Storm Gathering (Wings of Fire)

THIS IS AN UPDATE ON EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING 90 YEARS AFTER THE DRAGONETS PROPHECY. THE TRIBES UNDERNEATH HAVE NOT CHANGED, BUT YOU CAN SEE IN THE MAP THAT SOME HAVE CHANGED LOCATION
Sandwings: Queen Thorn rules the kingdom with her one daughter, Pebble, and they are living peacefully together. 
Mudwings: Queen Copper is the daughter of Queen Moorhen and her throne was peacefully passed down. Her daughter, Frog, is expected to ascend to the throne when her mother passes it down to her.
Skywings: Queen Ruby lives in the Sky kingdom with her beloved daughter, Everest, and her son Cliff. 
Seawings: Queen Auklet is the first Seawing to have her throne passed down peacefully. She has two daughters, Sapphire and Wave, and Sapphire is expected to take the throne peacefully someday.
Icewings: Queen Snowfall has been queen for years and lives with her wife, Lynx, and her daughter, Curvace, and son, Quartz. 
Rainwings: Queen Glory lives with her husband, Deathbringer, and daughter, Firefly.
Nightwings: Queen Glory (Lady Shade is their representative) 
Hivewings: Queen Savannah is the daughter of Lady Jewel and she is still rebuilding her cities and re-bonding with the Leafwings and Silkwings. Her two daughters' names are Lion and Zebra, and her husband's name is Bristletail.
Silkwings: Queen Luna lives with her husband, Swordtail, her two sons who are twins, Atlas and Adonis, and her one daughter, Alexandra and is making sure her tribe is strong. 
Leafwings: Queen Hazel’s throne was given to her from Queen Sequoia, and she lives with her daughter, Bunya, in the wonderful Prime Forests in her kingdom. Her advisor, Sundew, used her leafspeak to turn their large island into four parts: The Poison Jungle, the Un-Poisonous Jungle, the Redwood Groves, and the Prime forests.
Humans: The human queen, Bark, her daughter, Toadstool, and her son, Pigeon, live together at the tip of the Sky Kingdom in their small Kingdom, and their tribe is bonding with their Best-Selling Crystal Stuff; A cotton-stuffed animal of any type with dyed fur and Crystal eyes. 
NEW TRIBES
HYBRIDWINGS
DESCRIPTION: Hybridwings have many colors of scales, considering that they are not all the same types of Dragons. Hybridwings are all hybrids of any form, so their descriptions are all mixes of the other tribes.
ABILITIES: As noted earlier, no Hybridwings are the same. That means that their abilities are different and unique.
QUEEN: Queen Treetop (Rainwing/Skywing) 
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: The Hybridwings do not have a Royal family, but the current queen will choose her successor and when she dies, her successor takes the throne.
LIGHTNINGWINGS
DESCRIPTION: Teal, or Ice Blue scales, twisted horns on the back of their heads, hooked claws and strong large wings, small spikes on the tips of tails.
ABILITIES: When bitten by them, their teeth will mildly shock you. They can turn invisible when in any form of fog or mist, and by using special movements of their tails, they can control weather. They can also inhale lightning, and then breathe it out defensively. 
QUEEN: Queen Thunder
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Before their dragonets can control the weather safely, they have to wear a comfortable tail band to keep others safe. The dragonets also attend a special school to learn how to control their powers properly.
PHANTOMWINGS
DESCRIPTION: Greyish scales and usually blackish eyes, sometimes with spots coating their scales, with horns sticking out at the back of their head. Smaller wings with a prehensile tail. Have strong arms for digging.
ABILITIES: Every time a Dragon dies, they bring them to their home as ghosts and worship them as gods. They also can breathe fire and emit heat from their scales.
QUEEN: (Book 1) Queen Blood (Rest of the books) Queen Haunted
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: The Phantomwings live miles underneath the Lightningwings territory and no other tribe knows they exist. 
