The Last Hope

The Only Hope takes place 1000 years after the Dragonet Prophecy

The Only Hope

By Lisa Circo

Prologue:

A cloudy day, another boring day, a strange, dangerous day. Hidden in the Rainforest Kingdom, home to the RainWings, NightWings, and LeafWings, were a few dragons. All the dragons are part of a secret rebellion to overthrow the RainWing Queen, who ruled over the RainWings, NightWings, and LeafWings. Hope shuffled uncomfortably and looked at the other dragons, mostly consisting of NightWings, LeafWings, and a few hybrids. Hope could hear others talking, and she knew that she was important to the RainWings, NightWings, and LeafWings because she is a hybrid and heir to the throne. What do they want from me? Hope thought, why did they take me here? Inside the room she was in, it looked like it was underground because there was a lot of dirt and stone. Hope looked at her talons, and they were chained. Hope looked around the room, but suddenly a group of dragons came up to her, took off the chains and pushed her into a cell, and put different chains back on. Am I now a prisoner? Hope thought, if so, why did they take me. What do they want from me?

Then Hope started hearing voices, "Now we need to use this dragon as our advantage," said a voice of a LeafWing, NightWing hybrid. He was mostly black, but there were green scales peeking through. He had a leaf-like tail, and his voice was very calm. Hope was confused why there were dragons from her kingdom that were in the room. They probably do not like my mom, and they want to overthrow her, Hope guessed.

"We should just kill her. What if she escapes. She used to be my friend, but I betrayed her. I know her well and there are a lot of chances that she will escape. She has never told me about the palace yet but now what should we do?" said a different voice from a dragon who was a NightWing. She was a very dark purple, but she also had black scales. Hope thought, wait, I think I recognize this dragon, she is my friend, Indigo. Why are you doing this, Indigo? Indigo gave Hope a weird look, but she then stared at her talons, then she looked at the LeafWing NightWing hybrid, who also looked familiar to Hope. I recognize the hybrid, but I do not remember who he is. I believe that he was a trusted guard with the Queen, but he has betrayed her. I do not know what to do.

"No, she cannot escape, and we need her alive for now so she can tell us how to get to the queen," said the LeafWing, NightWing hybrid. What can I do? Am I stuck here? Hope glanced at her chained talons, and started to shake them, then she winced. The chains are on really tight, tight, so I cannot escape from them. Hope let out a small, frustrated growl. Then the other dragons continued to talk while there was a faint sound of talonsteps heading their way.

"smart, I wish I thought of that earlier," replied Indigo.

"that's because you have a moss brain," said the hybrid.

"HEY! YOU ARE A MOSS BRAIN TOO!"

The Hope heard a third voice. He was a LeafWing, but he looked strange, the LeafWing had some golden scales with the green scales, and his voice seemed like he could command everyone by saying one word. The LeafWing said, " Hey guys settle down now, let us get the information out of her now, and then we can kill her." Kill me? They WILL NOT kill me. I will not let that happen. I have to stay alive. I have to be careful with what I say. I will stay alive for him. I hope he is there looking for me. I hope…

"Alright, General," both voices said in unison, cutting off Hope's thoughts. Their wings dropped, and they gave their full attention to the general. The hybrid was about to say something, but the general stood up straighter, and he called out for more dragons, and then they started to come. The other two dragons looked at each other and then at the ground, waiting for more instructions given by their general.

Hope heard talonsteps coming her way. Even though she was a RainWing, NightWing hybrid, she tried to camouflage all the scales that she can hide. Hope could breathe fire and camouflage most scales, and she has very weak venom. Hope heard the talonsteps getting closer. She heard some voices getting louder. Hope stayed camouflaged in the shadows hoping that she can stall the information, so she does not have to say much. She does not want to say anything that will hurt herself and her tribe. Hope also wanted to be with her friends and family instead of being kidnapped and trapped in a dark, cold prison cell. Hope wanted to lay in the sun, but she knew she could not. All that Hope could do was to not say much and hope to be saved soon. I hope, Hope thought, that I will be rescued soon, I will not say anything to betray my tribes. So, all I must do is survive until then.

