Scorched Mud

Beware the Queen,
of flames and fire.
Beware the Ice,
that brings you down.
When refuge,
shall not be common.
Raise your head,
above the rest.
For the MudWing paradise,
is soon refound.
== Prolouge ==
Scarlet tilted her head up to the sky, her cobalt orange scales shone in the morning-sunlight. Her jewellery glimmered.
"Ma-Ma'dam..? D-I-is your jewellery shiny enough...?" Her servant stammered, careful not to anger the somehow non-disturbed queen.
"Yes, darl.. Make yourself useful and grab me more jewels from the treasury, and an unhatched egg to shatter." Scarlet commanded, an unusual soft tone.
Her voice startled the servant, who nodded and galloped off to get the items Scarlet requested.
"Oh, she is so useless. I might just have her die in the arena," Scarlet shrugged, impatiently waiting for the servant to return.
The servant's footsteps grew louder as she approached Scarlet, holding the jewels and an unhatched SkyWing egg. Scarlet looked to the servant, snarled and took everything out of her talons. She embedded the jewels into her scales, and looked to the egg and smiled. She gently placed her talons around the underdeveloped egg. She held the egg up and..
..she slammed the egg onto the castle ledge. A long grin on Scarlet's face emerged. (please do not try this in real life, it's unacceptable human behaviour. In my universe Scarlet is a war-lover so she'd probably kill things.)
The servant gasped before Scarlet turned to her, her looming neck billowed with smoke.
"Tell me guards, I want some MudWings to toy with. I don't care about my alliance, GET ME THE MUDWINGS." Scarlet commanded, scrunching her nose as she looked at the servant's smooth face.
The servant nodded before anxiously walking off, her firey-orange scales dusty with the dirt of her work-field. Scarlet giggled watching the obviously-starved dragon try and run up the hall.
I seriously need to fire her. Scarlet thought, fiddling with all her jewels.
== Part 1: A nest of mud for two ==
Sandfly's wings ached dreadfully, even clay couldn't help this. Grove lied on top of him, even though it should be swapped around because Grove is heavier than Sandfly. Sandfly extended his front talons, feeling the dense mud on his scales. He groaned trying to squirm out of the nest, to no appeal. Grove rolled off of Sandfly's back, allowing the scrawny MudWing to stand up in the mud nest, looking around seeing all the sib groups doing their bonding things. Inside, he felt jealous. Only him and Grove survived the attack...
Why couldn't they have just killed me? He pondered, raising his cranium towards the great blue sky. He took a deep breath, smelling the mud.. and the mud... and the clay.. and the reeds-. Okay this place is boring. He looked at Grove, an gently shook him awake.
"Wuh- Huh?" Grove groaned tiredly, stammering up to meet his younger brother's eyes. "I was having a good dream.." he grunted.
"I have an idea for an adventure, wanna hear it?" Sandfly said excitedly, hopping slightly waiting for his brother's response.
Grove smiled, "I'd love to hear it littlefly." he chuckled.
"So- I was thinking; What if we travel to somewhere.. and do things- and. and.... we- we... we-" Sandfly began to fiddle with his talons, confused on what to say; he was just making this up on the spot. "We form something- and unite all the tribes!" He finally ended his sentence, pretty proud of his sentence.
Grove nodded approvingly, but lied back down to rest again. "After another nap..." he yawned, coiling down into the mud nest.
"No! Wake up you grouch!" Sandfly dove onto Grove, pulling him into the mud that ridges along the gravel walkway.
Sandfly and Grove began to resurface from the mud, looking around to crawl back to their nest shamelessly. Giggling to eachother.
"Okay, okay... Let's do something... risky! And go near the SkyWing kingdom, and be daredevils!" Grove chuckled, expanding his wings to fly.
Both MudWings flew towards the border of the SkyWing kingdom's territory. Landing on a fairly serene ledge. Sandfly looked into the horizon, seeing the bustling arena. It sounded as if a fight was happening, the crowd was wild. Grove tilted his head to the horizon, and Sandfly's ears perked up swiftly. Wingbeats got louder, not one dragon.. a group. Loud, SkyWing wingbeats. Sandfly felt his head get slammed onto the stone, knocking him out. The last words he heard before falling unconscious were "Take them to the castle, Queen Scarlet will be thrilled with our find. Quickly, lets go.."
