The Journey to the Night Kingdom

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== Chapter 1. The Start of the Adventure ==
Sparrow stood there, looking down at the group of NightWings.  She had seen them flying from the Rainforest and decided to follow them.
Sparrow was a SkyWing, bright orange with pale orange underscales, yellow eyes and a fair amount of battle scars from the war of SandWing succession.
It was late now, so she decided to rest, so she curled up on the cliff and went to bed. Sparrow woke up a couple of hours later to the sound of wingbeats in the distance.  She saw a pale yellow dragon and a white-blue one.  
She stood up and tried to look scary.  As they came closer she could see that they were a SandWing and an IceWing.
Now what would an IceWing be doing all the way in the corner of the Sand Kingdom.  Well it was sort of odd for a SkyWing to be here, too.  
The SandWing and the IceWing landed next to her.  The IceWing was really shiny and strong looking with an “I’m better than you” expression, and was wearing a gold and amber earring that looked quite bad on him.  The SandWing was smaller and had a jagged scar on his nose, he was looking at his companion worriedly as if he wasn't sure what he would do.  He was wearing a matching earring, friendship earrings, maybe.    
“What are you doing here?” demanded the IceWing.
“Nice to meet you too” Sparrow responded, “I followed some NightWings”
“Hi, I’m Qibli, and that’s my best friend Winter.” Qibli said.
“Phhh,” snorted Winter, “I’m not his friend, he made me come.”
“He loves me, he truly does, in his own, grumpy 'I hate you Qibli' way.” Qibli made a funny voice when imitating Winter.
Sparrow shook Winter and Qibli’s hands.
“I’m Sparrow” she responded.  
“Why did you follow the NightWings?” asked Winter
“Why not?  It’s not like I am doing anything since the war ended, so I was hoping for an adventure” answered Sparrow, “why did you?”
“Our friends followed the NightWings,” Qibli said blankly, “so we followed them, then we ran into you.”
Then there was some movement from the NightWings.  “We should hide.” said Winter.  
Then they flew down into the crevasse between some mountains and hid there.
“How long do we wait?” asked Sparrow
“I don’t care how long you wait, we’re going to save our friends”, said Winter.
“Don’t be rude, she could help us,” Qibli said with a smile.
“Fine,” said Winter grumpily, “but don’t be annoying, or grumpy, and don’t eat that much.”
“OK,” said Sparrow “But I can’t guarantee that I won’t eat that much.”
About five minutes later Qibli checked if the NightWings were still there and they were. “How much longer? Can’t we just battle them?” said Sparrow.  
“We just have to wait until they leave, then we follow them.” said Winter.
“Where are we even?”  asked Sparrow.
Qibli drew a rough drawing of the Pyrrian map and pointed to just about where the leg would start on the dragon shaped continent.  “About here” he said.
“OK.”
“How have you not been noticed by the NightWings? They have mind readers, you know,” Winter pointed out.
Then the sky went black over the crevasse.
‘Ah!” yelped Qibli, jumping into Winter, “what’s that?”
“It’s most likely the Nightwings,”said Winter calmly, as he pushed Qibli away from him.
“Let's go follow them!” said Sparrow enthusiastically as she jumped into the sky, “it’s boring down here.”
== Chapter 2. Winter Gets a Bracelet ==
Qibli and Winter followed her into the sky.  As they flew they heard something that made them jump.  
“Hello.” said a creaky voice. They looked down and there was an old, almost white Sandwing below them.  They swooped down and landed next to her.
“What do you want?”  asked Winter coldly, “if you just wanted to say hello then we will be on our way.”
“Well Mister Icewing, I’ve got something to give you, then you can leave.”  She reached into a bag around her and pulled out a silver bracelet with a diamond shaped amethyst dangling off of it.
“Umm, OK thanks” Winter said uncomfortably.
“Put the bracelet on!” croaked the old Sandwing.
Winter hurriedly attached the bracelet to his wrist. “Good-bye,” said Winter, “thank you.”  Then they flew after the Nightwings.  
“That was odd,” Sparrow said, is there anything different about the bracelet?”  
“Not that I can see,” Winter responded.  
“Looks good on you,” Qibli said.  
“You know, sometimes I can’t tell if you’re joking or not” Winter said.
== Chapter 3. Qibli Hates Storms ==
For awhile they flew in silence until it started to storm. 
“I hate storms,” muttered Qibli.  
They flew in the storm until they found a cave.  When they entered the cave they all felt an odd zap but they ignored it.  The cave was quite large with some old wood lying on the ground so they lit a fire.
“So how many battles have you been in?” asked Sparrow.
“You like battles, don’t you?”said Qibli.
“What? When you live in the Sky Kingdom when it's ruled by a violent Queen there’s a lot of battle.” She responded.
“So, where do you come from?” She asked Qibli.
“The Sand Kingdom,” Sparrow gave him a look that implied, “I meant specifically.”
“Oh, I'm from the Scorpion Den,” he said.
Then two dragons landed outside of the cave.  They couldn’t see what type of dragons they were, maybe Nightwings?
“Oh hello Winter and Qibli,” said the smaller one.  
“Who are you?” asked Sparrow.
== Chapter 4. Sparrow Makes Some More Friends ==
Before the two dragons could answer Winter and Qibli were at the door greeting them.
“Where did you go?” asked Qibli.  The two dragons were Mudwings.
