Wings of Fire, The Garden of Hope

= Wings of Fire =
= Garden of Hope (Series) =
== The Garden of Hope is a fan made book series me and another person are creating! ==
Before we start I’ll give a bit of backround knowledge.
==== Where ====
This story takes place on Kanalia, a continent that is home to 9 tribes. 
==== Tribes ====
Herbwings - 
Location : The Herbwing Rainforest. 
Names : Mostly based off plants, herbs, and colors
Colors : Mostly green though colors such as pink, purple, blue, yellow, red, etc. can also be seen.
Behavior : Mostly calm and peaceful, although some can be quite aggressive.
Appearance : Leaf-like or normal shaped wings, leaf-like antennae, a leaf-like tail tip. An average sized tribe for their abilities. Occasionally Leaf-shaped wings come in pairs of two, resulting in a four winged Herbwing.
Abilities : Can sprout flowers and herbs - Similar to Leafwing’s Leafspeak, but Herbwings have lost the ability to understand plants. They may be able to convey basic understanding of  emotion in rare occurrences. 
Queen : Sage
King : Fennel
Ancestors : Leafwings, Rainwings
Crystalwings- 
Location : The caves, and rather hilly/mountainous areas.
Names : Types of gemstones, crystals, minerals, and rock formations.
Colors : Practically any dark shade of gray or heavily muted colors, with normally a lighter shade on their underbelly. Anything else, such as claws, horns, wings, patterns, or anything else can be any color, typically one single color instead of being a multicolored mess.
Behavior : A rather grumpy tribe that isn't encountered often. They seem to dislike the sunlight (some lose their colors in the sunlight.)
Appearance : Rather slim, geometric stances, with crystal-like spikes that resemble an existing gemstone (this is also how they are named), a crystal-like tail tip, that may be very sharp, or dull, depending on the gemstone that the dragon is resembling and other factors.
Abilities : Adult and mature Crystalwings can summon and greatly speed up the growth of crystals, though it depends greatly on the Crystalwing, as doing this just normally is already speeding the crystal’s growth down from thousands of years. Crystalwings are also quite fast for their size.
Queen : Amethyst
King : 
Ancestors : Icewings
Deepwings - 
Location : The sea, Deepwing harbor. 
Names : Colors, undersea animals or plants, or things relating to water.
Colors : Mostly muted colors such as green and blue. Rarer colors include pink, purple, white, or gray. Black may be a possible color, though it has not been seen very much.
Behavior : Not exactly the nicest tribe on Kanalia. Deepwings are strong and fast and it is not recommended to anger one. Some Deepwings are prone to outbursts of anger, even at the smallest things.
Appearance : Muted colors with white or black horns and white underbellies. They have no back talons while in water, which makes it easier to swim. They have large, powerful wings.  The largest tribe in Kanalia. Deepwings commonly have ‘paws’ instead of talons. Some Deepwings have the teardrop scale as Nightwings have. Some Deepwings have several wings.
Abilities : Most Deepwings have a telepathy ability granted to them. There are few exceptions to this, most of them being hybrids. Deepwings used to have animus magic, but since then they have lost it themselves, though it appears they can still use it. 
Queen : Axo 
King : 
Ancestors : Seawings, Nightwings, Glowwings, Mudwings, Geowings
* Deepwings are one of the smartest and strongest tribes.
Electrowings - 
Location : Around Mt. Moon supposedly.
Names : Types of clouds and storms, colors, and rather unusual names. 
Colors : Yellow, orange, gray, and black, resembling storm clouds. Beige, Linen, Blue, and Purple are rarer colors for their tribe, but are still seen. 
Behavior : A very advanced tribe. Very aggressive to every other tribe and rarely themselves.
Appearance : Very sharp and spiky, with a stinger in their tail. 
Abilities : Can bring storms and thunder, and climb very well. Paralyzing tail tip. The effect grows stronger the older the dragon is, and if you get stung, ‘It feels like you were just struck by lightning, except you cannot move as you feel your scales burn. Eventually you begin to feel numb as it wears off.’
Queen : Cumulus 
King : 
Ancestors : Icewings, Nightwings, Skywings, Hivewings
* Electrowings have the biggest wingspan (Apart from Deepwings, though they only have big wings because they, themselves are larger.), and therefore fly the fastest.
* Electrowings sometimes have arms, instead their talons are normally connected to their wings.
Webwings - 
Location : The body or torso of Kanalia, Caves.
Names : Types of bugs or spiders.
Colors : Black, red, orange, or gray.
Behavior : Violent, considered the second most violent and mean tribe, behind Deepwings or Electrowings.
