Wings of Fire Book 16 - The Amulet of Light

== Note (Please read): ==
This is 5 yrs after the events from Flame of Hope. Also, anyone can edit this. (Espescialy spelling) The real name of this book is Stones Scattering. Now, A new city is rebuilding in the ruins of Bloodworm Hive called the Hive city, that is bigger than Sanctuary or Possibility. More schools are popping up, including Freedom Academy, Island Univericity, and the Hive City Academy. Glory let Fierceteeth be the new queen of the Nightwings, although some still live in the rainforest under Glory's rule instead of in the Night Kingdom with Fierceteeth. Sorry there's no Prophecy(I'm making it up) and I'm working on the winglets, but you can add OCs to the empty slots. Speaking of Winglets, there are some new ones, and they usually have more than 1 from each tribe.
== Winglets ==
==== Diamond Winglet Jade Winglet Sapphire Winglet Quartz Winglet Gold Winglet ====
Icewings: Mink Icewings: Mint
Sandwings: Bramble Sandwings: Tumbleweed
Skywings: Freefall Skywings:
Rainwings: Blueberry, Dart Frog Rainwings: 
Nightwings: Brainmelt Nightwings:
Mudwings: Toad, Mayfly Mudwings:
Seawings: Auklet, Seafoam Seawings:
Silkwings: Monarch Silkwings:
Hivewings: Bumblebee Hivewings:
Leafings: Sakura, Tapioca Leafwings:
Hybrids: Firefly, Starsilk, Peacemaker Hybrids:
Humans: Soil, Murderbasket Humans:
==== Silver Winglet Ruby Winglet Topaz Winglet Obsidian Winglet Emerald Winglet ====
== The Hive City Prophecy(Not done yet) ==
All evil is gone, the tribes are at peace,
And yet one evil remains.
Three dragonets, destines bound by fate.
== Prologue ==
An earthquake ran out, shaking all the shelves. The opal ring slid off the shelf and shattered. A strong breeze blew the remains through the palace and into the rainforest, raining down slightly on one of the eggs. Then, it flew all the way over the Ocean. There was an egg, a blue and black egg. There was a crack on it. Slowly, a small dragonet climbed out. The remains of the opal surrounded her and settled on her shoulders, and the world was changed forever.
== Part one - Visions and Venom ==
== Chapter 1 - Jade ==
Jade curled away from the terrible, too-bright sunlight that seemed to melt off her scales. The gate to her cell opened and a pale sandy-colored dragon walked in. 
"Hold still if you want to eat." The guard snarled, hooking a claw under her bindings and undoing a secret latch. 
Jade snarled back at him and he jumped back as the metal clip fell off her snout. 
He put something red and charred in front of her. Jade poked the bloody carcass and gagged. Her tribe was mostly vegetarian, eating mostly plants and fruit and the occasional small cave salamander. She pushed it away. 
"I'm not going to eat this... thing." She growled.
Jade hated this place. She and the other Ruby-dust dragons had been pulled from the security of their dark, peaceful caves and into this horrible place. 
I need to escape. I need to warn the other above-ground dragons there's a war coming. If there are any good ones- ones that don't grab a helpless, crying dragonet from his sobbing parents. Jade had an idea, but she wasn't sure if it would work.
Why haven't any of the other dragons escaped? She thought curiously.
Other than the Ruby dust, (or as these dragons called it, blood dust) Her tribe didn't have much powers. They could only breathe fire if they were full-grown, and they got hypnosis from a crystal called Azidium, but Jade didn't know if she had enough left in her. Unless I'm an Adium, Jade thought, but it was almost impossible. They were even rarer than Ruby-dust dragons, and only showed up every few generations. No one even knew if they were real. 
"Hey, Guard! Come here!" Jade shouted. The guard turned her way and she looked him straight on the eyes. "You will take off my chains and take me outside." Jade said calmly, forcing all her remaining power into the guard. "I will take off your chains and take you outside." The guard echoed. His eyes turned a smoky gray. "If anyone stops you, you will tell them your leader told you to. You will act normal." "If anyone stops me, I will tell them my leader told me to. I will act normal." He repeated. Jade clapped her talons together and the guard looked, dazed, at her bindings. 
"Don't move." He growled, hooking his claw under her black collar and talon cuffs. He grabbed her and pulled her to the door. 