Cavewings
DESCRITION: Cavewings- close relatives of the Phantomwings- have grey scales when they are in the caves or underground and glowing claws.
ABILITIES: When Cavewings go into a different environment that is not the caves, they shift into the appearance of the dragon tribe that would live there, and sometimes they are mixes of multiple tribes.
QUEEN: There is only one Cavewing left, and her name is Stalagmite.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Cavewings accidently created the Phantomwings. 
IMPORTANT INFO
THE QUEENLY COUNCIL
The Queenly Council consists of all the Queen and the Nightwing Representative and they meet once every two months in the caves where the Dragonets of Destiny grew up many years ago. They make world wide decisions for all Dragons together.
THE MEETUP FOR MAGIC
The Meetup for Magic is located underneath Jade Mountain River, where Dragons with Leafspeak, Mind Reading, Foresight, and Animus power can go to a safe space and learn about their powers, or anything they want.
THE PORTALS
Many years ago Animus Dragons created portals in each kingdom where you can use them to teleport to any of the other portals in the other kingdoms, unless the portals are turned off.
Storm Gathering 
PROLOGUE
When Blood was the new queen, she knew she would be the best. She would rule the Phantomwings for the longest reign of any other queen. But she needed to do some things by herself to make things great.
It was all her mothers fault that she was in this mess in the first place. She would have to redo everything that Skull had done. She had wanted to expose the Phantomwings! Why do that when they could control the world in secret?
As Queen Blood skimmed through scrolls her servants had given to her, she only thought of the tribe's future. But that was only what she believed to be thinking about. The real thoughts circling in her head were only for the future of herself.
STORY
At first, Storm was excited once she learned what a princess was. But now, at three years old, she wished that she could be anyone else. Her mother, Queen Thunder, was too overprotective.
Storm had never seen anywhere outside the Royal Nursery, the hallway outside it, and her cave. 
The Royal Nursery was where all the royal dragonets spent most of their first four years. But they were allowed to go out of the palace with their parents, unlike Storm. Their caretaker, Struck, who was kind, but firm, watched them all the time, and taught them how to control the weather, history, and geography.
Storm’s cave was just outside the Royal Nursery so she didn’t have to go far. And her personal guard, Naris, made sure of it. Storm’s cave wasn’t exactly a cave. It had ledges and hammocks and comfortable leaves to lay on, but then there was also her porch. It wasn’t big, but Storm liked to go out there and look at her kingdom.
Today Storm was twisting around her tail in her room for the first time. She had just gotten her tail band removed! At first she was only allowed to take it off if she was in the training room at the Royal Nursery, but now she has mastered the art of Weatherbringing.
Queen Thunder had been so proud of her daughter, and Storm wasn’t unhappy with the small feast she threw in one of her safest quarters with particular “trusted” Dragons for her. She only wished that she would let her go outside for once.
“Your majesty, are you sure you are being careful with your tail?” Naris asked in his You-Might-Stub-Your-Claw-Voice. “We’re having a nice sunny sky today, many Dragons may try to assassinate you if you changed that.” He held up his sword and Aukletd it around defensively.
Storm sighed. Naris knew that she was being careful. She was always careful. “Naris, I’m fine. Stop worrying so much.” Naris rolled his eyes. He had told her many times that worrying was his job, but Storm had said over and over that she was well prepared. Many, many, times.
Suddenly there was thumping outside the walls, as if a Dragon was running as fast as they could. It was one of Queen Thunder’s messengers. Why would he be coming to see her? 
“Your Majesty, the queen has requested that you come to her study at once, no delays.” He panted, out of breath. Then the Dragon scurried away, leaving no times for Storm to ask any questions.
“It’s time to go, Princess.” Naris said, but not in his usual voice. Storm saw a real worry come to his face as he scooped her up and started carrying her to Queen Thunder as fast as he could.
