Wings of Flames: Blazing Hope

== Note ==
This fanfic is after canon arc 4 but this fanfic should be taken as canon. This belong to WCU, no stealing or editing please!
== Overview ==
This will have gore, violence, blood, and other mature contents. This is rated 13+ so it as advised to skip this page if 12 or younger.
== Warning ==
This will have some fanon tribes and places that WCU has created. Be aware that this fanfic will be semi-canon, but not entirely. Some characters will be from the canon series while others are by WCU.
== Characters ==
Flame - Main
Blossom - Main
Stone - Main
Vespiquen - Main
Marble - Minor
Monster - Main
Random Leafwings/Hivewings/Silkwings - Minor
Soot - Minor
Burning - Minor
Ardere - Minor
Moonwatcher - Minor
Ablaze - Minor
Winter - Minor
Qibli - Minor
Queen Yellowjacket - Minor
== Short summary ==
A young Firewing dragonet, Flame, is having her animus test but something unexpected happens! Moonwatcher returns to Parshanomi, only to discover Flame is her dragonet.
Moonwatcher tells her daughter they need to flee, Flame's father was killed by Hailwings. Then Moonwatcher suddenly rambles out a prophecy, Flame being in it. To help her mother, Flame runs away from Parshanomi to stop whatever danger lurks.
== Prologue -- Monsters ==
The sun beat down hard on the small firewing, all she could do was walk. The hivewing guard forced her to walk in front, and watch as Pantala seem to fade into what seemed like nothing.
"Hurry it, fire dragon." The hivewing snarled, shoving her forward. "I'd walk faster if someone wasn't watching my every move!" The dragonet snapped, her vibrant red, black, and orange scales seemed to glow in the light of the sun.
"Clearly, my name is Flame, not fire dragon." She snarled. "Shut up and walk." The amber hivewing snarled. What am I? A peasant? A Firewing to be treated like a weak, stupid silkwing? Flame thought as she was forced forward, her eyes glaring at the hive dragon. 
The two dragons approached the crowded Jewel Hive. The hivewing lead Flame through the crowd, many dragons scowling at Flame like she was a prisoner, a traitor, a monster. Flame hissed one small dragonet that was admiring her scales. "Back off, mini pest!" 
Flame barked, shoving the hivewing dragonet away. "I'm not a stupid statue to admire!" The hivewing guard turned toward the female dragonet.
"Shut up, fire dragon, and you can go in one piece!" Flame turned face to face with the hivewing and snarled. "Don't be so stupid, hivewing. I'll never believe your lies." The hivewing slashed as her face.
"Now that, was the most foolish thing you ever did..." The firewing turned, blood hurdling down her left eye. Her tail raised, which was covered in flames, and stabbed him in the shoulder. "Things are going to get messy," She snarled. "HIVEWINGS!" The guard shrieked as Flame pierced her wrist stingers into the soldier's neck.
She began charging her fire poison, choking the hivewing as more hivewing guards came. Blood drooled down the hivewing's jaws, before she forcefully pushed out a fire poison bomb into the hivewing's neck. 
Blood splattered across the market, dampening Flame and many hivewings that ran off in cower. The bloody, headless hivewing body slowly collasped to its side, blood pouring from it as Flame whipped the blood and scales off her face. "Anyone else want to get... messy?" She barked, turning toward the guards that slowly backed up.
"This looks like fun, doesn't it?!" She hissed, her eyes glowing a fiery orange. She snatched the bloody, fire poisoned body and tossed it toward the guards. "Never mess with a FIREWING!" She roared, flaring out her orange and black wings before taking off, setting some more bombs on the Jewel Hive. 
Stupid hivewing forever remain stupid. Remain monsters, but who is the monster now? Flame thought as she flew, the echoing roars of angry hivewings bellowed behind her. She didn't turn, she just flew... far, far away.
== Chapter Ⅰ -- Returning ==
5 Months Before...
The scratching of Flame's quill irritated her. It fractured her ear drums greatly, stuck in the boundaries of her skull, constantly struggling to get out but only to cause major headaches. "Flame, dinner's here!" Burning's discomforting voice echoed through the long corridors of their cave.
