Wings of Fire: book 17 The Hidden Cave

== Chapter 1 ==
Queen Olm was... Confused. her emotions were messed up. Limestone, her sister, had been destroying her eggs for the past few feasts, Olm wanted to be a good queen for her whole tribe but didn't know exactly what to do which is why the previous Queens were in her head trying to boss her around, and one of Olms nieces, Stalagmite, had just fought to protect her eggs and found out that they're mother had been the one destroying them. 
Olm had anger, worry, and sadness all ringing around in her head. 
Olm wanted to hurt Limestone so badly but she couldn't bring herself to do it in front of Stalagmite. What do I do? Olm thought. if I kill her the response will be worse than the response from banishing Stalagmite. Won't it?
"Ok then lets ask Stalagmite. Did you need a better life, am I a bad queen?" Olm said, sounding way more angry than she wanted it to sound.
"What. Me. I." Stalagmite said worried.
Limestone and Olm didn't say anything, waiting for a response. 
"I choose Queen Olms side." Stalagmite said, her voice shaking slightly. 
"ok then. Limestone, I" Olm said, thinking, what should I do? "banish you from the caves." 
Olm could imagine how sad Stalagmite must have been but it was the right thing to do wasn't it? as slow sad talonsteps went farther away from them and closer to the tunnel a large splash echoed through the caves as Olm and Stalagmite went to feast. She had already finished and was now waiting for everyone else to finish. Should I go talk to the old queens? no all they do is tell me what to do. Well Igneous is cool. Igneous was one of the older Queens she could stand. Igneous didn't yell that much, unlike the other ones and they got along. 
But her mom, Salamander on the other talon was way to harsh. The other queens names she could barely remember. Is it better to be remembered but mean or not remembered and boring? Maybe I can sneak off and talk to Igneous. she thought. Olm had snuck off a few times to go talk with the queens during feasting but it rarely happened. What will happen when I die? I don't want to be alive forever talking to the queens if they need help. I could see myself being rude to new queens if I was stuck like they were. 
Olm kind of felt sorry for the previous queens but they still shouldn't be rude to her. 
When the last dragon finished feasting, Olm went up to the previous queens. Through her room and into the peak of her palace, she listened for any old arguing skeletons. There it was. Salamander was screaming at the other dragons and Igneous was nowhere to be heard. it was weird talking to the queens, as she was the only one who could hear them and when she heard them it didn't echo of the walls and give her an image of the palace. It was all in her head, though she could only hear them in this room it disappeared when she left. 
"Igneous?" Olm said, hopeful.
"oh not this again." the distinct angry voice of Salamander, hissed.
"hey don't be so harsh on her. Do you need anything." Igneous said through the chattering dragons.
Some gift. She thought the only queens who talked to her were her rude mom and Igneous. The rest of the queens just talked to the eachother and didn't listen to her. Why can the queens do this if it doesn't help.
"um, not really I just wanted to talk to you." Olm said.
"Well that's just fine. What would you like to talk about?" Igneous said politely, Salamander groaning.
"Well, I don't know. I don't know what to do next." Olm said.
"you can always swim. That was my favorite activity growing up. I would help my mum fish and we would eat it during feasts." Igneous said.
"I used to be productive and expand our territory, gather food, I was the most valued dragon in my day and now my useless daughter is doing what? being nice? well being nice won't get you anywhere." Salamander said.
"Hey!" Igneous said.
"Well I had to banish Limestone so was that very nice." Olm said.
"You did what!" Salamander said.
"she was destroying my eggs. I had to." Olm said.
"well that was the right thing to do. any dragonet of yours would be a terrible leader." Salamander hissed. "I raised you better than this."
well this isn't going anywhere. she thought. "well it was nice talking again but maybe later." she said sarcastically, leaving the room. The Queens room was always her favorite. it was her own space and nobody else's, and it was very big. It had lots of room to walk, there where little bumps on the wall that one of the Queens thought would be useful. They would say something like "this will revolutionize communication." Olm was pretty sure it wouldn't despite the Queen, at the time, telling us about how we could pass down knowledge and tell stories. Nobody could read the bumps but maybe if she asked that specific Queen she could learn.
leaving her room and entering the feasting room her idea of the caves became more clear. she could see all the dragons and houses, whereas in the top layers she could not.
"Stalagmite!" Olm said.
