Ruby's POV

Ruby could not believe what she had saw, she didn't want to believe what she had saw in that damn crate. However, she knew that she had to be sure, she had to make sure that it was not a trick, to prove her father's fate.

She signed and grabbed the lid and lifted it up. Inside was a head, one that was encrusted in an amber like substance that covered every part of the head. The head looked like her father; Former King Eagle. Ruby touched the head and carefully held the head up to her eye. She examined the head in all its minor and major details and grasp as she realised that she was holding the head of her father. She quickly dropped the head with shock and it land with a soft thump on the bottom of the wooden box.

"How did my father dead," Ruby asked with tears in her eyes. Her body was quivering with fear as she realised that the only family figure in her life that had cared for her was actually killed by The Grim. She had thought that he had ran away from the kingdom.

" While, I wasn't involved in that particular hunt, but Amber-Eye was. In fact, if I remember correctly, he was one who killed the former King Eagle," Victory said before saying, " I am truly sorry for your lost, but we didn't know that he was leading that patrol when the killing had began."

Ruby glared at the cowering and chained form of Amber-Eye and spoke with a voice full of rage and sorrow , "What had happened with my father on that fateful day."

" W-well, he followed the song of Amber Caster and when he was close enough to the ambush point, two camo assasins disguised themselves as an icewing and skying we had saw earlier and pretended to fight each other until they reached the cave. You father and his patrol then followed the two and the song into the cave, until they had gotten to the end I met them there and used my scales," Amber-Eye's scales lit up, "to signal to the rest that had took part in the hunt to attack. A camo assassin blew out the torch your father was carrying and everyone attack the skywings and when you father saw what was happening, he ran and I chased after him before pulling on his tail to prevent him from reaching the air at the cave's entrance, there I dragged him back into the cave and snapped his neck w-with my jaws," Amber-Eye finished with fear in his voice.

"I had planned to get rid of the head, but Victory Strike told me not to," Amber-Eye wheezed as he began to catch his breath and pointed at Victory Strike.

Ruby faced Victory Strike to see his sad and guilty face. She knew that she will never forgive the Grim, no wait; Amber-Eye for her father's death but at least she knew that he hadn't ran away, that he would have came back on that fateful day and he would have met her again and maybe, things could have been better. However, she was at least happy to finally know that at least her father's fate and that he had died a quick and painless death.

"Thank you, King Victory Strike," Ruby said, tears fell down her face.

"For what exactly," Victory Strike asked curiously.

"Telling me my father's fate," Ruby said, tears streamed down her face as she sobbed uncontrollably. Ruby felt something soft and warm embrace her and when she opened eyes, she saw that Victory Strike was hugging her.

" I understand how you feel, honestly. My mother was one of the closest dragons that I ever loved and when she died at the talons of that dragon. I just went bloody murder and well, shredded that bitch until she was nothing more than bone," Victory Strike whispered into Ruby's ear as she cried.

"Honestly, I should be thanking you for this, King Victory Strike," Ruby said sincerely.

"Well, there are more surprises for you on the way, Queen Ruby I mean literally," Victory Strike said before walking back to his throne.

"If you want, then you can do what you want with Amber-Eye," Amber-Eye began to shiver and whimper as fears of being torture filled his amber eyes, "However, please don't kill him, afterall Deathbringer would want his head too," Victory Strike said.

"Why would I want to kill Amber-Eye," Deathbringer asked before looking at the box in front of both him and Glory.

"Open the box," suggested Victory Strike, " All the answers are in the box."

Ruby watched as Deathbringer began to open the box, everyone knew that a head or two was in each of those dreaded boxes and sure enough, Deathbringer screamed when he saw what was in the box.