Wings of Fire: Legends: Ember

Whaddup guys, it's the funni haha man, back this time with a fanfic he wrote when he was 10! This is the story of Ember- my version of Sky, as I wrote this before Dragonslayer came out- Queen Scarlet's private assassin, and Canyon, the Dunestrel ship dragonet. Yes, you heard that right. 10-year-old me was an avid Dunestrel shipper for some reason. It's written in the style of Legends: Darkstalker (shifting POVs, etc), even though I know logically that Tui T. Sutherland would never actually read this random fanfic, much less publish it. 
Despite the chapters being 2 pages long, the writing honestly is pretty good for a 10-year-old. I'll have to explain a lot in the author's notes though for the story to actually kind of make sense, so please read them (especially as I stopped writing halfway through Chapter 4). 
Warning: While I really didn't get to the part of the story where murder would be very important, there is one death scene (in chapter 2) and some somewhat graphic depictions of violence (chapters 1&2). Nothing too serious though. 
Enjoy!
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Wings of Fire
Legends: Ember
By 10-year-old Atomic Ahren
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~PROLOUGE~
KESTREL
Kestrel was waiting anxiously for the noise in the sleeping cave to die down. The 5-month-old Dragonets of Destiny were cute, but boy were they a lot of work! Kestrel was planning to go outside and to the next mountain, where her egg was, after the dragonets fell asleep. She hadn't checked on her egg for days, and she had a feeling that something bad would happen if she didn't come to the egg. The father, Dune1, had aggreed2 to come with her today. Finally the noise in the sleeping cave stopped, and Kestrel heard some little snores. She walked into Dune's cave and signaled him to follow here. They got outside, by the secret passage, and silently flew to the cliff where their egg was3. Dune and Kestrel landed, and sat down next to the egg. After a few moments there appeared a crack in the shell4. 
"It's hatching!" yelled Kestrel, unable to conceal her excitement. 
"SSshhhh," said Dune. "There might be SkyWing patrols around here."
"Oh, right. I forgot," said Kestrel. Then, an even bigger crack appeared in the shell. Kestrel's heart beat wildly and she jumped up. The crack grew and grew... until a small yellow and light red dragonet fell out. Kestrel ran up and took the dragonet into her arms. "She's beautiful," she told Dune. "I'm going to name her... Canyon5." The dragonet looked up into her smiling mother's face and smiled back. Kestrel handed Canyon to Dune for him to admire. "I'm a father... I can't believe it. I'm a father..." he kept on saying6. 
"After all of this time," said Kestrel. "Waiting and waiting, our dragonet has come out." And she will be perfect, thought Kestrel, No firescales or too little fire or anything else. She will be perfect. And I won't make the mistakes that I made when I was Cinder7. Now Kestrel's eyes held tears of happiness. Dune wiped them away8, just as there appeared a tiny glimmer of light in the sky.
"Dune, I'll better go, since I'm the one that usually wakes up the dragonets in the morning. I'll also get some more scrolls, alphabet scrolls to teach the dragonets how to read. You can stay with Canyon for a bit, can you?" said Kestrel.
"Of course," said Dune. "I'd love to." Kestrel took one. last look at her husband and dragonet before flying off to the mountain. I hope Webs is okay at the mountain9, she thought. After a while, she began to think about Crimson, her brother10. I hope he's alright. The last time she had seen him was two years ago, when she was showing him her egg. A pang hit her heart. She hoped that Ember and Peril were fine. She still loved them, as they were her dragonets, but she knew they would never love her as she loved them11. 
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Click to see author's notes for the prologue
1 I wasn't lying about the Dunestrel. I just randomly started shipping it one day and then decided, hey wouldn't it be cool if they had a dragonet?? Then wrote a fanfic about it. 