“How do you know two MudWings?”asked Sparrow.
“Didn’t we tell you?  We are from Jade Mountain Academy.  This is Umber,” Qibli said, gesturing to the smaller dragon,  “and his sister Sora.”
Umber was smaller than Sora, but bigger than Qibli and Winter, he looked so happy, as if finding them had made his day, which it probably had.  Sora looked happy, but very worried.  She had probably had some bad experiences in the war.
“Hi!” said Umber, “nice to meet you.”
Qibli and Winter welcomed Umber and Sora into the cave.
“How did you find us?” said Winter.
“We followed you,”  said Sora.
“Is that General Sparrow?”  Umber asked.
“Sparrow is a General?,”  asked Winter.  
The dragons all sat around the fire, talking about their adventures until quite late, they all made up a plan on how they were going to save their friends too. Then Qibli gave pulled out three earring like his and Winter's and gave them to each of the dragons who didn't have one, he said they would protect them.  After a while, they all went to bed.  Sparrow slept in a far corner of the cave, away from everyone else.  
Sparrow woke up first. It had stopped raining, so she stood outside of the cave looking at the sunrise.  The NightWings were nowhere to be seen.  I hope we can find them again, thought Sparrow.  She looked back into the cave at the sleeping dragons, all of the dragons except Winter were crowded around Qibli since Sandwing scales radiate heat.
Sparrow looked back at the sunrise, then, a huge black cloud rose into the sky, about a kilometer away. NightWings, thought Sparrow.  She ran into the cave and poked Winter on his wing until he woke up.  “The NightWings are leaving,” she said.
“WHAT!?” said Winter, “This early? I’ll wake up Qibli, Umber, and Sora and we’ll follow them.”
== Chapter 5. The Arrival ==
After Winter woke them up they flew after the NightWings.  “I’m hungry,” whined Qibli, “can’t we eat first?”
“Not if you want to see Moon, Kinkajou and Turtle again!” said Winter.  
“Who’s Moon or Kinkajou or Turtle?”  asked Sparrow.  
“Those are our friends.”  said Umber.
“OK.” said Sparrow.
They flew after the NightWings for a long time, only stopping once or twice to catch something to eat to stop Qibli’s complaining.  The longer they flew, the more caves they saw, some of them even had doors.
“What is this place?” asked Sparrow.
“I don’t know,” said Winter  
“By the moons, I know where we are!” exclaimed Qibli,  “We’re in the Night Kingdom”
“What?!?” everyone yelled.
== Chapter 6. A 2000 Year old Skeleton ==
How do you know?” asked Sora.  
“Why would the NightWings come here if it wasn’t” stated Qibli.  
“Ya, I think he is right” said Umber.  
For awhile, they discussed what they were going to do when they go there when suddenly they flew over a hill, and there was a castle!  It was huge.  
“Whoa!” they all said in unison.  
“Did the NightWings go into the castle?”  asked Sparrow.  
“I think”  said Umber.
“Where should we land?” asked Winter.  
“How about on that stage, a bit away from the castle.” proposed Sparrow.  
“Won’t they see us?”  
“We’ll just land on it then find a place to hide,” said Qibli.  “I’m fine with that.” said Sparrow.  They group dived down and landed on the stage.  
“Are those bones sitting in a blood stain?”  asked Qibli.  It looked like Winter was putting things together in his head. The bones were really white, and some where dust, but a skull was still intact.   
“Those aren’t just any bones!” exclaimed Winter, “those are Royal IceWing bones!  Prince Arctic of the IceWings bones!  Our last Animus bones!”
“What?” asked Sora.  
“Not again” mumbled Qibli.
“What?” asked Sparrow.  
“Those bones are Prince Arctic’s bones,” said Winter
“And who’s that?” asked Sparrow.  
“The IceWing’s last animus!”  barked Winter.
“Wait, animus are real?” exclaimed Sparrow.  That’s crazy, they can't be real, they are just stories, she thought to herself.
“Yes, in fact, Turtle’s an animus dragon,”  said Qibli.  
“What?!?!” said Sora, and Umber.
“Wait, who is Turtle again?” questioned Sparrow.  
“Our SeaWing friend,” said Qibli, “he’s a hero, he saved Winter’s life,” he told them as he slapped Winter on  his back.  
“Ow,” said Winter “yes,he saved me, but before that, everyone started crying, including Qibli here,” he said as he slapped Qibli on his back.
“Ow, what?  You are my best friend,” he said, “OK let’s stop slapping each other and finish the story.”  
“Well Prince Arctic was Darkstalker’s father,”  explained Winter.  
“Who’s Darkstalker?” asked Umber, Sora and Sparrow in unison.
“Big, evil, NightWing from 2000 years ago,” said Qibli.  
“Well, Darkstalker killed his father,” said Winter.
“Technically, Darkstalker control his dad’s mind and made him disembowel himself,” said Qibli.
“EEWW!” said Sora “Gross!”.
“Freeze!” boomed a loud voice, “state your names and business.”  It was a NightWing guard.
== Chapter 7. The Guard ==
“Hello!” said Qibli, “I’m Qibli of the SandWings, the overly shiny and handsome IceWing is Winter.”
“Prince Winter,” Winter interrupted.  
“The bigger MudWing is Sora and the smaller guy is Umber.  Oh, and the bright orange SkyWing is Sparrow” he finished.  
