Wings of fire: The Sky's Destiny

Made by darkstalkerforever, idea by XM-the-Artist (previously SkyfiredaNightskywing)
==Chapter 1==
“RUBY!” Scarlet called. What a unreliable daughter for a future queen. She had to admit that tourmaline was a better option. Ruby strutted into the room where scarlet laid. “Yes mother? What do you need?” Her voice was cold and harsh. “Explain to me why none of these things are organized? I expect you to rule a kingdom correctly when you grow to be a queen. Not that i think you’d be fit to anyway. That doesn’t change anything. Clean up after yourself.” Ruby shot daggers at her mother. Scarlet glared back. if looks could kill,she thought, ruby would’ve been dead by now. Ruby walked out with an annoyed expression and then stopped in her tracks. “Well i have some news for you, mother.” Scarlet looked up. “What?” Scarlet spat. “One of your eggs had disappeared from the royal hatchery. Although you probably aren’t worried are you? You are possibly thinking of your next scheme, aren’t you?” Ruby countered. “Now, now ruby don’t be so vain! Why would i have the energy to do that? But you’re right about one thing.” She met her daughter’s eye directly. “I don’t care for that egg. I hope she dies in a awful painful way.” Ruby took a deep breath, “Good night mother.” Scarlet hesitated. “Good night Ruby.”
== Chapter 2 ==
the rainwing village.
Three moons. The sky was lit up with stars and the soft glow of the moon. Glory rested by death bringer, their daughter firefly above them in a hammock. “Look glory, the shining moons. Aren’t they beautiful?” “Death bringer, i have seen the moons before.“ “Oh but have you seen three moons?” He smiled, and she smiled back. ”No. No I haven’t. Let’s check on the hatchery.” Glory suggested. They walked over quietly, careful not wake the others up. And right then while the moons were up, a egg started to crack. Death bringer froze with an abiding grin. “It’s hatching!” He whispered. Glory gave him a forceful nudge. “I can see that you goose.” She whispered back. A dragonet popped out. “It’s Night keeper’s daughter.“ Glory observed. “Get him.”
A few minutes later, death bringer walked in with a nightwing right next to him. “She’s absolutely gorgeous.“ Night keeper cooed. “Well she’s all yours, night.” “What are you going to name her?” “Hmm. She’s a mindreader. Under the three moons. I’ll name her skyfire. And she’ll live in the rain kingdom all her life.“ He looked away with a scowl. “What’s wrong?” The queen asked so abruptly it made him jump. “Nothing, your majesty. Nothing at all.”
== Chapter 3 ==
Sky’s point of view, 3 years later
“I don’t wanna go!” She whined. Night keeper tried to grab control of her, but she flew out of his grasp. “Why not? You’ll be with dragons your age! You can read minds, see the future, and do prophecies! Why don’t you want to go? You’re absolutely brilliant!” He craned his neck to see her on the top of the highest shelf. “Jade mountain will have all different tribes!” “With all different personalities! You know i’m shy!” She protested. Night keeper sighed. “Please. Just for me. Do it for me Skyfire. My beautiful, intelligent daughter.” “Fine. I’ll give it a try. When do I leave?“ “Tomorrow.”
”Are you going to be all right?” “You literally just asked me yesterday to go. And yes, i‘ll be fine. But if i’m hurt keep in mind this was your idea.“ ”Don’t worry, I will.” They had a quick hug and Skyfire flew into the school. It was big and cavernous. “Hey! I’m fate speaker. You’re skyfire right?“ “Yeah. Which winglet am i in?” She asked quickly. If you avoid everyone, nothing will happen. She thought. “Oh MY GOSH YOU HAVE THE TEARDROP! That's so cool!” Fatespeaker grinned widely. “Anyway, you’re in cloud winglet. It's full of hybrids. Here’s a map and schedule. After you get settled, go to the library and meet Starflight.” She hurried off quickly. Fatespeaker talks way too much. She thought. Eventually, she reached the winglet. “WATCH OUT!” She tried to dodge it but it was too late. A dragon knocked her to the ground. “OW!” She exclaimed, a hint of fury in her voice. “SORRY! I told you to watch out. But i really am sorry. Are you okay?” He asked Her. “Does it look like i’m okay?” “Oh not that again. I hate that line. I’m Tick, you?” A hivewing is talking to me. Skyfire respond! “Uh, skyfire. I’m Skyfire.” She stuttered. “Nice to meet you skyfire. Let me guess, cloud winglet?” “Where else would i go? Also it said we’re claw mates. Nice.” Tick said with a grin. “Yeah, i get to spend most of my life with a dragon that saw me give a horrible first impression. I think we’ll get along pretty well.” Skyfire laughed so hard she fell back again. “It’s kinda unfortunate that you did that.” “Why?” Tick asked.“Cause I’m never going to forget it!” Now it was his turn to laugh. “Agreed, i won’t forget one of my many fails.You know, class is starting soon.” “Already? It’s only the first day!” Skyfire’s eyes widened. “Well it’s more of a get-to-know-your-winglet type of thing.” “Oh. Alright then.Let’s get going.”
“All right everyone, now that you know your winglet you can go.” Said Sunny. “Skyfire stay a bit after class. I want to talk to you.” Skyfire gave Tick an apologetic look. Skyfire headed over to Sunny. “Do you know anything about the old skywing queen named Scarlet?” “Um, who’s that? Sorry.” Skyfire said confused. Sunny looked oddly relieved. “No, it’s okay. You can go now.” She headed off. I’ll have to read about that. Skyfire thought. She headed into the library and ran into Tick again. “You really aren’t predictable are you?” She laughed. “Says the dragon who ran straight into me. I’m beginning to think we’re magnets with opposite poles. Anyway, glad to see you again. What are you here for?“ Tick asked “I’m looking up queen scarlet. You?” I’m just getting my stuff. Also I’m quite concerned why you’re looking her up.” “Sunny asked me if i knew about her and when i said no, she relaxed.” Skyfire said. “Okay, THAT is definitely the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard. Be my guest though.” “Thanks for the hospitality.” She joked. He left and she headed over to star flight. “Starflight!“ He looked up. “Oh, skyfire? What do you need?” He asked kindly, but he sounded a bit scared. “Can you get me a scroll on ex-queen scarlet of the skywings?”Skyfire asked politely. “Sure.” He hesitated. After a while he came back to her. “Here you go.“ “Thanks.” She left. Why does everyone act weird when I mention her name? She thought. Skyfire headed to a little area and started reading. The updated version. Queen scarlet is one of the skywing queens. She is known for her destructive temper and egotistical opinions. It is a said rumor that one of her eggs had disappeared three years ago on May 30th. They still haven’t bothered to find the egg. Here are some of her words. ‘I hope it dies painfully.‘. “Three years ago? May- that’s my birthday. No, it can’t be. I could have had another mother. It can’t be her. I was raised in the rain kingdom. It has to be a different skywing.” She said to herself. She ran to the winglet and into the den. She skidded to avoid running into Tick for third time. “Tick, I’m going to the sky kingdom tomorrow.”She said in a hury.“You just came here and now you’re leaving?!” She winced. “At least wait till midnight!” Skyfire looked at him with a flabbergasted expression. “You actually approve of this?” “Why not? Seems reasonable. Track down a dangerous queen to ask her if she might be your mother. NO OF COURSE I DON’T APPROVE!!!” He yelled. “Well too bad. Also how did you know about that?” She asked, giggling. “You read very loudly.” “Oh no.” “Well, there’s no going back then. I might as well come with you.” “I can go alone. I’m not a damsel in distress.” “I really don’t care, every one else in the winglet are boring sloths.“ “Yeah that’s fair.” Shrugged skyfire. “We leave tomorrow.”
== chapter 4 ==
The next day
“Hey tick.” Skyfire whispered. He let out a humongous snore. “TICK!” She whispered/yelled In his ear. “What? Oh. Right.” He got up. “I can’t believe that we’re actually doing this.“ Come on tick! It’s my-“ She paused. “Your what?” “I don’t know yet. But i guess we’ll find out.“ “You know we leave at midnight.” ”Change of plans. We go at lunch break.“ “Then why’d you wake me up now?” “So we can prepare!” Tick rolled his eyes. “Just cause you’re my friend doesn’t mean imma let you do stupid things.” “It’s not stupid tick!” Skyfire felt a sudden push, there were words on her tongue that she had to let out. A prophecy. She thought.
"Beware the hidden destiny
Beware the skywing queen
For a secret lurks within the dragon
Whose power lays unseen
Two dragons come together
One the daughter of the sky
The other son of the hive
Go in daylight to find the truth
That could possibly destroy the world
For lies bewitch their journey
To know who is who.”
“What in pyrrhia was that? A prophecy? An actual prophecy? Woah.“ “I think it’s about us.“ Dong..... Went the gong. "Let’s worry about this later." she said. They hurried to class. “Today we will be learning about Darkstalker’s scroll and the scorching. Open your scrolls and start reading..” Webs droned on and on. “Hey WEBS! Tell us your experience of the great scorching! I bet you remember every dragon there! You were probably born before the scorching!“ Some of the class snickered. “Are you done now?” He asked coldly. “INFACT, WHY DON’T YOU REPLICATE EVERYTHING YOU SAW!!!” “You, to the principal’s office. Now.” The class laughed as he exited the room. “No more shenanigans. If i hear one peep from any of you, you’ll be in serious trouble. You understand me?” “Yes sir.” The class replied in a monotone voice. “Good.” Well, looks like i’m gonna have to be extra careful around Webs. she thought.
When it was lunch time, She met up with tick. “Ready?” “Why wouldn’t i be?” He smiled. “All right boss. How do we escape?“ “Act like you’re heading outside with me and we’re talking about something random. Then, while no one’s looking, we fly off. We are going to be heading north east. And it might take a bit of time. We might have to make a few stops. Shouldn’t take more than a day. Let’s go.”
== chapter 5 ==
the journey.
“Well you picked a good day to go. The weather is amazing. Don’t you agree?” “Did you literally just talk about the weather? You sound like an old dragon!” “Well what do you have to talk about? It’s been 15 minutes and you haven’t said a word!” “True. But i reckon you don’t wanna talk about scarlet.” “True. Tell me a bit more about yourself.“ “You are horrible at starting conversations. You know that?” “Yeah. Otherwise i wouldn’t do it!” “I’m really hungry aren’t you?” “Yeah. We really should have eaten first. According to the plot of life, there should be a river right” tick looked around,”below us!” They headed down to the river. How good are you at catching fish?” “I have never caught a fish in my life. I ate fruits. I was raised in the rain kingdom.” “Right. Sorry. I can catch some for you. I don’t see any fruits here anyway.” Tick had an unusual skill of catching fish. Before she knew it, she and tick had already devoured 4 fish. “I think thats good. Wait how long have we been here? It’s already night! Let’s just rest here.“ “Alright sure.” Agreed skyfire. But skyfire couldn’t sleep. She kept thinking about how she would get in the palace, and if this whole journey was worth it. Some how, she finally got a bit of rest. Until tick let out what she thought was the world’s loudest snore. Good thing he couldn’t see the glare he was given.