“But Naris-”
“NO!” He bellowed that word so loudly many Dragons turned to look their way. Naris was always stern with Storm… But not like this. This Naris was him in his real fighting mode. This was the hidden Naris.
As they reached the queens quarters, Naris set Storm down as they passed the guards guarding Queen Thunder. When they walked in, the queen was in deep conversation with Queen Glory, the Rainwing queen, her Nightwing representative, Lady Shade, and a Nightwing and Seawing hybrid Storm didn’t know.
After a moment Queen Thunder looked up, and the conversation paused. “Storm,” She said in a worried voice. “I’d like you to meet two of my friends in the Queenly council, Queen Glory and Lady Shade. Then Hydro here is one of the Dragons from the Meetup for Magic. He sees visions of the future.”
“It’s an honor to meet you,” Storm said, bowing her head as her mother had taught her to. 
“It is a pleasure to meet you as well, Princess Storm,” Queen Glory said. “Your mother has asked them to tell you why I am here, with Lady Shade and Hydro. Now, Hydro, why don’t you start.”
“Of course,” Hydro said. “I was just minding my own business at my lake in the Hybrid Kingdom, just about to rest after visiting the Meetup for Magic, when I overheard a Sandwing hybrid fussing over something. I crept out to see what was wrong, and she told me that the Sandwings were getting restless over something and possibly planning war against the Skywings. It turned out that General Sizzle ordered her to come train and fight with them, but she refused, saying that she was loyal to Queen Treetop only, which was very brave and wise. So then the poor Dragon fled back to her home, and then I found her. I immediately rushed to tell Queen Treetop, who is currently providing protection to her kingdom. She sent me to warn Queen Glory and Queen Thunder, while other Dragons have been warning the other queens.”
When Hydro stopped, Storm was steadying herself against Naris. “There can’t be a war!” She blurted, stopping her polite act. “We’ve worked so hard for peace! War can’t start now!”
Everyone nodded their heads; Queen Thunder didn’t even stop to scold Storm. “I agree,” Queen Glory said. “That is why I’ve organized a Queenly Council meeting without Queen Thorn so we can stop this somehow.”
Storm smiled weakly at the good news. At least the other tribes were trying to stop this mess. Queen Thunder opened her mouth to say something, but was interrupted by a rumbling sound.
“The Sandwings!” Naris cried, unleashing his sword. “They’ve come to attack!” Queen Thunder’s guards bounded inside, weapons at the ready. But instead of pale yellow scales coming out of the ground, a dragonet with gray scales’ head popped out of the ground, who looked exactly like a gray Leafwing, except for no leaf shaped wings. Ducking her head before Naris chopped off one of her horns, she whispered, “What are you doing?” She whispered in a haunting voice. “I’m here to stop the war, too. Don’t you know about Phantomwings?” When everyone shook their heads, she sighed and pulled out a tiny scroll, which all the Dragons passed around as they read it.
DESCRIPTION: Greyish scales and usually blackish eyes, sometimes with spots coating their scales, with horns sticking out at the back of their head. Smaller wings with a prehensile tail; Vegetarian. Have strong arms for digging.
ABILITIES: Every time a Dragon dies, they bring them to their home as ghosts and worship them as gods. They also can breath fire and emit heat from their scales.
QUEEN: Queen Blood
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: The Phantomwings live miles underneath the Lightningwings territory and no other tribe knows they exist.
“I am Haunted,” She said in the spooky voice again. “The Phantomwing. And Queen Blood sent me to help you stop this wretched war before anything happens. You see, we live underneath you, and we have lots of space, since the underground is huge. But the Dragon ghosts take up lots of space, and if the war starts we won’t be able to bring back all the ghosts because we won’t have space. The Phantomwings will help you if you can help us develop more territory.”
The queens huddled around in a circle, deciding what to pick as Haunted pulled herself out of the ground. Lady Shade moodily sat around, investigating the gray dragonet while pouting about being left out.
