Trapped (A Firescale's story)

==== PROTOLOGUE ====
Queen Citrine was shocked “ Are you sure it's a firescale?” she asked the guard,
” yes your majesty, it is confirmed, Twister’s dragonet is a firescale.” the guard answered.
A firescale could destroy her whole kingdom, but it could also be a powerful weapon. The queen was too tempted at the thought of a fire monster at her side.
"Put the creature in the cell next to the animus and hybrids” The Queen ordered keeping the excitement out of her voice.
The guard hesitated, "Your majesty...not that I disagree with you, but..."
"Get on with it!" The queen snarled "I did not ask for your opinion and never will. You are not a general, not royalty, not a commander. GO. NOW."
This stupid dragon, he is just a nameless guard and HE thinks he can challenge my authority? Do my subjects think I'm weak?
“ yes your highness” and the guard bowed and left. 
I don't think he bowed low enough...I should execute him...Maybe some other useless guards too just to be safe. Then the queen's twisted mind traveled to the young firescale. 
Citrine was already thinking of all the ways she could experiment and torchor another fire scale, she would turn it into her monster who did everything she asked it to, just like all the others. She flicked her tail pleasantly, thinking of the other special servants she had in her secret dungeon. One animus, Dawn, Three hybrids, Alpine, Raptor, and Storm, and then, of course, her new and only firescale...Phoenix.
==== CHAPTER ONE ====
Phoenix paced around her gray cell, torches lit far and few between. Lashing her tail against the stone bars that she could not melt, waiting for her dinner. She heard talon steps walking down the staircase and Phoenix sat down quickly making herself look as small as possible. The guard tossed buckets of meat and water into each of the special prisoners. 
Clang! The guard tossed the bucket of old meat purposely on her snout, Phoenix roared and tried to grab the guard so she could exact revenge but he tossed the bucket of water over her and the soldier escaped in the cloud of steam. 
“ Ha stupid monster you know you can never escape” the guard laughed and walked away. 
“ He’s wrong one day we will be free,” said Storm the Rainwing/Skywing hybrid who was in the cell next to her. Phoenix rolled her eyes at Storm, she was always so hopeful and positive but she needed to face the truth that they would never escape the prison. Phoenix was already fifteen years old and she had only been to two places in her life, the secret prison and the lab where Skywing scientists did all kinds of horrible experiments on her. She heard more talon steps approaching, Three Skywing guards unlocked Raptors cell and said with a gruff voice,
” Lab time, Get up” Raptor, the three tailed Sandwing Skywing hybrid glared at them, smoke was thickly rising from his snout, and all three of his tails were up like a cornered scorpion, though the most damage he could do with them was slap them three times in one second, thanks to the metal coverings on the tail barbs. 
==== CHAPTER TWO ====
Phoenix suspected it was around midnight, she lay down and curled up for sleep, and just when she started to drift off into dreams...
CRASH! 
Her head shot up, the sound was coming from the guards opening Raptors cell and throwing him in. poor Raptor he must have been in there for hours she thought with sympathy. Phoenix lay down again and watched Raptor’s pale orange scales and his three scorpion tails move over to the bucket of meat and pick out the bugs crawling around in his food. She turned her gaze to Dawn, who was covered in scars and had been here the longest. Dawn had burnt orange scales and amber eyes, she was sleeping so calmly, she could of been dead. Phoenix closed her blue eyes and had a dreamless sleep. 
Phoenix woke up to being prodded with a sharp spear, which melted into a blobby mess. 
“ Lab time monster,” a said burly guard, she let out a small growl and followed them to an empty white room apart from one of the walls made of thick glass where scientists could watch her. a red Skywing wearing a lab coat carefully placed three objects in front of her and quickly left the room. Phoenix studied the objects in front of her, three different types of metal. A voice came over the speaker she didn’t notice when she walked in 
“ Touch the metals in front of you.” and she did just that. The first metal melted as she knew it would, the next did the same but the third did not melt. She picked it up. What in the three moons is going on? She thought. The scientists grinned at each other, which gave her a sinking feeling about this unmeltable metallic iron. The scientist said something to the guards and five of them left the glass room, while the other three reappeared in the empty room Phoenix was in. They poked her with a spear and dragged her all the way back to her cell. Her cell... Gray, empty, depressing, the small space she spent most of her life in. She Sighed and settled down on the rough stone floor and tried to sleep.