They kept flying a bit longer after they caught some more fish. “Today skyfire, I’m going to teach you how to catch fish.” He grinned. “Oh no.” “What? The fearless skyfire is scared of catching fish but not the skywing queen. Hmm.” “Fine! Can i try first?” She asked. “Sure.” She tried to catch a big fish, a humongous one, but she missed it by a mile. “Oops.” She chuckled.Tick looked like he was about to blow up from laughing. “Oh wow, very impressive your majesty! You have successfully failed.” They both cracked up, tick laughing the hardest. “Yeah, i know.” She said when they stopped laughing. “Did you even try?” “Yes.” “Be honest, it looked like you failed on purpose.” They laughed even harder. “This is the way to do it.“ Tick showed her. His moves were swift and barely visible to her. “Wow.” She said, awed. “You’ll be like this soon.“ you know that big fish?” “Yeah.” “You were aiming for the tail. Never ever aim at the tail unless you’re pro at this. I don’t aim at the tail either just for the sake of it. Try aiming at the middle. Or the head.” another fish jumped into the air, and skyfire lunged forward and caught it. Thud. “Well, there’s our breakfast.” “You caught a fish!” “I caught a fish!” They both cheered and started digging in. “This is delicious!” Tick said in the middle of chewing his big bite. Skyfire swallowed her bite and said, “don’t you have manners? Don’t talk while you chew!” “You’re right sorry.” “Bu-u-u-t, we can turn it into a game. Try to guess what i’m saying.“ She took a big bite. “Yrghm snr sh lhd.” “You snark the lid?” Skyfire choked. “No!“ She said once she swallowed. “You snore so loud!” “That was hard! Okay, my turn.” He literally shoved half of it into his mouth. “Hm hm hm hmhm.” “I am a hive wing?” She guessed. He took five minutes to chew, FIVE WHOLE MINUTES. “How are you so good?!!” ”Powers.” She smirked. “I don’t think your powers can distinguish the speech of a hive wing who just shoved half a big fish straight into his mouth without thinking.” “I have separate powers for those.” They grinned. “Is it just me,” skyfire said,“or do we smile to much?” “It’s not just you.” “Let’s fly a bit longer. It’s barely daylight. As they went up into the air, all of skyfire’s worries melted away. “Tick, what’s your story?” “My story?” He asked, clearly puzzled. “Yeah! Everyone has a story.” “What. Now you’re a philosopher?” “Tick.” She gave him a seriously? look. “Okay then. So basically i was born in the hive kingdom, I don’t have that wasp mind control on me. Wasp is like the worst queen ever. Anyway, there was a little battle around the hives and it grew very dangerous. Dragonets had fought too. I, on the other talon, was watching out my window with the most terrified expression any dragon could make it. Some one nearly dragon-napped me while i was hiding. At least i attacked him first.” “You? Attack a dragon? Something is clearly wrong here.” “Let me finish, with compliments. And i threw a dictionary and my ecology text book at him. He whimpered and left. I’m serious. So then when i heard my parents were killed, i fled to here. Then i stayed with this sandwing named jerboa. A letter from jade mountain came, and there i went. Not very interesting is it?” “No, except the dragon-napping part.” They flew in silence for the next few hours. Tick’s amazing, he’s kind ,funny, and caring! I like him a lot. I’m glad he came. Skyfire thought with a pleasant smile. Tick looked at her and smiled back.
== chapter 6 ==
at jade mountain...
”Fate speaker it’s been days since they were gone! We need to send a search for them.” “I know. I was thinking they might come back tsunami. I know sunny talked to skyfire. Then, oh no.” Fate speaker’s eyes widened in horror. “What?” Demanded tsunami. “They’ve gone after scarlet.” “WHY IS EVERYONE AFTER SCARLET??!!!!!!!!!!!” roared tsunami. “It’s like they are TRYING to get themselves killed.” She was absolutely furious. “When do we start?” Asked fate speaker hurriedly. “Now. Start making the posters and sending out searches with star flight. I’ll go with sunny and clay to bring the news to glory and death bringer.” Fate speaker hurried off. Tsunami hurried off too. “This is not good.” She thought. “Clay! Sunny! Come with me! Not time for questions i’ll explain on the way!” They ran to catch up to her. “Skyfire have gone to find scarlet! We need to tell glory so we can get them back! I am done with scarlet and will kill her myself if not peril!” She shouted. “ Don’t kill scarlet!” Clay said. “CLAY!” Tsunami and sunny said in unison. ”Honestly it makes sense to do it. She’s killed so many dragons, she’s a horrible queen, and she locked me in a cage. A CAGE TSUNAMI!” “You heard her clay, a cage!” “FOR BURN!” “FOR BURN!” Repeated tsunami. “Ok i get it. But still no.” “Really clay? You can’t be that kind.” They reached the rainforest and barged into the doorway. “Glory!” Glory turned around with an amused look on her face. “What now?” “Skyfire and tick have gone after scarlet. We need to get them back. Send search parties! Anything!!” pleaded tsunami and sunny. “Oh. Scarlet huh? Sure.HEY UH DEATHIE, could you send a few nightwings to look for a hybrid and a hivewing from jade mountain that were going to find scarlet? Thanks!” “Sure.” He called back. “There you go.” “How are so calm about this?” “I live with kinkajou and death bringer, i’ve seen almost 4 or 3 icewings in my life, and i lived under a rock with adult dragons who want me dead for a prophecy, after that it’s not much of a hassle to do these things. Or anything in that matter.” “Okay yeah that’s fair enough. Thanks.” Nodded tsunami. “Bye!” They all said. And left, still arguing.
== chapter 7 ==
With tick and skyfire, during their dreams...
Skyfire could finally relax and sleep, but as soon as she closed her eyes, she felt something. It was just her tail. As she closed her eyes again, she fell into a deep sleep. “Skyfire my little one. How cute you are, you little tiny princess.” Said a voice. She looked down, she was wearing a really girly dress, and she hated it. “NO! Ouch! How do you take this thing off?” She struggled really hard, but nothing had happened. “Or maybe you’d like to be a puppet!” All of a sudden the dress was gone, but strings started pulled her left to right. “Eek!” Screeched skyfire. “Maybe you’d like to play escape the darkroom!” The lights went out every where. “What the. Who are you! Show yourself! Fear me!” Skyfire knew there was a whimper in her voice but she didn’t care. “Oh stop? Oh ha, i will never stop. Welcome to the world of fears.“ “But those aren’t my fears.” She protested. “So? The next few will be!” “I’m fearless.” “You screeched when i turned you into a puppet.” “in my defense, that was too sudden.” “Enough talking!” Stone walls rose all around her. her tail started to ice up. Skyfire ran, ran and ran all she could, but the maze was endless. Then she realized, I can still fly!” She looked down at her wings, and to her misfortune, they were frozen. The ice was freezing up to her neck. She couldn’t do anything. Skyfire froze, thinking she might as well become a statue. But to her surprise, the ice began to thaw. She stood until all ice was melted. “Urgh.” “Ok seriously, what’s your name anyway? It better not be cringy!” “Nightmare.” “Ok that’s kinda cool, i guess. Can i like, see your actual manipulative self though?” A dragon stepped out behind the shadows. He looked like such a kind dragon. Nightmare looked up at her with a smile. “You're beautiful.” “I get that a lot. You look nicer than you sound.” “Thanks.” His voice was so calm, it sent a chill down her spine. “ well, you know, i have to go i guess. Wait! I-uh-can we be friends please? I never knew what friendship really felt like.” “That’s crazy? How have you never had a friend?” “No one liked me, they thought i was too smart for my own age.“ “There is nothing bad about being smart. Forget those dragons.” “Those dragons were my parents and relatives.” He said flatly. “Oh.” Skyfire felt a bit embarrassed. “I’m sorry.” “Don’t be. You’re right, forget them. And i’d be glad to be your friend.” He said with a smile. “Bye!” “Bye!” “Also skyfire?” “Hmm?” “I’m a real dragon.”
Tick was surrounded by attackers. They were every where. He couldn’t escape. And every one was mind controlled, their blank white eyes directly at him. “Um, mom? Dad?” Knowing this was a dream, he hoped that they’d be living. “Tick.Tick.Tick.Tick.Tick.Tick.Tick.Tick.Tick.Tick.Tick.Tick.” They kept chanting as they got closer to him. “Mom?” He tried again. “Your parents are dead! Every one you loved is dead!” Called wasp’s voice from the dragons. “What do you want?” “Oh brave dragon, i want revenge. You killed my nephew.” “Wait you had a nephew?” “Yes. That isn’t important!” “Or is it?” “TICK.” “Yes?” “ATTACK!” “To lazy to do it yourself wasp? Need your minions to do it?” “Argh!” A whole clump of hivewings grabbed him tightly. ”Now who’s in the lead?” She taunted. “I hate you.” “Too bad.” “Hey wasp, you’re like that annoying little sister that no one wants around.” ”Are you trying to get yourself killed?” “Well not if i can do anything about it!” He lept up. This is my dream remember? Which means i can do what i want!” He pulled out knives and blades. “Oh hives no.” Whispered wasp. “Who’s in the lead now?” Zing! Went the blade, cutting through everything. “Scared?” But then the real wasp came. “Oh very scared! Save me!” She mocked. “Wait, why am i in a tower with a long tail?” “I’ve been reading a few books.” He smirked. “No, DON’T YOU DARE!” A hive wing approached from underneath. Bombardier, he thought with a smile. “I’ll save you!” He said, with a regal voice. “I WILL GET YOU TICK OF THE HIVEWINGS!!!!” And with that, He smiled and left. “Hey sleepyhead, glad you woke up. We’re barely between the mud and sky kingdom, but we have a long way to go.” Skyfire said, already with a big fish in her claws. “Didn’t you have a weird dream? He asked. “I did. What about you?” “Mine was definitely weird too. We can talk about it while we fly.
== Chapter 8 ==
A hour of flying later..
“That was a crazy dream! Are you sure he’s a real dragon? What if it was part of your imagination too?” He questioned. “True. True. Anyway, we’ve talked about both dreams. So we fly a bit more. Are we slow, or is the mud kingdom freakishly huge?” He looked to her. “What? I don't know either!” She countered. Skyfire flew all they way up. “Yep, it’s probably the size of the Mud Kingdom.” She called down. ”Uh, Hey tick?“ “Yeah?” He didn’t like the worry in her voice. Are you okay?” “Yeah, i’m fine but i don’t think the weather is. The sky’s pretty dark, and i, uh, hear thunder too.” “Sounds like-” They looked at each other in horror-“Tornado.” They started running as fast as they could forward! “Quick! Make a hole in the ground!” Sky fire heard the trees rip up behind her, the ,rain pouring down on her and tick. Tick dug a deep hole in the ground. “SKYFIRE!” He yelled over the tornado’s merciless roar. She ran into the hole and they wrapped tight with each other. “Skyfire!” He tried to cover her with more dirt and grass, but it was too late. The tornado whipped her up from the air. “Sky!” He cried. They held on my a single talon that was about to slip.” “What ever you do don’t let go!” “Yes thank you Mr.Obvious!” She shouted back, but trying to follow his directions. Please don’t let go, i don’t want you to die, thought tick. She couldn’t hold on any longer. Tick went chasing after her. He zoomed between the trees and finally caught up with her. The tornado had let go of her, not wanting to hold on any longer, and left. “Skyfire i thought i lost you.” “No time to talk. I missed you too. She quickly hugged tick. He turned bright red, and so did she. “We could be any where in pyrrhia. Who knows?” She flew up again, searching for any clues that could help them. “We absolutely lost. There are like the weirdest things i’ve ever seen. It’s like, mountain, rocks, river, waterfall. What border is this?” Wait, think about it. The sea kingdom it the tail and end of pyrrhia. And there’s the rain kingdom.” He trailed off, hoping she’d get it. “Oh. Well, thanks going to set us off even more!” “We may as well start flying now.” Skyfire took a step forward, and flinched. “Ahh.” She collapsed to the ground. “Oh my gosh!” Tick started to tear up. “What is it?” Skyfire looked down at her right arm. “Oh. This isn’t good.” There was a humongous gash along the side. It was bleeding deep red, and tick had no clue what to do except scream “HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Tick had screamed at least 7 times before he ran out of breath, skyfire was looking so sick. She had been covering it with an emergency cloth the whole time, and it had mainly healed by now, yet it still pained. She removed the cloth. “Tick, it stopped. But i can’t walk again for a few days. How are we going to get there?” Her voice was soft.“We will get there skyfire, i promise you. Stay here, i‘m going to find help.” “But tick, it’s miles from both kingdoms, and you flew so much already just to rescue me! You need rest too!” “Please skyfire. I’ll come back, every night i’ll come back. Just let me look.” “All right fine. Don’t get yourself killed.” “Don’t let yourself frown.” She gave him a warm smile in return. “I won’t.” “And i won’t either.” It pained tick to leave her behind but he had no choice, it was the only way to save her. Skyfire lay her head down, thinking about scarlet again. It’s been quite a while since i’ve thought of her, she thought. Would it be a month before she could get to scarlet? Meanwhile, tick was almost to the thousand scales islands. “HEY!” A spear shot through the air barely touching his right ear. “Hey back! Please. Help me, my friend had gotten hit by a tornado and her arm needs help. There’s a big gash.Please!” Tick pleaded before the dragon could say a word. “You got lucky. I’m coral’s best healer. Sorry bout the spear. My name’s conch. You know, like the conch shells.Let’s go, where is she?” Tick lead conch all the way to skyfire, talking on the way. “Wait a minute, where are all your tools and supplies or stuff.” ” You know how rainwings are the best healers on the continent right? I learned from them. You’ll see.” Skyfire woke up from her sleeve. “I see you are smart. Covering it up with a cloth from a bag of yours.” “Thanks. Who are you?” She didn’t mean to sound so cold, but she couldn’t help it. “I’m conch, coral’s best healer.” He grabbed a leaf, grass, and a twig. He also grabbed some fruit from the nearest plant. “How did we not find that?” Muttered tick. Conch fixed it up in a matter of seconds. “I have this twig, bite on it as tight as you can for the pain relief.” (Disclaimer, the twig idea was from warriors. the next healing method is not real and probably going to hurt you more. So don’t do it, anywhere.) “I’m going to press down on this arm to see how deep the pain is. Tell me when it starts to hurt. Okay?” He pushed it down for a few seconds, skyfire kept silent. He pressed it down more and she winced. “Okay, it’s not too deep. You should let it heal. You may not be able to walk for a few days though. Where did you come from? I can send a-“ “NO!” They both shouted at once. “Ok then.” He left awkwardly. “Thank you conch!” Tick said politely. “No problem.” ”Any way, skyfire do you want me to slice open that fruit?” “Sure.” They talked a bit, and eventually fell asleep.