“Hello,” Storm said. “I’m Princess Storm.” 
“It’s an honor to meet you,” Haunted said, shaking off the dirt that was covering her scales. 
Finally, the queens turned around to face Haunted. “We accept.” Queen Thunder said. “But we need you to take someone special with you. Storm will assist you with whatever you need, since I had her trained in battle weather. Specifically in Wind.”
Storm’s jaw dropped, while Haunted happily agreed and asked if she could go to Storm’s room with her and get to know her better. “Of course,” Queen Thunder agreed. “A guard will show you that way. But Storm needs to talk with me for a moment.”
Haunted nodded and stepped out of the room with Queen Glory, Lady Shade, and Hydro, who then walked out.
“Mother,” Storm started, but Queen Thunder didn’t listen. Instead, the queen started to talk. 
“I’m gravely sorry for keeping you inside all these years. I had to train you. You don’t know it, but I had your teacher train you because you are not only a Weatherbringer like all Lightningwings, but also Windmaster. It is very rare, and as soon as I figured it out, I had you under special protection. But now, I think you are ready to join me on the Queenly Council meetings, and start defending your tribe, the way you should’ve been doing all these years I’ve kept you inside the palace walls.”
“Mother… I don’t understand.” Storm said, awestruck. “How will I Windmaster? I don’t know the commands at all or… Or anything. I only know how to Weatherbring.”
“You see, daughter, Struck has taught you how to Weatherbring in a particular way, so as soon as you go outside of the palace walls, all the tail movements and motions will be in your head. I know that seems impossible, but what Struck taught you taught your body how to react to that and…” She tensed. “I want you leaving early in the morning, but Storm,” She reached out to put her talons on Storm’s shoulder. “Be careful out there. Please do.”
Storm met her eyes, and smiled at her, and then left the room, while a swarm of Dragons marched into Queen Thunder’s room to fix the damage that Haunted had caused before.
When Storm and Naris came to Storm’s cave, they found Haunted staring down and Storm’s scroll, and when she realized Storm was there, she quickly fumbled to place it back on her shelf.
“S-sorry,” She trembled. “We know everything that is happening in the real world from the ghosts. I’ve just never seen a real “story” scroll. Only informational scrolls. But even the ghost of Queen Oasis listens to war reports and the Sandwing War of Succession and growls the whole way through. But she knows can’t mess with that. No one can. It's Queen Blood’s rules.”
“I’m not mad,” Storm said. “But I do think we should get going now. Not in the morning, but we should get to the portal by nightfall.” Naris growled and shook his head at her, but Storm ignored him.
They were soon on Storm’s balcony, ready to fly. Storm wasn’t sure if Haunted could fly, but she assured Storm that the caves they’d allowed out were wide enough for flying, and that she was good at it.
So Storm positioned her wings, and lept of the balcony, Naris flying closely behind her as she beat her wings. Haunted was keeping up, but just barely. Lightningwings had strong wings, and they used the breeze to carry them as an advantage.
And when the first breeze hit Storm’s scales, years of knowledge on Windmastering filled her head, and she twisted her tail to help carry Haunted through the sky. And thanks to Haunted’s new burst of speed, they had reached the Lightning Portal.
Instead of the sunny skies that filled the sky hours ago, storms now covered the kingdom. And since the Lightning Portal Mounting was extra stormy, lightning was blocking their way. Together, Naris and Storm stopped the lightning, replacing it with light mist, and they disappeared into the mist completely, and Haunted was not pleased with it, so Storm had herself reappear along with Naris, but decided to bring back the lightning, which fueled her energy and powers. Inhaling the lightning was one thing Lightningwings could do, then storing them in their mouths for a while. And when they opened them next, lightning would shootout.
As the trio approached the portal, Storm’s scales tingled at the thought of leaving the Lightningwing’s large island. And what would the Sandwings think of Haunted as they were trying to stop them from fighting?