“Well, King Darkstalker ordered us to take anyone captive if the are not a NightWing,”  the guard stated.  “So, either just come with me, or I will have to do this the hard way!”  
“Wait, Darkstalker is the King?”  asked Winter.  “That’s crazy, let’s get out of here.”
The group of dragons started to make a circle around the lone guard, giving him no way to flee the intruders.
“Shouldn’t we erase all of the evidence of us being here,” said Sparrow with an evil tone of voice.  
“Yes, “ said Umber, “ we can tie him up and put him under that tree over there.”  
“OK,” said Winter, “does anyone have a rope?”  
“No, can we just knock him out?” asked Sparrow.
“What? Don’t do that to me,” pleaded the guard.
“You know what,” he said, “this time you can be violent and knock him out, just because we don’t have a rope.”  
“Finally” she said as she made a fist and got ready to punch.
“Don’t kill him!” added Qibli.
Sparrow gave the guard a huge punch and he fell to the ground.  
“Thanks, “ said Winter.  “Everyone, please help carry the NightWing away.”  
“Aye aye captian!” said Qibli.  
They all grabbed the NightWing and dragged him under a tree.  
== Chapter 8. They go Armour Shopping ==
“We should go into the castle,” suggested Umber, “to save our friends.”  
“Wait, can you guys be sneaky,” Sparrow asked them.
“Sure,” answered Sora, nervously.  
“Okay, we need to find an empty room to enter the castle through.”
“Yes,” said Qibli. “Then we find some disguises and we find our friends and save them”
“OK let's do this,” she said.  Sparrow, Winter, Qibli, Umber and Sora leapt into the air and started flying towards the castle.  They didn’t fly very high so that they wouldn’t be seen.  Sometimes, a dragon would look out a window so they would drop onto the ground and hide since they all were fairly bright colored.  It took about half an hour to get to the castle even though it wasn’t very far away.  When they finally got close to the castle they stopped flying and started looking for an empty room.
“Hey, guys, this one looks empty!” called Umber.
“Shhh!” they all called back.
“Sorry” he whispered back, “Hey, guys, this one looks empty.’
“OK, thanks for whispering.” said Sparrow.
They all looked into the window and it was a kitchen. There was lots of counters, some cages with bones, and these pits in the ground which were likely were the cooked food.  They hopped through the window and landed in the kitchen.
“This is cool, “ said Qibli.  
“Ya, do you think there’s any food left?” joked Umber.  
“Two thousand year old food! Yum!” said Qibli.  They all laughed.  
“We need to find your friends, where do you think they are?” announced Sparrow
“I don’t know, Darkstalker is pretty evil, you can’t be sure about what he might do to them” stated Winter.  
“ Well, shoot a monkey, “ said Qibli.  Everyone looked at him like he was crazy. “I never expected you’d say that, just a couple days ago you were saying that Darkstalker’s a perfectly nice guy and now you are saying he’s evil.”  
“A dragon can change his mind, can’t he?” defended the IceWing prince.
“Ok , enough arguing, are we gonna save them or not?” said Sparrow.  
“Ya, let's go,”  said Sora.  They silently opened the door and peeked out.  
“The coast is clear,” said Qibli.  
“ We can tell you know, you don’t need to narrate,” said Winter.  The hallway was long and dark, with some old pieces of armor scattered on the ground as if the NightWings had dropped them when they left.  
“Let’s get some armour on before we go find...what are their names, Loon, Pikachu and Turder, right?” asked Sparrow. Qibli, Winter, Umber and Sora all burst into laughter.  
“It’s Moon, Kinkajou and Turtle,” said Qibli between laughs.  
“Shh, the NightWings will hear us,”said Umber.
“Ok, everybody get some armor and bring it into the kitchen,” ordered Winter,  “and I’ll sort the armor into groups.”
Sparrow, Qibli, Umber, and Sora went and got some armor.
“Try to get all different types of armor so we don’t only have, say, helmets.”  
Some of the armor was rusty and dented, the only thing you could be sure about with the armor was that it was big.  Too big for any of  them, since it was meant for really big dragons.  Winter sorted the armor they gathered into piles by type.  
“Ok, team,” said Winter, “each of you take a piece of armor from each pile and put it on ok?”
“Yes sir!” said Qibli to Winter.  
Sparrow put on a piece of back armor.
“This stuff is heavy” she said.  
Once they got all the armour on they looked hilarious. They were all weighed down and when they tried to walk the armour clanked so there was no use trying to be stealthy, but at least it sort of disguised them.
== Chapter 9. The Amazing Plan ==
“Ok, we need a real plan now, not just ideas of what we think we’ll do, what we need is a map,” said Sparrow.
“Where can we find a map?” asked Sora.  
“We’ll need to find a library!” said Sparrow.  “So, what’s the plan?”
“I thought you had a plan” said Winter.
“The plan is that we go and find Moon, Kinkajou, and Turtle and save them, OK?” said Qibli.  
“Amazing plan, it has so much detail and seems so thought out,” snorted Winter.
“Anyone else have any ideas?” asked Sparrow  
“I have an idea!” said Umber,”We find the library and find a map of the castle, then we find the prisons.  After we find the prisons we release our friends if they’re in there.  Then we confront King Darkstalker and SLAP! WHAM! KAPOW! We defeat him and life happily ever after, the end.”  
