Wings of Fire: Lights Out (Book 2)

==Story==
(I wrote this in fifth grade, some of the characters were made by my family and my best freinds)
Wings of fire
Lights of the Shadows!
Pyrrhia Prophecy
The dragon of death is coming
The life of the world is running
Unless the dragonets are found
The world will fall beneath ground.
To find the wings of sea
The rainforest is where it will be
For the wings of thunder search through the rubble
The wings of rain look for a double
For the wings of sky search for the flames
And a dragon with a troubled name
And the wings of sand
The dragonets will show what’s right
Or end the chaos with a fight
The dragonets need to turn the hate...
or all of Pyrrhia will meet its fate. 
Part one
The dungeon
For my family, thank you to everyone for your dragon characters, Hibiscus,Pineapple,and Shadow
Prolouge
Firefly sat under her mom’s wing. “I can’t believe I spoke to a Thunderwing,” she thought. “Doesn’t he know I’m royalty?”
 Firefly had a thousand questions to ask, but she knew that going to Jade Mountain Academy would help. Glory grinned. “Ready to go to the academy?”
 Firefly grinned “You bet I am.” Tsunami handed her a scroll.       
“This will help you get around.” Firefly took it and skipped into the mountain. 
“Storm said that he was going into the library. So I guess I’ll go there.” It was weird that she felt like she always wanted to see him. Like he was the only dragon that could make her feel less shy. 
“Huh. What's this?” She flipped the scroll backwards. 
“Looks like I have some clawmates...and one of them is Storm!” 
Firefly felt much better. She flew to the library as quickly as she could. Once she found the library, she saw Storm was just sitting next to a Skywing. When he saw her, his eyes lit up. “Hello Firefly!” he beamed “Meet Peril.” Fireflies tail twitched a bit. Peril was older then Storm, but Storm was slightly bigger. She was coppery red from head to toe with pale yellow on her wings. She looked friendly enough. “Hi,” Firefly said softly. Peril did a small bow. “Hello, princess Firefly. It's an honor to meet you.” Storm brushed his wing with Firefly’s. “Let's see if we can find anything exciting to read.” Storm stepped up to a desk and waited for a second. Moments later, a blind Nightwing popped his head up from behind the desk. “Hi, Starflight,” Storm said “Got any new scrolls for us to read?” Starflight smiled, “As a matter of fact I do.” He turned around as the knot of his blindfold bobbed behind him. Firefly watched in interest as he put a talon on a carved word then he plucked the scroll above it and handed it to Storm. “I think you’ll like this one,” he said, “It's all about the war for the rival queens and Darkstalker’s return.” Storm grinned “Thanks.” He turned around and set the scroll down on a stone table. Firefly sat in the front of the two which made her talons turn pink with embarrassment. Peril began to read it out loud until all the other dragons in the library gave her cold glares, so they just read it silently. It was very quiet until they finished the entire scroll. “Can you imagine?” Storm said. “Many years ago, the tribes hated each other.“
 “It's a good thing we won’t make their mistakes.” Firefly said, “We’re so much smarter than all the dragons who lived before us.” 
“I’m glad we’re here though. At Jade Mountain,” Peril said, “I’m glad it exists.” Storm grinned. “Me, too.” Firefly realized rose pink was creeping out of her left talon which was also the same side Storm was. She quickly stamped it out before anyone could see it. “Woo. I’m tired, I’m going to get some rest,” Storm said, stretching his front talons. Peril nodded. “It's getting dark so you two should go to sleep.” 
“What about you?” Firefly asked. Peril paused. “It's an important meeting. I- better get going now. Bye!” 
Peril dashed out of the library before Firefly could say another word. “What was that about?” Firefly wondered. “Firefly come on! Let's get to our cave!” Storm called. “Our?” Firefly questioned. “Didn’t you see the back of the scroll?” Storm said, “We share a cave like everyone else.” Streaks of gold flashed through Firefly’s wings. “Come on! I get cranky if I don’t get to sleep at the right time,” he said, running into the left tunnel that appeared when they got close. Firefly followed. “I made two friends. One is cool, the other is cute. I get to sleep with Storm for the entire time I’m here. Plus, everyone seems friendly. Maybe I’ll make some more friends and maybe...maybe Jade mountain won’t be so bad after all.”
Chapter 1
4 years later
Firefly was a cheerful dragon with a cheerful life. She had amazing friends, amazing teachers...amazing everything.    
“I can’t believe I was so shy!” she thought every day. And there were so many questions on her mind. (How do Rainwings change colors? Where do Thunderwings live? WHY ARE MANGOES SO GOOD?) But those were the easy ones; answers you could get just by listening in class. But, there were questions that were very mysterious. Who was the principal? And what was under Jade mountain? The principal only appeared during sun time, early in the morning and late at night. Firefly would try to find out the answers to both questions, but who could stay up late or miss sun time!? And secondly, the sudden noises under the floor of Jade mountain. Loud rumbles and shouts came from under her hammock. Storm said it was probably his siblings, Bolt and Scorch, trying to see who could roar louder or slam the ground harder. But she knew that wasn’t true. “Storm…” she mumbled as her body turned pink with love. She never knew Storm was in love with her until he told her yesterday. The good news was, she loved him back! Bad news, her tail was injured. She glared at the half cut tip on her tail. “It's a pretty bad scar,” she remembered Clay saying, “You might have to not use your tail for many years. In the meantime, keep the tail off the ground so it won’t hurt.”  Hurt! Firefly didn’t care if it hurt! She wanted to twine her tail or hang on trees with her friends. “What if I-?” The gong interrupted her. She flung herself out of the hammock. “Storm, time to get up!” she said. Then all of it washed away. All the love, thoughts, and colors. Emptiness. Just like the Thunderwings hammock.
Chapter 2
Where was Storm? Did he get up early? No. Firefly knew that Storm was NOT and early riser. She had to wake him up every day. “I have to tell my friends,” she thought, then she turned and ran to Eclipse’s cave. The dragons around her made unhappy noises as she loudly ran past them. She skidded nearly right past Eclipses cave. Eclipse was gone too. Then she checked Peril’s cave. Then Sunny’s, Tuna’s, Adder’s and Raspberry’s. They were all gone! In fact all the Seawings, Sandwings, Thunderwings, Skywings, and Rainwings were gone. “There's only one cave I didn’t check. Splash’s!” 
Splash lived in a separate cave near the pond for swimming. His partner Geode was the smallest dragon at Jade mountain, though he got along well with Splash. She dashed to his cave. Sadly, he was gone too.      
“By all the moons, where is everybody?”  Firefly tapped her claws. “Am I absolutely sure Splash is gone?” Splash was an animus and he had hidden his powers from them, until one day Storm blurted it out. 
“He might of hidden some enchantments away…” Firefly spotted a small space in the corner of the cave. Small enough for a pouch to fit. Firefly ducked under the hammock and reached for it. Her talons clasped around a small bag. Firefly opened it quickly and pulled two objects out.  There was a note in the bag as well. 
“Splash must have realized he was going to be captured and figured that I would find out they're gone, so he told what these objects did,” she guessed. 
She pulled out the first item. A whip. “Turns animus powers into the opposite.” She pulled out the second item. It was his library card. Firefly read the tag on it. 
“‘Turns your talons into iron.’ What? Who would want that?” Firefly stared at card. “That is one of Splash’s stupidest enchantments ever.” She shook her head and stuffed them all back into the pouch. 
THUNK!  Something crashed into the ground. It was a jar. 
“The jar that Splash used to protect his soul.” Firefly thought. “I didn’t knock it over.” She stared at the jar. “But, If I didn’t knock it over...who did?” She glared at the jar then at the cave.     
“Ok ,whoever is hiding...I KNOW YOU’RE HERE SO SHOW YOURSELF!” Firefly snapped her mouth shut. Silence. Nobody at all.     
 “I’m fine,” she sighed. “Nothing at -” Something shocked her wrist. She looked down. Her shockflower bracelet was blooming. 
“It only blooms when something bad is going to happen. I have to get out of here.” Firefly reached for the door. Suddenly, something landed on her back!  Firefly’s legs felt like they could not carry her anymore. She thudded on the stone ground struggling to get away. But it was too strong for her to get up. “Give up, Rainwing! We’re keeping you here and there's no way to stop us.”
Chapter 3 
 “Don’t even think about struggling,” the voice hissed         “Or I’ll rip you to pieces.” Firefly didn’t even think twice about doing that. 
“Shadow, you can’t just threaten someone you barely know,” protested a second voice. This one was calmer than the first, but familiar. 
“What do you think you’re doing, Shadow?” said a third, which made Firefly think of Glory. The weight lifted a bit. 
“Saving you two, guarding our cave, and about to kill a Rainwing working for those two dragons.” A Rainwing appeared behind Shadow so quickly Firefly jumped. “OFF,” she said. Surprisingly, Shadow stepped off her, so Firefly could breathe. 
“My apologies, Firefly. Shadow doesn't usually...attack trespassers.” She shot him a glare. 
“What?” he said, “Just because I haven’t done it for how much...A THOUSAND MOONS?” The fuschia Rainwing rolled her eyes. 
“I’m Hibiscus. That’s our brainless bodyguard, Shadow. And Pineapple is up there.” The golden, green and black Rainwing crashed nearly on top of Firefly!  She had a Nightwing snout and Galaxy pattern. She grabbed Firefly by the shoulder and shook her hard. 
“Hi! I'm so happy to meet you!” she exclaimed.     “I’m Pineapple, as you know! I’m so excited to meet the daughter of our queen!” She made a small bow and smiled in a funky way. 
“Wait. You’re the daughter of the queen of the Rainwings?” Shadow said, wide eyed. 
“Um...yeah,” Firefly mumbled. 
“You’re the descendant of Queen Anaconda? The next heir to the throne of Rainwings? The double of royalty? Princess Firefly??” Hibiscus asked. Firefly nodded “What’s so important about that?” Shadow clutched his head and murmured “Somebody’s after you. And they’re coming to capture you and destroy you until there's nothing left of you.”
Chapter 4
“Somebody's after me?” Firefly thought.
 “What do we do?” Pineapple asked Hibiscus, who seemed to be the leader of the group. 
“Do I have to hide here?” Firefly asked. 
“No, we can’t stay here forever. We need to be at school! Learning,” Shadow said. 
“Wait, aren't you hiding with two Rainwings?” 
“No Nightwings are a target.” Shadow explained. “When we figured out Rainwings were disappearing this morning, we hid in here. The kidnapper might think we were you, and take us. We are figuring out a plan to get my friends’, friends back.” The four walked out of the cave as soon as the second gong rang. 
“Hey, what’s that?” Pineapple shouted, bounding over to the chalkboard while sleepy dragons gave her tired glares. There was some new writing someone put up last night.
Good morning students! We have a new Nightwing student coming to Jade mountain for the Platinum winglet!  We will all be able to meet him at the ceremony cave this morning! Have a great day!
There was one last note at the very bottom.
Oh, and today is Tortoise Tuesday at the Prey center
“OOOOO! Tortoise! I love their taste.” Pineapple said cheerfully. 
Rainwings that prefer meat, Firefly realized. 
“Ignore that,” Hibiscus said, waving a talon at the board. “We have a mission.” Shadow shook his head. “Rainwing friends, maybe we should forget about it for a bit.” Hibiscus gave him a shocked look.
 “Who said that you could make orders?” she snapped. 
“No,I think he’s right.” Firefly objected. She was rewarded with a grateful smile from the Nightwing.
 “After all, the dragon seems to only capture dragons at night.”
 The reddish-pink Rainwings opened her mouth but all that came out was, “ Wha-but I-you can’t-only-!” Firefly grinned. “Plus, I’m the princess here, so I decide what we do.” Pineapple flew over her.
 “I like that idea. Maybe you should be our leader from now on,” she grinned. Hibiscus was scarlet with rage, but she turned a darker shade of red when Shadow commented, “You know I always thought you weren’t royalty. Whatever happened to the royal blue? Red? Ugh,” and then followed Firefly. She felt a slight twinge of victory as she entered. She, Pineapple, Shadow, and Hibiscus all sat in a neat row. 
“Good morning, students!” Sunny said in her always cheerful voice, “We have a new Nightwing joining our platinum winglet.” Firefly realized that that was her winglet.  A question suddenly rang in her head: Why didn’t anyone notice that half the students were suddenly gone? 
She almost jumped when an unfamiliar Nightwing suddenly appeared next to her. His scales were pure onyx black. Unlike other Nightwings, under his wings were tiny white dots almost impossible to see if you weren’t close to him. His eyes were sapphire blue. And you could clearly see that his underbelly was tomato red. 
“Hello,” he said in a voice sounding like a dragon stepping on old wood floors. “My name is Soulshifter.”
Chapter 5
Soulshifter...something about that name rung a bell. Firefly wracked her brain trying to remember where she had heard that name. It sounded like someone else, but she couldn’t remember. Soul...who? She needed to hit the library.  