== Chapter 9 ==
The next day..
Tick woke up, it was still dark. The sun had barely risen to cast it’s bright light on the world. “Um. Ok then.“ But skyfire had already woken up. “Hey.” She said weakly. “Hey. What‘s gonna happen now? We can’t go back. We can’t go anywhere.“ “So? Maybe he’s wrong. Maybe i can still fly. I could walk on 3 claws.” She got up. Skyfire flew to the nearest clump of plants and back twice. “Let’s go!” He flew with her, and they got pretty far, until she got weak again. “Ah. Flip.” Skyfire tried to keep flying. She barely made it past the mud kingdom flying until she started to fall. “T-I-I-I-CK!!” She yelped. He dove down to break her fall. “I thought you hurt your arm, not wing.” “Yeah, but something doesn’t feel right.” There was some clasp on her wing. It was shaped like a cobra’s head and had emerald eyes. “Super weird.” He said. He pulled out a roll of paper. “So you’ve found my clasp. I’d love if you give it back to me. I could possibly heal you permanently. How i know? I followed you this whole time. From jade mountain, all the way here.” Tick looked around him. He kept reading. “I bet you looked. Go to the forest up north. In skywing territory. You can find a tree with a figure eight. Touch it twice and you will fall through a trap door.” “I think we should wait a bit.” He said, and right as he said it, more words scrambled onto the paper. “And hurry. I can hear you. Skyfire and tick of the night-skywings, and hivewings. I know the prophecy. So don’t try to hide anything from me.” Then the letter stopped. After that, it all disappeared. ”Should we keep it? The snake head?” “Sure. Let’s try writing back on the paper. I have quills and a new bottle of fresh ink. Okay maybe not fresh.. You get it.” Skyfire pulled out those exact things. It was a deep Ocean blue. “That’s like, How did your parents afford that?” “Ahem, parent.” She corrected. “Dear anonymous, who are you. And were coming. But if you know everything, you should know, i have to get there somehow too. Also, wait. There must be a trick. A tree with a figure eight. Trap door on skywing territory. You were giving us false info! Are you in the form of a snake?” She finished writing. The words erased themselves, and wrote- “You are brilliant skyfire. All right, i am the snake. But i will only come out of this form when i know you’re ready. For now, i will become an amulet. Wear this where ever you go. Don’t take it off once. You understand?” She wrote sure. “Good.Also, my name is venom. Nice to meet you.” The snake shape shifted into a beautiful jade amulet with the emerald part closed. Skyfire put it on. “This is beautiful.” She said. Tick nodded, “it definitely is.” He agreed. “Do you think it’ll come soon?” “Maybe. It better. But what will we do after we meet scarlet?” “I live in her palace if she accepts me.“ “And me?” Skyfire hesitated. You can live in the palace too i guess.“ “But i‘m not meant for the palace. I don’t want palace life skyfire. I’ll mess everything up. It’ll be too fancy for me. I’ve always been simple.“ “Oh. We’ll think about it when we get there.” She decided, not wanting to think about that topic. “You know, my father taught me this song. It goes like, (try to sing if you like, i know. Very badly written.)
One bird flew, across the sky so high, that bird, he had, so much troubles, he couldn’t cry.
He knew his family was waiting for him.
He knew he’d meet them some day, and it seemed so soon,
cause he kept belie-e-e-e-e-ving. Flying towards the su-u-u-u-u-u-n, oh he made it there, and how the journey was so fun. Oh woah woah oh ho oh ho. (x2)oh.
What do you think? Tick?” She asked. His eyes were shining, he wiped away tears. “Dear wasp, your voice. It’s angelic. It’s- HOW ARE YOU SO PERFECT?!” He cried To her. “Me? Perfect? If you haven’t heard, i have a big gash here from a tornado. I have flaws tick. I decided to run away from a school to find a dangerous queen that could possibly kill me!” He shook his head. “That’s not flaws. That’s bravery skyfire. You’re brave.” “Oh look who’s giving life memos now!” She joked. The laughed for a bit. Is there food?“ “No, looks like we’re gonna starve to death.” “Skyfire don’t. It’s a day. Oh wait. Your purse.” She pulled out two granola purse. Then she put on her sassiest face yet, “First of all,” She sounded so snotty. Tick tried not to laugh. “This is not a purse, this, sire, is a bag. Bag. You hear me?” He nodded, a wide grin spreading across his face. “Second of all, uh, Don’t tell me what to do. Okay?” Then they cracked up so hard. Tick took one of the granola bars, and stuffed half of it into his mouth. “Another reason why you shouldn’t live in the palace.” It sounded more like a question then a statement. “Yep.” And they laughed again. “Let’s take a quick nap, you know, chill and settle down a bit, skyfire.” They cracked up even more. “Okay but seriously.” So they took a quick nap. Skyfire felt something on her snout, and was pulled away and blinded. And when tick woke up, skyfire wasn’t anywhere in view, and niether was the amulet.
== Chapter 10 ==
Skyfire’s point of view
Everything was dark. She knew this wasn’t the night wing island, because she could still see. It was some cave. She clawed at her snout. It was some type of fabric. It was sticky too. “Well, venom has found a interesting dragon now. A thrice moonborn. Looking for scarlet. Skyfire correct?” He asked maliciously. She managed to take off the fabric and responded “What do you want?” He laughed, his voice was so deep. “Who are you?” She asked more. “That, my dragonet, is for me to know and you to find out. Along with the name. Can you stay still for a moment?” The strange night wing asked. Sky fire froze. The dragon put the sticky fabric on her snout again, and also her claws. “You aren’t going anywhere soon skyfire. And if you try to escape, your little friend tick may forget.” He held up a quill. Skyfire sat alone in the room, trying to get the sticky fabric off. But every time she tried, it got tighter. Soon, she stopped trying. Skyfire looked around for her pouch, she had a blade in there, and fabric scissors, along with a quill and ink. But her bag was no where in sight, not that she could see much anyway. “Looking for this?” A different dragon held her bag up. “Yeah. Who are you? Are you going to attack me?” Of course not!” The voice sounded familiar. “You’re from cloud winglet aren’t you?” “Yep! If you forgot, my name’s shadow ridge. This place here is like a secret hide out. That dragon you just met. He’s my father and he runs it all. Impressive right?” Skyfire pointed to her snout. “Right.” She undid skyfire’s ties and stepped back. “Skyfire correct?” “Yep!” “I’m guessing you wanna escape don’t you?” “Yeah. I really do, you aren’t gonna let me out though are you?” “Nah. But if you’d like, i can sneak you around to my bedroom.” “Sure.” Shadow ridge pulled a chain. There was a bright light.” “How is that possible?“ “Tons of enchantments. Hey zenith! Come meet out new prisoner!” “Wait what?“ “Yeah. Prisoner. We grew up here. We’re siblings. Do you have siblings?” “They’re probably older than me and living in a palace. I don’t know them yet.” “That’s too bad. One day we’ll get to run this place though. That’s what dark thunder says.” So that’s his name. Thought skyfire. “Oh well then. Do i stay here?” “No. Of course not! You stay here!” Zenith showed her to a dark room covered with spikes. There was a cell in the middle. He opened the cage for her. “It’s really small.” She winced. “Well it’s the perfect size.” She stepped in reluctantly. Zenith locked chains around her wings, snout, claws, and neck. “Tomorrow’s goo day. It’s fun for us, but maybe not for you.” “Goo day, is bascially when we drop a gallon of black goo over the cage. We keep going until it covers the entire cage, and then it freezes over for a day. It’s so solid, that you can move in side it, but if you try to break it, you’ll crack. Good night!” Skyfire sighed.
The next day, shadow ridge unlocked her from the cage and chains. “Breakfast.” She explained. Skyfire immediately looked at the corner of shadow’s eye. No teardrop. All right, i can think safely. I’ll excuse my self after break fast and escape then. It should be fool proof. When they got to the table, skyfire was given fresh deviled eggs, fish, and some water. The food was peppered and salted. They tasted amazing. After she finished she went right along with her plan and asked, “Can i be excused?” “Sure.” Skyfire went to the room, grabbed her bag and went to the back of the cave. There was a seperate exit there. She headed out that exit as quickly and quietly as she could. Skyfire was flying as fast as she could, until she spotted yellow, golden, and black scales. Then she flew faster. She dove down until she crashed into to the dragon. They tumbled down the hill, wrestling each other. They finally stopped at the edge of a tree. “Tick? Is that you?” “Who’s tick? Who in pyrrhia are you?” The hivewing’s eyes were multicolored. One was a scarlet red, the other a deep blue. “I’m sorry! I thought you were some one i was looking for.” “Who’d you say their name was?” “Tick. You know him?” “Tick? You-“ She grabbed skyfire tightly, “You harm one scale on my brother and that will be the last thing you ever touch. Hear me?” She whimpered and nodded. “Good. Now go. Also tick passed by here an hour ago. He said he was going to wait in the forest. That one.” “Thank you!” Skyfire rushed into the leafy brigade of trees. “TICK!!!!!” She called. “Skyfire?” He called back. “Tick! Where are you?” ”I’m in the middle of the forest- Ow! Skyfire you found me!” She could barely see him. A wing rested on her shoulder. “I’m here.” “Let’s get out of this place.“ Suggested skyfire. They walked out, still embracing each other till they got back into the light. “Glad we‘re back.” They smiled at each other and kept walking.
== Chapter 11 ==
After 2 hours of flying...
”I think we should stop here in the mud kingdom. The mud kingdom? Seriously?” “Yeah why not? We’ll be with other dragons. And we might be protected if we tell moorhen.” “But we can’t tell her everything. Just our names, make up a lie. She’ll ask why we’re there. Say we are lost and homeless dragonets.” “All right then.” They flew over to the mud kingdom. Moorhen was patrolling the border. “Queen moorhen your majesty. Our names are skyfire and tick. We’re lost and homeless. Can we stay in your tribe until we regain our strength to continue venturing?” Skyfire shot tick a look but neither moorhen or tick noticed it. “Sure! Be my guest. You can stay in My palace.” They bowed and entered the kingdom. “This is great. Let’s ask some one how far it is from the sky kingdom. Hey um, you!” Skyfire called to the nearest mudwing. He was actually a hybrid of mudwing and sandwing. “Yeah?” “How far is it from her to the sky kingdom?” “Uh, about 5 days. You’re on the edge territory of the mud kingdom. I’m one of the queen’s guards. My name’s harvest. What’s yours?” “You’re pretty nice for a guard, i’m tick and this is skyfire. We’re friends. Can you show us to the rooms?” Asked tick. Harvest led them to a den with a cozy sleeping area and a bedside. “Here you go! Tell me if you need anything.” Harvest left, humming a song. “Well, five days shouldn’t be that long. Right tick She suggested. “That’s true. But we’re almost out of supplies. And we don’t know what’s gonna happen.” “Unless,” Skyfire closed her eyes tight and saw into the future. “There’ll be a rainstorm. My powers aren’t that advanced yet that i can see when it is. That’s not good. We’re safe to take a nap now though.” Tick laid down with a smile, resting his wings over skyfire. Skyfire had snuggled up to him and had already started snoring away. Tick had gone to sleep too. We’re almost there. He thought. We’re almost there.
