Wings Of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy

~six~

'There, that dark patch. That's the way out. Its so small!' Clay thought as he swam towards the hole. Quickly he swam to the surface to take a deep breath before going back under. Once he got to the hole he had to squeeze through causing him to panic a little.

'Don't panic. Don't panic. Dont-' he thought then finally got through.

"It's so tight! Could I even turn around if i wanted to? But i don't want to. Cold cold cold cold cold!' He thought then bumped into a wall with the side of his snout. He kept going and continued to bump into things.

"How far have i gone? I dont think I've ever held my breath this long! What if I can't really hold my breath for an hour? Ive never tried!' He thought beginning to panic a little but stopped himself.

"Maybe only full-grown musings can do that! What is i drown, and Kestrel kills Glory and Frostburn, and I'm completely useless?' He thought and began to panic once again until he remembered what Starflight had said and calmed down once again.

'Right. Right. Will not panic. Hey, am i going up?' He thought and the he broke the surface of the water so he took several breaths as he found a rock to cling to.

"I'll just lie here and die for a while..." He said tiredly as he continued to catch his breath.

'Every part of me hurts...what's that sound? Waterfall!' He thought as he pulled himself onto the rock.

"I'll have to approach the waterfall slowly and care-" he tried to plan out but a large wave knocked him off of the rock he was on pulling him towards the waterfall. His heart raced as he tried to find something to hang on to. Finally right as he went over he managed to use his talons to catch himself on the ledge in the middle of the waterfall.

"Don't panic dont panic dont-" he said to him self not wanting to look down.

"Watch out Clay! It's really dangerous! You might stub a claw! Whatever you do, dont let go!" He heard Tsunami's voice and looked down to see her standing below him and that the waterfall didnt drop far.

"Ha. Ha." He said and let him self drop to the ground.

"C'mon. The exit's this way." Tsunami said as soon as he was down and looked out the mouth of the cave.

"How did you get here?" He asked curiously. Tsunami explained how Starflight and Sunny managed to use their combined fire to melt the chains.

"Clay? Are you all right?" She asked as she saw him looking out of the cave and not speaking.

"Oh, Tsunami. Just look at it." He said then took off with the seawing behind him.  Happily they flew through the open sky enjoying the feeling until Clay spotted some mud where he landed and began rolling in it.

"Ooooaahh! This. Is. AMAZING!" He said happily. Tsunami smiled at him.

"I dont think most dragons get this excited about bind dirty." She said and he chuckled.

"I bet mudwings do! I've never been this warm. It's all between my scales. My claws aren't sore. Im not itchy! I love it i love mud I'm staying here forever." He said as he continued to roll around.

"Do you think I'll feel like that about the sea?" Tsunami asked and Clay smiled.

"Definitely." He said then jumped when he heard a crash.

"That can't be good." Tsunami said then spotted a scavenger.

"Its a scavenger! Look, Clay! Our first scavenger!" Tsunami said excitedly as they walked to it.

"Aw, it's so...little." He said and the scavenger dropped the bag it was holding.

"One of these killed queen Oasis? Really?" Tsunami asked in disbelief.

"Can we eat it?" Clay asked curiously.

"Starflight says they're endangered." Tsunami said as the scavenger let out a sound and ran off. Tsunami used a talon to open the bag finding treasure.

"There's treasure in here!" She said excitedly and pulled out a necklace amazed by how pretty it was.

"Can we keep all this?" Clay asked as he looked at Tsunami.

"Certainly no. Unless you want to fight me for it." A female said causing both dragonets to look at her. Before them stood a large female Skywing with jewls embedded into her scales as well as armor on her chest.

"Who are you?" Tsunami asked making the female scoff.

"How can you not know that? You're not a very good spy, are you, drawing?" She asked making Tsunami frown.

"I'm NOT a spy! We've been-held prisoner, kind of. We just escaped!" She said earning an unamused laugh from the skywing.

"A seawing and a mudwing? Held prisoner? But you're not from my dungeons, unless I'm getting horribly forgetful. So who sould you be?" She asked this time with a snarl.

"Tsunami come on. Just give back her treasure and lets go." Clay said as he took the necklace from Tsunami. He held it out to the Skywing not wanting trouble.

"Here you go. We dont want any trouble." He said and he reached out as well.

"Oh, neither do I." She said and grabbed his claw in a painful grip.

"That's why it makes me so sad when trouble keeps coming to me. Nobody touches my treasure!" She said angrily but with a nasty grin. As Clay looked at her she looked at Tsunami.

"We didn't know! We don't even know who you are!" She said a bit aggravated with the large Skywing.

"Oh, didn't i say? My name is Scarlet. But you may call me your majesty if you want to live." She said and let go of Clay.

'The queen of the skywings!' He thought surprised as Scarlet put her face close to his.

"Now you, mudwing, make me curious. We're on the same side. So why didn't you recognize me?" She asked curiously.

"I don't- we're just passing through- I mean- it was an honor to meet- we have to go!" He said quickly not quite knowing what to say.

"But you can't abandon me midconversation. I know- I'll bring you back to my sky palace with me. Wont that be thrilling?" She asked with a sickly sweet tone then screamed in pain as Tsunami used a scavenger's claw to stab through the queen's tail.

"How dare you!" She screeched in rage. While she was pinned by her tail the two dragonets took their chance to fly away. As the flew she shot fire at them.

"I can't believe you did that!" Clay said as he followed his friend.

"Quick! We have to lose her in the peaks!" Tsunami said as they both flew faster. As the flew the sun began to rise.

"Clay! Our first sunrise!" Tsunami said excitedly loving the colors.

"It's so bright!" He replied as he looked at his friend who in turn was looking at him.

"You're practically glowing! I didn't know mudwings had so many colors." She said seeing how he looked in the sun.

"You look like you're made of sapphires." He said with a smile and finally they saw the smoke from the burning scrolls.

"Look at that smoke! It must be coming from the sky hole!" Clay said and Tsunami nodded.

"The entrance must be close....where does the river.....hmm...." She said then spotted water so she dove down to land. Clay landed right after her.

"Look! Kestrel must have gone looking for us." Clay said as he saw some claw prints.

"We can get everyone out while she's gone!" Tsunami said hopeful that things would go a bit easily for them.

A/n

Well here it is! Not too much to say this time though 😅