Lost Dreams

==Intro==
Two hundred years after Darkstalker's rise, after the SandWing war of succession, Pyrrhia is finally in peace. The tribes's relationship were quite stable, Animus Magic was mostly gone with only a few items that remained, and the number of hybrids had since rose as relationships between different tribes increased seeing as their hasn't been a war in the past few decades.
Things all changed when Princess Khione rose to power, challenging and succeeding in killing the former IceWing Queen, Floe. Soon after, an accusation against the SandWing Queen, Addax was made. Unwilling to back down, war breaks out between the two tribes, tumbling the web of relationships between all tribes and dragging the entire Pyrrhia and even parts of Pantala into the war. Things turn even more chaotic as Queen Addax was killed- with no King or successor of her throne.
Kenji is your average SandWing noble with fairly good grades, cute looks (with probably tons of admirers), lots of friends, and great potential in sports. Overall, a dragonet every parent wished to have. Then the war even more terrible than the SandWing War of Succession breaks out through Pyrrhia and destroys Kenji's once perfect world. Will Kenji's best friend, Hanagata, continue to stay by his side? And what did the MudWing Prince, Makimono, have to do with this?
PoV: Kenji (Main), Hanagata (Secondary), Queen Khione (Prologue), Prince Maki (Epilogue), Prince Rukawa (Teaser)
==Prologue==
The crowd filling the large IceWing throne room was restless. Danger lurked in the air and seemed to balance on the tip of a talon. Even the silence boomed out as the doors were thrown open by a IceWing with violent cyan scales. Scales like the color of blood. What a pleasant thought. Her sharp, serrated talons clacked against the crystal floor, each step echoing off the walls of the throne room. The talonsteps stopped, and the IceWing looked straight into the Queen's eyes with a cold, almost taunting glare,
"I challenge you to the throne," the dragon with scales the color of IceWing blood drawled, hidden malice and venom lacing every word, "Queen Floe." She dragged out the word "Queen" mockingly.
Queen Floe looked slightly taken back. "Alright, Khione, if that is your wish," she said. "Are you sure about this?" She held her head high, wiping her face clear of any hint of regret. Of course, Khione still caught that fleeting moment of hesitancy.
"Absolutely," Khione replied without the slightest hesitation. Her voice was clear and sharp with authority, filling the entire throne room. "I've been waiting years for this moment."
"Very well then," Floe said a bit tiredly, standing up from her throne and padding towards Khione. "Take your position."
Surprised murmurs rippled along the watching crowd. Clearly they hadn't expected the Queen to accept such a foolish challenge. Most of the Tribe knew about Khione's loathing of the Queen, and a few had suspected a challenge, but no one had taken it seriously until now.
Sitting among the densely packed IceWings and Hybrids in the stands was a dragonet with white, red, and black scales. He was rather young indeed- only three years old, though with his unusually tall height, he could pass off as a four or five year old. He watched the two dragons in the center of the throne room approach each other with a strange mixture of exhilaration and mortal fear flashing across his face, before it turned devoid of emotion. Like a true IceWing Prince, Khione noted with amusement shining in her onyx black eyes. Unfortunately, that will change once I become Queen.
The Queen and Khione began to circle each other, spikes flared up, pupils turning to slits as they eyed their opponent, hissing and snarling viciously at each other. Queen Floe didn't have to wait for long before Khione leapt viciously at her, serrated claws outstretched. A moment later both were wrestling and tussling with each other on the ground, fighting for the upper talon. Seeing an opportunity, Khione seized it, snapping at the Queen's neck. Ripple somehow managed to jerk away with her quick reflexes, but was still left with a long bite mark on her underbelly. Blood oozed out, staining Khione's teeth the same color as her scales.
Queen Floe growled in pain, momentarily winded and scales looking even paler than usual, if that was possible. She looked surprised at the ferocity of Khione's attacks, and so did the watching dragons. Khilne had never been considered a powerful dragon, and Queen Floe was famous for her battle finesse. It was impossible to think that Floe hadn't killed her opponent immediately. Meanwhile, Khione used the chance to slash open a few old scars on the Queen's body.
The white dragonet watched in horror as vivid blue blood gushed over the sharp white class.
"Get up, mother." He whispered, panic spinning wildly through his mind, though non of it showed on his face. "Fight her, you can do it!" Non of the dragons took notice of the small dragonet- except for Khione. The challenger only bared her teeth menacingly, revealing the dots of blood splattered across them.
A moment later, the Queen surged up again, but Khione smashed her head back against the crystal ground, creating a sharp resounding echo that made the crowd wince. With a horrible acidic hiss, she hooked her claws deep into the Queen's neck, dragging Floe towards her. "Do you give up, clouds for brains?"
The Queen shrieked, unwilling to give up. She thrashed wildly in Khione's firm grip, giving her challenger a hate-filled glare. Khione was undeterred, and only dug her talons in deeper, causing the Queen's wound to bleed even more freely has she struggled in pain. The white dragonet had never seen a dragon in such pain before. He ducked his head away, trying to shut out the gory horror, but kept one fearful eye hesitantly peeking out between his almost dark black wings.
"Y-y-yes," Floe finally managed to blurt out from a half-torn throat, unable to resist any longer. Khione released the dying Queen and raised her head triumphantly, roaring her victory to the watching IceWings. To the entire world.
There was deafening moment of silence. It was shattered mere seconds later. "LONG LIVE QUEEN KHIONE!!" the crowd roared, although a large portion of the dragons shouting looked unsure of themselves. Again, no one had expected that Khione would have even come close to winning, and they didn't all want such a violent, bloodthirsty dragon who jumped at the opportunity of a fight as Queen.
