Wings of Fire: the Truth Untold

PROLOGUE: 
Molten sighed on her throne, her deep red scales shining in the sun.
A MudWing landed, wounded and gasping. 
In the throne room, several SkyWing guards ran towards him. 
Molten, er, QUEEN Molten, shooed them off, she leaned forward. 
”What?” 
She said coldly. 
The MudWing gasped and bowed to her.
“T-t-the SeaWings! T-they are attacking! I c-c-came here to visit a fr-friend and the-ey ambushed me! Please! I know t-they are attacking soon, I heard o-one of them s-day something a-about the h-hatchery-y-y-y!”
The MudWing gasped and fainted on the floor. 
Molten gasped, she signaled the guards to help the MudWing and she was off. 
She dashed into the hatchery and searched wildly. 
She sighed in relief and picked up an orange-red egg, in the dim light it seemed to flicker with light.
She lightly caressed the egg, she suddenly called out to a random guard. 
She handed her the egg and said sharply, 
“Protect this egg with your life.“
The yellow she-SkyWing nodded fearfully and gently caressed the egg. 
Molten stormed outside and she noticed five-no-15-hold on-40 SeaWings flying full force at her! 
She growled and called some soldiers to knock them out of the sky. 
She swiftly divebombed below the SeaWings. 
She struck from underneath, a tactic she learned a few years ago.
“Don’t even think about trying to defeat me!” 
She blasted 2 SeaWings with fire, slapped a SeaWing with her tail (ironic) and slashed another SeaWings throat. 
After about an hour, the few remaining SeaWings gasped. 
One, a pale green SeaWing with algae colored wings, flashed his luminescent scales at the others. 
They nodded and flew away. 
Molten growled and landed back on her throne. 
Some SkyWings came up with some of their complaints. 
”My child thought it was funny to torment some of the prisoners!” barked a mother 
”I can help wash the SeaWing blood from the throne room” cooed a guard. 
”It’s so dang LOUD up here I can’t even BLINK without HEARING a DRAGON SCREAMING!” complained a large SkyWing loudly. 
Molten burned his feet and the large SkyWing howled with pain, lifting off. 
a few days later...
Molten went into the hatchery. 
The dragon she assigned as guard-of-the-egg was there, guarding the egg. 
Molten took the egg and went outside. 
She flew down to the newly-built arena the stands were full of SkyWings, MudWings, and a few SandWings. 
The egg cracked a little. 
Just in time. 
 Thought Molten. 
She held the egg up and everybody cheered. 
Molten cleared her throat and announced, 
“THIS IS MY NEW HEIR!” 
As if on cue, the top of the egg cracked off. 
Inside was a female baby with maroon on her face, and bright orange-red head. 
The rest of the dragonet tumbled out. 
Her underbelly was pale-yellow, and her back was slowly fading into a brighter red. 
Her horns were deep mahoghany. 
And her eyes were a honey pool. 
The baby dragonet burbled happily and everybody cheered. 
Molten grinned. 
“Your name,” she said sweetly to the dragonet, “is Flicker.” 
CHAPTER 1 (6 years later)
Flicker was flying around one of the mountain forests. 
On the forest floor, there was an orange SkyWing with maroon wings, with a bright yellow underbelly and citrus overscales. 
“All right now, time for a break!” he called to Flicker. 
Flicker sighed and flew down to him. 
“Is iit time to go already?” She complained, but didn’t sound too upset. 
The other SkyWing laughed. 
“I’m afraid so...” 
Flicker sighed. 
“Oh, but Maroon, what ever am I supposed to do for an hour before I have to go to dinner?“ she said in a joking mock. 
Maroon laughed. 
“Just cope for me, will ya, darling?” He chuckled. 
Flicker giggled and flew back to the castle. 
Flicker walked into the throne room happily and sat in the throne next to her mother. 
Molten was a rusty red color with an orange underbelly. 
Her spine and the top of her head was a deep reddish brown, like a velvet cake, and her eyes were an unforgiving yellow. 
Flicker twitched her tail uncertainly. 
She turned to her mother and asked,”You look upset. Did something annoy you?” 
Molten snorted and turned to her daughter. 
“Now-a-days it seems everybody is trying to annoy the tail off of me.” she said sharply.
Flicker internally sighed. 
Her mother was always mad at something.
