Gilded Egg

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==Prologue==
Three years ago
Jewel was minding her own business, nothing had been happening lately. She was just looking out the window, at some SilkWing dragonets playing on the school playground. “Lady Jewel!” said a HiveWing from behind her. He was small, maybe around seven. He was covered in buttery yellow scales, with light grey horns. “Yes?” Jewel asked, turning. “Queen Wasp has ordered the destruction of an egg our guards have found in the nest” the small yellow dragonet said. “Really? Why?” She asked. Wasp had never ordered the destruction of any eggs in Jewel hive before, well except once when there was a HiveWing egg that was strangely spherical and completely black. Jewel agreed with her on destroying that one, as it was probably defective anyway. “It’s because… it doesn’t have any parent markings, and it’s… part LeafWing.” The dragonet answered. “WHAT?” Jewel yelled “No. We are NOT going to destroy that egg.” “Why not?” The dragonet questioned. “One, that would anger the LeafWings and probably make them burn down our hive next. Two, just because it’s part LeafWing doesn’t mean it’s illegal! There are laws against HiveWing-SilkWing hybrids, but nothing against LeafWings.” She told the dragonet. “Fair point, but Wasp will probably destroy it herself on her next trip here though” it said. “Would you like me to have it put under hive protection?” “Yes!” Jewel said. “We are not going to kill our own dragonets. Bring me the egg. I would like to see it."
The small yellow dragonet ran out of the room to notify the guards. Jewel looked at a small box in the corner of her office, where she kept mail from her cousins. Hm. Maybe Wasp tried to notify me about this? She thought. Jewel picked up the box and skimmed through the letters, there must have been at least 20. Each ruler was assigned a messaging paper design, to make it easier for hive rulers to recognize what was from who. Jewels was a light green with pink corners, and a bright metallic blue border. She kept looking and found a black letter with pink and yellow striped borders. Guess she did. Makes sense, I haven’t looked through these in a few weeks. She opened the letter to see white writing against the black paper.
For Lady Jewel
5/17/5013 AS
Cousin, I have been notified by guards that you have a LeafWing HiveWing hybrid in your hive nest. This is likely to ruin the HiveWing name if it hatches and will likely cause chaos in Jewel Hive if citizens find out that LeafWings are not extinct. I request you destroy this egg, and if you don’t, I will likely be forced to take action. 
-Queen Wasp 
Jewel quickly got out a piece of her messaging paper, and wrote a solid
For Queen Wasp
6/8/5013 AS
No.
-Lady Jewel
“I have your requested egg, Lady Jewel.” a voice said behind her. She looked behind her to see a large Silkwing, about twenty-seven, holding a yellow and green egg. “Thank you, may I hold it?” Jewel asked. “Sure, my highness,” the dragon said. “No, just call me Jewel,” she said “Oh, okay- Jewel,” they said, handing her the egg. It was still very small, but it was beautiful. Small silver swirls dotted the egg, surrounded by yellow and green marble patterns. “Though I have a question, what will you do with it? It has no marked parents, and you can’t keep it in the nest because Wasp will just destroy it next time she visits” The SilkWing asked. “I’m gonna keep it with me until it hatches, then we will try to get it adopted by someone else.” “Uhm” The SilkWing guard said, “But then we would have a new lady if it’s a female, which would require a new hive, and ITS NOT LIKE WE HAVE ANY TREE STUFF!” “Yes, I know, but we have the Poison Jungle, and if it’s part LeafWing we can just gather seeds from there and grow new trees if it has leafspeak” Jewel replied. “Okay… and if it doesn’t?” the guard asked. “Like I said, the Poison Jungle” “Fine, whatever. I’ll just go…” the dragon said. “BE SURE NOT TO SPREAD THE NEWS!!!” She yelled as the guard left. 
