Watching Eyes (WoF HiveWonk Fanfic)

Hello viewer! This is a fanon book, and so far only a few chapters are out! The author will try their best to make all chapters and everything. This MIGHT include death, blood, and gruesome or inappropriate things for dragonets. Stay back if your sensitive to the listed items! 
PROLOGUE
Claws closed down on the gazelle running from the dragon's shadow. With a clean move, it was dead. Tiger Beetle licked the blood from her claws, admiring the catch for a moment. Tiger Beetle hunted for some restaurants and to be honest, she liked chasing water buffalo and biting a lion's tail. Setting down the limp golden body, she grabbed it with her hind talons and gritted her teeth. She examined her pale pinkish wings, catching the sun on the black stripes. She craned her neck to see her red tail, lashing it before crouching down. Off with a head start, and into BloodWorm Hive. While flying up to the level of dropping off food, she noticed something glowing from a lower level. What SilkWing cooks at a lower level? Tiger Beetle ignored the fact of the blackness falling over the Hive. She ignored it until the blackness actually started to get to the entrance of the drop-off. She took a glance down and gasped with terror. The Hive was catching fire! She beat her wings faster, and caught glimpses of SilkWings and some odd-looking SilkWings carrying what looked like loads of eggs. SilkWing eggs. Why are there no HiveWing children? Anger boiled up inside of her. Are the SilkWings getting revenge for us burning down the Old Forests? Or.. That last thought was a dreadfully dangerous thought. She landed and waited in a short line to place her gazelle on the tray. She quickly noticed there wasn't any SilkWings around, and she flew up, up and up to the level where important dragons and their families go. Now Tiger Beetle knew unless she was requested, she couldn't go inside until Wasp for some reason made a random rule that ANYONE could see their Queen or their Hive Rulers if it was urgent. Now this line was slightly short, luckily she scooted into the front without the other HiveWings noticing. The dragon in front of her had pale orange scales with zig-zags on his wings and tail and the rest were ovals on his chin and body and tail.  Walked in, walked out. Taking a deep breath she dipped her head and glanced at the room around her. In front was Lady BloodWorm, on a throne of black marble with veins of her scale's color running through like red and blue veins of a buffalo. Once she reached the supposed limit to where people would see, she threw her head down in a respectful bow. She could feel the Lady's eyes scorching her like a bone left to rot. "Speak wisely, I'm not in a pleasant mood today. Someone told me a trio of SilkWings were cooking in a flammable area in a lower level. Idiots." A shiver went down Tiger Beetle's spine, trickling through her body and waiting for permission to tell her reason to be here. After a moment, she heard the signal to talk. Taking another breath she spoke slowly and kept her eyes down. "I saw what you described, and I don't think those SilkWings were cooking. I was hunting and saw them actually.. Lighting this Hive up with smoke." She wobbled at the Hive, shaking rather viciously. Lady BloodWorm seemed to swell five million times her normal size, which was very large. "You, send a messenger to Wasp saying that I need Hive Builders. Scorpion Fly, grab parties to put out that flame! You." Cold, black eyes narrowed onto Tiger Beetle, and Lady BloodWorm hissed silently. "You're in charge of those to save eggs. I need a little visit to my sisters." She swelled up and glared with pure hatred at a general standing awkwardly in the corner. In a flash of red, she had scurried out of the room after the shape of Lady BloodWorm. After she blinked a few times, a young dragon (who she quickly identified as LaceWing, she was there when LaceWing was made a general and was made higher and higher til' commander) scurried forward quickly. The dragon was the color of winter bananas, yellow with the red splotches everywhere, dappled at the same time with black. Like Tiger Beetle, she had those rare green-ish eyes but hers were rather yellow. Like a Lacewing insect she had a necklace with glass dragonfly wings on it and her claws painted green with jade streaks. This dragon also had a tail stinger, which a section of it had wicked claw marks. LaceWing waved at her and Tiger Beetle followed, glancing around the place noticing the carved worms in the walls as she left. LaceWing, as soon as they were out of sight from Lady BloodWorms Palace, dropped her serious and slightly timid expression and held her wings slightly lower, and her tail dropped from it's high point. "Thank Clearsight we're finally out of there. Come on, I'll show you the Wings that'll help you get HiveWing eggs." She launched into the air, and Tiger Beetle stumbled and finally winged into the air, falling to Lacewing's side in short notice. "LaceWing, right? Your the BloodWorm Hive's Commander of the tiny