(This is the page for the book titled "The Hidden Kingdom." You may be looking for the The Hidden Kingdom (graphic novel)|graphic novel or the
Rainforest Kingdom|rainforest instead.)  'The Hidden Kingdom' is the
third book of the first arc in the New York Times bestselling series Wings of Fire. It features Glory as the main
protagonist. The book was published on May 28th, 2013.

The Hidden Kingdom follows The Lost Heir and precedes The Dark Secret.

## Summary

Deep in the rainforest, danger awaits...

Glory knows the dragons|dragon world is wrong about her tribe. After
all, she isn't "as lazy as a RainWing" — she isn't lazy at all! Maybe
she wasn't meant to be one of the dragonets of destiny, as the older
dragons constantly remind her, but Glory is sharp and her venom is
deadly... except, of course, no one knows it.

When the dragonets seek shelter in the rainforest, Glory is devastated
to find that the treetops are full of RainWings that no dragon could
ever call dangerous. They nap all day and know nothing of the rest of
Pyrrhia. Worst of all, they don't realize — or care — that RainWings are
going missing from their beautiful forest. But Glory and the dragonets
are determined to find the missing dragons, even if it drags the
peaceful RainWing kingdom where they never wanted to be — in the middle
of the War of SandWing Succession|war.

## Dedication

For Elliot, born in a wonderful Year of the Dragon, like these books.

## Quote on Back of Hardcover

Clay jumped up and clawed at his neck as well. Starflight's eyes went
wide, and then he threw himself to the ground and rolled under the
nearest low-hanging bush with his wings over his head.

"What in the world are you —" Glory started, ducking to look at him. She
heard a soft buzz as something whizzed by her ear, followed by a tiny
thunk as it hit the tree behind her.

She spun around and saw Clay disappear right in front of her. It was as
if the forest reached out leafy arms, quietly wrapped him up, and
bundled him away. One moment he was there, blinking dizzily, and then he
was gone. A heartbeat later so was Tsunami.

Aha, Glory thought.

## Plot

### Prologue

The prologue began with Talons of Peace#The False Dragonets|the False
dragonets of destiny: Squid the SeaWing, Flame the SkyWing, Fatespeaker
the NightWing, Ochre the MudWing, and Viper the SandWing. Nautilus and
Morrowseer conversed, ending with Morrowseer deciding to train the
dragonets personally, disapproving of what the Talons of Peace had done
so far, and telling Nautilus that he would "make sure the The Dragonet Prophecy (prophecy)|prophecy is fulfilled the way it was supposed to
be."

### Part One: Rainforest Monsters

The dragonets and Webs were traveling through the borders of the
Rainforest Kingdom. They heard two MudWings talking about a Rainforest
Monster. Before they had left the Mud Kingdom, they came across two
MudWings who somehow got murdered, who were patrolling the border. As
they progressed into the rainforest, Starflight noticed that Sunny was
missing. One by one each dragon went missing until Starflight hid and
Glory, most luckily, dodged something, that turned out to be a
tranquilizing dart, and that all of her friends had lapsed into
unconsciousness. Glory ordered the mystery dragons that remained hidden,
to show themselves. The "mystery dragons" turned out to be RainWings.
Glory met the two of them, Liana and Jambu, who offered to take them to
the RainWing village.

While her friends were unconscious from the darts, Glory took her first
sun time nap in the rainforest. When she woke up, she felt better, her
scales brighter and more beautiful. Then she found a sloth lying on her
back, which she eventually named Silver. Jambu then showed her the
village, where, through a venom test, Glory discovered she and Jambu
were related. She also learned that RainWings did not organize their
eggs, and that they did not use their venom on any other living being.
They returned to find their friends waking and they went to go meet
Magnificent. While waiting in line, she met Mangrove, a grumpy RainWing,
who mentioned that his partner, Orchid, was missing along with at least
twelve other RainWings. Bromeliad, a venom trainer, mentioned that a
dragonet named Kinkajou had also gone missing. Glory suggested that they
go to the queen together since they were both there about missing
dragons. When Mangrove, Bromeliad, and Glory saw Queen Magnificent,
Glory suggested someone investigate, and Mangrove said Glory should find
the missing RainWings, and Queen Magnificent agreed. When Mangrove and
Bromeliad leave, Tsunami, Starflight, Clay, Webs, and Sunny came in and
asked them to help Webs, which Queen Magnificent was reluctant about.
After some prompting from Sunny, the queen directed them to the RainWing
healers.

After they left the queen's treehouse Tsunami, Webs, and Sunny headed
off to the healer's hut, and Starflight and Clay joined Glory as she set
out to find the missing RainWings. They spoke to Mangrove, and he leads
them to a giant fallen tree. Glory picked up a horrible stink and asked
Starflight if he could identify it since he seemed to have a stronger
sense of smell. They found a dying sloth by a stream, which Clay put out
of its misery. Glory looked around and discovered an NightWing
tunnels|animus-made tunnel to the Kingdom of Sand in a boulder.
Starflight and Mangrove returned to the village while Glory and Clay
stayed to watch the tunnel overnight. While they watched, something came
by, ate the sloth, and disappeared. In the morning, Sunny, Tsunami,
Starflight, and Jambu arrived, and they discussed what to do about the
tunnel. They settled on Glory and Clay going in with vines. When they
went through, they found themselves in the Kingdom of Sand, within sight
of SandWing stronghold|Princess Burn's stronghold.

