Book One: The Lost Hope

## Prologue

Deathspeaker's head shot up as he heard the flutter of wings in the distance. "Somethings coming, stay sharp." He told his troops, moving further into the dark void that was the Sky Kingdom. "Going to be quite the unlucky dragon if its the one who killed my sister, eh?" He mumbled, shaking off a tarantula that jumped on his wing. "Scout the area. General Fierceteeth, lead the troops to the western barrier between the Kingdom of Sand." He pointed to the blue dragon as she started off into the odd sunset infront of them.

Suddenly, a red dragon lunged out of the darkness, his pale underscales gashed with blood red scars, some even still bleeding. "GAH!" He screamed, dodging the, now half recognizable, Commander Cliff. "You NightWings have no right to come into the glorious SkyWing's territory!" Cliff yelled at him, but, what he didn't realize, was Deathspeaker was one step ahead of him.

Deathspeaker jumped at the small SkyWing, but the dragon slipped away into the bushes, never to be seen again. "Deathspeaker?" Called his troops. "Here, you idiots!" He hissed. The SkyWing was gone. "SkyWings are starting to get restless. They're everywhere, and Noble, my father, was killed recently. Improve the defenses. Everyone will come. What makes you think that wounds are an excuse to slack off? There's no reason." He scolded the troops, seeing their bruises and scars. "We'll find Queen Carmine, and we will show her and the SkyWings who's better. We'll kill them all!"

## Part one: The Escape

### Chapter 1

"Onyx, where are the scrolls about the War of SandWing Succession?" Cloud asked, turning to look at her Guardian, a kind SandWing named Onyx, "Here. Enjoy reading this one, Cloud." Onyx handed Cloud a scroll, sat down, and proceeded to read another scroll.

*"The War of SandWing Succession started when the mother of the SandWing Princesses, Burn, Blister, and Blaze, died from a group of scavengers who had stolen her treasure. In rage, the SandWing Queen went after the scavengers, only to be killed before her daughter Burn came to help her win the fight and take back her treasure.*

*The three sisters split off, not knowing who to make queen, and formed their own alliances, with Burn allying with the SkyWings, Blister with the SeaWings and MudWings, and Blaze with the IceWings...*

Cloud jumped up at the sound of the piercing voice of her friend, Piranha, yelling, "I FOUND SOMETHING! IN THE RIVER!!!". As she walked out of the library, she heard Onyx sigh from behind her. Onyx placed a talon on Cloud's shoulder, "Listen, I know what's going to happen. Now, if you ever see a SandWing named Pomegranate, give them this," And with that, Onyx gave her a scroll, and Cloud walked into the main hall of the caverns. Cloud stared into the water, expecting to see Piranha. "Boo," She heard Piranha from behind her, giggling. "Nice try Piranha, but that isn't scary! Now what did you want to show me?" Cloud then looked back to see Piranha, but also two other dragons: Coyote, the shy SandWing, and Blazen, the courageous and brave SkyWing.

"Everyone, everyone," Piranha said excitedly, moving closer to the river to let the other two in the room, "What is it, Piranha," Blazen smiled. "Okay, Okay, Okay. So, I found like, a hole. In the river! and it leads to like, the OUTSIDE!!"

**THE FOLLOWING IS BEING REWRITTEN**

Coyote dived into the river, swimming into the hole when Skylight was gone. "Coyote?" Blazen said diving after him. Cloud jumped after them. "Well, were all going anyways" Piranha said jumping in.

Cloud bumped into a rock. "ACK!" She yipped. Piranha shined her scales so Cloud could see where she was going. They reached the surface to see Blazen. "Where's Coyote?!" Cloud yelled to Blazen. "I couldn't find him.. He's gone.." Blazen said back to her. "SkyWing Patrol! Run!" Piranha said flying to them. they all scrambled to a nearby cave and blocked the entrance with a bolder. "I saw a RainWing!" They heard a voice yell outside their cave. "I think they're in this cave!" They heard another voice yell. The bolder started opening. "Run" Cloud said. They all ran through the cave when they started hearing a 'HISSSSSS' sound coming from behind them. And then a burst of fire came right their way. Blazen stood in front of them blocking the fire with his body. "Blazen!" Cloud yelled, worried. "I'm Fine, I Have Fireproof Scales" He said. "Keep Going Soldiers!" They heard a General yell. And suddenly, Cloud was knocked out.