Part 1 - The Beginning

Chapter 1

Starleaf woke up from the sound of the angry Queen, he yawned. He was in his little leaf hut in the Rainforest Kingdom. His leaf hut was nothing special, it just had a moss bed and a small desk that could hold supplies. He stretched by stretching out his wings and he walked over to a small cup of water and splashed it onto his face so he will wake up. He looked out of his leaf hut and he saw other dragons waking up because the Queen woke them up. The other dragons peeked out the entrance of their leaf huts and they had to go to the village. The other dragons were mainly LeafWings, and there were some LeafWing NightWing hybrids and a few LeafWing RainWing hybrids. The dragons that are part LeafWing can chose to live in the LeafWing village, if you are a LeafWing something hybrid then you have the choice to live in the village of the tribes that you are. Starleaf thought it was a good rule, but he usually lived in the LeafWings village. If two dragons from different villages have eggs, then they can both live in the same village.

He stretched his leaf-like wings and glided to the LeafWing village. The LeafWing village was in the Rainforest Kingdom and the Queen, Queen Berry ruled over the RainWings, NightWings, and the LeafWings. The LeafWings lived in the LeafWing village. The NightWings lived in the NightWing village. The RainWings lived in the RainWing village. The LeafWing village is usually very colorful and very plant-like because some LeafWings  have powers over plants (also called PoisonWings and the LeafWings that cannot control plants are called SapWings) used their powers to make the village beautiful. The village has a lot of flowers and the leaf huts have their own unique flower on it so show who lives there. Starleaf had been to the other villages before the Queen lost her daughter. Everyone said that Starleaf was categorized as a LeafWing even though he was part NightWing and RainWing. Starleaf's mom was a RainWing, NightWing hybrid named Blackberry and Starleaf's dad was a PoisonWing, or also known as a LeafWing with control over plants and his name was Venus Fly. Starleaf saw the Queen still in panic and she screamed at Starleaf, "FIND HER, THAT IS EVERYONE'S JOB, FIND HER!!!"

Starleaf quickly panicked and flew to the muddy ground. Down on the ground is very brown and black because not a lot of sunlight reaches there. The trees look dark and scary like if it is a haunted forest. Starleaf used his weak leafspeak and sensed that no one was nearby. Starleaf could remember the horrible day of how it all started.

A few days ago, it was a beautiful, nice, sunny day, and then it turned out to be everyone's worst nightmare. Starleaf woke up to the sound of the crying and screaming queen. Queen Berry was a powerful queen, she ruled over the RainWings, NightWings, and some LeafWings (only the LeafWings that live in the rainforest kingdom must obey Queen Berry). Queen Berry is a RainWing and is usually looks very proud looking purple. Berry has a daughter that she loves very much. Her daughter is a NightWing, RainWing hybrid. Starleaf is good friends with Berry's daughter. The Queen asked for tribe meetings and she told everyone that her daughter was missing and something bad happened to her. She made everyone search for her but there was no luck in finding her. She was getting more and more worried every day.

Now she is tired from screaming and stressing out a lot. Starleaf's leaf-like tail swished the ground. He used his leafspeak again to see if it sensed Hope nearby. A tree sounded confused and said "careful, cautious," over and over again. Starleaf knew that he could not find Hope, but he also knew that he should stay on the ground to stay hidden from the mad Queen until it is suntime. Suntime is in the middle of the day and RainWings and LeafWings usually like to sleep while basking in the sun. Starleaf thought, even though Hope is my friend, my leafspeak cannot seem to find any traces but the trees sound confused. I hope we will soon find her, it will help the Queen and myself. Even though I tried a lot I feel like I cannot find her. Starleaf remembered that he searched like crazy to find Hope, but he never found her. I will try to find her. Starleaf soon noticed that it was suntime, so he flew to the village. He found a pool of water and soaked his muddy talons into the water until the mud came off. He found a little platform and laid out his wings in the sun. The platform was high up in the treetops. LeafWings can gain energy like a plant, from laying in the sun. RainWings when they do suntime, they scale look better, and they feel happier, and are smarter. Starleaf closed his eyes and fell asleep, but then a dream, a memory from the past came through his mind.