A dragon came rushing over to her. Probably Stalagmite. Another pair of talonsteps came as well. Probably Stalagmites sister Stalactite.
"Yes your majesty?" Stalagmite asked.
"can you tell me about everything up on the surface." Olm said curious and with nothing better to do.
"um, sure. It's pretty open and has a lot of pillars. It's also really warm and weird, Like the water moves fast and the ground is kind of spiky." Stalagmite said hesitating a bit. "there are also other dragons up there that aren't cavewings." She said hesitating again. "and they can... see." 
== Chapter 2 ==
"There are other tribes," Olm said. "and they can see." she added although she was more worried about the other tribes part. 
"You sound way less worried than I expected." Stalagmite said.
"Wait what! This is crazy, and Amazing. We need to go meet them. We could be friends." Stalactite said excitedly.
"Hey not so fast we don't know anything about these dragons. What if they decide to attack us. We can't just barge onto their land and expect them to like us. We need to earn there respect and then we can start being friends, and helping one another." Olm explained.
"Something tells me they will be easy to befriend but we can save that for when we go to meet them." Stalagmite said.
"If we go to meet them." Olm said under her breath. 
"I can show you where they are I've been there." Stalagmite said trying to convince her.
"OH! can I come to." Stalactite said.
"Maybe, but you'll have to ask Olm." Stalagmite responded.
"She can come. I don't see why not." Olm said.
"What! So you are leaving." Troglobite said. "can I come too."
Olm hadn't realized Troglobite had been listening and was startled, saying. "Hey, don't sneak up on me like that. And no it's to dangerous."
"Wait so your saying me and Stalagmite can come but Troglobite can't because it's 'to dangerous'." Stalactite said. "seems like you don't care about your nieces."
"What, I do I just wasn't thinking. Olm objected.
As Olm, Stalagmite, Stalactite, and Troglobite walked towards the exit tunnel she thought, is this a good idea? What if they don't like us? What if they want to get rid of us? They can see, what if they turn us down before they know us just because we look weird?
Plunging into the water leading to the tunnel, Olm continued to think about it but Stalagmite said they would be easy to befriend so lets hope she's right. Out of the water and into the tunnel twisting towards the surface they didn't make a sound. Are they second guessing themselves. Olm thought.
Creeping up the tunnel and into the burning light that was everywhere on the surface, she heard rushing water, chirps, and rustling of the canopy atop all the pillars, of which dotted across the landscape in almost every direction.
"So where are they?" Olm asked.
"Um, we just go forward passed the flowing water and into the rainforest. It's really warm and humid in there so just a heads up." Stalagmite said.
Olm heard talons brush though the spikes, which were everywhere on the surface as well, and splash into the water. Olm Followed, hearing more splash's from troglobite and Stalactite. The water was warm which was weird. It also rush by them, like a falling stalactite. she could barely see anything. There where pillars ahead and it was mostly flat but had a giant sloping wall behind them. walking through the warm water, they reached the other side and stopped under the pillar to ease the burning from the air.
"how could there be dragons up here? It's horrible." Troglobite asked.
"well they're used to it and think it's nice. I bet if they were in the caves they wouldn't like it." Stalagmite said.
As they continued walking to more shade, Olm could see what she thought was the 'rainforest'. All it was was a lot of pillars. how could something that provided shade be hot?
Going into the rainforest was like getting hit with a giant boulder that fell from the ceiling, Except less painfull. It sucked and wasn't fun. But it didn't hurt. Chirps, buzzing, and other strange noises filled the rainforest and it didn't even give her a good image of it. 
Walking through the rainforest took forever and was, very unpleasant. Stalagmite screeched giving everyone, except Stalactite, a good image of where they were.
There were pillars everywhere providing useless shade and hiding spots for any attackers. 
"I know where we are." Stalagmite said, flying into the air. 
Everyone followed and they found themselves in a large sphere with dragons on soft beds of rainforest ceiling. "Hello. I'm back with my queen, the queens dragonet, and my sister."
Was it a trap? Was she conspiring with the strange dragons? Did she say she came back with the Queen like she was telling them to lock her up or was it her imagination.
Talonsteps creeped closer and closer to them until a dragon said. "Oh hey Stalagmite, we thought you left."
"No. Well yes but I came back. My queen was hoping to talk to glory." Stalagmite explained.
