Sunny's journey

the sky-palace

spoilers for wings of fire book 1 "the dragonet prophecy"

(this is the first fanfic I'm actually publishing so go easy also this begins the day after the dod were found. I was writing the second chapter and realized how badly I wrote this one so I went back and fixed it)

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  Sunny woke up hoping that it was all a bad dream hoping that she was still under the mountain hoping Dune wasn't actually dead, but when she opened her eyes she was still in the same miserable cage she was thrown in the day before.

  Sunny took a deep breath "It's okay" she stated shakily "I'm okay" she shuttered a breath in "I just have to hold on and we will get out of here we will survive... we have to because the prophecy said we were going to end the war, and we can't end the war if we're dead." She said trying to convince herself and hold on to hope like she always did, but unlike all the other times it didn't really work. 'why?' she questioned 'because my friends don't trust me' the thought wormed her way in her head 'No, they do trust me we're like siblings they have to trust me' she tried to argue 'But would a sibling lie about NOT having a way to escape' she thought "they must have had a good reason to not tell me, right?" she pleaded 'If your doubting it then it isn't right.' Webs said 'he said that about chores' she snorted 'Just because someone told you something for one thing doesn't mean it can't apply to other things.' Dune stated sunny paused to morn Dune for a moment.

  'But my friends will save me I know it.' she thought hopefully 'But they're prisoners here too you can't just wait for them even if they do' Sunny unfortunately agreed (probably because she was arguing with herself) 'So what can I do?' she thought desperately, but her thoughts were interrupted by a guard coming in 'Making them trust me is a good start.' "Hey" Sunny said as cheerfully as possible with a cute smile on her face "hello" they replied slowly "How's your day going?" Sunny inquired "It's going well little one... but anyway here's your breakfast." She said *giving Sunny the food* "thank you" Sunny said "your welcome little sandwing" she replied "My name's Sunny what's yours?" Sunny asked cutely "Buzzard" she answered.

  "What's a Buzzard?" Sunny inquired politely "It's a bird that scavenges." she informed her "woah I didn't know that" Sunny lied "well I must be going bye Sunny" "byeeee" Sunny called out to them 'wow i bet she thinks I'm as dumb as a rock now' she admitted to herself 'better thinking I'm dumb than knowing I'm just using her' she regarded 'now what is step two?'

A few days later

  Princess Burn had just arrived at the sky-palace for Queen Scarlett's hatching day which had made escape even harder and put her on a deadline literally. The entire time Burn had just been staring at her like she was the oldest little thing it honestly creeped her out but that was nothing compared to the dread of what Burn would do if she got her talons on Sunny 'nope not happening' she promised herself but that night she heard singing though she didn't know who was singing but she recognized the tone. Apparently it really agitated Scarlet and Burn *Sunny smiled at the angered royals* she somehow found their anger amusing.

  'You know what it's not that bad here I mean not hellish that is.' Sunny thought the next day but her silent scheming was interrupted by a sudden shriek jumping to her feet she saw dragons fleeing from something. 'This is my Chance' she realized turning to the key that opened her cell conveniently laying on a table. 'now I just swing the cage over to it' she thought *swinging the cage*.

  Eventually she was able to grab the key and unlock the door and her cuffs, but as she took a step toward the door to leave she heard wing beats coming towards the tower 'No it's Burn what do I do, what do I do' she thought frantically 'the window' she decided *she jumped out the window on the opposite side of the tower* silently gliding away.

(It was the dod not burn)