The poisoned crown

feel free to fix any grammar mistakes you find if it is spelling check with me first.all art unless specified is mine
=== Note I will most likely edit this in a odd order go back in to expand scenes ===
== Prologue—4 years ago ==
“But how can you be? You look just like us! Maybe a little prettier. Maybe a lot.”,willow said. 
“You are Sundew—the one that Queen Sequoia said to bring back if she was seen!” Willow said.she was beautiful. she had warm scales like a a sunflower and graceful wings .dark green dappled leaf like scales like the shadows of long oval leaves. 
”Hold up—Queen Sequoia's still alive?” Sundew said, looking at the beautif ul LeafWing. 
”Yes, and she’s your grandmother?” Willow said, looking dumbfounded. 
“You’re saying I’m royalty?” Sundew asked. 
“Yes, you silly, beautiful dragon," Willow said. She reached out towardsher talons, her talons over hers. 
“Shhhh. You don't have to do anything right this second. Just be here. Breathe.,” she said, opening her wings. 
“Don't you think thump is a terrible word? I mean, that's what most dragons would say our hearts are doing, but it doesn't feelthumpy to me. Pulse doesn't seem right either. Beat sounds too violent. It's not quite tapping. There should be a better word for this.”,willow said 
”for two hearts finding each other?”,she asked her snuggling into her. 
”yes”, she smiled at her. 
“Can you come see me tomorrow night and the night after that and every night after that?” Sundew asked. 
“Of course. I’ll bring you something tomorrow,” Willow said. 
== Chapter 1 ==
Sundew arose from her hammock, still tired from her previous nights meeting with Willow. She grumbled as she got up, and rinsed her face in the water from a nearby pool. Her wings ached from that encounter with the snake last night. She got up and grabbed her pouches, and her horn band with the golden leaves. She examined herself in the mirror for a quick moment before walking towards the main hall. 
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She sat down next to Belladona. Her mother smiled in that horrible grin that Sundew hated. All she could think about was the upcoming mission. She still remembered Willow’s reaction when she told her about the mission. Willow had spent a good 30 minutes crying as Sundew soothed her. She didn’t really want to go on this mission. 
“It’s okay Willow, I will be back before you know it,“ Sundew said, stroking her girlfriend’s head. 
“You don’t have to! Queen Sequoia will welcome you with open wings,” Willow cried into her arms. 
”It’s alright, when we are older, we will be have two dragonets, and they will be named Venus Flytrap and— and— Tree!”, Sundew said 
“We are not naming one of our dragonets Tree, “ Willow laughed. 
”You had something better?”, she laughed. 
“Uh, yes! Oleander or Yarrow “, Willow said. 
” I like the name Oleander,” Sundew said. 
”Sundew get that look off of your face!”, her mother yelled. 
”Sorry“, Sundew hissed sarcastically at her. 
It was too risky, and a little bit too over-the-top for her liking, but she had to do it, for her grandmother, for her tribe, for Willow. This evening she would be leaving. She held the jade frog over her chest. It thumped in sync with her wing beats as they flew. All she could think about was Willow, and her adorable face that was engraved in her mind forever. 
With her last interaction with a Mandrake in the weapon storehouse before leaving, she had yelled at him for being too clingy and close she has shouted. 
Her wings flared as her horn band rubbed against her neck. She took off the gold accessory and placed it in her bag so it wouldn’t annoy her while flying. She normally had no problem with it, but she didn’t want to be caught. It made her look like a gleaming beacon of “look at me! LeafWing royalty here! Come capture me!” 
“Are you are leaf wing royalty ! You need to act like it!”, Belladonna yelled at her. 
”Go eat your name sake”, Sundew shouted back. 
”Ok you two, you need to calm down “, Hemlock shouted back at the two other dragons. The trio landed in the night.wait there can’t just go in the hive, they would be caught immediately. 
”Belladonna we can’t just walk in “,Sundew told her mother . 
”she’s right darling “,Hemlock told Belladonna. 
”the queen’s greenhouse “, Belladonna said reading a sign. 
”we go in their “, Hemlock said. 
”the one question is the queen’s greenhouse why are going in there!”, Sundew said. 
”only the queen can go in there so the queen would go in there”, Belladonna said smiling at her family. 
“We make an opening in the glass “sundew said. 
”excellent idea “,Hemlock said smiling at her daughter. 
”do quick, you two “, said Belladonna . The three moved with quickly to move the glass. The air hit her face.her parents push the glass back into place. She sat down panting. 
”Stop acting like a SapWing!”, Belladonna yelled at her daughter.She glanced at her mother. 
”Like your mother”, Sundew hissed. 
”Who told you about your grandmother!”,Belladonna hissed .oh no she didn’t think about that until she had said it.Willow had told her about her grandmother. 
” I have a right to know who I am!”, she told her mother. 