army, huh?" LaceWing rolled her eyes. "It will seem smaller once you memorize every soldier's Nick and role. You're not going to the assigned emergency Wings, you're just gonna meet my friends. They can carry as much as any army." Beating on as perhaps a chance to try and lose Tiger Beetle. With very little effort, she caught up to LaceWing in heartbeats. "How are you catching up so fast? I'm one of the fastest in my battalion, your faster than Weta and Damsel!" BloodWorm chuckled. "I'm rather slow, according to my manager and friends. I'm only this fast because we all need fast food. I carry water buffalo and zebras all day in scorching heat. What you do will be swatting a fly to me." LaceWing swooped into a porch, and rapped on the door three times quickly and for a moment paused, and knocked one more time. The door opened to two yellow HiveWings, both striped but one had zigzags and the other circles. "LaceWing! I see you remembered our top-secret knock! Come in!" Tiger Beetle quickly stepped in so her tail wouldn't get squashed by the quickly shut door. "Guys, this is someone who never told me her name. Someone who didn't tell me her name, this is Weta, Mosquito, and Gnat." Gnat was one of the dragons who answered the door, the one with the circles. Weta was the zig-zagged dragon, and Mosquito looked rather rich. She had a ring on, and an earring that looked like a worm. "I'm Tiger Beetle, though you can call me Tiger. Call me Beetle and someone is gonna lose their ears and perhaps a claw or two." Weta chuckled, clearly getting her humor and Gnat flicked her tongue a little. "So why was our emergency knock used?" Gnat asked, narrowing her eyes. LaceWing quickly told the story of Tiger Beetle, the eggs, and flying all the way here. Mosquito had grabbed a few cushioned bags and grinned at her with white, sharp teeth. "A rescue, huh? Not as I signed up for this group but; let's go save some eggs."
CHAPTER 1
The queen had been controlling Weta, Gnat, or any HiveWing’s body for weeks. Rumor had it that it was never the queen, but the dead vengeful LeafWings controlling the HiveWing. Real LeafWings turned out to exist, and apparently had tried to help the HiveWings by a ‘cure’. The cure backfired and turned out to be a plant called the Breath of Evil. Tiger had pried the information from the LeafWing queen, Sequoia. “Don’t call me Your Majesty.” The green dragon had said. “My granddaughter is in charge of my tribe now.” Tiger had no idea how that worked, but what the old dragon said was the truth. Tiger was on a sandy beach, twitching her claws that weren’t her own, but her own. Could I fly where the stories are? Would the queen catch me? Unless. Tiger went into a Hive. It was empty, but a few dragons scurried here and’ there. SilkWings with scars went along the hallways, some LeafWings that weren’t hit by the smoke were walking themselves to the Infecting Room. Wasp wasn’t letting anyone out. Tiger knew that in the Cicada Hive, there would be an antidote. Some sort of cure that could kill plants. Then, Tiger Beetle could run all the way to the Distant Kingdoms, and hide there. If only it were that easy. The plant could sense her coming, maybe,a dn stop her from drinking the cure. Wait. I have to get the others. LaceWing, Gnat, Mosquito, and Weta. They deserve freedom too. Maybe.. Ideas bubbled into Tiger’s head, each one riskier than the other. But one thing was what she wanted to save; her egg.
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LaceWing thought her plan may work, Weta did too, and so did Gnat. Mosquito was skeptical. “How would a weed killer save our brains? It’s a PLANT KILLER!” Weta explained how it would work on the way to Wasp Hive. LaceWing had volunteered for Tiger’s crazy plan. Her plan was to sneak in, and rescue a SilkWing egg. A SilkWing egg from the most fortified Hive in the world. Piece of cake. Meanwhile, the others would sneak into Cica Hive to grab the cure. They’d meet up in the hole, in the middle of the Hives. Night had fallen when LaceWing got back. The cure was ready when they all met up at the hole. “Ready? If this works.. We may never need to worry again.” Mosquito drank their cure gingerly, and took a shuddering breath. “I can’t hear the queen’s thoughts. Huh.” She studied her claws, and grinned. “It.. It worked.” LaceWing, Gnat, Tiger, and Weta packed up the egg and their belongings they needed and set off to the sea. “What would you even name a SilkWing? Moth? If I ever was a SilkWing, I’d like the name Moth. It’d seem nice.” Weta chatted about names and butterflies, while Gnat cradled to white egg. A beach appeared in front of them. “It’s the Distant Kingdoms! It’s real! We’re safe, we're here! We will survive, I’m sure.” LaceWing cried, cupping the yellow grains. Gnat held the egg carefully, and glanced back. “We should rest somewhere for the night, and move on inside of the land. Find a settlement, perhaps. Warn this island of dangers across the sea.” Gnat’s talons trembled. “Why’re you so worried? Your talons are shaking HARD, dude!” Gnat looked