"Hey, where are you going?" A white dragon demanded. "Flame demanded that I take this one out." The guard said. The white dragon shrugged and stepped aside. 
The guard stepped through the door and into the abysmal sunlight. Then, before the white dragon could protest, he unhooked Jade's wings and she leapt into the air, struggling to stay airborne.
Below her, she saw the guards eyes turn back to normal. She looked away and watched the horizon. She knew that she didn't have long, and she'd seen one of the island maps and knew the way to Phyrria by heart. 
Well, world, here I come. She thought defiantly.
== Chapter 2 - Firefly ==
Firefly's wings ached as she flew on to Jade Mountain. Behind her, she could see all the new nightwing and rainwing students quietly chatting away. She wanted to fly up to them and talk and laugh with them, but whenever she wanted to, her head filled with worries. What if they think I'm evil because of my pranks? What if they laugh at me? What if they think I'm stupid? Those worries circled her head until the thought of talking to the dragonets disappeared. 
Finally, they reached Jade Mountain and landed. 
"Hello!" Said a nightwing with dim silver scales near her eyes. Fatespeaker, if Firefly remembered right. 
"You must be Firefly. Your cave is in that tunnel. It has 1B on it." Firefly nodded and hurried off before Fatespeaker could say anything else. 
IN the cave, there were only three beds. One was a silk hammock, one was an ice ledge carved from the never-melting Ice Palace, and the other was a stone ledge with leaves. On the hammock was the most beautiful dragon Firefly had ever seen. Her scales were black and gold with hints of silver and royal blue. She turned over in her sleep, and Firefly realized that she didn't have any wings. So she's part silkwing. Firefly thought. The dragon had a row of strange silver scales around her neck, like a necklace - just like Firefly's. Suddenly, the dragon's eyes snapped open and Firefly froze.
"Hello," The Dragon said calmly. "I'm Starsilk. You can call me Star." 
"I'm Firefly. You can call me... Firefly." Firefly said apologetically. 
Star laughed and elegantly slid off the hammock.
"Do you want to go to the music cave with me?" She asked, and Firefly nodded, glad to be able to spend more time with her new clawmate. 
They hurried off to the Classrooms and Firefly struggled to keep up with to Star. The dragonet hardly looked any older than Firefly, but she moved in a majestic, even imposing way that made it seem like she was the royal dragon. 
Finally, they turned a corner and Firefly found herself in a big cave stacked with instruments. Star walked over to a guitar, picked it up, and started plucking at the strings. She gave Firefly a quizzical look. 
"Aren't you going to play something?" She asked gently. 
"...I don't know how." Firefly said quietly.
"Then just sing."
"What am I supposed to sing?" 
"Anything!" 
Firefly took a deep breath. Suddenly, she remembered a lullaby her mother, Queen Glory, sang to her when she was little.
"Ice so cold, like a frozen heart. Fires burning, never apart. Lose your mind, it's not that far. Never give up, you're a shining star." She sang. Star played her guitar to Firefly's song, and the music seemed to envelop Firefly, like a calming cloud where her worries drifted away. It was like a light, guiding her. That day, Firefly fell asleep thinking about music and she knew her life was changed forever.
== Chapter 2 - Firefly ==
Firefly's eyes flew open. She wasn't sure what she had dreamt about, but it left her feeling like she'd been dumped in a vat of cold water. She turned around to see Star still asleep in her hammock. Star! Firefly's heart sang, and she had to smother the whirls of pink that curled in the edges of her wings. What was happening to her? 
Suddenly, a gong sounded. Star sat up in her hammock. 
"It's our first class!" She exclaimed. She hurried out of the cave in a whirl of grey and blue, dragging Firefly after her. Before she could protest, they burst into a wide cave. There was an azure-blue and violet dragon standing in it, and there were a few dragonets too. Firefly could see a Skywing, an Icewing, and a dragonet who was copper with flecks of brown. A sandwing walked into the room, followed by a seawing, a nightwing, a rainwing, a mudwing, another Nightwing, and a hivewing. 
"Where are Tapioca, Sakura, and the humans?" The azure dragon asked. I wonder if he still is scared of humans after what happened with Cottontail. Firefly mused. 
"-And Sakura is in the pray center." The sandwing was finishing. She had a few orange scales along her back that kind of looked like vines. Suddenly, two dragons burst into the cave. One was brown with hints of white and the other was almost completely pink except for a few green scales. She lowered her head and Firefly noticed there were two humans perched on her back.
