A human in Wings of Fire

3 - captured

They all turned around to face the direction where that came from. A group of multiple red angry dragons were blocking the way out. Most of them had plates of metal armour, except one, who only wore a golden chest plate, and who had rubies incrusted between her scales.

Well, here goes my plan on staying alive. This is one hundred percent Scarlet.

Speaking of her, she looked very furious, with smoke coming out of her nostrils.

"I haven't seen Kestrel in what ? Seven years ?" She said. "What a fun reunion this is going to be !"

Her pleased voice didn't match the hatred in her eyes, and she was moving her tail back and forth, visibly annoyed.

"All my least favourite dragons, in one place !"

Clay, who was the closest to Queen Scarlet, took a step back and protectively spread his wings. But if you looked closely, you could see his talons shaking with fear.

"You followed us here !" Tsunami shouted, indignant.

"Oh, I didn't have to !" Answered the queen with a grin, "Someone sent up a lovely smoke signal for me, and led us all right here ! What a brilliant idea."

After a few seconds, Sunny squicked, "Who- who are you ?"

"Now, really, this is getting insulting. You're in my territory. Apparently, you're living under my mountains, and I'm only the most important dragon for hundreds of miles ! How dare you not recognize me !" Scarlet spoke louder. She arched her neck and spread her wings, allowing all of them to make out who she was.

"Queen Scarlet of the Skywings..." Starflight whispered. And he proceeded to do a sort of... bow ? Well, it looked like it.

"Now that's more like it." The queen said, pleased. She walked forward into the cave, "Three moons, it's gloomy in here." And she proceeded to breathe fire on Starflight's bag of scrolls, which instantly started burning.

It was Ashley's first time seeing a dragon breathing its fire, and it was certainly astonishing. It looked very powerful, and to think that a creature could kill you just like that was scary. And now that he thought about it, there was no explanation for why dragons could actually breathe fire and not burn their throats in the process. But again, magic.

Clay proceeded to step closer to his friends, still facing the queen, and got in a position where he would be the first obstacle if anyone tried to reach them. Scarlet glanced at them and stumbled on Starflight, widening her eyes.

"You're a Nightwing !" She shoved Clay to the side as if he weighed nothing and grabbed Starflight's chin, studying him with no pressure.

Clay marched towards her but quickly stopped when he noticed that her guards started looking more aggressive than they already were.

"A Nightwing ! Not yet ten years old !" Scarlet continued, "How thrilling ! They don't normally let their dragons out into the world. We might corrupt their superior perfection or something, you know."

Starflight coughed as she breathed smoke on his face. She was manipulating him as if she was trying to see all the angles of a statue and searching for any imperfections.

"I've never had a Nightwing in my arena before. Thrilling ! Thrilling !" Scarlet looked inside Starflight's eyes, "Tell me, what am I thinking right now ?"

He didn't answer, panic in the eyes.

"Too hard ? I'll give you a hint. I'm thinking... 'Now why would a Nightwing, a Seawing, and a Mudwing, be hiding out under my mountains ?" She glanced at Clay's direction, where Glory and Sunny were standing behind him, "Along with whatever those two are that the Mudwing is cutely trying to protect."