A/N: In this chapter, the antagonist will be introduced. I know that there's been others, but this it the MAIN antagonist.


Chapter 20

Hope

"Can I go meet them? Please, please, please?" Hope pleaded to Mommy, who was looking right at the black and yellow dragons, but doing nothing.

"Hope... They seem busy, maybe next time," Mommy said, she was being so... Whatever the opposite of fair was.. That word.

Mommy blocked him with her big wing, trying to keep him from meeting potential friends. "What are they?" a voice asked from behind. Hope turned around, and there was Bandit!

"Bandit! I thought you had urbent bizness to do!" Hope exclaimed, getting Mommy's attention.

Mommy's friend came up and put her wing around Bandit. "Urgent business? What do you mean?" Mommy asked.

"Er... Some friends that I had in Jade Mountain Academy, they wanted me to meet with them... But they never told me when or where, so I'm here," Bandit explained. "Mother, did Moon tell you anything about her adventure on... uh... Pantala?"

"She said something about these dragons... I think they're called HiveWings," Bandit's mommy said.

One of the new dragons noticed that Hope was watching them and came closer with a smile on his face.

"Hello, my name is Honeycomb, my company is currently coming here to meet a Queen Glory. Queen Jewel says that it'll improve relationships with other tribes... Especially after the reign of our previous queen..." Honeycomb explained.

"It's nice to meet you Honeycomb, we wish you luck in your endeavors. Have a nice day," Mommy said, shaking his talon and watching him leave to join his friends.

Queen Wasp

"Where is Jewel? I must speak with her about these new policies," Queen Wasp asked the guard that was assigned to watch her for the month.

"She told you. Queen Jewel is in Pyrrhia, cultivating relationships with the Distant Kingdoms, weren't you listening?" the guard said in that horrifically grainy voice. She should kill him just so she wouldn't have to hear his voice anymore.

"No, I must have been asleep. And fix that voice of yours, it sounds like you had your throat flooded with sand after scratching it," Queen Wasp said.

"Because I was. You made me keep fighting a LeafWing, she used her claws and nearly ripped my vocal cords out, and when you kept going; she threw sand into my eyes. Go back to sleep."

"I'm hungry."

"You had food just three hours ago, and it's not meal time."

"I'm thirsty."

"You have wat-"

"It's empty."

The guard reluctantly turned around and looked at Queen Wasp's empty pool of water and sighed. He disappeared into another room for a while and came back with a few cauldrons. He set them down as he unlocked the cage, eyeing the dragon he should be loyal to as he did it.

When the door opened, Queen Wasp stood back and allowed him to fill her pool back up with water. But it was when he left that she pounced. Wasp landed on his back and wrapped her arms around his neck, squeezing tightly, she choked him.

The guard tried to fight against her, tried to catch his breath, tried to remove her arms from his neck. But he ultimately failed, falling to the ground. Dead.

Queen Wasp snatched a key from the guard's pouch that he wore around his talon and unlocked her chains.

"The HiveWing throne belongs to me," she told the corpse.

And now it was time to wait for Princess Jewel to come back, give her the crown and restore the kingdom, remove all of Jewel's idiotic policies... Although some of them were alright.


List of the whereabouts and status of The Fiery Four: (Last recorded)

Jack: Not applicable.

Ian: Identity: Sunburst, whereabouts: border of the Night Kingdom, status: alive

Malcolm: Identity: Iceclaw, whereabouts: border of the Night Kingdom, status: alive

Daniel: Identity: Bandit, whereabouts: NightWing Village, status: alive