Starleaf a few years ago ran from his leaf hut at night and met Hope in their hidden spot, a very beautiful spot. It was filled with colorful flowers and plants. Only Hope and Starleaf could go through the leaf barrier because Starleaf talked to the plants to only allow himself and Hope inside. Hope was a NightWing RainWing hybrid. She could breathe fire, she could shoot very weak venom from her fangs and she can camouflage most scales. Hope's mom is Queen Berry, and her dad is King Faith. Hope's scales are usually rainbow except for the scales she cannot camouflage. Starleaf always thought that Hope's rainbow scales look pretty. Starleaf remembered another NightWing RainWing hybrid that was famous in the past. Starleaf read about the hybrid in the scrolls and his name was Peacemaker. The scroll said that he used to be Darkstalker but then a RainWing named Kinkajou turned him into a dragonet. Once Peacemaker died someone named Moonwatcher created the scroll about what happened. There was a picture of Peacemaker in the scroll and he had rainbow scales and the scales that could not change color were black. Starleaf met Hope inside the barrier and they started playing together. "Let us play hide and seek but out of the small barrier, and do not use your leafspeak to find me," said Hope.

Starleaf nodded and said excitedly, "I will count first."

Then Starleaf started counting, 20, 19, 18, 17...

Hope camouflaged most of her scales and found a place to hide.

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ok I am going to look for you," said Starleaf. Starleaf first checked the ground, he kept swishing his tail hoping to hit something. After a while of searching the ground and when he felt nothing different, he started looking at the trees. He then looked at the trees and he saw a hole in one of the trees. He went to the hole and peeked inside. It was HUGE. He had to drift down to reach the bottom and he landed.

Then he heard Hope's voice, "I am not in there Starleaf, get out of there,"

Starleaf saw Hope staring at him. "what was down there," Hope whispered.

"I don't know but it looked like a tunnel," Starleaf responded.

Then Hope said, "let us go, the sun is starting to rise"

"ok then let us head back," said Starleaf while brushing Hope's wing.

Then the dream ended and Starleaf woke up. He thought about the dream he had. He figured out that it was a memory from the past and it was helpful to him. He thought hard about the weird hole in the tree and remembered what it looked like and where it was. He remembered it was nearby the barrier where he and Hope sometimes played there. The hole Starleaf thought in panic, I should check the hole in the tree.

Chapter 2

As Starleaf woke up, he felt energized and stressed. He had to look for the hole in the tree. Starleaf jumped off his platform and glided to the muddy ground. He used his leafspeak to find the location of the tree, but the trees and plants were saying the same thing. "Be wary, be careful, be cautious". Starleaf thought that someone had been talking to them, so they will not tell other leafspeakers what happened. Smart yet annoying... but I can still find the tree hole! Starleaf thought. Starleaf went close to the barrier around where he and Hope used to play together sometimes. He flew around the dome and looked at the vegetation. He then used his leafspeak to find the hurt tree. Out of nowhere, he heard a tree moan in pain. Starleaf went to investigate the tree and there he saw a hole. though it looked smaller than he remembered. Starleaf stuck his head in the hole and saw a long tunnel down. He used his claws and dug around the dying bark as the tree yelled in pain. After digging a big enough hole for himself, he put some of his power into the tree and healed it. The hole stayed the same, but the tree felt healthier.

Starleaf hesitated and then went inside. It was very dark as he slowly glided down the tunnel. When his talons reached the bottom, he felt around in the darkness, only to end up finding another pathway. He followed the trail and saw a distant light. Is this where Hope is?! Starleaf wondered anxiously. Starleaf camouflaged as many scales a possible as he neared the light. He could see that the tunnel was made of limestone. He walked closer to the light and abruptly came into view of multiple rivers of lava. As Starleaf continued along the lava river closest to him, he looked up to suddenly see a gigantic skeleton of a dragon. He jumped back in alarm when he saw the bones and rotten flesh. The skeleton was in a position in which it looked like it was about to slash someone's throat open. Starleaf circled the strange skeleton in shock before he continued walking through what seems like an endless tunnel.

His ears perked as he began to hear murmuring voices. "I am using the obsidian mirror right now, who do you want to use it on?" someone spoke aloud.

"Let us try the princess!" another dragon exclaimed. Starleaf walked a little closer to the voices but he stayed hidden and he did not see them.

"alright, ..." Said a third voice while making the hissing noise that was produced when breathing fire. The dragon said the name of the princess, but it was so mute that Starleaf couldn't hear it.

"Hey!" the first dragon snapped.

"Um hi," said a familiar voice.

"Tell us everything," he spoke sternly.

"What??" the princess said, clearly confused.

"TELL US NOW OR WE WILL TORTURE IT OUT OF YOU!"

"um..."

