Wings of Fire: The Animus Prophecy

Basically the first small portion of this book is heavily inspired by The Dragonet Prophecy book. I hope you all enjoy :D 
It's set in the same Universe as the canon WOF series, but on another third continent. It's basically a little similar to the first WOF book, but the storyline is very different. :)
== A SkyWing’s Guide to the Dragons of Pheroniah ==
=== SKYWINGS ===
Description: red-gold or orange scales; enormous wings
Abilities: powerful fighters and fliers, can breath fire
Queen: Queen Skye
Animus: Sun
=== MUDWINGS ===
Description: thick armored brown scales, sometimes with
amber and gold underscales; large, flat heads with nostrils
on top of the snout
Abilities: can breathe fire (if warm enough) hold their 
breath for up to an hour, blend into large mud 
puddles; usually very strong     
Queen: Queen Fawn
Animus: Celestial
=== SANDWINGS ===
Description: pale gold or white scales the color of desert
sand; poisonous barbed tail; forked black tongues
Abilities: can survive a long time without water, poison
enemies with the tips of their tails like scorpions, bury
themselves for camouflage in the desert sand, breathe fire
Queen: Scarab
Animus: Parch
=== SEAWINGS ===
Description: blue or green or aquamarine scales; webs 
between their claws; gills on their necks; glow-in-the-dark
stripes on their tails/snouts/underbellies
Abilities: can breathe underwater, see in the dark, create
huge waves with just one splash of their powerful tails;  
excellent swimmers 
Queen: Queen Selkie
Animus: Starfish
=== RAINWINGS ===
Description: scales constantly shift colors, usually bright
like birds of paradise; prehensile tails
Abilities: can camouflage their scales to blend into their
surroundings, use their prehensile tails for climbing; no known
natural weapons
Queen: Queen Spectral
Animus: Ivy
=== ICEWINGS ===
Description: silvery scales like the moon or pale blue like
ice; ridged claws to grip the ice; forked blue tongues; tails
narrow to a whip thin end
Abilities: can withstand subzero temperatures and bright light,
exhale a deadly freezing breath
Queen: Queen Frostbite
Animus: Snowstorm
=== NIGHTWINGS ===
Description: purplish-black scales and scattered silver scales
on the underside of their wings, like a night sky full of stars; 
forked black tongues
Abilities: can breathe fire, disappear into dark shadows, read
Minds, foretell the future
Queen: Queen Fateteller
Animus: Mindlight
The Animus Prophecy
As  told by Fateteller
As seven stars align…
Seven eggs stir…
A magic lies within their eggs…
A dangerous secret lurks within the shadows…
Betrayal in the night…
A dragon of shard comes to light…
A growing darkness spreads…
Pheroniah will fall beneath enchanted talons…
Unless the missing Kingdom of Shards can be found…
The Dragonets are coming…
== Prologue ==
A dragon was trying to hide in the rainforest undergrowth. The trees moaned and whispered in the canopy above. Beluga clutched her precious cargo closer. If she could make it through the rainforest, she’d be safe. She’d escaped the RainWings palace unseen. She just had to make it through the Mud Kingdom. And the Bay of Missing Scales was so close. . . .
But her theft had not been as stealthy as she thought, and eyes as green as the rainforest itself were already tracking 
her from below. 
The enormous dragon on the tree branch had vibrant green and yellow scales that shifted like the ripples in the water. 
Her green eyes narrowed, watching the aquatic dragon disappear behind a bush far up ahead.
She flicked her tail, and behind her two more dragons twisted their way through the canopy and dove after the SeaWing. A piercing shriek echoed through the forest sent birds flying as their talons seized the wet blue scales of the SeaWing.
``Pin down her tail,`` the waiting dragon ordered as her Rainwing guards dropped Beluga on the damp grass in front of her. Beluga’s tail was already twitching, ready to attack. 
``Quickly!``
One of the RainWings grabbed a vine from around his neck. He threw it around the SeaWings tail, tying it to a nearby tree so that the dragon could not run away. The other RainWing pinned down Beluga’s head, clamping her mouth shut with another vine. 
Beluga let out a muffled scream.
``Too late.`` The largest RainWing’s forked tongue slithered in and out of her mouth. ``You won’t be using that tail on us, SeaWing.``
``She was carrying this, Queen Spectral,`` said one of the RainWing soldiers, handing her a dragon egg.
Spectral squinted at the egg through the haze of the rainforest.
``This is not a SeaWing egg,`` She hissed. ``You stole this from my RainWing village.``
Beluga stared back at her. Her eyes narrowed through the gaps in the vines. She let out a small growl. 
``You thought you got away unnoticed, didn’t you?`` Spectral snorted angrily. ``I am no fool. I know everything that happens in my kingdom. My soldiers here reported a SeaWing thief sneaking away, and I decided finding you might add some violence to my boring day. 