“Let’s go then,” she said. Everyone nodded and clanked out of the kitchen in search of the library.
== Chapter 10. Umber Finds a Sandwich ==
It seemed like there wasn’t even a library after a while but they still kept searching.  The only good thing about it was that they found a lot of cool places.  There was a huge, majestic dining area on a floor about a quarter up the palace.  Next to that there was an even bigger, more majestic ballroom.  They got so warm that they had to take off their armour.
“This is harder than it seemed,” said Winter, but he still had a lot of energy, compared to the others.
“Agreed,” said Umber tiredly.  
Sora walked up to a door next to the ballroom and opened it.
“Cool,” she said “this is an amazing bedroom.”  They all looked in and she was right.  There was a big picture of a NightWing hanging over a burning fireplace.  Next to the fireplace was a beautiful four post bed.  
“Wow,” said Sparrow as she walked in, “do you think this belonged to the queen?”  
“No I don’t think so,” said Qibli as he looked at a desk, “ you see the paper here? It says ‘dear Queen Vigilance’ and that’s all, as if the writer was interrupted.”
“Who do you think lived in here then?” she said.  
“I don’t know, maybe someone related to the queen.”
“ I smell something,” interrupted Umber, “I smell food!”  Then he dove under the bed before they could stop him.  
“What do you think is down there?” said Qibli nervously.  
A few minutes later Umber crawled out from under the bed, covered with dust, and holding a half eaten sandwich.
“Ok, that’s weird,” said Winter.  “Why would there be a sandwich just sitting there under a bed?”  
“ I don’t know, but it’s a good sandwich,” said Umber as he ate the sandwich.
Then a small dragon hopped out from under the bed and said, “give me back my sandwich or die.”
== Chapter 11. Watermelon ==
“What?” said Umber, “this is your sandwich, oh well, I ate it.”
“I shall avenge my sandwich by defeating you,” the dragon said.  He looked about fifty years old, as he was a RainWing with dull grey scales.
“Whoa dude, slow down, we didn’t mean to harm, uh, your sandwich,” said Qibli.  
But it was too late.  The little dragon grabbed a shovel and scooped up some ash from the fireplace and threw it at them. When the ash cleared, they could see that they were covered with ash and Winter had the RainWing pinned to the ground.  
“Ok, who are you?” he asked.  
“Why I’m Watermelon, nice to meet you,” the RainWing squeaked, “I live here.”  
“Hello Watermelon, I’m Winter, the others are Sparrow, Qibli, Umber and Sora,” he said gesturing to each of them.  
“Hi,” said Umber, “sorry about your sandwich.”  
“ Do you know your way around here well?” asked Sparrow.
“Well sure, “ Watermelon said.
“Looks like we have found our map,” she said.  
“What are you dragonets doing anyways?” Watermelon asked.
“Me and him came here to save our friends,” said Qibli gesturing to Winter, “ and Sparrow followed the NightWings and ran into us, and Sora and Umber found us after that.”  
“Why would the NightWings be here?” said Watermelon
“They got a king from two thousand years ago and he brought them here, supposedly, because they used to live here,”Qibli explained.  
“But I live here!” he said.  
“Then help us defeat him,” said Sparrow.
“Ok, I haven’t been on an adventure in at least twenty years! Wait, are you guys secretly working for the NightWings because you look like them.”
“What, I look nothing like a NightWing,” said Winter, then he looked at his ash covered scales.  “Oh, yeah, I guess we do look like them.”  
“Hey, this could work for us,” said Sora,”one of us can pretend to be a NightWing and bring the others in like prisoners.  Then we go to the jail and find Moon, Kinkajou, and Turtle, take off our disguises and defeat Darkstalker.”
“Good plan, but who will be the NightWing?” he asked.
== Chapter 12. Sparrow Reads a Book ==
“Really?” complained Winter, “Why me?”
“The NightWings hate IceWings,” explained Sora, “so we decided that we better hide you say they don’t get mad.”  They had all sat down on the ground and got comfortable.  
“I’m tired,” Umber yawned, “what time is it?”  
Sparrow looked out the window.  “Bedtime” she responded, “I’m going to sleep.”
“Where’s Watermelon?” asked Umber.  They all looked at the bed and the old RainWing was sprawled out on the four poster bed snoring.  
“Well, we’ll continue this argument in the morning” said Winter as he grabbed a pillow and lay down on the ground.  
“Goodnight” said Sparrow.
After awhile, Sparrow fell asleep.  She dreamt about the plan failing and all of them dying.  A couple of hours later she woke up to the sound of talons writing on paper.  She looked around and saw Qibli had woken up and was busy writing.  
“What are you doing?” she asked.  
“I’m writing a song,” Qibli responded.
“About what?”
“Why do you ask?”  
“I don’t know, I’m curious I guess,”
“Well, you won’t get to know, not until it is famous!”
“Ok, well, goodnight!” she said. Okay that was odd, she thought.
“Oh, I know what you’re thinking, the song is not about you,” Qibli added quickly.  “Good,” Sparrow responded.
Shortly after, she fell asleep.  Sparrow woke up at about seven o’clock to an annoying light shining on her face.  She blinked and moved her head out of the light so she could see her comrades.  Qibli was snuggled against a very awake and very grumpy looking Winter.  Umber was sleeping right under one of the windows in a beam of sun. Sora was curiously looking through the contents of the desk.