=Part One: Seeds and Secrets=
==Chapter One==
Sweetgum has had a completely 100% normal life. You know, being a HiveWing LeafWing hybrid, being adopted by LeafWings, Being a friend of a SeaWing Princess, having leafspeak- oh. Anyway, a LOT has been happening lately. She has to help with the glitter bazar tonight, Honeybee wants her to help make a secret tunnel in the hive, she has to pack for Jade Mountain Academy and ARRRGGHHH, WHY DO I OVERWORK MYSELF? She angrily thought. “Okay. I’m just gonna tell Sequoia that I can’t help tonight, and tell Grassblade I have to pack for school” she said, sitting at the desk. “I really need to get started.” She said, looking at the empty tree bark basked she had on the floor. “But.. oh I don’t know.. should I get started now and save myself some work tomorrow, or make the treat for my clawmates that I will give to them in a week?” Sweetgum asked herself. “Okay. Let’s get cooking.” She said. 
2 hours later
“WHY DOES YEAST TAKE SO LONG TO PROOF??!?!?!?!?!?!?!” Sweetgum screamed. “WHY?!?!?!?!?” She yelled, collapsing onto the floor. Living in Jewel Hive was so strange sometimes. There was always too much or too little information on literally anything. For example, once Sweetgum asked her teacher “who was queen wasp?” And her teacher responded
“wasp was a twisted, selfish megalomaniac. She lied to her tribe for years about the Book of Clearsight, telling her subjects that the LeafWings were the less seuperior tribe and that Clearsight wanted the SilkWings to fall under HiveWing control, although the book's prophecies ended almost a thousand years ago. She refused to let any member of her tribes beside herself and the Librarian see the book. Wasp is very cold, cruel, and ruthless. She doesn't care about other dragons or the two tribes she rules, particularly the SilkWings.
Even though she is a HiveWing supremacist, Wasp does have a softer spot for her fellow HiveWings. However, they aren't spared entirely as shown when she labeled Queen Cricket, a fellow HiveWing, a traitor since the latter could resist mind-control and opposed Wasp's ideology. Furthermore, Wasp learned sometime later that Cricket was the product of Katydid and Malachite's illegal romantic relationship. She has no qualms punishing other dragonets, even members of her own tribe, for having parents partnered up without the former's permission, even if the forbidden dragonet in question does not pose a threat to Wasp's reign or ideology. Wasp is vindictive and strikes back the moment she is struck. The breath of evil describes her as all poison from the core out. Scarab says that being perfectly nasty is Wasp's natural resting state.
She is paranoid, shown when she appeared in Snowfall's vision. Snowfall realized how similar they were and how Wasp was afraid of other tribes, believing everyone was out to get her, resulting in the decision of taking over them entirely. According to Wasp herself, the world is evil. The only way to survive is to be the most evil. She also believes that everyone is evil and that one has to sometimes be allied with evil in order to get the most power.” ((Acorn here, most of that long explanation about wasp was from the canon WoF wiki, I couldnt find enough info on her elsewhere)) Sweetgum then asked her teacher “Are you okay?”
==Chapter Two==
Sweetgum kept working on the “honeycuits” she was making for her clawmates. They were small flaky buttery pieces of bread with layers, and honey was mixed into the dough. She heard a small shuffle when her best friend Honeybee came inside. “Hey Sweetgum. What are ya doin?” He asked. “Making some honey biscuits for my future clawmates, thought that might be a nice ‘Hi! Please be my friend I’m desperate’ gift” Sweetgum replied. 
Honeybee let out a little laugh, and asked “Okay, but you’re still helping me with the secret room later right?” “Sorry, I have to pack for jade mountain. I hope you are okay with that.” Sweetgum said as a kind of answer/rhetorical question because if he wasn’t she would leave anyway. “Fine. Okay, see you later!” Honeybee yelled in a okay-whatever-I’m-kinda-mad-but-whatever sort of tone. As he left the room, she thought why do I have the feeling something is about to go horribly wrong?
