(This is the page for the graphic novel adaptation of "The Brightest Night." You may be looking for the The Brightest Night (book)|book or
the actual Brightest night|night instead.)  'The Brightest Night
(graphic novel)' is the comic adaptation of the fifth Wings of Fire book, The Brightest Night (book)|The
Brightest Night, with art done by Mike Holmes. The book is written from
the point of view of Sunny. It was confirmed at the 2021 Rochester
Children's Book Festival by Tui T. Sutherland|Tui to be in the works,
and was released on December 28th, 2021.

## Dedication

For Wyatt — talented artist, expert Minecrafter, and hilarious friend

— T.T.S.

For Tui, Barry, Rachel, and Maarta — I'm incredibly honored to be a part
of this team!

— M.H.

## Synopsis

The graphic novel adaptations of the #1 New York Times bestselling
Wings of Fire series continue to set the world on fire!

One will have the power of wings of fire…

Sunny has always taken the The Dragonet Prophecy (prophecy)|Dragonet
Prophecy very seriously. If Pyrrhia's dragons need her, Clay, Tsunami,
Glory, and Starflight to end the War of SandWing Succession|war, she's
ready to try. She even has some good ideas how to do it, if anyone would
listen to her.

But shattering news from Morrowseer has shaken Sunny's faith in their
destiny. Is it possible for anyone to end this terrible war and choose a
new SandWings|SandWing Dragon royalty#Queen|queen? What if everything
they've been through was for nothing?

Buried secrets, deadly surprises, and an unexpected side to
Humans|scavengers are all waiting for her in the shifting sands of the
desert, where Sunny must decide once and for all: Is her destiny already
written?

Or can five dragonets change their fate and save the world … the way
they choose?

## Plot

### Prologue

Twenty years prior to the events of arc 1 (books 1-5), Oasis|Queen Oasis
had a hunch about the SandWing royal treasure and decided to check the
SandWing strongholdSandWing stronghold#Treasury | treasury. She bumped
into Blister and Blaze on the way, with Blister deciding to follow
Oasis. Oasis and Blister found the SandWing treasury empty via a group
of scavengers. Oasis decided to send Blister to wake Burn while she
fought the humans to reclaim her treasure. Oasis' final thought shown
before being sent to her death was "After all... what's the worst thing
that could happen?"

### Part One: The Shifting Sands

Picking up where The Dark Secret left
off, Sunny, distraught from Morrowseer's revelation that The Dragonet
Prophecy was a farce, ran from the exploding NightWing island into the
Rainforest Kingdom, which was now packed with NightWings|NightWing
refugees. Glory addressed the RainWings about living in the Rainforest
just as Tsunami and Clay emerged from the tunnel with Starflight using
his claws to cover his burned-away eyes. As Sunny tried to head towards
her friends, Fierceteeth, Strongwings, and Preyhunter suddenly dragged
her further into the forest.

The NightWings planned on taking Sunny hostage until the Dragonets made
Fierceteeth queen of the NightWings. Sunny told them that her friends
would not exchange her for anything. The NightWings then used the Animus
enchantments#Treasure|Obsidian Mirror to spy on the rest of the
dragonets of destiny. The rest of the dragonets were making sure that
Starflight was being taken care of and that the rest of the NightWings
were accounted for. Tsunami spilled the news to Glory about the fake
prophecy, which outraged Glory. Clay told them about how upset Sunny was
to which Tsunami replied saying that she will get over it soon.

The NightWings realized that Sunny would not make a good exchange and
moved on to their next option, the SandWings. They decided that Burn had
the best army and that it would not take long for them to deliver Sunny
to Burn. Sunny, in response to their plan, bit Fierceteeth's tail which
allowed her to escape. Sunny hid in a nearby tree and eavesdropped on
the three NightWings. Though frustrated that they allowed Sunny to
escape, they were still determined to carry out their plans. They still
knew that they could give Burn information on where the dragonets of
destiny were hiding.

Sunny wanted to tell her friends about the NightWings, but she knew that
they would not take her seriously. So she decided to leave and follow
them herself. After some time following them, she caught up to them
while they were asleep. Sunny realized she could steal the Obsidian
Mirror for herself and managed to successfully steal it for herself. She
worried that they would think it was her who stole the Mirror so she
left an ominous message to scare them off. Afterwards, she decided to
use the Obsidian Mirror to spy on Starflight. There she saw him resting
at the RainWing healer's pavilion with two RainWing healers. They talked
about Sunny's disappearance which caused Starflight to wake up. They
quickly knocked him out again with a sleeping dart.

