(This is the page for the graphic novel adaptation of The Lost Heir. You may be looking for The Lost Heir (book)|the book instead.)  'The Lost
Heir (graphic novel)' is a comic adaptation of the second Wings of Fire book, The Lost Heir.
The art is done by Mike Holmes. The book is written from the point of
view of Tsunami. It was officially released on February 26th, 2019.

## Synopsis

'The New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series soars to new
heights in this graphic novel adaptation!'

The lost heir to the SeaWings|SeaWing Dragon royalty|throne is going
home at last.

She can't believe it's finally happening. Tsunami and her fellow Talons
of Peace#Dragonets of destiny|dragonets of destiny are journeying under
the water to the great Kingdom of the Sea|SeaWing Kingdom. Stolen as an
Dragons|egg from the Deep Palace#Royal Hatchery|Royal Hatchery, Tsunami
is eager to meet her future subjects and reunite with her mother, Coral.

But Tsunami's triumphant return doesn't go quite the way she'd imagined.
Queen Coral welcomes her with open wings, but a mysterious assassin has
been killing off the Dragon royalty#Queen|queen's heirs for years, and
Tsunami may be the next target. The dragonets came to the SeaWings for
protection, but this ocean hides secrets, betrayal — and perhaps even
death.

The New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series takes flight in this
first graphic novel edition, adapted by the author with art by Mike
Holmes.

## Plot

### Prologue

A younger version of Tsunami picks out Scrolls#List of Known
Scrolls|The Missing Princess from a Literature|scroll rack. Starflight
asks "again?" as Tsunami requests him to help her read the hard parts.
After he begins reading, she tells him to skip to the end. They then
read the final paragraphs together.

### Part One: The Edge of the Ocean

When the dragonets of destiny spot an island, they immediately land,
where Tsunami is happy to smell the sea and fish. Clay, as always, felt
hungry and imagined a huge feast full of fish and other seafood.
Meanwhile, Starflight, who was always very protective of them, suggested
that they hide under the trees just in case the SkyWings were still
looking for the Dragonets. Tsunami and the other dragonets quickly
assured him that they would not be found. After the dragonets argue for
some time on how Tsunami and the others would get to the Kingdom of the
Sea, they hear distant wing beats. Glory camouflages herself, Clay
buries himself in the sand, Tsunami dives underwater, and Sunny and
Starflight hide in the trees. As Tsunami watches from the surface of the
water, the group of flying dragons comes nearer. She sees one of the
SkyWings open his mouth and mistakenly assumes that he was calling for
help. Tsunami suddenly leaps out of the water and bites the SkyWing's
tail, and Clay joins the fight.

After the skirmish, they drag the SkyWing back onshore and trap him with
a tree trunk on top, then the Dragonets fly to a cliffside cave to spend
the night in. However, Tsunami thought that the others hated her for
attacking the SkyWing, while she believed that she was protecting the
others. She flew down into the water, where after several moments of
exploring the sea, she spotted her first SeaWing since escaping from
SkyWing palace|Queen Scarlet's palace. She watches as he meets up with a
green SeaWing and exchanges flashes of light from their glowing scales.
Afterward, Tsunami swam up to the first SeaWing and smiled at him. When
he flashed some of his scales at him, Tsunami assumed it was some sort
of test and flashed back at him. When she began to swim up to the
surface, he grabbed her tail, and she swatted him away and quickly swam
up to the surface. Just then, Clay appeared and started attacking the
SeaWing, and so did Sunny. Tsunami quickly explained to the dragon that
Clay and Sunny were her friends.

Back on the shore, the stranger introduced himself as Riptide. Tsunami
explained to him that she and her friends were the dragonets of destiny.
Soon, Riptide takes them to the Summer Palace, with Clay and Sunny
blindfolded because the SeaWings might assume they were war enemies. On
their way to the Summer Palace, the group encounters an advance guard.
The dragon in charge of the group, Commander Shark, the Commander of
Palace Defense and brother to the queen, was suspicious and questioned
Riptide if Tsunami was really the lost princess. Riptide told Tsunami to
light up her wings and explained to her that because she and Shark were
royal, they had the same patterns on their wings. Shark reluctantly took
the fact and commanded his soldiers to kill the other four dragonets of
destiny, but Tsunami stopped him. The commander told all of the dragons
to continue to the Summer Palace while twirling one of his talons to his
comrades. The group of dragons then continue to the Summer Palace
through a hidden underwater passage.

