Quickclaws glided to a weak landing, his sore body crashing into the stone. A dark-scaled dragon landed next to him and after Quickclaws wiped the blood out of his eyes he looked up to see Speedscar. His mentor helped him up, Quickclaws making an effort to stand. Speedscar checked him for any major injuries and seemed relieved that he was okay. The dark-scaled dragon lifted his snout to look around the bay. The ice sheet that had been freezing the estuary was broken in places where bodies had fallen through. The ice was stained with spatters of blood. A few bodies littered the cliffs, red and gray alike. Quickclaws' heart skipped a beat when he noticed Lightningtail flying towards him over the battlefield. "We won't survive another attack," Speedscar murmured. Quickclaws looked up in surprise to meet his mentor's worried gaze but Speedscar watched the departing SkyWings with a frown. . . . SwiftScales created and owned by OhDearCharlie and ThunderclanWarrior12. Artwork created and owned by ThunderclanWarrior12. Wings of Fire © Tui. T. Sutherland Guardians of Ga'Hoole © Katheryn Lasky Term 'thunder of dragons' introduced by Hello Future Me (YouTube).

Rainwind hated lying. Probably because it stemmed deep into her dragonethood. Something she learned and saw as a repeating pattern was that dragons lied all the time. From gems like: "I'm fine," to: "Everything's going to be alright," Rainwind learned at a young age that most dragons were always pretending. Always. Sometimes about how good they were at hunting or one particular flight maneuver or even as far as how they were feeling... They were pretending to others, which often meant that they were lying to themselves. Nothing good became of a liar. Look at what happened to Swansong. . . . SwiftScales created and owned by OhDearCharlie and ThunderclanWarrior12. Artwork created and owned by ThunderclanWarrior12. Wings of Fire © Tui. T. Sutherland Guardians of Ga'Hoole © Katheryn Lasky Term 'thunder of dragons' introduced by Hello Future Me (YouTube).

Lightningtail looked up. The herring had parted around her, and she could clearly see the way out of the water. As she was swimming up slowly, something blocked the sunlight above her. Lightningtail almost choked on seawater. There was a dragon unlike any she had ever seen before her. . . . SwiftScales created and owned by OhDearCharlie and ThunderclanWarrior12. Artwork created and owned by ThunderclanWarrior12. Wings of Fire © Tui. T. Sutherland Guardians of Ga'Hoole © Katheryn Lasky Term 'thunder of dragons' introduced by Hello Future Me (YouTube).

It was his sister, Lightningtail. She was shaking his shoulder. He also heard roaring in the background, which alarmed him. "Thunderclap! Hurry! Something's happening!" He sprang out of the nest as if it were on fire. One of the echoes sounded eerily familiar; Thunderclap knew the dragon that was growling and hissing in pain. "Do you know who it is?" he asked, running shoulder-to-shoulder with his sister. "No, but it sounds like..." Lightningtail said as they drew near the crowd. She flapped her wings in the cramped space and peered over the heads. "It is! It's Brisktail! Someone is trying to kill him!" . . . SwiftScales created and owned by OhDearCharlie and ThunderclanWarrior12. Artwork created and owned by ThunderclanWarrior12. Wings of Fire © Tui. T. Sutherland Guardians of Ga'Hoole © Katheryn Lasky Term 'thunder of dragons' introduced by Hello Future Me (YouTube).

Brisktail spun around. His eyes scanned the leafless bushes behind him and he lifted his snout to scent the air. Dragonscent, he thought, catching the smell as the wind blew it to him. Even his keen eyes couldn't pick up the creature until it moved. A dragon emerged from the bushes. It was white with brown markings crisscrossing its scales. A row of long pearly quills ran from its head to its tail, and the dragon ducked its head so as to not catch its pronged horns on the bramble thorns. What's more, was that it barely stood a head taller than a scavenger. "H-hello," Brisktail murmured to the stranger. . . . SwiftScales created and owned by OhDearCharlie and ThunderclanWarrior12. Artwork created and owned by ThunderclanWarrior12. Wings of Fire © Tui. T. Sutherland Guardians of Ga'Hoole © Katheryn Lasky Term 'thunder of dragons' introduced by Hello Future Me (YouTube).