She spied on Blister next to find out what she was planning. Blister
seemed convinced that she was going to win the war without the dragonets
and planned on killing them after she won the war. Sunny decided to spy
on Fierceteeth and the others, where she heard them realize that the
Obsidian Mirror had been stolen. Strongwings suggested that whoever
stole it must have been someone called "The Darkstalker". Fierceteeth
brushed it off as just a ghost story and told them that they needed to
get to the Kingdom of Sand first.

Sunny followed after them once more. After the NightWings went to sleep
again, Sunny decided to look around at her surroundings. She came across
the ruins of a city before she realized that it was a Human
settlements#Ruins of Valor|scavenger city. The NightWings decided to
head for the Scorpion Den, so they could send a messenger to Burn
instead of going to the SandWing Stronghold themselves. Sunny continued
to follow them in hopes of encountering her parents. The NightWings were
stopped by one of the Outclaws, Six-Claws, who were guarding the
entrance to the Scorpion Den. The NightWings pleaded to be let in, but
Six-Claws did not fall for them and only allowed them in through Thorn's
request. Sunny knew that the SandWing would take the mirror as soon as
he saw it, so she hid in the sand, hoping that it would not be found
again.

Six-Claws also stopped Sunny from entering as Thorn would want to know
why she was following those NightWings. Sunny gave in to his demands and
allowed him to lead her. On their way to Thorn's tent, Sunny saw many
wanted posters with the faces of Dune and Morrowseer. A dragon named
Addax asked who Sunny was before Six-Claws brushed him off, though Sunny
had a strange feeling about him. Then a hungry dragonet stumbled in
front of them asking for food. Six-Claws told the guardian of the
dragonet to send the dragonet to the oasis to get a free meal. The
guardian was unsure at first before Six-Claws told her that they would
not do anything to the dragonet.

They soon arrived at Thorn's tent where they saw the three NightWings
before them. Thorn arrived and asked them if they knew of Morrowseer's
whereabouts. Preyhunter told her that Morrowseer had died a few days ago
which caused Thorn to lash out and kill him as a result. Sunny knew that
she could not let Starflight's sister die so she outed herself. She told
Thorn that Morrowseer had indeed died a few days ago, to which Thorn
responded with confusion to who Sunny was. Thorn asked if she was here
for the reward and Sunny replied that she did not know about any reward
and that she was here to stop those NightWings. The NightWings then
responded by telling them that Sunny was one of the Dragonets of
Destiny. Shock from the other Outclaws suddenly filled the tent. Thorn
brought her to a separate room to further interrogate her. There she
showed her wanted posters of Dune and Morrowseer. One of the Outclaws,
Qibli, came in to make sure Thorn was ok, despite Thorn's rebuttals
against him being there. Sunny told Thorn that Dune had found her egg in
the sand several years ago. Thorn furiously responded saying that Dune
did not find her egg, he stole it. She then revealed that she was
Sunny's real mother and the two embraced in a hug.

Thorn decided to hold a party for Sunny's arrival, to not only to
celebrate Sunny's return, but to accomplish three things: relieve
tensions, to let everyone know that Sunny is her daughter, and to make
it clear that Sunny was under Outclaw protection. Suddenly, news of a
Dragonbite viper near the orphanage broke out to Thorn. Thorn went out
the handle the problem. Qibli stayed behind with Sunny and lectured her
about how the Outclaws worked. Sunny slowly fell asleep during his
lecture. She later woke to Six-Claws eating a piece of meat and she
asked him where her mother was. He told her that Thorn was still out
there, restoring the peace of the Scorpion Den. The same dragon Sunny
had seen earlier, Addax, arrived in front of Sunny and Six-Claws, holding Six-Claws' daughter, Ostrich hostage. Addax asked
for Six-Claws to simply meet his demands; trade his daughter's safety in
exchange for Sunny. Sunny agreed to go with Addax and told Six-Claws to
lie to Thorn, saying that Sunny had gone back to her friends and is
safe.