Appearance : Webwings are very large, they have 8 legs, many eyes, yet rather small wings. They have a short, round tail, and are normally very bulky.
Abilities : Stingers, Venom, and they are also poisonous, quite fast. They have wonderful eyesight thanks to their several eyes.
Queen : Widow
King : 
Ancestors : Hivewings, Nightwings, Silkwings.
Dreamwings - 
Location : The back edge of Kanalia
Names : Colors, Items, and other dream-like meanings.
Colors : Muted colors, white spikes, horns, or freckles mostly, although these details can vary in shades of gray and black.
Behavior : Really depends, ranges from calm and sweet to aggressive.
Appearance : Normally small or big. Most of them wear clothing, accessories or jewelry wrapped around their neck, tail, or talons. Their tails end in triangles or diamond shaped tips. They have star-like wings like Nightwings. Commonly splotched with white.
Abilities : Can manipulate dreams, Can sometimes shapeshift; although it's a rare occurrence. 
Queen : Daydream
King :
Ancestors : Nightwings
This is the list of known tribes on Kanalia.
==== Who ====
The Garden of Hope (sometimes reffered to GOH) follows a young Herbwing dragonet named Rosemary. In the book she is 6 years old. She has light green with light blue-ish lavender flower spots. One blue and one green eye.
=== Book 1 ===
Finally, after all that, you should be prepared for the actual book! Which is titled the same as the series, ‘The Garden of Hope.’
===== Chapter 1 =====
Rosemary awoke more tired than usual. She was often tired in the mornings, but this morning she was more tired than normal. Rosemary’s wings felt heavy, trying to drag her back down to sleep for just a few more minutes, but she wanted to get ready for the day.
But as soon as she got up, her head hurt. Really bad. It felt like someone hit her in the head really hard. Brushing it off, she got up and stretched, shaking out her wings and tail. She quickly hustled around her room to see and grab anything that she might need.
After getting ready for the day she left her room to see with her mother, Queen Sage. She walked down the halls, admiring all of the plants, and looking at the art. She remembered who was in each room, some were empty, but many had Sage’s daughters, or sons. Sage  had some weird fascination with adopting Herbwing dragonets. Rosemary never thought into this so much. She kept walking, until she finally reached Queen Sage's throne room. She hesitated, but walked to the throne and said, 
 “Hello mother,” and before she could say anything, Sage replied. “Hello, Rosemary.” Sage seemed to have trouble remembering her name, like always. But Rosemary couldn’t blame her, Sage had adopted many children.
 “I need you to tend to the gardens and see if anything is in need of regrowing.” Queen Sage said as she moved some books around, her light green scales shining. Sage was not very tall, only slightly taller than some of the dragonets roaming around. 
She flicked to the exit with her tail. Sage normally asked for this, in fact, it was lucky if she didn’t say that every morning.
 “Will do!” Rosemary said, sighing and stepping back.
Rosemary turned to the exit and trotted off to the gardens. Once she got to the gardens she saw Lemonbalm also tending to the gardens. Sage must have asked him to help too. Rosemary realized. Most days it was just her. Lemombalm normally never came to the garden.
 “Oh hello Lemon!” she said. The only sound they made was a small 'hello' grunt.  
 “I’ll take that as a hello.” Rosemary said, sighing.
Lemonbalm had the darkest green out of all the Herbwings, with dull yellow spots, while Rosemary had light green scales dotted with petal shaped fragments of a light blue-ish lavender, like an actual rosemary bush. 
Most Herbwings are like that, named after plants they looked like. But there was one dragon that may be an exemption.
Xantho (If Rosemary could remember his name right) He was complicated, you couldn’t just look at his scales and assign a plant to that shade of yellow. 
As if a thought about him summoned Xantho himself, Xantho walked in grumpily. His scales dirty and scuffed. He glared at Rosemary, and before anyone could say anything, walked out. Xantho was most likely the oldest child of the queen, or at least the largest, well maybe- Lemonbalm may have been taller than Xantho, but Rosemary couldn’t remember when he got here. That was kind of odd, Rosemary had a fairly good memory, so why couldn’t she remember much about Xantho.
Rosemary shrugged this off and went to the front gardens where the entrance was, and sat down to do her duties as a ‘royal guard.’ That was always what she did after working in the gardens. It was quite boring. 
A while passed until a dragon ran up. 
 “I have a message for the Queen,” The worried dragon replied.
 “Why not just go through the palace?” Rosemary asked, but she wasn’t trying to seem mean; she hated being mean, she always regretted it later.
 “I — forgot where it was —“ They admitted, out of breath. But they were right, the palace was complicated. It had taken a few months for Rosemary to know where her room was.