"I'm busy! Not hungry anyway!" Flame roared back, glaring at door, hoping it wouldn't fly open and reveal her annoying older sister. Her headache felt worse, feeling like it was desperately pounding on the inside of her long, thin skull. "Ugh. Stupid headaches, stupid sisters and the stupid families that come with them!" She snarled to herself, scribbling away her answers and began to start all over again.
She had to finish before the Lucky Flare festival, or she could flunk her school and miss the best festival that Firewings could ever own. Hurry up. Just become right. Please.
Finally Flame's mother, Ardere, crept it. "Flame, dearest. You really should eat," She set down a bowl of fried fish meat. "Mother, please! I'm trying to finish this before the festival." Just leave me alone. Flame thought to herself, as her gleaming yellow eyes glared at her mother. "About that..." Ardere paused. "I need to tell you something."
"Can it wait? I have to meet my friends by Turaco's statue or they'll think I cowered out-" Flame growled, turning back to her school work and scribbling over some answers with her quill. "Flame, tonight is the night you'll be doing your animus test..-" WAIT WHAT?!? Flame froze, her head started to pound more.
"What......?" She slowly turned back to her mother, looking paralyzed. "It is that time of age when you and other dragonets come to find out if they're animus." Her mother soothed quietly, stroking her daughter's spines gently with her talons.
"Mother! You should know if your own daughter is an animus or not?!" Flame spat, her snout wrinkling at that thought. Tonight of all nights??! "My friends will think I'm a freak?!?!" Flame shrieked. "Your friends have dealt with it too..." Ardere reassured her. "Why do we have to do this stupid test anyway?!?"
"Flame! This test isn't stupid-" Ardere sighed, sitting down as Flame looked panicked. "Speaking of tests, it is about to start" Burning growled, peering through the doorway. "Flame, c'mon."
Don't panic. Don't argue, just get in the crowd then back out to join my friends... Flame thought to herself as her and her family flew down to the market. As they entered the area, they came across the center where a tall statue stood towering over the others that passed by. A small red banner was wrapped around the base with shining golden letters that wrote: "Turaco, you bring luck upon us". 
Around it surrounded red and gold banners attached to shop roofs along with bamboo. Small candles were lit and put on the base along with small red and gold flowers and jewelry. "Do they always have to sacrifice stuff to a statue?" Flame grumbled as random firewings surrounded her. They decorated her in red and gold silk veils on her wings and put a special ruby necklace on her neck.
She seemed disgusted by her new look, shaking her wings to get the veils off. "We may begin." Queen Flaring nodded to the firewing priest who seated the surrounding dragonets. "Turaco we speak too you. Please protect from the danger that hides. Help these dragonets from the dark spirits that cower inside. Bring us luck that an animus may not join us. Turaco we speak to you." The priest spoke as the dragonets started to chant.
Flame couldn't keep us as the whole market began to chant, all she could focus on was the other chanting. Stupid ceremony. Pathetic chants. For the sake of the three moons, will this end? Flame thought, until she realized things were darker.
The candles and lights had been taken out, for only the light of the three moons still shown on them. Wing beats broke the silence as every dragon turned to see a nightwing fall forward, weakened possibly from the travel. "Where is Ardere?! I need to speak to her!" Who is this... and is that... a silver scale?!? She reads minds?!? Wait-- Flame silenced her mind, forcefully avoiding to think for a second.
"Here." Flame's mother stepped up to the nightwing. "Where is she? Is she still here?" The nightwing cried, heaving forward onto Ardere in sobs. The night dragon and Flame's mother turned to her, confusion spread across her face. "Mother... who is this?.." Flame stammered, afraid and confused. Suddenly the nightwing heaved herself toward Flame and embracing her tightly.
"This is Moonwatcher, your real mother," Ardere sighed. "Three days before you hatched, your mother, Moonwatcher, requested I raise you instead of herself entirely. She'd visit sometimes until you got older... then she stopped-" 
"I-" Flame felt guilty and confused the entire time, Ardere suggesting they go back to their cave to let Moonwatcher rest there. My life was a LIE. Flame thought during the whole flight there, flying away from what felt like wasn't real, from everything that didn't feel like home anymore. Her eyes were glued to her real mother.