### Chapter 2

Blazen

"Blazen?.. Where are we?". Cloud said waking up. "Flying towards the Kingdom of Sea, Piranha flew towards there. When you got knocked out the soldiers took you but your safe now. We are about to enter the Mud Ki-" Blazen stopped, staring at the hundreds of MudWing corpses. "Skylight told me about this.. But i never expected this.." Blazen said. "Wha- What happened.." Cloud asked. "The SkyWings set out to conquer the MudWings.. they succeeded by the looks of it.." Blazen answered. "But I thought the SkyWings only wanted the RainWings" Cloud said. "It seems not.." Blazen said landing.

"Whos There!?" A small blue SeaWing yelled, coming out from behind a dead MudWing. "Don't worry we wont hurt you! We just came looking for the Kingdom of Sea" Blazen . "Who are you..?" The SeaWing asked. "I am Blazen, Uh, This is Cloud." "I'm Dewdrop, If your looking for the Kingdom Of Sea then your asking the wrong dragon. Oh, you should meet my friend over here." Dewdrop said. Another SeaWing came out from behind a dead MudWing. "This is Baltic, He was terrorized by the Darkness dragons his whole life until he escaped them and met me." Dewdrop said. "Hello." Baltic said. Blazen took a look at Baltic, he was about twice the size of Dewdrop, with blue and yellow scales, And then Blazen realized, he was wearing a bracelet, one that only members of the Darkness Dragons wear.

### Chapter 3

Cloud

Cloud was peacefully resting outside the cave they were staying in, Baltic telling a story with Dewdrop and Blazen on the other side of their camp, The second moon was beginning to rise. "But then the Nightmare Dragon attacked! It bit me multiple times before I crushed it and escaped the Darkness Dragons. And that's were I got these scars." Baltic said, finishing his story. "Nice story Baltic! Hope we don't run into those dragons ever." Cloud said. "Thanks Cloud!" Baltic said smiling. "Whelp, its late, we should get to bed" Blazen said, Dewdrop agreed.

2 hours later

The third moon was rising higher by the hour. It was a blue harvest moon, the mystic type. Cloud woke up to hear rustling in the bushes, She thought it was nothing and went to the nearby lake to get a drink, when Baltic lunged out of the bushes and attacked Cloud, throwing her into the lake. "AHHHH!" Cloud screamed, almost drowned out by Baltic lashing into her neck. There was more insanity, then a friend in Baltic, "THE BRACELET" Cloud barely heard Blazen yell, "IT HAS NIGHTMARE DRAGON VENOM IN IT, CLOUD!" Blazen yelled again, before burning off Baltic's arm. "AHHHHHHHH" Baltic screamed, before fainting.

### Chapter 4

Baltic

Baltic felt nothing but horrible for the majority of they’re journey. He just wanted to run away and hide forever, but couldn’t because he wanted to get away from the Darkness Dragons. He thought Queen Mintstone, the current queen of the SeaWings, could help him hide. They were about three quarters to the Gemstone Palace, The new animus created Sea Palace. They traveled past Temple Island, then the ruins of the Summer Palace, then finally they made it to the Gemstone Palace, to meet Mintstone and find Piranha.

Blazen

They all entered to see a huge pavilions, with a guard standing on the bridge connecting to the Pavilions. Cloud made her scale color an orange red to make herself look like a SkyWing SilkWing, “Excuse me, do you know where we can see Queen Mintstone?” Blazen asked the guard. “Top pavilion, I’ll tell her she has guests.” The guard said, then flying away. They all flew to the top pavilion, where Queen Mintstone then flew up with Piranha, and another SeaWing behind her. “Hello, SeaWings and SkyWing hybrids! I am Queen Mintstone, what may I help you with?” She said.

“Oh..” Piranha said, recognizing Blazen. “Hello! Hello!” A small shiny SeaWing said, shaking all of their hands. “My name is Abyss! Can we be friends?” Abyss said to Blazen. “Oh, Uh.. Okay. My name is Blazen?” Blazen said confused. Abyss walked over to Baltic “Hi hi! I’m Abyss! Wait.. Do I know you from somewhere?” Abyss said. “You two do look like brother and sister, or cousins, or second cousins, just another prince to add to the list” Mintstone said, “So what did you four need again?”

