Wings of Stone: The New Queen

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Hello and welcome to the second book in the Wings of Stone series!
This story is still being worked on, and some chapters on the wiki may not be completely finished when I update them. Also, when a chapter isn't completely finished yet, it might have some grammatical mistakes because I need to keep updating it. 
We are currently working on the Prologue, Chapter 1 and editing/rewriting Wings of Stone: The Lost Tribe.
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NOTE: We are going to continue writing this book after we write an outline for it and finish editing Wings of Stone: The Lost Tribe. Sorry if it takes a while, we have school and other projects, but don't worry, this book is still going to be written :)
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== Summary ==
Join Peak, Peaceflyt, Atacama, Pyramid, and Sparrow on their journey to kill a dragon who has threatened Peak practically her whole life... her aunt, Queen Ember.
== The Lost Tribe Prophecy ==
Hidden away
A lost tribe will prevail
If no one can stop them,
No one will avail.
Those unexpected
Will take the challenge
That many seek to avoid
If then they fail,
All will be lost
And lives will be destroyed.
== Prologue ==
If Cliff was anything, it wasn’t ordinary. He never got anything incorrect in his classes, he could see many futures all at once, and he had animus magic. And just like any other dragon with the gift of prophecy, Cliff knew things he otherwise wouldn’t be able to know. 
Like how tomorrow, his little sisters would be in danger and he could only save one.
“The war is idiotic, if dragons don’t like hybrids, they either need to become better or isolate themselves completely if they can’t deal with the presence of other dragons. There’s no point in endlessly slaughtering every hybrid they see.” Cliff slowed his pace to match his mother’s. 
“Oh, Cliff. If only every dragon thought like you do.” Topaz’s soft voice somewhat soothed his nerves. 
I can’t tell you. If I tell you, you’ll be there when it happens. We can’t leave in time. You’ll assure me we have time when we don’t. I want to tell you, mom. If I could only tell you. I don’t know what happens to you and Peak when this is over, but I freeze in the cold, alone... Stupid IceWing Queen and her stupid hate for hybrids. 
“What are you looking so sad for?” asked Starshine, his other sister.
“Umm... it’s just yo- I’m worried about dad.” Cliff wondered how to tell someone that their throat was going to be slit and there was nothing they could do to stop it. 
The likeliest scene played in his head again. Topaz went to get some food. Cliff gave Peak a brown cloak that was enchanted to never burn and that could never be torn. He’d enchant Peak to be able to control her firescales by calming herself. 
Then the IceWings attack. One comes in through the front door, two others from the windows. Cliff warns them about Peak’s firescales, ensuring her safety. But it’s already too late for Starshine. Her blood runs across the floor. 
They already knew that Cliff was a talented prophet, and they take him to be their short lived glimpse into the future. As he leaves, he enchants Peak to be an-
“Cliff? You started staring off into space again. Come play!” Starshine said excitedly. Cliff nodded, knowing this was the last time either of them would play.
Cliff realized that he should also enchant Peak to be able to look like a SkyWing, because the war is targeting hybrids. He caught a glimpse into Peak’s future. 
Cliff saw the face of a beautiful dragon with bright crimson scales and eyes like melted sapphires looking at his sister. Cliff was slightly surprised that he could recognize his sister with her disguise. “I- I want to leave...” the dragon said. Peak was on an island, there were guards in an enormous room, and a few scattered about, watching the firescales. They're all firescales…
Starshine bounced around him. “Cliff! Come on, stop zoning out!” 
. . .
Icecap hated her job. It entailed killing innocent dragonets and guarding the edge of the Ice Kingdom. It was subjective to such a highly decorated member of the royal guard. Icecap didn’t hatch as a killer or a sociopath, but if that’s what her Queen needed from her, so be it. 
Icecap’s least favorite part was the scared looks on the dragonets' faces. Their eyes, silently pleading to her to let them live. And she had the feeling she was about to do it again. 
Icecap spotted Frostbite, her commanding officer, walk over to her. She hated him from his horns to his claws. He didn’t have a problem with the fact that the blood of dragonets was on his talons.
`“Your next target is Princess Topaz and her dragonets,” Frostbite said coldly. “You will lead four of your troops to kill them.” 
“Why are we killing our ally’s family?” Icecap said, taken aback by this news. The SkyWing Queen, Ember, wasn’t known for her kindness, but nonetheless this order from the SkyWing Queen had truly provoked, disgusted and surprised Icecap.
“Queen Ember doesn’t like firescales, much less hybrid firescales. And you know better than to speak of our secret ally in a public area, Icecap.” Frostbite sounded condescending. 
‘I am a guard. I am not an assassin. And you’ve no right to make me out to be one. We both know I only have to do this because the Queen doesn’t like me.’