“Why won’t this igloo faced dragon move?” growled Winter, “I haven’t slept since this idiot moved here!”
“Why don’t you move him?” she asked.  Winter looked away from her,
“I am trying to be a nicer dragon,” he responded, putting a talon on his chest heroically.
“Then either stop complaining or stop being so nice,” Sparrow replied.  
Winter just sat there grumbling.  
She turned to Sora, “did you find anything interesting?”  
“No, not really, um...I found some old books though,” Sora said as she passed a couple of books to Sparrow.  She looked at the titles, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Star Wars a New Hope.  
“I hope that these books are better than they sound,” Sparrow said as she flipped through Pirates of the Caribbean.  She sat down to start reading.
== Chapter 13. The Plan Begins ==
“Good morning everyone!” exclaimed Qibli, “how did everyone sleep?”  Everyone looked up from the books they were reading.
“Good until you went and slept next to me,” Winter grumped, “you are like a furnace, man, SandWing scales are warm.”
“Ok, let’s start the plan,” interrupted Sparrow uncomfortably, “Winter! Get disguised.  Watermelon draw a map of the palace.  Everyone else get ready to go!”  Winter grumped over to the fireplace and started putting some ash on his shiny white-blue wings.
“Wait,” said Umber, “can we eat first?”  
“Sure, if you have food!” Sparrow yelled in her best boss voice.  
“Um, I think Watermelon has some more sandwiches.” He said.  
“Ok, can you please get one for everyone?”  
“Sure, I’ll go ask him to make some sandwiches.”
Umber walked over to Watermelon and started talking to him. A couple of minutes later, Watermelon and Umber each walked out carrying a plate of sandwiches.
“Ok, dragonets, if you are hungry please take a sandwich,” Watermelon said as he placed the plate of sandwiches on the desk.  Everyone took a sandwich and sat down.  
“Guys, we need to hurry, we’re already behind schedule” said Sparrow, “after this, we’re gonna go find the prisons and find whoever’s in there and save them, ok?”  
After they finished their meal they group started their journey to the jails.
== Chapter 14. Fastflight and Wonderdragon ==
As the group walked, they ran into some NightWings.  
“What are you doing” one of them asked.
“I’m bringing these dragons to the jail” Winter said in a deep and authoritative voice.
“Well then, I’ll come with you” replied one of them, she had a quite high pitched, nasally voice.
“Oh, there is no need to come with me, I will be fine,” insisted Winter and he started to walk away.  But the NightWing was already following him.  
“So, what’s your name?” she asked Winter.
Winter glanced back at his fake prisoners.  Oh no, we didn’t think of a name for him, Sparrow thought. “Um, my name is,” Winter paused and looked at their surroundings, “Wonderdragon!”
“Ok...Hello Wonderdragon, I’m Fastflight, I haven’t seen you before, are you like, some important guy or something?”
“Sure,” responded Winter.  
“So, who are the prisoners?” asked the NightWing.
Winter glanced at his friends and a mischievous smile came over his ash covered face.  “I’m pretty sure their names are Tangerine, Brownie, Worm, Sandy and Old-Man Joe.”  
“Hi,” growled Qibli through gritted teeth, “it turns out I’m Sandy.”
“Old-Man Joe, I like that,”  Watermelon thought out loud.  
“Can I be Brownie?” asked Sora.  
“Darn, then I must be Worm” said Umber.  
“Isn’t Tangerine a fruit?  Is it good?  I haven’t tried it” Sparrow asked.  
Fastflight stopped and stared at them.  “What?” she asked, “is this all an act?”  “What? No! Never!”  Winter lied.  
“Oh, okay then, let's get to that jail.”  
They all had to stifle a laugh, it was so easy to trick these NightWings. They walked along silently until they heard something.
“What do you mean he won’t tell us anything?” yelled an angry voice from behind the walls.  
“Oh no” breathed Fastflight.  
“Bring the quiet little rat here!!!” bellowed the voice.  Fastflight looked terrified.
“What’s wrong?” asked Winter.  
“The king is mad,” she responded, “and he will be even madder if these prisoners aren’t in their cells, so let’s go.”  
“Who’s the little rat?” asked Sparrow.  
“Oh no!” Winter said, “they have Turtle, we have to get to the dungeons fast.”  Then he leapt into the air and started flying down the hall, leaving everyone behind. The fake prisoners looked at each other and shrugged and followed after him in flight.  Fastflight flew after them.
== Chapter 15. A Problem Finds Them ==
Sparrow wasn’t sure if Winter knew where he was going, but he he seemed to have a good sense of direction,because he found the staircase going down to the dungeon.  He landed just before the stairs and looked back at his comrades.
“Are you guys coming?” he asked, some of his ash disguise had blown off while flying.
“Winter,” whispered Qibli, “your face! The disguise is falling off”  
It seemed like Winter misheard what Qibli said because he responded, “my face? Oh yes, it is handsome, I already know.”
“Hey, Wonderdragon, you got something bluish-white on your face”  she told him, she walked up to him and tried to brush the ‘blueish-white’ stuff off his face but she just she just got more of the ash off.
“Please,” Winter pleaded, “Stop.”