confused, as a crack appeared on the smooth surface of the egg. “It’s hatching! Guys! The egg is becoming a dragonet!” A small, white face peeked out of the crack. Brown claws tore away the shell fragments, and a white and brown dragonet sat there. It churned it’s wingbuds, which were blue and pale orange. “Flrbtle.” It said with much enthusiasm. “Grabbaslamp! Weeeeeeesnort.” Gnat cooed at it playfully. LaceWing had made them all beds out of nearby materials. Everyone settled down, and slept the whole night peacefully. Gnat woke up first, to find the dragonet something. “Would you like a fish, Viceroy? Are you? Yes you are! Here you go!” Gnat gave Viceroy a small chewy fish, which the dragonet ate cheerfully. Mosquito, Weta, and Tiger packed up, destroying the evidence of the being on the beach. They flew south, avoided a mountain that seemed kind of populated with dragons, and landed somewhere in a mountain range. Viceroy kept squealing at bushes, and demanding warbles at trees. “WALKEY STIC! TEENEE STIK SQUEAK! GWAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRTT!!” He wailed and grunted. They decided to sleep in a cave, and while the others were packing; LaceWing and Tiger hunted. Pigs, cows, and coyotes were caught, and LaceWing decided she would try and hunt squirrels. Tiger was stalking a goat. She crept closer, closer, and closer. She was tail-length until someone landed on her back. Tiger’s head was struck by a blow that knocked her out. I guess this continent isn’t safe. 
CHAPTER 2
Tiger woke up with a burst of pain, and she looked around. Several dragons of all colors, white and green and blue and even red. The dragons here looked like LeafWings, but all colors. But they had wings like the fruit bats that sometimes flew around the webs of Bloodworm Hive. The nearest one was as blue as the ocean Tiger had flown over. They had a wristband, and almost black wings that were speckled with purple. Teal eyes raked her scales, as if the dragon was trying to pry out her bones with their eyes. A pair of talons yanked off the muzzle holding Tiger’s jaws shut. “Who are you, what are you, and where did you come from?” The blue dragon demanded. Tiger glared up at the dragon, and bared her teeth that held the HiveWing venom. “I’d recommend you answer, strange dragon. We should really know if we didn’t capture someone peaceful.” The dragon fidgeted with their wristband. A dragon shrugged at the supposed leader and grabbed the rope that held her mouth shut. “Aaaaa nope nope nope!” Tiger scrambled away from the claws that tried to hold her down. “I’m warning you! Do NOT put those ropes on me or my stinger is GOING INTO YOUR BLOOD SYSTEM.” She brandished her tail at the surrounding dragons, and few lifted their own tails. “A tail stinger. What does it do? Poison? Blow up the insides? DOES IT MAKE YOU CONTROL YOUR ENEMIES?” A white dragon with a grey belly pounced on her. Tiger blinked, and tried to use her tail to cut the ropes. “No? That sounds terrifying. It just paralyses victims for a while. Where did you get the idea that it’d make a dragon blow up?” one rope snapped off, and Tiger was able to get her other ropes off. “I’d like to ask where exactly am I, what kind of dragons are you, and WHY IN THE NAME OF CLEARSIGHT WAS I KNOCKED OUT. Very mean! A polite question for me to come with you would be preferable!” The blue dragon shifted their wings uncomfortably. “I’m Hermit. A SeaWing. The white dragon is Drift the IceWing. Finch the SkyWing, Glider the SkyWing, and that over there is Faith. Faith is a RainWing.” Hermit looked at Tiger. “Again, What, who, and where?” Tiger glanced behind her, at the forest where her friends would be worrying about Tiger. “I’m Tiger Beetle, though most would call me Tiger. I’m a HiveWing, and I come from across the sea. Pantala.” Taking a step back, Hermit narrowed his eyes. “Interesting. There was a Rumor that the Talons found some odd dragons, but we couldn’t confirm it was true until you came along.” Tiger took another step away from the group of dragons. “I have to go and uh. Grab the prey I hunted. Uh.” Tiger spread her wings quickly, and gave the SkyWings and SandWings and SeaWing a nervous grin. She heard a sharp breath before Tiger turned and took off and nearly fell out of the sky at once. “Catch her!” Tiger risked a glance behind her and saw Finch and Glider catching onto Tiger quickly. Skywings. They must have huge lungs. I bet that’s also the reason they have huge wings. Tiger dove into the forest, dodging the trees with expert wings. Finch kept swooping too low to the ground, nearly crashing. Glider tried to keep track of Tiger above the trees. Tiger took a left, and flew above the trees. Glider tried to soar above Tiger and grab her, but Tiger stabbed the SkyWing with their tail. Finch roared and appeared from the tangle of trees. But he was soaring over to paralyzed Glider, and shot Tiger a desperate look. Tiger wanted to help Finch and Glider, but she might make it worse. Tiger turned and flew back to the others, thinking only about Glider.