The next morning, skyfire heard a deep rumble. “Storm?” “Nope!” Harvest peeked his head through the entrance. “Just my stomach. Rise and shine skyfire. Breakfast is in a few minutes.” “Alright thanks Harvest!” He left. “Tick!” She shook him back and forth, but he snored so loud that she could barely hear herself. “TICK OF THE HIVEWINGS!!!! I COMMAND YOU TO WAKE UP RIGHT NOW!!!!!” She yelled in his ear. “Yeah i’m pretty sure you’re scarlet’s daughter. Wanna go back now?” He joked. She shoved him. “Get up.” But skyfire smiled while saying it. “Yes your highness.” He got up and headed to the main eating area. “Good morning your majesty.” “Good morning tick and skyfire. How are you this fine morning?” “We’re wonderful thank you.” “We might stay another day until we leave so may we take a tour while we’re here?” Asked tick, not sounding like himself at all. “Sure. Amber will show you around.” They dug into their fish and crocodile. “This is delicious! Who’s the chef? I would love to thank them greatly.” Said tick. Under the table, skyfire whacked his tail with hers. What was with him? “May we be excused?” Skyfire had finished her breakfast, but tick hadn’t. “You certainly may.” Tick left into the hallway with her. “What are you thinking?” She hissed. “What? It’s me trying to fit in. A royal place?” He intoned. “I don’t want you to be different just act like yourself. The mud kingdom is safe enough. I hate the tick you are right now. Please be the one i know.” “Sure. I don’t even know what i was saying!” They laughed and tick headed back with her. Skyfire went to the kitchen with her bay leaf and started washing it. “Excuse me ma’am i’ll do that for you. You’re our guest. We’ll clean up after you.” “Nonsense!” But skyfire left. “Thank you moorhen. Do you know when the next storm will be?” “I’m afraid i don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m sorry skyfire. I hope you find out. If you want you can read a few scrolls.” “All right. No problem.” But when skyfire read them, they were absolutely dull and boring. Skyfire took an empty scroll and started writing about their adventure, but in the point of view of a dragon named sunset. Tick’s name in the story was pollinator. “What are you doing?“ “Writing a interesting story. These dragons don’t have any.“ “Actually. I found one you might like. It’s about scarlet’s youth. It’s kinda sad though. But you’ll love it.” He handed her a scroll with writing on it that said “beware for this scroll will hold the secrets of the darkest truths.” Skyfire opened it anyway. “Well, you’re right tick this is great!” She kept on reading. Eventually, she finished, but there were no shelves. “Weren’t there just shelves right here? Also i’m not even in the den!” Tick wasn’t there either. “Odd.“ skyfire ventured around. She read the scroll again. Instead of words, it had a map. Skyfire followed the map until she got to an empty corner. She touched all the walls. Nothing happened. Everything was the same. Skyfire had looked to the ceiling. There was none. Skyfire flew all the way up, but no matter how hugh she went, there were still walls around her. It finally occurred to her that this was a maze. Skyfire flew all around trying to find the end. She checked the scroll again. It was blank. She wrote a 0 on the page. A zero popped up. She flew through, leading her back to the palace. “Tick. There you are.” Tick stood frozen. She touched him curiously. He wasn’t real. Skyfire went on, trying to find where she was going. Is there some kind of password to figure out? She thought. Maybe it’s all in my imagination. That’s it! She wrote down the word imagination, and it opened another portal leading her to the real moving tick. “Well i’m glad you woke up again. You had the scroll in your talons and then you passed out after saying it was interesting. Not to mention, you blanked out for about 3 hours straight. Your eyes were blank white. I was afraid that some how wasp could have controlled you.” He explained. “Oh. In my opinion i was perfectly awake. It was weird.” “Ah well. There’s not much to do in a day anyway. Oh wait. Let’s go for a fly outside. The storm might not come till tomorrow.” Tick agreed and they left the palace, telling moorhen where they were going. “Enjoy!” They flew off. They got to go a few miles before they heard a rustling of leaves under the forest area they were flying over. “Hey uh tick?” Skyfire whispered. “Did you hear that?” “Yeah do you you think-“ But tick couldn’t even finish his sentence before a dragon knocked him down.
== Chapter 12 ==
”Tick!” Cried skyfire. A dragon went after her too. She tried to wriggle free but she was restrained by a night-wing. Tick was bounded by another night-wing and skyfire seemed to recognize him. They were glory’s royal guards. “Nightstar! Darkflame!” She’d met them before when she was 2. “What are you doing?” She asked them. “As you can see,” said darkflame while trying to avoid tick biting him, “i am taking you back to jade mountain on account of the dragonets of destiny.” “But we got so far!” “Sorry ‘Bout this but.” Said nightstar, not sounding sorry at all. Whoosh.Everything went black. The next thing she new, they were moving. The dart somehow didn’t last very long. Skyfire woke up and removed the dart from her neck. She could barely see anything, but she could feel that she was in a bag. She poked a hole, seeing as they got farther and farther away. Tick was in the bag next to her, but she had to be careful not to get caught. She carefully poked a hole in his and reached for his arm. Apparently he was awake too. They made the hole bigger and bigger until they could fit through. But they had to be quick. It wouldn’t be long until the guards noticed their bags were empty. She and tick dove down to the forest, crashing into the trees. “Ow!” Yelled tick. “Tick hush! They’ll hear us!” But everything was silent. Skyfire could barely make out the sound of wingbeats. Good, they’re gone. She relaxed her shoulders and went towards tick. “Skyfire i don’t think this is good.” He pointed to a tall solid rock wall. I tried to fly over it, but there’s some kind of force field around it, and i kinda got burned. He winced and lifted his claws to show her. They were ashy, and very burnt. “Oh tick. Hang on.” She pulled out some healing cream in a tightly sealed jar. She struggled to open the lid and nearly fell over. At last, she got it and put some on ticks claws and wing tips. “There you go.” “Thanks skyfire. What do you say we fly back?” Tick suggested. “Sure.” Skyfire responded, clenching her tongue. “You seem kind of hesitant and worried skyfire. Are you alright?” Asked tick with a concerned face. “Yeah. I’m fine. Just thinking.” She responded. “Let’s fly back tick. It’s almost sundown.” “Alright.” 
Once they reached the palace, it was about dinner time. “Short fly huh?” Snorted harvest. “We were almost captured and we had to fly for at least a hour harvest. Cut us some slack.” Tick repsonded in the same tone. “We have some more fish. Again. If you want some.” Suggested amber shyly. “OH MY GOSH! Sorry. You came out of nowhere thats why. You scared the bones out of me amber!” Said harvest, modestly. Amber blushed. “Sorry.” She whispered, looking away. Tick and skyfire looked at each other. Oh boy. Tick thought to her. “Anyway. Let’s go. I would kill for fish right now.” Skyfire groaned and hurried off. “She’s certainly a keeper isn’t she?” Harvest asked tick when the other two had gone out of earshot. “You could say that yeah.” Tick blushed a bright red. “I don’t know if she thinks i’m a keeper though.” “She probably thinks that all the time my friend. Let’s go.” He and tick left after the girls. “Tick! Harvest! Come on!” Said skyfire once they got there. “What is it?” Tick turned to her. “It’s amber! She broke her wing! Some one get help!” She rushed over to amber. “I’ll tell moorhen.” Offered harvest as he ran out. Tick flew over. “Do you have any more of that cream?” “I do. But it only eases pain and burns. It won’t do anything to her wing though.” “Oh.” Moorhen came in, 3 dragons next to her. “Amber! What happened?” “I-i was flying to the dining area tables with skyfire and then some dragon lept on to me. Skyfire had pried them off, but she didn’t recognize them. She said it looked like a hybrid, but a deformed one that was definitely not a mudwing.” She whimpered. “I think, your majesty, there is some one after you. And not a good dragon.“ Skyfire told her and looked around for anything mysterious. “That is definitely not good.” Moorhen turned to the three dragons, but skyfire wasn’t paying attention. Great we could possibly have a threat in one of the most laid back kingdoms of all time. Yippee,Skyfire thought bitterly. “Let’s go back to the room tick. I don’t think it’s safe here right now.” They headed of to their guest room, harvest following behind them. “You know, this has never happened before. It really is odd.” Harvest peeped. “I bet it is. And we’re leaving tomorrow so we won’t even be able to solve it! Hopefully amber recovers and the dragon is caught.” Skyfire told him and laid down. “Ah well. Tell me if you need anything!” Harvest left. Tick went to sit beside skyfire. “Hey. Excited to go visit scarlet still?“ “Yeah. Absolutely! Like i could ever forget. I think that maybe all these adventures tie into the prophecy. It did say something about destiny didn’t it?” There was a pause, tick nodded solemnly. A different dragon walked in carrying a scroll. “Here you go. Some news i wrote down. Well, they’re mainly rumors. But it is very interesting. Enjoy your day.” He set down the scroll and walked out. Skyfire grabbed the scroll quickly. “It’s nice to have something to read.” She said when she saw tick’s bewildered expression. “Ah okay then. What does it say?” Skyfire scanned the scroll. “It’s about the dragon that attacked amber. It says he wasn’t after amber but some one else. They only had to get amber to get to the other dragon. They haven’t caught him. But they suspect that the dragon they were after is a nightwing skywing from jade mountain. Their name was skyfire.” She widened her eyes. “Oh no.” They said in unison. Skyfire grabbed her bag, and ran out the door. Suddenly a vision had hit her. Skyfire was pinned down by a dragon wearing a black cloak. A barb was pointed at her neck. The dragon had ruby and obsidian scales. Everything went black. “Skyfire! Skyfire! Sky wake up!” Tick shook her until she opened her eyes again. “That hurt.” She groaned. “You literally collapsed while you were running. Was it a vision?” Tick held out his claw to help her up. “That’s exactly what it was. It was me and that dragon. They were wearing a cloak but i couldn’t see much. They had a barbed end and ruby and obsidian scales.” Tick is it possible you have a cousin that’s part sandwing. “Yeah absolutely, NOT! I don’t think that my cousin would kill me. I’ve met all of them in the three years of the rain kingdom and not a single one had a barb.” “Oh.” “Well i guess we should keep going.” “Yeah.” Tick sounded a little sad. “What’s wrong tick?” Skyfire asked, slowing down to catch up with him. “Nothing. It’s fine.” “You sure?” “Yeah. I’m sure.” They flew in silence for a few hours. “Tick, it’s night, i think it’s far enough.” Skyfire said, tired from all the running and flying. He nodded and landed, already headed to sleep. “Goodnight tick.” There was a pause. “Goodnight skyfire.”