Flicker casted a glance at one of the royal guards. he was on the opposite side of Molten, he was a dark crimson color with a paler underbelly, he had a bit of a distracted look on his face and his feet were a deep deep red
Flicker smiled a bit, she liked that guard, she couldn’t really explain it, she just liked him
”CRIMSON!” Barked Molten, snapping flicker out of her head
the guard flinched and turned to molten, he awkwardly bowed “y-yes your majesty?”
”your standing too close to me!“ she huffed 
Crimson would take a small step away from the Queen
Flicker would get up “mother... I am going to visit the dragons in the hospital wing”
”alright” snorted molten. Flicker was off
she stopped in the cave with the sick and injured. She gently layed a hand on one of the patients
’i hate this war...so many dragons get hurt for no reason...’ she thought
she walked along the ever-expanding aisl, most of the injured and/or sick were Skywings,
a talon full of mudwings, 
and a singular sandwing, he got wounded in battle and the closest ally was here.
Flicker sighed, she hated seeing so many hurt dragons. in the very back of the hospital wing are the prisoners who bearly survived a battle, and are just healing up a bit before the next one.
CHAPTER 2
’oh how poetic’ thought flicker, she shook her head. 
”Flicker walked out of the cave, she leaned against the wall and sighed
“why does it feel like I am the only one keeping this kingdom from becoming horrible? Mother is always mad at something and I don’t even think she considered the ‘other side of the story’” said flicker to herself
she walked back to the throne room. Crimson was alert, looking around. Flicker knew that he was trying to get the queen to notice him and say something GOOD about his guarding work, but nobody wants to even try to attack her so guards are practically meaningless. 
He turned to the Queen, hesitated, and said “I-isn’t it time for dinner? uh, Your Majesty?”
Molten thought for a moment, she turned to Crimson and said blandly
”I think I know when dinner is going to be, you don’t need to remind me...”
Crimson bowed his head and Flicker couldn’t help but feel sorry for him
Molten sat up and clapped her talons twice “DINNER TIME!”
all of the servants and some of the guards began setting the dinner table, Molten and Flocker day in their seats, Crimson stood next to the Queen
On the table was all sorts of delicious foods, large turkeys, buttery mashed potatoes, a lovely asset of deep fried scorpions, and even a few scavengers. Of course, Flicker hates scavengers, too skinny and furry
All of this food is nothing new, it’s just mating season treated the animals well this year, they might as well keep the population in check
Flicker took some turkey legs, a scoop of mashed potatoe, and a scavenger, it was still alive so each were kept in a small cage, Flicker took a bite from her turkey and silently and quickly released the horrified scavenger, it squeaked and ran away
Molten didn’t notice
Flicker would eat her food in silence, she snuck a glance at Molten, then winced
she had a large turkey chest, covered in special sauce, and an assortment of snakes, and there were some hidden deep-fried scorpions
Flicker chewed on and pretended she didn’t notice her mother’s large appetite.
After eating a few minutes, some skywing generals turned to Molten “So! When is our next attack? And against whom?”
Molten swallowed her food and said slowly “we will attack the Sandwing outskirts-“
”WHAT?! We should attack the seawings! They are weak since we attacked them last week!”
Molten sat up “THEY WOULD EXPECT US COMMANDER! The SANDWINGS don’t expect us to ATTACK THEM!”
the commander and the Queen would go on like this for a while
Flicker silently ate her food
CHAPTER 3
Flicker finished her food excused herself, and went outside, she spread her wings and took a deep breath of the forest. The sun was sinking, and the sky was as red as her own scales. It was pretty. 
it made her forget about her mother, her problems, and general life for a few seconds
Flicker went back inside and walked to her room. It consisted of a large bed covered in a shawl, and a large window, which was slightly pink, casting the whole room to be pale pinkish, and her drawer was large and white, stacked with scrolls and ink. She often wrote some books, but soon lost interest eventually
Flicker yawned, she padded to her bed and laid down under the covers. She was almost asleep when the sound of her mothers screaming woke her up
She snorted and still tried, nothing
Flicker opened her window a crack and flew out, she would then gently close the window and then she flew to a rock down below, it was below the sky London, and not too far away, it actually was a cave, she liked this rock, it was cozy and somewhat warm, layered in grass, she goes here when her mother won’t let her sleep
Flicker had to do this often
She easily went to sleep, a comfortable and easy sleep. 