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“Clearsight’s sake, I thought we’d be safe here.” Gnat whispered, cuddling Viceroy close to her chest. Viceroy had probably understood all their whispers and had lowered his babbling shrieks to warbling murmurs. Weta had mapped the whole area, noting places they should and shouldn’t go. LaceWing had camouflaged their items, dyeing them grassier colors and stone greys. “Sleeping in a cave sounds smarter than in the open where Wormit and his ruffians can easily see us. ‘SeaWings’ would live in total darkness, which means they could OBVIOUSLY MAYBE see in the DARK.” LaceWing muttered while coloring Weta’s basket a darker brown. “I mean, I’m a general and someone who was VERY, VERY TRUSTED BY Lady Bloodworm. My whole job is to minimise threats! To protect my family and my Hive and my Nation!” Mosquito had hunted in the part of Weta’s map that had noted ‘safe hunting grounds’, at night. Viceroy was delighted when Mosquito also brought back honey and a few apples. “Yumfrot. Yum yum yimm aaaaadey.” He exclaimed as he ate. The dragonet was asleep in no time afterwards, set inside in a silk hammock they had stolen from Wasp Hive and Bloodworm Hive. “I’ll stand guard.” Tiger murmured to Weta and Mosquito. “I have the most weapons, and I know the cure to HiveWing venom. I’ll paralyze anyone who comes along, even if it’s LaceWing on a midnight walk.” Weta chuckled and set herself to bed, her tail flicking peacefully in her sleep. Mosquito went to bed, and told Tiger to shake them when the moons were highest. Tiger agreed and sat on watch. Nothing moved, but trees and bats flying and some smaller and un-horned gazelles were brave enough to walk up and graze around the cave. Scrraatcchh. The gazelle group lifted their heads, and a flash of silver beamed in the moonlight. Drift the IceWing in a midnight hunt. So close to us. Tiger crept over to her friends and covered them quickly, and threw a stone-colored blanket over herself quickly. Drift was maybe looking proud or mad at herself at catching one gazelle-thing. “Hermit.” The small IceWing whispered loudly. “HERRRRMITTT! GET YOUR TAIL OVER HERE!” Hermit gradually sighed and stepped into the clearing, and sniffed the air curiously. “The scent of dye is in the air. Can’t you smell it? I’m curious. Did Tiger dye herself? Did she dye her things?” Drift shrugged and scented the air too. “It’s like it’s coming from that cave. Let’s check it out. Tiger won’t be too hard to get, right?” four pairs of talons were tromping over to the cave where her sleeping friends were. She had to draw their attention to wake up Weta or LaceWing, quickly. Tiger chucked the nearest stone into the woods, which set their attention perfectly over to the woods. “Drift, check that way. I can check here.” Drift nodded and flew over into the trees. Hermit shot a suspicious look at the cave, then set off quickly. Tiger ran over to the cave and woke up LaceWing. “LaceWing. Wake up the others. There’s dragons nearby.” LaceWing narrowed her eyes at the woods and nodded, and grabbed Weta. “Which sections?” Weta whispered quietly. “Southeast, but the camp is that way.” Tiger pointed north. “They would think I’m trying to get them over to the woods to ambush them one by one. They’d be very nearby, so they could pin me down. But I was really trying to wake you two.” LaceWing nodded, and soared onto a tree. Weta crawled behind a boulder, constantly looking behind herself. Crack. A stick creaked. Rustle rustle- the bushes were flung aside to a mad looking Drift and an amused Hermit. “She wanted me to step on that snake!” Drift whispered furiously. “But why didn’t she ambush us then? We were totally off our guards!” Hermit muttered, walking over to the cave. Drift followed, occasionally clearing away sticks and rocks in her way. LaceWing watched Drift, probably noting Drift’s size, the serrated claws, and the spikes everywhere on the IceWing. Suddenly Hermit, out of nowhere, pounced on Tiger. “Hey! Ow! That’s not how sneaking works, Wormit.” Tiger grumbled. Hermit laughed. “You think I’d really step into that cave? I know it’s booby-trapped, silly.” Tiger grinned. “I’m not that cunning to set up a whole cave when I have teeth, claws, and a tail.” Hermit probably realized a second before what she was going to say next. “And you think you’ve outnumbered me, when it’s three to two.” LaceWing flung herself off the tree, and pinned Drift down expertly. Weta threw Hermit off and Tiger stabbed him with her tail. “I don’t come alone on everything, Wormit. You can’t even beat me with a spiky piece of silver.” Weta hissed at Hermit, who was looking as