King of The Dragons (Wings of Fire X Monster Hunter)

Part 3: Chapter 24 & 25

Part Three: An Egg The Color Of Dragon Blood

(3rd Pov Stormcaller)

They sawm and drifted, drifted and swam, all the rest of that day and into the night. When it was fully dark and they hadn't seen any blasts of fire overhead for sometime, they crawled out onto the mud bank to eat and rest.

Stormcaller watched as Clay failed to hunt in the open grassland. Two rabbits and a coyote slipped through his talons. Eventually he caught and killed a wild pig, which he dragged back to share with the others.

Sunny bounded out to help the MudWing to carry the carcass. "Tsunami caught some fish, too," she said. "And I dug up these awesome wild carrots but nobody else wants to eat them."
"Carrots?" Clay said, wrinkling his snout. "Who would eat those on purpose?"
"I like them," Sunny said. "And these are all earthy and crunchy. I bet you'd like them if you tried them."
"Nope," Clay said. "We're free now. I'm only going to eat what I want to eat from now on."

Sunny ran up to Stormcaller. "Do you want to have some?" She held up the carrots.
"No thanks," he said. "I'm not hungry. You guys eat."
"Okay," Sunny said before going back over to the other dragonets.

Stormcaller could see everything thanks to his NightWing eyes. There were trees here and there, and the jagged mountains loomed against the sky. Dragons wheeled over the peaks like bats. Burn had not given up searching for them, and probably wouldn't anytime soon, Tsunami pointed out.

"Why does she want to kill us?" Sunny asked. "We haven't done anything too her."
"She doesn't trust prophecies," Stormcaller said. "Especially yours. It says two sisters will die - of those 'who blister and blaze and burn' - but it doesn't say who. She might like it if it said that she would win. It's too vague and cryptic right now, so she'd rather get you out of the way and fight the war on her own terms."

"So when we pick who wins, it definitely won't be her," Sunny said with a shiver.
"Maybe Blaze," Tsunami said, gnawing a piece of meat. "Starflight says she's dumb, but at least the SandWings like her."
"I like the sound of Blister," Glory said. "There's nothing wrong with a smart queen. Not that I get a say in anything."
Stormcaller looked at her surprised. He would talk to her about that sometime in the future.

"Blister isn't just smart, though," Tsunami said. She rested her head on her front talons. "If we believe the scrolls and everything the guardians told us, she's cunning and manipulative and doesn't care what she has to do to become queen. Even if it means destroying the other tribes and the rest of the world along the way."

The dragonets fell silent. Stormcaller knew how they felt. The fate of Pyrrhia was in their talons. They were probably thinking, 'they were dragonets. Who would listen to them?' Stormcaller knew they'd figure it out.

Sunny stared up at the moons hopefully. She missed Starflight. They all probably did. He was their friend after all.
"Do you know if all RainWings can do that?" Clay asked Glory after Tsunami and Sunny fell asleep, curled up together. They must have forgot he was here. Glory was lying apart from the other with her tail curled over her nose, staring fixed at the mountains.

"How should I know?" Glory demanded. "Has anyone ever told me anything about RainWings - except that they're lazy and, by the way, in case we haven't mentioned it a thousand times, not part of the prophecy?"
"Are you mad at me?" Clay asked.
Glory closed her eyes and didn't answer.
Soon after, Clay fell asleep.

Stormcaller walked up to Glory and poked her tail, that was covering her face.
"Go away Clay," was all she said, not bothering to look at him.
"Who said I was Clay?" Glory lifter her tail to look at him.
"What is it?"
"What do you want to know about RainWings?" Glory's eyes widened. She sat up to face him, although she was a quite a bit shorter.