### Part Two: Into the Deep

As the group emerges from the water, Tsunami is fascinated by the beauty
of the pavilion. Riptide explains to her that there was a different
purpose for each level and told her to wait at the top level. She agrees
and flies up to the top with the other Dragonets to wait for her mother.
Soon, Queen Coral herself arrives, and Tsunami is overjoyed to finally
meet her mother. However, to her disappointment, she finds out that she
has a sister, Anemone, who was also an heir to the SeaWing throne. Queen
Coral says the exact same words, "I knew you'd come back to me. I knew
you were out there, finding your way back. I never stopped searching for
you." as the queen in The Missing Princess, as she missed her daughter
greatly.

When Sunny came forward and asked for the Dragonets to be protected by
her, she notices Clay, who she thinks is with their war enemy, the
MudWings. When Tsunami explains that they are the dragonets of destiny,
the queen reluctantly accepts the fact and commands several of her
soldiers to take the other dragonets and put them in a cave. After they
are taken away, Tsunami asks Coral is she could talk to her alone, but
her mother told her that she did not allow Anemone out of her sight. She
then notices strange black stains on Coral's talons and asks her mother,
who tells Tsunami that it was the "perils of her job."

The queen leads Tsunami, along with Anemone attached to her harness,
down to a cave, where she calls for Whirlpool, the council member of
Learning and Magic. Tsunami realizes that the stains, which were also on
Whirlpool's talons, was ink. Afterward, Queen Coral showed her scrolls
to Tsunami, including The Missing Princess. When her mother revealed to
her that she was the one who wrote that, Tsunami was surprised. Coral
let her daughter borrow several of her stories to read in her spare
time. Just then, Tsunami's cousin, Moray, appeared and informed Coral
that there was a dead SkyWing not far from the Summer Palace. When she
added that the dead dragon was a SkyWing, Coral immediately jumped up
and asked Moray to take her to the body, with Tsunami following closely
behind.

When they arrived at the cliff where the scene was, while the other
SeaWing soldiers and the queen were talking about the SkyWing, Tsunami
spotted the body and realized that it was Kestrel, one of the guardians
who raised the Dragonets. When they got back, Queen Coral told Tsunami
and Anemone to wait in her chambers while she dealt with the situation.
When she left, Anemone signaled for Tsunami meet her at the surface of
the water. When Tsunami surfaced, Anemone embraced her sister,
expressing how glad she was that Tsunami returned. After talking about
each other's past lives for a while, Anemone felt a tug on her harness,
bringing her and Tsunami to the surface, where their mother took them to
a council meeting.

There, after Whirlpool gave his report, Shark announced that a war party
had returned with "a worrying report." Two injured dragons came to the
center of the platform, where they said that they were attacked by three
groups of dragons, one of which seemed to be supporting Ruby,
Scarlet|Queen Scarlet's daughter. When Tsunami mentioned that she and
her friends were the ones who drove the Sky Kingdom into chaos, Coral
demanded to know if she had seen Gill. When Tsunami admitted that he was
dead (while leaving out the part about her being the killer), Queen
Coral revealed that Gill was Tsunami's father, and dismissed her council
to grieve.

After several moments where Tsunami thought of how she was the type of
dragon who would kill her own father, Whirlpool tapped her on the
shoulder, taking her down to the chambers for her first lesson. After
they recited the first chapter of The Tragedy of Orca, Tsunami did not
think she would learn anything like that, so she swam off to find
Riptide. When she arrived in a cave out in the storm, Riptide joined her
and taught her several basic words and phrases in
Languages#Aquatic|Aquatic, including "I will protect you". When Tsunami
showed what Shark had done when Tsunami saved her friends from being
killed, Riptide said that twirling a talon meant "Not right now, we'll
finish later". Assuming that the commander meant to kill the other
Dragonets later, Tsunami quickly left the cave to return to the Summer
Palace and save her friends.