"Oh. Ok I can go tell her." The dragon said. "Melon! I'm going to tell Glory Stalagmites back!"
"I heard. You don't need to yell." Melon said. 
"Thanks Mango." Stalagmite said before mango went to go tell Glory they were here.
"are you sure this is a good idea?" Troglobite asked.
"It's fine. nothing bad will ha..." Stalagmite said before being cut of by Troglobite saying. "I was asking mo... Olm."
A pair of talons wrapped around Olms arm and she pulled away. "Oh, sorry. I thought you where Stalagmite." Stalactite said.
She can't see and she's out in a place completely new to her, with dragons everywhere, that can see and could be looking at her without her knowing. Of course she's going to be scared and want to hold her sisters hand. Olm thought feeling sorry for her.
Wingbeats came closer to them and landed on the platform. "you know I have a room to talk. We don't have to meet up here every time you come over." a new voice, probably Glory's said.
"Hey, sorry. This is our first time and I was wanting to talk to you." Olm said. 
"Sure." Glory said. "private or with others nearby." 
Privately? Why?
"Um we can talk here." Olm said.
"What were you wanting to talk about?" Glory asked.
what am I here to talk about? "um we could trade resources, or not go to war." Olm said. "I'm just here to get on the surface's good side."
"well you'll need to talk to a few more queens if you want to ally with every tribe on the surface. There are lots tribes on this continent and a few on another, and there could be tribes we haven't even discovered yet." Glory said.
"What! How am I supposed to protect my dragons if I can't befriend every queen? Even if I ally with half of them there is still a chance of war. Your saying I can't be a good queen!"
== Chapter 3 ==
The thought of failing the all the cavewings was even more uncomfortable than the moist rainforest air trying to seep into her scales. Why can't thing be simple. I wish I hadn't banished Stalagmite and didn't have to worry about these thing.
"Hey don't scream. Olm is just a bit stressed and wants to keep her tribe safe." Stalagmite said.
Oh great. They're giving away my name. Olm thought.
"I can understand that. I have to watch over two tribes but I make it through." Glory said, calmly.
"What should we do?" Troglobite asked.
"Don't even Deathbringer!" Glory called.
They really are here to kill us.
"What? I was going to tell them what I would do." Deathbringer said.
"You've been here the whole time?" Stalactite said shocked.
"Yes, I'm the queens body guard." He said.
"Self appointed body guard. I don't need protecting." Glory said. 
Deathbringer stomped and sent a wave off into the pillars. When it came back Olm realized someone had been spying on them. They where curled up on a tree not far from the infirmary. Olm flew into the sky and charged towards them. Olm saw them flinch before she pinned them to the hard rough pillar. 
"How could you see me? I was camouflaged." a dragon said.
What? Olm thought, hearing Wingbeats flying towards them. 
"How did you now they were there?" Deathbringer said.
"Your stomp. It showed me that this dragon was spying on us." Olm said.
"let him go." Glory said, before Deathbring asked. "They were invisible, you don't have eyes. How did you see them?"
"Well I didn't see them. It was more like... Listening carefully." Olm said letting go of the scared dragon.
"It's called echolocation. It lets us see and know what's around us." Stalactite said.
"Well most of us." Troglobite said with a giggle.
Olm smacked him with her wing and stalagmite said. "it's kind of hard to see in the rainforest but in the caves it's much better."
"Could you show me the caves?" Glory asked.
"Sure." Olm said, grumpily.
As they flew towards the caves, pillars, dragons, and strange chirping things flew by as they reached the river and passed that, the cave. Olm, Stalagmite, Stalactite, Troglobite, Glory, and Deathbringer all landed at the entrance to the cave. Walking through the tunnel the chatter of cavewings slowly echoed up the tunnel through the small bat entrance, cold air settling into her scales. 
Walking down the tunnel the chattering became louder. Jumping into the water she heard five more splashes behind her as she swam through the underwater part of the tunnel her image of the caves distorted and changed until she emerged at the other side, hearing the chatter and noise to it's full extent. As the others flew out of the water Glory covered her ears. Or was that Deathbringer? 
"It's so loud and cold. It's so dark not even a seawing could see in here." Glory said. "How do you live with this every day."
"Well it helps us see. Up on the surface it's so dull, I can't see half the time." Olm said.
