Linden (canon fanfic)

== A Guide to the Tribes of Pantala ==
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HiveWings
Description: HiveWings have red, orange, or yellow scales, but they always have at least a few black scales.
Abilities: Vary from dragon to dragon; they could have a venomous stinger hiding in their claws or tails, they could have venom in their teeth or claws, their stinger could paralyze dragons, or they can spray boiling acid from their tail stinger.
Queen: Queen Wasp
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SilkWings
Description: SilkWings do not grow wings until they turn six; can be colored anything but black.
Abilities: Able to sense and assess dangers with their antennae; can spin silk, rarely they can spin threads of fire.
Queen: Queen Monarch
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LeafWings
Description: green and brown scales; two wings
Abilities: can absorb energy from the sun, some can control plants.
Queen: Queen Sequoia
== Prologue ==
Wasp was flying to the northern mountain range to meet with Monarch and Sequoia.
Soon, I will have control of the LeafWings and SilkWings! This plan is the best.
”The Book of Clearsight says the time has come to unite the tribes. You must bring them all together under the leadership of one queen, Wasp of the HiveWings. Otherwise, a terrible fate will befall every dragon on the continent.” Wasp recited from memory. “Monarch, Sequoia. You have two moons to think of your decision. After those two moons, if you still haven’t made your decision, something will happen that I don’t know about.”
The other two queens exchanged glances and started to fly to their palaces.
Sequoia and Monarch will definitely fall for this trick! If they say yes, I will trap them inside Wasp Hive forever! Their people will now be mine to treat horribly!
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“It has been FIVE moons since I told you about Clearsight’s prophecy. WHAT ARE YOUR ANSWERS???!!!” Wasp snapped.
”Wasp! You have to show us proof that that prophecy IS true! SHOW US THE BOOK OF CLEARSIGHT RIGHT NOW!” Sequoia screamed. “Wait!” Monarch said. Wasp turned to Monarch. “I decide to give my tribe to you. Please treat them well.” Sequoia’s face looked more furious than ever, and the two oldest queens were cursing and arguing about this fake prophecy.
A few HiveWing guards knocked Monarch out, wrapped her snout and claws and wings in vines, and took her away. 
The SilkWings are all mine now! But this STUPID LEAFWING WON’T GIVE HER TRIBE TO ME! Wasp thought semi-victoriously.
And now it is time for war.
== Part 1: A War We Will Win ==
=== Chapter 1: Hidden in the Trees ===
Linden was scanning the forest near the Poison Jungle for HiveWings and flamesilks. Wasp started a war with the LeafWings just because some crazy (probably false) prophecy told the queens to unite under the leadership of Wasp and Queen Sequoia didn’t agree.
The flamesilks were extra bad because Wasp spread rumors and propaganda about LeafWings which was helping them burn down the forests (Whyyyy are SilkWings so gullible? Monarch is especially naive).
When Linden was thinking more about why the HiveWing queen decided to try and steal the tribes, a flamesilk jumped from the trees and almost started burning the forest. She was an experienced fighter and jumped on the flamesilk, neatly slicing her claws across the enemy’s throat. Red blood stained her claws and the SilkWing’s body, their cloudy eyes closed. 
Linden threw the SilkWing in the sea and scouted the area closest to the Poison Jungle.
A patrol of five blank-eyed HiveWing soldiers were at the entrance of the Poison Jungle, so it would be easier to hide in the deadly jungle. She flew behind the soldiers and snapped each of their necks. She fed the bodies to carnivorous plants and flew to the palace.
=== Chapter 2: Told the Queen ===
The LeafWing Royal Council was gathered around the sacred oak tree, waiting for Linden.
At last she arrived, and the meeting started.
”Linden, anything to report?” Sequoia asked. “Yes I do, Your Majesty,” Linden said.
”This morning, while I was scouting the Rivulet Forest, I saw a flamesilk about to burn the forest. But that’s not the strange thing. I saw five blank-eyed HiveWings guarding the Poison Jungle.” Sequoia’s eyes widened a wee bit and she finally said, “Assemble the army, General. Make sure this forest is guarded. If you find SilkWings with a silver wristband that has a leaf shape on it, do not kill them. They are allies.”
Suddenly, a SilkWing with green and white scales flew in.
Queen Sequoia checked for the wristband and asked the female SilkWing, “What happened?”
