Fool's Gold

SPOILERS FOR BOOK 5, THE BRIGHTEST NIGHT. 
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== Prologue ==
Neutronstar was walking along the dusty roads of the Scorpion Den. Being a NightWing, most dragons there were very curious. In a not so passive way. Two beaten-up-looking SandWings had already thrown weapons at her, and one dragon in a heavy cloak and skull tattoos along his sail had tripped her and tried grabbing her. But she was here, at last. 
Neutron studied the light yellow tent with curiosity, soaking in all the detail. She had been so fixated on it she hadn’t even noticed the small dragonet walking up to her. “Hello miss!” The small SandWing squeaked. Neutronstar snapped back to reality with a jolt, glancing down at them. “Mother says she had some important stuff, so she told me to tell you to wait by the palm trees over there…” The dragonet pointed to a patch of bright green palms to her right. It took the NightWing a while to realize she was talking about Hyena, which means that must be her daughter, Thorn. She nodded, and slinked over to the spot, where she waited. It felt like ages of just sitting there when Hyena finally walked over to Neutronstar. “Hello, Hyena.” She greeted the SandWing as politely as she could. “Thorn told me you arrived about an hour ago, correct?” She replied, her voice as stiff and emotionless as ever. Neutronstar nodded. Hyena hissed, and then walked over to the entrance of the tent. She scrambled up and walked behind her, keeping distance from Hyena’s sharp barbed tail. Neutronstar folded back the flaps of the tent and walked inside, where Hyena was already sitting down with an empty scroll and a few inkwells. “Sit.” She hissed to the NightWing, pointing at a cushion in front of her. She sat. “You know why you’re here. Blister has declared war on her sisters after the disaster of Queen Oasis. This is not something to be taken lightly, as many have already learned,” Hyena explained. “I have gathered that you recently had an egg, a female one, I assume.” Neutron nodded, wondering how her egg was going to be dragged into this. “Hybrid eggs go for a lot right now, especially NightWing ones, with everybody trying to appease to Princess Burn. If it were to hatch…” Hyena grinned sickly. “I am giving you a deal. Give me your egg, and I will let you go. Or else…” she made a motion with her claws near her neck. 
“No.”
“What did you say to me, NightWing?”
“I said no, Hyena. You aren’t taking my dragonet.”
“You don’t say no to me, dragon.”
Hyena lunged faster than Neutronstar could register. In a flash she had gathered throwing disks and were pressing them against Neutron’s neck. Thorn screamed from somewhere behind them. “You don’t want to do this, Hyena.” She said breathlessly, tensing up. “Yes I do. Give me your egg.” She hissed, tightening her grip on the disks. Hyena’s eyes went wide, and she looked up from Neutron. Neutronstar wriggled free and in a flash she was bolting out of the tent, not daring to look behind her. She spread her wings and took off, straight for her nest, with her egg in it.
Neutronstar had landed, only to find it was missing. She had searched for hours before finally declaring it was gone. Her partner, Eucalyptus, wasn’t any happier. “I bet you a thousand camels Hyena nicked it before you left for her tent.” The SandWing had said before scooping a sobbing Neutron into his sandy yellow wings. That’s fine, Hyena, you can have my egg, but rest assured, I’m coming for you.
Don’t worry, Golden, you won’t be alone.
== Chapter 1 ==
Golden walked down the busy streets of the crime scene she called home. SandWings shuffled out of her way as she went past them, dragons murmuring apologies. Her gold scales flickered like flames in the aggressive desert heat, jewelry along her sail sparkling like hidden gems. She spotted a dragonet and her friend gossiping, sneaking looks at Golden and pointing. Gold would consider herself a celebrity, not like she was a fan favorite, that is. Gold was probably one of the most deadly dragons around, aside from Cobra who lives down Rattlesnake Way, who was poisonous from the core out. At least Gold had a heart.
She was used to the prickling feeling of dragons watching her, if you ever stepped foot into the Scorpion Den, it’s likely 12 spies would immediately follow you. But this was… sharp. A sharp feeling. Gold chuckled to herself. I’m such a ditzy idiot. It’s nothing different from any other time outside. She thought to herself, but peered around all the same. She took a sharp left to a road that opened up into a sun-lit oasis with magnificent palm trees dotting the area and a large pool in the center. She didn’t hang around the oasis entrance for long, instead she banked to a massive tent with an opening twice her size.
Golden flicked her tail, grabbing a stack of scrolls from a pouch slung around her back and throwing them messily onto a counter. “Thorn, I got your dumb paperwork.” She told the other dragon in the room, who poked her head up from a desk. “You didn’t have to, I told Eucalyptus to go get it.” Thorn said with a grin, picking up one scroll with a green tie and opening it. “Eucalyptus acts so weird around me, I’m afraid he’d try and kidnap me if I looked away.” Golden joked. It was true, though, the older SandWing working for them always seemed way to involved with whatever Gold was doing. Whenever she were to talk to him, he’d go all tense and start making excuses to run away, but then 20 minutes later he would be tracking her every move. “Don’t worry about him, we all know he’s probably getting scammed out of his money. Keeps disappearing every other night, ey?” Thorn replied, scanning the scroll with her sharp eyes. “They still haven’t found Dune yet. Why are all my spies so USELESS?” She slammed the scroll down and looked sulkily out the door. “Don’t worry about the search this early, Thorn.” She put a wing around her sister, taking the scroll and shredding it in her sharp claws.
“But I have to, Stonemover is gone and so is my dragonet. I can’t not worry.” She sighed, probably thinking about her egg. “If it makes you feel better, didn’t my egg disappear? If it didn’t, you wouldn’t have me to complain to.” She grinned. “Well at least it wasn’t stolen by some lunatic SandWing” Thorn replied, not smiling back. “You are so ruining the vibe. I’m 100% sure Beetle’ll turn up eventually. In the meantime, why don’t we go tell off some more Outclaws for reverting back to their primal Scorpion Den instincts?” She suggested, and after Thorn didn’t reply, she left the tent, out into the sharp feeling of being watched some more.
== Chapter 2 ==
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It was odd, it seemed as if the entire Den was paying much more attention to her than usual. Comments such as "..Look at her, doesn't she feel dangerous?..." and "...I heard even Vulture is scared of her..." Were flying around much faster than she liked. She even bumped into a prickly SandWing soldier, which made her stop and think for a minute Why are soldiers here, of all places? She caught herself thinking.
After what felt like hours of enduring this confused sort of torture, she heard a familiar voice shout her name. "Gold! GOLD!" Golden spun around to see Thorn galloping up to her with a scroll tucked under her wing.
"Hiya... sis... for, uh... for you..." she panted, thrusting the scroll out to Gold, then stepping back to catch her breath. Golden took it and examined it. The dragons in the alley had stopped talking with wide eyes a moment before she caught sight of the emblem. Golden recognized it at once, a fresh surge of horror bursting through her.
This was from Blister.
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