### Part Two: Burn's Stronghold

Addax and Sunny arrived at Burn's Stronghold. Sunny saw a dragon in the
Stronghold and mistook him as one of the SandWing sisters before
realizing that he was not one of them. The dragon introduced himself as
Smolder, the brother of Burn, and brought Sunny with him, leaving Addax
without any reward. Smolder decided to keep Sunny alive for now and
decided to put her in Burn's SandWing stronghold#Weirdling
Tower|weirdling tower. They arrived at the weirdling tower and only to
hear the voice of Ex-Scarlet|Queen Scarlet, calling out for a bucket of
water. Smolder suddenly called out to someone named "Rose|Flower" and
Sunny was surprised to see that it was not a dragon, but a scavenger.
Smolder explained to Sunny that Flower was one of the scavengers that
killed Queen Oasis on that fateful night. Burn had initially wanted to
put Flower's head on a spike, but luckily for Smolder, he had the backup
of his siblings to convince Burn otherwise.

They walked all the way up the tower, where Scarlet was kept. Scarlet
had left a mess of the place while Burn was gone, which included ripping
up a stuff NightWing Burn had. Scarlet caught a glimpse of Sunny and
recognized her as "her dragon". Scarlet threatened Sunny, saying that
once she was free, Glory would be dead and that she had friends who
would rescue her soon. They left Scarlet alone and flew up near the top
of the tower. There were a pair of chains, waiting for Sunny. Sunny
questioned if she had to stay there and after some thought, Smolder told
Sunny that he would allow her to be free at midday, under the condition
that she did not try to escape. Sunny then noticed a box near them and
asked what the contents of the box were. Smolder explained that the
seller of the box claimed that the thing inside the box would die if the
box was opened, so he decided to wait for Burn's instructions on what to
do next. Smolder left, leaving Sunny in the chains.

He came back after some time, to let Sunny have her walk as promised. He
took Sunny to the stronghold's treasury to help him solve a mystery
relating to the SandWing stolen treasure. Smolder explained the events
of the night when Queen Oasis died. They had found Oasis' corpse and
knew none of the SandWing sisters had killed her. They found out the
scavengers had done it after they found Flower trying to hide. As a
result, they followed the hoofprints left by their horses back to their
den and scorched their city to the ground. Sunny guessed that one of the
SandWings sisters must have stolen the treasure instead of the
scavengers, since they stayed behind at the stronghold. Smolder,
however, refuted her point, saying that the war would have been over by
now.

Sunny then guessed whatever the secret royal treasure was, must have
been animus-touched, given Smolder's clue. She gave a few guesses to
Smolder on what the item might be, before she landed on the Eye of Onyx.
Suddenly, a messenger broke in saying that General Sandstorm was dead
and that the stronghold was under attack. They had no idea who was
attacking the palace. Sunny guessed that it may be Scarlet's friends and
told Smolder that he should send guards to stop any escape attempts from
Scarlet. Smolder then told the messenger to guard over Sunny and flew
off to take care of the threat. Sunny and the messenger, whose name was
Camel, flew up to the top of the stronghold to see who was attacking,
before she realized that it was the Outclaws who were attacking. Sunny
did not want to lose her mother like this, only after she just got to
meet her, but she did not know how to stop the fighting. Then she
noticed something moving through sand underneath them before realizing
that it was Peril.

She went down to talk to Peril and Peril asked if all the dragonets are
there. Sunny told her they were not, and Peril told her that Ruby|Queen
Ruby had banished her from the Sky Kingdom. Sunny told her she was sorry
and Peril revealed that she has come to free Queen Scarlet. Sunny asks
why and Peril says that Scarlet was a better mother to her than Kestrel.
Peril asks if Sunny has seen her mother and Sunny regretfully informs
her that Kestrel is dead. Peril is heartbroken and Sunny tries to
convince her not to save Scarlet. Peril is adamant on saving Scarlet
however she agrees to help stop the fight.

