Wings of Fire AU (400 years later) (Temporary name - I think)

== Tribes ==
=== IceWings: ===
The IceWing royal family has distant LeafWing ancestry, thanks to Snowfall marrying Hazel.
Residence: Ice Kingdom (Pyrrhia), Scattered around (Pantala)
=== MudWings: ===
The MudWings have slightly thinner snouts, paler colors, and their Mud-Rain (LilypadWings), Mud-Hive (MosquitoWings), and Mud-Leaf (HorsetailWings) hybrid subtribes have been forced into servitude by the MudWings and Leaf-Hive subtribe/tribe AphidWings.
Residence: Mud Kingdom (Pyrrhia), Mud Pit (Pantala, ground level)
=== NightWings: ===
The majority of the rainforest is home to NightWings now, thanks to the near-wiping-out of the RainWing tribe. Their queen is still a RainWing, though that queen has roots in many other tribes, as well.
Residence: Rainforest Kingdom (Pyrrhia), Rainforest Section (Pantala, Poison Jungle)
=== RainWings: ===
There is a RainWing queen with distant and not-so-distant NightWing, SeaWing, IceWing, and LeafWing blood, starting with Glory marrying Deathbringer and continuing with her daughter and future queen marrying a SeaWing. A few generations later, another future RainWing queen married a LeafWing, and her granddaughter married another NightWing, and her great-granddaughter married another SeaWing. Her granddaughter married an IceWing, and then the rest married RainWings all the way down to the parents of the current queen.
Residence: Rainforest Kingdom (Pyrrhia), Rainforest Section (Pantala, Poison Jungle)
=== SandWings: ===
Thorn’s great-granddaughter (Sunny’s granddaughter), Sunshine, was challenged by Onyx's granddaughter, Palm II. Palm won, and, being a descendant of Queen Oasis, has now returned the original royal blood to the throne.
Residence: Kingdom of Sand (Pyrrhia), Sand Area (Pantala, ground level)
=== SeaWings: ===
Years ago, a small band of SeaWings refused to use their light-up Aquatic scales whatsoever for no known reason. Because of this, their children's Aquatic scales simply couldn't light up at all. Now, about a third of the SeaWings can't light up their Aquatic scales, which makes talking and living underwater much harder.
Residence: Kingdom of the Sea (Pyrrhia), Beetle Lake, Dragonfly Bay (Pantala)
=== SkyWings: ===
SkyWings have animus magic back. It’s in their royal family, and so is SeaWing blood, thanks to a Sky-Sea hybrid animus marrying Queen Ruby’s daughter. The current queen has an animus daughter, and they all show slight hints of SeaWing traits: for instance, the queen can breathe underwater for a few minutes at a time, and the oldest princess has webbed talons. The arena was added back to the castle decades ago, and newer, smarter prisoner towers were re-added.
Residence: Sky Kingdom (Pyrrhia), SilkWing City, various Hives (Pantala)
=== HiveWings: ===
The HiveWings were nearly wiped out by angry SilkWings and LeafWings a century or two ago, and because of recurring attacks from the LeafWings that still hate them, it has been difficult for them to recover.
Residence: Scattered around (Pyrrhia, Pantala)
=== LeafWings: ===
The SapWings’ village (Willow’s part of the tribe) has grown, and they are no longer called SapWings. The PoisonWings (Sundew’s part of the tribe) are not called PoisonWings; they are all called LeafWings. The two parts have joined together (more or less), with some PoisonWings living in what used to be the SapWings' village, and the other way around, with SapWings living in what used to be the PoisonWings' home. Also, the large Leaf/Hive subtribe/tribe, AphidWings, has forced LilypadWings, MosquitoWings, and HorsetailWings (several MudWing hybrid subtribes) to work as their servants.
Residence: Poison Jungle (Pantala), Rainforest Kingdom (Pyrrhia)
=== SilkWings: ===
Their main subtribe, AquaWings, has been forced into servitude under the SilkWings. Also, about a century and a half ago, they began naming themselves after colors instead of moths or butterflies. Most SilkWings live on Pyrrhia, aboveground on webs woven between trees on islands in what used to be the Kingdom of the Sea*, but there is a small, ever-growing group of currently about fifty on Pantala.
Residence: Kingdom of Silk (Pyrrhia), SilkWing City (Pantala)
*The islands have few, if any, SeaWings on them, and put together, they were renamed the Kingdom of Silk.
== Chapter 1 - Ultramarine ==
“Don’t talk to the AquaWings,” Indigo snapped. “They’re nothing but servants. Not enough intelligence in them to fill a scavenger’s head. You’re better off trying to save the HiveWings than talking some smarts into those lowly wet-silk dwellers.” She looked down her snout at the SilkWing-SeaWing hybrid scurrying along the watery silk a little below her.