“I have to go,” she whispered. Before the others could react, she shifted into the light brown of the cave floor and slid out, making sure everyone was focused on Clay’s talk about the rules of the school which everyone heard at least five times a day. They all knew number one was ‘Always listen to the rules even if your talons went numb and your eyes popped out for staring too long’ (Ok, that wasn’t what the rule actually said but it sure felt like it). She twisted left. Took a right. Another left and right. Then straight. And there she was, in front of the library. Starflight was there, searching one rack for a scroll. Firefly tried to creep by him, but he paused then looked in Firefly’s direction.  
“Firefly?” he asked, “Is that you?” Caught by the blind librarian, stealthy. 
“Yes, it's me,” she admitted. 
“What are you doing here? It’s the middle of the ceremony.” Firefly hesitated then decided to answer his question with a question. 
“What are you looking for?” 
Starflight brushed one of the scrolls with one of his talons and sighed. 
“I met the new dragon, Soulshifter. He felt so familiar. But it was like some sort of wall was keeping me from remembering it.” Firefly liked how Starflight described things. Firefly wanted to be an author some day instead of being the next Rainwing queen so Starflight kind of inspired her. She dreamed that someday she would have a secret room where she and her friends could write stories, then send it to the schools for dragonets to read.  Of course, that would never happen. After graduating from school, Storm was going back to migrating, Eclipse was going to go explore the world, Splash was the only one who was available, and Firefly had to run the kingdom a few months after she got back. 
“So, what are we looking for?” Starflight touched his head. 
“I think it's called ‘Clearsights Life (including her friends and family).’ Can you help me? Fatespeaker is busy assisting Stonemover with Queen Thorn today, so I'm short handed.” Firefly spotted a scroll with a majestic Nightwing in the middle. 
“Is this it?” she asked. Pausing, Starflight touched it and nodded. Firefly unrolled it and the librarian pointed.        “There. Soulmelter. Read that.” Firefly wanted to ask him how he could tell where the part on Soulmelter was when he couldn’t see, and if he could why didn’t he read it himself, but she read it anyway. 
“Soulmelter was an unknown brother of Clearsight who was rumored to have all the same powers as Darkstalker. But he wasn’t turned evil, he hatched evil. Many dragons believe he was immortal and that he was the long-lost cousin of another Nightwing, who was probably worse then Darkstalker himself. But something Soulmelter wasn’t related at all! They say that he’s a hybrid of a Nightwing and an unknown species of dragon from another universe!” 
By the end, both of them shuddered. “Are you saying he’s related to Soulshifter?” she asked. Starflight gave her a grave look. 
“I’m not sure. It doesn’t say if he’s related or not. Maybe he’s just a normal Nightwing.” 
“Who is?” asked a familiar voice.
Chapter 6
Soulshifter stood behind Firefly. He was three feet taller than her and his tail looked like it was a strangling machine. He was staring  suspiciously at her and Starflight. 
“Um, we were trying to figure out if Shadow was half-” the blind librarian paused, out of ideas. Firefly spotted a small pool of water near the waterproof scrolls for Seawings to read. 
“Seawing,” she blurted. 
“Ah, I see…” the dark Nightwing muttered,“ And who are you?” 
He wants to know if I’m the dragon he’s supposed to be capturing, she thought, with a stab of panic. 
“Emerald,” she said, in the most innocent way she could imagine. 
“Oh…” A glint of frustration and disappointment passed in his eyes. 
“Do you know where Princess Firefly is?” he asked Starflight in an almost demanding manner. Firefly tried to do motions with her talons to not tell him that she was what he was looking for, but then she remembered he was blind. Starflight seemed to know what she was thinking. 
“Last time I saw her, she was at the prey center.” Soulshifter grinned. 
“Thank you…” he paused. “Starflight.” The librarian grinned. With a fake smile, the Nightwing disappeared. Firefly let a breath out she forgot she’d been holding for a long time. Her heart was pounding and her mind was blank. Starflight caught her attention. 
“You should talk him. Even if he is not a threat, you should at least get some info and get to know him.” Firefly nodded. And with that, she spread her wings and dashed through the entrance.
Chapter 7
Firefly could not believe she was up so late. Though Starflight said to go talk to Soulshifter to get some more information, Firefly decided to see if he did anything at night. She was near Soulshifter’s cave watching him.  It was dark and she could barely see her claws in front of her. “How can I see Soulshifter if I can barely see an inch in front of me?” She paused. Wait. She remembered something Storm read before. “The Evolution of Dragons.” She thought she heard something Rainwings could do; something that was never discovered until her mother, Queen Glory, had found out. 
“Will it work? None of the other Rainwings have done it before.” Still, she had to try. She clenched her fist and backed away from the sleeping dragons so they couldn’t see her. She imagined pulling all the bright greens out of her scales and into her fist. Nothing happened. Then, a tingle of energy pulsed through. Firefly gasped, her talons were glowing with iridescent green light . The light danced on the ceiling like fireflies. 
“Was that why I was named Firefly? Because I can make a glow like fireflies?” Firefly shook her head.
“This isn’t time for thinking about silly names.” She peered over at Soulshifter. He was sleeping heavily, but then Soulshifter opened his eyes and silently crawled out of his hammock, and with a quick glance he silently walked out. 
“Why does Soulshifter look so awake?” she wondered. The big Nightwing looked ready to kill three full-grown Skywings! Firefly curled her tail, avoiding the scar. 
“Well, I’m a fish head. He’s a NIGHTwing. They love the dark.” Soulshifter leaped out of the cave, his tail barely missing Firefly’s head. He didn’t even look back. 
“Wait!” Firefly wanted to scream but that wouldn't work. Then, instead of catching him, she would be surrounded by cranky dragons and she would be forced to tell them what was going on. So she followed him quietly.  Every turn, he shot a glance behind him. Firefly always had to tuck her glowing talon under her wing and turn blackish-grey to match the tunnels. She took a quick glance at Hibiscus, Pineapple, and Shadow’s shared cave, as she flew by. Hibiscus was laying on a vine hammock she had probably made herself, her talons were crossed and her tail was flopped onto her snout.  Shadow was sitting on the floor, but his eyes were closed and he made small snores. He must have fallen asleep guarding his friends. Pineapple was sleeping on a moss rock, belly exposed to the ceiling, making happy sounding noises in her sleep. Her tail flicked occasionally. Finally, Soulshifter stopped. There was a wall between him and Firefly. She lifted up her bright talon and realized they were on the floor of the school massacre, where few dragons went. Stargazer and Mindtwister were the only ones she knew that went down there. 
“I thought this place was forbidden for many dragons since the explosion,” she gulped. They were very near that place. Webs, their history teacher, taught dragonets there. A year after the bomb, the classroom was moved to another cave. She heard that the deepest part of the cave was haunted by the ghosts of the bomb victims. PLOP! Firefly almost leaped out of her scales, as the Nightwing tossed something into a pool of water. There was a click and something that looked like a door opened in the wall. 
How? This is the bottom of the mountain. No one ever mentioned a secret door down here. Then it all connected in her mind like putting together the pieces of a broken stone. It's because it wasn’t made today. It was made many days before the dragons started to disappear. 
Somebody was making a tunnel to Jade mountain.
Chapter 8
What do I do? Confront him? Capture him? Kill him? None of those sounded good.  Maybe I should see what he’s up to. Firefly turned her glowing hand back to normal and slowly crawled up to the room Soulshifter had entered. Now that she saw it fully, she saw that he was in a small, boring part of the cave. Perfectly empty, and the only thing there was a pool. There was a grinding sound and to the wall suddenly moved upwards to reveal a hidden door! 
“Have we caught all of them?” said a familiar voice.                    “No that stupid daughter of that stupid Rainwing queen is hiding around here somewhere. My enchantment is also working. The entire school has no idea their students and friends are being captured.” 
What enchantment? Firefly wondered. 
     “Maybe we don’t need the daughter,” the voice muttered. 
Violently, Soulshifter grabbed the dragon, holding him out of Firefly’s view, and hissed.  Firefly held her ground to stop herself from jumping. 
“NO!  We NEED that STUPID DUMB, DRAGONET! Her graduation is soon and we need her to be killed then.”    Firefly gulped, her graduation was soon. In a few months she would become queen, and she would rule over the Nightwings and Rainwings. It was pretty terrifying to think about. 
“If we finish her off you know what happens, right?” Soulshifter let go of the other dragon, and Firefly spotted extremely sharp talons. The room was quiet. 
“The Rainwings and Nightwings will become confused. They won’t have any more heirs to the throne. The Nightwings will try to win back the throne! And another war will start! Then the dragonets will come to try and save the day and Soulmelter will kill them.” 
Chapter 9
“Soulmelter!!! Soulmelter is real!” Firefly yelled, pouncing on Hibiscus’s tail.
 “OW!” the Rainwing yelped. Shadow leapt into battle stance and Pineapple fell off her bed making a loud unhappy noise. 
“Firefly!” Shadow scolded. 
“Dragons! Secret room! Soulmelter! Enchantment!” Firefly gasped for breath. It felt like she’d been running for moons. Pineapple groaned, rubbing her sore head. She stared at Firefly. 
“Three moons! What in the forest happened to you?” She was right to say that. Fireflies talons were scratched from running and tripping, she banged her wing on the hard rock walls, and her chest was rubbed raw from twisting and turning in the night. Firefly tried to answer, but ended up choking. 
“Slow down Firefly,” Shadow said. “Tell us everything.”     Firefly explained in dramatic detail, which she used normally when explaining a story. Pineapple shivered “Soulmelter is still alive?” she whispered. “That means he could kill us just by touching an object or something like that!” 
“Not really,” Shadow assured her. “If he kills all of us, what fun would that be? He probably wants to question us, torture us, starve us, use us as a dummy, then kill us.” Pineapple turned shades of green.
“You’re not helping,” Hibiscus hissed.  “Don’t worry, I have a plan,” Hibiscus announced.
“And when are your plans ever good plans?” Shadow asked.
  “Shut up,” she growled, turning red and purple along her waist. 
“Just sayin,’” he said with a smile. 
“I’m going to regret this but...Let’s hear it.” Firefly was rewarded with a lavender tail brushed on her talons. 
“I think we should capture Soulshifter.” 
“Yep, I regret this.”
  “Think about it,” Hibiscus continued. “If we capture him, we can ask him questions, stop his plan from working, follow him once we release him, and find out where they’re hiding.” 
“I like that plan,” Pineapple grinned. “Ok, I’m in.” Shadow grinned. 
“It was my idea.” Hibiscus grinned. The three all twined their tails and looked at Firefly. Firefly smiled, even though she was sure it wouldn’t work, and wrapped her tail around Hibiscus. 
“Let's do this!” she grinned.
Chapter 10
The first part of the plan was not as great as Firefly hoped. Hibiscus decided that A) she was going to confront him and B) she would do it when class started. “ That's not going to work!” Firefly cried. “ Well, it was my plan,” Hibiscus snapped. Then she left, but not before saying “Wait here. I’ll distract him.”
 The minute she left, Firefly felt like the world was quiet. Then she asked Shadow and Pineapple a question that was on her mind for a long time. 
“Why are you guys helping me?” There was a pause. Shadow started to breathe in a weird way. And something splashed in front of him. 
“Are you crying?” 
Shadow wiped his eyes and nodded. Pineapple nodded. Her normal, cheerful yellow, green and orange was a lonely blue, green, and black. 
“Why are you helping me?” Firefly repeated. She felt as if she should be crying as well. She hated watching dragons crying. Like when Storm cried from missing his family and friends, or when Eclipse was teased because of her double tail, and when Splash just had a hard time with homework and refused to use magic to help. A moment later, she realized she was crying. The two spoke.  
“It’s because of Falcon and Violet.” It took a moment for Firefly to realize that their loved ones were Falcon and Violet.  
“Falcon was the handsomest Skywing on the mountain. He was also the most loyal.” Pineapple said. “And Violet was a beautiful, purple Rainwing I met. She was so kind and honest. It was love at first sight.”
“Love at first sight...like me and Storm.” Firefly whispered. 
“Whoa! You dated a Thunderwing?” Pineapple asked.               “Yeah.” Firefly remembered his handsome eyes, his smart ideas to get her and her friends out of sticky situations.       “I’m sorry for you two,” she sobbed, as blue streaks washed over the scales on her head as if blueberries were being thrown at her. 
“I bet Hibiscus misses her crush too.” 
At first there was silence then the two smiled, then grinned, then they burst into laughter. Dragons around them were probably wondering about the super sad dragons who were suddenly laughing like pigs that ate too many speak-berries. 
“Hibiscus doesn’t have crush,” Shadow snorted. Pineapple gazed past her. 
     “Look, Hibiscus is heading towards Soulshifter.” she lowered her voice. 
“Hi Soulshifter! I’m Hibiscus!” Soulshifter looked surprised for a second then his eyes narrowed into a glare. 
“Move.” he growled. Hibiscus ignored him. 
“I was just wondering if you-” 
“I said, move.” he hissed. Steam rose from his snout. 