Storm shook her head and stepped into the blinding light of the portal. “Take us to the Kingdom of Sand!” She commanded, and was sucked into a spinning vortex that set them down next to the Sand Portal hill.
It was night at the Kingdom of Sand. The cool, quiet night calmed Storm as they started walking toward a tall structure miles away from where they were, which Storm assumed was the Sandwing Stronghold.
“That way,” Naris whispered. Storm and Haunted followed him through the night, to what Storm could only describe as… Their doom.
Hours later, the sun had risen and every minute or so, Storm sent a breeze to cool them down, but nothing could contain the heat without raising too much attention to them. So Storm walked through the sweltering heat with Naris and Haunted, hoping that the Sandwing Stronghold was cooler than the desert. Guarding the stronghold was a Sandwing. Storm quickly whispered to Haunted to tunnel to the entrance, while she and Naris coated themselves in a very light mist. 
They passed by the guard as swiftly and as quietly as possible, then passing the gate and meeting Haunted inside, buried in sand. “I overheard the guards saying that Queen Thorn was sleeping. And I have a map of the Stronghold at home. Let’s go!”
They followed Haunted through the palace, avoiding servants and guards. Finally, they entered Queen Thorn’s room. But instead of finding her asleep, a beautiful Sandwing stood awake with the eye of Onyx on her neck. 
And next to her stood a desk with scrolls scattered all over. Storm only caught a glimpse of one of the scrolls, but the title was written as plain as day. Battle Planning Against Skywings was a scroll that Storm had ripped away herself, to make sure the peace always stayed at Phyria. 
Queen Thorn looked up at them and hissed when Naris moved in front of Storm. “What are you three doing here? Especially you, Haunted…” It made sense that Queen Thorn knew who Storm was; She had visited them a year ago and Storm had been introduced to her. But how did she know about Haunted?
“Your r-royal highness, how do you know about me?” Haunted stuttered as the queen, who was twice the size as her. “No Dragon knows about the Phantomwings. We are closely guarded.”
“Oh, Haunted…” Queen Thorn said menacingly. “I do guard the Phantomwings quite well, you know.” 
“But… But… Queen Blood is our queen! You guard the Sandwings.” Haunted huffed, and Naris unleashed his sword, but Storm held him back. “You’re not my queen one bit, I serve only Queen Blood.”
“I’m so surprised you haven’t figured it out yet,” Queen Thorn hissed. “I am Queen Blood. Or at least, I controlled this wretched queen to launch war against the Skywings to cause havoc.”
Finally, Naris took out his shield, and banged Queen Blood on the head. She passed out, and in her hand was a bracelet. “Animus enchanted,” Naris murmured. “Plain as day… We need to get her to the healers!”
“Already on it.” Haunted said as a group of healers shuffled in to take the poor Queen Thorn to get healed. “The healers said she should be awake in an hour, and that’s days before they planned the first attack. But now… We need to get Queen Blood.”
“Are you sure?” Naris asked in a surprisingly soft tone. “It is very hard to go against your own queen. You thought that she was good all these years, and now you will have to go against her.”
“No, I’m sure,” Haunted said confidently. “We have worked hard for peace. And if my queen is against that, I am against her. Queen Blood is going down, and I assure you that I will tend to it myself.”
“Alright, Haunted.” Storm said. “Let’s get to her! Actually, uh, how do we even get to her?” Storm couldn’t dig to the bottom of the Lightningwings giant island. That would be almost impossible.
“Don’t worry Storm,” Haunted said reassuringly. She took out a silver chain that was hidden under her tail. Storm hadn’t seen the sparkling object before, but she hoped that it had something to do with getting to the Phantomwings. 
“This is a Silver Portal Chain,” Haunted explained. “Come and place your talons on it. It will teleport you to the Phantomwings. But please coat yourselves in heavy mist… No one can see you.”