A loud crackling sound came from Deathgringer and heat crept along Olms scales. "Thanks Deathbringer." Glory said.
"What? What's going on? He's not doing anything." Troglobite asked.
He's right I don't see him doing anything. He just opened his mouth. Olm thought.
"He's breathing fire so we can see and so it isn't as cold." Glory said. 
"Fire? What's that?" Olm asked.
Glory didn't respond either because she didn't want to answer or because she didn't hear her. 
"Can I touch it?" Olm asked, confused.
"What? No don't touch it. It'll burn you." Glory said.
"Oh." Olm said. "Then what do you do with it."
"You can cook food, light the way, burn people." Glory explained.
"well don't burn any of my dragons." Olm said.
What does cook mean? Cook food? If it can burn someone than it must be burning the food. Why would you want to do that. Who would eat warm food.
"Every thing in here is so bland and grey." Glory said. 
"what about the lake?" Stalactite asked.
Glory and deathbringer walked towards the lake and she said. "It's a lake. I don't know. I mean it casts reflections onto the roof of the cave but It's normal." 
Bats flew in through the entrance and she heard dragons snatch a few from the air as Glory talked about the caves. "Where do you even live?"
"In the walls but me and m... Olm live in the palace. It's quieter in there." Troglobite said.
"In the walls?" Glory said under her breath as they walked around the lake and towards Olms massive palace near the back of the cave.
Every once in a while Deathbringer would stop breathing fire when in big groups of dragons indicated by no more crackling but then he'd continue after they passed.
"That's quite ominous." Glory said as they reached the palace.
As they walked into the feasting room they walked to the back of the room to Olms chair and up into Olms room.
"What's up there?" Glory asked trying to hide her discomfort.
"Oh, nothing." Olm said scared noticing Stalagmite started to shake. Is my room really that bad? I don't think it's that bad. none of my dragons can see so I never thought to decorate, it's not my fault.
"Do you like my room?" Olm asked.
"It's... bland. Underwhelming. Do you never decorate or even add texture to the wall so It's more interesting to look at?" Glory asked.
Ouch. Olm thought.
"Well I can't see so I never thought to decorate." Olm said kind of upset.
"Can you at least give us a hint of what's up there?" Troglobite asked.
"What no it's only for the queens beside you wouldn't be able to do anything with it." Olm said.
"So there is something up there?" Glory said.
"What no, only I can use it so just don't go up there." Olm said.
Oh stop talking Olm! What if they find out I have skeletons in the top level of my palace. They'll think your the one who killed them.
== Chapter 4 ==
"ok" Glory said.
It took Olm a little while to understand what Glory was talking about and when she figured it out deathbringer stopped fire breathing and said "can we go back up now?"
"Oh sure." Olm said, tapping Troglobite, Stalagmite, and Stalactite with her tail hoping they would now to go with them.
All the dragons in her room jumped down to the feasting room and out of her palace. Walking along the cavern floor Olm and the others walked past Parading cavewings, dodged stalagmites, and plunged into the water at the entrance to the caves. Should I check on my eggs? No they aren't due till the next few feasts.
Emerging on the other side Glory and Deathbringer took deep breaths of air like a stalactite had fallen on them and put a large hole in there airways. Olm Walked up the tunnel and reached the surface feeling the burning surface air engulf her. Her Idea of what her surroundings looked like somewhat disappeared and all she could see was the wall behind them and the spiked floor below them. 
"good luck with the other tribes." Glory said, flying away.
Did I get on her good side? They won't attack us will they?
"What now?" Stalactite asked.
"Well there are lots more tribes so we can go look for them." Olm said.
"Can I go back inside?" Stalactite asked.
"Me too this is more boring than I thought." Troglobite said.
"Maybe I can practice echolocating!" Stalactite told her sister.
"Good luck with that." Troglobite said.
"Hey stop I can help her." Stalagmite said.
"If you all want to go back you can but Stalagmite make sure my eggs and Troglobite aren't harmed." Olm said.
"Ok." Stalagmite said as Troglobite flew into the tunnel.
I can trust Stalagmite. She's old enough to keep my baby safe. Olm though as Stalagmite and Stalactite walked down the tunnel. Why couldn't limestone be a sister like that.