One had brown skin and black eyes with hints of yellow. Her hair was also black and she wore an orange dress.
The other was pale and he held himself in a strange way, as though he wasn't used to standing up. His hair was black and dishoveled and he had an oily expression. 
"Okay, now that were all here, let's start. I'm Blue. Let's go around in a circle. When it's your turn, say your name and your favorite color. Firefly, you can start." The azure dragon said. 
"Um, no thanks. Someone else can go." Blue shrugged and turned to the Icewing. 
"Mink?" Firefly always found Icewings too plain, but this one radiated happiness and positivity. Firefly definately hated it. 
"Hi! I'm Mink!" She almost yelled. She had gray whisker-like stripes on her snout "My favorite color is blue, because that's the color of the most amazing tribe!" Well, I should've expected that. Firefly thought. 
"I'm Bramble." The sandwing said. "Princess Bramble. My favorite color is black."
"I'm Amber. I'm one of the hybrids. My parents are Peril and Clay, and my favorite color is gold." 
"I'm Auklet, the seawing. My favorite color is Blue." She had splotches of white throughout her scales. 
"I'm-" The introductions continued, until it was finally Firefly's turn. "Um... Hi. I'm Firefly and-" Firefly was interrupted by a gasp. It was one of the Nightwings, Brainmelt. She stood up, her eyes blank. She stood still for a few moments, before collapsing onto the floor. Blue hurried over to her side. 
"It was a prophecy!" Braimelt announced. 
"It-" Suddenly, Firefly saw Starsilk running into the tunnels. No one saw her, as everyone was fascinated by the prophecy. Firefly ran out after her. Maybe there's more to Star than I thought.
== Chapter 3 - Firefly ==
Firefly ran through the tunnels after Star. She was running deeper and deeper into the mountains. Suddenly, she turned left. Firefly followed her and found herself at a fork in the path. She stopped and sat down with a sigh. A small butterfly flew over and landed on her talon. 
"I can't follow her. She's too deep in the mountain. And I don't know when she'll be back." Firefly said to it. "I should just go back." She stood up, but her knees buckled. The air seemed too thick, and Firefly's head felt fuzzy. She stumbled backwards. Appearantly, her mind was no longer connected to her body. Then, the world tilted sideways and everything went dark.
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The assassin crawls through the big, dragon-sized entrance. He does no get why he must stay at this school or why dragons are even important enough to kill. They are just big predators, He thinks. He is not-
"Firefly! WAKE UP!" Someone shouted, startling Firefly back into her own scales. 
Star was perched on a rock, and Firefly's scales felt wet. She sat up and realized there was a thin layer of water on the cave floor. She quickly scrambled to a nearby boulder. 
"What's-" She started. "No time to explain! We have to go NOW!" Firefly obeyed, and they sprinted out of the tunnels, their tails brushing awkwardly. Firefly couldn't explain the feeling that that gave her, like butterflies flying around in her stomach. 
Finally, they emerged into open air, somewhere around the base of Jade mountain. 
"What... was... that?" Firefly panted. 
"The caves get flooded. I was leaving when I saw you. I'm so sorry for what I did." 
"You didn't do anything!" Firefly protested. Star took a deep breath. She radiated worry, which seemed unlike her. "Well, ever since I was little, I've been having these... visions. but not normal ones. It was like... I was inside the dragons. I- I-" She stopped, her eyes going strangely blank, and somehow Firefly knew what was happening. It was time for Star's metamorphosis.
== Chapter 4 - Starsilk ==
The room wobbled and Star's head felt submerged underwater as she and Firefly hurried through the tunnels to the new Cocoon. Jade Mountain added it once they started accepting new students from Pantala, and rumors said it was even bigger than the cocoons in the old hives, but Star had never seen it. 
What if I don't get wings? What if my cocoon tears? What if... What if... Her mind buzzed and Star winced. 
Firefly turned to her. "Are you okay?" She asked and Star nodded. 
Star had never met anyone like Firefly, but there was something about the little dragonet that the fell in love with ever since she saw her in their cave. 
They ran through the crowded halls, weaving through students. They went deeper and deeper into the mountain. Soon Star could see the pale, glowing light of the cocoon up ahead. She felt feverish. In the cocoon, there was a big stone stage. On the stage, there already was a glowing moon-silver cocoon. Star climbed up on the stage and rubbed her wrists nervously. Firefly climbed up after her. Silk started spinning out of Star's wrists. She knew she had to tell Firefly now. 
