The gemstone war

Decoration

The next morning she woke up in the air with the guards carrying her tree, her tree was then put into the throne room where the Queen greeted her with a 'nice greeting'.

Or at least a nice greeting by Queen Lily's standards.

"Hello, my Prisoner. Are you ready for army training." The Queen said in a laughing voice.

"Hell no!" Rosefire cried.

"Well, then what will we do?" The Queen fake pouted.

Rosefire could tell that the queen was getting annoyed, but she didn't care. She was slowly getting revenge. A slight smile appeared on Rosefires face, even as she was being dragged away.

***

Rosefire was taken to a room. It was a small white room with a white tile floor. The walls and ceiling were also white, and on the far wall, was a pane of glass. Through the glass, Rosefire could see several HiveWings watching in.

 Rosefire sat on the floor, noticing that it had a drain on the floor.

After a minute, the guards came back dragging a SeaWing.

That's when she realized; she had to fight against other dragons here. Against her will.

The dragon she was fighting was a SeaWing about two years older than her. She looked into the other dragon's eyes and saw that he was crying. Why is he crying? Rosefire wondered. Was he taken away from his family like me?

She heard a whistle through a speaker mounted in the corner of the room, meaning that training was starting. No backing down. Rosefire was stuck in the room with this dragon.

Behind the glass, a HiveWing glanced down at a clipboard that he was holding and scribbled a note.

The SeaWing wiped tears from his eyes and lunged at her. Rosefire fell onto her back. Hard. The burly blue dragon snarled and started trying to rip her eyes out. Rosefire yelped and tried to squirm out of his grasp as blood dripped into her eyes.

Behind the glass, one of the HiveWing's tails lashed. Another was furiously scribbling down notes. The third HiveWing clicked her tongue in disapproval and reached over to do something underneath the view of the glass.

The whistle was blown again, much more forcefully. The other dragon was hurriedly sedated and taken away by the guards.

Why was he doing that? Rosefire wondered, wincing in pain and gingerly touching the deep gashes around her eyes. Fortunately, the older dragon's flailing claws had missed her eyes, but the cuts were deep, and they hurt.

She wondered if he was forced to.

Behind the glass, the HiveWings shifted uncomfortably, before finaly, they all came to an agreement.

A guard walked into the room, holding a needle filled with some kind of clear liquid. Rosefire was starting to feel dizzy from blood loss and nausea, and paid him no mind. She really didn't care. There wasn't much more he could do to her.

At that moment Rosefire felt a sharp pain.

"Good night," a voice whispered.

"Who said that?" Rosefire wondered as she drifted into unconsciousness.

***

"No, please, No, don't take me away," yelled someone far away from Rosefire, bringing her back into consciousness.

"Who said that?!" yelled Rosefire as she sprung up in her tree. Well, as much as she could, being chained down and all.

Her face stung but didn't hurt. Out of the corner of her eyes, she could see the bandages they had put on her face.

"No one said anything, and you are going to battle tomorrow. So get in this harness," Queen Lily held up a garment made out of a flexible-looking golden material. "Actually, never mind, I'll do it for you," she said coldly.

Rosefire was too tired to argue with Lily even though she really wanted to. She decided it was best to follow her instructions. The HiveWing queen un-locked the clasps around her wrists and neck, keeping the ones on her wings in place.

Rosefire stepped into the harness. Two guards, that had previously been standing silently beside Lily, fastened it on her.

She was strapped back into the tree, then she fell asleep again.

No dragon woke her up until noon, when lunch had already been served. I'm getting starved, she thought. Then she realized there was food in front of her, they had given her food and just didn't wake her up.