While swimming through the tunnel to the Summer Palace, a mysterious
dragon attacked Tsunami and covered her face with seaweed. When she
finally managed to fend them off, she emerged from the tunnel and told
her mother that she had been attacked. Queen Coral realized that her
last two eggs in The SeaWing Royal Hatchery could be in danger, so she
quickly swam there with her daughters in tow. When they arrived, she
found one of her eggs destroyed and the dragonet within killed. Tsunami
snatched up the last remaining egg, vowing to protect it until it
hatched.

Meanwhile, Coral exited the Hatchery and executed Tortoise, the hatchery
guard, with her own talons in front of everyone. When she spotted
Tsunami with the egg, Tsunami flashed back "I will protect" (the egg).
When Coral mentioned the terrible floods that happened where Tsunami's
friends were, she rushed there to find them half-submerged in the water,
with one of Clay's feet chained to the floor of the cave. She ran to the
cave where two guards held the key to the chains and convinced the guards, Snail and Herring, to give her the key. When she
freed Clay, all of the dragonets moved to a higher cave. Tsunami
explained everything that had happened during her time with Queen Coral,
including being attacked by the mystery dragon, the smashed SeaWing
princess egg, Tortoise's execution, and Tsunami protecting the last egg.
Afterward, they all slept together in the cave for the night.

The next morning, Blister found the dragonets, and Coral hosted a
banquet for Blister and the dragonets to meet. When the
SandWings|SandWing asked about their secret weapon, Coral led her down
to a training arena, where Anemone revealed herself to be an Animus
magic|animus after enchanting several objects.

When she "accidentally" made a spear fly away to have Whirlpool go
retrieve it back, she turned to her sister and quickly explained that
Tsunami had to save her from going insane, briefly mentioning their
ancestor Albatross. Just then, they saw movement within the canopy that
hid the Summer Palace from intruders. Blister flew up and snatched a
dragon from the canopy, which turned out to be Webs. After briefly
begging for mercy, Coral denied his pleads and threw him in the prison
with Riptide, his son, before planning for their execution. Blister also
pointed out that they were the perfect suspects for the killing of
Coral's eggs, which was another reason they were imprisoned. Because of
this, Tsunami became even more determined to protect the egg until it
hatched, and stayed in the Royal Hatchery to watch for the assassin.

### Part Three: Out of the Egg

While guarding the egg in the Royal Hatchery, Tsunami began to hear
creaking noises within the Hatchery. Just as she realized that the
Orca's statue|statue in the center was not facing the same direction
several moments ago, it came to life and began to attack Tsunami. She
used her spear to fight it, although it did minimal damage. During the
fight, Tsunami managed to pluck out its gemstone eyes and trap the
dragon by its mouth with her spear, just in time for her to hold her
newly hatched little sister. When the spear trapping the dragon snapped
in half, Tsunami rushed to the entrance of the Hatchery, where the
dragon, in hot pursuit, turned back to solid, immovable stone.

Back on a beach, while the dragonets were playing with Auklet, the
newborn dragonet, Queen Coral, Anemone, and Blister arrived and took a
look at Auklet. When Tsunami mentioned leaving and going back into the
world to search for Blaze and compare her with her other two sisters,
Blister and Burn, Coral and Blister both opposed her. Coral said that
the Kingdom of the Sea was where she belonged, and Blister said that the
outside world was much more dangerous than what the dragonets thought.
She also told them that she was the one who should be queen, and so the
dragonets should choose her and tell the world. When Tsunami and her
friends disagreed, Coral and Blister had no choice but to throw all of
them in the prisons.