Peril managed to stop the fighting and scare all the SandWing soldiers
away. In the meantime, Sunny reunited with her mother. When Peril and
Smolder landed next to them, Thorn asked Smolder if they had any
NightWing prisoners which Smolder replied no to. Sunny then mentioned
the stuffed NightWing they had in the weirdling tower which startled
Thorn. She immediately demanded to see the stuffed NightWing right now
and Smolder led them all the way up to the tower. They reached where
Scarlet was held and she reacted hostilely to them. Thorn asked her to
give the NightWing to her, but Scarlet refused and continued to put up
resistance, even to Peril. Peril threatened to leave without her which
caused Scarlet to finally give in to the demands, throwing the NightWing
head to Thorn. Thorn realized, after further examination, that the
NightWing was not the NightWing she was looking for.

They all decided to get out of the weirdling tower. Scarlet asked where
Peril was going before Peril replied saying that she would let her out
as soon as Sunny was gone. Scarlet then proceeded to taunt her, saying
that no one would ever love her and only she loved her. Sunny told Peril
that it was not true and that Peril was capable of becoming a better
person. Peril replied saying that she was ok and that she was going to
wait until they were gone. Smolder suggested that they should head to
Burn's library as someone had sent a letter to Thorn. As they were on
their way to the library, Sunny asked Thorn what the NightWings had to
do with all of this. Thorn explained that she was looking for a
particular dragon, an animus named Stonemover. Sunny was confused for a
minute before Thorn explained the reason that Sunny looked weird was
because she was half-NightWing. She continued, explaining how they met
eight years ago and fell in love with each other. Sunny realized that
Stonemover was the animus that made the two tunnels that lead to the
NightWing island and Kingdom of Sand respectively.

She asked Thorn about what happened to Stonemover to which Thorn replied
saying that Stonemover had just disappeared one day. She had an
encounter with Morrowseer instead, who told her that Stonemover was gone
and that it was her fault. Thorn had been afraid that the NightWings
would come after her egg after hearing about her forbidden relationship
with Stonemover. She buried Sunny's egg in the sand and had asked Dune
to protect the egg. Little did she know, Dune had been a member of the
Talons of Peace and had decided to steal Thorn's egg for the prophecy.

As Thorn finished her story, Smolder opened the door to the library and
they started searching for Thorn's letter. As they were searching for
the letter, two SandWing soldiers who were passing by told Smolder about
Burn's possible arrival. Smolder, afraid of being severely punished by
Burn, decided to lock the door on Thorn and Sunny, trapping them. Sunny,
quickly found a way to escape from the library and Thorn had found the
letter Smolder was talking about. The letter was from Stonemover,
telling Thorn that he cannot keep using his powers or else he would go
insane. The letter ended with him asking Thorn to meet with him at Jade
Mountain. Thorn was outraged that Stonemover had not told her sooner and
had not tried harder to communicate to her. The two of them realized
that they needed to get out of the library soon. They encountered a few
SandWing soldiers on their way, but were quickly able to escape from
them. They found the rest of the Outclaws still fighting the SandWing
soldiers, looking for Thorn. They managed to escape the stronghold
before Burn saw them. Sunny decided that she needed to head back to her
friends to warn them about Scarlet. Despite Thorn's protests, Sunny
refused, insisting that she had to go. She tried to head back as quick
as could to the rainforest, but the weather had been unexpectedly windy
and rainy, so she had to rest at a cave in Jade Mountain for a while.
Sunny ventured deeper into the cave, hearing weird breathing noise
before running into a NightWing resting on the stone floor. She asked
the dragon if he was Stonemover and he answered yes. Sunny asked why he
was turning to stone and Stonemover explained that he had put a curse on
himself so instead of losing his soul, his scales would turn to stone
instead.

Stonemover then asked who Sunny was before she revealed to him that she
was his and Thorn's daughter. Sunny told him that Thorn did care for him
and did not know where he was until yesterday. Suddenly a fox with prey
in its mouth arrived in the cave and at first Sunny tried to shoo it
away. Then Stonemover explained that he had enchanted the fox, which he
named Dinner, to give him food every so often. Sunny continued to talk
to Stonemover about herself before she mentioned the prophecy.
Stonemover told his daughter that the prophecy was fake and he had seen
it being made. Sunny, distraught at this, decided to sleep at Jade
Mountain and wait for the storm to blow over. Suddenly, she found
herself back at the Stronghold, before realizing that it was a dream. In
the dream, she saw a scavenger which she never saw before. She looked
closer at the scavenger to realize that it was holding a dreamvisitor.
Sunny was puzzled as to why the scavenger had a dreamvisitor before
realizing that this scavenger must have had the rest of the stolen
SandWing treasure. She tried to call out to the scavenger, but the
scavenger had managed to leave Sunny's dream before she could have a
chance to catch it. Sunny thought for a minute, recalling the glimpse of
the scavenger's surroundings she had seen before she left. Sunny
realized that the scavenger must have been in the same ruins of the
scavenger den she had seen earlier. She woke up in the morning and told
Stonemover that she had to go. She wondered if she should go back to the
rainforest or to the ruins. She chose to go check out the scavenger den
as it could be her chance to stop the war.