==== CHAPTER THREE ====
Phoenix woke up in a bad mood, well she always did but she was feeling more violent today than ever. It was because she had a dream about being free, not just from this dark prison, but from her scales. She could see all those beautiful colors, read, write, have friends!  She felt like crying, she felt misunderstood, she hadn’t even had a chance to prove she was more than what her scales did. She slowly got up into a sitting position and turned her gaze to Storm, who also looked sadder than normal. 
On the bright side, at least it wasn’t her turn to be tested on today, it was...Alpine’s Testing day, the grumpy Skywing/Icewing hybrid. The scientist found it fascinating that Alpine, who looked like a Skywing (except for some extra spikes and frost blue eyes) could breathe Ice or fire, depending on his mood. Talon steps, coming closer, Phoenix snarled at the red-orange Skywings in white coats that walked past by her cell, followed by more guards carrying chains. She watched a guard slip on a  Copperish band around Alpine’s snout. The band… She saw that metal before...But where? She scrunched her snout as she flipped through her memory. It had to have been at the lab, She hadn’t seen anything that copper here in the prison, other than herself. The guard linked a chain onto the band and yanked it. Alpine stumbled forward and then snarled at the guard once he regained his balance. The guards dragged him of to the lab and the dungeon was silent once again.
Phoenix decided to sleep till dinner came because, there really was nothing to do in a cell besides talking to the other prisoners, and only Storm would say anything positive. Phoenix closed her eyes and drifted into sleep.
She woke up (again) to the point of a spear, prodding her awake. Phoenix quickly sat up in a sitting position and snarled at the sight of the three guards. One of them was holding chains and a band made out of that mystery metal, the spear too was made out of the metal...and so was the armor the guards were wearing. The answer to where she had seen the metal finally came to her. Oh! It’s that metal they wanted me to touch! But she didn’t have time to celebrate, the guards were quickly advancing toward her. I could pounce on the one to the left, whip the middle with my tail and then claw the last...no the guards would bring more guards and she would be caught. Especially now since they had unmeltable chains. Phoenix bowed her head in defeat and the guard slipped the band over her snout and linked it to a chain. That’s when she realized that she didn’t know where she was going.
==== CHAPTER FOUR ====
The guards lead her up the stairs, the air up there wasn’t damp and musty, it was fresh and clean. It was amazing, she wanted to stand there and just take it in, but the guard yanked on her chain and she had to follow. The sun was so bright, it reflected off the gold that was embedded in the walls casting more shimmering spots of light. And the sky... she wanted to jump up into the large blue sky and spreed her wings for the first time.
Then she realized she didn’t know how to fly, she had been in her cell for as long as she could remember. The guards lead her to a locked gate, they closed the gate behind her and clipped wing binding she could not open her wings all the way, and then removed the band clamping her mouth shut. A guard pulled a lever, opening the next gate. The guards poked her with a spear till she was on the other side of the gate. They closed it behind her and left. 
To her surprise, it wasn’t another gray room, the grounds were covered in blood-stained sand, and the roof was open to the sky, there were skywings sitting in the seats on the other side of a stone wall, the stone wall went all the way around like a oval. On the opposite side of her, a platform with a throne on it. And on the throne was a jeweled, crimson Skywing, the queen. A Skywing standing next to her swooped of the platform and addressed the audience. “ Hello, fellow Skywings!” Bellowed the announcer “We have another very entertaining round of fighting today! On the left side, Phoenix the fire scale with zero wins so far!” The crowd booed at her, Phoenix hissed at them. “On the right, we have Kelp of the Seawings with two wins!” The announcer said. She watched some guards unhook a pea-green Seawing from the prison tower and lower him on the arena sands. 