In the dragonets' prison, the dragonets talked about how everyone they
met wanted the War of SandWing Succession|war to go their way, just
because they were the dragonets of destiny. Starflight also realized
that the creatures in the water, which turned out to be electric eels,
charged the water with an electric force, including the water running
down the sides of their prison "cell". Just then, Anemone came into the
caves, and Tsunami sees that she is unharnessed for the first time since
meeting her. Anemone enchants for Tsunami a spear to find the unknown
dragon who tried to kill Tsunami in the entrance tunnel. The spear soon
brings in Whirlpool, who admits to attempting to murder Tsunami so he
could marry Anemone instead of her. Anemone grabs the spear and knocks
Whirlpool into the water, where the electric eels swarm and electrocute
him to death.

When Starflight says he thinks the electric eels needed time to
recharge, Tsunami called a vote to see if her friends wanted her to go
through the water "bars" to free the rest of them. Clay and Starflight
said no, and Sunny and Glory said yes. As a tiebreaker, Tsunami decided
to take the risk and go through the water. Upon landing safely on the
other side, she told her sister to go back to their mother and promised
to end the war. After she freed her other friends from the prison, they
went to look for Riptide and Webs, who were in a separate cell.
Suddenly, Starflight began to smell smoke. Within seconds, Tsunami
smelled it too, and she ran out to warn her mother and the other
SeaWings.

Suddenly, a flaming log crashed through the canopy just as SkyWings and
several MudWings flew in. The dragonets shooed the prison guards away
and ran in. After freeing Riptide and Webs, Riptide confessed to being
in the Talons of Peace, to learn more about his father, Webs. When Clay
spotted a huge MudWing standing in the entranceway, Webs recognized her
as Crocodile, who turned out to have infiltrated the Talons of Peace and
told Webs to go back to the Summer Palace so the SkyWings and MudWings
could lay siege on the SeaWings. Glory asked Crocodile if Queen Scarlet
was still alive. When the MudWing said that nobody knew, Glory told her
that she was about to find out and sprayed her venom at Crocodile. She
plummeted down the ledge and into the lake at the bottom.

Tsunami saw Riptide again once all her friends got out and into the
middle of an attack. Riptide apologized to Tsunami before they all
escaped through the clear area up high. While flying, Blister attempted
to stab Webs in the heart, but Tsunami stopped her and Blister managed
to stab him, but missed the heart. Tsunami flew alongside Webs and took
him with her friends. For the rest of the day, Sunny, Tsunami, Glory,
Clay, Starflight, and Webs flew from an island to land. Once they got
there, it was dark, and Tsunami and Starflight talked to each other.
Clay brought up the fact that they needed to help Webs. Tsunami
suggested that the RainWings could help them cure SandWing venom, so
that was where they should head after they rest. She also hoped her
mother and everyone else would make it through the attack. She realized
that at the end of the day, before going to sleep, there were more
important things than being queen.

### Epilogue

Morrowseer and Blister stand over the smoking ruins of the Summer
Palace, lamenting the parts of their plan gone wrong. He and Nautilus
reveal the existence of Talons of Peace#The False Dragonets|the false
dragonets, and the three discuss who they should replace.