Khione raised her head high, basking in her moment of glory. I’ve waited for so long for this... She mused, throwing the dying body of the former Queen Floe a glance. Now that she's out of my way, I still have other potential obstacles... She glanced at the white hybrid dragonet sitting in the crowd, his eyes wide in shock and terror. ...But I'll deal with them later. For now, I'll just enjoy this moment. She smirked as she gave a single order, her voice filled with cold authority: "Bow to your new Queen."
==Chapter 1==
===Kenji===
Kenji stretched his jaws wide in a tired yawn. He was sprawled across the floor, a blanket covering his body, ready to drop down and fall sleep anytime. But of course, his best friend and occasionally roommate, Hanagata, being the walking scrollshelf, refused to let him. Hanagata was currently half lying on the floor, a notoriously bright lantern burning next to him, his snout buried in the newest Sand Kingdom News-scroll. Honestly, what in Pyrrhia was so interesting with that? Letting out a small groan, Kenji rolled over, propping himself up, and fixed a deadly glare on Hanagata. I swear, if that idiot doesn't finish reading soon- The glare faltered once he noticed that his friend was frowning as he inspected the news-scroll, his talons pushing up the rectangular glasses set on top of his snout.
Kenji resisted the urge to laugh at how ridiculously cute Hanagata looked at the moment. Instead, he sat up wearily and peered at his companion's still frowning face, asking "What happened? You know, you look ridiculous when you're so concentrated on frowning."
Kenji knew that something must have happened when Hanagata didn't even try to give a retort to his remark. His taller companion straightened up into a sitting position, and shoved the news-scroll his way. Kenji snatched it out of the air, catching it in his talons effortlessly. "Just read it." Hanagata told him. He was still frowning, and sounded slightly worried. Or am I imagining that? "It says that Queen Floe was challenged, and the IceWing throne was taken by a non-royal dragon named Khione."
Kenji blinked in surprise at the sudden load of information, scanning the scroll held in his talons. True, none of the current Queens had been challenged within the past few decades if he remembered correctly, but it wasn't exactly surprising if one of them had been dethroned. The SandWings living in the Kingdom had been talking about a potential challenge to the Pyrrhian Queens's thrones since Kenji was born. Was this new Queen, Ki-honey or whatever Hanagata said her name was, so bad that she made Hanagata worried? Without further adue, he looked over to the section that said "Floe Dethroned in Challenge by Queen Khione."
"The former IceWing Queen, Floe, was challenged several days ago by Khione, a nine year old pure IceWing in one of the higher circle rankings. The challenger does not have royal blood. There are rumors that the challenger has the history of being exiled from the IceWing Kingdom for half a year and being thrown in prison for a month when she was three to five years old, but IceWings have refused to confirm said rumors. Ex-Queen Floe died during the challenge, and Queen Khione gained the IceWing throne. Although Ex-Queen Floe's son Rukawa, the three year old IceWing-SkyWing hybrid with partial SeaWing blood, is still royalty and would be next in line for the throne if Queen Khione dies without being challenged, the current Queen seems to have other plans for the Prince and has put him into hard training in the army."
Kenji's eyes widened as he read through the article, disgusted. Although the Author didn't specify what "other plans" meant, it was pretty clear what they thought of Khione's intentions and that they didn't like this Khione much. Kenji agreed with whoever wrote this article whole-heartedly. "What?!" He voiced his concerns out loud, sleepiness thrown to the back of his mind, "Who puts a three year old dragonet in the army? Is this Ki-Honey out of her mind?" He was positively fuming, not even bothering to try to pronounce the new IceWing Queen's name right.
"That's the point, she is out of her mind." Hanagata replied. Kenji could tell that his friend didn't like Khione much either. "I bet Queen Addax isn't going to like this." Hanagata muttered.
"Oh, right." Kenji sighed. Their Queen, Addax, had a peace agreement with Queen Floe. Before the agreement, IceWings and SandWings would occasionally raid the other's kingdoms for the treasures and gems that both Kingdoms owned. However, now that Queen Floe was dead... the agreement was probably broken as well. And Kenji had a feeling that Khione wouldn't want to re-negotiate said agreement, based on what was said about her on the news-scroll. Other than that, though Queen Addax was fair and authoritative most of the time, he had to admit that their Queen could be a little hot-headed and rash at times.
The two lapsed into silence for a while, both digesting the sudden shocking information and unsure of what more there is to say.
Kenji's heart went out to the three year old IceWing Prince. He himself was an orphan- both of his parents had died. He had never met his father, and his mother died of a disease three years back, leaving him parentless when he was only two. Since then, he had lived with the Royal SandWing family, which only consisted of Queen Addax and her father. He wasn't particularly close to them, which left him hanging out with the palace servants and his private teachers more. That was how Kenji met Hanagata. The MudWing SandWing hybrid was the son of one of his teachers. Kenji wasn't sure how and when he had gotten so close to Hanagata, but the thing he did know is that he would never regret meeting Hanagata, his only friend. Hanagata tried his best to understand and help him, and when he didn't understand, Kenji was glad that his friend didn't pretend to know what he was feeling like everyone else did. He hoped that the IceWing Prince, Rukawa, was it? Would befriend someone like Hanagata one day too.
WIP
==Trivia==
*The main dragon drawn on the cover is Kenji.
*The small dragon flying in the background of the cover is Hanagata.
*Kenji and Hanagata are 5 years old at the start of the story.
*Khione's name comes from a minor greek goddess of snow.
==Gallery==
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