When Olm and Limestone were dragonets Limestone would hit her face on a wall and Salamander would get really mad at Olm cause Limestone figured out how to mimic Olms voice just enough even though it sounded nothing like her. Proof Salamander didn't pay enough attention to her dragonets. Why couldn't Salamander have been a better mother and Queen. The tribe was in shambles when Olm took over, she also got angry when thing weren't perfect which is why she got mad at Olm because limestone hurt her face, and she barely feed anyone. She got most of the food and the lower class dragon would barely anything. Not enough to fill a dragons stomach anyway. She never tried to do anything cause one dragon would barely scratch the caves perfect walls. It was weird she never got rid of the bumps that one queen had thought would be a way to write. Maybe she saw something in it when no one else could, and if so why couldn't Olm see it.
"Where to look first?" Olm thought aloud. 
The surface had fallen eerily quite, the only noise being the rush of the water flowing through the surface. Olms scales started to burn so she flew to a nearby pillar. A wall is behind me and I already met glory and deathbringer. Maybe I can fly over the wall Olm thought.
Flying through the burning rays of surface air hurt after about thirty seconds of flying. As she ascended the sloped wall hoping to get over soon. The tall sloped wall took forever to get over she was burning up and considering turning around, but then she screeched trying to see how much longer it would take and she had already past the top. The other side of the wall was just another jagged slope that creeped downward toward the ground. 
Flying down was much easier, and the air rushing past somewhat cooled her down though she was still extremely uncomfortable. reaching the bottom which took way less time than expected she felt a weird soft, no not soft. What is this? Olm thought pressing her talons into the grainy turf on this side of the surface.
It was hot and arid unlike the pillars. There it was hot but still humid. Here it was just blistering heat. Olm walked along the edge of the area staying close to the slope hoping for an easy escape route in case things got too dangerous. The surface was usually more noisy than this. Nothing made a noise not even her talonstep, she had to keep a claw touching the slope at all times so she didn't wander off and She didn't want to make noise cause that would alarm any dragons.
Olm could feel the heat going away and in it's place came a cool air that made her want to lay down and nap from being in the heat almost all day, but she had to keep going. To find more Queens.
Walking across the grainy floor on this side of the surface was weird. She could move it like water but didn't sink into it unlike with water. She probably could sink into it if she tried, but why.
Keeping one claw on the slope she heard chatter of nearby dragons.
Flying towards the chatter she found herself at a sort of village like hers but not in the walls. These where sprouted out of the ground and had pathway leading to more houses and she could even see the path turn from where she was. She could see dragons facing her probably talking about how weird she looks or how she doesn't belong. Stepping onto the path she tilted her head at the buildings as if investigating them even though she could have investigated from looking in any direction. Some dragons had bigger wings than others and some have weird things at the ends of theirs tails she noticed looking in the opposite direction proving a point to no one.
"Do you have a Queen?" Olm asked one of the random civilians with a weird tail.
"Um, yeah? She's not here though." he said confused.
Walking down the path she looked for some of the weird tailed dragons that might tell her about their queen. Dragons walked about the village and many coming out of their house's. Is there and event happening? Kind of like feasting.
Olm was walking along the path next to a row of buildings, that seemed to stretch for miles, when a dragon walked out of there house and bumped into her. Something about them made her feel uncomfortable and like it wasn't right, something Salamander would have tried to fix immediately. 
"Oh, sorry." he said holding out a talon.
Olm got up and said, "you got some nerve messing with a queen."
"I was trying to help you, I held out my talons, I would have helped you up. You don't look like a queen." He said.
"What? How? I look queenly enough." Olm said.
"Queen of what? Queens usually have like jewels or rings. Something fancy to show their wealth." He said.
"Why would someone wear their wealth? That's just a waste. Imagine all the things you could pay for I you didn't wear it." Olms said ignoring his first question.
All of a sudden Olm felt like not arguing with him anymore, she actually kind of liked him. But why?
"Did you do something?" Olm asked.
"Um. no." he said with the same voice limestone used when Olm figured out she had destroyed her eggs.
"Don't lie to me." Olm said trying to feel something other than happy near him.
All of a sudden she didn't want to ask anymore questions. She had a lot of them but she didn't want to ask any of them, Despite asking previously.
What is going on? "Hey." Olm said.
The dragon groaned and said "yes?"
What do I say. I'm not going to ask anymore questions, so what now? Olm thought before saying "My name is Olm."