She said, “Wasp has burned the Rivulet Forest. This forest will be next. Evacuate right now!” The queen took no time to respond. “Linden! Cinnamon! Go get the soldiers to tell all the dragons to go to the Poison Jungle!”
Linden immediately disagreed. “We need to fight back! We need to get allies with flamesilk to burn those moonsforsaken Hives! This tribe, the LeafWings CANNOT give up just like that!” And she ran off, flying to the remains of Rivulet Forest.
=== Chapter 3: Burned Forest ===
She arrived at the remains of Rivulet Forest and was shocked.
So much faded flamesilk was there that Linden knew Wasp would get Snarling Forest burned. A dead SilkWing lay on the ground, his purple-streaked pink scales charred too much for his natural color to be seen. And judged by the special wristband and an empty bucket in his talons, he was an ally who tried to extinguish the fire.
It was Codling.
Linden was ready to fight when she heard a rustle from the bushes. A HiveWing emerged from a shrub and his stinger shot out of his wrist.
The LeafWing dodged the attacks and ripped off half of the HiveWing’s small wing. The HiveWing roared in fury and stabbed his stinger into Linden’s tail. They wrapped her in the extinguished flamesilk and flew away with Linden. She ripped off some of the flamesilk but it wasn’t enough for her to escape.
Nine tan and grayish-white shapes came into sight. The Hives!
The HiveWing realized she was awake and stabbed her in the leg. Linden fell into darkness as dark as Clearsight’s scales.
=== Chapter 4: To the Poison Jungle ===
Linden was in a prison.
A prison made of dead trees.
There was no doubt that she was captured by the HiveWings.
She noticed that she was being chained by weak vines. Linden sliced them off and snuck through a hole in the wall. She emerged on the other side of the tunnel, basked in sunlight. A HiveWing guard noticed Linden and tried to push her off the narrow piece of wood, but she smacked the HiveWing before she could fall off and die. The yellow and black HiveWing fell
down
down
down
until their wings were smashed and their spear was gone.
Linden opened her wings and jumped off the wood. Her wings caught the wind as her jade and gold scales shimmered in the light. The clouds went closer to each other and seemed to be whispering to the others about Linden’s glimmering scales. 
And in the distance, she saw that Snarling Forest was burned.
It was time to fly to the Poison Jungle. Linden landed on the savanna grass near the dangerous jungle and went in.
=== Chapter 5: A New Village ===
Linden collected plants and thorns and started to grow them using her leafspeak.
A group of fifty other LeafWings were helping Linden build the village inside. The ones with the most powerful leafspeak would help Linden with the plant walls. Occasionally bugs were chomping on the plants and they sent deadly liquids from the plants to poison them.
In the village, the dragons removed dangerous plants such as waterwheels and sundews. Still, there were lots of deadly plants in the village.
Linden saw four of the dragons die to the carnivorous plants and another three drown in water.
She used her remaining plants to build structures on top of the deep ponds and puddles. Her leafspeak made them extend to the whole village, which took several days.
The LeafWings went hunting and got a lot of capybaras and panthers for the tribe, while some got berries and tubers for the dragonets. Linden was hunting when she saw a charming male LeafWing. His scales were as green as leaves and his wings were dotted with pink and gold. His name was Magnolia.
She paused to look at Magnolia and saw him looking at her as if Linden was a beautiful blue morpho. “Is it Linden?” he asked.
”Yes, it is me,” Linden answered. 
“Let’s go inside,” Magnolia said.
== Part 2: Fierce and Hidden ==
=== Chapter 6: A Dragonet ===
Three Years Later……
“Belladonna! By all the trees, why are you using your leafspeak ability just to play?” Linden roared. “Go use it to get prey or ensnare HiveWings in plants!”
Belladonna shrugged. “I’m just gathering bait for the prey! Wouldn’t it be useful to have a few mistletoe berries to catch panthers?” Linden realized that Belladonna was right. It would be useful to have a bit of bait to kill prey. She wondered why mistletoe isn’t poisonous to dragons, but shoved that thought off a mental cliff.
Magnolia burst into the village. There were scratches scored across his neck and underbelly. “QUEEN WASP HAS SENT DRAGONS TO BURN DOWN THE JUNGLE! ASSUME YOUR BATTLE POSITIONS NOW!” As soon as he finished saying the message, Magnolia’s gray-green eyes became cloudy and he fell to the ground, his talons covered in his own blood.