“But-” Soulshifters mouth erupted and a ball of fire struck Hibiscus. Without thinking Firefly leaped from her hiding spot and shoved the Nightwing. The Nightwing barely moved and his claws raked the stone ground. The entire room gasped. No dragon at Jade mountain attacked another dragon.  It was against the rules. Soulshifter flapped his wings, blasting Firefly into the wall. Her stomach felt as if uncomfortable balls were sitting in her stomach, making a hole. She roared and punched the Nightwing’s snout. Blood splattered on her talons as Soulshifter howled in pain. Firefly dodged his fire and knocked him to the ground. Struggling, Soulshifter started to wrap his talons around her tail and squeeze it. Firefly unwrapped it and raised her talons. Then talons grabbed her shoulders. Firefly roared.  Her wings beat against the ground as the unknown dragon dragged her away. The last thing she saw was Clay, leading her friends the same way direction, and Soulshifter giving her a look. One that said, “I know your secret. And now I’m coming for you.”
 
Chapter 11
The office of the principles was boring, dragons said. But now that Firefly was actually was in it, it seemed scary. Only because she was in trouble. The principal was coming any second and Firefly was horrified. 
“I was so stupid! Attacking a dragon in the middle of the day when everyone was watching.” Well on the first talon, she remembered that Hibiscus would probably be a pile of ashes if she hadn't jumped out.  On the second, the dragons would probably have noticed a screaming dragon being melted by a Nightwing, and he would’ve been sent away. But on the third, it meant that all those poor dragonets, including her friends, would all starve or die of thirst in the mountain. 
“Unless…an eight year old dragonet can’t dig under the mountain by himself. He would need backup to guard and feed the prisoners.” 
Firefly was still thinking when a large Seawing more than half Firefly’s age came in. She had blue eyes and the Royal Seawing markings on her wings. 
“Royalty! Like me!” Firefly jumped a bit at the sight. Maybe she could talk it out with her, like the arguments her mother had, which were usually stupid ones, like what color apples really were, or whose sloths were prettier. That always made her grumpy. The Seawing sat at her desk, her eyes locked on theirs in a way that made them look at her and only her.   
 “Hello dragonets,” she said in a voice clear as water.  
 “Today, I have heard some undelightful news about you four attacking our new student.”  
Shadow spoke, “I didn’t attack him! Honest.” 
“True,” the principal said, “But you were going to, weren't you?” 
Firefly realized that the Seawing was smart. She had watched the fight and carefully studied them before she made her move. 
“So, Firefly,” The Rainwing jumped.  Her heart shot into her throat. “Why did you attack that Nightwing?” 
“He...well...uh,” Firefly stammered, “Trapped dragons in a prison.” The silence of the room lasted a while. 
“That's the truth,” she added. 
“Firefly followed him yesterday,” Pineapple jumped in “She heard him talk with another dragon about capturing her friends. And killing the drag-” 
“I believe you,” the Seawing interrupted. “Oh. Uh, thanks for believing us…uh,” the Seawing grinned. 
“Tsunami.” 
Chapter 12
“So tell me more about this prison,” Tsunami said, after Firefly’s heart settled. “I don’t know much about it,” she said. “All I know is that Seawings, Rainwings, Skywings and Thunderwings are all gone. I thought you knew that.” Silence. “Did you?” 
Tsunami shook her head. “I never noticed and the others never told me either.” 
“It’s because of the enchantment.” she remembered.          “Don’t worry, I’ll talk about this with the Dragonets. You’re dismissed.” Firefly and the others got up and left. 
“Why didn’t you tell her where the dragonets were held?” Hibiscus demanded. “If we tell her where they are, Soulshifter may notice dragons are getting suspicious of him and he might have sent his dragons to kill all the prisoners and us.” Both Shadow and Pineapple gave her horrified looks.        
“Then what do we do?” Hibiscus asked. Firefly paused.  “We are going to free them ourselves.” 
“What?!” 
Firefly expected that.
“By ourselves?!” Hibiscus’s chest was bursting an acid green color. 
“We don’t have any plans,” Shadow said. Firefly exhaled, then looked into their eyes. “Look, if we don’t do something now, you know what will happen, right? It's clear as water. Soulshifter will come. Kill everyone, kill the dragonets, and everything else. He will destroy everything and turn it into a world of his own. Where Mudwings have no mud and Rainwings have no rainforest. We will be nothing but slaves. Nobody else knows what danger we’re in.  Our friends will laugh and say it’s just our imagination. Queens will brush us off like flies. We’re Phyrrias only hope. There...Is prophecy.” Pineapple flung up her wings. “Another...prophecy?” Shadow sat up awestruck. For a second Firefly couldn’t breathe. 
“I said that like I knew there was a prophecy. I didn’t even decide to say that it just came out.” Hibiscus gave her a serious look. “What did you say?”  
“I don’t-” suddenly a wall slammed into her mind knocking her to the floor. 
“Whoa! Firefly, are you ok?” Pineapple extended a talon to help her up. She tried to answer, but she couldn’t. Her mouth couldn’t move, her eyes were forcing themselves to open. It was like someone was controlling her entire body. Hibiscus made a sudden shriek, and Firefly saw in the reflection of her eye that Firefly’s own eyes were glowing white as snow. He mouth now moved words out of her mouth in an eerie way.
The dragon of death is coming
The life of the world is running
Unless the dragonets are found
The world will fall beneath ground.
To find the wings of Sea
The rainforest is where it will be
For the wings of thunder search through the rubble
The wings of rain look for a double
For the wings of sky search for the flames
And a dragon with a troubled name
The dragonets will show what’s right
Or end the chaos with a fight
The dragonets need to turn the hate...
or all of Pyrrhia will meet its fate.
 
Part 2
Rescue Mission
Chapter 13
Darkness poured into her eyes. Smooth stone touched Firefly’s talons. 
“Firefly?” 
A talon grabbed onto her shoulder. She got up quickly. Her head hurt and she wondered if this was what Storm felt like when she woke him up. Suddenly, all the memories came rushing in. The principal's office, the plan and the creepy prophecy. 
“What-what happened out there? Where am I?” she asked, realizing Shadow, Pineapple, and Hibiscus were laying next to her. Shadow flicked his tail.    
“If you really want to know you may get very confused.”
“I will not!” she snapped. 
“SHHH!!!” Hibiscus hissed. Shadow stamped her tail and sighed. 
“You’re a hybrid, right?” Shadow asked. 
“Yeah…” Firefly still felt weird about it. She was half Nightwing, but it felt weird to have a mom and dad from different tribes. She always wondered how shocking it is that she was half Nightwing. 
“So, if two dragons from different tribes have an egg, about 90% of the dragonet will look like the mom or dad. Meaning that you are 90% Rainwing.” 
Firefly glanced at her black tipped wings. “Ok. Cool. But how does that explain what happened?” 
Grinning, the Nightwing continued. 
“This is where the remaining 10% comes in. 6% of it are features like Peacemakers-”
Pineapple smiled.  Firefly remembered the little Rainwing-Nightwing. Most of the Rainwings said he was cute. Others said he used to be a horrible monster that tried to take over Pyrrhia. 
“Is that the dragon who is going to take over Pyrrhia now-” 
“Rainbow scales under his wings?” Shadow interrupted. 
“The remaining 4% is rare. It shows the father’s or mother’s tribe abilities. You know what this means, right?” “I have Nightwing powers?” 
“Yep! It's all math and science.” 
“Yay, math and science.” Hibiscus muttered, in a fake excited voice.  “Let's get on with it all ready.” 
Pineapple was shaking in excitement and flapping her wings wildly.    
“With what?”  The pink dragon grinned. “We’re following your plan no matter what.”
Chapter 14
 
“Really?!?” Firefly leaped up. Shadow immediately tackled her down. 
“SHH!!” he hissed. 
“OW!” Hibiscus yelped as Shadow’s tail crashed on her talons. 
“WHY ARE WE YELLING ALL OF A SUDDEN?!” Pineapple cheerfully yelled, at the top of her lungs. 
“I DON’T-” Firefly clamped Shadows mouth before he could make any more noise.  
“You all are the worst sneakers in the history of Pyrrhia. Three moons! Have you lost your mind?” 
Hibiscus flicked her tail in an annoyed way. 
“Can I trust these crazy dragons? I only met them for a day and it almost sounds like they’re trying to let them know I’m here.” It was hard to tell. Shadow seemed suspicious, but a bit too serious and protective. Hibiscus could be working with Soulshifter, but she didn’t seem to like taking orders. Pineapple was too crazy and weird, so it was impossible for her to be evil.       
“Does anyone but me hear something?” Pineapple asked. Her ears perked, coiled with green. 
“All I can hear is your stupid, cheerful, VERY ANNOYING voice.”  The now pinkish-red Hibiscus snapped. Shadow sat up. 
“Yeah me too! I hear footsteps.” Now it was Firefly’s turn to hear it. 
“Its was coming from upstairs! Hurry.” The invisible stone door slammed open. Two dragons; one was a Seawing with a scar on his right ear and a missing eye. The other, to Firefly’s surprise, was a Hivewing! Red as blood. With stingers on his talons, wings, and tail. His teeth and claws were dripping with green acid that made small holes on the floor. He had a missing talon on his left leg. Black stripes that looked like scratch marks ran along his body.    
“They could be hiding Tarantula, so keep searching.” the Seawing growled, baring his teeth, showing some holes where some were missing. 
“I know that Mussel.” The Hivewing, who was supposedly Tarantula, lashed his tail, nearly hitting Hibiscus in the snout. 
“Go, go, go.” Shadow whispered. He used the back of his wings to hide the stars under his wings and under belly then he slid under the door. Hibiscus and Pineapple turned shades of grey and slowly slid behind him. As soon as Firefly entered she heard Mussel yell 
“A sound came from the entrance! Hurry!” Firefly looked around frantically. Her friends had disappeared!
 
Chapter 15
At the last minute, Pineapple wrapped her tail around her and surprisingly lifted her up towards the wall. Wondering how a dragon a year younger than her could lift her, she used her claws to cling to the hidden tunnel in the ceiling. A second later, the two grumbling dragons burst through.
        “Are you sure you heard somebody?” Tarantula hissed.     
“Positive, you idiot.” Mussel swung a talon at the wall.
 “No, you're the one who’s an idiot.” The red Hivewing spread out his wings.
“I AM NOT!!” the other roared, practically blasting Firefly’s ears off. 
“You are TOO!” Mussel snapped. 
“Will you shut up?!” screeched Tarantula. The two started to walk further and further bickering at each other the entire way. 
“Are we safe?” Firefly asked. 
“I’ll check.” Shadow whispered. 
“No!” Hibiscus yelped. Too late. Shadow slammed back-first into the wall. The bang echoed through the tunnel. Mussel and Tarantula turned and roared. 
“GO! GO!! GO!” Shadow roared, dashing past the angry dragons. Hibiscus leaped up into the tunnel and crawled as fast as she could. 
“No, not without you!” Pineapple yelled. Shadow yelled and Mussel slashed his face drawing blood near the cheek.      
“Trust me, I’ll meet you later!” Shadow called to his friends.  He picked up speed and dashed out of sight into another tunnel, Tarantula and Mussel following far behind. 
“But…” Pineapple was covered in blue spots. 
“He said he’d meet us later, and that's the truth,” Firefly said. “Come on, we have to save our friends.”      Pineapple gave the tunnel a mournful look, and crawled into the tunnels. Firefly followed close wondering if they would ever truly see their friend again.
Chapter 16
The tunnels stretched out into three possible paths. Firefly thought they should turn left, but Hibiscus said the right way was always right. 
“You are never right.” Firefly pointed out. Hibiscus glared. 
“Oh so now that Shadow’s gone, your going to act like him?” Pineapple squeezed past them. 
“Will you two make up your minds?” she hissed, then muttered something else and headed through the middle tunnel.  
“Look, a hatch!” Pineapple exclaimed, nodding at it. Hibiscus gave it a tug. 
“It’s shut! Why would a hole be shut and have no lock?” Firefly sat up and hit her head. 
“It’s enchanted!” It made sense that the secret door was animus-touched, Also, the fact that nobody knew that dragons were missing was also probably an enchantment.
“So, how do we open it?” Pineapple asked. The silence lasted forever. 
“Could we pierce it open? Not unless we had invincible claws. We could turn off the enchantment. But we don’t have an item that-” It hit her. 
“Stand back.” she whispered. The whip felt like it was not hot or cold and it was like holding a snake. Hibiscus snorted, “What can a scavenger’s whip do to a animus-touched hatch?” 
“It could work,” Pineapple chimed in. Firefly took a breath, praying nobody would hear them. Her wrist flicked and the end slapped against the metal hatch. Like when an eel is bitten on the neck it flinched back and then landed on the floor. Hibiscus nudged the hatch. Immediately, it toppled off and clattered to the floor.
“How-” Hibiscus looked at her, bewildered. Something like flowers uprooted themselves and were dancing around Firefly’s head. 