2 This fic is written just how 10-year-old me wrote it, spelling/grammar mistakes as well. Don't get annoyed pls.
3 This is so vague. It's a different passage than the one that Clay used to escape, though.
4 Awfully convenient, but motherly instincts are really powerful things. 
5 LAME. NAME. What was I thinking when I made that the dragonet's name. 
6 10-year-old me thought this was awfully funny. I don't even know why. 
7 Here's kind of an important bit: here, Kestrel's name used to be Cinder, and she changed it when she ran away and ditched her dragonets. I don't really know the purpose of the name change though; I think I made her be some high-ranking soldier in Scarlet's army and she changed her name in order to not freak out the Talons of Peace?? I don't remember to be honest. 
8 Surprisingly cute. 
9 And what is Webs' opinion on Dunestrel, you may ask? Well, he doesn't really care. He just doesn't want their relationship and dragonet to interfere with raising the Dragonets of Destiny. 
10 I think Crimson shows up later in the story; I'm not sure though. Look at me foreshadowing things.
11 THERE IS SO MUCH WRONG WITH THESE SENTENCES. How does she know their names if she just ditched them somewhere?? How does she claim she loves them if she literally ditched them??? Of course they don't love her, they probably have mommy issues and abandonment issues now. And the grammar gives me a headache. Help.
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~CHAPTER 1~
EMBER
6 years later...
Ember didn't want to be Queen Scarlet's private assasin1. And yet, here he was, at private lessons with his teacher, Reddeath, who was hollering insructions at him. "Tuck! Roll! Use your tail as a whip! Flip! Claw! Low!" Ember was battling an IceWing from Queen Scarlet's arena. Ember was a wonderful fighter, even though he had too little fire, and he had his wings bound. When not at battle training/assasin class, Ember and Australis the IceWing were good friends2. 
"That's it for today," said Reddeath. "remember to practice and work on that tail." Ember breathed a sigh of relief and ran to his next class, Dragon Anatomy. His teacher there was at least a tinge nicer than Reddeath. "Today," said Falcon (the teacher) "We will be learning about dragon abilities. For example, SandWings have tail barbs. IceWings have frostbreath. SkyWings have hotter fire than other tribes. If you go in the RainWing Kingdom, you will be shot with sleeping darts, while the RainWings are camoflouged3." Falcon looked around expectantly, to see if everyone was listening. Ember sure was. "If you ever meet an enemy SandWing in war, chop off their tail barb. Then they'll have no natural weapons. If you ever meet an enemy IceWing, breathe fire at their snout so that they won't be able to breathe their frostbreath, since they can only use their frostbreath in cold circumstances." Ember looked around. Some dragons were falling asleep, while he thought it was fascinating. Soon, Ember and Australis were the only ones awake. "WAKE UP!" roared Falcon. "WAKE UP!" Everyone jumped up (except for Ember and Australis). "THE QUEEN SHALL BE NOTIFIED!" This was the school for royal dragonets, such as the queen's nieces and nephews and children and grandchildren. Ember was in it because he was the queen's Private Assasin in training. Ember's sister, Peril, wasn't in this class because she had firescales. Ember's scales were fireproof, but he had too little fire4. Ember excelled at all of his classes, except Assasin Training. Reddeath was always mean to Ember because when Ember became good enough, he would become the Queen's Private Asassin5. Reddeath, just to be ever meaner, made Ember fight his best friend, Australis. Reddeath said that when Ember succeeded in killing Australis, and Australis was a great fighter, and his best friend, then Ember would become the Queen's Private Assasin. Prince Vermillion, the queen's oldest son, walked in6. 
"Ember," he said, "the queen wants to see you." Ember's stomach did a flip. Every head in the classroom turned to him. 
"Uh, sure. I'm coming!" said Ember, and walked out of the classroom. 
"Perfect. Now follow me," said Vermilion. "You do know why the queen sent for you, right?" They turned right, to the most important rooms. 
"N-no," stuttered Ember7. They paused at the queen's private chambers. 
"Now why didn't they tell you? The queen is going to send you on your first mission."