== Chapter 13 ==
Tick hated to think about his childhood. How he was bullied, when his sister was adored. He was pushed away, while his sister was dragged in to everything. Tick had almost been captured, and the story of how he escaped was different from what he told skyfire. Skyfire, the thing that killed his sister. Skyfire the name of his best friend, and true love. As he headed off to sleep, an image went through his mind. His sister on the floor, him crying, and their parents gone. “Wake up! Wake up! Please!” Tick and his sister were the almost same age, and born 15 minutes apart from each other. “Sis?” He felt her pulse, nothing was there. It was all still and silent. Then he saw a black vain from her arm to her chest. In her talons was skyfire. “Skyfire?” He whispered. “Dead?” He teared up again. “My sister’s dead. Everyone’s dead! He threw the skyfire across the room and it shattered. Tick cried even more. A low thud came behind him. He whipped around, yet there was no one there. Tick peered out the window. The fights have become larger, red splatters everywhere. Suddenly he was pinned down. He clawed furiously at the shadows but kept missing. Luckily, he grabbed a hold of something right when his captor was about to slice his neck. Tick stabbed it through. The mysterious dragon roared and fell back. Tick could barely get a glimpse before he grabbed his back and ran out the door. It was a hivewing with similar scales to his father. It isn’t him, why would he kill his son? He thought, halfway off the coast. He knew that his father always was the one to comfort him. Funny to think that his friend skyfire, had the same name of a sister killing stone. Then everything went black. “Tick! Tick! Tick wake up!” He opened his eyes, and was greeted by a downpour of rain. “Yay. A storm. Do you even know where we are?” “I checked a few hours ago, and we’re in the sky kingdom!” “Wait how? I thought we got to the mud kingdom!” “Nope! I may have carried you in your sleep for like 2 hours straight and now it’s like i have arthritis but who care. We’re here!” He sighed with a smile. Typical skyfire, he thought. “I heard that!” “Yeah i know. The almighty teardrop hybrid.” He teased. “Almighty sleepy hivewing.” “I’ll give you that one.” He chuckled. I don’t think it’s that far right?” He asked, changing the topic. “We are pretty close to the edge. It might take another day or two.” “Alright.” He nodded. “We need to find food first. You go that way, i go this way.” She left him alone, flying off north for food. Tick flew in the other direction headed to the forest. “Skyfire normally isn’t shocking. What if it wasn’t skyfire that killed my sister? What if it was-“ “I’m not dead.” A voice interrupted him. Tick looked up. “Tick. I’m alive. I came here after you left. I was shocked, that vein,” She pointed to the black lines, “It only shocked me. But i’m better now. Jerboa told me you were at jade mountain, but when i went there, i couldn’t find you. Tsunami told me you ran off after scarlet. Then later i ran into this skywing nightwing with a pouch and told her not to hurt you. After a while, i came here for rest and i heard you.” “Skyfire.” He muttered. “What?” “You met my friend, her name was skyfire.” There was a pause. “Well, at least you know i’m alive.” Tick ran to his sister and hugged her. She hugged him back, and they started crying. “Hey tick i found some-” Skyfire stopped when she saw him and his sister. “I’ll wait.” She headed back to a small rock. “No it’s okay. Skyfire this is my sister, maple. It’s more of a leaf wing name, but no one cares. Maple, this is skyfire.” “Oh hi, yeah sorry about the last time we met. Want a fresh start?” Maple asked, holding out her claws. Skyfire reached out hers and they shook talons. “Sure.” Skyfire smiled. “Do you want to go with us to the sky kingdom maple?” “Uh yeah i guess. I have nothing else to do.” “As i said earlier, i found some food for us. You might have a bit less, sorry maple.” Skyfire led them over to some berries. “I was raised in the rainforest for three years. I guess it comes in handy knowing the safe from the poisonous berries.” “Nice!” Commented maple. She grabbed a few blackberries and started popping them into her mouth. “Yum!” Her snout was stained with blackberry juice. “Maple, your snout!” Laughed tick. He’d never felt this happy in a long time, as in his 2nd birthday. “We should start flying soon.” Skyfire nodded. “The rain stopped.” Noticed maple. “Finally! I was wondering when i would get a break from getting washed by nature.” He joked. “Let’s go.” Skyfire grabbed her pouch and lifted into the air. Tick and maple joined her shortly after and they started heading west to the palace. Later, he and the others had found a place to rest. Maple was looking troubled. “What’s wrong?” He asked. “Tick, i don’t think you’re going to like this.” “Try me.” He nodded. “The dragon that attacked you, was our father under wasp’s command.” “No.” Tick was bewildered. “I know it looked familiar. But, why?” “I heard the command tick. Wasp wanted to kill you and she sent the rock as a distraction. Tick, i tried to regain him, he woke up again right after you left. But i could, even out of mind control, he was still dangerous. I had no other choice tick.” Her voice became softer. “So i killed him.” Tick met his sister’s eyes with worry and sadness. He could tell she didn’t mean to hurt him with the news, but there was no helping it. “Maybe we should continue flying.” Suggested skyfire. “Good idea.” He responded.
== Chapter 14 ==
(Sky’s pov again)
Skyfire could feel the heated tension between the two siblings about the conversation. “Hey sky!” She turned towards maple. “Do you know what leafwings are?” Skyfire was confused. “Leaf-what? Sorry, is this some survival thing i’m supposed to know?” “Well if you go to pantala, i guess you could say yes. But here you’re pretty safe. Leafwings look a lot like what you call rainwings, but their wings in the shape of leaves. They only have one wing one each side, quite similar to you. Another difference is that they can’t change colors. Their scales have dark greens, mixed with browns and golds. At the end of their tails are little leaf shape thingies.“ Maple explained. Skyfire pondered for a bit and then nodded. “Yeah i can see that.” “Our cousin, cricket, had made allies with one named sundew. They stole the book of clearsight and defeated wasp before. I mean nothing bad, cause the book didn’t even have any information in it anyway.” “Oh yeah. I’ve heard of her. Moonwatcher told me about clearsight. That’s really interesting. Thanks maple!” “No problem sky. Wait can i call you sky? We just met so-like-um?” Skyfire tried not to laugh as she watched maple fumble with her words. “Skyfire watch out!” Skyfire was rammed in the side by a big bulky dragon. The dragon immediately grabbed her, and she realized this was the same one that hurt amber. Skyfire wriggled free and started flying and running onto the ground. The dragon chased after her. It’s the vision, she thought. Skyfire ran faster, but wasn’t any match for the cloaked dragon chasing after her. He pinned her down, and pointed the sandwing barb to her neck. But just before he was about to kill her, tick flew straight into him, knocking the dragon off her body. Unfortunately, as he was pushed off, his tail had slid across her neck and went through for a brief moment, yet enough to poison her. “SKYFIRE!” Tick cried. “What-oh. Oh no. Tick maple look through my pouches i have a remedy in there! I have the cure!” Maple lept for the pouch and quickly started looking. Tick wiped away his tears and joined her. He found it, mashed it together with his claws, and spread it over her. “It might heal little by little. I think I’m able to fly though.” She got up, walked, ran, and flew into the sky. “Yep!” Tick looked relieved, and she smirked. “You thought i was going to die? Nah.” Skyfire said, as she came back down. “I really did sky. I was worried!” “Worried is a understatement.“ Maple smirked as well. “We should keep flying.” Suggested tick. Skyfire looked down. The cloaked dragon was getting up, and met her eyes. “Guys? He-the dragon isn’t dead yet. Fly!” The three of them zoomed off, but then skyfire let them get ahead of her. She shot towards him and grabbed one of his blades. Zhing! Once and for all, he was dead. Skyfire flew as fast as she could to catch up with them. “Oh hey! Sky look. We can actually see the palace. That’s how close we are!” Cheered tick. She felt so excited. Finally getting to meet her probable mother. But what if no one wants me there? What if scarlet isn’t my mother? What if my real mother is dead? Tick could tell she was nervous, because he came a little closer to her side. It’ll be all right. He thought in her direction. Trust me. She smiled. “Wait. How are we going to get in? We can’t just straight up barge into a royal palace.“ “Skyfire, you‘re going in there yourself.“ “Oh. Right yeah.” Skyfire pretended that she was flying into the castle. “Hello. May i speak to queen scarlet of the skywings?” She said it over and over again. “You really are too worried. “Well wouldn’t you be worried if you were meeting your mother for the first time, not knowing if she actually is and if this whole journey that took us weeks was worth it?” She responded curtly. “Good point.” They flew in silence a bit longer. “Now we are literally right in front of the palace. Skyfire, now is your chance. I see a patrol coming.” Tick told her, sounding tired. She nodded. “Good luck!” Maple called in the distance. Skyfire landed in front of the patrol. “Sorry to interrupt your conversation, but may i speak to queen scarlet of the skywings?” They looked at each other. “Sure. Follow us.” Skyfire felt relieved. The guards opened the door, and there she was on the throne. The majestic queen scarlet. Skyfire bowed deeply as she heard the loud slam of the doors closing behind her. “Who are you?” She growled. “Your majesty, i believe i may be your daughter.” Scarlet eyed her scales and then snorted. “Ridiculous. How could i have a hybrid for a daughter? Prove it dragonet or you get to face my dear arena.” Skyfire took a deep breath. “Have you ever married a night-wing before?” Scarlet shook her head, smiling even more. But skyfire peered into her mind, and heard her thinking yes. “I'm a mindreader and a pretty skilled one too your highness. Tell the truth.“ “Fine yes. Carry on.” “An egg was missing from your hatchery about three years ago correct?” “Yes.” Scarlet began to get curious as the questions went on. The last question, skyfire thought, will determine if she’s actually my mother. “What did you want to name your hybrid dragonet with that night wing before he ran away with your egg?” Pause. “I wanted to name my daughter skyfire. We agreed with the name.” “Queen scarlet of the skywings. My name is skyfire. And i, am your daughter.
== Chapter 15 ==
scarlet’s p.o.v.
No. How? Is it really her? Did he really steal my egg? I need to tell ruby this news. Scarlet why do you care? Three years ago you said you wanted that egg to die painfully. Because you want a better heir to the throne. Scarlet’s thoughts were flurries of emotion and confusion. “Ruby!” Her other daughter walked in, and halted when she saw skyfire. “Mother who is this dragonet?” “Ruby, she’s your sister. Well, technically your step sister. Her name is skyfire. Princess skyfire.” Scarlet laughed when she saw her daughter’s shocked expression towards skyfire. “Too much competition for the throne now isn’t it?” “How? We-we thought you were dead. The entire sky kingdom thought you were dead!” Skyfire was awestruck, and delighted too. “The KINGDOM? A WHOLE KINGDOM THOUGHT I DIED?” Skyfire echoed. Then skyfire started to laugh. Scarlet started to laugh along as well. Soon the every dragon that heard the conversation was laughing. “That does sound pretty ridiculous.” “Say what. Why don’t we call very single dragon in the kingdom. Then you can say, I EXIST!“ Ruby suggested. “Great idea!” Skyfire grinned. Scarlet walked out and called all the skywings to come outside the palace. She beckoned for skyfire. ”On the count of three, you will yell i exist. One two three.” Whispered scarlet. Skyfire stepped outside on the balcony and yelled, “I EXIST!” They gasped and applauded. “You are all dismissed. There will be a party this afternoon.” Scarlet pulled skyfire aside. “So where did you fly from?” “Jade mountain academy. It took so long, and there were a lot of stops.” Skyfire responded. There was a knock on the doors. “What is it?” Scarlet spat, harsher than she wanted. “I have some bad news for you both.” Bad news? Right after meeting my long lost daughter? Scarlet thought. “Nightkeeper died 6 hours ago. We tried to get to you as quickly as we could. I’m sorry your majesty.” He stood for a moment and scarlet collapsed to the ground. “Tell everyone the party is canceled. The messenger nodded and left. Her daughter’s eyes welled and so did scarlet’s. “No.No!” Scarlet had officially lost everyone she cherished. Skyfire didn’t count because they met and she barely knew her. Ruby was straight up intolerable. Scarlet held her tears and went to sit on her throne. “I’ll find you a room later. For now you can go into my bed.“ Skyfire nodded and left her alone in the main entrance. Why does this kind of stuff happen to me? She thought bitterly. First a rain wing spits venom into my eye. Second my own champion leaves me for a worthless mudwing. Third i create a daughter the way i want and now she wants to take the throne. Now my another one of my husbands died. Life sure is great. Scarlet had an idea but then it vanished, the arena would only remind her of him more. That’s where they met. Night keeper was in an arena battle against an adult sandwing named heatstroke. He was a better fighter than every other dragon there. He also pleased her too by making it interesting. Later after the battle, scarlet snuck him out. This was when she was a dragonet. They were about the same age, her and night keeper. They were friends at that time, and scarlet’s mother never knew about their friend ship. Until her first husband crimson died. Night keeper still wanted to hers and she accepted it. She didn’t know how in pyrrhia he snuck out with one of the eggs. And now he was dead too. The last time she saw him was so long ago, but she still had one of his birthday presents from when they were 6. It was a beautiful bracelet with garnet and moonstone. She wore it everyday with pride and happiness. The bracelet came with a note. “To princess Scarlet, the best friend of all time. If i die and when i die, i want you to destroy this bracelet, there will be a special gift for you inside it to unlock the chest i gave you when we first met. You’ll find a lot of things in there, and something for our daughter if we have one. Which we probably will have. Right now i am writing from the rain kingdom. I know you don’t like rainwings, but i can’t stay anywhere else. The ice kingdom is definitely not an option. I’ve met some surprising dragons here. One of them wishes that they could live in the sky kingdom and be your servant. That reminded me of you, and that’s why i wrote this letter. I don’t know when i’ll come back, but you’ll stay in my heart forever. I miss you all the most, Night keeper.” Scarlet headed to where she kept the chest and bracelet. Scarlet whispered, “i’m sorry,” and snapped the bracelet in half. A little key with intricate lace patterns carved into it fell out. She picked up the key and unlocked the chest. Night keeper was right. Scarlet found some coins, some earrings, a rose gold bracelet with skyfire stones and a moon pendant. She dug deeper, and at the very bottom was another note. Scarlet pulled it out carefully. “Ah, so apparently i have died or you were so eager to see what was hidden in this chest. Well either way, that bracelet was for our daughter. I hope she’s wearing it right now. This is basically my will. I‘ll never forget you Queen scarlet. Night keeper.” Scarlet took the bracelet out. “Skyfire come here!” She called. Skyfire came in. “Yes?” “This was from your father. Let me put it on.” Scarlet closed the hook around skyfire’s wrist. “It’s beautiful!” Skyfire said with a smile. “Also mother? I didn’t come here alone. Can i introduce you to my friends?” “Sure.” Scarlet didn’t feel like putting any dragon in the arena battle anyway. Her daughter came in a few minutes later with the oddest dragon she had ever seen. “Meet tick and maple. I flew with them to here.” They bowed to her, and scarlet had to admit she liked the feeling of being bowed to. “Nice to meet you your majesty! My name’s tick. This is my sister maple.” Said the one on her right. “We’re from another continent across the ocean called pantala. Our tribe is called the hivewings.” “I see. You may all rest in my room for now. I really need to find a room.” They nodded. Scarlet noticed she wasn’t crying anymore. She headed off into the hallway to find a empty room. It was the room she hid night keeper in. Scarlet smiled and laid down on the comfortable soft bed. She felt as if she were young again. Scarlet closed her eyes and dreamt. Dreamt that night keeper and her were playing in this room, laughing and giggling. Practicing fighting tactics. Studying for tests that she had to take. All the good memories. Scarlet had never felt so lighthearted in her life. She loved the feeling of not having to care about anything for the moment. She wished she could savor it forever. Scarlet knew this wasn’t how she used to be. How she was sassy, fierce, and loved to watch dragons fight to the death. She agreed to herself one day she would return to that way of life, but scarlet knew that wouldn’t be anytime soon.