“Animus-touched.” The hatch was too small for a full-grown dragon to fit, but the three could easily slide through it with ease. The room was small. More than half of it was taken up by a wooden cage. The rest was a passage. There was also a long table that held animal corpses and a book. It reminded Firefly of her brother, Jaguar.  She didn't get to see him much now that she was at Jade Mountain Academy and she missed him awfully.
“Maybe I can see him again after I save these dragons.” She was so deep in thought that she jumped when Hibiscus gasped.  Firefly turned, half expecting a guard or something. But Hibiscus was peering through the cage. In the middle of it was a Seawing. His back legs were chained to the ground so he couldn’t move them at all. His wings had teeth marks where they met his body, but scratch marks the farther the wing got from the dragon. Firefly then realized, with a horrified gasp, that this Seawing was familiar. Extremely familiar. This wasn’t just a Seawing, it was the Animus, half Rainwing, Splash.
‘
Chapter 17
“Splash!” Firefly cried. Her heart felt like it had vanished into thin air. 
“Who’s Splash?” asked Pineapple, her tail curling and flipping like an angry cat. 
“He’s my friend - we have to get him out!” 
Hibiscus walked over, head up high, barely glancing at Splash like she didn’t want to waste time freeing dragons, and gave the wooden door a tug. 
“Well, we can’t free him if we don’t have a k-AHHHHH!” The door, to Firefly’s surprise, toppled over crashing on top of Hibiscus. 
“The guards must have chained Splash because they knew he could escape.” Only then did she realize that Soulshifter and his army weren’t just a small threat that they could flick away like a gnat. They were smart. And why didn't Splash use his animus magic to free himself? It reminded her of one of these posters she saw near the library. 
“Power may seem strong but the mind is stronger.” Suddenly Splash’s eyes opened. He reared up in surprise when he spotted them. Pineapple squeaked in surprise.
“Who-who are you?” he squinted at his friend. 
“Firefly?” he croaked. 
“Yes it’s me.  We’re getting you out of there,” she grinned at him. Hibiscus coughed, trying to wriggle out from under the door but only seemed to get her neck out. 
“Um, are you forgetting that this is a rescue, not a reunion?” Splash glanced at Firefly with a face that Firefly understood immediately. He woke up in a wooden cage, chained to the ground, with two mysterious-looking Rainwings, one whining while stuck under a door, while another looked like she drank too much coffee and looked like she’d burst in a few seconds. In addition, somewhere a bat had been squeaking non stop for the past 5 MINUTES!! 
“Come on. What are we waiting for? We have to go!” Pineapple exclaimed. 
“Uh, did you forget?” Hibiscus snapped, waving a pointy talon at the Seawing’s chains. She pretty much gave up on freeing herself and was staring at the next room with a steely glare. 
“Can’t Splash use his animus powers-” Firefly started. 
“I can’t,” Splash interrupted. The colors seemed to get sucked from Firefly’s scales and replaced with a startled grey. 
“What...do you mean, you can’t?” she gulped. Then she caught on.  She always wondered if it was possible but she never believed it. Soulshifter had taken his powers away.
Chapter 17
“That explains a lot.” Hibiscus said, when she finally freed herself from the door. 
“But how? How can he steal magic without magic?” Firefly asked.
“I think he used another animus-touched object.” Splash stepped in. 
“And it was used to steal the particles.” 
“Particles?” echoed Pineapple “What's that?” 
“Uh oh,” Hibiscus whined. “Science lesson.” She sunk into the floor and muttered curses softly. Firefly heard something about ‘boring’ and ‘Mudwing.’ 
“You know that we are different? Like, I'm a Seawing and you’re all Rainwings?” 
Pineapple focused into his eyes 
“Yes.” 
“Particles are some sort of cell in our bodies. It can tell what kind of dragon our parents are and what we are going to be.  Without it we would all be one kind of dragon with the same powers.” 
Firefly tried to imagine a thing inside all living dragons that could do those amazing things. 
“What does this have to do with animus magic?” she asked. 
“Here's the tricky part, since we don’t know where all the particles are or how they’re made, so we don't know much. Luckily an animus Mudwing named Graphite, probably even the first animus ever, researched on them using her magic and realized that animus dragons have particles trapped in their minds and nerves, allowing them to use their minds to enchant things.” 
Splash grinned for the first time. “Make sense?” Firefly and Pineapple nodded. 
“Pretty cool right, Hibiscus?” Pineapple asked.  The pink dragon gave her a look 
“Oh, what? We were learning? Oh sorry! I wasn’t listening.” 
“Want to hear it aga-” 
“NO!!” Hibiscus snapped, covering her ears
“LA, LA, LA! Science is useless!” 
“This is very interesting, but what about Peril’s firescales or Nightwing’s prophetic powers?” Firefly asked. Splash continued, “Like I said. The cells are like animuses. The particles must have gone into Peril’s scales or the Nightwing’s tongue before hatching.” 
Suddenly everyone fell silent. There, walking past the door, was a Sandwing. A dragonbite viper was coiled around his neck and seemed to be passive to him. His dark yellow scales shone, his teeth gleamed. His tail was lined with iron armor and sharp rows of spikes (that were probably tipped with venom). He was staring right into their room. At them.
Chapter 18
It seemed like the silence took forever. Finally the guard spoke.  “ Are you here to fix up this door?” Pineapple nodded “ Yes we are here to fix it up. Im Cherry thats Mango. We managed to capture Firefly.” Hibiscus sat up with an I-don’t-know-what-we're-doing-but-I-don’t-like-it look. Pineapple returned it with a glare. “ Firefly? Really.” Was its Fireflies imagination or did the guard look horrified for a moment. Hibiscus made a quick eye roll and shifted into Fireflies color. Red arched along the back and blue near the mouth. Suddenly the guard leaped across the room. Slashing Pineapple with her talons. The little hybrid yelled tears sprung from her eyes,and Firefly saw that the guards had teared open part of her snout., “ Firefly ” turned scarlet red,spreaded her wings and bit the guard on the arm. The Pineapple pinned his back legs  and the real Firefly reached for the tail. A strike of shock hit her chest. She was shocked. This wasn’t just any Sandwing tail. It was a familiar one. Unique to only one dragon she knew. It was a double tail. Splitted in two near the beginning of it and the two barbs were coiled together so nobody would see them if they looked for only a second. Firefly slowly looked at the Sandwing,who was gasping for breath after the fierce battle. 
“Eclipse?” The eyes flicked at her. Even the viper who was coiled by her side was watching her intently. “ Firefly?” Excitement soon took over.  “ Oh my gosh it really is you!” Eclipse flung herself upward and gave her a ferocious hug. There was a coughing noise that came from Hibiscuses side. 
“ Guys this is Eclipse. She’s my friend we're both in the platinum winglet.” Pineapple gave her a friendly look,even though she literally torn her snout and Hibiscus  
was casting a suspicious look. “ Holy snakes im sorry.” Eclipse apologized “ First I attacked you and second tore your poor snout-” 
“Its ok i’m sure it will heal.” Pineapple brushed her wing with Eclipses like they were old friends. “ I thought I knew everyone in the school.” the Sandwing said “ Since I practically hatched there.” She glared at Hibiscus “ I’m glad that I never met you before.” Hibiscus scratched her talons on the stoney floor. “ I’m glad there's someone more annoying than Shadow!” 
“ Lets just go already I think the guards are coming.” interrupted Firefly before a fight started sure enough there was a clatter of armor coming from another door on the left. “ Let's go to my hideout,we can camp out there.” Firefly watched Pineapple and the tough pink Rainwing break Splash free using their talons to unlock them and started to follow them and then followed Eclipse who seemed to be arguing with Hibiscus the entire time.  She had so many questions “ Where is this hideout? Is Storm ok? Is Peril trapped and where? What will we eat? How can we avoid the guards? How did you get that Dragonbite viper?” But the worst was “ Will we still be alive after this?”
Chapter 19
Eclipses hideout was enough to fit more then ten dragons. There was a large fireplace and a cauldron filled with turtle meat there was a maroon rug on the bottom with gold twists lined along the edges. She said when she got to her cave last night she spotted a dragon dragging her clawmate,Hail. Later she managed to knock out a guard and put on his armor and pretended to be a guard. “ They were going to use Coil to track down dragons and bite them. But I managed to tame him.” Firefly realized she never got a chance to study the snake. Coil  a male and had light brown scales like sand but his reddish-brown stripes on is back made him look like he had scratch marks. from angry dragons ( which were not actually scratches). His tongue flicked in and out and he was curled up in a coiled position like his name said. Then he raised his neck slithering in mid air towards Hibiscus. Firefly half expected him to bite her in the throat but the deadly viper started to stretch its body and curiously slithered up Hibiscuses shoulder. “ It feels like a rotting banana slithering up my neck.” she shivered and unwrapped the snake from her shoulder.        “ Well I think your heart resembles one.” Eclipse shot back. “ Rotten and slimy.”  
Splash stepped in front of them and ended the argument
Coil came up to Firefly to neck stretched high enough to reach her eyes. It was a little scary for an extremely dangerous creature to be staring at you like a tiger watching to see if its target is weak enough. Firefly waved at him then felt a little stupid. “ It's not like the snake can say hi back.” she thought. 
But shockingly enough, Coil mimicked her,waving his tail    “ Wow Dragon Bite Vipers can do that?” Splash asked awestruck.  “ Yeah there very intelligent,like scavengers. Watch this.” Eclipse flicked a talon at a passing rat flinging it towards that snake. The snake arched his neck in a “S” shape and at lightning speed, wrapped his body around the rat when suddenly Eclipse made a click sound and the snake twisted towards her. The Sandwing made a motion but it happened so fast,Firefly couldn’t tell what it was. Coil calmly unwrapped. “Wow.” Hibiscus admitted “ That's actually pretty cool.” 
“ It sure is pleasant…” said a voice behind them. The four whirled around (including Coil.) “ That I finally found you all Soulmelter will be terribly pleased.” It was Frostbite. Part of the Ice squad. The youngest female of the group. Then she grabbed something large and lifted it. Love and horror came into Fireflies heart. It was Storm. Grabbed by the throat,and probably unconscious. Glowing aquamarine blood dripped from his neck.Firefly glanced at her friends for a moment Eclipse looked shocked and angered. Hibiscus looked suspicious and ready to fight  as well and Pineapple looked close to crying and her face showed that she was speechless. Frostbite slammed him into the floor and one talon was pointed at his neck and the other talon was stretched towards them,open as if she expected them to give her something “ Either I throw you all in our worst cages or this dragon dies.” 
Chapter 20
“ Storm!” Eclipse,Splash,and,Firefly cried at once. Hibiscus,even though she didn’t know this dragon took a step forward mouth open,showing her fangs. 
“ Don’t even think about it Rainwing.” Frostbite hissed her talons pressed down more on Storm and the same happened to Fireflies heart. 
 “ Think about it. My talons are closer to his neck then your are to mine.”  Hibiscus paused thinking. Her scales turned rose red with helpless rage. 
“ Frostbite! How could you betray us like this?” Eclipse snarled. Frostbite grinned in a horribly frightening way.        “ Sometimes dragons pay for kills.” 
“ No way…” Pineapple whispered. “ Your...an assassin?” Splash widened his eyes( Along with Coil who became bored and decided to copy his every move.) 
“ That's why you’ve never talked to us. That's why you shoved Storm off the cliff. You were working for Soulshifter since you’ve come to Jade Mountain. Frostbite...you were trying to kill Storm all along! I can’t believe you.” 
“Oh my name is not Frostbite.” The assassin hissed casting another wicked smile. “ Its Flash Freeze. Now give up.” she raised her chin. 
Firefly thought, “ Wouldn’t we die either way?” Flashfreeze gazed upon their looks. “ Fine. Too late.” She raised one talon and stamped the Thunderwings neck. A snap echoed across the room. Tears poured non-stop from Fireflies eyes but she kept herself from crying out loud. Suddenly,Storm burst up from the floor,roaring and smashed the ice dragon into the wall. 
“ WHAT?!” she roared flinging her wings and hissing as soon as she recovered. Storm didn’t answer. The two started to circle around each other. “ I saw you! I saw you die.” she roared and barreled onto his chest. Storm suddenly grabbed her flipped her over onto her own chest at the last minute and put one foot on her,pushing her down. Then he spread his wings. “ Wow! Someone finally managed to crack my neck! Its been hurting for days!” he snorted. Enraged,Flash Freeze used all her strength,shoved Storm off herself and smashed his head into the wall. Firefly was about to react when Splash grabbed the Icewing and landed on her back.          
“ Storm saved my life once. Now it's my turn to save his!” Flash Freeze twisted her neck and blasted her ice breath at him,barely missing his tail.Splash blasted his own scalding water back. The twos breath clashed,each pushing hard. Splash started to tire and the icy breath was getting closer to him. “ We need more back up!” Storm roared. He lashed out and landed on Flash Freezes back,biting her wing,distracting her enough to get the hot water to hit her chest,leaving blisters behind. 
