Chapter 12
Moon's POV
Moon couldn't believe what had happened. A scavenger-size dragon just captured them like it was nothing and said something about meeting his king! Since, when was a king an actual power on the throne. It certainly was with Darkstalker. Moon feared the worst, she imaged a monster with three heads that would end the very world they live on if mad enough from the way, this Alvin character talked about his king. Plus, Moon couldn't read his mind and he wasn't wearing skyfire. It was very puzzling day.
Then, a blue door materialised out of thin air and a giant of a dragon with a pair of straight horns and three tails that end with a stinger each was towering over both her and Qibli. Its bluish-green eyes stared into Moon's soul as she felt the urge to run and run as far away as possible. She felt something slither over her grave when she saw the dragon.
Moon quickly opened her wings, but stopped when she heard a deep hoarse and surprising gentle voice vibrated through her mind.
"Leave and I will hunt you down and kill you," said the voice in a cool, causal air.
"Who are you," Moon asked as she noticed how the dragon in front of her eyed her carefully. The dragon turned his head to Alvin and a seawing with many jewels and a crown walked through the door, followed by Queen Glory and Queen Thorn. Why is this dragon with the queens of sea, sand and rain? Then, it hit her like a brick to the face, that is the king that Alvin talked about.
"How are you today, my majesty," Alvin said with a sincerity that moons had never heard of and bowed deeply at the presence of the dragon.
"You should know little one," the voice said.
"I am fine today, Alvin. However, how are you and what do you know about the time of arrival and location that the seawings landed at," the king said politely before facing Qibli and Moon with a look of distaste and contentment.
"I am fine, my king. The seawings had landed half an hour before and only had reach danger twelve minutes ago. They had swam through the blood river and were picked up and brought to the leafwing palace. Then, they were brought to the prisons," Alvin finished.
"Moon, what are you doing on this beach," Glory asked suspiciously.
"Yeah, care to explain," the king said.
"Qibli, why are you here and not in school," Thorn asked curiously.
"W-well, we were just flying along the coast when we saw this hut here. We meet Jeboa the Sandwing and a dragon by the name of Luna," Moon lied nervously while pointing to the two dragons in question.
Queen Glory turned her head and saw Luna she grasped and walked up to Luna, studying her in great detail. Luna squirmed under the queen's eyes.
"What are you," Queen Glory asked curiously.
Before Luna could respond, the strange dragon dragon interrupted Luna with a snarl, a growl and with lightning speed reached Moon and held her by her throat, ready to rip her neck open.
"No one lies to me," the dragon bellowed menacingly and started to tighten his grip on Moon, " you better tell the truth or else I, King Victory Strike of the Grim will have to free your little head from your body."
"Victory Strike, I don't-," Queen Glory started but was interrupted by Victory Strike.
"No, one of your subjects is keeping a great secret and is lying to you, don't you see," Victory Strike said.
Moon kicked the king with her hind legs as she fought to get free from his hold. The king hissed and plunged one of his stingers into Moon's temple. Moon felt extremely pain and agony wash through her form. It was a burning sensation that felt like a few thousand somethings were poking and stabbing over and over again.
A disembodied scream left Moon's body as she collapsed onto the sands in pain, writhing and squirming as it took affect.
"You better answer my questions without lying or else something much worse will fall upon you," The king of the Grim said as Qibli, Queen Thorn, Deathbringer and Queen Glory came and surrounded her.
"Moon, are you alright," Qibli asked nearly crying as he tried to comfort me. He then turned to the King of the Grim, " Why did you do this to Moonwatcher."
"Simple, she lied to me and I want to know the answers," Victory Strike said, " Question number 1: You have the powers of mindreading and fate-teller."
"Yes," Moon gasped as another wave of pain washed over her. She didn't know why she was telling the truth but she saw the faces of everyone except, The Grim King, Jeboa, Qibli and Alvin gasp in surprise as they began to consider whether or not it was true.
"I ensure you that it is true , after all mindreadering nightwings have sliver tear-shaped scales behind their eyes," The King informed before continuing with his questions," question number two: why are you here."
"I will answer the questions, just please let Moon be free of this torture," Qibli pleaded to the King, " Moon saw a vision that lead us here in the first place."
"Fine," was all the king said before opening a bottle of a strange green liquid, where he dripped his tail in. Then, he remove his tail from the bottle and quickly stabbed Moon.
The pain began to quickly fade away as Qibli screeched and went to see if Moon was okay.
"Are you okay, Moon," Qibli asked concerned.
"Yes, I am fine," Moon said uneasily.
Qibli helped her up to her feet and Victory Strike began to question Qibli once Moon was properly standing.
"What was in Moon's vision," Victory Strike asked.
" From what Moon described, the first one was about that hut," Qibli said while pointing to Jeboa's hut, "the second one was about some dragons with leaf-shaped wings coming to Pyrrhia."