"Um, I'm Cactus." Cactus said, before walking into the crowd of dragons that was now around them.
== Chapter 5 ==
Olm was confused, again. She had so many questions and couldn't ask them. That was one of her questions. Why don't I ask questions? When she tries to ask she can't. She also likes this dragon named Cactus, and they've practically never met. He just makes her happy, for no reason! Before she hadn't liked him but then in the middle of their conversation she just started liking him.
Walking into the crowd of dragons that had gathered for what Olm thinks is an event, Olm looked for Cactus hoping for answer even though she's pretty sure she won't be able to ask any of the questions she has.
The noise has grown since her conversation with Cactus and she had been watching him walk through the pool of dragons but eventually lost him. Almost all the dragons where the same, most had weird tails but there were a few with normal tails and big wings. 
Olm was about to ask a dragon if they had seen a dragon named cactus but something stopped her. Maybe if it's not a question I will be able to say it. 
Cactus? She tried to say but it didn't work. 
"Hey cactus." Olm said. 
It worked! Yes. Olm thought to herself excitedly.
Why am I even looking for Cactus. The happy feeling when around him that wasn't there before? No, I want answers but I can't ask any questions, so what do I want to say?
Dragons walked past her and took a right heading to a bridge floating over the water. Out in the open Olm flew into the air hoping to find a dragon outside the crowd that might be Cactus, but couldn't. Olm wanted to call him a coward for hiding in the large group of dragons walking towards the bridge but couldn't bring herself to do it. Why? Why do I like him? What is wrong with me?
Flying towards the ground Olm landed and waited near Cactus's house. Are they dancing? Olm thought seeing them find a buddy and start spinning around. This is a special event. Or something like it.
Olm waited and waited and waited until all the dragons stopped and came back to their houses to probably get some rest. Olm saw a dragon walk in her direction, probably Cactus.
"Why are you here." Cactus said.
"I have a lot of Questions, Cactus." Olm said trying to sound tough but her happy thoughts showed through.
"Oh no." Cactus said.
"I can't ask anything. Nothing!" Olm said.
"Oh, um. I forgot about that sorry." Cactus said, walking into his house.
Olm wanted to say, you forgot! So you did this?, but she couldn't ask questions so all she would have said was, you forgot, and that would probably have sounded stupid.
Olm walked into his house and said "fix it." cause she couldn't say can you fix it.
"Ok. I get rid of every enchantment I ever put on Olm." Cactus said.
All of Olm emotions came back. Now she was angry at Cactus, instead of being happy. "Why did you do that? How did you do that?"
"I'm an animus, I can cast spells which is why when you where arguing with me I enchanted you to like me and stop arguing with me. Then you started asking questions so I enchanted you to stop asking questions." Cactus said.
"You can't just use magic to make other dragons do things!" Olm said angrily
"Well it's easier." Cactus said.
"What! That's not an excuse." Olm said.
"I will enchant you if you keep this up." Cactus said.
'Oh yeah. Like what." Olm said.
"Anything." cactus said.
"Ok, what do you do with your magic?" Olm asked.
"I don't know I kind of just keep it a secret. I will tell somebody if they ask enough but I don't go stampeding through the streets yelling, I'm magic." Cactus said.
Olm almost laughed, before saying, "what have you enchanted?"
"I've enchanted you twice but got rid of everything. I enchanted a couple dragonflame cactus's to not explode, I think they look nice. I've enchanted a necklace to make the wearer impossible to harm. I've also enchanted myself to like dragon more easily. I used to not trust anyone because of my terrible parents and nobody liked me, so I made it easier to make friends I guess." Cactus finished.
"Oh, that's, why would you do that?" Olm asked.
"Like I said it's easier." Cactus responded.
"But your forcing yourself to like me. Isn't that a little weird or uncomfortable?" Olm asked
"Well I've gotten used to it by now so not really." Cactus answered.
Olm kind of liked Cactus even without his spell. She felt sorry for him and would like to help but in his eyes nothing was wrong.
leaving his house, Cactus followed. "why are you following me?" Olm asked.
"Well your cool. I think." Cactus said. "do you have any plans."
"I was going to ask all the queens to not go to war with us and stuff but I might head back to the caves." Olm said.
"Oh cool. Can I come?" Cactus asked.