“My apologies, Frostbite. I will go prepare now.” Icecap flew to her quarters, and banged her head on the wall. ‘Why would the IceWings be allied with dragons who want their own families dead? Is the kingdom really that much of a mess?’
After the late Queen Snowfall’s daughter, Queen Permafrost, challenged her, Queen Snowfall surrendered. Shortly after Permafrost became the queen, Snowfall died under mysterious circumstances. The heirs of the IceWing throne started dying the same way that Queen Snowfall had, except for one. Icecap was suspicious that the new Queen was behind this, but didn’t dare betray the throne. 
Icecap finally left her room and gathered a group of guards. She painstakingly explained what they had to do. One of them, Gemstone, disgustingly smiled. Another one of them, Penguin, looked briefly horrified, but quickly covered the expression behind false indifference. The third one, North, looked momentarily furious before changing to look slightly annoyed. North seemed to be thinking about how Queen Snowfall would’ve never done this. And the last one, Shiver, looked mainly tired and indifferent. 
Icecap felt sorry for Penguin, as she knew the small, dainty, ice blue dragon hated assignments like this. Icecap only chose her because she also knew that it was one of very few ways to get her away from the Queen. The Queen was never particularly nice to any of the guards, but she was especially awful to Penguin. Icecap was only in hot water with the queen to begin with because she had defended Penguin. Penguin’s cute when she smiles, so it's worth it. 
Gemstone was assigned to things like this due to a general lack of competence. North was a bit too vocal and bluntly honest about his opinions for the queen to like him. No one knew why Shiver was there. He was smart, held his tongue, and was probably willing to either suck up or not go against the queen. He was an emotionless mask, perfectly hiding how he felt. And he did have feelings, as he had shown them when he was much younger. Well, at least he used to show them to me and Penguin.
The flight to the SkyWing Palace was longer and more difficult than it should’ve been. Firstly, they all had to stay hidden and Gemstone made that a problem. Secondly, the queen decided to send them in nearly unflyable weather conditions. 
The Royal Palace was well guarded, and it would’ve been much harder if the family they were after wasn’t on the very edge of the palace grounds, and if they didn’t have access to guard schedules and such information easing their way through the palace. 
Icecap hated everything about this mission, but she especially hated how easy it was. She didn’t have to really try. She didn’t earn the success or praise she’d get afterwards. She wasn’t even risking anything really. 
The group of IceWings bypassed the guards, and got into the palace. They saw the target’s house. Penguin looked close to tears. They all knew as they approached that there should be three dragonets and the SkyWing Princess Topaz, inside, never knowing what was about to happen to them. 
== Chapter One ==
Peak often put some pieces of the things around her together. But this time, her findings surprised her. Peak had managed to sort out what a part of the prophecy that was told by one of her best friends meant. 
“Well, who wants to come with me to the Sky Kingdom?” Peak asked, already knowing that at least four dragons were going with her.
Peak was about to fly to the Sky Palace to challenge her aunt for the throne of the SkyWings. Truthfully, Peak didn’t want to go back to the Sky Kingdom so soon. She’d hoped that Amethyst would just kill their aunt one day. She’d make a much better leader than Peak anyways. But Peak had no choice. Queen Ember had decided to decimate the firescales, and plus, the prophecy said so. 
Peaceflyt, one of Peak’s best friends, spoke first. “Oh. I… kind of don’t really want to go,” he muttered. He paused, noticing Peak looking at him, and added in a louder tone, “But since you’re one of my best friends, I… uh… I guess I will.”
“Personally, I think this day couldn’t come soon enough,” Atacama said, laughing. She was one of the SandWings at the academy, and had become friends with Peak at Jade Mountain. 
“Thanks for agreeing to come with me,” Peak said. ”I’ll go ask the others.” She headed down the halls and arrived at the art cave. “Anybody want to see me kill my aunt?” she asked in front of all the students there.
Several of the students looked at Peak like she was either intruding or was insane until Pyramid, another friend of Peak’s, stood up and told them that if they wanted to be stuck-up idiotic tumbleweeds, then they’d better run before someone pushes them off a cliff. Those students ran out of the cave in an instant. 
“I was hoping to kill her myself, but then who’d be queen?” Pyramid said, walking up to join Peak.
“I’d like to see the queen perish.” Peak's SkyWing friend, Sparrow, tried mimicking royal speech and then stopped and laughed. “Ok, even I don’t take myself seriously when I talk like that. What are we waiting for? Let's go!” she exclaimed as she headed towards Peak. 
“I’ll stay here. Everyone will probably be freaking out because of all the firescales, so someone needs to keep the peace,” Walnut, another friend, explained to them. The RainWing looked at Peaceflyt longingly, like she wanted him to stay.