== Part 2: Toys to the Queen of the sky==
Sandfly awoke in an unfamiliar place, lying on a silk-woven red carpet. He was chained up, a guard held his chain. The short-heighted Queen Scarlet sat on her throne before the pair. A long grin stretched across her snout, she had something to do...
"Go, Tui." Scarlet commanded, her servant quickly ran off to get something. "Well, hello there my new toys. You're going to the arena." Scarlet looked at the MudWings. "Once Tui is back, you're going to fight in my little... sand cemetery."
Tui padded back into the room, with some metal. Sandfly looked to Grove in complete disbelief.
The... arena? Oh... oh dear three moons no.. nonnonononono... I'll die there.. I'll die. I'll die there... Oh.. and Grove.. Sandfly looked to his front talons, distressed. He never was a fighter, he was the gatherer of the group.
Sandfly closed his eyes, and as he opened them he was on a pillar. High in the sky, he peered down into the stadium below. Grove was being brought into the arena to fight. Sandfly was scared for his only brother. Grove was the treasurer. He heard the announcer begin, and the fight was truly started. He crossed his talons hoping Grove would win, but.... He watched the IceWing opponent kill Grove mercilessly. Sandfly had found his reason to escape. He began to claw through his chains, snapping them. He leaped off of his pillar, gliding onto the grasslands unnoticed. As he looked around, he began to find his way back to the MudWing kingdom.
He slowly found his way back to the kingdom, looking at the sib groups. A group of sibs slowly walked towards him.
The largest MudWing reached out a talon to Sandfly. "Hey there, Sandfly right?" The dragon asked. "I'm Acacia, I'm the Bigwings of this group of un-sibs. You're alone, want to join us?"
Sandfly looked shocked, but nodded at Acacia. "Yeah.. my last sib just died in Scarlet's arena." He sighed.
Acacia and the two other dragons looked absolutely bewildered.
"MudWings don't go into Scarlet's arena, we're allies with the SkyWings" The shortest dragon told Sandfly, much to his suprise.
==Part 3: A rest with unfamiliar faces==
"Oh. If you don't mind me asking, what are your names?" Sandfly asked, following the MudWings as they trekked.
"Well- I'm Acacia... You know that, my sibs died during the war. The short one is Possum, her sibs died during their hatching. And the one with a large burn on their side is Anhinga, his sibs abandoned him due to his appearance." Acacia stated, pulling Sandfly closer to the group. "C'mon, tell us a bit about yourself!"
"Well, I'm Sandfly.. Most of my sibs died in the war. But Grove died to an IceWing in Scarlet's arena." His voice drifted off at the end, looking at the mud nests. "Where's the nest we sleep in?" He asked, scanning over the area.
Possum raised and turned her head to Sandfly "Oh, we passed that a few minutes ago. Acacia is taking us to our favourite mud-pool spot. I think you'll like it!" She smiled
Sandfly liked the sound of that, he continued following the group until they finally reached the mud-pool. It was quite murky, meaning it was deep. Possum dragged Sandfly into the pool, beginning to play-fight with him.
Acacia giggled before opening her mouth, "Play nice!" she smiled. Diving into the pool, soaking in the mud.
"mmmmmmmmmm" Sandfly scratched the dirt at the bottom of the pool, and quickly swam back up. Kicking some mud onto Possum's snout.
"Lets go to the nest." Anhinga scampered out of the pool, guiding the group to the nest.
lovely end yes yes !!
== Epilouge ==
Tui breathed heavily, timidly walking into the castle. Her breath made a mark in the snow, why was she just given to Queen Glacier.. as a maid..?
Glacier grinned, opening her wings to greet the skinny SkyWing. "Welcome dear," She nodded, allowing the SkyWing to sit next to the throne. "Don't worry, we pay you."
Tui nodded, atleast she wouldn't be given to the IceWings for 'lEtTiNg OuT a PrIsOnEr' again. She didn't let him out!
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