The Cursed Dragon (LLH fanfic)

The Cursed Dragon
Fanfiction by Luckylefthanded 
(page coding by Nightstrike)
The Cursed Dragon	The Cursed Dragon
 	
Arc 	1: The Awakening
Book No. 	2
Author 	Lucky_left_handed
Page Amount 	TBD
Status 	Being written
Points of View 	Points of View
Prologue 	Queen Blizzard
Protagonist(s) 	Silverflake
Epilogue 	Falcon
Chronology 	Chronology
Year 	1007 AS
Preceded by 	The Wandering Dragon
Followed by 	The Restless Dragon
The Cursed Dragon is the second fanfiction in Lucky_left_handed's main fanfiction series. The protagonist is Silverflake, an adult male IceWing, who grew up in the IceWing palace with the purpose of being the IceWing tribe's animus dragon.
There is a description for the cover but no actual cover done.
The title refers to the fact that Silverflake was cursed by an animus in his egg by an unknown enchantment. This enchantment is thought of as a curse by Silverflake due to it ruining his life which would have been fairly normal if it weren't for him being enchanted.
The Cursed Dragon follows The Wandering Dragon and precedes The Restless Dragon.
Summary
Fate isn’t always on every dragon’s side…
Taken as an egg, Silverflake was raised in the IceWing royal palace. He is said to be the IceWing’s destined animus dragon who would make the IceWings the most powerful tribe on Pyrrhia and even the world. However, in the chilly walls of the palace, Silverflake doesn’t think that he has the powers the queen says he has and his will to please the dragons around him fills him with anxiety.
His animus test is in a week and in that time, Silverflake must reflect on his life and learns with the help of a surprising friend that maybe he doesn’t have to be the dragon everyone hopes he will be. He must learn to embrace himself, magic or not, and discover who he really is before his test.
Maybe he can be his own dragon.
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Plot
Prologue
Queen Blizzard is walking through the IceWing palace. She thinks to herself about how the war is going and that the SeaWings are in a bad position. The IceWing them bumps into her head of the IceWing army and the two talk about how the IceWing queen would turn the war around. She then tells the military leader about the IceWing she’s been keeping in the palace and how he’s an animus. She peers through an archway where a young Silverflake is sleeping on a bed covered in warm furs.
Part 1: The Market Place
Silverflake is working on his writing in the palace’s study room. The IceWing thinks that many dragons overlook the beauty of the scrolls it holds and the ice figures. The queen had made him do a writing assignment on historical animus dragons. Silverflake goes on thinking. He believes that he isn’t an animus and that he’ll disappoint the queen. Interrupting his train of thought is a high-ranking IceWing who Silverflake vaguely recognizes. She escorts him to his room where he lays down on his fur-covered bed. He reflects on a memory of the queen telling him that he will be tested for animus magic in two weeks. It had already been three days. The next morning, the queen’s head soldier informs Silverflake that he will be going into the IceWing market in order to retrieve a couple of things. He sighs at her order but is given a pouch of scales and leaves the palace. The flight to the marketplace takes about an hour and Silverflake studies the Ice Kingdom around him as he flies. When he arrives at the heavily crowded entrance to the marketplace, dragons openly stare at him and whisper about the IceWing. Everyone knows that the queen is possessive over him but none know why. Silverflake ignores the other IceWings and proceeds to buy all of the items on the small piece of a scroll that the head soldier gave him. When he finishes, Silverflake noticing that he had a few scales left. He used these scales to buy a popsicle. He walked out of the marketplace with his fur bag around his neck and his popsicle in his left talon. He hears some of the dragons around him whisper about him. He goes on to think that the things he’s saying aren’t true and takes to the sky. On the way back to the IceWing palace, Silverflake thinks about how the recent war ended and the queen’s newest plan for him. He gets disgusted at what the queen wants him to do and wonders if he could get out of it. When he gets to the palace, two guards are waiting for him outside. He hands the bag with the marketplace items in it to one guard and follows the other one. Silverflake tosses the popsicle’s now bare stick while heading to the queen’s throne room. The queen is waiting for Silverflake atop her throne when the guard and Silverflake enter. The guard goes to Blizzard’s side and Silverflake walks to the center of the room and bows. The queen is impressed by Silverflake’s manners and goes on to explain that his test has been moved up and will happen in two days. Silverflake is surprised but the news but doesn’t complain as he doesn’t want to get on the queen’s bad side.