“ On it!” Eclipse blasted a jet of fire and Hibiscus,and Pineapple combined it with acid. Firefly clawed the Icewings other wing. She met Storms eyes. “ I knew you would never leave me.” he smiled. “ I know.” Firefly put her talon on his. Flash freeze roared in pain and Coil jumped in and bit her chest. The ice wing roared and blasted her breath everywhere. She turned and gave Firefly a murderous glance and shot the last of her breath. Storm leaped and countered it with a bolt of lightning,instantly evaporating it. Flash freeze tilted her head back and roared.“ This isn’t the last you’ll see of me! I’ll be back before you know it!” Then she let out last terrifying roar. And she collapsed on the floor. Dead.
Part 3
Questions answered
Chapter 21
“ Storm!” Firefly creid happily. The Thunderwing hugged her fiercely. ( Meanwhile everyone else was listening to Eclipse who was trying to convince Pineapple that Coil was sleeping,even though he slept with his eyes open. After literally ten seconds ago killed an Icewing) Firefly smiled at him 
“I love you” she whispered. “ Me too.” he said laying his head on hers.
“Uh,who are you.” Pineapple asked breaking the romantic moment. “ Great.” muttered Hibiscus “ Now we have an Animus Seawing, an annoying Sandwing and her weird copycat snake,and a regular Thunderwing. What's next? Dragons with lava pouring out of there scales?” Storm snorted “ I don’t think Kestrel would approve of that.” he said. “ What? Isn’t she-?” Splash bumped Storms side. “ Ghost eye.” he said. “ Though Hibiscus was right about one thing.” Firefly pointed out. Eclipse gave the pink Rainwing an amused look,and Hibiscus hissed back. 
“ Peril is still trapped.” 
“ And Shadow.” Pineapple added. “ Did someone mention me?” The group whirled around. The Nightwing stood at the door holding something red. Pineapple leaped across the room  and hugged him hard. “ Hey save the happiness your going to use it all up before you use it one someone else.” Hibiscus raised a brow and Firefly saw gold creeping along her tail. “ Define someone else.” Eclipse said suspiciously here talons twitched. “ Relax Eclipse. Anybody a friend of our friend is a friend to us.” Storm grinned and Shadow grinned back and Firefly had a feeling that once they got out of here they would be best friends. Only then she realized that the entire school would be different. A student had died. Another had betrayed them. And many dragons had gone missing! Suddenly a red Skywing flew above Shadow and barreled into Pineapple,tossing her into the air. “ Falcon!” The two dragons entwined tails. Another dragon,a Rainwing. Stood beside Shadow. There wings touched and their eyes were meeting each other. Firefly recognized that dragon.              “ Violet. She helped me with knowing what was safe to eat when I was younger.” Suddenly another headache slammed into her. Storm yelped and caught her before she fell. “ Don’t worry this happened before.” Shadow said seeing her friends horrified faces. Then the prophecy came.
Ten dragons must combine
Deadly stones that must not alone
Ten dragons must become a team
Stronger with hope of gleam
Or else a great evil will collect  it all
To place were all dragons will fall.
Eclipse,Storm,and Splash looked fell silently still,mouths opened in shock “ She’s right.” Falcon finally spoke. “ But were nine dragons.” Violet pointed out. “ We are once we free Peril.” Splash finally spoke. “ If were going to be a team. We need to work together.” Eclipse said. Firefly put her talon forward. “ Dragons. If were going to defeat Soulshifter and Soulmelter. If you want to work together as strong as any dragon can ever be. Put your talon over mine. Storm placed his small talon on hers “ I don’t know who Soulshifter is. But I’m always with you,no matter what.” Pineapple did to. Then Eclipse.Then Hibiscus.Firefly expected some of them like Splash and Shadow. But some she didn’t. Falcon and Violet. “ I may of not known many of you except Shadow. But I'm in.” Violet said shyly placing her talon on Hibiscuses. “ Yeah,me too. But i'm a helpful dragon. SO why couldn’t I say no to danger?” Suddenly Coils appeared glancing at all these dragons probably wondering if how so many dragons appeared when he was asleep. Falcon,Storm,Shadow,and Violet exchanged startled glances. Coils lifted the end of his tail and placed it on the pile of claws. “ 3.2.1. DRAGONS UNITE.” They all said together. “ Lets free theses dragons!” Splash charged through the door leading the way. 
As the others followed something caught Fireflies eye. A book. A simple leather book with barely any pages. Firefly lifted the book to the lamp on the ceiling “ Eclipses info.” Curiously,Firefly flipped through the pages. There was one about cage,cage number,chains,feeding,personality....then on the last page was titled “ Family.” It felt like all the lightning in the entire world stuck her heart. “ This why. Why Eclipse hatched at Jade mountain. Why she never knew her parents.Why she had two tails. This. Changed. Everything.
Chapter 22
Firefly decided to keep the shocking discovery away from Eclipse. “ What will she think of this?” she thought.  
“Firefly! Little help?” Splash called. Firefly dropped the journal back on the table and hurried over to him. The animus pawed at a cage with an orange Seawing inside. “This is Salmon. He and I were in the same hatching.” Firefly unhinged her jaw and sprayed a large amount of venom on the wooden bar. In a few seconds,the large cage disappeared out of existence. Splash bounded over to the Seawing and shook him awake. Firefly turned around and a sudden impossibility filled her brain once she realized that there were millions upon millions of more dragon cages. “Soulmelter must of really wanted to find us if he trapped all these dragons.” Falcon said. “ I don't think we can save all of them at once.” Eclipse called hovering over them. “ These like five hundred cages. Suddenly,Falcon twisted his head. “I heard something!” he cried. “Where?” Hibiscus asked. Everyone listened. Nothing.Nothing. CRACK! Something like a torch whipped Firefly in the face. It did not do much harm. Though it felt as if someone yanked a scale out of her face. “ OW!!!” she yelped startling Storm so much he did a almost backflip into a nearby cage,glancing at her nervously. “ Who did that?” hissed Eclipse. “Where are you?” Violet said at the same time sidled a few steps closer to Shadow. “ That would be me.” hissed a voice like a snake hissing. Coil hissed which sounded like a Howler Monkey gurgling frog spit. Fine. Not a snake. More like a tree falling. Right in the middle of everyone somehow a strange Seawing was appeared. He was a Seawing except...he was ruby red. 
“ Hybrid.” she thought keeping her stance low,at technique she learned in the rainforest,it's the best posture and lets you be able to have three options of what to do,fly,attack the underbelly,or escape. “ Mother would be proud.” she thought, “ Who are you?” Splash asked. The hybrid gave him a steely glare and Firefly noticed his only accessory was a necklace there were two grey snakes that binded the necklace together and in between was what looked like dried blood,hanging from it was a ruby shaped like a talon. She nearly didn’t notice it because it was the same color as his scales. His eyes were blood red “ I am Vapor. A Firescales Seawing. If you want to live. I suggest you go to your  choice that I make you die quickly or die slowly. Your choice” 
“Neither.” Storm growled “ We aren’t afraid to fight you. We’ve fought dragons much harder to kill you.” Vapor prowled over to him and raised to his full height,spreading his wing to make him look even more larger and threatening. “ I am much harder to kill then you think WEAKLING” he hissed. Falcon suddenly bashed into Vapor before he could slash the Thunderwings throat. The two wrestled on the floor until Vapor yanked him off him like he was nothing but a fly. Then they squared each other,circling. Both of Falcon's talons were smoking and a blister was on his underbelly. “ I don’t think Falcon can win this.” Pineapple whispered,horrified. The necklace on Vapor suddenly started to glow. Vapors eyes flashed to the same color as snow and he grabbed Falcon and lifted him upward. Then smashed him into the stone wall. Everyone let out a yell of fright including Falcon. “How did he do that.” Firefly wondered “ Did the necklace do that?” Vapor turned around to face Firefly with a horrifying venomous grin. “ How did you do that.” she shouted trying stop her legs from trembling in fear. “ Power. Oh,and we didn’t just come for you.” he hissed  “ We came for the Sky talon.”
Chapter 23
“You seriously don’t know.” Vapor growled upon seeing Fireflies expression. “ Not a clue.” she thought and glared at him. Vapor lowered his head to let out a snort of steam and muttred “ Stupid,dumb dragonets.” Pineapple lashed her tail and red covered her entire body with green bubbles forming along the waist. “ We’re smart!” she protested,”We can count up to like...five!” Hibiscus facepalmed “ How many times do I have to tell you not to reveal that to adult dragons” she growled,Pineapple gave her a surprised look. “ Sky talon?” Firefly heard Storms whisper to Splash nervously. “ One of the six powerful crystals that were created by nature itself. When the spirits of the first animuses died,their souls shifted into seven stones No animus in the entire world is as strong as them all combined” Splash muttered back. “ With all seven it could destroy the entire world.” Eclipse added.
“ The entire world??” Firefly swallowed hard. “ That was the world would fall beneath the ground part of the prophecy. Could Vapor also be the dragon of death?” That didn't seem right for some reason. Vapor didn’t kill any dragons yet,not that I know of. Still,he had to be defeated. Yet how? 
Vapor had locked his eyes on her body. “ What are you thinking little Rainwing? I know its about me” 
Storm growled and slowly opened his mouth to reveal an unfriendly-looking ball of lightning. “ If you touch her-If you do anything to her-” he growled again. Firefly noticed that everyone else was thinking the same thing as her. Eclipse pointed her tail,Splash lashed his tail,the other Rainwings pointed there fangs at him,Shadow flexed his talons,Fang hissed,and dizzy Falcon was trying to help but kept bumping into Shadow and making him grunt and shove i'm back and kind of gave away the whole where-unstoppable-and-you’ll-never-win way. Vapor finally took his eyes off Firefly and she let out a humongus sigh of relief. “Fools.” he growled. Firefly took a slow step back. Something told her that something was going to happen and that she shouldn’t be apart of it. Vapor turned in all directions eyeing all of them. Then he started to cough. Steam came out in short bursts on his back which had weirdly turned darker in color. Vapor suddenly snapped open his wings the points at the end made a cut in Shadows and Hibiscuses face. Then  he roared a huge jet of vapor blinding everyone. It was like flying through a huge cloud. “Your not getting away-OW-he’s-OW-dude will you-OW!!!” Sprung out Splash. Storm called out too. “ I got him. Wow ,that was too easy.” Falcon let out a cry of frustration “ That's me you rhino head!” 
“Hey! Who is-GACK!!!” Pineapple creid. Everyone else's cries were suddenly choked out. “Uh…guys.” Firefly called out. Her heart pounded Nobody responded. She glanced around. The sudden surroundings where now very eerie.SHe glanced around. 
Wait.
Wasn’t that shadow smaller before?Did that other one grow?
She glanced at it and questions spun dizzly in her mind.
Was that quiet stomps behind her
Was the lightning now suddenly darker?
Suddenly something huge smashed her into the ground. Then everything disappeared.
Chapter 24
When she finally opened her eyes everything was foggy. She could see a smooth stone wall and floor. Oh. And Soulshifter. “Wait. Soulshifter!?” Firefly sat up and hissed. The Nightwing didn’t seemed alarmed he just snorted. Her friends were all unconscious. Though Pineapple,Shadow,Hibiscus,and the others were chained up. And a Sandwing was clutching Coil who was lashing and hissing with fury. “ You know…” Soulshifter said, smoothly like this was the most normalest conversation in the world. “ I am very surprised my guards didn’t take you down.” He completely ignored the fact that a very cranky,scale rope of death was was trying to bite him. The evil dragon looked down his snout at her and made a chill run down her spine. She saw how dragons acted when they were angry but Soulshifter on the other talon was calm,yet VERY creepy. “ I am the daughter of your queen.” Firefly said,her voice shaked ,”I order-” the Nightwing clamped her mouth shut and yawned at the same time. “ I take orders from nobody except my father.” 
“Soulmelter.” Firefly growled and forcefully jerked his talons off her snout. He turned around and walked away from her,then turned around and in less than a couple of seconds launched his talons through the air and landed a blow on the floor,inches away from her own talons. The Sandwing stepped forward and towards Storm. The poor viper was so furious it forgot that the handsome Thunderwing was his friend and lashed harder to try and bite him. “ Here’s the choice.” Soulshifter growled,the calmess now gone from his voice, “ Who do you really care about more? You precious idiotic crush? Or the others?”
 Deep red and green smashed through Fireflies scales. Half of her mind roared “Save Storm! He’s your one true love you’ll ever have!” Yet the other half screamed “ No! Your friends are what you are supposed to choose! They all will die if you don't! There the best shot you have!” Firefly felt a growl leave her throat “ Guys.” she thought “ I won't let them hurt you.” 
Soulshifter chuckled at her, “ Don't even think about attacking. Or there all dead in five seconds. I have spies watching you know.” For one second Firefly looked up to try to see them. She wondered if they were Rainwings.       “ Would they listen to me if I told them to be on my side?” 