"Firefly, I- I think you're-" She started, but Firefly just leaned over and kissed her. Star froze just as her silk started wrapping around her. it was a strange color, silver with black edges and spots of gold. I seemed to tranquilize her, weaving her into her metamorphisis trance. Star closed her eyes and dropped into her cocoon sleep. 
She is reading. Again. Her Clawmate, Brainmelt, jokes that maybe she'll get new wings from one of the stories, but Freefall knows that's impossible. Freefall has always hated other dragons, especially now that her sister is dead. Airstopper always helped Freefall, and she never made fun of her and her winglessness. But Freefall has a secret- she's half nightwing and can read minds. She guesses if she did have wings, thet would have white star scales in the insides. She skipped the last class, pretending to be sick. Suddenly, Brainmelt walks into the library along with a seawing. They're laughing, but Freefall can hear both of them being furious with each other. "Hey, Freefall!" Brainmelt says. "This is Seafoam. Seafoam, this is Freefall." "Hey, Freefall," Seafoam says kindly, but Freefall can hear her thinking, Ha! A Skywing with no wings! in her head. "Hello." Freefall growls. She has a mission, a very important one. She needs to kill Princess Firefly.
"No! Don't! Please!" Arthemis shouts as thew bigger dragons corner her against the hives. She feels hot and dizzy, but she can't have her metamorphisis yet. "Come on, little dragon. This is easy." The Seawing smirks before throwing red dust at her. She screams as fire courses through her veins and to her brain. Now she feels even dizzier, and her silk starts pouring out of her wrists, but it is not normal silk. It's blood red. She screams again, fainter this time, but it is too late. Then, she is gone, and she will never be herself again. 
Star woke up. Silk pressed in all around her, and she pushed against it as hard as she could. 
"Star! You can do it!" Firefly's voice shouted, and Star pushed even harder. 
Suddenly, her talon broke through and she felt cold air. Slowly, her head poked out, and then her body, and then... Her wings. She shat down on the stone floor and spread out her wings. Firefly's jaw dropped. They were Black and gold and blue, and looked like a Silkwing's, but had pointed edges. 
Should I tell Firefly about my vision? I should, it was about her. But that means revealing my biggest secret... but then, it's Firefly. I can trust her. 
"Firefly, there's something I need to tell you." Star blurted. 
"Let's go to the pray center." Firefly suggested and Star followed her through the tunnels. 
"So... Haven't classes started yet?" 
Firefly shook her head. "They start in a few days. After the getting-to-know-you class, there's a whole week before anything else." 
They entered the pray cave and Star made her way over to the fruit, while Firefly caught a small goat in one swift movement. 
"You eat meat?" Star asked curiously. Firefly nodded. Star had thought that Firefly would have been a vegetarian, but she knew that things weren't always like they seemed. 
She couldn't help thinking back to her first vision. She was only one year old, and it was night time, but she couldn't sleep because she'd had a big fight with her mother, so she'd gone to look at the moons. Suddenly, she felt her head spin and dropped into her mother's scales as she cooked and cleaned and looked after the dragonets. She'd awoken about twenty minutes after that, then gone to apologize to her mother. Ever since then, Star was careful, making sure she was always in places where she could suddenly drop out of the conversation and run to a safe place to have her visions. 
There was one dragon who knew, a dragonet from Pyrrhia named Peacemaker. He found her when she was having a vision, and was she'd told him everything. 
"So... Didn't you say there was something I needed to know?" Firefly interrupted. Star nodded. 
"Ever since I was little, I've been having visons, like you did in the tunnel. They were always small, dreams about dragons in the village or reminders about sudden visitors, and I'm the only dragon to ever have something like that. Until you. I'm not sure, but I think spending time with me made you have them too." Star confessed. 
Firefly opened her mouth, then closed it, like a surprised fish. "What-" She started, but Star wasn't done. "And while I was in my cocoon, I had two visons- one about a trapped Silkwing who was getting hurt in some way, nothing important, and the next... The next was about Freefall. She can read minds and she's really an assassin trying to kill you." She finished. 
Firefly sat down promptly on the cave floor, her eyes as wide as plates. Star could see bursts of color exploding on her scales, but Firefly didn't seem to notice. Suddenly, there was a loud ringing sound. 