 “I’ll bring you there, you can deliver the message to the Queen, I’ll show you where to go” She nodded, and opened the gate, then locked it after they went in. She led the other dragon through the garden and into the palace, then to the throne room. 
She heard the clutters of books fall and Sage’s talons scrambling when she opened the door. 
 “Ack —“ She heard the queen say, “What do you want now?”
 “Somebody has a message for you” Rosemary said, bowing down slightly. The messenger nodded and left to tell Sage, but Rosemary was walking out, back to the gardens so she didn’t hear. 
That was weird. And back to the gate, then she sat down again, ready for anything.
===== Chapter 2 =====
After a long time of waiting nobody else came. She locked the gate and headed to her room.
Right as she got near her door her mother Queen Sage stopped her. “Rosemary,” she said out of breath, “I have news. Bad news.”
Bad news? What had happened? Did the messenger do something, or say something? Oh I shouldn't have let them in. 
 “The- the Webwings are starting a war against us Herbwings.” 
What? Why us? The webwings want to start a war? But why? We have been at peace for the longest time? Do they want something? Land? I thought they had the most land of any tribe– why would they need more?
 “The Webwings are very scary,” Sage went on. “They’re also one of the most powerful tribes. They’ve got 8 legs, Venomous fangs, 4-8 eyes. We have to be very careful. I'm honestly worried we might lose.”
 “Mother-”
She went on about the webwings more and more,
 “MOTHER!”
Sage paused.
 “Whatever happens, we will be fine.” She put her talons on the Queen's light talons.
 “But- I do have a question.” Sage continued as Lemonbalm walked in. “You too- Lemon.”
 “Uh- okay?” They asked,
 “Children, have you ever heard of the Garden of Hope prophecy?”
“The what?” Rosemary asked.
  “I doubted you would know it, let me think.
A garden of hope awaits the five, 
Only they can save us.
One with scales of the brightest yellow,
The one with a third eye,
The one of colorful flowers, 
The one who is the catcher of dreams,
And one of the scales of deepest green.
They are the ones to save us, 
We will wait for them to save the tribes.” she continued.
Rosemary and Lemonbalm stared with disbelief.
 “Really?” Lemonbalm asked. “If there is a ‘Garden of hope’ or whatever, wouldn’t you know about it?” 
 “I should, but I don’t know anything about that. Lemonbalm, you have the darkest green scales out of all of us. Xantho has the brightest yellow — Colorful flowers,” She looked at Rosemary, “Don’t you love colorful flowers?”
 “What about the third eye and catcher of dreams?” Rosemary asked.
 “Catcher of dreams, definitely a Dreamwing. Third eye? Possibly a Webwing but all of them have more than 2 eyes — and it may not make sense to have an enemy help us —“ Lemonbalm observed. “What if — they have it still?” Lemonbalm then began mumbling something about royals to himself.
 “Have what?” Rosemary and Sage asked. Lemonbalm cut in. “I’m going to go study with Xantho.” 
Rosemary looked at him weird, but found this a good time to ask Sage a question, “Mother? Can you tell me more about Xantho?” Rosemary asked.
===== Chapter 3 =====
 “He’s the one with the bright yellow scales, basically Lemonbalm but like —“ Sage looked at Lemon, who was walking away, “More yellow —“ Sage waved her talon at him, “His room is across from yours I think, at least nearby, you can go talk to him, I have stuff to do...” Sage finished, turning and nearly whacking Rosemary with her tail.
Rosemary nodded, and headed off into the hallway, scanning the doors for hers. Eventually she found it, then turned around to one labeled ‘XANTHO’ in sharp, jagged handwriting. I’m already starting to regret coming. What if I were to just go back into my room, avoid having to think about this? No, I’m curious,
She pushed on the door a little and it opened. She stepped half in when a yellow figure whipped around and nearly stabbed her. She arched her neck back and almost fell down.
 “Ah!” Rosemary yelled, flapping her wings. “What was that for?!”
Xantho didn’t answer, he seemed frozen in that pose, eyes locked on Rosemary, stingers on his wrist almost stabbing her heart, it took a minute for Rosemary to notice they came out of gloves, and not his scales, which seemed more scuffed and dirty then they had been before, he was no longer bright and shiny.
What  just happened?
He eventually put his talon down, the fake stinger sliding somewhere into the glove. Rosemary looked at him and realized if she even bumped into him wrong- it may be as bad as the stingers. Rosemary had never seen such a spiky dragon.
 “What do you want?” Xantho protested, reading her face, “I think I saw you in the gardens.”
