The escapists, book 1; flight of freedom

this is not a WoF fanfic, I've decided to make my own, completely different dragon species witch is what this is built around.

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## guide to aklina's dragons

### tidaliks

tidaliks are underwater dragons that lived on the coasts before the darkiks came, now they've been restriced to cramped waterways, most can live on land and in the sea but some can only live in the water, all tidaliks are ocean colors, they have finned tails and webbed frills, fin-like wings, sails, chest frills, and a serpent-like build, they can blast boiling hot water from their mouths, they swin incredibly fast and have a special language of purps and squeaks much like dolphins

### skyiks

skyiks are sky dragons that lived in the mountains before the darkiks came, now they've been stuck in aviaries, they are serpent like and feathers and are colors of the sky with multiple pairs of large bird-of-prey-like wings going down their body, they have feathery fins on the end of their tail that look like torpedo fins, they have a wind blast and can withstand the thin mountain air

### earthiks

earthiks are the earth/nature dragons, some earthiks are wingless and strong-looking with ram horns, others are slender, agile, and have leaf-like wings and antlers, the wingless earthiks have brown-grey coloring and can spit lava while the winged earthiks are bright green and can control plants, wingless earthiks lived in caves but now live in the mines while the winged earthiks lived in the forest and now live in the darkik queen's gardens

### flareiks

flareiks are fire dragons that used to live in the volcano areas and deserts but now live in the refineries, they are normally the stryeotipical fire dragons with fire on the tip of their tails, they can breath fire and can sometimes set things on fire by touching it

### lightiks

lightiks are the light dragons that lived in the city of gold on the solar mountain, but were whipped out by the darkiks, they were any color on the yellow spectrum with glowing spots and glowing orbs on their tails, they could flash their spots so bright it can blind a dragon and they could breath golden fire, rumors are they were once able to control all 5 primal elements and were the rulers of all dragons because of this

### darkiks

darkiks are the shadow dragons that live all over the continent, they control all dragons, they are normally dark grey or black with streaks of dark colors, they can have a stinger on their tails with mind control venom

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_***the freedom prophecy\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_***

*the rebel, the sorceress, the mountain, the forest, the spark, the tsunami, the tornado, they hatched with a destiny to meet, dragons that once roamed free now forced to serve the darkness, but soon a shadow turns to starlight, and the rebellion begins.*

## preface/prolouge (shade's hatching)

i remember the first sounds out of the darkness, outside the walls around me, the squeaks of cavern creatures, then the darkness around me lit up with blue light, and talking came from the darkness, "it's going to hatch tonight! on a blue moon! it must be destroyed! it could use it's powers to overthrow our queen!" yelled one, "our queen treats us horribly, making us use our stingers on other dragons if they have the smallest slip-up." said the other, it continued with "i'd be glad if they took her throne and became our new queen, hopefully they'd treat us better." suddenly, i had urge to get out of wherever i was, i rammed my horn into the side, the wall broke open and i stuck my snout outside, soon, a huge, all black dragon slithered inside, it had an onyx and silver crown, it said in a slithery, hissing voice "why is there a dragon hatching tonight!" and it pulled me into it's claws by the wings, it was about to bite when one of the dragons-a dark purple one-ran at the one holding me and began fighting it, it dragged a claw across it's snout, the dragon that was about to kill me staggered back, then said "fine, since you seem to be attached to it so much, you can keep her, but make sure she never finds out about her powers, she could start a rebellion."

## part 1, the guard and the flareik

### chpt. one

***12 years later...***

I slipped through the palace, thinking about what the other darkiks were doing to these dragons. *better question, why? they're dragons too, why should we treat them any different than we treat each other?* I thought, I ran past the refinery when I heard yelling down the hall, then flashes of fire. *impossible, a flareik escaped? how?* I thought as I rushed toward the noise, there was yellow fire everywhere, and a guard was about to use it's stinger on a pinned down flareik while another flareik watched in horror, I was shocked and, before I knew it, had the guard much bigger than me pinned between my enormous wings, witch were tipped with huge claws, i might add, quickly, i forced my stinger between their scales, really, i hate using it, not only does it absolutly flood my head with the thoughts of that dragon, but it's kinda dizzying, it feels as if i have an extra pair of eyes separated from me and well, the rest is hard to explain, i whisper "stay, and don't attack the flareik" quickly before heading over to the flareik that was pinned down, it hissed at me and said "one step closer" and a glow came from it's mouth, i then said "it's ok, i was protecting you." then i looked around, the other guard was gone. *it must've run to tell the other guards about me, maybe even the queen* i thought, i turn to the other flareik who had been watching and say "you 2, come with me, are there any others that escaped?" and the flareik aswered "yes, one from each group." and 4 other dragons came from behind them, a skyik, a tidalik, and 2 earthiks, one with wings, and one without. "quick, all of you, this way." i tell them and run towards the exit to the palace and they followed. *i've realized the truth of this all, it's time i correct what my kind has done.*