” Belladonna I told her ”, hemlock said.she looked at her father in shock did he know?he started to play with the sea shell on his neck.that night Sundew’s had chose to sleep in one of the trees closest to the door.she looked out at the hives beyonds, all her enemies were out there. 
== Chapter two ==
She awoke to the sound of voices.
”how did she get that to grow like that?”,said a female voice.Two silk wings and a hive wing.
She walked over to her parents.
”what is a hive wing and two silk wings doing here ?”,she asked. 
“sh I can grab the hive wing”, Hemlock said to the other two leaf wings.her father jumped out of the tree, using her leafspeak to make the vines to in tangle her. it was only a few seconds later, and the wingless blue silk wing came bounding in 
”cricket?!” he shouted with one more quick movement she encircled him in vines. The final silk wing came bounding in yelling at the two yelling at queen wasp.belladonna untied the blue silk wings snout. 
”who are you”, belladonna demanded. 
”They can't help us! They'll turn us in the moment they get a chance! We should kill them now and leave their corpses somewhere that'll really scare those worms in the Hive.”sundew’s interjected, grabbing one of her red centipedes.and held it out towards her mother 
“Sundew, save that for later. Corpses lying around will notify the queen we're here, which would make our mission harder. Remember?”,her mother ordered. Sundew’s glared at her for a brief moment. 
“who are you?” said the silk wing. 
”you have no right to ask us that tree killer!” sundew’s said her father raised his arm, stopping her from from harming the silk wing . 
”this is my daughter Sundew’s I am balladonna and this is my husband Hemlock”,balladonna said. 
”and you probably don’t want to kill us that would probably make the queen happy”, said the Hivewing who had managed to get her mouth unbound. 
”how did you do that?”, sundew’s blurred it out. 
”I have some kind of magic I just wanted to talk with you guys”, she said, dipping her head. 
”don’t hurt cricket she’s one of the only kind a Hivewings there is!”, said the first silk wing. 
”blue stop trying to defend me. It’s the worst thing you can do right now they’ll be sparing towards you maybe but not me”, cricket said. 
”we have a very useful bunch”, belladonna said. 
”and what do you do?”, she asked blue. 
”i’m probably a flame silk he said, looking down at his claws.” 
”excellent what can he do?”, balladonna, said, pointing at the final silk wing. 
”nothing he has contacts in the chrysalis!” cricket, said quickly at the silk wings disapproval. 
”so we can kill him?”, sundew asked. 
”no we’re going to use him as leverage against the other two”, hemlock said. 
”we don’t need them I can do it myself!” sundew pointed out. 
”you can’t get past the door by yourself “, belladonna said. 
”All we want is to level the wind currents.Do you really think it's fair that the HiveWings have had this secret knowledge for so long? That they've abused it to dominate and destroy other tribes? Do you think that's what your precious Clearsight intended? Queen Wasp has already read the whole thing.She probably even has a copy somewhere, unless she's an idiot. We just want to read it, too. Then we'll all know the same things; we'll have the same advance information. The LeafWings won't have anything more than what the HiveWings have had for generations. Equality. That's what we're looking for”, belladonna said turning to the other dragons. 
“In return, we show you where the other flame silks are “, belladonna said. 
”hivewing you and Sundew’s are going in there and will get it for us”, hemlock said. 
”no I can’t do this without my friends!”, crickets, said. 
”No! You don't say no to me, HiveWing! You have no right, after everything your tribe has done to our homes and our dragons!.belladonna said grabbing her by the chin.belladonna suddenly let go ., all of the burn scars on her talons and we’re bleeding slightly. 
“you can be useful, fine one”,balladonna said 
“no I need both “,she said. 
”or we can kill one of them, and make the decision very easy”, belladonna said, trying to grab her again, but deciding against it. 
”I choose blue swordtail can fight but I’m assuming that’s what she’s for”,crickets, said, pointing at Sundew’s 
“Yeah! You'll have ME. That's like the oppositeof being alone. I can do anything twenty dragons can do”,sundew’s cried 
“very well “,balladonna said -Make us proud. Do not fail. Remember this is what you were hatched to do. Remember how evil they are. Let your rage carry you.”belladonna said. 
”now let’s get a move on”, belladonna said, clapping her talons together and then wincing.they grabbed a pair of smaller leaves, which looked like a pair of silk wing wings. 
“she needs antennae!”, cricket, blurted out. 
”well, you do that then”, belladonna hissed. cricket grabbed a twig, and it turned into some sort of makeshift antennae. 
 
== Chapter 3 ==
”here”, cricket, said, passing it to her. I wonder what she can do did she do that a Belladonna? or was the bleeding coincidental. 
”let’s get a move on you take this and whatever you do, do not inhale it!”, sundew’s said.Sundew opened the panel of glass. 