“Oh no!” she yelled, “You must be sick!  We need to get you back to health, don't move!”  Then she zoomed away.  They waited a couple of minutes silently.
“Can we please go save Turtle,” Winter demanded, “I don't want to deal with what Fastflight has in store for me.”
“Sure,” said Sora, “ we’re so close to getting this done with.”
“I'm fine with this, actually,” Umber admitted, “ I enjoy being around cool guy dragons more than boring sisters.”
“How kind of you,” growled Sora.
“Okay, guys, let's go save your friends,” Sparrow said.
She waited until everyone had started descending the spiral stairs until she went down, she was ready for anything.  It was quite dark down there, so every once in awhile Qibli would breathe some fire in front of them and continue walking.
“Tell me about Turtle, please,” asked Sparrow.
“Turtle is green,” said Winter.
“He’s kind and nervous,” answered Sora.
“Turtle was my clawmate,” remembered Umber.
“He’s probably caught by Darkstalker, that’s why we’re here,” Qibli ended that conversation on an unhappy note, he stepped down onto the next step and the stone sunk in. “Oh no, this can't be good,” he jumped down a couple steps. Suddenly, there was an ominous click followed by a zip.
== Chapter 16. It is Not Safe ==
Darts, Sparrow thought.  They stood on the stairs they were on for what seemed like hours, not moving a muscle.  A few minutes later Winter dared to speak.
“I think we should continue walking, just look before you step.  Make sure to skip the stair that made the dart shoot.”
Sparrow, Qibli, Winter, Umber, Watermelon, and Sora stepped down one step each.  Suddenly, a bunch of darts shot out of holes in the walls!  
“Ahh!” screamed Sora, “one’s hit me!”
“Run!” yelled Winter, “and don't stop ‘till we’re down.”
So they ran.  A couple minutes later they came across a big, brown door.
“Is everyone okay?” asked Qibli.
“I was hit a couple times, but the darts didn't get between my scales,” Sparrow answered.
Sora pulled a dart out of her right leg.  “Ouch,” she said.  The dart was extremely pointy, very bloody, and quite rusty.
“Oh no, that’s bad, very bad,” worried Watermelon.
“We’ve got to keep moving,” informed Winter, “Sora, you can stay back if you want.”  He looked at the dart wound, which now had a large trickle of blood streaming down it, and winced.
“No, I can keep going, I’ve been through worse, with the war and all” she answered.
They all looked at each other, nodded and tried pushing open the door.  It was very heavy, and at took all six of them a while to get it open enough so they could get in.  Inside, was a long stone hallway, wide enough for five adult dragons to to walk side side by side, and high enough to fly comfortably.
“Before you step in look for places darts could shoot out of,” said Umber.
“Honestly, the builders wouldn't waste their time building more traps so it’s probably safe,” Qibli said, he jumped into the air and flew stationary for a couple seconds, “See? It’s perfectly safe!  Come on-”  He was suddenly cut off, and a streak of blood appeared on one of his wings.
== Chapter 17. The Very Dangerous Hallway ==
“Qibli!” screamed the group.  He fell to the ground, Sparrow looked for what had impaled Qibli.  There was a huge spike on the roof.  
“Guys, I don't think this place is safe,” informed Sparrow.  She looked at the rest of the group; Qibli on the floor bleeding, Winter right next to him looking scared and kindly calling him an idiot, Umber was wide eyed in terror for his friend, Watermelon pulling out medical knowledge from nowhere, and Sora was looking away from the blood.
“What should we do to get there, then?” wondered Sora, she looked at the ground and spotted a rock, “hey, guys, how ‘bout we throw this rock to see if anything happens.” no one answered her but Sparrow gave her a ‘give it a go’ look, so she threw.  A bunch of knives shot out of the walls menacingly, fire shot out of the floor and somehow lit the rock on fire, then an axe swung from the roof and cut the burning rock into a bunch of little pieces!
“Qibli, are you okay?” asked Sparrow.
“Oh, I’m fine,” he confessed, but then he mumbled “more or less.”
“Can I do anything to help?” stammered Umber.
“Oh no, you don't need to, I’ve been through worse; living with my family,” Qibli answered.
“Can you fly?” asked Winter.
Qibli stood up and held out his ripped, bloody wing, “No,” he stated, “Carry me!”  Then he dramatically flopped back onto the ground.
“Come on, guys,” said Sparrow, “Oh, Qibli, you can walk.”  They all got up and stared at the dangerous hallway.
“So, are we going to keep moving or what?” asked Watermelon.
“I think we should turn back,” noted Winter, “ I mean, Qibli and Sora have both gotten hurt, and we don't know what lies ahead, and I really don't want anyone else to get hurt.”
“Wow, Winter, I’m touched, but it's not up to you what everyone does, I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make Pyrrhia safer, I can't talk for everybody, but I will keep going,” said Qibli.
Suddenly, there was a big rumbling sound.
“What’s that sound?” asked Sora nervously.
The sound was bone chilling and sounded dangerous.  Instantly after that, a trap door opened on the roof and a huge rock was falling towards them!
== Chapter 18. Make That Five, Again ==
The group ran, Sparrow couldn't see everyone, she could see Sora ahead of her and she could hear Winter yelling angrily beside her.  Darn, darn, darn!  The bad guy’s ‘gonna hear us!  She thought.  Then some fire blasted up next to her and burnt her tail.  As abruptly as it started, it was over, they had made it to the end of the hallway.