“I understand," Peak said. "Let's go." Peak told Peaceflyt and Atacama that they were leaving then and there and they walked toward the main entrance of the school. 
Peak walked out and told the other firescales to stay put. She then spread her wings and took to the sky, making sure to go slow enough for her friends to keep up. She made sure to stay ahead of them, as her anxiety, as with all other strong emotions, made her scales heat up like crazy.
She loved the feeling of wind under her wings, the freedom of not worrying about burning everyone and everything near her. Peak did, however, worry about challenging her aunt. Her mind just kept going ‘She had them killed.’ It was near unsettling for her to be feeling joy and fear at the same time. 
“How did you figure out the prophecy?” Atacama asked Peak. “I mean, I hadn’t even thought of relating the prophecy to Ember.” 
“You tend to think of important things in your life and traumatic things, so it figures that Peak found the answer,” Pyramid said. “Also we’re kind of dumb, so…”
Atacama laughed. “I guess.” 
“I just have had a lot of free time to explore the wonderful world of philosophy due to being kidnapped and having literally nothing else to do.”
“I haven’t got a clue about how to solve the prophecy,” Peaceflyt said. “Except I’m pretty sure the part about ‘the lost tribe’ is about the StoneWings.”
Atacama gasped sarcastically. “Really? Pretty sure? The hidden tribe being considered lost because they lost their souls?”
Peak laughed at Atacama’s joke and realized that she only said to cheer Peak up. “I mean you’re not really wrong.” 
“Did they all seem like that while you were there?” Peaceflyt asked.
“They seemed to really not question their orders. They didn’t care whether we lived or died,” Peak elaborated. 
“That sucks. I wonder if they’re just plain evil, or they care too much about a plan, or their queen is forcing them to be that way,” Peaceflyt wondered out loud.
“None of them really seemed forced, just indifferent until they got off their shift. Or complaining mentally about how absolutely awful their job is.” 
“Their jobs probably are awful,” Peaceflyt said. “I can’t imagine being a prison guard, that would be really boring. Unless they have personalities like Deneb.”
“My guard only cared about herself and her rank.”
“I’d like to claw her a bit,” Pyramid said, nonchalantly. 
“Were any StoneWings nice? Or at least less awful than your guard?” Peaceflyt asked. 
“There was this one dragonet who seemed nice. Kept looking at Cinder. But they didn’t seem dangerous or hateful like the others I saw mostly did.”
“That’s weird. I wonder if they knew Cinder or something.”
“No one was allowed to talk to the firescales other than the guards ordering us around. Though the Prince talked to Blare a bit.”
“How did they look at Cinder? Like, sympathetic or ‘I hate you’?”
Peak shrugged. “It was the same expression that Walnut has while looking at you.” And if I’m right, Walnut hasn’t been the only one looking at Peaceflyt with that lovestruck expression. 
Peaceflyt turned his head away for a second. “Oh…” he said awkwardly, looking back at her. “Are you saying you think the StoneWing dragonet had a crush on Cinder?”
“I’m not the best at emotions, but yeah, I think so.”
“I wonder if they could choose, if they’d choose to help us. It would be nice to know a StoneWing is on our side.” 
“We may never know.”
“Because that’s not ominous,” Atacama joked to lighten the mood.
That StoneWing was very weird. The only one who actually saw a firescales. Not like looking, like understanding that that’s also a dragon, with feelings, and a life. 
“So the only StoneWing with a soul,” Atacama said. 
“There could be more,” Sparrow chimed in.
“I hope there is,” Peaceflyt said.
“I do too,” Peak said.
They flew in silence for the next few hours, over forests, hills, rivers and lakes, until stopping to rest. Peaceflyt guessed that they were about a quarter to halfway to Queen Ember’s palace.
“This reminds me of our trip to rescue you,” Peaceflyt said. “Wow, that was only a few days ago.” 
“It was pretty much yesterday,” Peak told him. Peak didn’t know exactly when her friends had left school to rescue her. She honestly wasn’t entirely sure they’d find her. Peak knew they’d look, but it’s not exactly easy to find an island that’s not on any maps. 
“True,” Peaceflyt acknowledged. “I meant the part where we first left the academy, which by the way, seems like it was a while ago.”
“It really does,” Sparrow agreed.
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Peak subconsciously touched the scar on her left forearm. Peak had gotten that scar when Ember had sent her away from the SkyWing Palace. As if it wasn’t enough to send the dragonet who’s entire immediate family is dead off to the moons know where. No, Ember had to stab the orphan dragonet she was sending off to the moons know where with a spear. 
Her mind was warring with itself. It would be easier to never go back. Never. It would be better for you to. And the opposing army, But dragons will die if you don’t. They’ll go back to that horrifying place. They’ll have less freedom. More guards. You can kill Ember. 
