Wings Of Fire: Light Of Hope

Chapter 7

Queen Moth embraced the small red dragonet as it cried into her chest, she felt angry as she could only hear parts of the horrors that Blood's own parents subjected him to. Nightcrawler was whispering small reassuring words to Blood as he cried. Queen Moth wished she could have killed Queen Heart and King Lung so she could have spared this small dragonet all the pain he when thought. Queen Moth felt as if she would kill for this dragonet maybe it was her motherly instincts or maybe it was her wanting a child of her own but always being to busy to have one, first the bloodwings war and then her tribe needed her to keep them organized at all times, she had no time for children. Blood's crying died down as he more clear said "A-And finally I was f-freed by Winter and I... I defeated a ancient evil called Darkstalker." Queen Moth pated Blood on the head and said "You did amazing, you are quite the strong dragonet, I am sorry that your parents would dare to harm you, you are perfect the way you are." Blood started to cry tears of happiness as he said "Thank you Queen Moth." Queen Moth replied "Please, call me mom, your real mother and father don't deserve to be called that after what they did to you." Blood looked up and said "T-Thank you, mom." Nightcrawler then said "And you can call me dad." Blood hand tears coming from his eyes as he said "Thank you, dad." Queen Moth lead Blood over to the Mothwing dragonets and said "Go play with the other dragonets, and get some sleep, we need to talk to the other queens soon or later." Blood went over to the group of mothwing dragonets, their parents looked worried but they were pleased to have a new playmate. Queen Moth called over her council, a small group including Nightcrawler, a smaller female Mothwing named Mosquito, and a old but wise male Mothwing named Cimex. Cimex was not the most liked of the Mothwings but he earned his place in the council when he single handedly took on 5 bloodwings while the rest of the tribe headed for their new home, as for Mosquito, she had earned her place with her stealth, even when a Bloodwing knew she was there they could never seem to find her. She looked down at her small council and wished that it wasn't this small, decisions needed more dragons but even the Mothwings had very few dragons left that could make crude judgment. Moth then asked "Blood, he is the light of hope, he could help us but I fear he is to young and to hurt to do anything, and I ask, what do you think?" Cimex looked over to the small red dragonet who was easily thrown off his feet by a smaller black and brown Mothwing dragonet, and Cimex then said "Queen Moth, I agree with you, he is to young to hurt and if anything he said is true then he is already afraid of his own tribe." Mosquito spoke up "Well I say it would be better to get him to use his anger at his tribe on them, they hurt him like they hurt us, he should be just as ready as is to kill those filthy red mother-" she was cut off by Nightcrawler who said "I agree with Moth, he trusted his tribe, we never trusted the bloodwings, he isn't angry, he's terrified, sending him into battle when he's scared and young will do us no good." Mosquito opened her mouth as if she was about to object but then shut it rather quickly. Queen Moth then said "So we all agree that Blood is to young and hurt to help us right now." Nightcrawler and Cimex shoke their heads quickly to say yes while more reluctantly Mosquito shoke her head, Queen Moth looked at Mosquito with a saddened look and said "Don't worry, you'll get to avenge you husband, we all lost something to the Bloodwings." Visions of broken eggs and her own parents dead filled Queen  Moth's head as Mosquito said "I'm sorry I forgot how much more you lost then anyone..." Queen Moth looked over at Blood as he was play fighting with another dragonet, Queen  Moth said with a small bit of hope in her voice "Everyone has lost something, but we can make a new and start over."