Wings of Fire: The Call of Skyfall [1]

Chapter 9

Siren and Shardseeker flew through the clouds of Skyfall, it didn't push them out this time.

Siren and Shardseeker flew towards the Forest of Seasons. They looked on the rock where they saw Snowy's friends, but there was no scroll there, nor dragons. Siren looked over the pink, blossoming trees. She saw a huge tree that seemed to be the heart of the forest, and possibly where Snowy's friends lived.

Siren and Shardseeker flew towards the tree. The tree looked very wide and very tall. It seemed to be at least half a mile wide, and probably a few 1000 feet tall. It has vines, flowers, and animals on the tree's top.

Siren and Shardseeker landed at the foot of the tree. There was a door and two guards guarding it. "Reason for entry?" A SkyWing guard asked. "We came to warn the Season Sisters." Siren declared. The SkyWing guards nodded and opened the door and let the two dragonets in.

"They are currently in the hangout room." One guard said before they walked in. "Go up the stairs, walk down the hallway, and it's the largest door you see." The other said as the dragonets walked in.

The tree was neatly carved and decorated with treasure and flowers. It looked like a palace. There was a carpet leading up some stairs. There was 4 small thrones at the top, and 4 large thrones behind them. There were many banners on the walls. There was a spiral staircase in the wall that was on the right side of the entrance. They went up the staircase.

The staircase led them into a hallway that seemed to be curving the whole tree (very long). The ceiling was high enough and the walls were wide enough to fly to the end. The hallway curved slightly to the heart of the tree.

There were doors that were in the walls that came up occasionally. The halls were carved parts of the tree. Siren ran her talons on the wall. It seemed like it was sanded down to make it smooth, to make sure nobody gets splinters often. The floor had a red, soft carpet that went through the main hall. The floor was made of stone, but the carpet covered most of the floor.

They kept walking down the hallway until it made a sharp turn to the middle. They saw a huge door that was outlined in yellow, and had a red base color. Siren opened it and saw a larger room than the throne room. The floor was the stone that Siren saw when she was walking down the hallway.

There was a sandpit all along the right, there was an artificial tree that looked like it was for hanging on with your tail on the left, there was a pool in a large hot tub near it as well. At the end of the room, there was a wide window, and a pastel purple carpet, with pastel colored pillows. There was a large circle in the middle, all four season sisters were there.

They all looked at a slightly bigger-than-normal obsidian mirror. Siren and Shardseeker saw smoke rise from it, Siren guessed they were looking at Sandstorm. Siren ran up to them.

"Sandstorm is coming to attack us, she knows we live here." Siren said worriedly. Rainy sat up quickly and turned her head towards Siren. "That's where she is!?" Rainy said, distressed. "I'm afraid so." Shardseeker announced.

"Get your guards here and get them ready to attack." Shardseeker said to the Season Sisters. "But—" Sandy said, "We don't have many guards because we thought we were perfectly fine here."

Sandy sat down and curled her tail around her talons. She had no poisonous barb.

"Then, we get citizens and tell them to fight for their home." Siren said as she walked closer to the platform.

"But— our citizens are peaceful, most of them have never been in a fight." Sandy said.

"Then we will just have to teach them how to fight for their home." Siren preached as she stood in the middle, and made a stance. Leafy looked around the room. The ceiling was far from them. Leafy exhaled and said, "I will gather them, and I will tell them that they need to—"

Leafy was cut off when she heard the screams of civilians. Siren ran to the window and looked out. She saw an entire army of SandWing soldiers, and she saw Sandstorm commanding them.