Vines of War

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====Places====
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|-|The Grove= The Grove is an area in the poison jungle on Pantala. It is both of the poison-wing and sap-wing villages combined, with the gullet river being a popular fishing site. There is a thick barrier separating the Grove and The Den of Vipers. This is due to the snakes no longer being controlled, which makes it fatally unsafe for dragons and dragonets alike. Dragonets are not allowed to leave The Grove until they are at least 3 years old, but Mindwarp doesn't follow orders very much, just like her grandmother, Sundew. All of the leaf-wings who chose to go back to the poison jungle have done their best to clear the area out, and the two groups co-exist under Queen Hazels rule. Ex-poison-wing leader Belladonna is assumed dead at this time, and until she makes a presence, this will stay. Ex-Queen Sequoia is happily living by the gullet river, though she loves to come spend time with her granddaughter in the library that Hazel has built in the canopy of what was the sap-wing village.
|-|Gullet River= The gullet river is a popular place for leaf-wings and hive-wings alike. It is also a common trade route for seawings to follow to trade jewelry and other items. There is also a dock with fast swimming sea-wings ready to propel you to the Distant Kingdoms. These trips take around 2 days, compared to the week it takes to fly. There is also glow in the dark buoys leading the way across the small islands Clearsight has mapped. The sea-wings decided to make them glow because of the constant fog in the rainy seasons. The buoys are a gift from the animus Cordelia. 
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===Prophecy===
Of three sisters who grow, control, and learn, one finds a secret thought to be destroyed and yearns for more power, one cries out, hoping she hasn't been forgotten like her brother, and the other prepares for an incoming war, assembling troops of greens and browns. And the brother long forgotten sits in silence, waiting to be remembered.
===Prologue===
Sunflower HATED being in the grove. My mother, Passion-Flower, always tells me, “It's not safe for dragonets outside of the grove alone.” But I know it is MORE than safe outside, but mother insists that it isn´t. At least I can annoy the everloving moons out of my older sister, Mindwarp. Mindwarp is only a year older than me, so she’s also in the grove. After our dad, Redwood, died, Passionflower didn't hesitate to pick a new mate. Our step-dad is a skywing named Brazen. Mother and Brazen have been trying for an egg recently, and mother finally got one last moon cycle. I’m hoping that it's a girl, because I already have a name picked out for a girl dragonet. I think Rose would be a pretty name for a Leafwing-Skywing hybrid. Meanwhile, a mysterious plant continued growing along a path, hidden.
===Chapter One===
Mindwarp hated her step-father, Brazen. But, to be fair, there wasn't much that she didn't hate. One thing she didn't hate was her plant, which she found exploring. She liked this plant because when she used her leaf-speak to talk to it, it wasn't boring, like the other plants. Her plant didn´t only say Hmmm.., her plant said Secrets, keep out. It's a mystery... I cause treachery... I will make you want to betray... Suddenly, a loud noise erupted from the other side of the grove. She looked up, only to see Sunflower running towards her, screaming at the top of her lungs. She hastily put her plant in one of the many pouches that she had inherited from her grandmother, Sundew, and flew away from the small dragonet. This was one of many things her sister couldn't do, as she was only a year old, and hadn't been taught to fly by their mother as she was expecting a new dragonet. 
“Hey!!! That's not fair!!!” Whined Sunflower. “I don't care if it's fair or not, I don't like being stampeded by you! Or being stampeded in general!” Mindwarp screeched back. Passion poked her head out of her den, and hollered at the two dragonets; “If you two don't stop roaring out here while I am trying to sleep, I will put BOTH of your heads on sticks to warn the new dragonet!” Sunflower pouted; “Fine. But make Mindwarp not be such a jerk to me!” Passion flower scolded Sunflower, “You know your sister is a weird anti-social dragonet and doesn't like interaction. Go play with the other dragonets here. I am sure they would love to invite you to play tag with them.” Sunflower protested, “Mom, you know the other dragonets are weird and boring. They never have interesting games to play!”