### Part Three: The Eye of Onyx

She hid in a tree near the ruins and waited for any scavengers to out
themselves. She had to wait the entire day for any scavengers to appear
and carefully approached the two that did. The two scavengers noticed
her and started to run away before Sunny managed to catch them. She
called them Ivy|Holler and Leaf|Fluffy respectively. She asked them for
the dreamvisitor, drawing a picture of the dreamvisitor, and to her
surprise, Holler listened and gave her dreamvisitor. She then asked for
the rest of the treasure and Holler and Fluffy argued to each other on
what to do. Sunny decided that they could both be set free under the
condition that Fluffy brought the treasure to Sunny. While Fluffy ran
off to get the treasure, Holler kept pointing at Sunny's shoulder which
Sunny mistook as meaning that she wanted to ride on Sunny. They flew for
a while before Fluffy came back with the treasure.

Sunny inspected the treasure Fluffy brought, but could not find the Eye
of Onyx. She tried to ask the scavengers about the Eye of Onyx, but to
no avail, so she took off towards the rainforest. When she got there,
she started to search for Glory and ran into Ochre whom she had mistaken
for Clay. At the healer's pavilion, she reunited with Clay and
Starflight. Sunny found Tsunami trying to train some RainWings and
brought her to the healer's pavilion where she met up with Glory. Sunny
explained to the rest of the dragonets about what she did the last few
days. Bewildered, the dragonets congratulated Sunny for being so brave.
Afterwards, they all discussed how they should stop the war and who they
should pick. Sunny did not want to kill any of the SandWing sisters and
suggested that they should let the SandWings pick for themselves. Though
the others were hesitant, they agreed to Sunny's plan to gather the
SandWing sisters together.

Tsunami and Sunny decided to contact the Talons of Peace in order to get
to Blister. They had to bring Ochre with them as he was the only false
dragonet that agreed to go with them. They finally encountered the
Talons of Peace and landed to have a chat with them. The Talons agreed
to send Blister a message to arrive at the Stronghold ten days from
then. Tsunami and Sunny left Ochre and Flame, who had followed them in
secret, with the Talons of Peace. When it came time to contact Blaze,
Glory decided to send Jambu and Mangrove to send the message to Glacier.
The group then travelled to the Mud Kingdom to see Queen Moorhen's face
so that they could dreamvisit her, and then she could send the message
to Burn. They talked to Clay's siblings and learnt of the planned attack
on the IceWings. Sunny dreamvisited Queen Moorhen and told her to send
the message to Burn, and also to not attack the IceWings. After
dreamvisiting Moorhen, she dreamvisited a few more MudWings, so that
they would know it was not just ordinary dreams. The MudWings then
started singing the dragonet song, which filled Sunny with hope. Clay
and Sunny returned back to the rainforest afterwards and they learned
that the message to Blaze failed, due to Glacier not allowing Blaze to
leave her fortress. They decided to make Sunny dreamvisit Blaze in order
for her to get the message.

The night of the big meeting has arrived and the sky was swarming with
dragons from all tribes. The three SandWing sisters finally arrive, each
one of them believing that they had been picked. Sunny explained to them
that she wanted them to settle this peacefully before Burn mocked and
threatened to kill her. Burn then order Smolder to retrieve the box that
Sunny had seen earlier in the weirdling tower. It turned out that
Blister had sent the gift as a supposed gift to reunite the family. Burn
opened the box and revealed that there was a dragonbite viper in the
box. Burn told Blister that she knew there was a dragonbite viper in the
box and threatened Blister with the snake. Unbeknownst to Burn, there
had been a second viper in the box, which had slithered out the bit her
on the ankle. She managed to kill the snake which had bit her, but it
was too late and Burn succumbed to the venomous bite.