### chpt. 2

"so, erm, what're the names of you all?" i asked, the nervous-looking flareik answered "i-i'm flame, the winged earthik's name is vine, her brother, the wingless earthik, is boulder, the tidalik's name is seafoam, the other flareik's name is solarsoar, witch i find kinda weird, and the skyik's name is nubibus." *hm, nibius, that's an odd name.* i thought, i was flying at the back because the edges of my wing webs were serrated, i answered "my name's shade, i've always been the weird one that didn't like what the queen was doing." the others turn their heads at me "that's not weird to us, so welcome to somewhere you finally fit." said solarsoar very boldly, she continued flying. *she's definatly got an extra grudge towards us, but why?* i asked myself in my head, suddenly solarsoar seemed like she was seriously holding back a comment, i tried to tell myself she's just messing around, but a nagging in the back of my mind was telling me otherwise. *but how? she's just a normal flareik, probably.* i thought, but still, the nagging continued until we got to a huge mountain i recognized from geography, the mountain of the sun, the old home of the lightiks. "this is where we'll stay for now, until we find a knew continent, or, even an island of dragons that might help us." i told the others, remembering geography made me remember how my kind left their kids in huge piles in caves, leaving them free to take, or worse, to be eaten by the animals. *but they've had to resort to that because we've left them starving, they have no choice, plus, it makes for some pretty good karma in my eyes, take that, queen skunkbutt!* i thought, yes, finally, i'm out of the palace, so i can freely think all my creative names for the queen, and, better yet, i don't need to call her "my queen" anymore! yay! wait, i should really think of a new dragon species to call myself, oh, i know! moonik! "hey guys! guess what, i'm a moonik now!" i tell the others, solarsoar turns around and says "good, now you really aren't one of those lava globs of dragons anymore." she said a bit more smoothly than she normally spoke to me, she returned to the lightik hut she was looking at, i pick a cave nearby the huts, i naturally like the dark, but this was exeptional for some reason, as if it lifted something off my wings each time i step in, then i realize what was doing this, i was in a primal cave, a type of cave that had magic from each primal sorce, sun, moon, earth, water, air, and fire, this was a very powerful one, i spread out my wings, suddenly, moonlight white markings spread across my scales and wings and then expanded until it looked like i had been covered in moonlight, silver streaked through pure white, i was not a dakik anymore, but something different, i was now offically the first moonik.

### chpt. 3

i dash out of the cave towards the others and say "guys! that cave! it changed my scale color into this!" and the others turn their heads toward me, solarsoar's snout drops open, she blinked, i looked at her, finally she said "how, wait, did it change your powers?" she asked me, i look at her, then looked at my tail, the stinger was gone, and was replaced with a crescent moon blade, she looked again and said "you hatched on a blue moon, and survived?" and she looked at me, surprised, i had heard rumors of the powers of dragons born on blue moons, but how-and why-had i not ended that same way? oh, right, but still, why had the one been so protective? why had the queen given up that easily? i guess no one will know, "it must've changed you because darkiks hatched on blue moons are connected to all 6 elements as well." continued solarsoar, flame just circled me curiously, staring unblinkingly at my scales, it was unsettling, i'll admit, but at least i could brush it over with the fact i'm a dragon with an ability that was supposed to have gotten me killed the moment i hatched, i wonder what this means, can i control dragons of that element? can i control that element itself? ah! so many questions! do i just instantly know how to control this? do i have to learn? what exactly can i do with it? can i give others this power too? is it connected with the lighiks? will this be important? was i an entirly new speices? could i make one? can i find a new dragon species? ok, i think that's all the questions, seafoam, for the first time since meeting them, speaks, she says "amazing, there's never been one of you seen before! i need to get my journal!" and she runs back into the hut, she comes with a leather book and dips her tail in ink, then begins drawing so fast it's hard to follow, then she finishes in 1 minute and it was almost perect, witch i find kinda impressive, but little did we know that in that minute a darkik troop had been sent out on our path, but a new possible ally was ahead of them with the warning.