After a few minutes, something rustled the bushes nearby. 
Flicker jolted awake, she couldn’t see what it was, but she sensed it, she put on a scowl to show that she wasn’t afraid, though she was a little scared 
“w-whoever you are, show yourself! I am not a dragon to take lightly!” she yelled, growling 
Feeling uneasy, Flicker flew back to her bedroom, she silently slipped inside and went under the covers, her mother had stopped yelling so she could go to sleep 
She did fall asleep this time, for the rest of the night 
in the morning 
Flicker woke up and yawned, she got out of bed and stretched her wings, arms, legs, tail, neck, and whatever else you stretch 
Flicker would go to her desk and began writing a note: 
Dear Mother, 
I am going out for a morning fly, do not wormmy worry about me, I will be back soon 
Love, Flicker 
She would place the letter on her pillow and she would take off to the skies, 
doing backflips and figure 8’s. 
She dive bombed and spiraled, 
barrel rolled and whatever other tricks you can do in the skies, 
she swooped down below to the arena, some dragons were born n the stadiums, whispering something about two prisoners fighting. Flicker caught a deer and sliced it in half 
she gave a half to the prisoners fighting, giving them her good remarks 
Flicker casted a glance back and saw the dragons with the deer smiling for the first time in a while 
Flicker smiled and flew down to the rings where Marroon was flying through, Flicker sat down and waited for him to notice she was there, 
Soon, he noticed, and he landed next to her 
”Do you want a turn?” He asked, offering a hand to the rings 
Flicker laughed and said “how about a race?” She asked challengingly 
Maroon would playfully growl “bring it!” 
Flicker and Maroon would lime up at the beginning hoop, they waited until the next crow call 
”Caw!” Went a nearby crow, and the two were off, zooming from ring to ring, faster and faster. Flicker was a nose in front of Maroon, he was much older than her, so his wingspan was enormous! but flicker was fast for her size 
Flicker swooped to the inside of the rink and zoomed past Marroon a split second before the race ended. 
Flicker tiptoed energetically when she landed “aw YEAH! That felt GOOD!” Maroon chuckled 
”of course you beat me! Hah! I should have known going up against me was pointless! Especially you, dear flicker...” maroon said, quieting on the last part 
Flicker didn’t seem to notice his change of volume and she flew back to her home. 
Flicker sat through the same dinner and sitting on the thrones were never interesting, the only good thing about sitting there is seeing what stupid things the skywing subjects had to offer 
(today’s winner: “why is my tea served so small?”) 
Flicker went to bed but instantly woke up to: 
”WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE DIDNT DO IT!?“ 
Flicker sighed and quietly went to her sleeping rock again. 
she easily drifted off into a nice sleep from the gentle song of the wild 
chirping bugs 
burping frogs 
the occasional chatter of a scavenger 
but little did she know, this was the most horrid mistake of her life 
CHAPTER 4 
Flicker woke up to a metal cage, it was being pulled by multiple horses with...what is that...a scavenger!? 
Flicker jerked up and roared in surprise, other scavengers on the sides would whip her. The whip was small, yes, but it still hurt! 
She hissed at them, the whips came from all angles. 
Flicker roared again, clawing our to one scavenger, who backed away but, what sounded like, laughed 
she growled and slumped down, smoke coming out of her snout, the horse-drawn carriage was brought to a smallish castle thing, once you get in, stables lined the walls, 
Flicker was dropped into one on the right, the scavengers tied her snout to the metal wall 
she hissed 
She would lay down, and growl at any passing scavenger. Eventually, one scavenger was brave enough to give her a bucket filled with slop, she casted the two-legged creature a ‘really? I-can-eat-you-in-one-bite-and-this-is-the-food-you-serve-me? Indigestible-slop?’ kind of look. 
The scavenger shrugged, leaving 
Flicker licked the food 
it was horrible, and not that much, but she ate some because she was hungry 
Flicker hissed, angry at herself, at the scavenger, she was never going to use rope AGAIN 
Then she got hit with a horrible thought... 
’What if I NEVER get out of here...’ 
she growled at that thought 
’of course you will! You are Princess Flicker! Daughter of Queen Molten, probably the best gosh darn fighter in the history of all dragons!’ 
That boosted Flickers confidence nicely. 