"I don't think you'd like it, I mean Glory didn't." Olm said.
"Well we'll see." Cactus said.
Olm took of flying into the sky, Cactus following her. Flying over the slope like before took a while but it didn't burn for now, Flying down the other side, quick and easy. Olm landed and placed one talon on the slope walking in the direction of the caves. Cactus grabbed something as they approached the tunnel and walked down. Cactus breathed fire on the object he had grabbed and continued walking down before they heard chatter and reached the pool they used to enter the caves. They jumped in, the fire gone and the chatter distorted in the water, before leaping out and into the caves. The noise was extremely loud even for her being on the surface for so long. Cactus lit the object again and walked along the path dodging any cavewings who were to close to the fire. As they reached the palace they jumped up to Olms room where a dragon was standing next to Troglobite, Stalagmite, and Stalactite.
"Hello sister I see you've brought a friend." Limestone said, grabbing troglobite and putting a stalagmite to his neck.
"Who are they?" Cactus asked.
"Stalagmite, Stalactite? Why?" Olm asked.
"She said we had to come with her or she would hurt troglobite." Stalacite said.
Troglobite didn't say anything but she could see him hyperventilating. 
"Give me the throne or you both get it." She said pointing the stalagmite at Troglobite and Olm.
"Ok just hand him over and I will give it to you." Olm said. 
Limestone shoved troglobite towards them. "you were never fit to be queen just like mother said."
Olm jumped towards her and bit Limestones shoulder. Would anyone like it if I killed Limestone. They would like it better than having her as a queen. Will Cactus like me though?
Limestone jabbed at Olm with the stalagmite she broke off the floor. Scratching at Limestones face Olm felt a stab on her underbelly.
Falling off Limestone Olm looked at her wound, the stalagmite had stabbed her in the stomach. Troglobite ran over to her.
"No. No, you can't go. Please stay here." Troglobite said.
"I enchant this Stalagmite to go kill limestone." Cactus said.
The Stalagmite lifted out of her wound and flew towards Limestone. 
Cactus ran towards Olm as well and Stalagmite and Stalactite stood in the center of the room in shock.
Before anything else happened she closed her eyes and felt a jab of pain.
== Chapter 6 ==
When Olm opened her eyes she saw nothing she heard everything though. She heard screams of pain from limestone getting beaten by the Stalagmite she had used to kill Olm. She heard troglobite saying "No, Come back." She heard Stalagmite's talons clatter as she walked in circles wondering who to go too, and she heard. "OLM!" from Salamander.
Even though there was a lot of noise she couldn't see anything. 
"What Salamander!" Olm said.
"You finally lost. You even brought down your sister. But you don't have any daughters. You've ruined everything! There won't be a queen to lead our tribe because of you." Salamander said.
All the other queens where listening intently and didn't make any sound unlike when she would ask for help. Not even Igneous was talking this time.
"You've destroyed our chance at a future Olm." Slamander said. "I always knew Limestone would be a better queen but she was too soft. She loved me and that's what made you queen. Both of my daughters are useless."
"You can't say that! You were the worst queen this tribe ever had!" Olm yelled. "You barely fed anyone. You barely did anything but yell at dragons because they weren't your idea of perfect. But they were perfect you just had to look deeper." 
"Then why are you and your sister dead." Salamander hissed, before her senses came back.
Olm now couldn't hear anything. Not the chatter of dragons outside, or Limestone screaming, or even Salamander's tough voice. 
She sat up and Troglobite pounced on her cheerfully. "your ok!" he said, hugging her tightly.
"What happened?" Olm said.
"I healed your wound and saved you." Cactus said.
"No I don't deserve this." Olm said. "If the only thing keeping me here is magic I don't belong here."
"What but your the Queen" Cactus said. "Don't you need to help your tribe and stuff?"
"Probably but my time has already passed." Olm remarked. "I shouldn't be here. I will go back to that village with you and Troglobite will be king."
"What!" everyone said.
"But I need your help." Troglobite said.
"You'll be perfect Troglobite. I promise" Olm said.
As the new king, Stalagmite, and Stalactite stayed in the room, Olm jumped down to the feasting room with Cactus.
Flying out across the cave was nice and it would probably never happen again as Olm plunged into the water and up the tunnel. Cactus and Olm walked up the tunnel and over the mountain as the heat came back to the surface once again.
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