 “You did, — and why did you try to stab me with those weird stinger thingys?” Rosemary asked, pointing to the stinger gloves.
 “Why did you try to come into my room, can you not read?!“ walked out furiously, dragging Rosemary along. He pointed to the sign by the door that said ‘XANTHO’ and in bright red letters but for some reason, really small, ‘LEAVE ME ALONE’.
 “Sorry — I- I didn’t see that.” She murmured following Xantho back inside. She looked around, Xantho’s room was rather light, with a bed in one corner and a desk in the other, across from the bed. There were shelves and tables lining the other walls of his room, some with books, or trinkets. She saw an old book on one of the tables, pointing to it and asking, “What’s that?”
 “Nothing, get out.” He tried to shove her out, but she walked over to the book and looked at the cover, it said ‘Deepwings’ and nothing else. She turned the book over, 
“Why are you reading about the Deepwings?”
Xantho didn't answer, he just awkwardly held his talons close together.
Rosemary put the book down, “I just wanted to know more about you, like — Why are your scales so yellow, why are your eyes black?” That was something she just realized about Xantho. “They look like those weird shiny crystals, like onyx or-or obsidian! That's the one I meant,”
He looked confused and shocked and angry all at the same time. He was trying to put the right words together. Rosemary thought for a moment.
“Xantho, can we be friends?” He seemed stunned by the question. As if nobody had asked him before.
 “I- Uh-”
  “Pleaseeee?” she replied
 “I don’t know…-”
  “C'mon please? You seem really cool and I'd like to get to know you.” Xantho just kinda stood there for a moment.
 “I’ll think, it’ll probably be a no though.” He finally replied, and he held his head high.
  “Okay!” she said. Rosemary walked out of the room and closed the door behind her feeling hopeful.
She heard Xantho sigh and murmur something behind her.
===== Chapter 4 =====
It was getting late now, so Rosemary decided to finally go to bed. As she fell asleep she thought about lots of stuff. Lot’s more than usual.
Why are the webwings starting a war against us after so many years of peace? I wonder if Xantho- I wonder if he will want to be friends. Hopefully he does. He seems really cool. I wonder if I can make friends with a Webwing and end the war. I wonder….
She woke up the next morning, tired once again. She got ready for the day and grabbed her map of the palace she made a while ago. She followed the map to the throne room where Queen Sage was. Her mother was rearranging the books again. Sage always did this. Sage had always made sure everything was organized, but sometimes she only made things worse.
 “Hey mother?”
 “What?” she replied, sounding frustrated. “How about you do this,  I would like you to see if you can find any books that can help with the battle in the library, oh, and I found out why the Webwings want to start a war. They think the Electrowings are still alive and that they live in the mountains.” She chuckled.
 “Okay-, I’ll go to the library and see.” Rosemary replied.
She walked down the halls looking for the library until she finally reached the sign that said: ‘LIBRARY, BE QUIET’ she walked in quietly and saw Lemonbalm reading books.   
“Lemonbalm!” she said in a yell-whisper. They looked at her very startled.
Lemonbalm had dark green scales and yellow splotches all over them, but the yellow was much more dull than Xantho’s bright yellow. And he also had a small horn on his face, on the top of his snout.
  “Yes..?” they whispered. “What do you want?”
 “Would you like to go to the gardens? Maybe we could bring —“
 “No, I was just over there, and I would not like to bring anybody.” He said with a flick of his head, then he walked off. Rosemary followed behind him anyway. The library was huge, with bookshelves stretching to the ceiling, most of them so full they couldn’t hold another book, some of them empty. Lemonbalm sat the books he had on a table, and flew up to one of the more deserted shelves, scanning through the few books that were there. Rosemary checked the books he brought back, most of them about Deepwings. 
Lemonbalm and Xantho? What about the Deepwings are so fascinating? Nobody ever sees them. Lemonbalm flew back down, and trotted to Xantho’s room, sliding the book halfway under the door. After a few clatters Xantho grabbed it.
 “Rosemary?” Lemonbalm asked, turning their head. They had walked to the entrance of the palace by now.
 “Yes?”
 “Want to go try and find a Deepwing?” He asked, with no fear and hesitation in his voice.
 “But aren’t they the most dangerous? Aren’t they massive and can eat you in a bite? Can’t they use magic or something?” It had been a while since Rosemary had studied on the Deepwings. The last time she had was years ago.
 “I know, but me and Xantho want to go, and I just wanted to know if you wanted to.”
 “I guess — wait — Xantho?” Rosemary asked. 
 “Yes. Me.” Xantho said from behind them, then he took off ahead of them and they followed a second later.
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