== Chapter Ⅱ -- Lies ==
Moonwatcher lay wide spread on the couch, Ardere attending her every need. "Moonwatcher", if you're reading my mind right now, tell me why you abandoned me... was I not good enough? Flame thought, peering around the edge of the doorway to stare at the two, her eyes felt like they want to leak steamy tears.
"What does this make me? A nightwing firewing hybrid? Am I even PART firewing at ALL?" Flame questioned herself as she turned slowly to the corridors. This only makes you a monster. Flame paused, hearing strange whispers as her ears and eyes felt disabled at that moment.
"Flame. Night dragon wants to see you," Burning snarled, shoving past her and entering the corridor. Flame snapped out of her thought and turned back to the large main cave. "May we speak alone, Ardere?" Moonwatcher questioned the adult firewing whom just responded with a simple nod. "Flame, I didn't abandon you, I just left you in a better home..."
"Why? Wouldn't you care the slightest of how I'd feel when I finally found out I wasn't even raised by my actual mother or sister or father?" Flame scowled at her 'mother', seeming very disappointed yet guilty for accusing her true mother of not caring for her at all. "I just couldn't let you get discovered by Qibli. He is a bit... protective." 
"You mean protective by where a dragonet can't even see her real mother? Yeah, that is protective!" Flame snapped turning and sprinting off in anger, not listening to the roars of Moonwatcher, only knowing to run and NEVER look back.
Moonwatcher leaped toward Flame. "Please Flame! We have to go! Away from here!" Flame slowed to a stop, turning to Moon. "Why?" Flame questioned. "Because-" Suddenly Moonwatcher's eyes turned white and recited what seemed like a prophecy.
"Heartache, blood, and tears stain the continents,
When dragons reveal their dark side,
Of the cold and violent
The death and suicide
Dragons will always be different
They'll all divide
Unless three dragonets rise
One, their heart as cold as stone
Another, their magic blazing flames
All alone,
A blossom of kindness, yet never the same
Three dragonets, overthrown
With darkness, let them save us from the cold"
Moonwatcher collasped onto Flame, seeming weaker then before now. "What darkness? What is going on?!" Flame snarled, shaking Moonwatcher lightly. "The- the Hailwings have returned...!" Moonwatcher shakily passed out, falling limp in Flame's talons. "But they're dead...-" 
Flame placed Moonwatcher on the couch once more and flew toward Burning's sleeping cave. "Burning!" Flame snarled as she entered Burning's cluttered sleeping cave. I swear, even a lizard is more organized then Burning. Flame thought. "Burning, I need to go, can you take care of Moonwatcher while I'm gone?" 
"Why should I?" Burning growled, her snout wrinkled as she turned toward her small window. "Please, I'll let you have my dinner for the next moon!" Flame snarled, slightly baring her fangs at her sister. "Fine, make it two moons though," Flame nostril poured of smoke, getting angry with her annoying sister. "Fine, I'll be back within a few days..." 
"Where are you even going??" Burning snarled, stomping on Flame's tail to keep her from leaving. "Somewhere, just please! Our home is at stake if I don't!" Burning didn't respond but move her talons away and let Flame free. "I hoped you'd understand.." Flame mumbled before flying down the corridor and out of the cave into the lights of the market. 
She didn't know where she was going, or what she was fighting, or what she was looking for... all she knew was she had to find out what she could do to help. 
== Chapter Ⅲ -- Flowers ==
Flame had been flying for hours, her wings feeling sore and her legs asleep. One more wingbeat and I might be lost to the sea... Flame was relieved to see land, though not paying much to history, she didn't know which continent she was about to land on.
Flame was out of breath as she landed, unaware of landing on Pantala. She landed by Lake Scorpion, taking many gulps of water at once, feeling as though her throat was drier then a desert.
"What are you doing out in the open???" A small voice squeaked, making Flame jump. "Who is there? Who said that??" Flame snarled, getting ready to charge a fire poison bomb. "Me, I'm the one that is there..." A small squeaky silkwing-flowerwing stepped out, her radiant scales glimmering in the light. 
"I'm Blossom, you are?..." She hissed timidly, her eyes showing fear and curiosity. "Flame... Why are you questioning my presence?" Flame growled, watching the smaller dragonet. "Haven't you heard? The Hivewings are on patrol right now! They'll take any dragon they find..!" The small dragon, Blossom, squeaked. 