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Click to see author's notes for chapter 1
1 I don't think the word "assassin" is ever spelled correctly here. 
2 Australis is the IceWing that Ember was fighting, if that wasn't clear. Australis is actually an important character, watch out for him later. 
3 I have no idea how the SkyWings knew this. Plot hole #69
4 By this I mean that Ember cannot breathe fire. The most amount of fire he's able to produce is the small flame from a BiC lighter. 
5 Reddeath is Queen Scarlet's current Private Assassin, but she wants to replace him with Ember and Reddeath is super salty about it so he abuses Ember. Also, I know Reddeath isn't a SkyWing name. He probably did have a normal SkyWing name at some point, but the nickname Reddeath (from the red deaths he gave) eventually replaced his old name. 
6 FINALLY THAT PARAGRAPH ENDED. For some reason I didn't separate the dialogue in this paragraph, my bad. 
7 I love how Ember is portrayed as this soft shy little bean that doesn't like murder, but is also somehow amazing at combat and very interested in gory anatomy stuff. Maybe he wants to become a doctor idk
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~CHAPTER 2~
CANYON
Independence is survival1. Canyon's parents' motto played in her head. It had been almost a month since she had last seen her parents. Every once in a while, one of her parents visited her. When Canyon was little, her parents visited her, on her lonely cliff, a lot, visiting her every could of days. They used to bring her food, but when her father, Dune, taught her how to hunt, those visits were not as often. Her mother taught her how to fight any suspicious dragons. Canyon's godfather, Webs, taught her history and reading and writing. Canyon lived near a river, so there was plenty of water. She didn't eat much, and grew a garden, so there was plenty of food. Sometimes she would go to the Sky Kingdom and would buy empty scrolls, scrolls, and ink2. She had a little cave, a library, and a writing room. She was an excellent carver, carving statues of various dragons. Canyon's sleeping cave was located farther back than the other caves, where she hid if a squadron of SkyWings were approaching. She could handle up to four dragons, but no more3. Canyon went out to hunt. She went on the other side of the mountain, slinking to the bushes and jumped on a boar and killed it. Canyon's cave was on the side of the mountain that faced away from the Sky kingdom, so around here she needed to be careful. She carefully clambered up to her little cave and started a new carving. She did it outside, because it was much nicer outside than in her cave. It was of two dragons, sitting side by side, staring at 2 of the moons that are full4. She began to start eating a piece of dried meat that she had dried a couple of days prior. She finished the carving and carved her name in tiny letters at the bottom of the carving. Canyon sat back and stared at the carving. She loved her home, but sometimes Canyon became bored. Flap. Flap. Canyon heard wingbeats. Yay! she thought. Finally my mother is coming! It’s been such a long time! As the dragon came nearer, Canyon realized that the dragon wasn’t red, like her mother. The dragon was more… orangish. Canyon’s first instinict was hide. But then, Canyon though, Maybe I’ll get to battle this dragon. Mother does say, “Kill every dragon that finds you and your cave.” Canyon decided to wait and see who was this dragon. The dragon landed and Canyon saw that he had many bracelets, most of them gold5. The dragon looked around and saw Canyon6. 
“Who are you?!” he bellowed. Canyon said nothing and stared at him. “TELL ME, FOR I AM PRINCE HAWK OF THE SKYWINGS!” Canyon, again, said nothing and stared. The dragon lunged at Canyon, but Canyon jumped to a different spot. Prince Hawk, fell, face-front in the dirt. He roared with rage. Hawk lunged again and this time, Canyon clawed his underbelly. He howled with pain. The fight went on for a couple of minutes, until Hawk lay, dead, at Canyon’s feet7. Canyon carefully took of the bracelets. She put one on her arm and the others she used to decorate her carvings. Feeling sick, Canyon went to her sleeping cave and fell asleep. 
