Secret Wings

Ice Lions

Back in Nina's tower, the evil fairy growled as she watched the group still flying towards her.

"Argh!" she turned away from her crystal ball and hissed. "It seems that I underestimated the group gravely,"

"We told you so," Phoenix chuckled.

"Blaze and his friends are powerful, especially when they put their heads together," Flame smirked.

"Mm-Hmm..." Nina glared over at them before twirling her tires, icy blue magic now appearing in the air. "You're right. I shouldn't have underestimated them... so I won't,"

From her magic, ice lions appeared behind her, each with a dark mane as they let out a roar. Phoenix's face fell before growling at the evil fairy.

"Don't you dare, Nina!" she cried out.

"Oh, but I AM daring," Nina scoffed with a snicker. "Now go, my little pets. Freeze those goodie-goods in their place!"

The ice lions gave a bow before disappearing in an icy flash. Flame and Phoenix exchanged worried glances, hoping that their children and their friends could handle what was gonna come to them...

Meanwhile, the group were making their way over the tall, snow-filled mountains when a snow storm came.

"Let's take cover user those trees!" Blaze called out to his friends.

They followed with no complain, even Crusher, who was shivering but still had Pickle close to him under his wing to help him warm up. They landed on a branch under one of the huge, snow-covered trees and huddled around a fire that AJ was able to create.

Watts and Starla wrapped their wings around each other, with Gabby in the middle to help her warm her up since they had the mechanic had no appropriate clothing for the cold. Pickle was in between Crusher's tires and wings, the dark blue truck shivering at the cold but surprisingly not caring as he hugged the green truck. Stripes cuddled up to himself, with Zeg beside him as they both closed their wings on themselves. Blaze held Darington close, a wing over him as the stunt truck shuddered and cuddled up against him. Sparkle was under her brother's other wing, lightly shivering as she rested her wings.

AJ finished up the fire to make sure it didn't evaporate because of the storm before turning to them. He gazed at each of them with sigh. Blaze looked up at him and smiled.

"Come on, AJ. You need to warm up too,"

AJ nodded with a smile before making his way over, squeezing in between Darington and Sparkle. He wrapped his wings around him and sighed in relief.

"Blaze..."

"I know, buddy," Blaze released a heavy sigh. "I'm not sure that this was such a good idea either,"

"To drag them all the way here..." AJ shuddered and spared a glance at Gabby before shaking his head. "I'm just glad that snow storms here don't last long,"

"Yeah, good thing," Blaze nodded in agreement. "I just wish there was a way for us to—"

"ROOOOAAAAAARRRR!"

Everyone jumped at the sudden loud roar from nearby.

"What was that?!" Crusher questioned.

"It's... probably nothing, right?" Pickle laughed nervously, snuggling closer to the other.

Suddenly, there was a blast of ice, and everyone jumped up, hovering up from the branch to find it frosted over. They all gasped and turned to see a group of lions, eyes red as flames but bodies as blue as crystals.

"What are those?!" Darington cried out.

"Ice lions!" AJ flicked his hands, causing flames to appear from them. "A pride of them!"