Spectral held the large egg up to the light of the sun streaming through a hole in the canopy above, and turned it slowly. Green and yellow shimmered below the pale, smooth surface.
``Yes. This is a RainWing egg about to hatch`` Spectral mused. ``Why would you come here to steal a RainWing dragonet? You have no need for a RainWing.``
She thought for a moment as a small rainforest shower pattered the grass around them. ``Unless . . . . the alignment is tomorrow . . . .``
She opened her mouth, her venom filled fangs inches away from Beluga’s eyes. ``Your not here for sightseeing, are you? You’re one of those insipid cave dwelling peacemongers.``
``The Wings of the Alignment?`` said one of the RainWing soldiers. ``You mean they’re real?`` 
Spectral snorted. ``A few worms crying over a pathetic prophecy. Unwrap the vines around her mouth, she can’t bite us, while she’s tied down like this.`` The enormous RainWing leaned closer as one of the soldiers pulled away the vines around the SeaWings mouth. ``Tell me, SeaWing, do you really believe in that silly old NightWing Queen’s prophecy?’’
``Haven’t the ancient tribes been missing long enough? All of Pheroniah has been suffering without the Embers of the ancient tribes. Haven’t you noticed it? The prophecy says—``
``I don’t care. No prophecy decides what happens to me, or tells me how to live my life,`` Spectral snapped, interrupting Beluga. ``I’m not letting a bunch of words or baby dragons prance around or bring back ancient tribes to Pheroniah. The ShardWings are gone for a reason.`` Her fangs dipped closer to the blue dragon.
Rain pattered on Belugas scales. She glared up at her. ``The dragonets are coming whether you like it or not, and they’ll bring back the ancient tribes to push back the growing darkness, and together they’ll bring peace back to Pheroniah once again. Only they can save us, and find out what’s causing this darkness.`` 
``Really?`` Spectral stepped back and turned the egg slowly between her talons. Her forked tongue slipped in and out of her smile. ``So, SeaWing. Is this egg a part of your pathetic prophecy?``
Beluga went still.
Spectral tapped lightly on the eggshell with one long talon.
``Hello?`` She called. ``Is there a tiny magical dragonet in there? Ready to come out and end this big bad darkness?`` Spectral’s eyes momentarily shifted to an area of the rainforest that was slowly decaying away.
``Leave it alone,`` Beluga choked out.
``Tell me,`` Spectral said, ``what becomes of your precious 
prophecy . . . . if one of the seven dragonets is never hatched at all?``
``You wouldn’t,`` she said. ``No one would harm a dragon egg.`` Her blue eyes were fixed desperately on her talons.
``No precious Ivy to help save the world,``
``You named the egg?`` Beluga gasped.
``Yes,`` Her tongue slithered conivingly through her fangs. ``Given that this is my egg.`` She hissed. 
``You wouldn’t harm your own egg?`` Beluga quavered.
``What a sad, sad story.`` She mocked. She began tossing the egg between her talons. ``I guess that means you should be very, very careful with this terribly important little— oops!``
With an exaggerated lunge, Spectral pretended the wet egg was slipping through her talons . . . and then she let it fly into the side of a tree sending shards of egg shell hurtling into the river along with the RainWing dragonet.
``No!`` Beluga shrieked. She threw off the two soldiers and flung himself towards the river, desperately trying to reach the dragonet. Spectral slammed her massive claws down her neck. 
``So much for destiny,`` She smirked `` So much for your tragic little movement.``
``You’re a monster,`` the SeaWing gasped, writhing under the force of her talons. Her voice cracked with despair. ``We’ll never give up. The dragonets — the dragonets will come and bring back the ancients, along with the embers and ward off this oncoming darkness. Look what it’s doing to your rainforest.`` She winced, nodding at the decaying foliage and trees in the rainforest.
Spectral leaned down to her ear. ``Even if they do — it’ll be far to late for you.`` Her claws ripped through the blue dragon’s wings, shredding them as Beluga screamed in agony. With a swift movement, she stabbed her venom-filled fangs into the eyes of the SeaWing, injecting a river of venom that immediately started eating away at Beluga’s body. Spectral scammed her talons into the side of Beluga’s face as the venom finished her off. 
The sea dragon’s screams were cut off long before the echoes of her screams reached the rainwing village.
The RainWing turned back to her soldiers. ``Perfect!``  She announced. That should be the last we hear about that stupid prophecy. She held out her talons so the rain could wash away the glistening dragon blood. ``Let’s go find something else to kill.``
The three dragons spread their wings, and flew back towards the treetops, disappearing as they camouflaged. 
Sometime later, far below, a dragon the color of mud crawled over the rocks to the broken body of the sea dragon. He nudged her tail aside and lifted a shard of eggshell from underneath it, then slipped back into the undergrowth in the direction of the Mud Kingdom. Jungle vines brushed against his wings. He breathed out a plume of flame to light his way out of the rainforest, and into the Mud Kingdom.