"She camouflaged. We have to put a neckband on her so we can see her." Starleaf soon heard rustling noises and a small yelp. Starleaf was focusing on the familiar voice that he knew he had heard before. Suddenly it popped into his mind. HOPE it is you, they are spying on YOU! Starleaf thought in panic. WHAT DO I DO NOWWWWW?!

"ok now. TELL US EVERYTHING!" a fourth dragon yelled.

Even though it was barely audible, Hope whispered, "I hope you're out there trying to find me Starleaf, I hope you are coming..." Starleaf knew that she said something else after that, but he didn't hear the rest of Hope's plea.

"Fine let's knock her out for now."

A new dragon spoke and said, "Alright sir."

Then voices from the room in front of him started talking again. "She is in trouble, we should help."

"Yeah Fly, we should, but should we tell Berry?" A voice said

"Not yet, let us see if we can save her first, Moss," said Fly

"What was that name that she whispered? Star... Starmoss? Starbush? Star-"

A sudden rush of courage filled within Starleaf and urged him to do something he has never done before. He walked into the room of strangers and uncamouflaged. He looked at the other dragons and said, "It's Starleaf."

There were about ten of them and they were all staring at him. It seemed like most were part NightWing because some were hiding in the shadows. Starleaf saw no RainWings but he saw a few hybrids of other tribes that he has not seen before. Starleaf knew a lot about hybrids and there were a lot in the room, hybrids were very powerful because they have multiple powers from other tribes. Starleaf knew he was a tribrid, he was three tribes, he was part, NightWing, RainWing, and LeafWing (PoisonWing). Starleaf's powers is breathing fire, camouflaging most scales, a have unusual control over plants. Since Starleaf was a tribrid he was powerful because he had multiple powers, but the powers are weaker than hybrids and regular tribes because not all of the strong power that the regular tribe has is in Starleaf. There are some chances that hybrids and tribrid cannot get any powers. For example, Starleaf remembered reading about a dragonet of destiny named Sunny. Sunny was a hybrid of a NightWing and a SandWing but she looked like a green-eyed very yellow, SandWing. She also did not have a poisonous barb at the end of her tail. The only power she had was the ability to breathe fire. Starleaf knew that other dragons could be like Sunny where they lose powers instead of being stronger and gaining powers. Starleaf has mostly black scales, he has some green scales peeking through the black scales. Starleaf usually hides that he is part RainWing because he does not want to draw attention to himself because he us a tribrid. Starleaf knew that if he ever wanted to become popular, he could reveal that he is a tribrid but Starleaf rather have a few friends then the entire tribe. He also knew that Queen Berry knew that he was a tribrid and Berry wants strong tribrid, when they are older, to guard Berry because they look scarier and are stronger. Starleaf hoped that Hope would make sure that he would not be a guard, Starleaf just wanted to be Starleaf. One used his wings to cover up the obsidian mirror while the others gave Starleaf that look people give when they want to kill someone. Starleaf tried to play it cool but he could feel his talons shaking. Starleaf tried to put on a brave face but it made him look even more scared. If... If they do not kill me then I can find Hope Starleaf thought fiercely. This might have just been the worst decision in my life, but I have to hope. I have to hope that they will not kill me. I have to hope for Hope. . .  I have to hope that I can find Hope.

Chapter 3

Starleaf scanned the room, there were about ten dragons, but most were hybrids. Starleaf saw what looked like a SeaWing, NightWing hybrid. He also saw what looked to be a SkyWing, HiveWing, and NightWing tribrid. Starleaf also saw a HiveWing, SilkWing hybrid, a SeaWing, MudWing hybrid, and a IceWing, SandWing. Starleaf stared at the biggest dragon in the room. He looked like a NightWing HiveWing hybrid, he had four wings and scales of a NightWing. The dragon had a stinger on the end of his tail. The big dragon took a step closer to Starleaf and he flickered his tail at nearby dragons. Suddenly a small group of dragons tackled Starleaf and pinned him down. Starleaf tried to struggle but the other dragons were too heavy.

Then the big dragon took in a big breath and said, "your Starleaf?"

Starleaf did not respond. He struggled from the dragons that are sitting on him, but nothing happened. One dragon on Starleaf laughed at him, "don't try to escape," the dragon whispered, "just answer the question and stay on his good side, if not he will torture the information out of you and then he will kill you if you won't be helpful to him because no one knows about our secret island and you are the first dragon that has found it."

