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Chapter Two: The Blood Colored Queen

"My face! It burns! It burns!" The Red dragon screamed as she clawed at the acid on her face. "Someone bring me those dragon's head!" She yelled in rage while the larger and burly Sandwing approached her.

"You're coming with me, Scarlet." She heard the Sandwing growl.

"This is my hatching day! You're in my kingdom! You threw me in front of that damn Rainwing! And now you-"

The Sandwing raised it's tail and held it to Scarlet's throat. "I insist Scarlet." She growled.

"It's Queen Scarlet to-" she stopped as the Sandwing moved the tail closer to the point the barb was against Scarlet's scales. Scarlet huffed and shut her snout with an enraged look in her one good eye, she wanted to scream, she wanted to yell, she wanted those damn dragonets dead, but most of all, she wanted the pain to stop as her chest melted with her gold chest-plate and as one side of her became near,y unrecognizable, it was hard to believe it belonged to a dragon's head, her jewelry now becoming painful nuisances.

She tried to follow the big Sandwing only to crash as she attempted to fly, soon she hissed in pain as the two Sandwing guards used their talons to pick her up, digging their talons into her scales. Instead of lashing out with her talons, she just lowered her head and let out a low whine. "I'm losing it all... aren't I Burn..." She growled in a mixture of fury and defeat.

"It's Queen Burn to you." She replied with an evil snicker on her scarred face.

"It isn't fair!" Scarlet hissed.

The Sandwing's just chuckled as they carried it out through the chaos as dragons were screaming and flying everywhere all at once as they tried to escape the arena.

Scarlet looked for her prized possession but her flaming weapon was long gone. Her art piece, the very Rainwing that shot her in the face, also long gone along with the rest of those wretched dragonets that took everything away from her, that had given her to Burn on a silver platter. 'I DON'T DESRVE THIS... do I?' She turned to face her once shaky ally, now her brutish captor. "Burn, what are you going to do to me-" Scarlet started in a pained voice only to be stopped.

Burn clamped her jaws on Scarlet's snout. "Queen Burn, remember that Scarlet, I'm your queen now." Burn growled.

Scarlet glared at her and hissed through her pain and anger. "The only thing I will call you is a bitch!"

The Sandwings look taken a back before Burn slowly started to laugh. "Oh Scarlet, you never were too bright, you'll look good in my collection." Suddenly she slammed her talon down on Scarlet's neck and dug her talons deep. "Depending on how you speak to me though, that will choose wether you will be a living exhibit or if you'll be like the other stuffed dragons I have in my tower." She growled before leaning in even closer to Scarlet's ear as she growled. "Either way, you'll belong to me, and there's nothing you can do."

Scarlet's eyes were wide as she looked at the flying monster and she didn't even realize that she was shaking and her breathing had sped up.

Burn started to chuckle again. "Scarlet, I've never seen you so afraid before... I think I like it." She said as she brushed one of her talons on the red dragon.

Scarlet let out a whimper as they continued to fly away from her kingdom without any regard to the chaos still happening around them. Queen Scarlet had lost everything.

***

Scarlet was the most quiet she had been in her entire life, none of this is how she wanted. She shivered as Burn looked at her again and turned her gaze away as she rubbed her arm where Burn had given her new scars, still rubbing the cactus juice antidote against the poisoned wound, it was healing slowly but she still wanted to scream and yell, but she had been too exhausted and too defeated to fight back any longer, she couldn't resist anymore.

They were flying by mountains now, which mountains though, Scarlet had long since lost track. The stars and three moons lit up the sky, a bright but distant view, barely shining down on the mountains, right now just appearing as dark, spiky silhouettes, like dragon's teeth in the dark. The Sandwings and Scarlet looked like flying shadows in the dark landscape.

'We may as well be Nightwings.' Scarlet thought to herself as she saw one of the Sandwings practically disappear as they flew below, in line with the rest of the pitch black mountains. 'They vanish, just like that.' She thought to herself. Then her eyes focused as she tried to find the Sandwing. 'Just... like... that...' She glanced at Burn quickly, she was still flying too close to break away. 'If she takes me back to her stronghold, it might be worse than death...' she shivered at the thought, but then she looked back to where she saw the Sandwing descend. 'Either way, what'll happen will be painful...'

She suddenly took a deep breath and opened her mouth, shooting a stream of flame's directly in Burn's face while she used her legs to kick back from the Sandwing still holding her before body slamming fully into the large Sandwing, knocking her a few talons away.

"You little-" Burn roared as she whipped her tail around, trying to stab her with her barb.

Scarlet suddenly rolled in the air before sinking her fangs into Burn's tail as she tried viciously to rip the body part off of the rest of the yellow dragon.

"I'll rip your claws and teeth off when I'm done with you!" Burn growled as she then grabbed Scarlet's face and dug her talons into the already melted side of Scarlet's face.

Scarlet let out a screech and let the tail go only for it to quickly stab her repeatedly in the chest, oozing black and red liquid each time it pierced the skin, and each time it left. Burn then reached over to Scarlet wing's and slowly started to pull until...

Scarlet frantically held on to the antidote as she let out an agonizing scream as one of her wings ripped off before falling into the darkness below before her silhouette vanished with the rest of the black void.

"Damn it! Bring her to me! Now!"

"But your majesty, it's too dark and-" The Sandwing let's out a sudden gasp as a large fiery spear impales the dragon in the chest. The dragon let out one last cry before falling down to meet Scarlet's fate.

"We're too close to the den! Forget about it, let's go, I have other trophies I can play with."

***

Scarlet panted as she crawled upwards the mountain, wincing in pain with each move her limbs made, she couldn't think about her lost wings as the stumps continued to bleed or how her chest had felt on fire from where the poison had almost been fatal if not the antidote. She could only think about getting somewhere safe before Burn would return and retrieve her.

She found a cave, but she knew that this would be too obvious so instead, she simply grabbed some vines to finally cover some of her wounds still bleeding to make it seem as if the trail stopped in the cave. She then managed to crawl downwards towards the mountain where she saw a line of scavengers. She was in pain, she was in rage, and most important... she was hungry.