"Hivewings... I'm on Pantala?.." Flame paced, Blossom nodding in response. "I need to get to Pyrrhia... there is some trouble there that I need to fix. Do you know anyone who could help me get there?" Flame questioned. Blossom nodded, glancing around before whispering, "We need to get to my village first, we can't let the hivewings find us.!" 
Flame rolled her eyes and followed Blossom to the "wing" of Pantala where a small village lay hidden in the forests. "Marble! Marble where are you!?" As Blossom cried out frantic roars Flame began to regain her headache. She clenched her jaws together as they walked through the village. Monster. Monster. Monster. MONSTER! Flame shook her head, the voice becoming louder with each chant. 
She panted, her head pounding in pain like a dragonet breaking through its egg. "Flame?" Blossom's head tilted as the Firewing gained control again. "I'm fine... just a little sore.." Flame lied, turning and following the small hybrid to a large platform. 
What do theses dragons think they are? Rainwings? Flame thought, entering a small hut decorated in vines, flowers, brush, and tree branches. An elderly dragon was sitting by a small stone slab held up by tree branches. On it were small bowls of colored liquid, the silkwing mixing them together like they were a nightwing studying rainwing venom. 
"Marble!" Blossom squealed, embracing the elder tightly. "What is it, Blossom? If this is about those lizards again-" The dragon, 'Marble', looked up to Flame and paused. "Blossom? Why have a you brought a dragon here? It could be a spy!" Marble growled, narrowing her eyes at Blossom angerly. 
"Clearly I'm anything but a hivewing and I could blow you to smithereens but I'm holding back since I am entirely nice and sweet," Flame growled, glaring at the elder. "You are also a jabber-jaw, so you've proven to not be a spy." Marble grinned, smug, Flame's nostrils pouring of smoke. She then turned to Blossom with a disapproving look. "Why have you brought an outsider?" 
"She wants to go to Pyrrhia, claiming there is trouble there that she can fix." Blossom squeaked, hiding behind her wing slightly. "Yes, there is danger but it is something no one can fix... let it be, outsider," The elder sighed, turning to a map of Pyrrhia outspread on her wall. "This is our fate, there is nothing anyone can do about it." 
"Whatever danger may be on Pyrrhia, I need to fix it. Do you know anyway to get there or at least figure out what is going on?" Flame trotted up to Marble, looking at her sternly. 
"It is unknown to us what issues that other continent has, but it none of the Silkwings or Leafwing's business here on Pantala. And leave Blossom out of whatever you're doing.." Marble snarled, pulling Blossom away. "Just tell me how to get there and I'll leave." Flame snarled sternly. Finally, after moments, Marble gave in. 
"You have to take back the animus orb that Yellowjacket holds. She hides it in Wasp's head which is hung on one of the walls of the former flamesilk factory," Marble sighed. "With it, you can make way to Pyrrhia. You have to get in the Wasp Hive first though." The elder growled, releasing Blossom. 
"Fine, I'll do whatever it takes, just help me get to this orb and I'll be out of your business." Flame growled, Blossom leading over some leafwings to help. "These leafwing villagers will help you," Marble sighed. "Bring them back... ALIVE." 
"Can't make any promises!" Flame grinned, smug, before leading away the leafwings. The dragon left the village with Flame leading the way, Blossom following beside her. "Shocking she actually let you go.." Flame looked down to the hybrid dragonet following her. "Nah.. I just... snuck away?" Blossom grinned nervously. 
== Chapter Ⅳ -- Hybrid ==
It felt like they'd been walking forever, Blossom dragging her talons behind her just to catch up. Tall dry grass swayed around them, bristling their scales lightly. 
Flame glanced up, the small group slowly approaching Tsetse Hive which was pouring out with Hivewing patrollers. The flamesilk bridges held chained silkwings which were being lead around by Hivewings, either taking them to those factories or to clean something. Lazy bug dragons. Can't they do their own work? Flame thought as she watched.
The leafwings, Flame, and Blossom crouched in the golden grass as they crept up to the hive. "Alright, we need to find a way to get in, go to the Flaemsilk Factory, and get that stupid orb." Flame growled. "Any ideas?"
