The Wingless (The Lost Continent AU)

= DISCLAIMER: =
This is three AU’s in one book. They feature The Lost Continent Prophecy. The AUS I will be writing feature:
Luna and Blue swapping roles/places
If Luna and Blue were not flamesilks
If Queen Wasp found out about the Chrysalis Early On
Besides that, don’t edit anything without permission. This will be left unfinished, because writer’s block is a thing, so please respect these rules.
= THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN CHANGED: =
== Luna+Blue Swapped Places AU ==
-Luna is younger than Blue
-Luna does not have wings or silk yet
-Swordtail has been captured, trying to protect Blue and Luna
-Cricket rescues Io and Luna and tries to find Blue
-They meet Sundew differently
== If Blue and Luna Were Not Flamesilks AU ==
-Admiral is they’re uncle, not father
-Luna or Blue don’t get blown to another continent
-They don’t meet Sundew first. Instead, they meet Willow
== If Wasp Found Out About the Chrysalis Early On AU ==
-Luna has her Wings
-Cricket has been infected, which will make sense later
-Lady Scarab is dead (oof)
= PART 1: Rescue =
(Swapped-Roles AU)
== Chapter 1 ==
Luna had grown up with Blue, her cautious, older brother. While she and Blue both had mutual passions—to protect each other—Luna was more of a free-spirit while Blue was set on not getting into trouble.
Either way, they both loved each other. Luna remembered the rock she had found on a field-trip one day. It looked like a pair of butterfly wings. Luna had painted it in art class before handing it over to Blue. Then, they both made a promise, to stick together forever, always, until they were gone.
But one day that all changed, and the promise seemed impossible to keep.
Luna watched as Blue was enveloped in bright, golden silk, tears sliding slowly from his eyes. Luna couldn’t tell if those were tears from the pain or happy tears. HiveWings buzzed in a panicked, terrified way. Their usually “Above It All” stances were interrupted with the bright light that Blue was creating. 
“What…the heck?!” Luna cried. She heard the flapping of nervous wings and looked to see Io pulling her and Swordtail, who was sitting next to her, away from the commotion. “QUICKLY!” She shouted, tugging on Luna’s tail as she tried to get back to her brother.
”What’s going on, Io?” Swordtail asked in a panicked, undignified way. Io explained that flamesilk was a rare condition certain SilkWings had. Luna might have had it as well, which is why they needed to leave Blue. 
Suddenly, a HiveWing struck out a stinger at them, narrowly missing Luna. Swordtail jumped and tackled the HiveWing, shouting at Luna and Io to run. Luna had no choice but to obey.
Together, she and Io ran for their lives, ducking under flying HiveWings or low hanging banners. Before long, Io pointed out a cell that seemed to have No HiveWings in it. It was high up, with no way to get to it without using wings.
But Luna didn’t have wings.
Suddenly a honey colored dragon with black splotches along her scales glided down to them. The dragon threw them under a shop of blankets and closed her talons over their snouts. “Shh,” she said. “No, listen, we can’t be loud. I can get you up to that cell, but I need to use this blanket and silk.”
They soon realized this was a HiveWing named Cricket. Io grunted and hissed to herself. Luna made her trust the HiveWing. After all, while everyone else was being mind-controlled, this HiveWing was fine. Io gave in and spun a generous pile of silvery silk. Cricket tied the silk to a blanket and then through a few holes in the cell. She tied the blanket around Luna, then asked Luna to climb the silk as they pulled her up.
Once at the top of the cell, Cricket hid them behind a bookshelf and pile of books and papers. She then broke a lamp of flamesilk and let it fall into a stone jar. She then used tweezers to pick up the flamesilk, carefully dragged it across Luna and Io’s heavy wristbands until they were free, and then asked them to go to sleep while she kept watch.
Io insisted she should keep watch while Luna and Cricket got some sleep. “I’m not worried about you stabbing Luna with venom, because you don’t have any stingers,” she said ruefully. 
Luna made she to keep well away from Cricket and felt herself fall asleep.
After two hours, they heard the fast buzz of HiveWings again. Luna whirled around to Cricket and check that her eyes weren’t white. She looked like a normal, not-possessed HiveWing. She sighed in relief and saw Io frantically building up a wall of books to keep them protected. “Don’t worry,” Cricket whispered. “I know how to escape.” 
“How?” Asked Luna. Cricket pointed to splintered treestuff behind them. “We can break that open,” she explained. They suddenly heard the buzz of a HiveWing getting close to the cell. I’m a panic, Luna grabbed Cricket and Io and hid them in an empty drawer. A few bits of torn paper were inside, but it was big enough to fit them all. It was claustrophobic, but a huge relief blew over Luna as the HiveWing left.
They all waited a few moments before crawling out of the drawer and clawing at the splinters on the wall. It wasn’t long before it was big enough for them to squeeze through. But they were too high up and the brown was too far down to reach. Cricket begged Io for more silk, and Io complied right away. Soon, Cricket had used Io’s silk to create a sort of rope that Luna could use to climb down.
Once free from the Hive, Luna was surprised to see it was sunset. The moons were barely peeking out. “Maybe we should get as far out as we can and then brown under the grass to sleep,” Luna suggested. “One of us can keep watch. Cricket should do it, since she seems to have better vision at night.”
Cricket nodded and they began to trudge out farther to the savanna, quickly but quietly, pushing grass back to reach a good destination. Soon they couldn’t move any farther, and they settled down to sleep. This process is repeated for a few days, soon they reach a huge sinkhole, and right below was a lake of water. “Let’s not go down there,” Io suggested. “I’ve seen this sinkhole on the maps. It would be too easy for HiveWings to find us.”
”So we continue going north?” Asked Luna. 
Io shook her head and suggested they change directions. They began to head west, or so they thought.
== Chapter 2 ==
Six days later, Blue tore open his cocoon to find himself in a tree with dense leaves. Little sunlight shone down, only a few speckles of it dotted the branch he was on. Below him, a vast garden of deadly-looking plants was spread out as far as the eye could see, all tangled with the large roots of larger trees.
Blue flicked his new wings and saw they were purple and blue and shimmery and gorgeous. They looked a little dull in the shade of the trees, though. 
Suddenly, a pair of two large leaves crawled from one branch, then hopped to another, then kept crawling, towards him.
The wings opened wide to reveal a skinny, dark-green dragon, who had golden flecks along her back and a number of pouches tied around her. 
Sundew, the dragon, explained quickly to Blue that she was LeafWing, who attacked his captors who had stolen his cocoon, then she brought the cocoon her and ordered him to spin flamesilk (“Or else I will order the plants to devour you” was what she had threatened him with that made him do it).
Sundew picked up a stone jar and let Blue spin flamesilk into it. It was growing bright and looked like a golden thread that came from the sun. 
“Now all we have to do is burn down the—“ she stopped herself and flew away, leaving Blue with a deep anxiousness in his stomach.
Suddenly, vines wound around his shoulders and pinned him down into the tree.
***
Luna, Cricket, and Io were growing restless from traveling. Luna had a new desire to save Blue, but struggled to tell the others. The sun was burning their scales and blinding their eyes. 
WIP
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