"Just great, poisonwings in Pyrrhia. What next, HiveWings in Ragnorak," Victory Strike said sarcastically, " When did Tsunami and Turtle leave for Pantala and at which direction?"
"They left two days ago and went straight west of our location," Qibli said honestly.
Moon had no idea why Qibli would be sharing this information with the dragon. Until, she saw three scratches on his right arm that seemed to ooze a substance that looked similar to the substance that had oozed from her head after that dragon had stung her. P
"Why can't Turtle use his animus powers to save himself and his sister," Victory Strike asked breaking Moon's train of thought.
"Well, that is because of me," Qibli said uneasy.
"And why is that," Victory Strike asked suspiciously with an all-knowing look in his eyes.
"T-that is because I wrote down a spell for both Turtle and Anemone to use which kinda broke their animus magic," Qibli finally said.
The dragon began to laugh, " You can't break animus magic, just hamper and restraint its power! Also, you are the reason for why two member of the seawing royals are in danger."
"What, how are they endangered," Qibli asked shocked.
No point of veiw
"Oh, I don't know maybe that is because THEY DISAGREE WITH A WAR HUNGER QUEEN THAT WANTS A FIGHT THAT SHE CAN'T WIN AND IMPRISONED THEM IN HER DUNGEON," Victory Strike bellowed at the top of his lungs.
"And who is this queen," Queen Glory asked a bit fearful of the dragon's rage.
"Queen Belladonna ," Victory Strike said, " her tribe was nearly wiped out by the main and the only other queen of Pantala: Wasp. Basically, the Leafwings were given a deal for safety and also because the HiveWings, which is Wasp's tribe, had lied about Clearsight telling the tribes of Pantala to unite. The leafwings didn't believe it and they went to war. The silkwings, which is Luna tribe was already apart of the HiveWings and the HiveWings had won the war. They then wiped out all the trees, except the ones in the Poison Jungle, because that is where the Grim mainly live. We wiped out every group of hive and silkwings that had wanted to destroy the jungle and Wasp simply stopped. She then had the destroyed trees be turned into hives for her subjects to live in. However, she doesn't trust her subjects and poisoned many of them with a plant poison from the plant: The Vampiric Soulreaper(Aka the Xerophic). That plant has the ability to control a dragon if it is mix with hivewing venom and it only works on hivewings. She then started to kidnap any silkwings that produce flamesilk, which is a type of silk that can burn as hot as forge. Luna is a flamesilk which is why she is here. The poisonwings are leafwings who had wanted revenge so they had started a gorilla war with the hivewings. At first, they came to me asking for help with the war, but I declined their offer as there was nothing for us and I would be forcing my own dragons to risk their lives with a pointless war in our eyes," Victory Strike finally said, nearly grasping for breath.
"So, my children are being kept in a dungeon in the home of a war hungry group and how do you know this," Coral asked curiously.
Victory Strike signed as he took out a rectangular, metallic object with a few buttons on it. He pushed a small red button and Tsunami's voice was emitted by the object.
"Where are we, Pepper," Tsunami asked.
"We are at the entrance to the base," Pepper said.
Victory Strike facetaloned himself and press a button with sped up the recording until he stopped.
"Who and what are you two," a strange voice said.
"These dragons are Tsunami and Turtle, Belladonna . They say that they are from the place where Clearsight came from," Pepper said.
"Really," said the voice.
"Yes, Queen.," Turtle started.
"Queen Belladonna ," Maple Leaf said.
"Queen Belladonna we had came from Pyrrhia in order to find this land," Turtle said.
"Why,"Belladonna asked curiously.
"Because a silkwing needed help to find her way back," Turtle said.
"Interesting, but what tribe of you and do you have a queen," Belladonna asked.
"We are Seawings and our mother is actually the Queen of the Seawings," Tsunami said pridefully.
"Really royalty , do you think that she will help us fight a war," Belladonna asked.
"No, we are tried after 20 years of war and will not fight," Tsunami said.
"Well, too bad, maybe your mother will help if we take you for ransom," Belladonna said, " Guards lock them in most safest and secure prison."
"No wait-"Tsunami started and a whisking sound and the sound of collapsing dragons. Static suddenly erupted from the object and Victory Strike turned it off.
"That is why we need to rescue them from Qibli's massive screw-up," Victory Strike said while glaring at Qibli, " Also, Alvin remove Moon's abilities."
Moon's POV
"With pleasure, Sir," Alvin said happily.
"What you can't take my powers," Moon said.
"Well, you kept such an important thing from your queen and you have shown us how unqualified you are to have them," The dragon said casually.
Alvin quickly leaped on top of Moon and his momentum brought her down. Moon felt the all too familiar feeling of Alvin's bite.
Moon then felt a sharp pain in her head and she couldn't read Queen Glory, Queen Thorn and Queen Coral's minds. Darkness began to envelope her and all she saw was black.
"Moon!"
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