Soulshifter thwacked her painfully with his tail, “ This doesn’t have to be hard.” he growled, “ We just want one of you dead or Soulmelter will kill us all.” 
“ You were the one who trapped all these dragons here didn’t you?” Firefly shot, “ You were here all along and captured all these dragons from all of pyrrhia? You know how many dragons you imprisoned that are dying?”
“That's what I want.” Soulshifter hissed “ Don’t make your friends be the next ones.”
Firefly lashed her tail and saw the Sandwings eyes look from Storm to the others,claws ready to release Coil on command. Firefly took a deep breath and looked into his eyes. “ I choose-” At her full speed she leapt onto the Sandwing,knocked Coils onto the floor,pinned him,and glanced back at the shocked Nightwing. “ -neither.”
Chapter 25
Soulshifter growled loudly. His claws flexed and his tail lashed. His tongue flicked in and out. Then he circled her like a hungry wolf. “ You know it didn’t have to be this way.” he roared, “ Im guess that it has to.” Suddenly a roar came from above. There was only a second before something landed on top of Firefly ( and the Sandwing who made a “oof” sound as she smashed into him). The guard grip loosened on the deadly viper and he thrashed even more viciously,barely missing her arm as he tried to strike, “ I knew we heard you little rat,sneaking under our snouts.” laughed the voice,who was unmistakably,Tarantula. 
 “ Because your too much of an idiot.” Mussel growled,who suddenly appeared  behind him. The venomous Hivewing glared at him “ Say something annoying one more time and I’ll try and melt your ear again.” There was a pause and he added “ Good thing your friends were there to save you. I’d be happy to do it again.” Muscle touched his mangled up ear  and showed his teeth. “ Shut up.” he growled. 
“ YOU shut up!” The Hivewing roared,he lashed a venomous claw and lashed out his tail,inches from Fireflies snout. An argument started up and Firefly wondered if they forgot about pinning her down. 
“ YOU SHUT UP or else I’ll rake off your wings before I do that to her-”
“ BOTH OF YOU BE QUIET!!!” Soulshifter roared,loud enough to make the torches on the ceiling go off. Strangely enough his eyes flashed red and then back to blue. He prowled over to them “ Just kill her already.” He suddenly stepped on Mussels tail and Tarantulas talons. Both dragons whimpered in pain and Firefly felt a stab of pity for them. “ I want you to stop arguing or-YOW!” As the Nightwing stepped towards Fireflies talons there was a large POP and wave of lightning slammed into him!
 The Shockflowers! “ They must of recharged that's probably why I was not able to sense danger!” With courage now set in her heart,she twisted and gazed into Tarantulas and Mussels eyes “ Run.” she said “ Soulshifter shouldn’t treat you like this. You don’t belong here. Go. Be free and start a new life.” The two immediately dashed through the exit. Soulshifter got up and shook his head, trying to clear his vision as Firefly got up. Angrily  Soulshifter looked at the exit that closed as fast as it could and growl-sighed, 
“ Idiots.” he shook his head “ I knew those Buffalo-brains were too useless.” Then he turned to Firefly. 
“You really think I can be killed that easily.” she said trying to sound  brave and menacing like Vapor. She curled up her injured tail like a scorpion and took a quick glance at at Eclipses pet, Coils,who was right next to her,was unconscious,he was  the nearest to her bracelet when it blasted and it must of put full effect on him. 
Slowly,for the first time in a while,Soulshifter smiled coldly. “Oh , there was a plan B. Did I forget to mention that?” And at that moment the wall exploded.
Chapter 26  
Ok,the walls didn’t exactly explode,but it sure did look like it. It was Vapor who did it by the way, but he wasn't what Firefly saw last time she encountered him. The hybrid was darker in color and steam erupted from his scales so violently he was almost covered in it. His breathing was a disturbing sound,like a dragon being grabbed by the throat,gasping for breath. His eyes were deadly yellow and there was some sort of vibe that Firefly got that he was no longer a dragon at all. But some sort of crazed beast,a weapon. Vapor growled like a wolf, his eyes were gazing murderously at her wounds and then quickly locked eyes with her which she noted was what he’d been looking at the entire time he appeared. He suddenly roared stamping the ground the same way a bull would as a warning. All Fireflies friends woke up around her yawning. Storm got up first glancing at her then at Vapor. He crouched into a pouncing position ready to kill the beast. “ Don’t even think about it.” Soulshifter laughed “ I made Vapor more deadly. More hotter. I made him so he would have two things on his mind,killing you and your friends,and not stopping until his work is done.” Two pieces clicked together in Fireflies mind as Storm lowered his head nervously,both thinking and holding back his rage.    “ You made him?!” Firefly gasped. “ No. Soulmelter made him. He’s the most powerfulest dragon in the universe. He made him out of thin air.” he smiled and held out the Sky Talon that Vapor used to have on his neck. 
“ This stone can make dragons angrier. More blood thirsty. I poisoned his mind so he acts like a frenzied shark.” 
“ If you did that to him why not to me!” Firefly said then shut her mouth before she made anymore suggestions that could kill her.” The Nightwing made a wicked growled. “ The spirit of fire was too cautious for its own good. Made the stone only able to control enchanted animals so dragons wouldn’t be able to make us killers. But enough talk now. Time for you to die.” He lifted the ruby and twisted it,the stone popped right off. He clasped the stone and closed his eyes hard. Vapor jerked up and his eyes suddenly glowed pure white. Like diamonds in the sun.       “ Kill Firefly,murder whoever stands in my way.” Vapor growled in a new and scary voice sent a chill down Fireflies spine,freezing it. Firefly glanced helplessly at her friends. The only one who seemed was completely awake was Storm who was staring off blankly at the wall,probably communicating with ghosts. “ Help us.” Firefly whispered,wondering if the ghosts could hear her. Storm suddenly widened and sprinted past Vapor and landed on Fireflies back. His back legs where pushing her downward with all his might. “Get down!” he roared. Then Peril smashed through the wall. Landing on top of Vapor.
Chapter 27
The dragons all steered clear of The two blazing dragons rolling on the floor. Steam covered the battlefield. Pineapple screeched like a bird that got caught,causing the others to leap to their feet. 
“ Peril?!” gasped Firefly,getting up with Storms help, “How did you get here?” 
“ The stupid dragon-OW-idiots forgot I had-OW-firescales so I-OOF-melted ther-AGH bones off and went-GAH-to find you!” she yelped. 
“ FLY!” yelped Shadow yelled as the two burning dragons nearly collided into him,Peril seemed to hand the steaming hybrid well,slashing at his wings and chest with her long talons and managed to find him through the steam blasts he blasted to hide himself,yet he also managed to attack her at incredible speed and managed to kick her off many times . Storm snapped open his wings and tossed himself upward to avoid a tail to the neck.Firefly did the same until she heard a shriek of rage behind her.
“ NOT on my watch!” Soulshifter snarled bashing into her ribs. The pain was nothing like anything Firefly experienced. The pain was like two  large needles stabbing into her mixed with starvation. She yelled as he smashed her onto the ground and grabbed her throat.
“ If one of you do something. Anything. Your dead in an instant.”
Vapor roared behind her,struggling to reach her but Peril grabbed his chest and threw him over. 
For a moment all the screaming and shouting drowned away,and everything was paused. Nobody moved at all. Firefly,for the first time in a long time,actually felt calm. 
Then something echoed in her mind.
The dragonets will show what’s right
Or end the chaos with a fight
The dragonets need to turn the hate...
or all of Pyrrhia will meet its fate. 
“ Turn the hate… could that be...Soulshifter. Will I show him what's right?” 
Suddenly everything went back to normal. Soulshifter towered over her. Still clasping his talons around her throat. She looked at him. EH looked back ather. His eyes were filled with hate. But something was different. She could see what feelings he was clouding her vision. SHe could see he was doing this because he had to,not because he wanted to. Or Soulmelter would kill him.
Without thinking she grabbed his talons,and lifted it off like it was nothing. 
“Listen to me-” Firefly started,
“I won’t listen without a fight!” snapped Soulshifter
“Fine.” she said sliding under him,she walked slowly to the other side of the arena. Peril had pinned down Vapor,and looked smugly at him as he thrashed helplessly around when Firefly go close.
“ I’m going to impale you in the throat.” Soulshifter hissed crouching.
Firefly took a heavy breath, she remembered about 4 years ago she was a shy little princess not wanting to be anywhere but the safety of her mother's wings. Now look at herself. She was now a juvenile Rainwing,when she was younger she made friends with a firescales Skywing,she survived and explosion,she fell in love with Storm,she lost half her tail,and now she was here. Whatever happened her whether she died or not. She was going to do it proudly. 
She flexed her talons and dropped into a crouch, “ We’ll see about that Soul.” she grinned,crouched,and spread her wings 
“ Let's do this.”
Chapter 28
Knowing Soulshifter,Firefly knew he was wanting to kill her more than anyone,so he was going on full force. She knew that would be hard to avoid,but she had an advantage. Since he wanted to kill her quickly he would focus more on attacking then defending. 
 “Sorry Soulshifter but you need to be dead instead of me.” she thought. She watched his movement to see what he would do first, 
“If you can't read their mind,watch there movement.” her father always said during battle practice. 
“ At least when she hatches she will be trained by a used-to-be assassin instead of a bunch of brainless banana slugs!” her mother also said when she was a few days from hatching. She studied his closely. Back leg twitch,mouth slightly open. “ A jaguar pounce!” she thought immediately. The Nightwing did just that he leaped into the air ready to pounce on her back to deliver a killing bite to the neck. Firefly swiftly dodged him by dashing behind him before he landed.
“My turn.”
Firefly dashed at him and when she was a tail length away she turned and swung her tail so as he turned to face her after regaining consciousness from his pounce it cracked him in the face but it also caused pain through the scar on her tail. Both she and Soulshifter both yelled in pain,but Soulshifters had blood fountaning out of his jaw. Storm saw this as his chance to tackle and folded his wings to dive at him. Soulshifter whipped his head at him and roared, 
“ Stop him! ” through sputters of blood. Vapor,although now being pinned against the wall with the effort of Peril and the others ( Who couldn't help because he was very hot and kept releasing steam in their faces, the group kept releasing their grip on him,along with Hibiscus and Pineapple who decided they weren’t going to freak out about ANOTHER new dragon!),cannoned away from them like they were just pieces of string tying him together and knocked Storm backward away from Fireflies own battle. A blister formed on the Thunderwings belly and he screamed. Firefly flung up her wings to help but Soulshifter caught her and bit her left  shoulder. The pain was unbearable and Firefly felt like she was about to pass out. 
“ No. Never.” she growled in her mind. She clenched her fists,all the pain felt like it was making her stronger. She roared and smashed Soulshifter against the ground between his wing and his arm. He immediately yelled and his right wing went limp. He clung on to her,refusing to let go,she must of dislocated his wing. She wondered if he would die. She didn't take any chances,turning and scratched his belly. Releasing his grip Soulshifter panted,glaring at her with frustration. “ Give up?” she asked offering a talon “ Be are friends now?” Soulshifter hesitated,the room seemed to be going in slow motion,Soulshifter sighed a little and slowly offered his hand and grabbed her talon. Fireflies silently sighed with relief until she spoke too soon. Soulshifter yanked her forward,slamming her into his body. 
“ Never.” he growled. Firefly struggled to get away but he held on to her with and iron grip 
“ Were not finished yet.” he growled. Firefly gasped for breath,silence fell. She looked down at the ground,then at him.
“ If you choose to be good you are rewarded with good things.” she gasped “But if you choose evil...you get rewarded…with death” The Nightwing snarled at her. Storm roared in the background,he kicked Vapor off him,but Vapor blasted steam at him,cloaking himself if the fog,Storm suddenly appeared blasting electricity at him before throwing in another kick. Vapor screamed and fell onto the ground,landing on his feet,Storm landed avoiding a bite to the neck and leaped at a great height,landing of Vapors back,though it was hot and hard to grip onto he roared,striking the beast on the neck,his talon snagged on one of Vapors scales,drawing blood which evaporated as soon as it touched his skin,Vapor roared and knocked the Thunderwing of his back. All while,Soulshifter,lifting Firefly off the ground. “ Listen Rainwing,” he spat, 
“Your gibberish sounds like a spider monkey that had too much sugar and coffee. And I don’t like it. AND YOU SHOULD KNOW VERY MUCH THAT I WILL NEVER STOP BEING EVIL I WILL-” While he was roaring at her,with all her might,Firefly grabbed him by the shoulders and flipped him over so he was lying on her other arm,belly to the ceiling. His gripped slipped off her and he roared flapping his wings then stopped when his dislocated one flapped too hard. 