She looked back at the biscuits and saw them inflating like balloons in the small ceramic oven she had gotten when she was four. She had gotten it at the annual Jewel Hive gift exchange, when honeybee gave it to her. She ran over and pulled out the biscuits which were the size of her arm now. They looked the exact same, except that they were ten times their original size. “They may be huge, but that just means more snacks for my clawmates!” Sweetgum said. Only a few minutes later she began to pack, she used a bamboo basket about the size of an egg, and packed the biscuits, a small hammock, small paintset, and a indigo-cyan two tone colored clay plant pot. She noticed a caramel orange colored lump in the basket, she didn’t think anything of it as it was likely just a little chunk of bamboo that was poking out from the basket. Sweetgum began to walk down the levels of the hive to a checkpoint where she would get a “Jade mountain student” engraving on her metal armband. This is required for dragonets who are going to Pyrrhia for Jade Mountain Academy, this way Sweetgum would be able to get identified when she arrived at the sand kingdom, there are also small coins dragons can get instead called “Pyrrhia Passes.” As Sweetgum entered the checkpoint, a bright orange SilkWing asked “Hey! I’m Nectarine, what do you need?” “I’m Sweetgum, i need a Jade Mountain engraving. I’m in the Aquamarine Winglet.” Sweetgum responded. “Okay! if you need a engraving go to Lemon over there.” Nectarine said, pointing to a bright yellow RainWing, who was eating a starfruit. 
“Thanks! See you lat- in a year!” Sweetgum said as she walked toward the banana colored dragon. She made her way through the crowd of dragons and food shops, as she walked Sweetgum looked at the different shops. There was a seafood place run by an IceWing and a SilkWing, called “Silken sushi” with a big orange and blue sign. Every shop was about the size of a HiveWing classroom, and had a big paper banner above the entrance with a colorful logo. There was her favorite shop called “Constellation Combos” which is an astronomy themed restaurant, run by some of her friends parents. They served things such as rice, chicken and tomato soup with noodles. Every time you ordered something there they would give you a dessert, and you would never know which one. You could order rice and get razzberry ice cream, Potatoes and then get cake! There were lots more that Sweetgum didn’t recognize. “Noodle Noggin” “Fruit Freak” “Pyrrhian Products” and lots more. “Hey. What do you need little HiveWing?” Lemon asked. “Oh, I just need a Jade Mountain armband engraving. I’m in the Aquamarine Winglet” Sweetgum answered. “Orientation is in two days.” “Okay. Which one would you like to be engraved?” The yellow RainWing asked, pointing to her blue and silver armbands. “This one please” Sweetgum said, gesturing to the silver armband “Okay.” Lemon said as he pressed a patch of armband on her wrist. “This may hurt just a bit.” “What do you mea-” Sweetgum asked, but she felt a stabby pain in her arm, right beneath the armband. She then began to drift into darkness. 
==Chapter Three==
Three hours later…
Sweetgum woke up, with the bright yellow RainWing staring at her. “Uhm. Your engraving is done…” Lemon said, pointing to a small engraving on her armband. It was shaped like two claws, with the caption “Jade Mountain Student” hm. Looks nice. She thought. Then she noticed right below the engraving it said “AWL/H.” Lemon looked at her with a smile. “I see you have noticed my own special addition!” He said. “What? Does it mean All work lemons hand?” Sweetgum asked. “No it means Aquamarine Winglet LeafWing-HiveWing” the RainWing said. “Oh. That’s nice…” she said in a happy tone “Wait a minute… WHY DID YOU KNOCK ME OUT?!?!?!?” She screamed at Lemon. “Well, the procedure requires us to take the armband off which will cause immense pain, so we repurposed the toxin needle in your armband to use the pollen from a sleep flower to keep you asleep long enough for us to take it off, do the engraving, and put it back on.”  He said. “Oh. Well thanks…? I guess?” Sweetgum said. “Im gonna go get some lunch before I start my 2 day long flight.” “Actually, Noodle Noggin is having a sale, you should go there.” Lemon commented. “Okay, I’ve never gone there before but… I mean it does look pretty good.” She replied. 