“We just need somewhere to hide because the Darkness Dragons are after us.” Baltic said. “Piranha, are these friends of yours?” Mintstone said, “Yes..” Piranha answered. “Put a veil over the Gemstone Palace so that Darkness Dragons cannot see anyone or anything in it” Mintstone said, “I enchant the Gemstone Palace to place a veil over it, so that Darkness Dragons can’t see anyone or anything in it” Piranha said. “Wh- what?” Blazen said, confused, “Piranha isn’t an animus.. right..?” Blazen questioned. “Well...” Piranha said.

### Chapter 5

Cloud

Suddenly an explosion could be heard down below, shaking the pavilion. “WHATS GOING ON DOWN THERE?!” Queen Mintstone said. “SOMEONE IS ATTACKING!” Fleeing dragons said. They all flew down to the outside of the palace to see a SkyWing NightWing, a RainWing NightWing, and an SkyWing IceWing throwing ignited Dragonflame cactus at the Palace. “DAYBREAK?! I THOUGHT I GOT RID OF YOU!” Queen Mintstone screamed. “GET THE DRAGONETS!” Daybreak yelled. A Dragonflame cactus was thrown, knocking out the Dragonets.

## Part two: Captured

### Chapter 6

Cloud

The dragonets woke up trapped in thick ice, but not cold. There was one dragon trapped next them they didn't recognize, A blueish gray and black IceWing NightWing. "Uh..." Cloud mumbled, confused. The rest of the dragons started to wake up, when the dragon they thought was Daybreak came out of a hallway with, what they assumed, to be a SandWing dressed in armor. Daybreak and the other dragon started arguing, but they were too far away to hear. Daybreak looked to see Cloud and the others were awake. Two other dragons came out, this time a RainWing NightWing, and a SkyWing IceWing, "Finally, that took forever. I was afraid we killed them!" The SkyWing IceWing exclaimed.

"So, dragonets, We are in need of new recruits to take over Pyrrhia, and finally make peace by setting Darkstalker free." Daybreak said, "I am Daybreak, these two over here are Mooneye and Duskstorm." She pointed to the RainWing NightWing, and the SkyWing IceWing. "Why would we join you! You are obviously evil!" Blazen said. "Oh, now I didn't say you had a choice." Daybreak said. Blazen heated up his firescales, melting the ice and setting them all free, they all ran into a hall they thought was an exit, "GET THEM!" Daybreak yelled to Mooneye, Duskstorm, and the SandWing. Mooneye grabbed Blazen by the wings, somehow not being burnt by his firescales. "BLAZEN!" Cloud screamed, when Blazen was being pulled back into the cavern. "KEEP GOING! WELL GET HIM BACK!" Baltic said.

They all flew into the exit of the cave, "There's no point in following, we got what we wanted." Daybreak said, holding a grudge to her voice.

### Chapter 7

Cloud

Cloud, Dewdrop, Baltic, and Eclipse (The Ice Night), were flying over towards the Kingdom Of Sand. "Its almost midnight, we should go down and set up camp." Dewdrop said. All four of the dragons flew down to a clearing in the lush pine forest, where Eclipse set a fire burning so they could see. "Me, Baltic, and Eclipse will find food, you Cloud should guard the camp." Dewdrop said, "Alright." Cloud agreed. The three dragons then went off into the woods.

"Well, Hello." Cloud heard a dragon say, she looked around to see a bright yellow and black HiveWing coming out of the woods. "Hello..?" Cloud said, getting up. "Who are you...?" Cloud asked, confused. "My name is Wasp, and I've been wondering, weather you've seen a SilkWing hybrid around here, light purple scales, and SilkWing wings?" Wasp said. "Uh..." Cloud realized that this was the description. of her. Wasp then looked over to see Dewdrop, Baltic, and Eclipse coming back. Wasp then stung Cloud with her tail, which, made her faint.

### Chapter 8

Cloud

Cloud woke up in a factory of sorts, she saw other SilkWings being sitting around and groaning. "What is this place..." She asked a SilkWing. "This is the Flamesilk factory, the HiveWings collect every single Flamesilk SilkWing they can get there talons on, once your in, you can never get out." The SilkWing said. "Oh, that's awful!" Cloud said. "I once escaped this place, but Wasp always find you." The SilkWing said. "So, What's your name? Mine is Blue" He asked. "Cloud.." Cloud mumbled. "Can you two be quiet! I'm trying to sleep!" A pink SilkWing yelled at them. Then all the SilkWings looked over to two HiveWings putting a strange looking SilkWing down. "LET ME GO!" The SilkWing screamed. Two more dragons followed, a wingless SilkWing HiveWing, and another HiveWing SilkWing, this one seemed to have fainted.

