Chapter Seventeen - Queen Scarlet

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{"I am your queen, Pyro. You listen to me, and me only. If you go against me in any way, I will find you, and kill you. Got it?" Scarlet barked at me, Peril by her side.

"I don't like doing what you tell me to do though. I'm not mean, I don't want to kill others. I wish I could just leave!" I yelled, flicking my tail around. I could feel the intensity of the heat coming off of my scales, and the polished marble floor melting with ease between my claws.

"Pyro. I OWN YOU. LISTEN TO ME. YOU LOVE KILLING. YOU ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT." My queen shrieked at me.

"Whether you like it or not, you WILL ABSOLUTELY listen to me at all times." She proceeded to call one of her other minions, who had a small gold earring in his claws. "I had something made for you, Pyro, dear." Queen Scarlet spoke, with a completely fake smile plastered across her face. The larger SkyWing came closer with the gold hoop in hand.

"That is going to melt right off, are you stupid?" I said, trying to avoid the weird SkyWing. I watched as Scarlet became enraged, her face lighting up with pure fury.

"Put that damn earring on, or I'll kill him!" She screeched, lashing her tail. The weird SkyWing came right at me, and somehow got the hoop on my ear. I looked at Scarlet.

"My queen, what do you need?"} I woke up with a bunch of dragons surrounding me. "Where am I? And where's my sister?" I said, still a little hazy. I blink a couple times, and IceWing and a SandWing come into view.

"Pyro, you're okay! Fallenflame was so worried! Are you okay?" The IceWing spoke, and I hissed.

"Who are you, and how do you know my name?!?"

I start to panic, I feel something hit the back of my head.

{"Queen Scarlet, please! Let my son live! I beg of you, please don't kill my son!" I hear my mother. 'Mother... What's going on? Am I going to die?' I sit in silence, with my sister curled up around me. I feel the stone under my feet getting hotter at the minute.

"Fine. On one condition though. He belongs to me, and if he disobeys me, I will not hesitate to kill him." I hear this Queen Scarlet say.

"Okay. You will have to take my daughter too, though. She cannot live without him. Thank you so much." Mother spoke, happiness in her voice.

"Now, I shall take my leave with my two pets. Don't visit, it'll be annoying as I shall be training him." I hear her flap off, and mother comes back into the cave.

"Time to go, Pyro. Fallenflame. You will be moving into the castle, with Queen Scarlet."}

I wake up, to see Fallenflame curled around me, just like in my memory.

"Queen Scarlet... She... She had me under control this whole time... Just because of a stupid earring?" I said, looking at the grey stone floor, where a small hoop was.

"I think it's animus touched, Pyro." Fallenflame spoke.

"She's right. That hoop had an enchantment on it." I turned around, to see that SandWing from before.

"What happened? I remember that surge of energy come out of me, and... WHERE'S MY FIRESCALES?!?" I shrieked, realizing I don't have burning scales across my body.

"That surge of energy you felt before WAS your firescales. Also the Eternal Flame, the animus artifact you needed to save your sister."

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