Book 1 the broken sky

== book 1 the broken   ==
=== Chapter 1 ===
Sapphire stretched her wings, yawning as she lifted herself out of bed. The crystals in the cave glinted in the glowworms strung above her. She placed her crown on her head and dragged herself outside of her cave into the hallway. Approaching the main hall where her father and the councilors were already gathered, she sighed. The endless struggles of the underground kingdoms were exhausting. She was the daughter of the chieftain of one of the most powerful tribes in the region. But with the Topaz horde massing troops on the border, she sighed, looking into one of the mirrored chairs. Her scales were sharp and looked like dark blue crystals with lighter tones along her spine spikes, ending at her clubbed tail. Her grown-up tail spikes were starting to show. Her wing membrane was shaped like a diamond, her claws lightly touching the ground, and her horns curled like a ram's around her ears. She wore her crown and a couple of rings and bracelets. As she sat down, ripping a leg off a turkey from last night's feast, she heard her father muttering about how the horde wouldn't attack them. She yawned, knowing that the alliance they were in would keep them safe. Her father said something to the council and got up. 
"Ugh, Governor Granite, who does he think he is?" he moaned. 
"Clearly king," Sapphire replied, returning to her breakfast. 
"Well, you might be queen if you study hard." 
"But it's so boring." 
"Today's lesson is on myths," he chirped. Sapphire perked up. It was her favorite. She quickly stuffed the turkey leg in her mouth and hurried down the corridor. Professor Sandstone was her teacher. She was nice and always had a snack, but lessons were terribly boring except when she managed to get Sandstone to talk about her lover. She had courtly been trying to marry him, but fate always seemed against it. One time a boulder fell on her leg, and another time a massive cave river serpent overturned her boat. Rushing into the classroom, she got a glance of Sandstone's lover. Was that the Governor Graphite? 
"You're late," Sandstone droned. "Therefore, you must do one extra math problem." 
"But-" 
"I may not make you do this if you sit quietly." 
"Fine," Sapphire pouted, sitting down on one of the desks as Sandstone's pet cat jumped onto her. 
"The myth of the sun," Sandstone started. "Long, long ago, when the kingdom was one, above the rock was a land of green where other tribes battled and fought over a massive shining light like a glowworm, but no one could reach it." Sandstone continued. Sapphire leaned forward. Everyone knew that at the edge of the caves a force field existed and none could cross it, and there was nothing above them, but she still liked listening to everything. About half an hour later, a soldier burst in, interrupting Sandstone talking about "trees." 
"The pant pant Topaz horde pant pant is here!" Sapphire could barely process before she was rushed into the city. Around the palace, fires burned as people were slaughtered in the streets. They ran and ran until finally, near the outskirts, a group of hordes jumped, breathing the sap-like substance that all crystal wings make, hardening and suffocating them. Sapphire ran as they chased her until she found herself backed up. 
"What do we have here?" one of the horde soldiers sneered. 
"I don't know, boss. Maybe we should see what's inside of it." 
They both laughed as they slowly approached. Before they could breathe the deadly sap, a screaming figure jumped on top of them, knocking one out. 
"Professor Sandstone!" 
"Guess those martial arts lessons weren't for nothing. Go to that boulder; it's an entrance." 
"To where?" 
"I don't know," she said as footsteps approached. "Go!" Sapphire scrambled toward the rock. As Sandstone said, it moved. She quickly scrambled into the darkness, running until she saw light above. She closed her eyes and leapt. 
=== Chapter 2 ===
Sapphire opened her eyes and was blinded by so much light and so much green. What was that chirping? Her eyes adjusted. It reminded her of her father's tapestry, an epic so old that it showed the bold hero as a "skywing." Then she realized she was above. It existed. She had stumbled into what was it? Ah yes, a forest. Her tail whacked trees as she looked around. She saw a mountain in the distance with dragons unlike she had seen before. She heard footsteps. Panicked, she rushed into the big green things, hiding, clutching the growth. Two dragons came in: a big bulky brown one and a smaller one with a leaf over his eyes. 
"Starflight, I'm hungry," the big one moaned. 
The other one, Starflight, replied, "Just keep your eyes closed." 
Four more dragons landed: a yellow one, one that was changing colors, an angry-looking one, and a copper one who looked like she was on fire. She was clutching an obsidian box that was boiling and bubbling. She got down and started to open the box. A branch broke, scaring the big one just as the box was opened, and about 30 other dragons jumped out, throwing flowers to a very confused hungry dragon. As he turned his head, he saw Peril, gasped, and Sapphire's tail, which was stuck in the branches, fell and knocked him out. Another smaller color-changing one started heartily singing as flowers rained down and stopped as dragons turned and looked as a massive bag of pearls burst and fell on them all. 
"What," the big multi-changing one went. 
"The," a sandy one with a silly earring and a sly grin went. 
"HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?" the copper one yelled, barreling towards her. 
"Peril, stop!" a small pink one jumped in front of Sapphire, and Peril stopped cussing. 
"What are you? Who are you?" the one with the silly earring asked. 
"That's what I'm asking," she sniped back, tail raised. 
"Qibli, maybe don't threaten the dragon who knocked out Clay," said a blue frosty one. 
"But, but Winter, sh-" 
"She might be a guest," Winter interrupted. 
"Do you need help?" the small golden one asked. "Do you have an evil queen or anything like that, any villain?" 
"The only villain here is your face," Sapphire sniped. 
"YOU SAY THAT ABOUT M-" the blue one shouted before everyone descended into arguing. 
"ENOUGH," the big multi-changing one went. "You are to come with us where I will interrogate you personally." 