===Chapter Two===
I want to learn about my plant. Mindwarp thought. She flew to the library that Queen Hazel had made. The librarian greeted her, “Hello! We have scrolls on every topic you might need here, what can I help you with today?” She asked; “I want to know about a vine that has white petals, and a seed the color of blood.” The librarian looked distraught, and he called Sequoia over. The librarian whispered something to Sequoia, before the ex-queen motioned for Mindwarp to walk with her. “So.. A vine with white petals, and a seed the color of blood? I think I know what you're talking about. Your grandmother, Sundew, asked me the same question 20 years ago.” Sequoia said, her voice vibrating throughout Mindwarps body. “I'll start off with the legend, and then I'll inform you of the other mind and Luna's encounters. The legend begins with the earliest days of dragons on our continent, back when the LeafWing tribe and the BeetleWing tribes were new, and they came to escape trouble in the Distant Kingdoms. The first dragons who landed on Pantala encountered something… Very strange.” 
“The night they arrived, as they all slept, the earth below them began to seethe with motion. Tiny legs crawled across their scales — and then more — and then more of them. The dragons woke suddenly, from their dreams into a true nightmare. They were covered in fire ants. Their shrieks rose up to the three moons and they ran to the ocean, but even as they ran, more colonies of ants boiled up out of the ground and attacked. They marched up the dragons' legs and burrowed between their scales and dug their mandibles into their skin. The ants did not let go as the dragons plunged into the sea; they did not try to save themselves. They held on like grim death, until at last the ants drowned. But the ants were only the beginning. The next morning, as the dragons were limping back to their campsite, they heard buzzing in the air, getting closer and closer. When they looked up, the sky was dark with bees.” 
“So many bees that they blot out the sun. The bees descended and attacked, all at once, just as the ants had done. And again, the dragons were forced to flee into the bay and hide below the water. They were saved by their flamesilks, who burned the bees out of the sky. It got worse … and stranger. The swarms of insects kept coming. And the next attacks came from insects that don't normally work in groups — armies of venomous centipedes, battalions of tsetse flies, swarms of bombardier beetles. They killed dragon after dragon with mindless, unwavering ferocity. Some of the dragons vanished in the night, never to be seen again. Others went down right in front of their friends, suddenly covered in assassin bugs. Of course, the dragons fought back.”
“They'd come too far to run away, and they were refugees who could never return to the Distant Kingdoms. So they fought to stay, but it seemed that whenever they struck down one group of attackers, another would instantly appear in its place. The insects were followed by coils of rattlesnakes, a vast pride of lions, murders of crows. But these were not ordinary attacks. The animals moved like a single organism. If a crow was struck down on one end of the battlefield, the crows at the far end somehow knew instantly. The snakes attacked simultaneously, targeting their victims with coordinated precision. The tribes never found anyone behind the attacks. They searched far and wide for years, but there were no other dragons on the continent, as far as they could tell. Though, thousands of years later, a Silkwing named Luna found an abyss with vines going out of it. “
“What she found was called the breath of evil. The vine covered everything. It used to be wound around every tree, through every meadow, in every marsh. No matter the landscape, it thrived across all of Pantala. But the dragons from the Distant Kingdoms soon discovered that when they destroyed this plant, the attacks waned. When they cleared all the vine from the area, that area gradually became safe to live in. No more attacks. The animals began to behave like normal animals, so long as they lived within the perimeter the dragons made where there was no breath of evil. This plant has the ability to control dragons and scavengers alike. Luna found a little dragonet, who we assume is a skywing, leafwing, rainwing hybrid from what Luna has described her as. This poor dragonet never got to live a full life, because she was sacrificed to the breath of evil not long after hatching. Luna and a silkwing dragonet called Dusky named her Freedom before ending her life. She had to half-exist, under the plant's control for thousands of years. There was also a human, named Cottonmouth, after the snake. He stole dragon eggs trying to control dragons.”