"ANSWER! Are you Starleaf," the big dragon yelled.

Starleaf hesitated and said, "yes I am Starleaf, who are you"

The big dragon ignored Starleaf's question, then he snorted and then asked, "what are you doing here, how did you find us?"

Then Starleaf did not answer.

"Answer or we will kill you," the IceWing, SandWing hybrid asked, "it is either you answer our questions, or we will kill you. It is simple as that"

Then Starleaf took in a big breath and said, "I am looking for my friend Hope. I remembered about this tree hole I found a while ago, and I um went to the tree hole and I thought that um Hope was in it."

“why should WE trust YOU,” the NightWing HiveWing hybrid yelled.

“Starleaf looks like a tribrid, he is part NightWing because he has black scales, part RainWing because he camouflaged to go in here and he is part LeafWing because he has a leaf-like tail. I believe this is Starleaf,” said a different dragon who was on Starleaf. The dragon was a LeafWing MudWing who looked familiar. I think I recognize this dragon, but then the queen yelled at him and kicked him out of the kingdom. Did this happen to all the dragons that are in the room? I think that is how he recognizes me.

Starleaf nodded his head and he staired at the NightWing HiveWing. Starleaf thought he was the leader of the group because he commanded everyone to attack Starleaf.

“I promise that I-I am Starleaf,” Starleaf’s voice cracked with fear.

"So, you are Starleaf, well my name is Moonbuzz, I am the leader of this group, we call this group the Problem Solvers"

Then Starleaf said, "Are you guys trying to find Hope too?"

Moonbuzz responded by saying, "Yes we are trying to find her, we are all hybrids, and we don't belong in the tribes because the Queen doesn't accept some hybrids in her kingdom. So, we formed a group to help others and maybe we will be rewarded to live in a kingdom instead of this lava island. We are hoping to find Hope and give her back to Berry, then Berry will allow us in her kingdom, so we don't have to live in this lava prison." Moonbuzz flickered his tail again and the dragons on Starleaf came off him. The dragon who whispered to Starleaf to stay on Moonbuzz's good side winked at Starleaf and smiled. Then Moonbuzz said, "We are sorry we attacked you, we at first thought you were kidding that you are Starleaf, I hope you will forgive us. Do you have any questions that you want to ask us?"

"It's ok," said Starleaf while standing up and adjusting his wings. "So, um... you guys have the obsidian mirror, how?"

Then Moonbuzz replied while pointing at the mirror, "yeah one of us, I forgot who, took it from one of the queens and decided to use it to find others, we have been using it on Hope but so far we didn't find any useful information, we don't know where she is located yet but that is the information that we are trying to find and get."

Then a HiveWing, SilkWing hybrid raised her hand and said, "General Moonbuzz I got it from Queen Hornet. I took it as revenge from her banishing me from her kingdom. She didn't want any SilkWing, HiveWings in her kingdom because SilkWings are supposed to be servants for HiveWings and Hornet doesn't want any HiveWings to get attached to any SilkWings because SilkWings are known as the 'lower class' of the hives."

"ok thanks Fairyfly," Moonbuzz said. "we will help you find your friend Hope, once we figure out more information, we will save her. We will search everywhere and use the obsidian mirror to spy on her and find useful information, what do you say do you want to work together?"

Starleaf first thought about the choice because the small choice can change nearly everything. Starleaf thought, the pros of being with him is we can work together, and it mainly consists of hybrids, so we are powerful, it is also nice to help others. We will also be able to save Hope and we will help each other if someone gets caught. The cons are, should I trust –

Moonbuzz interrupted his thought, "its ok take your time, I understand that you want to think about this decision first. In my opinion it is smart to think before you act, dragons are wise when they do that before a decision."

Starleaf nodded his head and continued thinking, should I trust him, but he is very nice-ish. Another con is, what if I get captured and they do not save me even though Hope will probably do everything to get me back. I feel like I should, but I also feel like I should not. What would Hope to do, what would she do? Hmmm, she probably would agree with Moonbuzz and the group so we can save her. If there is something bad, I can run away.

Moonbuzz held out his talon when Starleaf nodded his head again, then Starleaf shook it. I think I made the right decision he thought fiercely. and with this maybe amazing decision, I just made, I now have allies. I hope that this will work, and we can save you. Do not worry Hope, my new friends, I think they are friends, but them and I are going to save you.