== Chapter 16 ==
skyfire’s p.o.v. 
Skyfire was delighted by the bracelet and she immediately ran to the room with tick and maple. “Hey! Look at this cool bracelet my dead father made me possibly 7 years ago!” Maple cracked up,as in she literally fell onto the floor laughing. Tick smiled and nodded. “It’s pretty. It even has skyfire in it. It’s like he knew your name would be skyfire.” She smiled. “Yeah, they probably decided my name years ago.“ She paused. “Crazy isn’t it?” “What?” Asked maple. “That a skywing like my mother could get along with a nightwing.“ “Well, any tribe can get along with each other. We just have to make it that way.” Tick stepped forward. “Skyfire can i ask you something?” She turned to him and saw he was slightly red. “Will you be my-” She already knew what he was going to say. “Yes!” She leapt onto him and hugged him fiercely, careful to avoid his tail with the stinger. Maple, from what she heard, was whooping and applauding quite loudly. Tick was blushing and so was skyfire. “What will the dragonet look like? A multimedia swirl of crazy colors that will drive others insane just by looking at it?” “Maple!” Scorned tick playfully. Skyfire felt like she was able to fly towards the moons. “What?” Maple laughed, trying to avoid her brother’s playful blows. Skyfire was now more than just friends with tick, and she loved it. “Hey tick!” She motioned for him. “Yeah sky?” “We’re going to wake up scarlet on the count of three. She’s in that room. Maple you wanna come?” The hivewing nodded eagerly. They snuck into the room and crept up to scarlet. “Three two one, wait what should we say?” Asked tick. “Potato.” She replied, trying not to laugh. “Three,two,one, POTATO!” Yelled skyfire. Scarlet yelped and jumped off the bed. “After i give you a beautiful bracelet from your father you do this to me? Why skyfire? I’m so scared!” The four of them laughed. “I suppose i was sleeping too long.” “Too long is one thing. There’s an entire line of skywings in front of the throne! The line even goes outside the palace!” Skyfire exclaimed. “Oh dear!” Scarlet rushed out in a hurry. “Well, i’m going to say to things that have never been any truer in my life. Worth it.” Laughed maple. They headed back to scarlet’s bedroom. “Tick i thought you said she was supposed to be scary!” Skyfire turned to tick, who was scrawling something down. “I thought so too! Wait till i tell queen glory about this!” He grinned. “Wait, you’re, not staying?” She asked, her bright mood immediately vanished from her face. “I don’t know skyfire. It’s really comfy in here and i love it. It’s just that-” “You aren’t made for royalty. I know, but please tick? Maple? Will you stay?” She turned to the maple, who gave her a grim shake of her head. There was a silence. “I’m sorry skyfire. I’ll visit often though.” Tick tried to cheer her up, but it didn’t work. “Where will you both live? All the kingdoms are still to far, and it’s dangerous. Remeber how many stops we had to make?” She pleaded. “I’ll return to jade mountain. I’ll tell them all the news. I’ll tell them what happened. Maple can live near the mountain, or jerboa’s hut. Maybe even winter’s sanctuary. Not here though. Sorry.” He frowned, his eyes even sadder. Skyfire couldn’t believe it. Tick was leaving. He was really leaving. Visits wouldn’t change anything. They were short. Short and useless. “I should get some sleep for the flight. I can’t believe it’s already nighttime.” Tick headed to the bed. Skyfire looked out the window, and tick was right. The sky was dark with stars glowing, and dim moonlight. Scarlet walked in again. “I found you a room.” She nodded. “It’s the room where we scared you isn’t it?” Skyfire predicted. “Yes. It is.” They headed back. “Enjoy.” With that, scarlet left again to her own room. “What did you write down on that scroll tick?” Skyfire asked, curious to know what he actually did write. “It’s just the prophecy. So i can remember you when i’m gone.” He handed her the scroll. “Oh.” Tick was telling her the truth. She smiled a bit, remembering the moment when she said it. All mysterious and ominous. Then it hit her. “Tick. The prophecy. It mentioned something about destiny right? ’Beware the hidden destiny.’ I think our trip to the sky kingdom, trying to find if scarlet is my mother. It was our destiny. Son of the hive, that was you. Daughter of the sky, that’s me.” She recited the prophecy and then grinned. “We solved the prophecy! We did it!” She smiled. “Now here’s another, three dragons full of adventure. Three dragons having fun. One dragon wants them all to get sleep, the other two want to run.” Joked maple. “Okay yeah i’ll give you that. We really should get some sleep.“ They climbed in the beds, and snoozed off. Skyfire still was a little upset that they were leaving, but she felt better after joking around and solving a prophecy. 
The next morning, tick and maple ate their breakfast fairly quickly. “Today is the day.” She sighed. “Yep.” Tick didn’t meet her eyes, but she could tell he wasn’t excited either. “Promise you’ll both write to me?” Skyfire asked, worrying that they’d forget her somehow. “Of course. Why wouldn’t we?” Maple responded, in the same anxious tone. “We’ll write the moment we set foot in the rain kingdom. Promise.” Tick nodded to her. “All right then.” But skyfire couldn’t help it. She wanted them to turn around and stay. “We should get going now.” Maple said, getting up. “Thank you for the hospitality your majesty!” She bowed to queen scarlet and headed out the door. Tick did the same, but first he turned towards skyfire, and touched her snout with his. “I’ll miss you.” He whispered under his breath and let Go. Skyfire wished that lasted forever. “I’ll miss you too.” He walked over to his sister. “Bye skyfire!” They waved to her as they flew out the door. After they were long gone, skyfire let out all the tears she’d been holding back. “I miss them already.” Scarlet flew over and wrapped her wing around skyfire. “Hey, it’s going to get better. They’ll come and visit right?” Skyfire nodded, still whimpering. ”So it’ll get better. Time goes by when you have fun. So enjoy spending time with me. Your great, glorious, and beautiful skywing mother aka a queen!” Skyfire smiled at this. She was real royalty. One day she’d take the throne. Or would she let ruby take the throne? Ruby was older and slightly more experienced, so skyfire would let her take it first. It was a long time till then, though. “What should we do next?” Scarlet asked. “I don’t know. We are royalty. What about royal duties?” She joked. “That’s for me to do. I suggest since you’re sisters now, you should go warm up to ruby. Get to know her a bit.” Skyfire nodded eagerly. “Where is she?” She asked. “Down that hall, third door to the left.” She rushed off. Ruby opened the door and nearly knocked skyfire to the ground. “Oh. Sorry about that. I was going to ask you something anyway, and here you are! Come in!” Skyfire walked in, a little more relaxed. “So, scarlet told me i should warm up to you, cause we’re sisters and all.“ She explained to ruby. “Oh yeah that kinda makes sense. I mean, just to clear it up. You aren’t jealous of me or hate me right?” Ruby asked. “Nope! Not at all. You’re actually very nice.” “Oh thank you! You are too!” They were laughing and talking so long. Finally, ruby asked the question she wanted to. “Are you going to take the throne first?” Her entire body was tense, and she leaned forwards to skyfire. “Of course not. You’re way more experienced than i am and know more about the sky kingdom than i do. I’d definitely let you take it first.” Skyfire was being honest about this. If she took it, the kingdom would be full of questions and complaints skyfire couldn’t answer. Worse, she would have to fight ruby, who was much much bigger and older than her. Ruby looked at her for a heartbeat and then nodded. “All right. That’s good.” She decided to peer into ruby’s mind. She seems nice, but i’ll have to seem wary about her. If she’s a favorite of mother’s, like peril, things might go wrong quickly. I’ll keep an eye out. Skyfire walked out of the room casually. “Oh and skyfire!” Ruby called to her. She halted and turned around. “Yes?” Skyfire’s tone was cold and smooth. “Be careful around the palace. The sky kingdom is full of theives and troublemakers.” Skyfire nodded. “Thanks.“ She walked out the door, nearly running into one of the guards. “Oh, your majesty. Princess skyfire, i am very sorry! Are you okay?” He held out his claw to her, but she refused. “It’s fine. Who are you? I’m sorry, i’m still new to a palace life.” “It’s okay, princess skyfire. My name is lieutenant Skyhawk.” Ah, so he’s a lieutenant. She thought, brushing her self off. The lieutenant looked displeased. “What’s wrong?” She asked him, but he immediately shifted his face to a smile. “Oh what are you talking about? I’m perfectly fine!” “But you were displeased just a moment ago.” Skyfire countered with a suspicious expression. “Silly dragonet princess and their imaginations. You’ll grow up to be quite the queen.” He patted her head and walked off. Skyfire knew something was wrong with him. So she did what any curious dragon like her would do. She would investigate. “SKYFIRE!” Called scarlet. Flip, she thought, i’ll do it later. Maybe queen scarlet, er, mother could tell me about him. “Yes mother?” She said, entering the room with a fake smile. “Lieutenant Skyhawk will be your guide around the palace. He will also take care of your needs for you.“ Skyhawk was glaring directly at her and she knew it. “Carry on!” Skyhawk walked over to her, hello again. It is an honor to serve the second heir to the throne.” Skyfire wasn’t liking him at all so far. He’s suspicious,odd, and really annoying. “Okay listen to me lieutenant. Tell me the truth, why were you glaring at me? Why were you displeased. Something’s going on around here.” He shook his head, and skyfire roared with fury. Another guard came in. “Anything wrong your mistress?” “This dragon right here is doing an unbelievably horrendous job of assisting me! He won’t answer my questions!” The guard looked like he was about to burst into tears from laughing. “Who him? He always answers your questions!” With that he left. This time Skyhawk wasn’t even trying to hide his emotions. “WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!TRYING TO GET ME FIRED?!” He yelled at her. Skyfire took a deep breath. “Maybe.” She actually was trying to get him fired. Well, at the least. His face grew normal, but he was still seething. “Those red scales of yours definitely fit you.” Skyfire smirked and headed back to ruby’s bedroom. “What happened out there? I heard a lot of yelling.” “Mother made Skyhawk my assistant and caretaker. I think i’m going to die from frustration before you even take the throne.“ Ruby's face was full of pity, and laughter at the same time. “Oh Skyhawk? Yeah, sky, i wish you a lot of luck in life. The guards like him, mother likes him. The only dragons besides us that hate his guts is the chefs. I had a full on chat with them of how annoying he was. There was this one chef who put worms in his tea. Straight from the soil! It was hilarious!” They laughed. ”Your majesties, may i help you with something?” Skyhawk was right behind skyfire. “Oh i didn’t see you there! Sorry Skyhawk. We’re fine.” “I assume so.” He grumbled and left. Once he was out of earshot, skyfire sighed. “Did you notice anything different about him when i came here?