Sweetgum began walking to the Noodle place, and looked at the menu while she was in line. There were lots of meals, cloud chicken, rainbow and marinara meal, and sky spirals. She decided get a small bowl of Sky Spirals, with some fruit juice. They both came in two containers, made with some sort of rubbery hardened tree sap. A few minutes later when she got it, it looked like some kind of twisty yellow silk with a tamato purée on top. “Thanks!” She said to the SandWing as she gave him some scales, Sweetgum tried the pasta, tastes pretty good she thought. 
Sweetgum finished up, and began walking to the platform. “Here goes nothing” She said nervously. She jumped off the platform, and began to fly. And fly. And fly some more. 
2 days later
Sweetgum saw the coast of pyrrhia, with lots of SandWings around. Alright, do I have everything here? She thought to herself. Biscuits, paint set, hammock, and-
Guess I’m dead.
There was a sprout in the plant pot. She had no idea what it was, all she knew was that it was pink, and it would have her executed when she got back to pantala. 
==Chapter 4==
Sweetgum pulled the small plant pot out of the basket as she landed. A small tree was growing out of it. The only thing she thought might make this happen was the Ficus tree seed. Once Sweetgum was revealed to the public, Cricket had given her one of its seeds in the Leafsilk kingdom, directly from Crickets tree.
The small tree was no taller one claw, but it had a few leaves and a small trunk. The leaves were a large collection of colors, cerulean blue, lime green, and banana yellow. She landed at the SandWing checkpoint, there were at least 15 gates, with all sorts of dragons arriving from pantala. They showed their wristbands to confirm their identity. The gate Sweetgum landed at had a bright yellow Rainwing, with an extra horn on their head. “Hi! Im Trioceros, may i please see your pass?” The rainwing asked.
“Im Sweetgum, and im here for Jade Mountain.” She replied, holding her wrist out. Trioceros examined the wristband, and tried to make small talk while he followed the protocol. “What winglet are you in?” He questioned ”Aquamarine.” She replied. ”What class are you most exited for?” Trioceros asked “Baking, i brought my own recipes for my special biscuits.” Sweetgum answered ”Wow! Can i try them?” He said, eyeing the basket. “Sure, could you give me feedback?” Sweetgum asked. Sweetgum reached into the basket, and gave the “honeycomb biscuit” to Trioceros. Trioceros ate the pastry, and imediately stuffed the entire biscuit into his mouth. “ITS SO GOOD!” He said, muffled. He swallowed the biscuit, and let go of the wristband. ”Alight then, head south-southeast.” He said, pointing towards the large mountain range in the distance. “Jade mountain is the largest mountain, it has two peaks and a large meadow around it.” “Thanks for the information” Sweetgum said. “No problem! Ill see you next summer when you head to sanctuary for the summer break.” ”Bye! Have a great day.” Sweetgum said, taking off into the sky.
From here, Sweetgum could see all of Pyrrhia from here. She hadn’t seen so many mountains and and biomes so close together in her life. She saw Jade Mountain Academy in the distance. She saw Sanctuary, Possibility, and Opportunity in the distance. The tree blew in the wind, while she flew on the air current.
She noticed the lack of clouds. The servere lack of clouds. The suspicious severe lack of clouds. There went any clouds or noticeable weather systems across the entire continent. Now that she thought about it, there weren’t any clouds on the trip here.
Sweetgum entered the air above a more forest-y reigon, where it was much less burn-y than the sand kingdom.
All of a sudden, a brick wall of wind hit her in the face. Sweetgum quickly stabilized herself from the mid-air collison, and landed on the ground. There was a large berry bush nearby, which she quickly ran to, to hide from whatever in pantala just happened. BY all the moons, why would there be a invisible object in the air? She thought out loud. 