Chapter 4

Once Starleaf agreed, some things started going downhill from there. First off Starleaf must wait a while until they find information on where Hope is. Starleaf will be bored when they are using the mirror to find where Hope is. Second Moonbuzz and the others want Starleaf to do something in return. They wanted Starleaf to ask Queen Berry (once they find Hope) to allow Moonbuzz and the others to live in the rainforest village. Starleaf is ok with doing that but it depends on what Queen Berry decides. Third, no one is part RainWing in the group (other than Starleaf) so Starleaf and the Problem Solvers must think of a different plan to sneak inside without anyone seeing them. Starleaf glanced around the room. The room had a lava source for light and another tunnel.

Moonbuzz saw Starleaf looking at the tunnel and said, "I can guess that you are wondering where we are. We are by the Sky Kingdom, the tunnel was built by an animus dragon named Stonemover and it brings you here. I read a bunch of scrolls and I figured out that this is where the NightWings used to live before the volcano destroyed it. Then when the volcano erupted Queen Glory of RainWings, allowed the NightWings to live in her kingdom only if they agreed to accept her as the Queen of RainWings and NightWings. I love reading scrolls of the past. If you want, you can follow Fly and he can show you the ruins of the old Night Kingdom."

Fly nodded his head. He was a LeafWing, SkyWing hybrid. He has big leaf-shaped wings and a leaf-like tail. He was mostly red, but he had a few green scales peeking through the red scales. He walked to the tunnel and Starleaf followed. Then he saw that he was on a big island and there was lava EVERYWHERE. Fly started flying in the air and Starleaf followed. Starleaf took in a breath to smell the island and he gaged. It smelled like death and smoke. He wondered how the NightWings from the past lived and breathed in this place. Fly and Starleaf flew around the volcano. there were rock pieces on the ground.

Then Fly asked, "would you like to see the inside?"

"um sure," Starleaf replied. Fly flew to an opening and squeezed through a hole. Starleaf followed and saw everything was destroyed. Everything was made of ash. Starleaf touched something that used to be a blanket and it turned into a million little pieces of ash. Is this how they lived? This is not a good place it is the worst place to live. How did they eat because there is no food on the island? No wonder why they wanted to take over the rainforest. Now everything looks destroyed because it is ancient, and the volcano destroyed most of it.

Fly said to Starleaf when he touched the blanket, "please don't touch anything else, all of the items on the island are ancient and are about a thousand of years old, we don't want to destroy all of it because it is interesting and we can study how they lived in the past. Some stuff does not turn into ash when someone touches it, and we take it and figure out what it was. We found a few blankets and pillows that survived. Also, there is a large lava pot with a dragon that is frozen solid next to it. We tried to unfreeze her but so far we didn't do much."

Fly lead Starleaf to the room with the frozen dragon and Starleaf stared at it in shock. Its body was very cold to the touch and the ice seemed like it came out of her mouth.

"whoa," Starleaf said.

"Any ideas of why and how she got frozen," Fly asked.

"I have a theory, the ice looks like it is coming out of her mouth so maybe she is an ice dragon that breathed ice that went all over her and killed her instead of another dragon."

"No, she is a NightWing, we got some of her blood and she is not an IceWing."

"then maybe she got attacked by an IceWing, lived in lava when she got attacked and when she went out that's when the volcano was about to erupt and she tried to escape but the ice killed her. But the ice came out of her mouth so maybe she got ice in her mouth?"

"maybe that is a better theory then what someone else said, the other dragon said that she got killed by an IceWing in here. Let us go before we suffocate."

“This place is interesting, but it looks dangerous, how did they live here?”

“I do not know for sure, maybe they used the tunnel to go to the rainforest and take food and then they bring it to their kingdom.”

Starleaf nodded his head and then Fly went out. Starleaf followed and they headed back to the cave from the start. Once they were at the tunnel again it smelled much better and there was more air. It felt good to breath like that again. Starleaf felt like he never wanted to leave the air, he did not want to go back to the volcano. It felt like he was breathing ash and smoke. Then Starleaf thought, Poor NightWings, they had to breathe and live in this every day. They had to breathe smoke and death every day. They also must have been starving because there is no area to get food. I feel bad for the NightWings that used to live here, but they made the right choice to join Glory, now there is peace. when I get back home, I am going to read about the history of this island and what happened. They must have been so scared when the ground rumbled because of the volcano, they must have been very nervous.

