Secrets of the Continent

== Prologue ==
About a hundred years ago...
Brown Recluse was trying to run.
A crowd of white-eyed dragons were rushing toward him, their faces as blank as a canvas with no art on it. "Please don't hurt me! I don't want to be mind-controlled!" he pleaded. The dragons say in a voice that is not their own.
"That is not an option."
He screamed as three of the HiveWings raised their tails up, their stingers ready to stab him. One of the HiveWings who raised their tails up had yellow scales with orange scales freckled across her body. Her black scales were not very dark and her wings shined like light reflecting off glass.
Brown Recluse screamed again, this time from being stabbed by a stinger. He saw the dragons putting him in a net before everything faded to darkness like the night sky on a cloudy day.
----"Wake up RIGHT NOW!"
The guard's voice was so loud even an almost deaf dragon could hear it. Brown Recluse woke up, trying to remember what happened.
Running away from the HiveWings, failing... getting stabbed in the neck by a stinger, went still... Everything that happened flashed in his mind and stayed there. Now the question was: Where am I?
Brown Recluse demanded, "Where am I?" The guard snarled. "You're in the place in Tsetse Hive where old dragons that can't be mind controlled are put." That makes sense, he thought. Why else would I be surrounded by other elderly HiveWings? 
All he wanted was to escape.
And if he did, he would decide to hide in a cave with his dragonet with Wasp, Apidae. Then they could be safe from her mother's talons.
== Part One: Murder in the Caves ==
About a hundred years later...
=== Chapter 1 ===
Apidae woke up in the cave for the thirty-six thousandth time.
Her father, Brown Recluse was gone. Her mother, Queen Wasp, died in a prison. She had a mate, but he died a few days ago. Her dragonets were captured by these weird red, two-winged dragons and went somewhere far away. Apidae suspected that they were taken to the Distant Kingdoms, but she had not voiced this theory to any of the other dragons in the cave system.
She flew to the meeting room only to stop halfway due to an ear-splitting shriek.
Apidae traced the shriek to Carpet's cave.
In the cave, Carpet lay on her bed, her throat slashed and her body bruised. This was a sign that there was a murderer in the caves.
In the morning...
Everyone woke up early to discuss who the murderer may be.
Dragons suspected Almond, others suspected Laurel. This "simple conversation" became a heated argument, with a few dragons getting hurt by others and one killed. The murderer was suspected to have killed Alcon, too. The murderer targets SilkWings, Apidae realized. It's probably Stag. He hates SilkWings. That's an understatement, though.
Apidae went back to her cave and fell asleep by her eternal fireplace.
=== Chapter 2 ===
She was in a throne room filled with SilkWings. On the throne was one of Monarch's descendants, Paper. Her metallic silver scales matched the color of the walls, her eyes as orange as a persimmon. Paper's wings were a light blue and green color that was in a vine-like pattern.
But Apidae noticed something. Paper's tail was almost completely green and black, and there was a leaf shape on the end of it. And now she knew.
Paper is a tribrid!
Apidae wanted to scream at her head for imagining this, but she couldn't think any thoughts. Paper spoke. "Ah, yes. Ex-Lady Apidae of the HiveWings. I have sent a LeafWing to kill the dragons here, not Stag. Why are you so stupid?" This was exactly how she imagined the queen of the LeafSilk Kingdom. "GUARDS!" she yelled. "TAKE THE HIVEWING!"
Five SilkWing guards stepped forward and wrapped Apidae in silk. They called for a HiveWing soldier to come in. Stag came in and stabbed the female HiveWing in the leg with his claw stinger.
Apidae jolted awake. At least it was a dream. But suddenly, the real Paper came in.
"So you have got the dream that blasted black dragon gave you," Paper said.
"Yes," Apidae answered.
Paper spoke sarcastically. "Oh, how unfortunate for you, dealing with a very scary nightmare." Every second that passed, Apidae wanted to kill Paper more.
So Apidae charged at the Silk-Hive-Leaf tribrid and stabbed her in the underbelly with her extremely powerful stinger. Paper screamed and tried to get Apidae's Venus Dragon-trap to ensnare her, but failed. She spun silk so she could try to strangle Apidae, but the HiveWing slashed her throat before Paper could even finish spinning the strand of silk.
Apidae washed the blood off in a river in her cave and flew to the meeting room.
And all the dragons who lived in the caves showed up for the meeting.
=== Chapter 3 ===
"Ahem," she said. "Today, I have found Queen Paper of the LeafSilk kingdom dead in my cave. I have no idea who did this and why, but I know it is not Stag. I had a dream last night about this."
Everyone was shocked, but they didn't know who killed her. It was Apidae. Everyone screamed at each other and the meeting turned into a battle, with five LeafWings dead, their green scales stained with scarlet blood. Several SilkWings and HiveWings died, too, but luckily they weren't a leader of the cave system. Soon, a few red-orange dragon with two bat-like wings flew in the cave.
They stole my dragonets while they were in the egg! her brain growled. I must follow these monsters!
Apidae excused herself from the meeting and flew out of the caves. The moonlight made her scales shine like the sun, her eyes as dark as the sky above her. She soared higher in the sky until she was flying over the clouds.
She saw the red dragons in the distance, talking about their plans and what they should do next. Apidae overheard them talking about hiring the murderer in the caves to kill Queen Firefly.
Is she the new queen of the LeafSilk kingdom, or is she from the Distant Kingdoms?
She didn't let that thought distract her from following the red dragons. Apidae was flying faster and faster, her wings taking the moonlight in. She saw an island loom out in the distance, the palm trees bright and tall.
The red dragons snarled at her and roared fire on her wing. Apidae screamed and fell down, down, down until she crashed on an island.
Red-gold wings surrounded Apidae and ripped part of an ear off. She screamed even more, blood rushing out of her right ear. They slashed at her neck but barely missed her throat. Apidae was thrown into the sea to drown by the merciless dragons. She closed her eyes and floated away.
=== Chapter 4 ===
She washed up on a beach of Pyrrhia twelve days later.
How long have I been out for? she wondered. Her neck was scarred, and the rest of her right ear was torn off. The wing that was burned had a large hole in it and her claws were stained with blood.
Apidae was ready to die when a blue-green dragon with gills, bioluminescent stripes, webs on their spines and neck, and webbed claws stepped up and took Apidae away from the beach and to a large cave that seemed to be their home. She was rested on a moss bed and was taken care of. The blue-green dragon flew to a different section of the cave and grabbed 
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