The next day, the MudWing arrived at the Bay of Missing Scales. The soft white sand flowed smoothly over his talons. The wind was blowing along the beach, sending wisps of sand blowing around the dragon's talons. He made his way up the length of the beach where the rock pools were. There in the rocks, was a cave. Hidden by a wall of hanging kelp. A dragon was waiting behind the wall of kelp. ``I stand with the Wings of the Alignment.`` Hissed the dragon. ``Swamp is that you?`` 
``We await the seven.`` answered the MudWing.
A blue-green SeaWing emerged from the cave, kelp sliding across his scales. Swamp tossed the eggshell at the SeaWing’s front talons. ``Not that it’ll do us much good now.`` He snarled.
``Beluga is dead.``
The SeaWing broke down and began to weep. Not my Beluga!`` He wailed. ``She never saw our baby dragonet hatch!`` He continued to sob bitterly. He looked up at Swamp, tears descending down his cheeks. ``But — the RainWing egg—``
``Broken,`` He said. ``Gone. It’s over, Caribbean.``
``It can’t be,`` he said. ``Tomorrow is the alignment. The seven stars will align for the first time in over ten centuries. The animus dragonets have to hatch tomorrow.`` 
``Well, one of them is already dead,`` Swamp said. Rage flickering in his eyes. ``I knew I should have stolen the RainWing egg myself. I know the rainforest. They wouldn’t have caught me. 
Caribbean grimaced, scratching one claw over the gills along his neck. ``Mirage is dead, too.`` He said solemnly.
``Mirage?`` A spurt of flame shot from Swamp’s nose. 
``How?``
``Caught in the middle of a SkyWing patrol on the way here. She still made it with the SkyWing egg, but she died of her wounds shortly after.``
``So it’s just you, me, and Ferret to raise the stupid dragonets.`` Swamp growled. ``For a prophecy that can never be fulfilled. Let’s break the cursed eggs now and be done with it. We’ll be long gone before the Wings of the Alignment return for the dragonets.`` 
``No!`` Caribbean hissed. ``Keeping the dragonets alive for seven years is more important than anything. If you don’t want to be part of that—`` 
``All right, enough,`` Swamp snapped. ``I’m the strongest dragon in the Wings of the Alignment. You need me. It doesn’t matter how I feel about nasty little dragonets.`` She eyed the eggshell on the floor. A wave of guilt flowed through her.
``I’m sorry about Beluga.`` She sympathized sincerely. Caribbean stared back. ``Thank You.`` He sniffled. ``I’ll find us a seventh dragonet.`` Caribbean stood up and brushed past her, scales scraping against the rocks. 
``There's no way back into the rainforest, silly,`` Swamp said. ``They’ll be guarding the Royal hatcheries very closely now.``
``Then I’ll get a RainWing egg somewhere else,`` he spoke grimly. ``My mate didn’t die for nothing,`` he whispered. ``Neither did Mirage.`` 
``Where are we going to find a RainWing?`` Swamp sighed. 
``We have to do something,`` Caribbean said. He hissed as his tail sent the eggshell skittering across the floor. ``In seven years, the Wings of the Alignment will come looking for seven dragonets. The prophecy says seven, and we’re going to make it come true . . . whatever it takes.``
As they spoke softly amongst themselves, Caribbean noticed something small drifting out from the river into the estuary. He took off to the sky towards the river, and landed in the water, just as the small object flowed out into the estuary. Caribbean’s heart ached as he held up the tiny dragonet in his talons.
``Swamp,`` He called out to his friend. 
Swamp charged over towards him, the earth shaking as he ran. He stopped as he neared Caribbean.
``Is that–`` His voice broke.
``The RainWing dragonet,`` sniveled Caribbean. ``Ivy,``
``Look at her scales,'' he told Swamp. Swamp trudged over to the SeaWing.
``They’re like the Ivy that grows in the rainforest.``
``It looks like we have a prophecy to fulfill`` . . . .
= Part 1: The Estuary =
== Chapter 1 ==
(6 Years Later)
Ivy didn’t think she was the right dragon for a Big Heroic Destiny. 
Oh, she wanted to be. She wanted to be the great RainWing savior of the dragon world, glorious and brave. She wanted to do all the wonderful things expected of her. She wanted to find the ShardWings and bring back the Embers, to rid Pheroniah and the dragon world of this oncoming darkness. 
She wasn’t a natural hatched hero. Her egg had been shattered, and thrown in a river, until Caribbean found her. She had woken up on the Night of the Alignment, just as the other eggs had begun to hatch. It seemed that fate was on her side.
She had her animus powers and that was it. She wasn’t allowed to use them anyway, their Guardians forbade them to ever use their powers, until the time came.
She liked relaxing in the sun, more than studying. She kept losing fish in the estuary during hunting practice because she was paying more attention to her friends instead of watching for the shimmering bodies in the water. 
                  
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