'Viper' was a female SandWing dragonet who was introduced in The Hidden Kingdom. She
was a member of the Talons of Peace#The False Dragonets|false dragonets
of destiny as a replacement for Sunny. She was killed on the NightWing
island during a battle training session with Flame, where she was pushed
into a lava pit by Starflight while he was defending Fatespeaker.

## Description

Viper had white-gold scales.

## Personality

Similar to the other false dragonets, she was very annoyed by
Fatespeaker's imprecise and false predictions and found amusement in
bullying Squid. She seemed to also take pleasure in abusing Fatespeaker,
nearly to the point of killing the NightWing, due to her hatred of all
NightWings for taking her away from her family. She acted aggressively
to anyone she met and usually kept to herself, but if anyone came too
close, she would threaten them with her tail to scare them away.
Starflight thought that Viper seemed like the exact opposite of Sunny.
She acted as if she would rather die than stay on the NightWing island.
She was very strong and could get angered easily.

## Biography

### The Dragonet Prophecy

left The Lost Heir

Viper was indirectly mentioned when Morrowseer had Nautilus explain to
Blister about the set of alternate dragonets.

left The Hidden Kingdom

In the prologue, Viper was fighting with her fellow false
dragonets. Ochre, the MudWing, tripped over her, and she hissed and bit
his tail. Squid said that she, Ochre, and Flame were bullies, with
particular emphasis on Flame.

In the epilogue, they flew across the ocean with Morrowseer to the Night
Kingdom and were placed in a cave. She told Ochre that he smelled bad,
and she got angry with Fatespeaker when the latter claimed to be having
another vision of the future.

left The Dark Secret
Viper was introduced to Starflight, along with the rest of the false
dragonets. She appeared to like the idea of replacing Fatespeaker with
Starflight, preferring the true prophesied dragonet over their own
version, but still tried to kill him on Morrowseer's orders. She stayed
with Squid during the chase, and both of them were chased back to their
cave by four NightWing guards. While Flame and Ochre were placed in the
dungeon, she and Squid had to spend the night in the NightWing
Dormitory. The NightWing dragonets annoyed her, and she threatened them
with her tail before sulking in a corner.

The next day, Morrowseer took them to a remote SkyWing outpost and
ordered them to convince the SkyWing soldiers inside to switch their
allegiance from Burn to Blister. It ultimately was a failure, and they
had to be rescued by NightWing soldiers. The soldiers then burned the
outpost, killing the SkyWing soldiers in it. Later, she told Morrowseer
that she would never do that again.

She was eager to jump into the practice fight with Fatespeaker. Viper
blamed Fatespeaker for her being taken to the NightWing island and
nearly killed her before Starflight knocked into her. She lost her
balance, then her tail sliced across Flame's face, leaving him scarred
permanently, and she toppled into a river of lava by accident, resulting
in her death. Starflight had tried to get Ochre, the false MudWing
dragonet, to save her using his fireproof scales, but Ochre either did
not have fireproof scales, did not know he had them, or simply did not
care, as he did not even try to rescue Viper. Starflight then discovered
that Morrowseer had been 'tinkering' with fate. When Viper did not
appear above the surface, Fatespeaker wept by the river of lava for the
loss of her "friend."

left The Brightest Night

Sunny and Tsunami told the Talons of Peace of Viper's death,
including a SandWing who was suggested to be her uncle or another
extended relative as he asked about her, but did not seem torn or
completely upset when Sunny said that she was dead.

In the epilogue, Fatespeaker mentioned that Viper was one of the dragons
"they cared about who had not survived the War of SandWing
Succession|war."

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### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

left Moon Rising
Flame
mentioned Viper in a whirl of furious thoughts while Moon was reading
his mind before he threw her out of his head.

## Quotes

I hate that big old stupid horrible NightWing.
to
the other false dragonets about Morrowseer
The Hidden Kingdom
293

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Where have you been? […] We've been here for a whole day and
a half and no one has checked on us or fed us anything but what appears
to be leftovers from a meal three months ago.
to Morrowseer

The Dark Secret
72

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Replace her? […] We can do that?
to Morrowseer
about replacing Fatespeaker The Dark Secret (book)|The Dark
Secret
73

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Can't we kill her instead?
to Morrowseer about
killing Fatespeaker instead of killing Starflight
The Dark Secret
75

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Is this the test? […] Listen to you for as long as we can
without dying of boredom?

The Dark Secret (book)|The
Dark Secret
116

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Send me in, too! I want a chance to bite her! I can
definitely kill her, just give me a chance!
to Morrowseer,
requesting to fight The Dark Secret
185

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This is your fault! I could be back at camp with my parents if
it weren't for your stupid tribe!
to Fatespeaker, about to
kill her The Dark Secret
187

## Trivia

  - Viper's name was originally going to be Cobra, but Tui decided to
    use it for Qibli's Cobra|mother instead.

## References