"It's an assembly! Come on!" Firefly shouted, pulling Star after all the other dragons. 
Soon, they all reached a big cave with a stage. on the stage were Clay, Tsunami, Starflight, Sunny, Moonwatcher, Winter, Qibli, Turtle, Kinkajou, Blue, Luna, Swordtail, Cricket, Willow, and Sundew. 
"Hello, Jade Mountain!" Tsunami yelled. 
"We have a special announcement." Moon smiled. "Sundew, will you do the honors?" 
Sundew nodded. "In a month... We're having a field trip to Pantala!" She announced. 
The cave exploded with applause, and Star found herself clapping along with everyone else. 
"Well, since this is over, do you want to go flying after lunch?" Asked Firefly once the assembly was over. 
Star laughed. "It's a date!" She said. 
== Chapter 5 - Firefly ==
Thump, thump-thump. Ba-da-da-boom. Went the drum as Firefly gently tapped a faint beat. She spent most of her time here now. She'd spent hours making different beats when Star was in her cocoon. It helped Firefly think. 
She's been having visons all this time? Firefly thought. She didn't know whether to be mad at Star for not telling her earlier, or grateful that she'd told her at all. 
Suddenly, she heard a loud ringing. Lunch time! Firefly thought gleefully, and was about to go back into the tunnels, when she saw a fireball comng straight at her. She ducked just in time and it hit a bookshelf behind her, setting it ablaze. Firefly gasped. There stood Freefall.
She lunged at her, claws out. Firefly spun under Freefall and lashed at her underbelly. Freefall shrieked in pain and threw a drum at Firefly. It hit her in the arm and she felt tears form in the corners of her eyes.
I can't fight her. I have to go somewhere Freefall can't. Firefly realized.
She ran out of the room and sprinted through the tunnels and to the entrance cave where she took into the air. Freefall ran out with a scowl before seeing Firefly and going back inside. Firefly hung in the air for a moment.
Suddenly, she felt a wave of dizziness come over her. Her vision swam and she spiraled down onto the forest, barely realizing what was happening. She didn't have time to spread her wings, as she dropped into someone else's scales.
He flies over the hundreds of blood-red cocoons. His army is almost complete, he realizes. "I thought we agreed not to go into the incubator?" Comes a voice. He turns around to see a beautiful orange dragon with black stripes over her scales. "Hello, Locust." He says, unable to keep the excitement out of his voice. "Hey yourself, Flame." She smiles. The fly over to the double doors that lead to the dungeons. He can see dragons inside the cells, looking tired while slowly making more of his favorite Blood Dust. He smiles again. "Any news, Ice Cream?" He asks. The white-and-pink guard nods. "A dragonet named Jade escaped an hour ago." She confesses. "Why didn't you tell me?" He roars. "I-I couldn't find you..." She stutters. "Calm down, Flame." Locust says reassuringly and Flame forces himself to take a deep breath. "Find her." He says. "Dead or alive, and bring her to me."
Firefly sat up, panting. Star was sitting next to her. "You didn't just faint while flying, did you?" She said guiltily. "No. It was a vision. It's not your fault, Star." Firefly said calmly, seeing the expression on Star's face. 
"...It was. I know it. This isn't normal, Firefly. None of this is. Don't you get it? This a curse. I bet most of these aren't even real." She said with tears in her eyes. Firefly had never seen Star cry.
"Listen, it's not a-" Firefly began, but suddenly, Star flew up, frowning. 
"What is it?" Firefly asked. 
"Do you see that?" Star floated up over the treetops. Rays of sunlight shone through her wings.
"What?" Firefly flew up next to her.
"That." Star pointed at a small speck in the sky. The flew towards it, and Firefly realized it was a dragonet, but the dragonet didn't look like any of the tribes. She was dark gray with flecks of green. She was small, and her wings were small. Her body and limbs were sharp, and diamond patterns ran down her neck. She looked nearly unconcious and hung limply, barely afloat. She looked up warily as they flew to her. 
"Oh, thank the caves." She said. 
"You need rest. Let's land." Star suggested and helped her fly down to a patch of forest. Firefly noticed that the stranger was sitting in the shade, leaning away from the sun.
"I'm Jade." The dragonet said, her voice stronger now that she was away from the rays of sunlight.
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