“ Vapor! Kill this lazy Rainwing!” he roared lashing out his claws which Firefly dodged by jerking her head back
 Vapor,hearing the sound of his master twisted to see what was happening,which gave Storm the chance to ram him into the wall,knocking the air out of him. Knocking him unconscious Storm but one leg on him and let  out a victorious roar which was as loud as thunder and echoed through the halls Coil gave the dragon a fierce look and bopped him on the snout with his tail,looking triumphant like he was the one who actually won the battle. Soulshifter roared fire welled up his throat but before he could,before anyone could do anything. Firefly at lightning speed grabbed his bloody jaw,forcing it open,before firing her black venom straight into his gaping mouth. Soulshifter jerked back surprised,swallowing the venom on accident and shrieked loud enough for the room to shake. Spurts of blood fountianed out of his neck and tiny holes appeared growing larger until they disintegrated.  Firefly watched until she couldn't bear too and took her gaze to her friends faces.Violet and Pineapple were horrified( and Splash,espacilly Splash who never experienced so much blood),Peril and Eclipse was definitely smug,the Falcon,Shadow,Storm,and Hibiscus was perhaps surprised. She finally turned around and saw Soulshifter crumble into a lifeless corpse at her feet. The nightwing had the bones and a few organs melted half way to but was still bleeding gallons on the neck which had melted completely except the empty scales,the fake student,the trapper of dragons,the dragon who tried to kill Firefly,laid dead. 
The rest of the group landed,Splash looked a bit pale and was staring hard at the corpse as if he was unsure he was dead or alive. Violet and Pineapple were turning a queasy green. Shadow stomped on the tail and grinned for some weird reason.  Peril asked if she could light the tiniest part of his frozen half furious half horrified place but everyone voted it down. Splash finally glanced at the corpse,he touched the evil dragons face with his snout and muttered something too him.
“What did you say to him?” asked Firefly
“ An oath to the spirits that he’s live peacefully with the other souls.” Splash said a little too honestly 
Firefly rolled her eyes,she tried to glance back at the corpse but Splash was blocking it from view.
“ Relax Firefly your acting like Splash,expecting it to come back to life and eat your or something.”  Peril said
“ I think we’re done with this place.” Eclipse finally called out.
“ Yeah,i'm definitely wanting to do that. Now? Please?” Falcon asked staring at the corpse with a disgusted expression.
“ Firefly-” Storm landed in front of her “ That-you-you fired you’re-I mean-you just-”
“Killed a deadly dragon who was going to kill me.” she interrupted. Storm gave the corpse another glance. 
“I know I’ve been shy when I first met you guys.” Firefly turned to face them all 
“ I thought you guys were my guards,the ones who would protect me,and everything would be fine,but I learned that I need to use my own talons and that when my time comes I must do it myself.” She turned and rested her head on Storms shoulder 
“ And you.” she said. 
“ You big sap.” Eclipse grinned,hugging he .
“ But she's not big,” Pineapple pointed out “ And she's not a tree so how does she have sap-”
“That means she's glad for you two” Shadow said pu
pushing her into the hug.
“ Me two” Falcon added,
“Me three” Violet said pushing in.
All eyes fell on Hibiscus.
“ Ew,no.No,no,no,no,no. Hugs are not my thing thank you very much.” Coils slithered up behind her and hissed causing her to shriek,backing her up into the group where they grabbed into a fierce hug sandwich.
“Now can we go?” asked Splash.
“Yeah,lets go.” Eclipse added.
“Oh no you aren’t” 
Everyone turned in shock.
It was Vapor,under him was pinned down,very annoyed Peril.
“We’re not finished.” he hissed
Chapter 29
“ Of course,” Firefly thought remembering that she just killed his master. She growled and opened her jaws to show her teeth. Her friends followed. Vapor snarled at them “ Even if you do kill me it won't work,you'll die anyway.” Firefly tilted his head. What was he talking about. 
“What do you mean?” Splash asked,almost like he read Fireflies mind. Vapor cough-wheeze and his chest pulsed.
“ My heart,” he spat, “ All these years my heart has slowly started to melt,all the energy from everything you’ve killed have been transferred to me.” 
“ Why didn’t I kill him when I had the chance.” grumbled Peril.
Steam suddenly erupted  from Vapors scales.
“ It's time to finish what Soulshifter hasn’t.” he growled. His veins started to grow with pulsing lava and then he crouched. A whistling sound started to fill the air.
“ Guys…? Stammered Shadow,who for once looked actually scared, 
“ ....I can’t swim in lava.”
“ RUN!” Firefly screamed.
Vapor threw back his head and let out a triumphant and his final roar,then,his entire body tore open and a huge light cannoned through the room. Firefly turn her head but she could tell they were in huge trouble when she heard a humongus KA-BOOM that practically ripped her ears off. She heard Falcon yelp and to her horror lava was slowly oozing after them. The stone around them was starting to crack. Firefly picked up speed but the cracks were ten times as fast as a normal dragon. The crack cut in front of the group and split into a wide canyon. “ The walls are to narrow for us to fly with!” Hibiscus said with a quick study at the hall. 
 “ If were not fast enough we will become nothing but burning corpses and/or Jade Mountain may very well crash on top of us! But if we jump,we may either survive...or fail.”
Chapter 30
Firefly glanced down at the wide gaping,then back at the blazing liquid of what was left of Vapor. “Hurry!” Eclipse yelled. 
“ To what? Fall to our deaths?” snapped Peril “ Too bad you all have FLAMELESS SCALES SO YOU FIREPROOF!” Splash turned a kind of pale and dashed towards the edge taking  leap across the air. For half a second,he was in the air then his talons landed safely on the ground. “ Come on!” he yelped,his wings shuddered violently,like he was in the ice kingdom. Shadow leaped after him. One by one the group leaped over as the lava closed in on them. Only Firefly,Eclipse,and Peril were left. 
“ We have to go!” yelled Hibiscus,Pineapple under her wing “ If we wait we’ll all die.”
“ You guys go! I’ll stay behind,” Splash called before Firefly could protest. Storm nodded and dashed away,giving them a nervous glance behind his back as the others followed.
The lava was getting very close and Firefly could feel it. Eclipse gazed down at the bottomless pit. “ What are you waiting for? Jump!” Firefly shouted,even though she was right next to her. “Ooooh. I don’t know if I can.” Eclipse whispered. “ Eclipse,I know this is scary for you,I had the same thing with Clay,” Peri said soothingly. The Sandwing exhaled and flicked her tail at the Skywing but stopped at the last minute. 
“NOW MOVE” Peril jerked and Head-butted her. “ Ok,OK!” Eclipse yelled dashing forward. Firefly caught up to her before Peril did the same to her. The two leapt,Firefly closed her eyes,her heart beated. The stone hit her talons. She opened her eyes to find herself safely on the other side. “Help!” Eclipses voice screeched. Firefly turned and her heart beat even faster. The poor Sandwing was gripping onto the edge with two talons,her tail thwacked against the giant ravine. Cracks formed around her talons that were holding on for dear life. Firefly tried to move but she couldn’t move or speak. “ Hold on!” Splash yelled dashing to her side. With his own talons,he hauled her over just as the crack split and fell down through the ravine.Eclipse panted hard and glanced at the floor as if expecting it to swallow her up. Jumped over and shook the remaining bits of lava of her talons. “ M-my b-bottom.” stammered Eclipse. Firefly noticed a large spot of raw scales in the place where Peril hit her. “ You could of been nicer the that.” Splash said wryly. “ What could I do? Would you rather I had her melting into a puddle of goo?” Peril shot back. “Thanks for having my back.” Eclipse said to Splash with a sparkle in her eye. “ Your welcome.” Splash. “ I don’t know about you but I think a relationship is developing here.” Firefly whispered into Perils ear. The Skywing snorted. “ What was that about?” The Seawing asked. “ Eclipse is there any room to protect dragons from cave-in’s?” Firefly asked ignoring Splash.
 “ Yes the place where you...met...Coils…” she trailed of Staring at the bubbling,steaming liquid. “ Did he make it?” 
“ Yes he’s right here. I figured he’d freak out if I left him without you.” Splash lifted his tail to reveal the funny snake. Eclipse twined tails with him as a thanks. 
“Ok,here's the plan,” Firefly said,interrupting the lovefest. 
“ Peril and Splash will come with me. I’ll take Eclipse to the room to recover.” Peril nodded and dashed towards the exit. Splash gave them a glance before disappearing after her. 
Chapter 31 
“ You ok?” Firefly asked Eclipse as she limped aside her.
“ Yeah,I'm fine,but you don’t have to keep asking me,it's almost like you expecting me to have an egg.” Eclipse snorted. Coil attached himself to her defensively. 
“ Here we are.” Firefly pointed to the nearby entrance. Eclipse nodded and gritted her teeth when she flicked her tail. The healing room looked friendlier than Firefly had last seen it. There was a pot that was full of some sort of meat. Flash freezes corpse was thrown into the fire by someone,leaving a few ashes behind. And the only sign of their presence was the blood that spattered here and there. Firefly immediately spotted the journal. “ I have to tell her.” she thought. Eclipse collapsed on a nearby pillow and rolled onto her back as Firefly picked up a book to search for something to nurse the Sandwings burn. “ Many dragons died today.” murmured Eclipse. 
“ What do you mean?” Firefly asked “The only ones who died were Soulshifter and Vapor.”
“ Soulshifter isn’t dead.” Eclipse said,flicking her double tail. 
“What!?” Firefly dropped the book to stare at her in shock. “But I killed him! You saw me melt his neck off!” 
Eclipse rolled over so her back was to her.
“ Didn’t you see? Before we left Splash enchanted him to regrow whatever he lost and that his organs would also start working again. Splash must of got his powers back after Soulshifter was killed.” Red swirls formed around Fireflies waist and green spreaded around the rest.
 “ What?” she cried “ You know about animuses that's one of the few things they can’t do.” Eclipse rolled over to stare at here intently,then she sighed heavily. “ Remember,thirty years ago...before we were even born…when that old dragon...Darkstalker,was it? Did all these terrible things to us?” Firefly nodded,remembering the scroll they read back on there first day. “ Back,way back,about two thousand years,animuses powers were unable to do that,” she gave her a scornful look when Firefly stared blankly back at her. 
“ Dragons evolve,we grow stronger-everything grows stronger,like the stones,back during the Scorching,then at Darkstalkers time, invincibility,then hundreds of years later, transforming,mind controlling, animal ordering! Maybe years from now we can open portals to other dimensions!” 
“Ok that makes sense.” Firefly said suddenly remembering Splashes speech on the particles in every dragon. 
“ So were evolving?”
“ Always.” Eclipse assured, “ We’ll never know what the future will be like,but we’ll be able to stand it.”
The two fell silent,fire crackled,occasionally the pot made a slight whining sound,Coils also make a weird grunting  sound,trying to figure out how the get the yummy smelling food without falling into the scalding water or the blazing fire.  Eclipse finally spoke, “ Remember the dragons we set free?” Firefly nodded, “ Well there were thousands of dragons that we didn’t save,many dragons died.” 
“ Some of them were Rainwings,” Firefly thought with a shudder, “ Mother will be furious,though there's nothing she can do about it.” She tapped on a page lightly, “ Found it!” she cried,showing the page on nursing burns to Eclipse. “ It says we need a wet cloth hot or cold.” 
“ There are no cloths in here. They must of been destroyed in the explotion” Eclipse announced,waving towards one of the enormous cracks. Fireflies eyes went right to the pot. She walked over to fish the meat out.      
“  No time for snacking.” Eclipse muttered. 
“ This is for your wound,a substitute for a cloth. Plus,I don’t even like meat.” Pain suddenly shot out of her talon and she shook it hard. 
“ Try this,” Eclipse limped forward and dipped her tail in the pot and hooked one out. 
“ Sandwing tails suffer from less pain?” Firefly guessed tilting her head at her. Eclipse nodded and Coils gave her a bewildered look staring at his own tail with curiosity.
“ Yeah,” the odd Sandwing mumbled,pressing the meat on the burn. After a few moments Eclipse removed it and tossed it backwards at Coils who caught it in a single leap.
“ Eclipse…?” Firefly started but then suddenly felt very shy when the slightly larger dragon turned towards her.             “ There's something I wanted to show you…” she finally said. She picked to the journal and handed it to her,her arm was quivering. Eclipse opened it curiously flipping the pages slowly. On the last page, her eyes widened. 
“ No…” she said finally “ I’ve been wanting to know this since is was a little dragonet! And now the answers are all right here. Firefly! Why didn’t you tell me?!” Shame crashed down on Fireflies heart,purple swallowed up her scales. “ I thought you would be angry.” Firefly blurted “ I felt like if you knew you wouldn't be friends with us! I thought you wouldn’t love us! I thought…” Tears welled up in her eyes and she closed them and they spilled out, “I thought you’d leave us to find them and love them more than us. And everything would change.” Eclipse closed her eyes slightly,her mouth opened and closed for a moment.
“ Firefly,” she finally said,she wrapped a wing around them. “ I will never stop loving you,love is permanent,you love someone you love them forever.” Firefly felt the warmth and leaned on her side, “ Thanks and I love you too.” she whispered
Chapter 32
The halls of the dungeon were full of collapsed pillars and the corpses of Nightwing and Sandwing guards who were luckily,not from anyone she knew. Firefly for once knew exactly where she was going,she walked straight,then right,another right, back down a hal,left,and then another right and she found herself in the narrow hall were she first escaped the guards. Though it was covered in rubble.