“The distant kingdom of human empires tried this. Note that this was before the scorching, and these dragon egg raids, they angered the dragons, and thus, the dragons caused the scorching. Cottonmouth ran from these scorching across the sea, and landed here. He used this plant to control his human followers from across the sea, with Freedom's egg in a box. Soon after Freedom hatched, he sacrificed her to the breath of evil. Freedom, with her leafwing powers, grew the plant to the extreme. That's all that I can tell you right now, little one. My memory is going, so I cannot remember all the details.” Sequoia said. “That's fine, Sequoia. But thanks for the information.” Mindwarp replied. She waved bye to Sequoia, and left the library.
===Chapter Three===
Mindwarp flew to an empty plot of land, so she could practice her leafspeak. This “Hawthorn” guy... Sequoia thought about him alot. Plants of all species, of all sizes, tell me what you know about Hawthorn. Her eyes glowed white-minty-green, a similar shade of those who are being controlled by the other mind, and questioned all the plants in her radius. She heard one plant, probably a sundew, far off, respond to her. The plant knew something. With her eyes that same color of minty-green-off-white-glow, and she began tracking the sundew down. Then, she heard her grandmother, Willow, call out her name. Mindwarp lost the signal from the plant, and was reasonably upset about this, but she didn’t show it and calmed down. I’ll find it later. She turned to see what her grandmother wanted. 
“Is that you, Mindwarp? Come here! Come eat. Hey Sundew!” 
Sundew hollered back, “WHAT YOU OLD HAG?!”
“Hey! Don't be rude! Do we have any meat in the kitchen to eat?” Willow asked Sundew. 
“Yeah, I think we do. Why?” Sundew questioned. 
“Your granddaughter looks like she's starving!” Willow replied. 
“Yeah, I'm fairly certain we have some meat. Tell her to help herself, hunting is pretty easy.”
Mindwarp sat down at the table with a leg from some sort of jungle creature. She wasn’t sure which, because the leg itself was far too mangled to tell what animal it had come from. She had to admit she was hungry, though. But she didn’t look like she was STARVING. It was whatever, though. Having lunch at her grandmothers’ house wasn’t going to be the end of the world. It would certainly save her from her grumpy and tired mother, who if she made even such a tiny squeak she would be lectured for, lets say, an hour at LEAST. She didn’t feel like being lectured right now. She bit into the leg, eating it. She could definitely tell now after tasting it that it was jaguar meat, as was the usual in the poison jungle. For some reason every creature in the jungle was AT LEAST 10 times bigger than others it’s species on the continent. But to be fair, you HAD to be big and bad to survive here. It didn’t really make sense because all the plants that could eat something as big as the jaguars there were all gone thanks to the protective netting and enforced patrols guarding spots where seeds might seep in. She didn’t think too hard about it, though. 
Sundew says that thinking too hard on things makes you paranoid and you really don’t wanna be paranoid in the poison jungle. She wondered when Passionflower's egg would hatch. She’d known it would be female, and ever since Sunflower had suggested the name “Rose” for the dragonet, they’d been calling the egg Rose. She wondered if she was ever going to have a little brother. It was very likely, and she was tired of just having sisters. Maybe PassionFlower and Brazen will try for a male dragonet. It wasn’t hard to try for eggs between two different tribes. She got out a leaf notepad, one of Queen Hazels newest inventions and began to jot down some notes. Willow walked over after watering her plants outside and took a look at what Mindwarp had written down.
“So, you want a brother? I don’t know if your mother is too tired to try for one, especially because she’s just laid an egg. The egg is pretty big though, so there may be twins inside. Maybe one is male. You’d probably have to pray to Clearsight that that's the outcome. I think I overheard Tsunami mention once that most skywing firescales have a twin trait. I know Tsunami said that Peril is a twin firescales, so it's very likely.” Willow said.
“Yeah. But maybe Rose is just a big dragonet. You never know.” Mindwarp replied in between tearing off chunks of the leg and eating them. “Mother might not want more underlings under her feet right now, especially since me and Sunflower can get a bit loud and rowdy at times. It really isn’t fair that the other dragonets think she’s weird. They're probably some of the meanest kids on Pantala. Speaking about continents, when do we get to go to Pyrrhia? It seems fun over there, and I really wanna go!”
