Reign of the Gilded Snake

=~Blurb~=
A mercenary, a rebel and a councillor, all involved in a war that has been going for twenty years and never seems to have a defined ending. Since the war had started, the SandWings were ruled by a ruthless yet haunted queen who never seems to be challenged someday…
=~Prologue~=
Rise of the SerpentIt was a warm morning in the Sand Queendom, being the day after the young princess had finished her education, thanks to the pressure her tutors put on her. The tawny dragonet got up and trotted off to check what’s going on in the throne room, like always.
The throne room was as silent as a silent, deserted village that was nearly empty. Echis looked down and saw the wheat coloured fur of her mother, but she was nothing but a fresh corpse with a knife impaled in her throat. 
In both disgust and dismay, the dragonet recoiled at the unexpected, horrifying sight. The queen was no more. Her reign had officially come to an end. Echis cautiously took the Eye of Onyx, handling it as if it was an egg. 
It looks like I’m the queen now, I guess, Echis thought, putting on the cabochon. Suddenly, blue tendrils circled the chain and suddenly whispered “You’re accepted as the Queen”.
Next to her mother’s body was a pouch and a few weapons. Echis picked up the pouch and realised there was an abstract of a crocodilian embroidered onto it. The spear next to it looked exactly like those spears used by MudWings, according to the scrolls she'd read. The knives did have the same crocodilian design on them. General Babirusa, Echis thought venomously, picked up the weapons, placed them into the pouch and walked off to the place where the council meetings were held.
The council area was the same as the throne room, empty and silent. Echis noticed one thing on the rock she was standing on. It was a gong and a mallet, possibly used to gather the council.
With the mallet, Echis smacked the gong causing a coppery banging noise that seemed to gather several dragons after a few minutes. Minute after minute, dragons started coming over like vultures who recently discovered a carcass of a decaying animal.
The susurration of the crowd started to increase as the SandWings had come over to the council meeting, perhaps gossip and concern filled their thoughts like a flooded town.
Echis imposingly arched her neck, making herself seem more regal and elegant than she actually is. “Listen up everyone!” she bellowed in a voice that was clear and booming like the loud sound of thunder on a quiet night.
The audience seemed to quiet down as the young queen had announced, but there was still the sound of gossip and fear, but slightly muted than before.
“Last night, the queen succumbed to her demise, and I shall take her place, even if I never had any intentions in becoming the queen,” Echis continued in the same thunderous tone she originally spoke in.
A portion of the audience’s fur turned ashen, while the others fell into amazement. Perhaps traitors were those who were astonished. 
“Long live the queen,” said an unidentified SandWing from the audience in a very respectful tone. 
“Long live the queen? More like ‘by all the snakes, that stingy scorpion is dead!’” sneered another.
The newly crowned queen spread her wings like a violent goose. “Silence, everyone!” she boomed, hushing the dragons who attended the meeting.
“The queen was killed by a MudWing, according to the weapon I have found stabbed in the queen’s throat,” Echis continued, pulling out a MudWing spear tipped with russet SandWing blood.
“And you know what this means…” she announced, “I declare war!”
Like a lightning bolt striking the council, the attendants all became alarmed by the dreadful news. 
“And right now, I will go to try to form an alliance with the SeaWings or maybe even the SkyWings, since we’ve had little skirmishes with them recently” the young queen said, “And you are all dismissed!”
=~Part 1: Truths and Lies~=
Chapter 1Sneezeweed - Flowers and ThornsFor two years, Sneezeweed had been a soldier under the queen. Although he didn’t serve the queen of his tribe, instead he worked for Queen Echis of the SandWings, who was a strong queen, unlike the queen he was ‘supposed’ to serve. 
Indeed, Sneezeweed never liked RainWings anyway. He preferred to work as a sergeant in the army of a powerful queen who stays on her throne for decades rather than be a fruit gatherer, gliding instructor or physician under a careless queen who only rules for a month. Especially after that one event, the mercenary was uninterested in returning to the Rainforest.
It was a day after Sneezeweed had graduated from the academy and he was ready to seek apprenticeship. He decided to fly off to the Rainforest, the place where the lazy RainWings reside. 
The flight was long and a pain for his broad wings, which are built for short flights in dense areas rather than long soaring. Due to the tiresome flight, Sneezeweed landed in a random place in the dense forest and found something.
It was a sloth, obliviously climbing a tree. Anyway, Sneezeweed was quite hungry after miles of soaring over to the Rainforest. 
Without anyone noticing, he viciously sank his claws into the animal like a vicious predator which ended up attracting attention.
“But that’s the queen’s!” one of the RainWings exclaimed, “And anyway, I thought hunting sloths was banned.”
“The queen isn’t here right now though, but she may be camouflaged somewhere,” responded another.
“GET YOUR TALONS OFF THAT SLOTH RIGHT NOW YOU BRUTE!” snarled the third, turning their feathers a blood red colour, “We have enough fruit here, you know?”
Sneezeweed dropped the furry creature and replied with a scornful sneer, “We’ll, goodbye b**ches.” He quickly shot venom at one of the RainWings, black droplets shooting into the red one’s eye.
After Sneezeweed ran off, two of the RainWings’ colours rotted off to a ghostly pallor while the second randomly wandered off.
Idiots, he derisively thought with a smirk, continuing to sprint through the outskirts of where he originally lived.
After several miles of travel, he felt tired. His paws were scratched by the rough terrain and it was a torture for him to continue. 
“We’ve lost twenty dragons already all because of this plague, and we’ve only gained three new apprentices,” said a voice.
“Indeed, and if we do not get enough soldiers with good military knowledge, the MudWings will win this war,” responded another.
Hmmm… What if I join them as a mercenary? Sneezeweed thought, starting to feel useful, Well, I have Pyrrhia’s deadliest weapon, as well as the ability to camouflage, which they would find useful.
The dull cinnamon RainWing cautiously walked over to the dragons who he was eavesdropping on. They appeared to have light, warm coloured fur and scorpion-like tails, SandWings indeed. 
“What do you need?” one of them asked suspiciously.
Sneezeweed arched his neck, trying to look more imposing. “To get an apprenticeship,” he answered in a tone of ambitious confidence.
The soldier observed the dull coloured RainWing with keen eyes and replied, “Well, why aren’t you going for the Rainforest then?”
“Bold of you assume I want to go back there,” Sneezeweed sneered, “I’m not a lazy RainWing.”
“Since we’re in desperate need of soldiers, we’ll need to see if you’re actually worth it,” she said, walking off with him.
=== Chapter 2 ===
Taipanstrike - Two Snakeswip
=== Chapter 3 ===
Kultainen - ???
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