Then she noticed.
One of the bushes was moving.
==Chapter 5 ==
A large white/blue dragon with bright, burning cyan eyes screamed out of the leaves, flying at impossible speeds. Sweetgum doged them, and in a moment of shock, she started running. 
Sweetgum dodged branches, trees, rocks, and animals as she sprinted through the forest. She seemed to lose control of her body, almost going into autopilot. They chased for at least a mile, before she saw a clearing, with a direct path to the mountains. She saw a mudwing flying in the distance. She knew she couldnt escape alone, so she changed her direction and took off.
As she climbed higher and higher, she could hear the white dragon getting closer to her. The mudwing noticed, and started diving toward them. The orange and white dragons collided in midair as they began to fight, swirling around and ripping eachothers scales off in a whirl of creamsicle. The orange dragon spewed fire at the ice dragon, and in a disturbing sight, the dragon melted and fell out of the sky, almost as if it was made of ice or honey.
The bright orange dragon flew over to her, obviously concerned. “Can you explain what in three moons just happened?” He said, obviously disgusted at the way it died. “Nope. It was chasing me in the forest, then… whatever that was happened” She said. “Oh. Im Clay, can i see your armband?” Clay asked. “Uh… sure.” Sweetgum said. Did she just meet THE Clay??? Did THE Clay just save her life? “I see. Hi! Welcome to Pyrrhia, Im going to be one of your teachers this year. Follow me to the school!” He said, while motioning her to follow him to Jade Mountain. She saw the school in the distance.
“Thanks for saving my life, i have something for you” Sweetgum said. Clay seemed to perk up at the honey biscut. “Whats that?” “Buttery bread with honey mixed in.” She said, almost in a bragging tone. Sweetgum handed the treat to Clay, and he took a small bite of it, maybe unsure if it was safe. “Alright, time to go. Orientation starts in a few hours.” Clay said, as they began flying to the school. 
==Chapter 6==
After months of reconstruction and remodeling, Wasp Hive was about to throw its grand opening ball. The now remade hive had trees literally built into the architecture. The new hive had large platforms on the outside, for observation, and the still ongoing project of reweaving the webs.
A forest of Ficus trees surrounded each hive, the descendants of the small tree grown in Cicadia hive all those months ago.
That was an interesting project, Sundew thought as she worked on the feast. Her, Willow, and many other Leafwings worked to make the feast the 4730 dragons that would be attending. As she checked the list, no food was left to make. FINALLY. Sundew screamed internally. “Alright, Alright, Calm down!” Willow said, accidentally scaring her. 
“What are you doing here?!” Sundew asked. “Just wanted to tell you that Swordtail came to see us over at Sequoia Tower.” Sequoia Tower. Still feels like it wasn't enough of a monument to her to name the biggest place in the hive after her. Most Poisonwings- Actually most LeafWings in general, had the same thought. Silkwings were neutral on the whole project, but Most Hivewings wanted to name it after Cochineal, the idiot who started the whole thing that lead to the tree wars. Most pantalans reffered to it as “The Event”, not wanting to bring back memories. 
As they flew around the level of the hive, they followed the green indicators to the tower. There were indicators to major landmarks at every intersection. 
The tower came into view. The large spire had different segments, each with a green and white color scheme. There were also different glass windows, with differnt colors of the rainbow depending on the height of the segment. As they few up around the spire, the height of it truly came into scale. It was at least 2/3 the height of the hive. As they landed on the top platform, they saw swordtail. 