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Click to see author's notes for chapter 2
1 Goofy aa slogan. If anything independence isn’t survival, it’s very hard for humans and dragons probably to live with little to no social interaction. 
2 How they didn’t find a SkyWing/SandWing hybrid suspicious beats me. Canyon is also like, 6. She should not be on her own yet. 
3 HOW CAN SHE DEFEAT 4 FULL-GROWN DRAGONS?? That is crazy. She isn’t too much of a Mary Sue here but if I had written one more chapter of her she totally would have been. 
4 I think this was supposed to be foreshadowing to a future scene/ship. Forgot what it was though. 
5 This was supposed to be a way of showing Hawk’s richness, I don’t think it really worked though. 
6 FINALLY THE PARAGRAPH ENDED!!! W RIZZ!!!
7 Again, how did Canyon take down a full grown dragon. What. See note 3
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~CHAPTER 3~
AUSTRALIS
Australis felt worried. He knew that Queen Scarlet would send Ember on his first mission, but he didn’t know who he would kill. Australis’s stomach did a flip. What if he needs to kill… me1? Australis pushed that thought out of his mind. Right now he needed to concentrate on what Professor2 Falcon was talking about. Australis had this problem. He could never concentrate during class3. He would start daydreaming about what Ember and Australis would do if they escaped. Ember didn’t want to be the queen’s assasin, and Australis was an IceWing, so he didn’t fit in. 
“If you remember,” Proffessor Falcon said, and muttered something like, “you probably don’t” “I was telling you that the queen wants to know your grades, your behavior,” Falcon looked around4. “And your backstory. Australis will go first, since we’re doing it in alphabetical order. You will talk with Professor Sparrow. He will talk to your about your grades, behavior, and history. All clear?” 
“Yes, Proffesor Falcon,” the class chanted. 
“Good. Now, Australis, come with me,” said Falcon. Australis felt eyes on him and his palms started sweating. Australis and Falcon went down a hall and stopped at a door. Professor Falcon knocked. “Come in,” a voice said. Falcon and Australis walked in. Australis saw an old, dark red and dark orange dragon with orange eyes4. The dragon smiled. 
“I’m Professor Sparrow. I work for the queen. Come sit down,” said the dragon. Australis shyly came up to the desk and sat down. Sparrow smiled again. 
“Shy, I see? Well, make yourself comfortable. Please begin the story of you.” 
Australis took a deep breath and said, “I was told this story. Princess Ruby, while out hunting, found a dead IceWing near an IeWing egg. She took the egg and cared for it, and when it hatched, she showed it to Queen Scarlet. She ordered Reddeath to train me as his assistant. I became the assisant, so now I’m here5.” Australis looked at Professor Sparrow. “I’ve never told anyone (except for Ember) my full story, so I’m a bit worried,” Australis said. Sparrow wrote something down. 
“Well,” Professor Sparrow said, “our time here is done. I look forward to seeing you soon.” Sparrow smiled. Professor Falcon was waiting outside the door. “Bye,” Australis said. Proffessor Falcon and Australis went back to the classroom. Australis was surprised that insted of students, there were guards there. 
“The queen needs that IceWing,” one of them growled. Australis paled. “W-why?6”
“The queen met a SeaWing and a MudWing and she found their cave,” another one snarled.
“Where is the cave? Why were a SeaWing and a MudWing, of all dragons, be together?” Australis asked. 
“They claim that they’re the Dragonets of Destiny,” a third guard said. Australis stood for a little, then he followed the soldiers out of the room7.
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Click to see author's notes for chapter 3
1 Australis is very gay for Ember. I think the main ship was supposed to be Ember/Canyon but the endgame ship is obviously Ember/Australis. Actually, I just now realized that if the Ember/Canyon ship was canon it would be pedophilia. Ember and Australis are 8, Canyon is 6. I’m so glad I didn’t get that far- ALSO IT WOULD BE INCEST!! Because Ember and Canyon are half-siblings!!! I was really dumb when I was 10
2 Drinking game: every time my spelling of “professor” changes, you take a shot (that’s 5 shots).
3 I smell ADHD!! Neurodivergency rules!!
4 Wtf 💀what is that sentence structure/grammar???? I’m crying. 10-year-old me was insane. Why did I repeat “dark” twice. im gonna cry.
