The Dragonet Prophecy/Prologue

The following will contain detailed information about the events as presented in chapter one of *The Dragonet Prophecy*. There is also a brief summary of the entire book featured in the main article.

## Chapter Description

Hvitur, an IceWing, is trying to hide in a storm, a lightning flickers in the dark clouds above. He clutches his fragile cargo, revealed to be a SkyWing egg, closer to him, and believes that he could make it back to the secret cave. However, an enormous dragon with pale gold scales appears, and two more dragons behind her rose to the sky as she flicked her tail. A piercing shriek sounds as they grab the IceWing.

The waiting dragon orders her soldiers to bind Hvitur's mouth, and they do as they are told, throwing a smoldering hot chain onto him. One of the soldiers hands her a dragon egg, and Burn squints at the egg, recognizing that it was not an IceWing egg. She hisses that Hvitur had stole the egg from the SkyWing palace, and says that Queen Scarlet had reported an IceWing thief sneaking away.

Burn holds the egg above the fire, and muses about it's purpose. She points out that Blaze hated any dragon who was younger and prettier than she was, and suddenly realizes that Hvitur was part of the Talons of Peace. One of her soldiers wonders aloud if they're real, and Burn snorts that they were just a couple of worms crying over a little blood, before ordering her soldiers to unwrap his chains.

Burn questions Hvitur, asking him if he believes in the NightWing's prophecy. Hvitur snarls that Pyrrhia has been suffering because of her, and was about to add more. However, the huge SandWing interrupts him, saying that she would not let a couple of dragonets decide her fate, and that Pyrrhia would have peace when she was the queen of the SandWings.

Hvitur retorts that the dragonets would come, whether she liked it or not. Burn slowly turned the egg, and asks him whether or not it was part of the prophecy. The IceWing does not reply, and Burn calls to the egg in a mocking voice. Hvitur tells her to leave it alone, and Burn asks him what would happen if one of the five prophesied dragonets never hatched. Hvitur desperately replies that she would never hurt a dragon egg.

Burn muses mockingly about how sad of a story it would be without a 'wings of sky' to save the world, before pretending the egg slipped away with an exaggerated lunge. Hvitur shrieks and tries to rescue the egg, but Burn slams her massive claws onto him, shreds his wings, and kills him with a stab of her poisonous tail, before saying to her soldiers to find something to kill.

Sometime later, a large rust-colored dragon crawls over some rocks to discover Hvitur's dead body. She nudges his tail and finds a shard of broken eggshell aside, before heading back to the caves behind her that led deep into the mountain. Suddenly, a voice hisses that they stand with the Talons of Peace, and the rust-colored dragon replies that she awaits the wings of fire.

A blue-green SeaWing appears from the shadow of a side cave, and the rust-colored dragon, later confirmed to be Kestrel, snarls that Hvitur is dead and the SkyWing egg is broken. The SeaWing, Webs, responds in disbelief that the brightest night was tomorrow, and that the dragonets in the prophecy had to hatch that day. Kestrel retorts that one is already dead, and that she should've gone into the SkyWing palace instead of Hvitur.

Webs grimaces, informing her that Asha, the MudWing guardian, was also dead, caught in a battle between Blister and Blaze. The MudWing egg was delivered, but she died of her wounds later. Kestrel growls that it was only her, him, and Dune to raise the dragonets of the prophecy, and she suggests breaking all the eggs now and being done with it.

Webs hisses back that they had to keep the dragonets alive, and Kestrel snaps in hesitant agreement, though she wonders who the fifth dragonet would be. Webs replies that he would find them a fifth dragonet, though she retorts that the SkyWings would be guarding the hatchery close, so he decides to replace the SkyWing dragonet with a RainWing egg instead. Though Kestrel is shocked at this statement, Webs insists that they had to find a fifth dragonet and fulfill the prophecy, what it took.

## Characters

### Major

Hvitur

Kestrel

Webs

### Minor

Burn

Two SkyWing soldiers [unnamed]

### Mentioned

Scarlet

Blister

Blaze

Asha

Dune

Clay [not directly mentioned]

Tsunami [not directly mentioned]

Glory [not directly mentioned]

Starflight [not directly mentioned]

Sunny [not directly mentioned]