Flicker went into an uneasy sleep about scavengers with long sharp fangs poking her with their long, sharp nails, and shooting some of that horrid slop at her 
it was weird and gross 
Flicker woke up with a start, 
it was morning 
She sat up and growled 
the same scavenger from last night came, gave her the bucket, and left 
saying something that sounded like: ‘gyoob nebder nyert gyoost byo nit, drats gore zongy lood’ 
which Flight THOUGHT it said your better enjoy it, it’s your only food’ 
Not very encouraging 
Flicker licked the food 
still hating it, but doing it since she was hungry 
soon, after about an hour, 3 scavengers came up to her 
“What now? Are you TRYING to kill me with that slop?” 
she growled, the scavengers, she noticed, had thick ropes 
she didn’t like the look of THAT 
Flicker back away to the corner angrily 
the scavengers narrowed in slowly and calmly 
like that would ever work 
Flicker roared and reared up on her hind legs, and spreading her wings, making herself look bigger, she spun around and slapped a scavenger with her tail, 
another one shot the rope at her, it wrapped around her arm and tugged it towards the scavenger, she tugged back, almost knocking it over 
this went on for a while, back and forth, back and forth 
soon, more scavengers came and shot more ropes at her, but she wasn’t giving up, she bit one of the ropes that was causing her the most trouble, it snapped and Flicker pulled, 
One of the scavengers pulled an odd doo-hickey out 
a d shot her with a tiny feathered thing, all of the scavengers stopped pulling and turned to argue with the one that shot her 
Flicker pulled out the dart thing and began to feel woozy 
she turned to the now distracted scavengers 
Flicker‘s mind was going normal speed but...her body was in slow motion or something 
She began walking to the scavengers, becoming sleepier every second 
She was about to slash them when...her legs gave out 
she fell to the ground and everything went black 
A couple of hours later 
Flicker woozily woke up 
She tried to stand but couldnt 
She looked around her and saw she was in a cage again, in what looks like a short tunnel to a large, sandy dome 
Flicker would turn and growl at the other scavengers 
they poked her 
she growled back 
Why was she so slow and sleepy? 
i mean, her mind was racing but her body can’t keep up 
She supported her body with the cage and shifted to a sitting position 
She shook her head 
things were starting to speed up now 
she can (mostly) stand up on her own 
and she could blink with out feeling sleepy 
Flicker banged the cage 
Flicker...was mad 
What did they shoot her with that made her feel like a spaghetti noodle? 
The effects of the weird dart thing wore off 
Flicker roared and banged against the cage, the side scavengers made satisfied noises 
and poked her 
This just made her angrier 
she snapped one of the poking sticks up and poked the scavengers 
which grabbed it back 
a scavenger wearing bright clothing and doing weird, and offensive things was at the lip of the cave 
This angered Flicker and she growled 
The cage suddenly opened and she charged forward to the scavenger, who dodged her attack at the last second 
Flicker was in a large, sandy, dome 
not unlike the one back home, Flicker noted 
Flicker looked around, the scavengers lined the stands 
She growled and turned in a full circle 
on the other side of the dome, the thing opened up and out came... 
a Seawing... 
her bitter enemy 
her mother taught her that, if possible, size up your enemy quickly before they attack 
then dodge them so you see their attacks 
then attack yourself 
a scavenger held the two back 
the Seawing was an ocean blue with cerulean underscales and luminescent scales 
his eyes were a crazed green, looking for a fight 
Flicker growled 
she noticed he had a scar along his side 
nothing too big, just a possible weakness 
a horn blared and the bindings were off 
the Seawing attacked with blinding speed, but Flicker, knew speed 
she easily dodged the dragon, and he crashed into a wall 
he turned and attacked again, this time, with his tail 
Flicker got bored and stood a good distance away from the seawing 
She held her head back, building up her heat, in the back of her throat burned fire 
she aimed at the approaching seawing 
then the timing was right 
she flanked to the left and flamed his scar, right on point 
he bowled and fell over, rolling around to stop the flames 
Flicker ran over and slashed his face 
backed up 
slash his wing 
back up 
slash his tail 
back up 
slash his neck 
oops he’s dead! 
Flicker suddenly realized something...she killed another dragon... 
the scavengers cheered 
‘he was a Seawing...and besides...it was him or me..’ 