“ She asked ruby, a little scared. “His eyes. There’s a weird glint in his eyes. I can’t seem to recognize it though.” “I’ll look it up in the library.” She nodded and left, headed to the tall spire of the palace. Once she got there, she heard skyhawk murmuring something under his breath. ”Why isn’t she dead?” Silence. “I see. You were defeated? By a dragonet? Two dragonets? I don’t care what you did. I just want that hybrid dead! Now that she’s in the palace, it’ll be easier. She’s suspicious though. I’ll talk to you tonight. Yes. Bye.” Skyfire ran from the library to her bedroom and locked it. “So that’s why he’s been giving me those looks. He wants to kill me.“ She hurried to her scroll rack, grabbed some ink, and started writing to tick. This was an emergency. She couldn’t risk it trying to take him down her self. Then again, she wouldn’t risk tick’s either. A messenger knocked on the door. She quickly opened the door, grabbed it, then shut it again. It was from tick. Only a few simple questions and i love you. Some stuff from maple but she’d read that later. Skyfire knew she had to write the letter. One thing though, she’d have to lie. Lie and say it was all right. That seems truthful, she thought with a small smile, but it isn’t. She picked up the scroll again, and started writing again. Dear tick, everything is fine. It’s so nice here. I miss you and maple lots. Tell the dod i said hi. Love, princess skyfire of the night-skywings. When she opened the door, the messenger was still there. She thrust it to him and said, “Deliver this to where the previous letter was from.” He left, and she shut the door again. Skyfire calm down don’t panic. It’s okay, you’ll defeat him yourself. You’ve lived through so much. It’s okay. “Can i come in?” It was ruby’s voice. Skyfire opened the door for about the fifth time, and pulled her in. “Ruby, i figured it out. Skyhawk wants me dead and he’s trying to kill me. I overheard him in the library.” Ruby’s eyes widened at her. “Oh no. What’s even worse is that no one else will believe you. Not even the chefs. We have to have proof, otherwise we can’t take him down.“ Ruby was telling her all the reasons why they couldn’t kill him yet, but skyfire wasn’t listening. “Ruby. What if we did it the scarlet way?” Ruby paused, visibly confused. “The what?” “The scarlet way. Her arena. Her birthday is tomorrow isn’t it?” Skyfire had a sly smile. “Skyfire you’re a genius. I’m going to teach you a few fighting techniques.” Ruby stood up and hopped off the bed. “All right. I am going in the arena. Another thing, i need to know his weaknesses.” “AH! How are you so smart? Yeah. So one thing Skyhawk is terrible at, is fighting on ground. He stumbles a lot. A lot. I’ve seen him in the arena before. Another thing is, He can’t throw anyone off easily when he’s pinned down with his back facing the sky. He can still throw you off, just not that easily.” Skyfire was noting every word she said. “The main advantage you have over him is thinking. He just goes for everything with adrenaline and force. That’s how he’s won so many battles. Those dragons though, they were too slow. One time he lost against another dragon, a sandwing, and he changed everything. Now he stops to think in the middle of the battle. Not that long though.That gives you sometime to think, but only for a brief moment, then pin him down. Like this.” Ruby waited a heartbeat, and then pinned skyfire down. “Like that.” Ruby nodded. Skyfire felt grateful to have a sister like her. “Thanks ruby. You should get going to your bedroom.” Skyfire pushed her off and got up. “Nah. Gotta protect my little sis from the most evil, annoying dragon in the world!” They laughed. “I’ll sleep here for the night.” “DINNER!” Scarlet called to them from the main room. They exited the door, greeted by a guard who looked as if he was about to fall into a pool of acid. “Airstreak are you alright?” Ruby asked worriedly. “Skyfire, don’t eat the main meal. What ever you do. Same with you, mistress ruby. Skyhawk, he-he poisoned it. Just ask for some water. I know he poisoned it. I tested the food with this thing i made. It’s accurate. You’ll die immediately.“ The guard ran off, and skyfire shuddered. She was honestly pretty scared now. Ruby noticed and wrapped her wing around skyfire. “It’s okay. Do what he says, i’m scared too.” When they entered the room, skyfire knew instantly things weren’t normal. The lights were dimmer, and all that there was on the table was the main meal. Then she looked at queen scarlet‘s eyes. They were obsidian black, with bright green pupils. All of their eyes were like that. She turned to ruby to see if her eyes were normal or not. Ruby was safe. “Why skyfire, ruby, glad you both could join us. Care for the carefully cooked meal?” Something about her mother’s voice was luring, and tempting. Skyfire was holding back though. “Ruby it’s a trick don’t-“, but ruby was already halfway across the room. Her eyes were already like theirs. No, she thought to herself. Why does this thing happen to me. The only one that was normal was the messenger, who looked as terrified as she felt. She motioned for him, and he walked over. “Tell tick of the hivewings from jade mountain that he needs to come here quickly. As fast as he can, if it’s in the middle of a class, don’t hesitate anyway. Go!” She whispered and he took off. “Relying on your dear hivewing are we? He won’t be able to save you.“ A voice said to her left. Skyhawk. His eyes was worse than theirs. It was distorted. He waited. Skyfire thought of what ruby just taught her. She pounced on him, pinning him chest to the ground, but surprisingly he threw her off across the room. Skyfire caught herself before she crashed into the wall, and flew back down. Skyhawk hissed and pounced at her. She merely dodged it by an inch. Skyhawk kept leaping down and she kept dodging. He’s horrible at fighting on ground, ruby’s voice rang in her mind. It was too late though. She was already pinned down, and Skyhawk was sinking his talons into her wings. The pain shot through her like lightning, and every thing went black.
== Chapter 17 ==
Tick’s pov....... 
Tick couldn’t wait for the letter to reach her. The real joy was that she responded back. Everything had been boring and casual, beside’s tsunami’s worried lectures about their leave. That was still going on. He hadn’t done any classes yet, because technically he left for the adventure right after he came to school. He learned a lot though about survival. Dragons occasionally visited him in the rest area, but otherwise he was bored and alone. So when he got her letter, he felt like a ray of sunshine had warmed him up perfectly. “Yes!!” He cheered. Sunny walked in and laid down beside him. “I just finished my final class, so i decided to give you company. Skyfire wrote back?” She smiled. Tick nodded eagerly. “She says hi to you and the other teachers.“ “Aw! That’s so sweet. I’m so glad she remembers us. So queen scarlet was her mother?” Tick nodded, with a slight frown. “Her father died a few days ago. He left scarlet and skyfire a present. It was so adorable. A little note, and a bracelet were the only thing i saw, but i’m pretty sure there were more.“ He smiled again, at the thought of skyfire. “Sunny you won’t believe what else!” Sunny turned to him with a genuinely curious expression. “Scarlet was actually being nice to us! She didn’t put us in the arena! She even let us hang out in her bedroom, it was crazy! Honestly i thought she would have made us breakfast by now. I guess not.” Sunny’s reaction to this was hilarious. It was like she was startled, confused, and about to sneeze all at the same time. “This, i need to tell tsunami. Her reaction will be funnier than mine. Be right back.” Sunny grinned when she saw tick laughing. “It’s always the top winglet that gets all the drama isn’t it?” Tick said, after he finished laughing.“You could say that yeah.” He was alone again. Then a realization hit him. What is skyfire is not okay, what if she’s hurt and some one else wrote that letter. No, how would they know? What if skyfire was in danger but she thought she could handle it herself and didn’t want me to get hurt? That definitely sounded like skyfire. A skywing rushed into his den with a worried face. “You have to come to the sky kingdom. It’s urgent. It’s skyfire!” Tick was into alert. He didn’t care if he just got back, if skyfire was in danger, he would do anything. Soon, he found himself flying as fast as he could to the sky palace. The sky wing guard was neck to neck with him. Isn’t that considered slow for a skywing like him? He quickly pushed the thought away. He landed right at the door, and pushed the doors open. The sight hit him like a bullet. Skyfire was on the ground. She wasn’t moving. A skywing turned to face him. So is this the tick she was talking about?” He grinned maliciously. Tick wasn’t listening. He was focused on skyfire. The skywing leapt at him but he dodged in in time and poked him with his hive wing stinger. “Ah!” Tick ran to skyfire. “Wake up princess. Wake up right now!” He shook her. Skyfire drowsily opened her eyes. “Holy moons i’m bleeding again. Hey tick. Wait, TICK?” She sat upright. He got some bandages out of the bag and wrapped it around her wings. Hang on, i’m going to be your prince in shining armor for a bit longer.” He nodded and turned back. The skywing was limping. Tick jumped at him, and successfully knocked him over. That was quite a feat for some dragon so bulky. When the dragon rose, tick could see his opponent was all gashed. He remembered the one move his sister taught him years ago. He practiced it everyday before he met skyfire. He still remembered how to do it. Tick crouched low onto the ground, and when the skywing wasn’t looking, he leapt into the air and came down with a lot of force onto his back. He arched up his tail, stepped of and jabbed the skywing with it as hard as he could. Once and for all, the threat was dead. As if some one had flipped a switch, everything turned back to normal. The dragons at the table were relaxed. He did it. He saved skyfire, Again, said a part of his brain, but he ignored that. Maybe he should stay and live at the palace. Maple wouldn’t join him, but he didn’t mind. She’d stand out like a swelled talon on a icewing, not that he’d seen one before. Skyfire ran up to him and tick tightly. He forgot what it felt like to be hugged by skyfire. He hugged her back, “BEST DRAGON IN THE WORLD!” She cried. “You deserve like a million awards right now you know that?” “For what? Getting rid of a murderous skywing?” He joked. “Well yeah, that and existing.” She hugged him again, more fierce this time, “Sky, i decided something you’ll like. I might have to tell the dod though.“ “What is it?” “I’m deciding that i will officially live with you in the sky kingdom.” His heart warmed at skyfire’s expression. “Are you serious?” She asked with a grin bigger than the sand kingdom “More than i ever have been in my life.” 