”so that’s how you got inside. I was wondering how you did that because you guys don’t have silk”, cricket said. 
“I can just use my magic to get us inside”, she said.grandest place sundew had been in. 
”No we’re doing it my way.”, sundew’s said. 
” what were you doing out past curfew?”, one of the guards yelled as cricket approached. 
“isn’t it beautiful I haven’t seen anything like it !”cricket said.as the two guards leaned into it.she crushed the flower underneath their noses. She quickly got out of the way. 
”what type of plant is that? Is it related to nightshade?”, cricket asked, and she gave her back the husk of the flower. she ignored cricket. The three walked past a by . enormous marble statue of Wasp Sundew’s couldn’t help but notice the wooden statue of queen wasp, the trees she had never got to meet.she crushed it as a clamor to the floor. 
Blue stepped on her tail “let cricket go first it will be more convincing”, he said. The three walked into a place decorated by numerous weavings of Wasp in a more heavy, ornate way than the leaf wing’s houses not even the her family home.level after level until they were at the up . The Temple was gorgeous all of the wood she guessed by the way, it’s still kept its final thoughts had died, unrelated to the harvesting .during the tree wars we target this.she thought. multiple pools of koi were around the passageways. 
”cricket Sundew’s, neither of us have wristbands! they’re going to catch us!”, blue said she waved him off as she grabbed her blow gun. 
”how many guards “,she asked. 
”two on each entrance, and then three more inside there’s either one more guard, or the library herself”, crickets, said. 
”that would’ve been nice to know in the planning stage!”, she hissed. 
”I forgot I haven’t been here in a while!”, cricket said, dipping her head. cricket in the lead, the three walked in. she quickly got the guards out and they continued on to the next room in the next. 
”hold up the case is going to be locked!”, blue said. 
”then we smash it open or we use some of cricket’s weird magic”,sundew said.sundew’s started to bang on the case but then she realized it was stuck to the ground. 
”little dragons the book of clear sight is not for you”, said a dragon as she emerged from the shadows. The librarian sundew thought. Know that she was in the light. She could see that had scales the color of unripe apricots, marked with a zigzagging triangle pattern of black along her spine . A dark silk veil that shrouds her face 
”you’re a LeafWing! and not just any leaf wing!you are related to Queen Sequoia!”,the she yelled through the hive wing.she should’ve thought of that she should’ve covered her wings with some pigment .As she ripped off the veil, revealing her pale pearl eyes. 
“That's the one way to be sure the Librarian never reveals the Book's secrets. The tribe thinks two dragons share the Book's knowledge — but really, only the queen does, because the Librarian isn't herself anymore.”,crickets, said fidgeting with her necklace, which had a shell in two small bottles of she didn’t know what. 
”and cricket, you really thought our little fight was over? I will have your magic one way or another.”, queen wasp said, reaching out towards cricket in a similar way balladonna had done. she could see the terror in cricket’s eyes.The librarian smiled, or the queen. 
”wait don’t hurt them. I am the flame silk you’ve been after let them go!”, blue said. 
”so I have a trio of dragons that I will have a lot of fun interrogating and torturing followed by execution for one of you!”, the queen laughed. sundew’s grabbed her pouch, which contained her bullet ant and she and she threw it at the queen .The queen caught the ant, crushing it beneath her claws before it could sting her. 
”all of the dragons and wasp hive are coming for you, so I recommend you sit down and except your fate”,the queen laughed.Sundew didn’t know what to do she’s expected I hive wing not a zombie, queen.sundew looked up.to see hundreds of Hivewings beating down on them like a cloud. 
Sundew grabbed her blowgun 
”I’m out!”, sundew yelled.she turned to cricket.she nodded in the matter of a second they were more darts in her talons. 
”that wasn’t what I was thinking, but this works too!”, 
She reloaded and gently touch the pouch where the jade frog sat. 
sundew’s turned to face her opponents, she managed to get five of them out before five more advanced in their places . She lashed out, attempting to fight against them. That was too many . she wrestled one away. The dragons. White eyes glistened as she thought back. One stabbed her in the spine with their nerve paralyzing, stinger enough to make her to stop, moving she was then fit it in, handcuffs, and muzzled a second Pinned her down her wingsOne dragon walks forward for a second she thought she was a LeafWing until she opened her second set of wings she was a highbred, but how. 
She looked to see cricket had got some put on her wrists. 
“cricket are you okay!”, sundew yelled at her new friend. 
”Sundew I will be ok!”, cricket yelled back. 
Blue was sopping.not the time blue really not the time! 
”you’re a LeafWing!?”Sundew’s said.they were marched down a few levels. cricket looked at her.i’m sorry she mouthed.Why couldn’t they have brought the stupid dragon instead of blue and cricket she’d only spent a few hours with them, but she trusted them more than most dragons she knew.saw blue and cricket get separated, 
“Blue!”, cricket yelled as blue continue down. She reached for the comfort of cricket’s talons . 