“Is everyone here?” asked Sparrow, she looked at everyone.  Umber, check.  Qibli, check.  Winter, check.  Sora, check.  Watermelon… no check.  “Where’s Watermelon?”
“I don't see him,” responded Sora.  
They looked around and saw an open trapdoor.
“Oh no!  He fell in a trap!” exclaimed Umber.
“Watermelon, are you OK?” she yelled.
His answer was, “Yes, but I'm a little stuck.”
“I don't think we should go back to get him yet, too dangerous,” Sparrow whispered.   The others agreed.  “Umm, Watermelon, we can't go back to get you yet, is that OK?”
“It’s OK, but please come back,” he responded.
“We will, don't worry,” said Sparrow. She looked at the hurt Sora and Qibli, why am I doing this?  She wondered.
== Chapter 19. Darkstalker and Turtle ==
The group of them walked silently down the jail hallway, each of them deep in thought.  Then they heard a moan.
“Oh my, I think that’s Turtle,” exclaimed Umber.  They all picked up their pace.  I'm finally gonna meet this guy,  Sparrow thought.  Then, in front of them was a jail cell with a shadow in the corner,the shadow of a small green SeaWing.
“Turtle!” cried Qibli, “We’re here to save you!” he looked down at his friend, who then came out of the shadows and looked quite depressed.  Sparrow wasn't sure if it was his normal face or not.
“They’re gone,” Turtle mumbled sadly, he made eye contact with each of his friends.
“Oh no!” said Umber, “How?”
“Darkstalker sucked my powers right out of me and stuck me down here….”  then he saw Sparrow and asked, “who’s that?”  
“Hi!  I’m Sparrow,” she answered. “nice to meet you.”  Then, suddenly, there was this weird dimension ripping feeling and all of them were magically transported away.
“Oh no!” yelled Qibli as they were being pulled by the powerful force.
When the teleporting stopped they were in a room with a raised podium with a large throne facing backwards on it, long thin windows lined the walls, and the only exit was a large heavy looking metal door.
“So, I see you’ve come to find your friends, dragonets, you’ll regret this.” said a mysterious voice, the same one they had heard earlier that day.
“Darkstalker,” hissed Winter.  Then Darkstalker spun around his large throne, and he was two times scarier than Sparrow had imagined.  He was giant, huge, big and every other word you could use to describe something very large.  He had red eyes that were glowing with anger, and was wearing a silver crown made out of spikes.
“IceWing, IceWing, there’s an IceWing in my castle!  I’ll kill it!”  Then Winter was lifted off the ground and started choking on air, his eyes were in pure terror!
“Dude, stop choking Winter!” Qibli yelled.
“STOP!” screamed a voice from behind the evil king, and a small NightWing ran out.  She had shiny scales, and pretty green eyes.  Then Winter fell to the ground and the small NightWing ran up to him.
“Winter,” she said.
“Moon,” Winter gasped.
“How could you?” Moon hollered.
“Well, he’s supposed to be dead, since I put up a spell that kills IceWings if they enter the Night Kingdom,” King Darkstalker countered.  
There was silence, then there was sounds of lots of dragons in the hallway.  Suddenly a big MudWing burst through the door breathing fire at Darkstalker!  Followed by an angry blue SeaWing wearing lots of pearls, a regal looking red RainWing with her mouth open like a snake, a NightWing with a bandage on his eyes with a worried expression, a small bright yellow SandWing sort of thing, and a whole hoard of other dragons.  But the weird thing was that they were all wearing earrings just like Qibli’s.  Turtle seemed to notice that to because he looked at Qibli questionly and Qibli just grinned at him.    
“Darkstalker,” growled the MudWing menacingly.
“That’s King Darkstalker to you,” he responded then turned to his guards and said, “Guards, kill these idiots.”
That was when the battle broke out.
== Chapter 20. Half Frozen Tears ==
Sparrow couldn't remember what had happened first. The mad SeaWing attacked Darkstalker, Winter got up and took on some guards with Moon by his side.  Sparrow battled guards, also, slashing their faces and biting their tails.  The battle went on and on, each side winning at some points, and losing at some points. Once, she looked up from her fight and saw Umber get slashed on the stomach by none other than Fastflight!  A couple hours later Sparrow had taken a horrid scratch to her face under her eye, a whole bunch of cuts on her legs and neck, and a painful bite on her tail.  Six hours later, the good guys were winning.  They had wounded most of the NightWings and they had surrendered, but their king was nowhere to be found.
“How did we lose him?” asked Sora, who was helping Sparrow and Winter collect dead corpses.
“I don't know,” growled Winter, “but he’s not the only missing dragon, Moon is missing and so is Qibli.”  Then Winter turned over a dead body and looked at their face.  Sparrow had seen this dragon before, just recently, actually, the dragon was Moon.
“Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!” wailed Winter, and then the arrogant prince started crying.  He cried and cried, he cried and his tears were half frozen. Sparrow even saw Sora shed a few tears. Sparrow cried a tear also. A couple minutes later, Winter looked up from Moon’s corpse and Sparrow got to look at her closely for the first time.  He had had neat little silver scales by her green eyes.  She had died from her throat being slit, from what Sparrow could see.
Sparrow looked at Winter with sad eyes and said “I'm so sorry this happened to your friend.”