## Variations from novel

  - Instead of the prologue being of Webs escaping the Talons, it is
    Tsunami and Starflight reading The Missing Princess.
  - At the beginning of the original novel, the dragonets were already
    on the beach. However, in the graphic novel, they are just landing
    on it.
  - Starflight's underscales are purple instead of gray.
  - When Tsunami lands on the beach, she says "Ahhh …". She did not say
    this in the original novel.
  - Some words were cut out of one of Glory's lines. Originally, she
    said: "Let me guess, […] You guys, that's the smell of freedom."
    In the graphic novel, "Let me guess" was cut out.
  - Some words were cut out of one of Starflight's lines. Originally, he
    said: "Freedom smells a lot like fish, […] Which, to be clear, is
    kind of nose-curlingly awful." In the graphic novel, "Which to be
    clear, is kind of nose-curlingly awful." was cut out. Another phrase
    was cut out, too, with him originally saying: "Shouldn't we stay
    under the trees? What if a patrol spots us? I mean — […] We must
    stay under the trees. All right. Yes. Everyone back into the trees
    right now.". In the graphic novel, "I mean —" and "Yes." were cut
    out.
  - Sunny never says "Sorry, Starflight." in the original novel.
  - Tsunami never tries to catch fish before Clay speaks.
  - Some words were cut out of one of Clay's lines. Originally, he said:
    "You know what I love? […] Fish. Lots of fish. Big fish I can eat,
    not these little wriggle scraps." In the graphic novel, "Lots of
    fish." and "I can eat" were cut out.
  - Some words were cut out of one of Sunny's lines. Originally, she
    said: "Clay, it's only been a day since you caught that enormous pig
    for all of us." In the graphic novel, "for all of us" was cut out,
    and the period was replaced with an exclamation point.
  - One of Clay's lines was slightly changed. Originally, he said:
    "Wasn't enormous, […] That was the smallest pig in the whole
    world." In the graphic novel, "It" was added to the beginning of the
    sentence.
  - Sunny never says "You should have eaten my carrots." in the graphic
    novel.
  - Starflight is not standing well out of reach of the waves on the
    island and trying to shake wet sand off of his talons as he did in
    the original novel.
  - Tsunami's talons change from being five-toed (Cover and pages 7, 8,
    19, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43,
    46, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 64, 66, 67, 68,
    69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87,
    89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108,
    109, 110, 111, 113, 114, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125,
    126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 138) and three-toed
    (Pages 10, 13, 22, 23, 26, 42, 47, 120).
  - Only Snail and Herring are shown to be guarding the dragonets' cave
    and the key, instead of Snail, Kelp, Flounder, and Herring.
  - Queen Coral has rope pearls around her horns which frequently
    disappear and reappear.
  - Tsunami's pearl necklace disappears before reappearing.
  - The word people is used instead of dragons.
  - There are no windows or openings in the SeaWing Royal Hatchery,
    which, in the novel, is the entire reason that dragons guarding the
    hatchery cannot eat inside.
  - Riptide and Blister have armor.
  - SeaWing eggs had patterns on them (however, it has never been
    specified if they do not have patterns).
  - Queen Coral is said to have a narwhal horn on her tail, yet in the
    graphic novel, she has more of a barb like a SandWing.
  - At the beginning of the novel, Tsunami sees Crocodile and a SkyWing
    flying over her saying that Webs would lead her to the Summer
    Palace. In the book, Crocodile is only shown in the prologue and at
    the end.
  - It is never explained why pink dolphins cannot be eaten, while in
    the book it is because Queen Coral believes that they could be
    distantly related to the SeaWings.
  - When Tsunami catches Riptide watching her, she says he should never
    become a spy. In the book, she says "Has anyone ever told you that
    you should definitely never be a spy?"
  - Queen Coral introduces Tsunami to her sister Anemone in the novel,
    but Riptide's the one who reveals Anemone to be Tsunami's sister in
    the book.
  - When Tsunami meets Anemone in the graphic novel, she never has the
    thoughts where she mixes up "an enemy" and Anemone.
  - Unlike the book when Starflight reveals to Coral that Blister killed
    Kestrel and wants Webs dead only for her own benefit, he does not
    mention that Blister cares little for the SeaWing queen's daughters
    in the graphic novel.
  - Tortoise's luminescent scales and wings are yellow in the graphic
    novel.
  - When Queen Coral, Blister and Anemone meet Tsunami on the beach
    after she saves Auklet, Moray is absent in the graphic novel.
  - Although Queen Coral is said to have ink stains on her talons
    forever, the ink only appears for relevant scenes.
  - In the book, Tsunami encounters a ship of Humans|scavengers but this
    is not featured in the graphic novel.
  - Auklet's egg was never given a harness.
  - Moray is never shown cleaning the blood off the floor after the
    SeaWing guards were dismissed by Coral.
  - On her way to the Deep Palace, Tsunami saw SeaWing soldiers injured
    from the war. In the graphic novel, these were not shown.
  - Kestrel is shown with and mentioned to have claw marks on her neck
    when at the end of the previous graphic novel she was only stabbed
    by Blister, not clawed in the throat.
  - When Tsunami is following Riptide back to the Summer Palace, she
    thinks "I hope he meant follow me and not watch out for that monster
    who eats dragon eggs." In the novel, she never thinks this.
  - During Anemone's animus training, it is the spear that Anemone sends
    away to distract Whirlpool, not the pearl necklace.
  - In the novel, when Coral hits Webs in the head with her tail, it
    says he bled from his right ear. In the graphic novel, when he gets
    hit, the blood shoots out of his mouth and then stops until the
    dragonets rescue him from the prison, and even then he is still
    bleeding from his mouth.
  - During Tsunami's fight with Orca's statue, she imprisons it by
    stabbing a spear into it's mouth, then stabbing the other end into
    an air vent. In the novel, the statue freezes like this. In the
    graphic novel, the statue breaks the spear, lunges at Tsunami, and
    then freezes.
  - After the fight with the statue, Moray is the one who brings up
    Orca's last words. However, in the graphic novel Coral does it.
  - When Anemone kills Whirlpool in the novel, it only says that she
    whacked him over the head with the spear. It never says he lost any
    of his teeth.
  - During the SkyWing attack, there are round cacti that they are
    dropping into the Summer Palace. In the novel, they only use flaming
    logs.
  - Clay sleeping on Tsunami and Tsunami having a dream that the cave
    was suffocating her was never shown.
  - Queen Coral never said that "squid ink and whale blood" was in the
    ink she used.
  - In the novel, Whirlpool has to throw a plate of armor twice for
    Anemone to catch it with the spear. In the graphic novel, she
    pierces it the first time.
  - In the scene following Tsunami's battle with the Orca statue, she
    does not have a seaweed bandage on.
  - The mechanism for the waterfall in the prison was a large switch on
    the wall. In the original novel, it was a chain that was pulled.
  - Queen Coral did not say that Orca could have had the privilege to
    have Whirlpool as a teacher.
  - When Tsunami enters the ocean in the book she says the water is
    salty, while in the graphic novel she never thinks nor says anything
    related to the topic.

