Scorched Talons

== WARNING ==
Scorched Talons is about a SkyWing, Cinder, who was hatched with Firescales. The Current SkyWing Queen, Queen Skylark, like Queen Scarlet, uses Cinder as a weapon, just like Scarlet did to Peril. The only difference is is that Cinder doesn’t seem to mind at all. She’s the Queen’s assassin, and at the time being, has no problem with melting a few scales. 
That being said, this Fanfiction is going to be pretty violent and gore-ey. My other unfinished fanfictions that go along with this are not as violent. There is no specific order, and you can read them however you would like to. The other fanficitins are Shattering Crystal, and Twinkling Constellations. All of these stories take place in the same time period, centuries after the original series Wings of Fire takes place. 
You have been warned, and thank you for reading.
== Chapter One ==
Cinder paced around, scorching the patches of grass around her. Twirls of steam rose from her scales. She growled, looking down at her dark, red scales, lava-like orange veins running through the underside of her wings. Her eyes were a piercing amber. She swiveled her head, she heard rustling from somewhere nearby. 
Two IceWings erupted from a bush next to her. They exhaled icy particles. 
“What do you want?” Cinder asked, menacingly. She was not in the mood for games. She flicked her wings open, which brushed against a branch hanging above her. The branch immediately burst into flames, and the IceWings narrowed their eyes at her, spraying frostbreath all over the branch until it was distinguished. She smirked with satisfaction. 
“We have come with a warning.” Hissed the first IceWing. 
“A warning? About?” Cinder growled, her tail slowly inching towards them. 
“The attack on the Ice Palace, was a foolish move.” Growled the second IceWing. “As well as the assassination of Queen Snowfield’s sister.” 
“Hey, I have orders to follow too y’know.” Cinder raised her talons, putting on an innocent expression, which only made the IceWings scoff. 
“So Queen Skylark ordered you to assassinate the queen’s sister?” The first IceWing hissed, lashing her tail. “Why?” 
“First of all, that is SkyWing business. Second, I am the queen’s assassin, what more to it?” Cinder growled. 
“Tell us, or we will freeze your limbs and wings, and snap them off.” The second IceWing threatened, inching closer with a murderous glint in his eye. 
“I’d like to see you try.” Cinder opened her wings, and stretched them wide, wide wide. The golden veins in her wings shone in the sun. She outstretched her talons, wisps of smoke rose from them. The IceWings leapt at her, spraying frostbreath all over her scales. It gave her a numb sensation over her scales, but quickly faded. She spun around, and slashed her claws across the first IceWing’s snout. Cinder whipped her tail, winding it around the second IceWing’s torso. 
Both IceWings dropped to the ground, howling in pain as their scales began to burn and melt. 
“So, will you stop meddling into SkyWing business, or must I continue teaching you your lesson?” Cinder asked, making a ‘tsk’ sound with her tongue. The second IceWing lifted his head, and blasted a plume of icy frostbreath in Cinder’s face. She stumbled back, shocked, her whole face went numb for a short moment. But in that moment, the first IceWing surged up, clawing Cinder’s snout, and pummeled her underbelly with her razor sharp claws. The IceWing’s claws burst up in flames, and she began to shriek. 
Blood dripped down from Cinder’s scales, the blood the same red as her scales, which made her look as though her scales were melting, dripping and sliding off her body into puddles on the scorched ground. Even though Cinder’s scales caused the IceWing’s claws to light on fire, she still managed to claw her up. The first IceWing was struggling on the scorched grass, burning up. Cinder waltzed over, and casually wrapped her wings around the second IceWing, leaving him to burn. 
“So, what was Queen Snowfield trying to achieve by sending you here?” Cinder asked, coiling by the first IceWing, her voice menacing and low. 
“We didn’t come here on Snowfield’s orders, we came here out of our own self-interest.” The IceWing gasped “We figured, if we took the head of the monster the queen hated most, and presented it in front of her, perhaps we would get rewarded greatly.” 
“I guess you found out the hard way that that’s not so easy.” Cinder said, amused. 
“Whatever it takes.. To kill.. A monster like you..” The IceWing struggled out. Cinder growled, and slapped her in the face with her wing. Cinder stalked off, leaving both IceWings to their firey demise. 
Hmm, I guess I’ve made a few enemies. Interesting. Cinder thought, as she entered the forest, leaving a trail of scorched grass behind her. She went low to the ground, stalking a large deer. She then suddenly leapt out, slashing her claws at the deer’s throat. The deer dropped to the ground, dead. Cinder dug into the deer, eating rather politely, for a SkyWing who burned everything she touched. 
She finished the meal, sweeping the heap of charred bones into a small river nearby. Cinder watched boredly as the bones bounced off the rocks in the river, flowing with the current. 
“Perhaps I should request an audience with the Queen.” Cinder said aloud, not really talking to anyone in particular, except for herself. “Snowfield’s sister wasn’t necessarily a threat, or at least didn’t need to be disposed of so early, and suddenly.” She had lied down by the river, and begun twirling her tail in the water. A fish swimming by immediately boiled, floating up towards the surface with it’s belly facing the sky. Cinder speared it with her claw, and ate it. 
“Queen Skylark is rather paranoid, isn’t she?” Cinder asked, turning towards the bones of the fish she had just eaten. She did not care that she most likely looked very insane, to anyone wandering by, watching her talk to charred fish bones. 
Cinder headed back to the small clearing, where she had her run-in with the IceWings. She was surprised to see that the bodies were gone. Puddles of royal blue blood settled in the scorched grass, then dragging away, suggesting that the IceWing bodies had been dragged off somewhere. 
Well that’s just fine. All of Pyrrhia either fears me or hates me, a few dead IceWings will barely affect their opinion, it’ll only prove I’m just as dangerous, if not more so, than I seem. Cinder thought, carelessly. Cinder finds a clearing in the trees, and launches into the sky, her wide dark red wings eating up the sky in powerful strokes. She rose in the air, then dove in a tight spiral towards the Sky Kingdom. 
== Chapter Two ==
Cinder picked bits of deer and fish out of her gleaming white teeth, as she sat coiled on the cool stone floor of the palace, waiting for the queen to come out. The clanking of armor sounded the queen’s arrival. She came fluttering down, her wings spread regally. Skylark wore clusters of rubies, and gold rings. Her yellow eyes narrowed in delight as she spotted Cinder. 
“Ah, Cinder dear. You requested to see me?” The queen asked, settling majestically, and imposingly on her throne. She tapped her claws on the throne impatiently. 
“Oh, yes, you see I’ve come to ask you about my recent assassination.” Cinder narrowed her eyes at the queen. “Snowfield’s sister, tsk, she wasn’t at all a threat.” 
“Hmm, odd, last I recall she was about to dispatch a group of IceWings to infiltrate my palace?” Skylark raised her chin. Category:Literature
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