Winter straightened his face, getting rid of all emotion and responded, “Come on, let’s go find Qibli, I don't want to lose any of the other friends I still have left.” And with that he flew up, high into the sky.  Sparrow followed him, but Sora stayed back to bring Moon’s body back to the camp.
“Winter, do you know where you’re going?” she called to him, but he didn't answer.  Oh, I hope he doesn't get us killed, she thought.  As they flew Sparrow saw a huge grey cliff with spiky rocks below it, and on the edge of that cliff was Qibli cornered by Darkstalker!
== Chapter 21. The Battle on the Cliff ==
They were battling each other and huge, muscled King Darkstalker was winning against tired, skinny Qibli!  Qibli tried to scratch the King of the NightWings in the face, but he easily swatted him away, and pushed him of the cliff!  Qibli tried to fly, but with his hurt wing he fell!
“Qibli!  Nooooooooooo!!!” bellowed Winter as he flew towards the falling Qibli, Sparrow raced towards him, to but even with her big SkyWing wings they were both too slow.
“Heeeeeeeelp!” screamed Qibli, but then he hit the rocks below the cliff!
“How could you?  HOW COULD YOU?” barked Winter, “YOU KILL EVERYONE!  YOU KILLED MOON!  YOU’RE A MONSTER!”  The anger melted out of Darkstalker’s face, and was replaced with sadness.
“I killed her?” he asked fearfully.
“It might not have been you specifically, but she was probably killed by someone from your army!” Winter growled.  
Then Darkstalker seemed to shrink, and then some handcuffs appeared on his arms and he said, “Take me away, I'm a monster, lock me up forever if you want, I’ll remove all the spells I’ve done.”
== Chapter 22. The Emotional Speech ==
Sparrow sort of forgot that Qibli was unconscious on the rocks and got yelled at for that.  They carried Qibli back to the camp and to the medical tent to get checked out.  
A big MudWing looked at him and informed them that he was unconscious and there wasn't much he could do, all they needed was time.  
Sparrow and Winter stayed with Qibli.  They talked a bit but they got hungry, so Sparrow went hunting.  She flew above the forest and caught a moose, and flew back to camp.  When she got outside the doctor tent she heard Winter talking to someone. Sparrow peaked into the tent and saw that he was talking to the unconscious Qibli. What is he talking about, I should eavesdrop, she thought, then she turned her thought into action, and she eavesdropped.
“Qibli, I’m so sorry I was so mean to you, all you did was be nice to me and I was rude back to you.  However, now that you might be gone,” Winter’s voice started to shake, “You don't know what you've got until it’s gone, eh?  Well, you’re not gone yet, so please don't die, please, please, don't die, you’re my best friend in the whole world and I’d do anything to save you, because....because….”  Winter ran out of words. Poor Winter, he’s been strong for too long, Sparrow thought.
Then she walked into the tent.  “Hey,” she said, “are you OK?”
“Sparrow!  How much of my emotional speech did you hear?” he asked her.
“Oh, about since “Qibli, I’m sorry,”” she imitated Winter’s slightly deeper voice.  
Then the little yellow SandWing walked in, “Hello,” she said happily, “I can watch Qibli for you guys if you want, so you can check on your other friends.”
“Sure, Sunny, thanks,” answered Winter.
Sparrow smiled, for the first time in a while.
== Epilogue. It feels Like we Should Sing ==
The group of them stood on a cliff, all of them; Sparrow, Qibli, Winter, Umber, and Sora.  Sparrow was staring at the horizon happily.  All of them were quite content actually.  They had gotten Darkstalker to get Watermelon out of the trap and now he was already in the Rainforest helping Queen Glory get everything back to normal.  Darkstalker had been persuaded to make himself forget being evil, and he turned himself into an IceWing dragonet and moved to the Ice Kingdom with his mother who, yes was alive, to be raised there and live a normal life, he was a normal dragon now, so he would live and die.  But still, immortal family much.  
“So, this is the end?” asked Qibli.
“No, Qibli it’s just the beginning,” responded Winter.  They were silent for a couple seconds and then Sparrow pointed out “It feels like we should sing a song, right?”
“Ya,” said Sora.
.“Let's go, we need to get to Jade Mountain before tonight.  It’s the welcome back party.”
“Who’s ‘gonna carry Qibli,” asked Sora, “Not me!”
“Not me!” yelled Sparrow happily.
“Not me!” sang Umber.
“Not me!” said Winter.
“Winter,” said Sparrow as she lightly punched his shoulder.
“Why is it always me?” he asked himself.
So they leapt up into the sky, well, Qibli laid on Winter’s back as he leapt into the sky.
“So, this concludes our journey to the Night Kingdom, I guess,” said Sparrow, “the end of our first adventure as a team.”
“Ya, I guess,” responded Qibli, who had rested his head on Winter’s shoulder.
They flew into the horizon.  Each hoping that adventure wasn't their last one they’d have together, and surely it wouldn't be. The End.
== Post-Epilogue. The End.....? ==
As the five of them flew through the desert they saw a little hut.  They flew down to the hut and a little old SandWing they had met before welcomed them in.
“I never got the chance to introduce myself, I’m Jerboa,” she said, “I’d like to meet my friend.”  The other dragon in the hut was different from every other dragon they had ever seen.  “This is the first dragon form the lost continent”
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