“Maybe when you're around 5 years old. Then we’ll all take a month's vacation and stay over there. Maybe Rose and Sunflower can go to the little academy they have over there. I heard Tsunami say that they need some more students to fill up winglets, since there's 3 more tribes going to the academy now, and they want at least one of every tribe in each winglet. I doubt the hivewings and silkwings will be able to get along very well, and I doubt leafwings will ever forgive the hivewings for almost making us go extinct. I get that it wasn’t their fault, but still. An entire tribe weakened by attempted genocide isn’t going to warm up to their enemies very quickly. It may take over 50 years.” Willow stated. “Sundew says I like to talk a lot,” Willow chuckled lightly. ”I guess that's true, huh?” She jabbed Mindwarp in the side, causing her to choke and cough on her jaguar leg.
===Chapter Four===
Mindwarp woke up from her nap to screaming. She didn’t know WHY other dragons were screaming while SHE WAS TRYING TO SLEEP. Furious, she got up and tried to find the source of the loud noise. She went to the hatchery, and she was met with ALL of her family there, with the new.. Twins?? Apparently Rose wasn’t the only one in the egg, and Mindwarp had gotten her wish. Passionflower turned to Mindwarp and asked her; 
“Since your younger sister got to name Rose, would you like to name her brother?” Mindwarp was excited that she got her wish, and replied with “Maple-leaves? Maybe Maple for short?” Passionflower accepted the name, even though it was a very common and basic leafwing name. She didn’t look upset by it, but Mindwarp could guess that her mother wanted to go back to sleep just as much as Mindwarp did. 
Mindwarp thought back to when Sunflower hatched. Things were a lot different then. For starters, she still had a dad. It really sucked how he’d died. Redwood was a gentle giant, and he was always patient with mother. He usually made us meals, and gave mother space when she was grumpy or tired. Unfortunately, he’d killed himself by accident while hunting with his leafspeak. Mindwarp didn’t like how fast her mother had replaced their father after his death. Did she not care about him? 
Mindwarp remembered finding her fathers body after he didn’t come home when he was supposed to. Like any normal dragon finding their father impaled, she had wailed like a banshee for her mother. It was a horrifying sight, with Redwood being suspended in the air as if he’d tried his best to fly out of there, with his jaw hanging open as if he’d attempted to call for help but had failed miserably. His eyes were translucent, and he was already far too gone by the time she had found him. He’d seem to have tried to summon what we usually use to kill our food called “Bramble-berries”. They’re usually harmless to dragons, but incredibly deadly to prey. Though it looked like he’d seemed to have used his leafspeak wrong, summoning a brambletree instead. She found him lifeless, having slightly wet blood on his chest, hands, and the spike of tree that he was suspended on, his mouth slightly open, looking in slight distress, his eyes were still open as he’d sat there. 
There was blood seeping out from his mouth as his destroyed lungs were up above where his throat was, causing it to leak out through his wide open mouth. Not to mention the big gaping HOLE in his chest. That was how he’d died, and she was sure of it. The branch went through his chest, destroying multiple arteries and puncturing his lungs, and came out the other side, where his wings met his torso and shoulders. A good portion of the blood came from the hole in his chest, and dripped down to his claws and to the ground. It was quite the horrifying sight, and when Mindwarp had tried to scream out the first time, it felt like someone’s claws were clamping her throat shut, and all she could do was weep. Roughly ten minutes later, she was able to speak, albeit only random mumbling that you’d expect from someone from the asylums of old, and a while afterwards she was able to form complete sentences. The second time she’d try to call for help, even though it wouldn’t help now, it came out as a strangled, wet yelp of terror, as if SHE was the one with the punctured lungs and torso.
It was a horrifying sight once the realization set into her. Her father was dead. 