Ultramarine looked down at the servants. What was it that made them so different from SilkWings? He didn’t understand what his mother, and most of the other SilkWings, thought made them – he decided to think it directly – stupid, almost mechanical dragon servant machines.
At some point, I’ll find out, the SilkWing thought. One day, I’ll be brave enough to directly disobey Mother. But not today. I don’t have enough courage. He sighed.
“What was that about?” his mother asked sharply. Her head turned quickly to face Ultramarine. He met her intense eyes, the color she was named after, for only a moment before looking away.
"Nothing," the dragonet muttered. He noticed an AquaWing standing below them, looking up at Ultramarine's mother. He wasn't sure, but he thought he saw a little curiosity in the hybrid's eyes.
"Lady Indigo! Lady Indigo!" A SilkWing ran up to them. She had a pink snout, head, and tail, fading into lavender on her neck, back, front and back legs, and wings. Her stomach was a pale orange. Mistress Pastel, Ultra remembered. His mother had made him memorize the ranks of nobility: first, queen, and the rest of the royal family. Next, lady, one of the queen's sisters or another dragon appointed by the queen. After that, mistress, a dragon that was less important than ladies, but more than a common civilian. And finally, professor, a dragon slightly more important than a normal citizen, who teaches in schools.
“Yes, Pastel?” Indigo turned her attention to the adult dragon. “Mistress Pastel!” Ultra wanted to shout. But of course, he didn’t. Ladies were higher-ranked than mistresses, so they didn’t have to use their titles.
Mistress Pastel opened her mouth like she thought the same thing as Ultramarine, but then closed it. “Your AquaWing – she’s gone.”
== Chapter 2 - Brightsand ==
"Tails up. Claws ready. Fight!" Brightsand the 4th squeezed her eyes shut as the other SandWings and hybrids imitated the Sky Palace arena. One of the hybrids, a SandWing with a pale blue tail and webbed talons, was put in the position of "healer." This dragon kept a supply of brightsting cacti arms in case one of the dragonets accidentally got scraped by a venomous tail barb.
Hissing and growling sounds filled the air, and against her will, Brightsand peeked her eyes open. A Rain-Sand-Ice tribrid and a regular SandWing were circling each other, their tongues flicking out of their mouths. As the tribrid lunged, Brightsand snapped her eyes closed again. Opening them to slits, she edged her way to the small oasis in the play area and hid behind a palm tree, where she couldn't see the fight.
Brightsand dug next to the palm tree in a certain spot until she felt the paper of a scroll. She drew it out, shook it off, and filled the hole in again.
Brightsand had kept that particular scroll their for only a few days so far, to read when recess got too violent, which was often. Whenever she finished a scroll, she would return it to the school library, check out a few more - some to read in school, some for home, and of course, a new one to bury.
Bright opened to her spot, tugged off the kind-of-sticky, partially dry, sap-dipped stick that the school gave her to use as a bookmark, and started reading.
Rrrrrrrring! Brightsand jumped, then settled down and put her sap stick at her new place - a few feet down from where it used to be. She rolled the scroll up, re-dug the hole, dropped the scroll in, then refilled the hole. She hurried under the white curtain that covered the doorway into the school, down a hallway, and through the archway that led to her classroom.
When she entered, the rest of the class was scratching out words and numbers on pieces of paper. A math assessment, Bright realized. She sat down on her sand-filled cushion made of silk from a flamesilk SilkWing - the kind of flamesilk that was warm, but didn't burn. She dipped a talon into her pot of purpley-blue ink, and neatly wrote the answer to the first question.
She went on like this, carefully reading the questions, then answering them thoughtfully. After twelve more questions, she was finished. She got up and dropped the assessment on the growing pile of paper on her teacher's desk. She sat back down and opened a different scroll.
Ring-ring-ring-ring-rrrrrrring! The bell rang, once again startling Bright. While she and a few others were reading, the rest had transitioned from math to join them without her noticing. She tucked her scroll into the cylinder-shaped hole in the side of her desk, closed the cover on the hole, and flew over to the line. The more wild students ran or flew in crowds out the main entrance of the school, but the more calm ones, including Brightsand, walked or glided more gently.
As soon as she left the school, Brightsand lifted off and beat her wings with strong strokes in the direction of her home. With very distant SkyWing ancestry - her twelve-times-great-grandfather, also named Brightsand - her wings were slightly larger than normal SandWing ones, and her scales had a slight orange tint to them. But unless you were looking closely, she looked like a normal SandWing.
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