Peaks heart sped. She had to slow down, as she was getting too far ahead of her friends. She was really, really, really, becoming more and more torrid by the second. She was overthinking every detail of what could happen, every possibility and every scenario she wanted to be prepared. 
By now, they had been flying for several hours. The other dragonets had continued their conversation, but Peak wasn’t listening. Then something one of them said grabbed her attention.
“Do you think the StoneWings will invade the Sky Kingdom again?’ Peaceflyt asked. “Didn’t they do that once?”
“Yeah. Uh, they might.” Peak said. She blinked several times, wondering how the conversation had gone from leaving school to dragon’s invading her kingdom. It had been a few hours, though.
“We should stop for food,” Pyramid noted, deciding to be the voice of reason, as they had skipped breakfast. 
“Not a bad idea,” Peak said as she went to land, scorching the land around her. She grabbed a squirrel off the ground and put it directly into her mouth. 
Pyramid, Atacama and Sparrow went to go find some food for themselves, and Peaceflyt dove into the trees below to find fruit. Peak waited for a few minutes, but as the ground below her burned more and more, she got up and flew around the surrounding area. 
She spotted prey that she decided to ignore. She also saw a SkyWing guard. The guard appeared to be picking the petals off of a flower. She needed to know what the guard was thinking. 
Betray the Queen. Keep pretending to be loyal. Betray the Queen. Keep pretending to be loyal. Betray the Queen. Keep pretending to be loyal. The guard’s thoughts followed with each petal she took off of a flower she was holding. The dragon seemed to be plucking flower petals to determine her course of action. 
Peak found what the dragon was doing to be strange, but also useful. She waited until the next ‘Betray the Queen,’ before showing herself to the dragon. “I’d say betray the crown while you can, because it just might not sit on Ember’s head much longer.”
“You’re alive?” The guard asked, looking up. It looked like she was looking at a ghost. 
“Pretty sure I am.”
“I heard rumors, but Ember said she killed you.”
“Nope, she just poked me with a sharp metal stick,” Peak responded, pointing at a scar on her left forearm. “Who are you anyway?” 
“My name is Vortex,” the dragon said. “Your Majesty,” she added.
“Nope. I haven’t not been called “Your Majesty” for all this time just to break my streak now.” Peak replied with a joking smile. 
“Alright, Princess Peak,” Vortex replied.
“No formalities. They’re too weird at this point. Just Peak.” Peak replied. “So I assume we’re going to go back to the palace now?”
“Yes, Pr-eak,” Vortex amended. “Did you bring a small army by any chance? Because that’d be pretty cool.” 
“Nope, but I did bring moral support.” Peak said while smiling.
“I guess that counts for something.”
“Speaking of a small army, do you know of any other SkyWings who’d like to betray my dear Aunt Ember?”
“Well, there is a small organization of dragons that wants to overthrow Queen Ember. They asked me to join them this morning, which is why I was out here debating whether or not to betray the Queen.” 
“Tell me more about this group of SkyWings. Things like numbers, when it started and why, what they’ve been planning, that sort of thing.” Peak was getting pretty curious at this point about this group of dragons.
“Well to start, it’s not entirely SkyWings. The founder and leader of the group is an IceWing named Icecap. There are a couple hundred members of it. And it started when everyone originally thought you’d been killed. Apparently, Icecap was there during the assassination. The group plans to get the IceWing Queen, Permafrost, and Queen Ember together to kill them both.”
Peak was very startled to find out that one of the IceWings who killed her family was trying to overthrow her aunt in her memory. Peak wasn’t really trusting of this Icecap dragon, but for now she seemed to be the best option that Peak had.
“I’d like to meet with Icecap here tonight,” Peak replied, nodding. “Can you get that message to her?”
“Oh course P-eak. I will do that the moment that I can,” Vortex assured.
“If you could also start spreading some rumors that I’m alive then that’d be pretty convenient so that I don't have to explain to the entire SkyWing Kingdom the story of how I didn’t die.”
“I can do that as well,” Vortex chuckled. 
Peak said goodbye to Vortex and flew away to back to where she would be meeting up with her friends to tell them what she knew and the plan that she’d made.
“Well that won’t be a very fun dragon to meet, due to the fact that you watched her murder your family members,” Atacama stated. Pyramid nodded in agreement. 
“Yeah, are you sure that you want to do this?” Sparrow asked.
“I’m certain. It’s the best option that we have and the best thing I can do for my kingdom,” Peak said.
“You owe them nothing. They just believed you were dead for years and never questioned it,” Pyramid said.
Peaceflyt awkwardly looked off to the side as everyone turned to look at him. “Do it if you want to, I guess,” he said quietly. “You don't have to do it, but we’ll be behind your back to support you if you want to.”
More coming eventually!
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