Adventures Of The Animations: The Corrupted Lands

Chapter 23: A Ruler In The Swamps

Small reminder (Sorry if these get annoying, gonna be stating them at each chapter)

Chapters 21-27 are all happening at the same time, just different povs

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Red landed on a cliff side, flicking his wings. He then walked to the edge of the cliff out and looked out. The mud kingdom lay out before him. In the distance, the outline of the mud kingdom palace could be seen. That was Red's destination. "You ready for this?" Red asked, holding up a claw to the dragonbite viper, FireFang, around his neck. After Venomara's death, Red felt bad that FireFang didn't have a home or anyone to care for him, so he took on the responsibility of taking care of the snake. The viper then flicked its tongue at Red and Red laughed. "Hopefully the guys are okay with me bringing you home. I mean, I don't see the problem. You could just living in my room with me. I'd make a spot for you." The young mudwing then jumped off the cliff, and flared his wings, gliding down. He landed, and began his walk through the kingdom.

Dragons would see Red, gasp as they remembered him, and either bury themselves in the mud or hide in the sleeping bunks.

Red sighed as he kept walking. He wasn't sure of what exactly he had done, but he remembered that Yellow had told him that dragons might be scared of him after what Dark had made him do, when he was corrupted.

The bright red mudwing continued walking, growing closer and closer to the palace. As he neared, armored mudwings began to be seen more and more. These mudwings were the palace guard. Each of them would glare at Red and some even would grip their spears tighter like they would attack. One of the palace guards pointed his spear at Red, and the young mudwing yelped in terror racing off.

"Why couldn't one of the guys come with me?" Red muttered as he kept walking.

A quiet yelp made Red stop. He then looked to the side, where a fallen branch had pinned a mudwing dragonet. Two smaller mudwings were trying to get the branch off him the older dragonet, but they weren't able to.

"Hi, need any help?" Red walked over to the mudwings. The two smaller ones had to be no bigger than fledgelings. The bigger one was a dragonet, but was definitely smaller than Red so he probably just turned the age of a dragonet.

The three dragons yelped as they saw Red. One of the fledgelings looked up at him. "I...it's you!"

Red tilted his head. "Me?"

A growl sounded, coming from the dragonet pinned by a branch. "Yah, you, the one who was going to hurt us until those others showed up and stopped you."

Red flicked his tail. "I am so sorry for whatever I had done. I wasn't myself. You see, I had been corrupted by an evil skywing by the named of The Dark Lord. I was under his control and those deeds were not my own. I had to listen to whatever he said. I would never, ever, harm anyone." As he spoke about being corrupted, a chill went up Red's spine. Talking about being force to do something that wasn't his doing made him remember the times when Herobrine had taken possession of him. Red's eyes now had a faint hazed look to them because of the possessions.

"Then explain the snake around your neck. That's a dragonbite viper." The dragonet snarled again.

Red held a claw up to the snake, and gently rubbed its chin. "Don't worry about FireFang, he won't hurt anyone."

"FireFang? Wasn't that Venomara's beloved pet?"

"Venomara is dead. I've adopted FireFang as mine now." Red flicked his tail. "Now, please. Let me help you get that branch off."

The dragonet tilted his head then sighed and nodded.

Red walked over, grabbed the branch and pulled it off the dragonet. The dragonet then stood up. Red smiled at the dragons. "What are you guys' names?"

The dragonet looked at Red. "I'm Squelch, this is Reed, and this is Catfish."

"Nice to meet you three, I'm Red."

"Yes, I can see that." Squelch snorted.

"No, that's my name. My name is Red." 

"Hmmm." Squelch tilted his head.

"That's a weird name for a mudwing. That's more like a rainwing name." Reed looked up at Red.

"Well, you see little one, I'm not from Pyrrhia."

"Are you from the distant kingdoms then?" Catfish walked up to her older brothers.

"Nope. Where I'm from, I'm not even a dragon, I'm a stick figure."

The three young ones nodded, clearly confused.

Red laughed, then rose to his claws. "Don't worry about it. Now, if you three will excuse me. I'm off the mud kingdom palace."

"Why are you going there?" Squelch and his siblings began to follow Red.

"You see. Myself and my brothers and friends are on a mission to restore the queen's to their thrones and return Pyrrhia back to the way it was, before the corruption. I was sent to return Queen Delta to her throne."

The dragonets then waved to Red as they arrived to the palace. Red then headed into the palace, quickly making his way to the prisons where Queen Delta was.

As Red opened the door, the brown mudwing look up at him. "You? What are you doing here? Did Dark send you to eliminate me?"

Red walked over to the wall where the keys hung. Because he had made himself feared, Red, when he was corrupted, had been able to put the keys there and not worry about any rescue attempts to free the queen. "I'm here to right the wrongs caused by The Dark Lord." Red then opened the cell, and grabbed a golden crown decorated with bright red rubies. He then bowed holding the crown to Delta. "Your majesty."

Delta reached a claw out, and grabbed the crown and placed it on her head. Then with a sudden movement she pounced forward, grabbed Red, and threw him in the cell, quickly locking it.

"What's going on?!" Red yelped in terror, as he looked at Queen Delta. FireFang hissed, flicking his tongue.

"You carry that vile serpent around your neck, the same vile serpent that was with the wretched sandwing who claimed to be queen. You can very well still be under Dark's control."

"I'm not under Dark's control! The control has been broken. The Dark Lord is dead! So is Venomara! FireFang is bad! He's just treated this way because he was Venomara's pet!" 

"Dark is actually dead?" Delta walked closer to the bars.

"Yes! He is! He was killed by Cadet. I was there. I saw the entire thing! My brothers and friends are currently on missions to restore all the queens to their rightful thrones."

Delta then reached up and unlocked the cell, letting Red out. "Then I'm terribly sorry, young one. I just care about my tribe and want to do whatever I can to protect them."

"It's fine, your majesty. Do you think you can handle from here?"

"Yes, I can. I will go to my throne and get everything back to normal. Thank you for everything."

"Of course, your majesty." Red bowed to Queen Delta, then made his way to Possibility.

In a little while, Red arrived to Possibility. He landed outside Doom's house, and made his way inside. Going up to his room, Red opened the door, smiling as he saw Yellow. He was gonna go over, but he stopped seeing Yellow was sound asleep. Walking quietly, so he didn't wake up his brother, Red made his way over to his bed and curled up, sleep coming quick to the mudwing.