"And who died and made you queen?" 
"I made myself queen." 
"Then so I'm a princess." Then she felt something land in her neck as her eyes closed. Multiple dragons loomed over her. 
Sapphire felt water being splashed on her face. "What tribe are you?" the one called Qibli yelled. 
"Crystal wing. And are you a-" 
"Sandwing." 
"What do you want?" the one called Winter said. 
"To, to-" 
"Yes?" 
"I won't tell you." 
The one called Starflight sighed and said, "Bring in Moon." Starflight took out the earing that was in her ear 
Another black dragon came in with a gaggle of smaller ones. Sapphire felt something in her mind like someone digging about. She felt something in her head like a tentacle rooting around. 
"You're a mind reader, aren't you?" she said to the dragon she presumed was Moon. 
"Huh, normally it takes longer for someone to realize." 
"Well, you're gonna get quite the surprise," Sapphire murmured. If the fables were right, she searched her mind, trying to find where they were rooting about. "According to legend, if a crystal wing finds something in their mind, a disease or a mind reader, they can disable the parts of the brain allowing it to function or completely destroy the mind-reading brain for a while itself." Moon looked startled before yelling. The darkest tentacles scurried out of her mind, all but one. She could kind of feel a crystal thing forming around the tentacles. 
"Stop," Moon pleaded. Sapphire could feel their brains in the dragonets. She felt something else, something dark. She looked as Moon and the dragonet collapsed, writhing. She dug deeper, cutting off the tentacles. As she started to find the end, she felt something, an arm around the crystals in the dragonets and a voice. 
"Hello, Sapphire." 
She jumped. "You want to get out, right?" 
"Yes," she replied. 
"I know how to. You see that earring on the desk?" She nodded. “the one qibli just took of you 
"Jab it in the kid's ear." Almost automatically, she grabbed it and tried to stab the dragonet. She missed just as the big blue one jumped on top of her. She lost her focus, and Moon and the dragonet stopped writhing. 
"What did you do?" Qibli yelled. 
"No, it's fine," Moon said. "She didn't want me in there, and her body reacted." 
"Did you get anything?" said the small pink one. 
"No," Moon admitted. "And I can barely hear anyone's thoughts." 
"Good," Sapphire said. "Now I will do that again unless you let me go." 
Starflight said, "No, but you can come help me." 
"Why would I help you?" 
"Because we can give you information." 
"Fine." 
Starflight brought her to a grand library. Several other dragons cleared out. Starflight hit an ornate pillar with a gem in the center. A mist appeared and a dragon face appeared. 
"Who knew that the obsidian mirror and the dream visitor could make this," Starflight mused. 
Two dragon faces appeared: a small four-winged black and yellow one covered in spikes and dirt, and a second older one with a paint brush. Behind them, a large library was there, or half there. Dragons were flying around, moving and building things. She could read a plaque on the structure behind them: "Cricket Hive Library." 
"Hi, Cricket," Starflight went. "How are the renovations?" 
"Well, Cicada Hive turned out that the fifth floor was structurally insecure and now that's fallen down. Yet more protests. Oh, and Sundew accidentally unleashed the flytraps all around the new gardens, and the structure of you is currently being suspended over the edge only by a flytrap pillar. Blue is trying to sort it out, and the queen of the Silkwings is being elected in 3 weeks. The main hall needs to be finished. You?" 
"Well, I have quite the  intruder." 
"What  do you have?" 
Sapphire peeked into Cricket's eyeline. The older one, who had from now been shouting at some poor dragon, turned and didn't look surprised. 
"I know what you are, Cricket. Get me the tapestry and music sheet in aisle 3, filed under L." 
"What is it?" 
"It's called the Lightwing's Ball." 
Cricket disappeared and reappeared. "Piano." A piano was pushed on. "Play it." Cricket sat down as Scorpion unfurled the tapestry. It showed a ball, a plethora of species dancing. She saw at the head, on their thrones, sat a multicolored four-winged one, a golden one, and a crystal wing. 
"They say that when my ancestors arrived it was inhabited by the Light Kingdom. They gifted the continent to us in a grand celebration where my ancestors and what seems like yours made a magical barrier separating them. But they put it in this music sheet. According to legend, if you finish this music, it will break the barrier. Honestly, I think it's a load of-" 
Cricket had been playing the same note for  seconds now. Then it happened. The key turned solid gold, and she played faster. 
"Help," Cricket yelled franticly. 
Scarab found herself continuing to talk. "At the end of the celebrations, a prophecy was revealed. They decided to hide the prophecy, and this tapestry holds one of the lines: 'mundus ardebit in lucem et glaciem' - Die Welt wird in Licht und Eis brennen - or 'The world will burn in light and ice.'" 
As she said that, Cricket played the final key, turning it gold, and a massive golden light exploded out. The image changed in the obsidian pillar. It showed a massive island. Twelve golden dragons sat there, guarding as one with wings with torn membrane and scars all over raised his hands to the sky. As the pillar glowed, he muttered incantations. She could see the golden light hurtling to the pillar, and suddenly it exploded. The sky shattered all around them as the library returned outside. The sky was golden in all areas before disappearing, and a single thing appeared on top of the pillar as the pillar's image disappeared. 
a golden parchment floated down 
Sapphire read it: "The entrant invites you at the Sandwing Fortress, royals and diplomats to meet us after centuries of division. This is the list of guests." She scanned the lengthy list and there it was: Chieftain Sapphire. Her father was dead. 
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the two dragons sapphire sees are Together 
sandstone is based on a person in a dream my friend had
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