Flicker was dragged to a tiled room where they washed the blood off of her talons 
then they shoved her back in the stable 
they handed her a chunk of meat 
she ate it quickly 
CHAPTER 5 
Flicker woke up comfortably from some straw digging into her back, she shoved it away and growled, shifting around. Looking around, she finally noticed the Mudwing 2 stables across from her 
She sat up and growled to get his attention, he angrily turned to her, he had a large scar over his eye 
Flicker flinched 
She would try to shift the muzzle-rope- thing off of her snout but...no luck 
The mudwing sized her up 
Flicker, getting defensive and, starting to not like the mudwing, growled 
he growled back 
Flicker patted her mouth from the muzzle-thingy enough to say, in a muffled voice: 
”who are you? Do you know who I am?” 
The mudwing laughed, it was rough and horse and barky 
Flicker narrowed her eyes angrily 
the mudwing turned to her, slightly amused “I dunno, who? The fairy of fire?” 
he let out another barky laugh 
Flicker growled 
”I’m Princess Flicker of the SkyWings!” 
she established angrily 
The mudwing snickered 
”And I’m Batman!” 
Flicker growled 
The mudwing was a mahogany brown, he had orange-brown underscales and wing membrane. The top of him was a cinnamon hue, though it didn’t match his personality at all. 
”I’m not lying!” Flicker growled 
The mudwing continued to laugh and laugh. 
Smoke was coming out of Flockers snout. 
She roared (the best she could, darn leash thingy) at the mudwing 
She sized up the mudwing again. “Who are you? I don’t remember you in the army.” 
The mudwing gave her an ‘are-you-serious?’ look 
”my name is Coypu” 
”Well, Coypu I suggest you clear that attitude, or it won’t end well with you!” Threatened flicker 
Coypu laughed and picked food from his teeth “oh yeah? And how are ya going to do that?” 
Flicker growled and stated “let’s just say I am not into fighting at the moment” actually, that was partially true, she was just very tired after the fight. 
Coypu turned to the cell across from him, he raised his voice a little “oi! Sleeping bag! We’ve got company!” 
A small, crazed Icewing burst up from behind the stable walls, making all sorts of odd noises, running around and biting his own tail 
Flicker recoiled in disgust, the icewing was really run down 
he was only skin and bones, his dark blue eyes are bugging out and bloodshot, he has a weird, greenish, and probably infected injury on his back, and one of his horns are snapped 
Coypu turned to Flicker “this is Azure” 
Azure made a noise that sounded like a friendly growl with bubbles in it. He turned his gaze to Flicker 
He spin in a circle and shook his head wildly, his tongue lolled out and he would make another weird noise 
he suddenly snapped his head up 
his crazed expression turned into a kind of expression if you caught a dragonet stealing food, midswipe 
Coypu gasped “Get down!” He ducked upset where Flicker couldn’t see him 
She followed Coypus instructions and ducked 
10 seconds later, Flicker heard disgusting, angry growls and the sound of scraping against wood. 
Flicker didn’t know what was happening, she stole a peak and saw that Azure was going nuts! 
He was thrashing around and biting everything he could, he smacked his tail against the wall, making it crack 
Several scavengers came rushing in with ropes and dart guns 
They had thick armor. Flicker gulped 
Azure smashed a nearby scavenger and grabbed him with his mouth 
he shook the scavenger and ripped through his armor as if it was nothing but a hide of a deer 
he tore off the scavengers arm and wiggled it around, as if it was a threat 
which it probably was 
Flicker gasped in disgust. That was a mistake 
Azure caught a glance at Flicker and he roared, snapping his leash 
he made a satisfied growl and leaped at Flicker 
Chapter 6 
Flicker roared in surprise and sucked, Azure flew above her. 
He snarled and turned around and jumped at Flicker again. 
She used the rope to stop his mouth as he kept towards her. 
He bit through the rope and dashed back at her at the speed of sound. 
Flicker yelped, she jumped and opened her wings, she glides around, the room too small for actual flying. 
she spun around to smack the crazy Icewing in the face, a trick she learned from her mother, and spun around the pin down his face. 
He thrashed around and he suddenly stopped, with an evil grin on his face. 
Confused, Flicker bent in close. That was a mistake. 
He suddenly lurched up and blew a bit of frostbreath on her face. 
Flicker roared and blew a large burst of fire in the direction of Azure, unknown to her, she had hit his wing. 
Still thinking Azure was trying to get to her, she was blowing fire everywhere, clawing the frostbreath off of her face. Roaring. 
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