## Mistakes

  - Glory is shown without back spikes.
  - Riptide's glowing spots on his belly are green instead of blue.
  - Sunny's blindfold disappears before reappearing again.
  - Riptide's wings change colors from dark blue to light blue and back
    again.
  - The number of glow spots above Tsunami's eyes changes throughout the
    book.
  - Coral and Whirlpool are shown without ink stains on their claws in
    some panels.
  - Coral is shown wearing a bracelet, but it does not appear later.
  - One of Anemone's back legs was missing.
  - Coral has pearl ropes around her horns and a narwhal horn on her
    tail which frequently disappear and reappear.
  - Tsunami's pearl necklace disappears before reappearing on the same
    page.
  - Blister doesn't slash Kestrel's throat in The Dragonet Prophecy
    (graphic novel), yet Kestrel is shown to have had her throat cut
    out.
  - Shark's glowing belly spots are missing.
  - When two injured SeaWings walk in during the SeaWing Council, they
    left a trail of blood behind. Shortly after, that trail of blood was
    not shown.
  - The word people is used instead of dragons.
  - While the dragonets are sleeping in Blister's cave, Auklet's egg
    isn't shown.
  - When Tsunami is holding Auklet's egg, it is shown without swirls
    which reappear later.
  - Some of Tsunami's glowing scales are missing.
  - Some of Whirlpool's glowing scales are missing.
  - Clay is shown with SeaWing glowing spots on his belly.
  - In the Summer Palace attack, SkyWings are holding burning logs or
    firebombs without getting burned.
  - Whirlpool's earrings disappear then reappear.
  - Queen Coral's tail hook accessory appears  and disappears.
  - The weapon Tsunami uses is stated to be a spear, but resembles more
    of a lance.

## International Releases

  - 'French:' Les Royaumes de Feu en Bande Dessinée. La Princesse
    Disparue (September 2019)
  - 'Korean:' 불의 날개와 잃어버린 후계자 그래픽 노블 (June 2022)