## part 2, the journey.

### chpt. 4

i looked outside, there was a small dragon flying towards us, as i get a closer look, i see that it was a darkik, about 5 from the look of it, it was flying straight over, i quickly ran outside and called for solarsoar, seafoam, flame, vine, boulder, and nibius, they fly over just as the dragon lands,it was dark blue and flecked with purple, with huge, brown eyes, it looks at us and says "queen blackout, she's sent a troop to find you! i ran off to warn you, quick! go! you need to get off aklina!" before passing out, flame, shocked, says "we should take them with us, we need more dragons if we want to get rid of blackout." but inside i knew he said this because the cutie was young, so quickly i make a pouch of leaves and put them in, close it and prepare to fly for the ocean, the others prepare and we take off with the troop in the distance, across the towering mountains, it was cold, so cold i almost even fell out of the sky with my wings shaking, then, once we don't think it can get any worse, we fly straight into a blizzard, my wings begin to feel heavy from the cold and everything becomes blurry, then i remember falling into the snow below me and hitting a rock before everything went dark, then i woke up with the others around me, vine looked at her brother, boulder, and said "see! i told you she wasn't dead!" and boulder responded "yeah, but that was a big hit, plus the snow, i'm pretty sure that'd have some effect." confused by what they were talking about i tried to get up, but my legs don't cooperate, how? then it goes back to how hard the hit i took was, of course, that was a bit fuzzy, i look over at flame, then seafoam, then solarsoar, flame was muttering something, solarsoar was looking at something, and seafoam was flipping through her journal, then seafoam looked over at me and said "guys! shade's awake!" alerting the others, solarsoar nudged me and said "probably stunned from being knocked out then sitting in the snow for who know how long before we found her again, or she froze, hold up, one blink if i'm right, 2 blinks if no." and i try to lift my tail, but it stays put, i try to open my wings, they don't open, no part of me moved an inch, so i blink once, whelp, one thing's for sure, this'll be...fun.

### chpt. 5

whelp, here we go, not like i didn't see it coming! finally, nibius comes back and slithered over towards the others, he seems to be the only one not bothered, he then says "ut quisque est scriptor Licuit, ego faciam." and even solarsoar questions what it means and just says "uhhh, do you know anything but that?" and he shakes his head, suddenly, vine breaks the silence with "so, are we leaving?" when she looks at solarsoar, solarsoar looks at u all and says "not until we find someone that'll take shade." and then i feel something grab my tail and i would've ended up clawing their face off if it weren't for what happened in the bizzard, but then i soon realize it's just flame, who, surprising enough, decides he'll do it, i'm really starting to think the guy likes me or something, anyway, everyone prepares to leave, when a call rings across the mountains, were we being followed? am i hearing things? no, it's probably just echos, or that storm shook me more than i realize, lost in thought, i overlook how flame was tying vines around my wings and legs, then making spaces in the vines for him to put his wings in, then he took the pouch i had with the darkik hatchling and put it on there, witch had my unobsevant butt finally notice, at last, flame calls out that he's ready and put...whatever he made on himself and the group flies towards the border, then, 2 hours later, they're finally there.

### chpt. 6

"hey! what're you lot doing this far out?" called a darkik from one of the towers "uh, just...doing some underwater mapping!" said seafoam, *mapping? really?* i thought before the darkik asked "so what's that that you got on you're back, flareik?" to flame, at that moment, i could feel flame get an adrenalin rush trough his scales but he still responded with "we flew into a blizzard, she got blown off course, disoriented, and got knocked out with a rock, when she woke up 5 hours after we found her almost completely buried in the snow it turned out that she'd froze." relativly calmly, still, i was out for more than 5 hours!? no wonder boulder thought i was dead! "fine, you can go." said the darkik, they continue flying (well, boulder was swimming, and was pretty good at it for an earthik.) and aklina fades away into the distance, dolphins jumped up and down in the water and looked like they were flying trough the water, whales sang in the distance and shot high into the air, some even slapped their tails in the water and nearly sank boulder, swarms of glowing jellyfish swirled around the depths, a huge shadow rose from the water and burst out as a huge humpback whale, a jet of it's mist shot right at vine's face, she swished her tail across the water at seafoam, who said "hey!" and splashed her back, acidentally getting flame and i as well, flame splashed back too and soon everyone was splashing at each other on the way there, and for once, i see a playful side to solarsoar, who was somehow making the biggest splashes of all, they continue the play fight the entire way there until long, jagged mountains rose from the distance, we're here, in the new lands.

## epilouge (iceik named crystal)

i looked out over the water at 7 new dragons flying over, *oh no! i gotta tell queen frostbite!* i thought and ran towards the palace, i knew the queen would never trust a commoner about newcomers, but at least i could try, i figure flight would be faster and let my huge, white, furry wings carry me over on the wind, but then mom absolutly has to call me back, whelp, there goes my only chance at telling the queen before they get here.