Part 2: A Surprising Friend
Silverflake goes back to his room and worries about his upcoming animus test. He really doesn’t believe that he is an animus and that the queen might kill him if he isn’t. He has never tried to see if he had animus magic because the queen explicitly told him not to. In order to calm himself down, he reads his favorite scroll. It’s a scroll written by a historical NightWing about prophecies and what they could mean. Silverflake wishes that a prophecy will pick him up and take him away from the Ice Kingdom. When Silverflake notices that the sky has gotten dark, he climbs on his bed and curls up in his warm animal fur blanket. That night, he has a dream of a large NightWing reading a well-known historical prophecy but with the IceWing in the prophecy being replaced with Silverflake. He plays with the other dragons from different tribes who were also in the prophecy. When he wakes up, he realizes that his test is tomorrow. To keep calm, Silverflake decides to go hunting. He informs one of the guards that he is going out but the guard tells Silverflake that another guard must go with him. Silverflake agrees and meets another IceWing guard in the courtyard. The guard introduces himself as Storm. The two set out West, heading towards the ocean. Once there, Silverflake impresses Storm with his hunting skills. After Silverflake had caught a few seals, the two sit down near the ocean and talk while eating. Storms tells Silverflake that he just turned seven. Silverflake tells Storm about all of the things that have been stressing him lately and Storm comforts him. When the two head back to the palace, Silverflake reflects on the fact that he just met the first IceWing that he truly trusts. Storm says goodbye before Silverflake goes to his room. Once there, Silverflake decides to paint and gets out a canvas and his jars of paint. He paints a large mountain range with seven dragons flying in front of the mountains. One is him and the others are each a dragon from the other tribes. He stops himself from drawing a BeetleWing as the tribe disappeared two years ago. Silverflake places the painting in a hidden compartment and goes to sleep.
Part 3: Shivers of Terror
Silverflake awakes from a dreamless sleep. He dreads the day it is but gets ready anyway. He tries to look his best for the queen. After a while, the head guard comes to retrieve Silverflake and they walk down the hallway to the auditorium together. When they arrive, Silverflake becomes even more anxious at the number of dragons who are sitting in the large room. Queen Blizzard is standing proudly on the stage and beckons for Silverflake to fly over to her. He does and lands gracefully on the stage. The queen delivers a few words to her citizens and then proceeds to tell Silverflake what he will be doing for the test. Silverflake is instructed to enchant the room to glow with a purple aura. Silverflake repeats the order many times in his head before saying it out loud. He closes his eyes tightly to avoid seeing what happens but when he heard a murmur of whispers, he opens his eyes and sees that nothing happened. The queen is the most confused about what happened and demands for Silverflake to try again. He does and nothing happens that time either. The entire room stayed frozen for many minutes before the queen ordered everyone to leave and for Silverflake to go to his room. Everyone obeys immediately. Silverflake is worried out of his mind and paces in his room, waiting for the queen to come and tell him how much of a failure he is. When a knock is heard at his door, Silverflake tells the dragon to come in. The door opens and Silverflake sees Storm on the other side. Silverflake tells Storm that he needs to get out of here before he gets in trouble with the queen. Storm agrees but not before he tells Silverflake that he isn’t a disappointment. Silverflake thanks him and Storm departs. The IceWing waits for another twenty minutes before the queen arrives. She storms into the room without knocking and looks upset. She tells Silverflake that he is a failure and that she doesn’t want him to be in the kingdom anymore. Silverflake is shocked and tries to plead to the queen to let him stay but she refuses. Queen Blizzard gives Silverflake a large fur bag and tells him that he has two hours to take what he wants and leaves. Silverflake does this, taking some scrolls, his fur blanket, some other important belongings of his, and the painting he made the night before. He quickly rushes from the palace and takes off Eastward, not looking back once. He thinks of how he’ll survive and plans to find somewhere to stay in the Sky Kingdom. As he flies, he thinks about Storm and about what the older IceWing said to him.
Epilogue
Falcon is exploring the Western forests of the Sky Kingdom looking for birds. He explains that he had found larger birds more in the area than any other part of the kingdom. When he finds a bird body on the floor of the forest, he examines it and sees that there’s some kind of cold substance on the bird. Falcon’s bird thought is that it was an IceWing but convinces himself that it couldn’t be as there have been no IceWings wandering into the Sky Kingdom recently.
Note: This is a rough draft/outline of the fanfiction and is subject to change
Trivia
*Out of all of the fanfictions in the 1st arc, The Cursed Dragon takes place in the least amount of time.
*Silverflake was originally planned to have run away himself.
*The cover depicts the scene of Silverflake being stared at while at the market place.
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