Wings of Fire #16- Prophecy of Fire

Chapter 11

"Missing!" Kinkajou cried. "But they can't be! They just can't! Not now! It must have been Beauty! She'll pay!"

But why them? What exactly do they have against her? Unless..... she's mind controlling them! She's already gotten to Pyrrhia!

If Beauty was that far ahead, was their mission doomed? There was no way they could stop dragons from TWO tribes. What would she say to Knowledgeable? Would she ever hear from him again?

"I'm sorry guys." Ostrich apologized. "Everyone's left the mountain and returned to their homes. There is something else you should know though. Many of the dragons have been fighting and Queen Snowfall even declared war!"

"That's super not good." Dusky observed. "Maybe we should avoid Icewings. Running into a warring tribe isn't the best idea."

This is the only good idea you've had since I've met you.

"One more thing." Ostrich said. "The Talons of Peace and some other dragons have met to try to stop all this. Right now, they've sent me to scout the Sandwings and see Andy change. There's this one dragon who's with the Talons, Charming, and he's been kind of controlling everything. Let's go see him!"

She led them across the desert, making Kinkajou feel more tired than ever. She was glad that they could get some help, but annoyed that the couldn't stop first! 

When the group stopped, they were at cave hole in the middle of a dune. Nothing but darkness for miles, and no light for the eye to see. But, something was familiar....

That's it! This was the tunnel that went to the Rainforest! Kinkajou remembered leaving the Nightwings old island as lava crashed down from the exploding volcano. Why were they here?

"On the Nightwing island, the dragons stay in hopes of remaining secret. It's also the place that we found Charming. He was just sitting here." Ostrich explained.

I wonder how he managed to survive? He must be super amazing!

Ostrich led them through the vast darkness. Left, then right, then left, and then another right! Kinkajou wondered how she knew where they were going? Nothing but total nothing!

Finally, they were standing on sand of the island. Kinkajou saw huddled Skywings, Rainwings, Nightwings, and a few Sandwings. Over in the corner of them all, a dragon she could make out was starting at a pile of burned ash.

"Charming!" 

As Ostrich called, Kinakjou saw the faces all turn toward them. The mystery dragon looked at them and gave her a startle. He was part Sandwing, part Skywing, part Icewing, and a little Silkwing. He had a huge scar across his face and the end of his tail was missing.

"Hello, Ostrich." he said in a soothing voice. "What have you brought? Oooh! I see a Silkwing and Hivewing. Very useful. And is that a human I see. Quite nice!"

"Greetings." Wren coughed. It was the first time Kink had heard the human speak in a while, and Wren sounded quite hoarse. "You must be the Great Charming."

"I am Charming." he spoke. "You must be here to help us, no? Getting through this would be helpful."

He came closer and Kinakjou saw that he was only a bit bigger than her. He didn't look all that young, but even due to his wounds, he looked quite friendly. This was a dragon the world needed.

"We may know who's doing all this chaos." Kinakjou explained. "It's not someone that armies can defeat."

"Who?"

Kinkajou explained the story to him, and his face was filled with horror. She told him of her plan, Knowledgeable, and their journey to Pantala and back to Pyrrhia. At the end, he laid on the ground, rubbing his head.

"Beauty's doing this?" he echoed. "But she's so nice. She and her brother were good friends. It's a shame that Knowledgeable lost it."

"You know them?" Bumblebee gasped. "But how? There like thousands of years old!"

"Well I'm thousands of years old." Charming remarked. "I was friends with them and even mates with Beauty. One day, Knowledgeable came after me, gave me some scars, and I left in panic."

"That was you!" Kinkajou exclaimed. "Well, it's good to have another dragon to guide me. Do you think we could beat Beauty. Or at least, make her see that Knowledgeable isn't the bad guy?"

"We could try." Charming agreed. "It'll be hard, but there's a chance. We'll need some people to come with us. Your Hivewing, Ostrich, me, you, and Jerboa."

"Jerboa!"

Kinkajou had heard of the Sandwing who'd helped Luna when she crashed here the first time. That was also the dragon to who took away Animus magic and lived in the middle of nowhere!

She must be really powerful. That, and really dumb!

"Coming." the Sandwing called, jumping from a crowd nearby. "Where we heading? Is it hard?"

"First, we need to check out whats left of Jade Mountain, then we head for Pantala." Charming explained. "And these three are gonna help us."

"Let's go!" Bumblebee shrieked. 

So, the group headed off for the school in a hurry. Something started to whisper in Kinkajous ear, and she jumped at their voice.

You will be ok, little dragon. If your not, I'll make your prosecutor pay.

When they arrived at the school two days later, the caves were silent. Usually, the buzzing of excited dragons rang for miles around. Now, it was a desolate, sullen, pile of nothingness.

I wonder who did this. Was it the new voice.

For a bit now, the voice had called her multiple times. All it would say was "Don't die" which was like sooooo obvious! She wasn't going to die! Duh!!!

Still, it was weird that a third voice would call out to her. Only Moon had ever been able to communicate with nearby voices and it was weird to have her friends feeling. It was like worms crawling up her ear.

I wish I didn't have to do this!

They flew through the dense caves in worry. What would they find in the caves? Would it solve their problems? Would it save the tribes?

The first thing Kinkajou saw as shredded artworks. Next was scattered scrolls, dead prey, and finally ash. Nothing useful, but interesting and quite horrific.

Finally, they came across a cave that was blocked off with boards. Charming broke them with one kick, and they walked inside and started at a sight that make Kinkajou want to gag. There was a knocked out dragon with blood covering him inside. He had multiple scars and was lying on a nearby desk.

It was Starflight.