Burn had dropped the other viper she was holding and it was heading
straight towards Starflight and Sunny. Before it could reach them, Clay
blocked it and took the blow from the viper instead. In a moment of
disbelief and shock, the dragonets of destiny came to Clay's side and
tried to think of a way to save Clay. Suddenly, a blur of copper scales
intercepted them and Sunny realized it was Peril. Peril believed she
could burn the venom out of his system and held her talons over the bite
wound. The rest of the dragonets and Thorn held Clay in place while
Peril burnt the venom out. Thorn did not believe Clay would survive with
such a big burn, but Sunny believed he might. Peril managed to burn all
the venom out of Clay and Clay thanked Peril for saving his life, before
he passed out. Peril managed to kill the second viper before it got to
Sunny.

Blister decided to challenge Blaze for the throne before she decided on
what to do with the dragonets. While Blaze and Blister fought, the
dragonets were unsure on whether they wanted Blister to become queen of
the SandWings. Sunny asked Smolder if there had been any other heirs to
the throne and Smolder replied that there were no other heirs. Flower
suddenly started tugging on Sunny's foot. Puzzled by what the scavenger
was trying to say, Sunny let Flower lead her to Queen Oasis' grave.
Flower started digging Oasis' grave up and Sunny helped her dig. Sunny's
friends were initially puzzled before joining her. They dug until they
came upon Oasis's skeleton, which held two bags of treasure, one of them
holding the legendary Eye of Onyx. Sunny gave Thorn the Eye of Onyx,
believing that she deserved to be queen. Blister, outraged by this, ran
towards Thorn and snatched the Eye of Onyx from her. Suddenly, bolts of
lightning shot out of the Eye of Onyx, exploding Blister into a pile of
dust. Thorn took the Eye of Onyx back and accepted her new position as
queen.

### Epilogue

Clay, Sunny, Tsunami, Starflight, Fatespeaker, Glory, and Deathbringer
are planning out a school for young dragonets. Sunny looked out over
Jade Mountain and asked her friends to picture a school there and
whether or not it was perfect. The group agreed and pitched in their
ideas about what to do with the school. Deathbringer mentioned
Moonwatcher, a NightWing dragonet whose mother hid her egg in the
rainforest. Sunny told Starflight that she loved him as a brother and
that he should be with Fatespeaker. Clay mentioned that Scarlet went
missing after Peril rescued her. Tsunami said that Anemone and Auklet
could come, although only Anemone ended up coming, and the group flew
off into the sky.

## Variation from novel

  - Sunny says the line, "Don't be a rotting tooth if you want this
    prophecy fulfilled and this war stopped, you'll help us, so shut up"
    instead of Tsunami.
  - Scarlet's line, "It sounds to me like you've forgotten who your
    queen is" is removed, similarly with Peril's line, "It sounds to me
    like you've forgotten who has the scale-melting talons here," which
    is also removed.
  - After Scarlet gives in to Peril's demands, Peril says "The
    NightWing," even though Thorn was originally the one who said the
    line.
  - In the epilogue, Tsunami is the one saying that she does not like
    the idea of Scarlet being out there instead of Sunny.
  - At the entrance of the Scorpion Den, Six-Claws is the guard.
    Originally, an unnamed female SandWing was guarding the entrance.
  - In one panel, Starflight's name is misspelled as "Starlight".
  - In the original novel, more than one dragon was holding Ostrich
    captive, in the graphic novel only Addax has Ostrich.

## Mistakes

  - Fierceteeth's name is misspelled as Fireceteeth.
  - Starflight is missing his blindfold in the epilogue.

## Trivia

  - Ivy can be seen watching Sunny near the middle-left of the page.
  - During the scene where Smolder leads Sunny and Thorn into the
    SandWing palace library, several letters can be seen that are
    labeled to unknown recipients - Sage, Boil, Swelter, and Ash.

## International Releases

  - 'French:' Les Royaumes de Feu en Bande Dessinée. La
    Nuit-la-plus-Claire (May 2022)
  - 'Korean:' 불의 날개와 예언의 밤 그래픽 노블 (January 2023)