”NO! MAGNOLIA!” Linden screamed. “Healers!” 
The healers brought a stretcher and took Magnolia to the healing hut. Linden followed them.
Belladonna brought cooked nettle leaves with her and flew to the hut.
=== Chapter 7: Stay Strong ===
In the healers’ hut, the dragons were running around trying to find leaf bandages. Belladonna gave them the cooked nettles just in case.
Magnolia was dying.
He was bleeding even more now, his wings now splattered with blood. Linden was crying and crying. The healers urged Linden and Belladonna to exit.
A few minutes later, they heard the news. Magnolia was dead. Linden was sobbing for days and days while Belladonna was away training to become a warrior.
Linden was forced to stay strong for Belladonna. She was strong for Linden, too.
In the months that followed, she couldn’t help but think about her lost love. Linden was waiting for the perfect moment to strike back, kill Queen Wasp, and avenge Magnolia. She was going to train more dragonets to become warriors who master the use of leafspeak. She was ready to fight the HiveWings.
=== Chapter 8: Raid on Cicada Hive ===
The LeafWing army was preparing for the long battle ahead.
Cicada Hive loomed out of the distance, looking like Wasp when she gained control of the SilkWings. The HiveWings wouldn’t know it, but they would be attacked. Linden ordered the army to attack and they flew up and up into the webs of the Hive.
HiveWings were screaming as LeafWings swarmed the Hive, their eyes turning pure white. They paused and said, “You SilkWings who lost their antennae and two of their wings! Stop at once!” Then they turned to the army and marched toward the green dragons.
Terrified SilkWings were spinning silk and giving the webs to LeafWings, who used it to strangle dragons. By the end of the raid, the HiveWing neighborhood was stained with blood and sweat. HiveWing and LeafWing bodies lay on the treestuff streets, their throats slashed and scratches all over their body. The mission was successful. Linden ordered the army to fly back to the Jungle and discuss their next plan.
== Part 3: Death ==
=== Chapter 9: Mother ===
Linden was leading dragonets on a safety drill after the raid.
”Hemlock! Foxglove! Are you with us?” she shouted. Belladonna was in the dragonets’ safety drill, ready to strike.
Linden didn’t know it, but Belladonna thought Linden was annoying and stupid. So when Belladonna pushed her into the gympie-gympie stinging tree, she only thought that the dragon accidentally shoved her in the tree.
Belladonna just looked and didn’t use her leafspeak. Now she knew that Belladonna intended for her to die, there was nothing she could do. The dragonets had mildly strong leafspeak and would take hours for her to be free. 
Linden was barely whispering. “Why, Bellado-“ The stinging tree covered Linden’s eyes with leaves. She soon felt an agonizing pain in her throat and all her senses were lost.
She was dead.
“Linden!” A voice seemed to echo through the clouds. It was not Magnolia, but it was Sycamore, Linden’s mother. “Mother!” Linden exclaimed.
”Oh, Linden, what has happened to you?” Sycamore asked.
”Belladonna pushed me in a gympie-gympie stinging tree and probably slashed my throat.” Linden was speaking in madness.
“That dragon!” Sycamore’s scales turned white and yellow and her wing membranes were replaced with feathers. “Come with me.”
=== Chapter 10: Glimpse of the World ===
Linden saw a box of clouds with tons of dragons at it. Some looked weird. A lot of dragons had bat-shaped wings and scales like no Pantalan tribe.
“Those dragons? They’re from the Distant Kingdoms,” Sycamore said. So the Distant Kingdoms are real? “Linden, the Distant Kingdoms is named Pyrrhia. Now let’s go have some visions at the Cloudbox.”
The Cloudbox was an astonishing shade of blue with dots of carmine and onyx scattered around the structure. Linden came in the door and she was blinded. “Ack!” Linden shouted. Sycamore was quick to respond. “That means your visions are kicking in.”
Linden saw Queen Wasp stabbing HiveWing eggs with her tail stinger, Belladonna and Hemlock having eggs, Bloodworm Hive being burned, the defeat of the mind control, and the rise of the Wasp Cult. After those visions she was yanked out of the visionmind and into the afterworld.
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