Wings of Fire Mixed Blood (Book 1)

Chapter 7

I wake up the next day, and see my new friends sleeping. I begin to realize, that I now have actual friends and ones who are all unique in different ways. I stand up to stretch my warm claws and yawn, when I see Oakley stand as he mimicked my motions. "Good morning Oak, have a pleasant sleep with good dreams?" He shook his head up and down to answer. I am impressed at how well Mire taught him. About an hour later, everyone had woken up, and I am no returning from the ocean with breakfast.

"Hey there Geyser, have you been up for long?" Aurora asked. I replied, "About an hour or so. It's fine though, I got us breakfast". Aurora and Wildflower laughed while Andrena made a face full of disgust. Mire and I stand in confusion as we receive mixed signals from the trio. Andrena finally spoke, "Well I know you worked hard to catch us some fish, but dragons on Pantala, don't eat meat". I raise my brow in interest as Aurora walks over to a flower bush, and begins to extract necter from it. Andrena an Wildflower do the same thing at different bushes. "Well that leaves all this fish to me, you and Oakley." Mire said in delight.

After breakfast, we follow Mire into the middy kingdom. As our claws squish through the marshes-or in Andrena's case, play through the marshes-Mire talks about the history of the Mudwings. About two hours in, we reach her grandmother's hut. "Gran-Gran! It's Mire, I brought some friends with me!" Mire yelled through the doorway. A sympathy of crashing and banging sounds, followed by yelling rang through the seemingly small hut as the elder came out. The Mudwing with pecan brown scales the welcomed, "Sorry about all that ruckus, I have so many scavengers, I can't keep track of them. Mire, how is my favorite grand hatchling"? Mire blushed as she was hugged and shrouded in her guardian's wings. "Well now, who are your friends, I am Everglade." Mire's grandmother introduced. We all made our introductions and entered the hut.

We spent sometime listening to the stories that Everglade had to share of legends, myths and tales of the island. As the sun began to set, Wildflower asked, "What can you tell us about the Deadly Prophecy or tales related to it"? Everglade placed a talon on her chin as to think of every prophecy she had heard. She the walks to a stack of scrolls and pushes them all off of the rack, she pulls on a branch that the hut was built around, and the floor under it becomes a stairwell. Everglade motioned to follow her as she descended. We all come into a large underground cave with clay walls, candles, shelves of scrolls and a stand containing a single book. Everglade opened the book as Mire asked, "Gran, since when did you have this, scratch that, why do you have this?" Everglade stuck up on claw for silence.

"When I was a dragonet, I and my mother were gathering lizards in the swamp. I wandered off and soon I stumbled upon an injured Nightwing. I tried to help, but all she said, was to hide this book from all except those part of the future. She died and sank there, so I obey her final wish. This book, reveals all upcoming prophecies." Everglade said as the book flipped to a page instantly. Words appeared on the page, the same words that Mire and I spoke together. Andrena jumped, "Hey those are the words we said before we left the island"! I then asked, "When did you say this?" She answered, "The day before we met you".

"Then that means you three are apart of this story as these two are." Everglade spoke. The book then revealed the Icewing Kingdom, "And it seems that there is one more to be added to your journey." Everglade adds. All of us return above ground and soon leave the hut. I can't help but wonder, like any dragon of prophecy, what the future holds in-store for us. Wildflower interrupted my thoughts, "Well I don't know about you, but I ain't sticking around to get myself killed". At this moment, Andrena did something I never expected her to do. SMACK! "Now listen here you leafy friend of mine, you are always talking about action and how we need to take it, and now you don't want to, well suck it up buttercup cause you're going on this adventure!" All of us stood in silence as the usually the fun loving dragonet, yelled at her friend, then returned to her normal self in an instant.

Aurora then asks, "So what do we do. How do we start this new adventure"? We stand in silence for a few moments, when Oakley comes from the hut, dragging a scroll. Mire picks up what the scavenger brought, and opened it. Mire read the scroll, "Whoever reads this scroll, must be one to aid in changing fate. This scroll will assist in fogs of mystery, for it shows what is thought to be unknown history. Ask it a question and take a look, to see what path our ancestors took." The words disappeared and now Mire held a blank scroll. Aurora then spoke, "Wow dragons here must love to rhyme. So what does it mean?" Mire answered, "It means that it can tell us unknown events in history"!

I then thought that Oakley had brought us an Animus touched scroll, and Everglade was never able to open it. How he knew it could help I will never know, but he is quite the smart scavenger. "Wow you got all that from a bunch of mumbo jumbo?" Andrena's cheery voice rang into my thoughts. I snap back into reality and add, "Well first things first, we need to find the Icewing that is suppose to help us. After that, we will figure out what we need to do next".We ascended into the sky with high hopes and fear of what will become of us in the future.

~In a rundown cave, hidden under the sanctum of the old night wing kingdom...~

"Yes. The fools have begun. You know not what you are doing, and soon you will help release doom upon this land. HA HA HA HA HA HA"!