A year had passed in the palace, and tick was admired by the skywings very much. They considered him a legend. Scarlet was nice to him as well. Skyfire got some attention, and a bit too much. Tick may have been praised, but skyfire was followed around. He wasn’t jealous that she got the attention, but quite relieved. If dragons followed him around he would have stayed in his bedroom. Skyfire seemed to do the opposite, yet she was a bit confused why she got so much attention. Turns out she was famous all over pyrrhia for the adventures we had and the things she faced. She did signing, photos, and a lot of speeches, but same with him. It was getting quite boring actually. He and ruby got along very well together, making jokes, laughing themselves out. There was this dragonet though, he was really interesting. He used to stare at skyfire and say ‘moons’. He and sky didn’t mind him much though. Tick looked out the tall windows of the main room. It was getting dark, and that meant dinner. After dinner was going to bed, which tick started to resent. He would always have this weird dream that went somewhat like this. “Hey tick! I’m going to hang out with my friends from the nightwing village!” Dream-Skyfire would call to him. “Don’t take too long! We have a meeting with our fan club tonight!” He’d call back. In reality, there was no fan club. “You always want me to yourself! You’re so selfish tick!” She’d yell at him, redder than a tomato. Skyfire would walk off with the nightwings, shooting daggers at him with her eyes. By then he would wake up, crying. It had happened 6 nights in a row, and tick was wondering if there was a way to stay awake. Of course he had tried that, but the next night he went back to sleeping and the dreams got worse. This time, in his dream, he was old. Possibly 78 years. Skyfire still hadn’t come back yet and the news came to him that she was dead. This was in a dream, but it didn’t make it any better. Skyfire had officially decided that she would take him to a doctor. He was tremendously glad about that. By tremendous, that meant jumping at her to hug/tackle her to the ground. The visit didn’t go well though. The doctor was absolutely useless. He said it would eventually go away soon. It had been a month since that visit. The dreams, or nightmares, were affecting his mental health. Skywings are very intelligent, he thought sarcastically. Skyfire walked up to him with a firm expression. “Tick, i got scarlet’s and ruby’s permission. We are going to the rain kingdom. Then the sea if possible. Remember conch?” He nodded. The one that helped skyfire when her arm got injured. He was definitely a life saver. “Okay. Promise you won’t leave me skyfire?” He immediately wished he could take back the words as he saw skyfire put her head in her claws. “I’m sorry! I’m sorry!” He reached for her, but she pulled away. “Why don’t we go now.” They said bye to scarlet and ruby, and started their journey to the rainforest. “Skyfire. You have to understand, the dream-“ Skyfire stopped him and put a claw on his snout. “It’s okay tick. I get it, i really do. You don’t have to apologize for something that’s not your fault. That’s how life works.” Tick smiled, realizing the whole time he knew her, this was the most meaningful thing she had said to him. “Thanks.” They landed down. “Okay that was surprisingly fast. Are you sure we didn’t just go super speed?” Skyfire smiled, which warmed his heart. “I guess time goes by.” She said softly. They headed to the healer’s hut. “Hello,princess skyfire right?” “Yep! My friend tick here has been having nightmares for over a month now. They aren’t visions, and i’m sure of it.” The rainwing nightwing nodded. I’ll be back with you in a few minutes, as for tick, come with me.” He walked with the hybrid to some kind of examination room. “So i see your dreams are very dangerous?” Tick nodded. “Tell me, do you have any ideas what might have caused this type of dream to start occurring?” Tick shook his head. “I don’t know. The last thing i remember before this was Skyfire getting so much attention. There were signings, speeches. So much publicity. I don’t think it’s that though.” He shook his head. “Okay, thank you. I’ll be back with you in a moment.” The doctor scurried out of the room. Tick sighed. When would this end? He just wanted to get back to skyfire. The doctor came back in with a worried expression. “I have good news and bad news for you.” “Tell me the bad first so we can get it over with.” He laid his head on his arms. “Okay. Bad news is you have some sort of disease called octumula schralysisae. It’s very rare, but it’s not genetic. Also, there are 6 stages of this. The good news is, this is curable. Just take these every other week. Like seven days this week, then next week no pills. Every other week for a month, got it? Incase you’re wondering, no, you don’t have the 6th stage. Otherwise you’d be dead. You only have the fourth stage. Don’t miss a single day alright?” He handed tick a little bag. “Thank you so very much. What’s your name by the way?” He asked, getting of the bed. “Oh, my name is fruitswirl. Nice to meet you tick! Hope you get better!” Tick thanked him again and headed for the entrance. He saw maple and skyfire looking at his with the craziest grins ever. “Tick guess what!” Squealed skyfire. “I’m having a wedding! You know what that means?” His sister flared her wings wide open.“CONGRATS!” He leaped at her and wrapped her tightly. “I’m so excited!” Maple smiled, her eyes sparkling. “Me too! She says were invited!” Skyfire cheered. “When is it?” Tick asked, getting off his sister. “Next month!” Tick was even more delighted. “That‘s when my thing is supposed to end!” He joined in the grinning. “Sky here told me about that. I’m so glad that you’ll be able to come! You’re going to love the dragon i’m getting with!” “Who?” “It’s a surprise! Not even skyfire knows who he is! I had an idea. What if you gave the ring, and skyfire could be my bridesmaid! I even have the outfit picked out! I’m holding the wedding in the sky kingdom. Ruby and scarlet literally reserved a room for me that they’re setting up right now!” “Well then let’s go!” They flew back, chatting excitedly about maple’s wedding. When they reached the palace, tick asked “The question isn’t what skyfire’s going to wear. It’s what you’re going to wear Maple!” His sister stopped in thought. “True. I might have an idea.” They walked inside while maple eagerly described the dress she saw in one of the stores. “The gold color would really suit you. It could use a black ribbon a few inches above the end.” Skyfire commented, laying down on the ever so soft bed of theirs. “It has that! It even comes with this really pretty bracelet and necklace. You’d probably die than wear it skyfire, but i love it. I’m going to show you both tomorrow.” As the girls continued talking, tick slowly pulled out one of the medicine tabs. He ate it, and swallowed it fairly quickly. For medicine, it tasted pretty good. “Well i’m going to go back to the rain kingdom. I made myself a little home inside a cave. Quite comfy, if i do say so myself. See you tomorrow!” The rest of the day went by pretty fast, considering he and skyfire just laid around. By the time it was to go sleep, tick felt as if it had only been 30 minutes since maple came over. Tick rested down, hoping that the dream would be better. It was, by about a mile. Skyfire, the one in the dream, didn’t leave this time. She just yelled at him a little longer. It hurt him just as much, but it was a slight improvement. When he woke up, he noticed skyfire was standing above him. “Deep sleeper much? Come on, maple’s already here. We’ll eat breakfast later!” She pulled him out of the bed with a great heave. “All right!” He followed after her, to see that she was indeed right. Maple was standing there, waiting for them. “Glad you could make it!” Skyfire snorted, and he looked away with an embarrassed smile. “I had to heave him off the bed this morning.” Skyfire nudged him, and he nudged her back. They flew with maple to the store where she saw the dress. Skyfire did a double-take at the dress. “Three words maple. This is hideous.” Maple laughed, “I knew you wouldn’t like it!” “You might as well try it on if you like it a lot.” He nodded to his sister. “All right sure. Skyfire i’m letting you pick your dress.” Maple asked a clerk if she could try it on then hurried into the dress room. He walked off to the suits. There was a nice dark blue one that he specifically liked. He saw the price tag and turned back. 10,000 coins. No way, he thought. Skyfire was gazing at a black dress that had a orange colored swirl pattern. In his opinion, it was a bit too much. “I don’t care if you think it’s a bit to much tick.” She paused for a moment. “Well, i actually kind of do. Do you see any others though that fit my personality?” He looked around and spotted a dress that described skyfire very well. It was a dark red, with hints of orange and yellow, but they were softer shades compared to the red. The dress had skyfire stones all over it, almost like stars, but a darker color. It matched perfectly with the necklace and bracelet from her father. It was like this dress was made for her. “Okay, yes tick. I get it, you think some dress-” She looked over, and gawked. “It’s perfect.” Tick wasn’t the least surprised. “I am absolutely going to try this on!” “No ones stopping you!” He smiled, clearly amused. Just as maple came out, skyfire walked in. Now it was tick’s turn to gawk. “Dear hives, you look beautiful maple!” Maple gave him a smile in return. “Thanks. Still haven’t picked out your suit?” She asked, looking straight at him. “I had one in mind but it’s too expensive. So technically speaking, no i don’t.” Maple walked right past him to the suits. “Okay yeah, these are pretty bad. Maybe we could get a custom? Knowing you, i can say you would look great in dark blue. Like this one!” Maple pulled out the suit he wanted. “That’s the one i wanted! It’s 10,000 coins though.” He grimaced. Maple shrugged and turned to the store clerk. “Do you have this suit for a cheaper price? Like around 1000 At the most, 15 at the least?” Tick hoped that his sister could get the deal. Skyfire came out of the dressing room wearing the dress tick selected for her. “Three moons Skyfire!” Maple ran up to her and gave her a squeeze. “You look so pretty!” Skyfire nodded to tick. “Your brother picked it out for me.” Tick smiled back. “To bad your brother can’t afford the nicest suit this store has!” The clerk shook her head. “You can have it free!” Tick relaxed his shoulders. “Skyfire turned towards the clerk with a suspicious look. “It’s because of me isn’t it? It’s because i’m the princess.” It was more of a statement than a question, but the clerk nodded anyway. Skyfire hesitated for a short moment, then nodded. “Thank you, have a nice day sir!” The next thing he saw, was the clerk about to rip skyfire to shreds. Tick and maple ran into him, knocking the dragon over. Maple did the little trick that tick had done the last time someone tried to hurt skyfire. “You know,” skyfire said as she got up, “I would love it if skywings stopped murdering me these days!” Tick stifled his laughter, but maple couldn’t hold it back. “Let’s go your highness, before anyone touches your precious scales again!” Maple said, giggling violently. Skyfire shot her a glare, and maple giggled harder. Unfortunately, his sister’s giggles were contagious, and tick started to laugh along. Skyfire shook her head as they took off and muttered something under her breath. Tick swore he saw a little smile on her face. When they reached, they saw ruby was waiting for them. “Sky! I have to show you something! You’re going to love it!” Skyfire waved to them apolegectically, and he waved back. She disappeared with ruby, and he turned to maple, sitting down. “Why won’t you tell me who my brother in law is?” He asked her with a you-better-not-say-it’s-a-surprise face. Maple was oblivious to his expression and simply said,“It’s a surprise.” Tick let out an exasperated sigh. “I know. You aren’t excited. But trust me, you’ll recognize him.” Maple assured him. They walked inside, to be greeted with a smiling skyfire. ”Guys guess what?” She squealed. “What?” He asked, slightly a little happier. “They’re building me my own side throne! It’s in my room, of course, but it’s going to be made of skyfire, moonstone, and obsidian! It’ll look so pretty!” Her eyes shone, and that made tick feel even better. He would do anything to see her happy like this. “That’s amazing!” He grinned at her, she grinned back. “Agreed.” Maple nodded, grinning as well. “Well, i’ll leave you to your friends sky.” Ruby let out a small smile and left. “Honestly i just can’t wait for next month. Oh and maple, get two rings please.” He shook his head, going towards his room. “Okay, and me neither. See you in a month!” Maple left, nearly flying into the doors. He slowed down so skyfire could catch up. “What are we going to do next?” She asked him. “What do you mean?” “I mean, where are we going to explore next? The adventure to get to the sky palace was a long one, and a lot of things happened. Now it’s just low and sugary sweet. We need to keep up adventure. Not to mention we are famous across the continent!” He had to admit she was right. “Well yeah, we did cross like three borders. We’ll leave it to time. I was thinking maybe the sand kingdom? What if we went to my continent? The wars should be over now.” He suggested. Skyfire nodded eagerly. “Why not? Yet before we go to panatala, we should definitely eat dinner. Who spends that long talking?” She laughed. “Apparently us. Let’s go.” They flew towards the table, and scarlet gave them a little smile which quickly disappeared as she turned to her guards. “You, ask the chefs whats taking them so long!” Tick turned to skyfire, to see her imitating the queen. He stifled his laughter and looked at his claws. Just a month, he reminded himself. Just a month.
The month went by fairly quickly, in his opinion. He didn’t know about skyfire though. She had been attending her mother’s meetings day and night. He would often accompany her. Ruby walked in with a smile. “Time for the special event!” She grinned and walked back out. Tick put his suit on, and waited for skyfire to quickly get ready. They hurried into the main room as it was about to start. Skyfire stood on the side as a bridesmaid, and tick was the bearer. Tick tuned out the rest until it was his turn to do the job. His sister was right, he recognized him. It was his best friend, merciless. He eagerly gave the ring and stood on the side. When it was time for the main party, he went over to merciless. “Tick!” Cried merciless to him. “I thought you were dead!” He cried back. “Wait what?” “Never mind. How come i never saw you till now?” Tick asked. “I spent some time in the sand kingdom. Little update, wasp’s dead.” Merciless smirked. “Isn’t the kingdom in more chaos? Who killed her?” Tick was worried. Sure he didn’t like wasp, but what about panatala and the hive wings? “Oh a little some one who’s currently at a wedding.” Tick‘s eyes widened. “WHAT?” “Anyway, who’s that over there? With your sister?” His friend asked, changing the subject. “Oh, that’s skyfire. Speaking of, stay here for a moment.” Tick hurried off to maple. Maple turned to him, and nodded. “Skyfire wait just a moment please.” Maple hurried off. Tick headed up to the microphone they had and tapped on it. “Hi, everyone excuse me. I’d like to make an announcement.” This was his special time. Maple gave him the case.
== Chapter 18 ==
skyfire’s pov.....
Skyfire headed over to maple. “Hey sky! How are you?” “Great!” She replied with a smile. She was so happy for her friend. Tick walked over, and she turned to him in confusion. He whispered something in her ear, then headed for the stage. What in the three moons is he doing? She thought. Maple handed him this odd case. ”I’d like to make a special announcement.” Skyfire was listening intently. “To princess skyfire of the night skywings, my beautiful,charismatic,kind,smart, and brave hybrid friend. Will you-” Skyfire lept onto him. “YES!Yes-yes-yes-yes-yes!” He gave her the ring. It was a beautiful moonstone ring. Everyone around them applauded. Skyfire felt as if she could touch the moons. She was even happier than last time she acted this way. Why? Because she knew that tick wouldn’t ever leave her this time. “Well! What a surprise! A double wedding! I didn’t get enough cake.“ Maple snorted.
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