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====Family Trees====
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|-| seawings= 
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====Characters and Reference sheets====
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Cordelia
Cordelia is the daughter of Prince Fathom and Indigo. She is around 2,000 years old, due to an animus enchantment making her immortal. She is the animus who enchanted Brazen. Cordelia has heterochromia.
Base by JA, relines by K9PESTILENCE 
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Sunflower
Mindwarps younger sister, Roses older half-sister. 
Base by JA, relines by K9PESTILENCE 
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Mindwarp
Sunflowers older sister, Roses older half-sister. Can gather information from plants, and can teleport through them, but she doesn't learn that skill for a long time 👀
Base by JA, relines by K9PESTILENCE
 
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Rose
Younger half-sister of Sunflower and Mindwarp. Her wings are too big for her skinny leaf-wing build so she tends to fall over alot due to the added wing weight. Weak flame-scales and leaf-speak.
Base by JA, relines by K9PESTILENCE 
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Cicada
Silk-hive hybrid, hive traits dominate. Venom silk (hive-wing arm stinger venom + her naturally having silk-spitting wrists.). Cicada, daughter of Cricket and Blue. Pretty close with her cousin, Opal. 4 in DY. has a pair of antennae on her head that are very thin. The antennae are black.
Base by JA, relines by K9PESTILENCE
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Opal
Silk-night hybrid, silk traits dominate, night coloring dominate. Flame-silk. Opal, the daughter of Luna and Swordtail. Pretty close with her cousin, Cicada. 7 in DY. She gets her night-wing coloring due to a generational trait where black silk-wing coloring skips a few generations and is present in a few generations. All generations carry the trait, but the amount has to be just right. Trait is visible every 9 generations, or 90 years. The coloring can be traced all the way back to Clearsight and her dragonets who mated with other beetle-wings, causing the trait to be rarer. This trait includes having nightwing powers and stars on the dragons wings.
Base by JA, relines by K9PESTILENCE
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Redwood
Father of Mindwarp and Sunflower. currently deceased. Mothers were Sundew and Willow, and his surrogate father was Mandrake. Sundew and Willow wanted to have kids, but since she and Willow cannot have biological kids since they are both female, she asking Mandrake to be a surrogate father for her kids and he agreed. Redwood did have leaf-speak, but accidentally killed himself with it while hunting. It was a gore-y mess, and that's what drove Mindwarp off the edge.
Base by JA, relines by K9PESTILENCE
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Passionflower
Mother of Sunflower, Mindwarp and Rose. Mates with Brazen. Ex-Mates with Redwood. Usually grumpy and tired. Works the night shift at the farmhouse. 
Base by JA, relines by K9PESTILENCE
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Brazen
Step-father of Sunflower and Mindwarp. Father of Rose. Mates with Passion Flower. Can control his fire-scales due to an animus enchantment. 
Base by JA, relines by K9PESTILENCE
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Ex-Queen Sequoia
Mindwarp looks up to her, amazed that she lived to and past 100. Kind of a mentor situation with Mindwarp. 
Click on the image to go to her page.
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Sundew
Mother of Redwood, married to Willow. Click on the image to go to her page.
Base by JA, relines by K9PESTILENCE, fill by SPACESHIPEARTH
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Willow
Sundews wife. Is not related to ANY of the main 3 leaf-wings.
Click on the image to go to her page.
Base by JA, relines by K9PESTILENCE, fill by SPACESHIPEARTH
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Fathom
Click on the image to go to his page.
Base by JA, relines by K9PESTILENCE, fill by SPACESHIPEARTH
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Indigo
Click on the image to go to her page.
Base by JA, relines by K9PESTILENCE, fill by GooseFeathers
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Ripple
Designed by me, Cordelias "yin and yang" twin (Fanon design)
Click on the image to go to his page.
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Clearpool
Click on the image to go to her page.
Base by JA, relines by K9PESTILENCE, fill by SPACESHIPEARTH
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Cowrie
Designed by me (Fanon design)
Click on the image to go to his page.
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