Eclipse made a grunt as she tried to lift the large piece of rock. “ Here try this.” Firefly said touching the bag that she forgot she wore. She pulled out Splashes enchanted card,she forgotten that she had it. “ I could have used it for many things,like when Soulshifter attacked me. Or Vapor,or Tarantula and Mussel.
“ I think the dust has gotten to your mind Firefly,I mean,this is just-woah!” as Eclipse spoke her talons flashed bright blue and faded into a turquoise glove that shaped into a fist. Eclipse turned and smashed the the rubble into tiny pebbles until a glimmer of light shone. 
“ Iron fist! Where were you all my life?” 
 “ Race ya!” Firefly called cheerfully,jumping over the Sandwing and racing through the door. “ Hey no fair!” Eclipse scolded in an amused way. Peacefulness flowed through the room. The abandoned cave never felt so peaceful. Firefly stretched her wings as far as they could go lashed her tail. “ Come on we got to go find are friends.” Eclipse grinned in a mischievous way “ Race ya!” She bolted past her and twisted around the corner. “ Hey! No fair!” Firefly called back. The two dashed into the mountain and the wonderful smells and familiar caves rushed back into memory. She and Eclipse skidded to a halt almost bumping into Peril. 
“ Hey! Look whos back!” Shadow called out. Bumping sides with Firefly. “ Your back!” Storm called out! He picked up Firefly and swirled her around before setting her down. 
“ What happened down there? Anything weird happening?” Pineapple asked “Did you see any bats? Or cave fruit what about those? I heard there delicious,or slime? What about  slime? OOH! Did you see any cave fruit slime bats?! Or-”
“ Alright,Alright,they get it.” Hibiscus interrupted.
“ You do need to answer one of those questions.” Peril stepped in “ What happened down there?”
“ Hm! Vath vwat oi fed!” Pineapple shouted even though Splash was covering her mouth with his talon.
So Eclipse told the entire story while Firefly went to the health cave to see if Clay could help with her injuries. Well,it was actually for Coil,his body was swollen and Firefly thought it was because he ate the meat in one gulp.
Though startled about the viper at first,Clay told her he was alright because vipers couldn’t chew they swallowed it whole and it allowed them to not eat for weeks. Firefly prodded back to the group,ignoring that it was sun time,something more important was among them. Yet Soulshifter was dead,Soulmelter was still out there. And since Splash brought him back to life,who knows what he could do with the Sky talon,(if it wasn’t destroyed). Splashes voice suddenly called her name. She dashed towards him. The group was circling around something lying on the ground,someone. When she got close enough,she could tell that it was Pineapple. “ Whats happening?” Firefly yelped she legs suddenly trembled with fear. 
“ It's happening.” Splash said,his voice was faint and sounded far away. 
“ What do you mean? What is?” Firefly screamed,she grabbed the little dragonet who’s eyes were closed.
“ Pineapple,wake up! Wake up!” she glanced into Splashes eyes hard. “ We need her to get to Clay! Fast!” 
Peril shook her head hard. “ Not even Clay can help her now,and he’s one of the best around.”
“ Someone telling me what is going on!?” Firefly asked,trying to forget her friend but she couldn’t.
Storm stared deeply into her eyes, “ Firefly! Remember the scroll we read on the first day? One part was about the stones and when they combine and someone does a special move it-” Pineapples eyes snapped open. “Pineapple!” Falcon cried. The cheerful Rainwing lifted her head but dropped a little. She looked at all of them. Firefly shivered,relieved that the Rainwing was alive. But the Rainwing looked horrible. Her eyes looked like she never slept in her life.
“Guys…” she mumbled in a voice so weird and old that Firefly could tell immediately something was wrong. Her heart was yanking at her chest. “...I don’t feel too well.” Pineapples eyes then shut immediately her head fell back and hit the floor like a rock dropped from a great height. 
“ Pineapple!” yelled Falcon again.
“ What's happening? Is everything alright? ” Sunny voice called,but everyone ignored her. “ Pineapple. Speak to us.” Shadow said nervously,bopping her with a talon. Then,something very strange happened. Little cubes started to come of Pineapples tail,everywhere they came off...started to disappear. She was DISINTEGRATING.
Hundreds of little cubes appeared in a second. And almost immediately,Pineapple was gone. 
“ What-just-happened.” Eclipse said in a tiny voice.
 “ The roar of domination.” Splash growled in a both horrified and grieving way.
“ I don’t-” Storm started,suddenly he collapsed onto the floor. 
“ Storm!” Firefly screamed as he disappeared in barely a second. She roared angrily as Violet,Hibiscus,Shadow,Peril,Sunny,and Clay all disintegrated although they seemed fine. Suddenly,Firefly too felt horribly sick and slumped onto the ground. She saw Splash,Eclipse, and Falcon remained.
 “ Eclipse!” Firefly called as loud as she could but it sounded far away. 
“ Firefly! Oh no,no,no,no,no,no!” Eclipse yelped crouching over her. 
“Eclipse…” Firefly said weakly, “ If you make it...find help,find something,anything,that can possibly stop the stones,and defeat Soulmelter and Soulshifter once...and...for all...” And then...she was gone.
 
Epilogue
10 minutes back...
Today,has been a very shocking day for Soulshifter. First he got beaten by a Rainwing,of all dragons! Then he woke up,finding himself somehow alive after half of his blood was lost. And third he found his best guard,Vapor,dead,and had to dig his way out of the rubble. 
Now he had to have another so called important meeting with his father who was starting to be more and more commanding
“ This better be worth it.” he muttered entering his father's beaten up cave. Soulmelter turned to face his son,no emotion but his always furious face. 
“ You finally came.” he boomed. 
“ Yes father. The dungeons was quite...disturbing to-”
“ Report ” growled Soulmelter.
“ The dungeon was destroyed by some sort of explosion.” Soulshifter said bitterly. “ All the prisoners died from the lava streams on got crushed.Few escaped.”
Soulmelter nodded slowly, “ Did we kill who were looking for?” 
“ I have no idea sir,they likely died but they have a way of slipping through the cracks.”
Soulmelter huffed, “ If there not dead they will likely be after I do this. Come over here. Now.” 
Soulshifter nervously walked towards him. Soulmelters size loomed over him but he could see six colorful gems shaped like talons  on some sort of golden claw,glove thing,four stones were attached to sockets to make them look like the actual talons to a claw,the other two were on the palm and the back of him.
 “ What is that?” Soulshifter wondered.
“The infinity claw.” growled Soulmelter,reading his mind. 
“ I made you using this.”
“ Made me.” Soulshifter thought with a jolt, “ He made me? That means the infinity claw can make an egg from nothing! And it doesn’t even have all the stones yet! They must be powerful.” 
“ But not powerful enough.” Soulmelter growled.
“Give me the sky talon.”
Soulshifter fumbled for the gem around his chest,which was the actual size of his chest. He handed it to Soulmelter who put on the Infinity Claw” placed it on his thumb talon in a single jab. Red pulsed in Soulmelters veins,just like what happened to Soulshifter. Then the collaso dragon returned to normal. He flexed the Infinity Claw. “ The Mud Talon,Sand Talon,Sky Talon,Sea Talon,Rain Talon,Ice Talon,and Night Talon.” he muttered examining them.
“ The power of soul,time,portal,energy,climate,life,power,and universes is in my control. After those Thunderwings and Hivewings I tortured finally carved it right and enchanted it.” he hissed. 
“ Now to kill all birds in one swipe.” he roared. Soulshifter backed up against the wall as the claw or gauntlet glowed. Soulmelters veins were glowing all the colors of any dragon of pyrrhia. Lightning blasted form outside. Soulmelter roared so loud it blasted Soulshifter through the wall and smashed into the ground hard. Many things hit him at once until Soulshifters vision went black
The sky yawned ahead of him. Soulshifter found himself in the largest crater ever. What once was a dead island,was now a world of torture. 
“ Well,that is disappointing.” he heard Soulshifter say. He scrambled upward to see the Nightwing facing him,his face looked to have disappointment in it. 
“That was supposed to kill you.” he muttered “ Tsk,tsk,tsk ”
“ What was? ” Soulshifter demanded before asking another, “ You tried to kill me?!” 
There was no growling or a chuckle of murdering glee from his father. 
“ Of course I tried to kill you!” he rumbled “ You followed my orders to capture the dragonets,but you captured nearly the entire tribe and made me have to make an enchantment so nobody would notice,then you allowed them to escape,then got defeated by a Rainwing and made your best guard die in order to try and probably kill them!” he stopped and made a frustrated noise “ Your no son of mine!” He roared a jet of fire which Soulshifter dodged by jumping and rolling.
He remembered how using the Sky Stone would make them more angrier,but this had little effect on a always-angry kind of dragon
“ I’ll kill you for this! ” he growled.
“ How? Do tell how you can kill and immortal dragon with the Infinity Claw?” Soulmelter growled flexing the gauntlet. The Mud claw glowed and sudden dead trees sprouted from the ground there roots heaved the bodies upward and they started to stomp there way towards him. Soulshifter blasted small amounts of fire at the enemies. One small blast sent them crashing down. The final one was large and fat. It was trying to pin him down with roots. His heart beat as he nearly missed a killing blow to the neck. Soulshifter then blasted his last bit of fire straight into the hole in the tree,killing it instantly. He didn’t even get a chance to relax before the Sand Talon glowed and the ground around him filled up with black  dirt. Soulmelter got out in two flaps. Soulshifter flapped with all his might but the dirt was closing in. 
“ I’m not going to make it!” he screamed in his mind. But with one mighty burst,he zoomed out and landed safely. He gasped for breath. 
“ You survived how impressive. But I’m never going to let you live.” Soulmelter growled. The Sky Talon glowed next and Soulmelter leaped at Soulshifter. Scrambling to his feet,Soulshifter managed to dodge it. Yet he fell into another crater,but twice as small and deep as the last. The Sea talon gleamed and a huge hole tore into the sky. He gripped hard to the ground as hard as he could but the  hole was too strong he was sucked up into the air. But the portal closed and the Nightwing found himself falling to the ground. Looking annoyed,Soulshifter called the Ice talon.
He lifted into the air and snatched the Nightwing into the air. Soulshifter suddenly felt exhausted and fell limp. 
“ He drained my energy...so sleepy…” Soulemlter roared,he had gained more energy and threw his son into the ground with hard force. Soulshifter felt pain through all his bones and muscles. He could tell Soulmelter was looming over him. He picked himself up,dropped,but finally got up. His teeth gritted the words, “ I should of never followed your orders.” he growled,he stared back into the eyes of the demon he had lived with,the eyes he had followed every order,that led to this.
“If I can’t kill your with one stone I’ll kill you with two.” Soulmelter growled. Both the Night and Rain glowed,but it was too late. Soulshifter wings snapped up and he launched into the air,energy now filled him after feeling the aura of the two stones. He slashed with both back legs and smacked the God-like dragon with his spiked tail. This only caused minor damage . Soulemelter roared at him, 
“ You can try and go back to phyrria but there's nowhere you can run little rat. There are floods in the Mud Kingdom,sandstorms in the Sand kingdom,volcanoes in the Sky Kingdom,whirlpools in the Sea Kingdom, I put Tornadoes in the Rainforest,and Heatwaves in the Ice Kingdom,Pantala now runs with hurricanes and tsunamis and those little Thunderwings and Nightwings? They have gone completely extinct! Half the populations of each tribe is gone. Jade mountain has been crushed to pieces!” Soulshifter ignored his roars “ If I can’t kill him,I’ll hide,even if I have to go to team up with my enemies.  I know that this isn’t the end of our world
Up next:
War of One
The world is collapsing...
Eclipses friends are all dead. And there is nothing that she can do to stop it. Or is there? Eclipse is unsure but there was an old legend that said of four magical trees that would repel any magic,including the stones power. With the help of Splash,the Seawing she has a small crush on and Falcon, a Skywing with a brave and loyal attitude set of to find them. To Eclipses horror enough Soulmelter has combined all universes and crazy,terrifying versions of all the dragons are popping up out of nowhere,making all of Eclipses worst nightmares come true.  Things go from weird to crazy when they are forced to team up with surprising characters that Eclipse has no doubt wanting to rip off their heads yet its there only way to fight Soulmelter. In the meantime Eclipse starts to wonder if her secret is really true,and seeks for answers until a surprising dragon turns out to be the key to all her locked doors. Meanwhile Soulmelter has planned to come to phyrria to kill the remaining dragons that managed to survive the Gauntlets power. Will Eclipse succeed? Will Soulmelter capture her? Can she survive the terrible disasters that are suddenly popping up around the world? And will the world be restored back to order? Or stay as a chaotic horrible world forever? Find out in the next book. It's all living dragons against one god-like beast.
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