Wings of Fire: Book of Dares

Guardians: Truth or Dare

2 weeks before the Skywing egg smashing

Asha: Guys, I'm bored, and I can't fall asleep. We should play a game! We NEVER have any fun.

Dune and Kestrel: No.

Asha: Please? I promise, it will be fun! It's called truth or dare!

Kestrel: Only dragonets play games, Asha. We are here for business, not silly scavenger games.

Webs: C'mon, Kestrel. It says DARE in the title. It can't be that bad.

Kestrel: *snort* we are on a very tight schedule, and-

Asha, Webs, and Hvitur: GREAT, WE'RE PLAYING

Dune and Kestrel: FINE.

Asha: Yay! I'll go first. Hvitur, truth or dare?

Hvitur: Uhmmm... Truth?

Asha: Okay, are you scared to go to the sky palace?

Hvitur: Well, it's not that I'm SCARED, but... If I get caught...

Kestrel: You'll die, and I won't care? Got it. Moving on. MY TURN!

Asha: Look who's excited to play NOW!

Kestrel: Shut. Up. Anyways, *turns to Webs with a malicious grin* Truth or Dare?

Webs: Ack! Um... um... um.... Truth???

Kestrel: Alright. Why did you join the talons of peace and abandon your tribe and make your queen mad and-

Webs: Because I want the war over.

Kestrel: Don't we all? What a sappy, boring, uninteresting answer. Dune, your turn.

Dune: Alright. Hvitur, truth or dare?

Hvitur: Me again? Fine. Dare, since I did truth last time.

Dune: Try to get one of your brothers hooked up with someone.

Kestrel: You are so immature

Dune: Better to be immature than grumpy

Hvitur: Stop, guys. And what brothers?

Dune: C'mon, Hvitur. We all know about your brothers, Seal and Penguin.

Hvitur: Fine, I'll do it. But it won't be easy.

1 week later; 1 week before the Skywing egg smashing

Seal: *peeks around corner* Wow. How?

Hvitur: I don't know. I just Introduced him to her, and he just fell.

Seal: But him? And her?

Hvitur: I know. I didn't expect it to work, let alone expect myself to actually do it.

Seal: It's a truth or dare, Hvitur. You must. Haven't you heard the legend?

Hvitur *snort* A truth or dare legend. You're joking.

Seal: No, I'm not! It goes like this *lowers voice*: hundreds of years ago, there was a scavenger who was raised by a dragon – That's how we started having pet scavengers. The dragon was an animus Icewing, who eventually fell in love with an Icewing princess, starting the line of the royal Icewing animus dragons. His scavenger, named Snowflake, had taught herself to speak and read dragon. Snowflake then taught the Icewing about truth or dare.

Hvitur: Wait. So you mean to tell me that truth or dare is a scavenger game? And you're probably going to say that there's some animus curse on the game?

Seal: Can I finish?

Hvitur: Fine.

Seal: Where was I... Oh, right. After the scavenger taught the Icewing about truth or dare, it became one of their favorite games to play in their free time. They both loved the game, but each would never do dares or tell truths that got over their boundaries. This made them both upset, and almost made them stop playing the game. Before this point, the dragon had never told the scavenger about his animus powers. So, the dragon decided to tell Snowflake about them, suggesting that he could use them to make it so that you had to do the dare or truth no matter what. The scavenger accepted, but only on a few conditions: one, the dragon or scavenger could not be forced to do a dare that said that they would be killed, hurt, or tortured. Two: The dragon or scavenger could not know that they were being forced to do the dare or truth, and they must feel as if they were doing it out of their consent. Three: the spell could never be broken or changed, otherwise another animus could break or change the spell and ruin all our work. The dragon agreed to the terms and cast the spell.