“This place is beautiful, isnt it?” Willow asked. Sundew didnt know how to respond. “Hazel says its going to be a school for the different tribes. I like the idea, i could see a playground just over there-“ “I think it looks… nice.” Sundew finally responded. “You hate it, dont you?“ “Yeah. The green is too yellow-ish.” “Hey! Come over here!” Swordtail said, motioning them, while still face deep in a paper. “A group of Nightwings that were mapping the continent came in today. They said the sinkhole is growing, some kind of cracks were appearing near it.” “What sinkhole?” Willow said, beating her to the question. “Cricket, Blue and Me were in it a long time ago, while we were hiding from the Hivewings. Theres some kind of underground lake inside.” 
They heard a cacophony of noises below them, in the market. Sundew looked, there was something going on. 
The stone felt extremely warm against Sundews talons. Wasp Hive was usually warm, but the stone felt… Unnatural. Like something was below it. 
Two dragonets screamed at eachother, with a third in the center, unconscious. Sundew pushed them apart, “Woah, woah, woah. Whats happening here?” “Parula fell down the hell and its Turacos fault!” The bright pink dragonet screeched “No its yours!” The bright green dragonet, probably Turaco, yelled back. Sundew looked down below her. Parula laid on the ground, unconscious. 
She picked up the yellow and blue silkwing and flew through the market, not caring what she hit or who was in the way. She flew, with a couple of hivewings following behind slowly, interested. She burst into the Healers, and screamed “THIS DRAGONET IS UNCONSIOUS!” Laying them onto the bed. A few healers ran over to the dragonet, thanked her, and politely asked her to leave. 
As Sundew walked out, she felt the stone again. It was even hotter now, painful to touch. There were a bunch of dragonets hovering above the ground, as if nothing was happening, probably going home from school. 
A loud CRACK! roared through the hive. Followed by more, the culprit was obvious. 
Lightning was breaking through the walls. Suddenly, more and more happened. Rapidly. 
”Wh- Whats going on?!” Willow asked, worried. “Lightning storm.” Sundew whispered “What?” “We need to go NOW!” She yelled, as a flash of light hit the building near them. The building began to fall. “Three moons…” a dragon whispered, terrified. Sundew heard loud crashing and screaming noises everywhere. 
Sundew grabbed willow by the arm, and began running. She knew where to go. A thundering boom, followed by a blast of heat hit them both, as they passed Monarch Park, they saw chunks of burning roof falling onto buildings. Almost everywhere they looked, there was fire. “We have to fly!” She screamed, as she took off, Willow continued to follow. She saw dragons trying to leave through windows and holes in the roof, only to get hit by debris. Sundew noticed the hiding spot. The Flamesilk Museum. The old flamesilk caves had been converted into a museum about the horrible things hivewings did, along with statues of the dragons imprisoned there. The entire facility was underground, making a great place to hide from lightning. She dove into the entrance cave, with willow and a dragonet following a bit behind. Sundew landed in the cafe, if the museum caved in, they would have a source of food here. Willow landed next to her, and a Skywing dragonet shot into the area a few seconds later, crashing into sundews arm. 
“Tell me what the moons just happened.” Willow said in a serious tone. Picking up the dragonet. “Some kind of extreme weather, it’s usually always sunny around here. Don’t ask me, I have no idea how this happened.” 
== Chapter 7 ==
Sweetgum and Clay flew down to the Academy Entrance.
A bright Orange and Blue flower banner spanned the sides of the cave, reading 
“Welcome students, to the Second Year of Jade Mountain Academy!”
Just below it, another sentence read
”Here are some quotes from students last year:”
To the right of that, a large list of quotes. “Definitely coming next year!” “This made a major Impact!”
A bright teal Icewing startled her, accidentally poking Sweetgum in the back with his spikes. “Ack! So sorry!” They said, walking further into the hallway.
More quotes said less.. important things like “The food was good” or “I can’t believe how rude everyone is to royalty!”
Leaving the opening cave, she saw a large sunny room, with leaves to let light in. She walked in, realizing it was the library. She saw starflight, and felt the sudden urge to duck behind something, but caught herself, remembering that he was blind. “Hello?” She said, making the black dragon spin around toward her.
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