5 Australis was clearly lied to. Why would the SkyWing PRINCESS decide to save some random IceWing egg. I just decided that Australis’s mom died in the arena, and Australis’s egg was found when they were cleaning out her cell. They decided to keep it for some reason and gave it to Reddeath as a “gift”. Australis was raised by Reddeath for a bit before he became besties with Ember and got My Bestie Is A Future Murderer privileges. 
6 I don’t remember what Scarlet wanted with Australis, I think she wanted to threaten him to not distract Ember or something. Or try to kill him idk
7 Ayy it’s the DoD. I don’t think they were supposed to play a large role, just maybe one scene with them. 
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~CHAPTER 4~
EMBER
Ember froze. His first mission? He wasn’t ready! Ember started to sweat. 
“Well, are you coming?” asked Prince Vermillion. “Don’t keep the queen waiting.”
“Yeah, I’m coming,” said Ember, worriedly. They walked into the room. Queen Scarlet was sitting in the room, with Reddeath and Ember’s sister, Peril, next to her. Peril gave a small wave to Ember, and Ember waved back1. 
“Ah, my new Private Assasin is here,” Queen Scarlet said. “I believe that you have already been told why you were called here?” Ember nodded. “Perfect. Your first mission is to kill Prince Hawk. He’s been acting like a brat lately. You may recieve no help from anyone. You are dissmissed,” the queen said. Ember was shocked. Me, kill a prince? Ember felt sick. I guess my career has begun, he thought. Vermillion and Ember walked out of the room, and Vermillion led Ember back to his classroom, but it was empty. 
“I guess class ended early for you,” said Prince Vermillion. “You can go to your room in the palace. Bye.2”
“Bye,” said Ember. He walked out of the classroom and went outside. How am I supposed to kill Prince Hawk? He thought. Ember lifted out of the air and flew around. He came to a river and drank3. He saw something, or someone, coming towards him. It was floating on the river. Ember flew closer to investigate. It was a body- a SkyWing, namely- and it was light and enormous. Ember’s eyes widened. The body was Prince Hawk’s body! Prince Hawk was floating on the river, unmoving, unblinking. 
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And there you have it! The end of Wings of Fire: Legends: Ember. If you thought this was painful to read, then, well, it was painful to write and constantly reread for me too. I hope you guys enjoyed it, this was made just to make fun of little 10-year-old me. If I feel like it I might actually keep updating this, but with better writing. I’ll figure out how to format the newer parts later. The original drafts and a little art is in the gallery, so check that out if you want.
Click to see author's notes for chapter 4
1 Ember and Peril were never close. Ember knew he was fireproof, but Peril didn’t, so she was constantly scared of hurting her twin and kept her distance. They don’t hate each other though. 
2 Vermillion is the most based character here tbh. He’s so chill. I love him a lot. 
3 This is so incredibly vague I hate it. “He flew. He went.” amazing writing 10Ahren. 
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Click to see the gallery
Original drafts
Ember P.1.jpg|Prologue pt1
Ember P.2.jpg|Prologue pt2
Ember 1.1.jpg|Ch1 pt1
Ember 1.2.jpg|Ch1 pt2
Ember 2.1.jpg|Ch2 pt1
Ember 2.2.jpg|Ch2 pt2
Ember 3.1.jpg|Ch3 pt1
Ember 3.2.jpg|Ch3 pt2
Ember 4.jpg|Ch4
Top Gang™ art
Ember ref.jpg|Ember sketch, by me
Canyon ref.jpg|Canyon sketch, by me
Australis ref.jpg|Australis sketch, by me
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