime.

AND AS ALLWAYS, GOD BLESS YOU AND ROCK ON!