Sundew’s was walked in it to a room. A bench stood in one corner with a barred window.And on the other side, with a of counter. 
“let me go!”,sundew yelled at the dragon who was removing her pouches from her body and then her her horn band . 
”wait here “,she guard ordered.as she stood in front of the doorway.who did this guard think she was? 
”and if I don’t?”,sundew hissed.at the guard.The guard rolled her eyes.And stepped forward so she could be seen more in the light now in Sundew’s can make out a second horn, the one typical of Hivewings. 
’we are going to have some problems “,the guard told her.flexing the stinger on her tail.she glared into guard’s blue eyes. 
”please just let me have the jade frog!”, she cried. The guard looked at her with pity . 
”you are only a Dragonette”, she said. 
”which pouch “ she asked. 
” the biggest one “, sundew said.she passed her the jade frog. 
”thank you “,sundew said.I’m sorry Willow I should of listened to you.she gently stroked the frog. She could have been meeting her grandmother and drinking ginger tea and sleeping next to willow I'm not ever letting go of her again. If this is it, all our truth spilled over the table, then this is my truth: I choose Willow. Even if she is a SapWing, and not Mandrake. 
”OK I’m gonna see how quickly I can get this done”, the guard said to herself 
”OK wait here and don’t do anything stupid and whatever you do do not tell her I let you have that.”, she said, pointing it to the jade frog. 
”what’s your name?”, sundew’s asked.as she gave a thin blanket. 
”snake root”,she said walked out and locked the door 
.she grabbed the blanket from the other side of the room she walked over to the door she sat down she placed the blanket over her shoulders she closed her eyes she slept for a few hours she guess. 
”all rise for queen wasp!”,a guard yelled.sundew looked down but didn’t get up. The Queen had black and yellow stripes, black horns, and deep, glittering, completely black eyes that are surrounded of yellow scales.she walked forward. 
”so you are the LeafWing princess a little smaller than I expected”,the queen hissed .grabbing her by the chin, grinning at her. 
”where’s cricket and blue!”,she hissed 
”if you be good you can see them”, she smiled. 
“snakeroot put in the my special cell”,the queen hissed. 
”your majesty snakeroot has given the prisoner that”,one of the other guards hissed as he pointed at the jade frog which she had put around her neck 
”very well tapeworm put her in the special cell”, the queen hissed, looking with a disappointment.The , bigger of the two.roughly grabbed her and dragged her down a few more levels.as they were nearing the cell in disbelief and anger, she realized the cell was made of resin. Another thing they stole from the trees.she looked at the guard in front of her. She was not watching the sixth.in anger, she broke free from the guard lunging forward.she bit into his arm. 
The first guard burst into laughter the second slammed into the ground. Pain shot through her leg at that moment she realized her right back lag was broken at her hip.now that she was inside and had nothing else to do she examined the room she was in the cell was shaped like a cocoon. She looked down to see a pile of flame silk right below her.they’re trying to cook me alive she thought.it felt as if she was being boiled the life. It was hotter than any day she’d ever experienced. She looked down and realized the Amber was slowly melting.she guessed hours maybe days had passed.when the queen of the hive wings walked out with a group of guards and to her horror blue was chained at the ankles his wing bud seem to be slowly opening.his palms glowed bright like flame silk.he was a flame silk.he could be a weapon to us, but do I want him to be a weapon?The queen step forward. 
”Leafwing if you want your friend to live you will tell me what I want to know lower her down”, wasp. for a hopeful minute, she thought she would be freed from this terrible death contraption. but she was tilted on her side painfully landing on her broken leg and then lowered slightly now she was slowly burning. 
”i’ll tell you what you want. Just get me out of here!”, she yelled. 
”very well take her out”, was lifted from the cell. 
”your leg!” Blue yelled. 
”yeah it’s broken so?”, she asked. 
”help her please!”, he bagged the queen. 
”no, leaf wing what is your name?” The queen yelled. 
” Princess sundew daughter of princess belladonna and the granddaughter of queen sequoia”, she said panting as she was chained to the floor. She tried to sat down. 
”blue have you seen cricket”, she asked blue. 
”no I was hoping you had seen her “, blue said. 
”sundew I’m scared- I think my metamorphosis is going to start “, he said grasping her hand. 
=== ”Trivia ===
* I thought sundew was queen sequoia granddaughter before reading the poison jungle.
* I switched biting to sting because bullet ants sting instead of biting.
* snakeroot is the opposite of a wolf in sheep‘s clothing
* cricket’s, necklace is a reference to Ursula
* I originally put thrilling instead of fun
* I have always head canon sundew’s to have some red on her.
* in this timeline all royal LeafWings by blood have at least some gold scales on their wings
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