"You could put this grass on yourself and look like a hivewing that captured us?" One leafwing suggested. "I could... but my wings give it away!" Flame snapped, resentful of such a "stupid" idea. I think this one's brain was sucked dry by a carnivorous plant... Flame thought. "I think the idea is excellent, but it needs to be more advanced.." A voice from the back chuckled.
Flame glared at the leafwings, a certain one moving through the small crowd. An amber-colored leafwing stepped out, his scales radiant and glowing in the golden lights of the sun. "I'm Vespiquen, and as a hybrid of leafwing and hivewing, I will do the part of 'capturing' you. But, we will take the secret tunnels below the hives to get to the flamesilk factory."
Flame admired the leafwing's beauty that she blindly nodded in silent response. Flame quickly lead the group to Beetle Lake once she became conscious and began preparing. "You need to stay as close to me as possible, it won't be believable if we can't fake you all have chains.." 
Blossom placed cuts of grass colored black with mashed blackberry onto the hybrid leafwing. "Once we make it to the factory, you all have to get out of there." Flame ordered the leafwings, who questioned it. "Ready?" Flame glanced across the crowd, which were blurred with nods. "Where is the tunnel?" Flame turned to the leafwing, Vespiquen. "Just follow my lead, no one wander.."
The hybrid lead the group toward Tsetse Hive, Flame tensed as hivewing flew above and past. Vespiquen moved aside a large rock, slipping into the tunnel, the rest following in shakes and quivers. The leaf-hive hybrid began to slowly walk, turning to peek around corners before leading them.
Suddenly, Vespiquen abruptly stopped, forcing Flame and the rest to bump into his tail and trip over one another. "What is it?" Flame growled as she forced away a leafwing's tail. "Hivewings.." Vesp whispered back, slowly backing up as the hivewings cantered their way. The hivewings glanced toward Vesp, whom was paralyzed. "Who are you? Never seen you around the hives before...?" One hivewing spoke, her voice light with curiousity.
"Your worst fear." Flame snarled as she lunged at the hivewings, pinning them down and baring her fangs. One managed to slip away and lunged at a leafwing, tearing at their throat. "Where is the flamesilk factory?" Flame growled, lighting up her tail barb and pulling it toward the hivewing's head.
"I'll never say-" The hivewing snarled, trying to pull her stinger toward Flame. Flame's eyes glowed bright orange, which suddenly leaked a orange glow as though it was goopy, orange tears. "What are you?!?" The hivewing hissed. "I'd tell you... but... I'd rather show you!" Flame shoved both her wrist stingers and barb in the hivewing's head.
Vesp turned toward Flame, willing to stop her. The hivewing cried in pain before Flame forced down a large fire poison bomb through her stingers. Blood splattered everywhere as she exploded half of the hivewing's head, its skull covered in blood and half hanging out as blood abruptly poured down the hivewing's missing head. The other one looked horrified as the body fell limp, blood oozing out along with fire poison.
"Where is it?!" She snapped, turning toward the other horrified hivewing that clutched to the limp leafwing body that he killed. Flame's eyes grew brighter as she stepped closer, towering over the fearful hivewing.
He pointed his black talons to a long, twisted tunnel. "I-it leads to the fl-fl-flamesilk f-factory..." He stammered. Flame grinned smugly before slicing the hivewing's throat. "Die horribly," She snarled as she began to walk away, her eyes slowly stopped their eerie glow. Vesp stepped around the dying hivewing, along with the other leafwings following. Blossom looked to the shivering hivewing but continued to move forward.
"You didn't need to kill them.." Vesp spoke gently but stern as Flame cleaned her talons. "His little friend refused to tell... he was weak." She hissed lightly, glancing back at Vesp whom slowly trailed behind. "They didn't deserve their life,"
Vesp sighed. "Next time attack when necessary-" Flame stopped and whipped around to Vesp, her amber-red eyes narrowed. "I attack when I say it is 'necessary'!" She snapped, her eyes flashing orange as she turned to move ahead. The rest of the walk was silent, not a sound from anyone and no more hivewing "run-ins".
The tunnel opened up to a small hole which viewed the flamesilk factory in which was swarmed with hazy, white-eyed silkwings that stalked around mindlessly in chains. Flame pulled herself through the hole and hid behind one of the large flamesilk cauldrons, eyeing every silkwing carefully. Vesp pulled through and sat beside her. "What do we do?"