shocked as he did when he was stabbed. Drift looked horrified, and tried to claw herself over to Hermit. “Drift. Tell your little gang of idiot ruffians that unless they leave us alone and NOT try and kidnap us, we’ll let Hermit go.” Drift swallowed and whispered slowly. “And if we don’t?” LaceWing chuckled threateningly and loomed over Drift, saying “Then he stays with us until we are a safe distance away. He can go back to whining to your group of buffalo-brains.” Drift was set free and she had scrambled away to the direction of their group. In the morning, a furious roar had split through the birdsong and the dancing trees. Birds shrieked and set to the sky, and the nearest animals ran to safety. About five minutes later, there was a furious SkyWing blotting out the sun. Glider landed, smoke was rising from their nostrils. “You're giving us Hermit right now.” She hissed, curling her claws into the mossy grass. LaceWing arranged herself into her ‘I Take Orders from Nobody’ stance. “Oh? You aren’t going to harm or kidnap us?” More smoke rose from Glider’s nose, and a glow came from her neck, rising and falling like a suffocating koala. “WHAT?!” Glider roared. “WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THIS?!!” Drift shuffled from behind the angry Glider. “I was going to mention that part but you were droning on about rescues and revenge. The deal was we wouldn’t kidnap, attack, or anything in that category we won’t do to Tiger and her friends. If we did, we would get Hermit back. If not they’d fly away into a safe distance and leave Hermit when they are fine.” Drift looked frail, as if dragons had roared inside her ears. Glider glared at the IceWing. “Of course I deny this puny deal! A SkyWing is the powerfullest tribe of the world, I take what I want. I destroy what makes me furious. I do what I like.” Weta burst into laughter. “You? Powerful? Most in the WORLD?! BAHAHAHA!” Weta pointed at Glider. “If you were so powerful, Tiger wouldn’t have paralyzed you! She’d be a prisoner at your camp.” Glider leaped at Weta, but Drift held her back. “Deny that! Deny that before I gouge your eyes!” Drift let go and let Glider lung at Weta. Weta didn’t scream, or growl, or even blink. She remained calm, and bit Glider on the arm. That’s when the chaos came. 
CHAPTER 3
Glider screamed, and knocked everyone over with her tail. "HELP ME!" Glider shrieked as venom slowly crept out of her bite. "MY BLOOD IS ON FIRE! IT BURNS!" Glider grabbed Tiger Beetle desperately. "PLEASE HELP ME. I'M SORRY, BUT I DON'T WANT TO DIE!" Weta hissed. "You should've thought maybe other HiveWings have weapons. Paralyzing, Deadly venom, stingers. We all have something." Drift was curled into a ball, and LaceWing wrapped a wing around her. "Please." The IceWing whispered. "Don't let her die." Drift looked at LaceWing with a sorrowful expression. "I.. I don't know if you have the right products that can heal the wound, or stop the venom from spreading." A tear fell from Drift's eye, and LaceWing pulled her close. "Listen. I might have a cure for at least the venom, but I didn't bring anything for that bite. Follow me." Viceroy, who looked scared, huddled up to Gnat. Mosquito looked angry, and a tail stiger kept unsheathing and sheathing itself. LaceWing was able to heal Glider, but then she said. "We're gonna move. Dragons are definitely nearby. They'll wonder what the noise is." Drift helped them pack, answered and questioned them, and then waved goodbye. "Thank you from helping Drift! You'll always be my friend! Goodbye!"
And they flew into the unknown.
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SEVEN YEARS LATER, INTO THE FUTURE.
Tiger Beetle has been living on Phyrria for very long. A couple times, she and her friends were arrested for spying, the tribes here thought they were controlled. Weta and LaceWing, two of her companions, always explain the story about the weed killer, about protecting and hatching Viceroy, and moving here. Tiger always hunted with her girlfriend LaceWing. Gnat and Viceroy always found honey and fruit wherever they nest for a few months. Weta and Mosquito would protect where they slept and camped. Tiger always worried if her group would be arrested, if they would die from something that was poisonous, even if her friends weren't actually free from the mind control. For five years, Tiger slowly stopped worrying. LaceWing told her every day, "your right to worry, sweets, but you still need to focus." Then LaceWing would go and find dye and/or deer to eat. Mosquito had started to suggest to stay somewhere for at least a year.
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