Naris and Storm nodded, and then stepped forward to the chain and placed their talons on the chain. Then light flashed and the trio of Dragons found themselves in tunnels where no lights reached, besides for the torches covering the walls.
They quickly coated themselves in mist and followed Haunted through the halls. They passed many Phantomwings, but no ghosts. When Storm asked Haunted where they were, she explained that they were all on the other side of their territory.
Finally, Haunted stopped at a cave. “That’s Queen Blood’s cave. I’ve never met her before. What do you think she’ll do?” Storm left that question unanswered, not wanting to lie to her friend.
Naris opened the wooden door swiftly and quietly, as he had been trained to do. The three stepped into the room, to find a Phantomwing with red wings pacing the room. As soon as she saw them, she spinned around and glared.
“What are you doing here?” She growled. “I thought you were getting us some territory, Haunted… Are you saying you failed?”Naris’s sword was held high, but Storm shook her head at him. They had to let Haunted take care of this.
“You… You started this war!” Haunted yelled, pinning Queen Blood to the ground. Queen Blood was taller than her, but Haunted was strong. Finally, after a lot of hissing and growling, Haunted leapt up, and Queen Blood slowly got to her feet. 
“How dare you?” She growled as blood seeped onto the floor. “You… You wouldn’t. I-” Then the queen passed out onto the floor. She had lost too much blood and had passed out completely.
Naris carried the queen through the halls, following Storm and Haunted to the entrance. Finally, they emerged next to the Lightningwing Palace. They rushed inside, and sent the queen to the healers.
As soon as Queen Thunder heard that her daughter was back, she raced to them, followed by Queen Glory, Lady Shade, and Hydro. Queen Thunder rapped her daughter up into a hug, thanking her for saving the world.
“Three moons, you did save the world!” Hydro said, flabbergasted. “Queen Treetop said that Queen Thorn was wide awake and that she had already called off the battles! You were a big help.”
Then, the door flew open and another Phantomwing marched into the room. “Who are you?” Queen Thunder asked the mysterious Dragon. “Are you here to take Haunted back? Well, I don’t think so.”
“No, Your Majesty,” The Dragon said.”We need a new queen. And we need more space. And we need you to contain Blood.” The Dragon snarled the former queen's name with such disgust, it sounded more like a growl than a name.
“Oh, alright.” Queen Thunder said. “Haunted will be your queen, I’ll have my animus make you space, and I’ll keep Blood in my dungeons. Simple.” Haunted’s jaw dropped, but she didn’t say no.
“Well, Your Majesty,” The Dragon said, bowing to Haunted. “I will spread the news. And Queen Thunder, thank you very much for your kind helping. It’s hard enough keeping secret anyways, and I think it’s finally time to introduce ourselves to the world.” Then the Dragon went back out the doors and disappeared.
“I… I don’t understand.” Haunted whispered.
“All I have to say is…” Queen Glory said. She sounded just as surprised as everyone else. “Is welcome to the Queenly Council!”
EPILOGUE 
It was a bright sunny day when Haunted walked into the Queenly Council Caves with Storm. It was also the first time she walked in here with Storm when the Lightningwing was a real queen.
They walked in silently, walking through the maze like halls where the Dragonets of Destiny grew up about 20,000 years ago. When they entered the Council Hall lit by torches and flamesilk they found all the other queens waiting for them.
Queen Thorn of the Sandwings was wise and kind, and was sitting next to the gentle and welcoming Silkwing Queen Luna, who was in deep conversation about how meat is gross with warm and cheerful Queen Glory and Lady Shade, who was serious but kind-hearted.
Then there was the cool headed Queen Curvace who was talking with the breezy Queen Auklet and the loveable Queen Copper about which temperature of waters they liked best. 
The efficient Queen Ruby was sitting with the helpful Queen Savannah and the smart and kind Queen Bunya. Haunted led Storm to the empty seats and the meeting started. Together, they would make everything right.
THE END