The two HiveWings threw the three dragons down and locked the door behind them. "Are you three okay?!" Cloud asked, concerned about them. "Ugh! I wish I was" The SilkWing exclaimed. "This is Swallowtail, she is the only one that still thinks she can get out of here. This is her third failed escape attempt this week." Blue said. "This is Khaki" Blue pointed to the wingless SilkWing HiveWing. "And this one I have never seen before." Blue said, talking about the fainted HiveWing SilkWing. Cloud went over to look at the dragon, to see if it was okay. "This poor dragon!" Cloud's antennae drooped, looking at all the scars across the dragons face and chest.

Then, A HiveWing wearing a lot of armor came in. "You, there. Come with me." The HiveWing told Blue. Blue then gave a slow, nod, before walking out of the room. "And you," The HiveWing soldier looked towards Cloud, "Wasp wants to have a little chat with you, whatever you are." They said.

### Chapter 9

Cloud

The HiveWing threw Cloud down infront of a huge throne, with Wasp, and two other dragons sitting on it. "Why, Hello there." Queen Wasp said, "Stinger, Would you be a dear and introduce yourself" She asked. "H-Hello, My name is Stinger." The HiveWing stuttered. "Anyways, Why were you in OUR territory?" Wasp asked. "W-We were just passing through.." Cloud stuttered. "Well, you wont be getting back to your little group anytime ever..." Wasp trailed off. "B- But-" Cloud stopped, as Wasp suddenly fell forward, her jaw and neck ripping as she fell. "My Queen!" HiveWing Soldiers screamed as they ran over to her.

"I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN!" Stinger screamed, terrified. She grabbed her sister's and Cloud's wrist, running to the exit of the room, while vines sprung and grabbed onto the HiveWings near Wasp, they're eyes turning white immediately.

They ran out of the room, then, Stinger stopped and said with an unnatural voice;

"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫.

𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐫.

𝐀 𝐇𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐬.

𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬.

𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫.

𝐎𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫.

𝐀 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐲.

𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐥𝐲.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐡.

𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭."

### Chapter 9

Stinger

Stinger awoke to the sound of fire and wing flaps. She quickly stood up and started running to the nearest exit, She stopped and looked around, realizing the dragons around her had mindless eyes. She ran to a balcony, but stopped to see the thousands of dragons approaching the hives.

"The Chrysalis are back."

Lepidoptera

Smoke and fire filled the air as Wasp Hive started crumbling. Lepidoptera was fleeing for her life, she did not want to join Wasp and her hivemind slaves. Flashes of her friends and family dying played in her head. Her broken wing stopped her from flying away from the battlefield. Strange dragons were everywhere, dragons she couldn't trust. The Poison Jungle was on fire and it was all that Wasps fault. HiveWings had spotted her, their wings buzzing while they flew after her. She was pinned, and soon to be dead.

(REST IS A WIP)

## Early Epilogue

Coyote

2 months earlier

Coyote walked into the tent not expecting what this dragon was like. "Coyote, I've been expecting you" The dragon said. He looked to be a RainWing NightWing with dark scales, and hints of yellow. "How do you know my name?" Coyote questioned. "I'm an animus, SandWing, I know Darkstalker will come back and rule again, I know my son will be a soulless animus, I know everything." The hybrid said. "My name is Mooneye" Mooneye said. "The RainWing Prince?" Coyote said, confused. "But you were.." Coyote trailed off, "Dead? No I'm not, I faked my death so i got get way from all that idiotic.. happiness." Mooneye said. "So, do you want to do this or not?" Mooneye said to Coyote, He replied, "Yes, it's time we finished this."

Midnightsky

Midnightsky dove into the back alley, slashing the dragon's neck and rolling out. She looked at her scales, then the dragon clinging to life infront of her. "Hm, look at you, getting my scales dirty with your blood." She walked around the NightWing. "Please! We're on the same side! Help me!" He pleaded. "Oh you dumb little dragon, I was banished years ago. The NightWings mean nothing to me." She hissed. The dragon tried to say something, then choked. Suddenly fire glared into her view. She growled and whipped her head around to see soldiers flooding the alley. She blew fire in all directions and leapt into the air. Time to go. She flew into the dark abyss of the night, smiling as she slipped the silver necklace over her head.