"They should be easy to get through, after all, silkwings aren't the fighting type." Flame growled, slipping to the next cauldron. "They don't look normal, what if they're different then they should be?" Vesp whispered to Flame, slightly worried.
"Silkwings are silkwings. They're stupidly weak-" Flame paused, turning to the others to see if they heard. "Take them out of here, I won't need much help..." Flame nudged Vespiquen. "You might want to rethink that-" Vesp peeked over the cauldron, seeing Yellowjacket enter with many hivewing guards. "Change of plans," Flame hissed.
"You distract them while I get the orb." Flame shoved a leafwing out that had followed them to the cauldrons. The leafwing squeaked, jumping up to fly away. "Get that leafwing, you fools!" Yellowjacket barked, shoving a hivewing forward to retrieve the leaf dragon. Flame leaped behind each cauldron, eagerly getting closer to her target- the orb. 
She crouched down, ready to pounce at Wasp's dangling head. To decapitate her own family... her full blood relatives. Even if Wasp acted like a piece of s***ty, dry monkey-dung... Flame thought, pulling closer, still in her crouch position. 
Yellowjacket made way to her sister's head to retrieve the orb, quickly. Flame pounced, pulling the dead hivewing's head off the stake, forcing out the orb. "MORE INTRUDERS!" Yellowjacket screeched, confused and anger hinted in her voice. "Oh, you wanted this?... Here! Have your DEAR sister back!" Flame smirked, roughly throwing Wasp's head at Yellowjacket before leaping away. 
"Get the orb back!" The hive queen snapped, the hazy-eyed silkwings all turning to Flame. "Can't you do an inch of camel spit for yourself? Or does this make you lazy," Flame grinned as she shoved away attacking silkwings. 
A silkwing pounced, pushing her down and clawing at her neck. Flame tried to force the silkwing off, though it was roughly to strong... even for a silkwing. 
"I thought silkwings were sweet? Guess this leads to the path of hell, doesn't it?" Flame blasted her fire breath in the silkwing's face, melting their face and eyes. The silkwing shrieked, talons of their eyes. "Sorry to blind you, not sorry." Flame slammed the silkwing to the ground and sliced open their chest before forcefully biting and throwing the butterfly dragon away. 
"Give up or get lit up!!" She snarled, lighting her tail barb on the hivewing heads. Yellowjacket aimed for escape as everything lit in flames, Flame pinning her to the floor aggressively. "Guess this is a blazing hope for you, isn't it? Prepare for those lit hopes!!!!" She tore her talons into Yellowjacket's scales, her hollow cries echoed as Flame threw the bug dragon's sizzling, scale-ripped body into the flames and leaping for cover in the tunnel. 
== Chapter Ⅴ -- Running ==
Flame walked ahead of the rest, entering the forest where the leafwing's village is. "Flame," Vesp stepped up next to her, looking stern and disappointed. "You killed Yellowjacket and basically set all of the leafwings, silkwings, and hivewing free... but..." 
"It doesn't matter, hybrid, I have the stupid orb! Killing Yellowjacket was just a bonus..." Flame growled, beginning a quick trotting pace. The leafwings that managed to escape were falling behind, though it wasn't like very many did make it. "Hurry it up! The faster you all get to your stupid village the faster I can get off this f***ing island!!" Flame barked.
Flame stopped, forcing the rest to bump into her tail. "Do any of you smell... smoke?" Flame growled lowly as Vespiquen stepped beside her. He raised his snout to the sky, his nostrils flared as black clouds swirled above them. Smoke...? Flame thought, her eyes following toward the forest. "THE CAMP!" A leafwing shrieked, running around her and into the forest. 
Flame an Vespiquen exchanged glances before running toward the camp's direction. Flame's eyes widened as fire caked the village, eating away at it with blazing flare. 
"Marble is still in there!" Vesp snapped turning toward Flame. "We have to save her!!" Save her? Why does she deserve it, she threatened us- you! The voice rang in Flame's ear as she stood there, watching the camp burn down into a fury of bright orange. She shook her had before leaping in, the fire licking at her talons. 
NOO!! The voice rattled in her brain, pounding against her skull. 
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