“Talons up, fire ready, fight!”. The Seawing lunged at her, she rolled out of the way, 
“Stop! Don’t touch me! I-” She tried to warn him but he slammed into her. He screeched and howled in pain, Kelp’s scales went up in flames, the audience cheered loudly, tossing little showers of rubys into the arena. Kelp died after a few moments of sprinting around the arena, smashing into walls blinded by pain. She was shaking and didn’t even try to resist when the guards linked chains around her and lead her back to the cell.
==== CHAPTER FIVE ====
She had never known what those guards that called her monster mean't, she had been told she was born to kill. Now she knew, these claws, my scales, she could end anyone's life. She understood, she was just a weapon, nothing more than that. She did not deserve the sky, she wasn't worthy of having feelings. 
"Hey, Phoenix! Check this out!" Storm Hollered from her cell. Storm reached into Alpine's cell, (Who was sleeping) and flicked one of his spikes. It made a beautiful musical sound, like the chimes she heard above the prison.
Phoenix turned her head away from Storm. Why was Storm and the other hybrids locked up? They weren't any more dangerous than an ordinary dragon, They were not like her.
"Phoenix? Why are you so down?" Storm asked her with a troubled expression on her face.
"OH WILL YOU SHUT UP" Phoenix roared.
She instantly regretted it. Seeing her facial expression, she might as well had driven a knife through Storm. But she only had a glimpse, Storm spun around and lay down on the wall farthest from her cell, back turned away from the firescale. Phoenix slid to a corner of her cell and covered her face, feeling guilty and ashamed. She felt the other prisoners staring at her like the pricks of needles. 
CHAPTER SIX
Phoenix had a plan. Ok, not much of a plan, but a rough idea of of how to make it up to Storm, she would give her the one thing she wanted most of all. Freedom. And this was how she was going to execute it, when the guards unlocked her cell, she was going to...Kill them? How else was she going to get out of here? No, there must be a way. Maybe she could carve a way out, but going up would lead straight into the Skywing Palace, and the labs where under her, perhaps she could tunnel out using her fire-proof wrist cuffs at the back of her cell...But that would take too long, surely someone would notice her carving a escape route. Ok, so if tunneling out wasn't an option, she would have to unlock her cell and use the main staircase that lead...straight to the palace.
She groaned and rubbed her forehead. If only I had held my touge and not lashed out. She needed help, but who would help her? Not Alpine, he would only say something sarcastic, Raptor, may be a bit more willing, he was rebellious and stilll fought back when the scientists used him, but he wasn't much of a planer. This left Dawn, if she could convince Dawn to simply teleport them out-but Dawn would never do that, she believed she was serving her tribe by being down here, she believes its for the best, she stuck to the rules like a flame on a dry brittle piece of tree bark. This mean't her only hope was that Raptor would agree, and had a descent plan. She heard a shriek from the labs, she tilted her head curiously toward the stairs.
BAM! 
Phoenix was thrown against the wall, she felt her wings screaming as they twisted against the jagged stone. It happened so fast Phoenix forgot where she was. Smoke. Everywhere smoke was blurring her vision, her ears where ringing, but when sound returned, she heard shattering glass, awful, bone chilling shrieks. Smoke, stinging her eyes, filling her lungs. It had came from downstairs. Who's testing day was it again? please don't let it be Storm. No, it was Dawn's. Phoenix dissolved into a coughing fit. Even Firescales couldn't breath in thick smoke like this and be fine. She blundered forward, only to run into the bars of her cage. She could hear and feel boulders crashing around her, the mountain was unstable. Panic seized her mind. Run! Fly! Move! Death is coming! But no matter how much she threw her self at the bars, she was TRAPPED. She inhaled, breathing in more, and more of the ashes, then the world fell inward, and engulfed everything in darkness. Trapped...
(End of Book One?)
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