### Part Two: Sand, Ice, and Smoke

Glory and Clay took a look around from the mouth of the tunnel's end in
the Kingdom of Sand before returning to the rainforest. The dragonets
and Jambu talked over the missing RainWings and the tunnel. Then
Mangrove suddenly dashed out of the trees and into the tunnel, flying
off to the Ice Kingdom to try and find Orchid. Glory puts her sloth,
Silver on a nearby tree and with the rest of the group, runs after
Mangrove to the Ice Kingdom.

After flying for the rest of the day, they settled down for the night in
rocky terrain. In the morning, Glory flew ahead and saw Blaze's
fortress|Princess Blaze's fortress, before seeing a NightWing assassin
named Deathbringer settling down. Using an IceWing disguise based on
Fjord, she questioned him on what he was doing out in the Ice Kingdom.
He answered this question by saying that he is waiting on a "few
someone's and was on a secret mission." Glory then flew back to where
her friends were.

Then Glory and Jambu, disguised as IceWings, went to meet Blaze who was
staying at the Ice Kingdom. Deathbringer then attempted to kill Blaze
after she was brought to the dragonets. Blaze's neck was cut by one of
the two "sharp silvery discs" and Tsunami's wing, after shielding Blaze,
was also cut. Glory attacked Deathbringer when they heard the IceWings
coming and took his weapons, using one to cut him in the neck. This made
Deathbringer surrender and fly away before the IceWings got him after
Glory gave him a choice to fly away in ten seconds or be imprisoned by
the IceWings. In fear of getting imprisoned again, the dragonets left,
with Blaze's neck bandaged. Later when they returned to the rainforest,
Glory was kidnapped by the NightWings. She escaped with the help of
Clay, Deathbringer, and another captured RainWing named Kinkajou. When
she got back, she told Magnificent about what had happened. Seeing that
the NightWings had the missing RainWings, Magnificent refused to save
them. As a result, Glory challenged Magnificent to the throne.

### Part Three: A Throne in the Treetops

An elderly dragon named Handsome told about a system of that would pick
a queen without killing, where there were competitions for the throne.
Glory then gave a speech about the missing RainWings to the dragons
present. Afterward, Glory started preparing for the contest. She
memorized and tasted fruits before being forced to do sun time. During
her nap, Scarlet visited Glory using a dreamvisitor. Scarlet asked if
Glory would rescue her. However, Glory refused and woke up from her
dream.

In the Arboretum, Magnificent and Glory each assembled their teams.
Jambu and Exquisite competed in the tree gliding and Exquisite cheated,
nearly killing Jambu. Tamarin, a blind RainWing, and Fruit Bat competed
in the flower finding hunt. Tamarin won by finding the winning flower
with her extremely good sense of smell. Glory and Magnificent competed
in a camouflage contest, and Glory lost because Silver gave her away.
Mangrove and Dazzling competed in a fruit scavenger hunt, and even
though Dazzling cheated, Mangrove won by one point. The last contest was
between Queen Grandeur and Kinkajou in venom shooting.

In the distance part, Kinkajou lost. However, in the targeting part,
Grandeur accidentally shot at a sloth, and Kinkajou shielded it, so the
venom hit her wing instead. Glory panicked and tried to do the venom
test. This reveals she was related to Grandeur, so she successfully
saved Kinkajou. Grandeur, who was the original queen, realized Glory was
the rightful queen and forfeited, making Glory the Queen of the
RainWings. Then, Clay crashed in and told her that Starflight had left,
and may have warned the NightWings that the RainWings would attack.

### Epilogue

Fatespeaker and the false dragonets were upset in the Night Kingdom.
There was no food, it was dark and smelly, and every one of her friends
was fighting. Fatespeaker spotted some NightWings carrying an
unconscious dragonet to the fortress. It was Starflight, and despite not
knowing who he was yet, she had a feeling he was important to her
destiny.

## Mistakes

  - It is stated that "five forked tongues hissed with fury" even though
    Flame, Ochre, and Squid should not have forked tongues.[1]
  - It was stated that "Unlike her sisters [Blister] had no scars."
    However, Blaze had unscathed scales as well.
  - Glory uses a leaf to hold the venom, but since RainWing venom can
    dissolve organic things, the leaf should have dissolved.

## International Releases

  - 'German:' Wings of Fire. Das bedrohte Königreich (July 2015)
  - 'Chinese:' 火翼飞龙. 破译葛萝瑞的龙血之谜 (July 2015)
  - 'French:' Les Royaumes de Feu. Au cœur de la jungle (September 2015)
  - 'Polish:' Skrzydła ognia. Ukryte królestwo (June 2016)
  - 'Turkish:' Ateşten Kanatlar. Gizli Krallık (November 2016)
  - 'Spanish:' Alas de Fuego. El Reino Escondido (April 2017)
  - 'Italian:' I Regni del Fuoco. Nel Cuore Della Foresta (April 2017)
  - 'Russian:' Драконья сага. Скрытое королевство (May 2017)
  - 'Brazilian Portuguese:' Asas de Fogo. O Reino Escondido (July 2018)
  - 'Czech:' Ohnivá křídla. Skryté království (November 2018)
  - 'Serbian:' Na krilima vatre. Skriveno kraljevstvo (2019)
  - 'Persian:' قلمروی پنهان .بالهای آتشین
  - 'Ukrainian:' Крила Вогню. Таємне королівство
  - 'Korean:' 불의 날개와 비밀의 왕국 (November 2021)
  - 'Finnish:' Kätketty valtakunta (February 2022)