When Starleaf and Fly went to Moonbuzz, Moonbuzz nodded his head and Fly went to a section of the room and Moonbuzz started saying, "I hope that was interesting, Starleaf, but we have something else that we need from you, other than living with you in the Rainforest Kingdom. We want to destroy and steal all the treasure that the group that has Hope, has. Why? because they have an animus touched object that is a conch shell that glows if someone is lying, and we will share the loot equally and we will be rich. Our goal right now is to find a Dreamvisiter so we can visit Hope's dreams and talk to her. Do you know if Berry has a Dreamvisiter?"

Then Starleaf replied, "No she doesn't have one, but I know who has one."

"Who," Moonbuzz asked.

Then Starleaf hesitated all of the memories of him ran into his mind, he remembers that he is the leader of a group that wants to be rich, he remembers that he is a LeafWing, and also known as a PoisonWing. He killed many innocent dragons and his son escaped from his wrath and went to the rainforest kingdom. Then Starleaf said nervously, "M-m-my, ... My Grandfather"

Chapter 5

"Why are you scared about your Grandfather? Who is he, what is his name," someone asked she was a SeaWing, NightWing hybrid? The hybrid had gills, but the hybrid has mostly black scales. it seemed like the hybrid could camouflage in the dark sea. Then the hybrid said, "oh and my name is Trench and I am a SeaWing and NightWing hybrid."

Then Starleaf replied nervously, "I met him once, h-he came to the rainforest. H-His name is V-Venom. He came to the rainforest and saw m-me and my family. He asked me a lot of questions and then did a few t-tests on me. He tested me, how long can I breathe underwater, and then when I drowned, he scooped me up and left me on the ground, he did not care if I was ok, I was his experiment.   He did another test to see how long I can f-fly. There were snakes on the ground, so I had to fly unless I wanted to get bit by cobras. Eventually, I fell, and they bit me. I still have a few scars from that.” Starleaf pointed to a few scars on his legs, “My dad told a lot of stories about my grandfather and he said he escaped from his wrath. My dad said that my grandfather was very mean to him and my grandfather is the leader of a group that kills innocent dragons."

"Do you know what group your grandfather controls, I mean what is the name of the group he controls," asked Fly, "he also sounds like a horrible dragon, killing innocent dragons? Do you know why he does that?"

"No," replied Starleaf, "but I know where he is"

"where," a dragon asked. The dragon who asked it looked like a tribrid of a NightWing, SkyWing, and HiveWing.

Starleaf closed his eyes while trying to remember what his dad said and how he pictured the island. Starleaf then said, "on this island, they are hiding in the forest on this island. They have been here for a while, I can remember that the group formed when my dad was born, and my dad Is about forty years old and my grandfather is about a hundred years old."

Then there was silence.

"I have an idea," Said Starleaf.

Then Moonbuzz said in a worried voice, "what is it?"

"My idea is that we need to get the dreamvisiter, we will have to get it from Venom if we want to find Hope, and I have a plan, I will walk inside and talk to him, and distract him, everyone else find his treasury and gets his dreamvisiter, he only has the dreamvisiter, with no other treasure, I think, there might be treasure, but when my dad was there he said he either hid his treasure well, or he had very little or none treasure. If we steal the Dreamvisiter DO NOT steal anything else, please, we will only take the Dreamvisiter."

Then Moonbuzz said, "you will be a good leader when you grow up,  I can tell  that because you have courage, and you know what to do, you are also a quick thinker. I believe in you right now, Starleaf. I hope this will work. Alright everyone let us listen to Starleaf's plan and let us get moving. Tell us exactly what you plan is, and we will follow you. Would you like to do this now Starleaf, we will prepare, and we should probably be ready in an hour or two?"

"yes," Starleaf said with confidence.

"Ok everyone you heard him, let us do this," said Moonbuzz, "tell your plan right here and right now and everyone will listen and do as you say."

Then everyone started to gather around Starleaf. They formed a circle around him and Starleaf was in the middle while looking at his talons. Moonbuzz noticed he was nervous, and he whispered something, and everyone took a step back to help Starleaf feel a little more confident. The ten dragons in the group all stared at him. Starleaf's talons started shaking with fear. He took in a deep breath and thought, I do not like this feeling, what is it though? Fear? worried? anxious? Ok Starleaf just take in a deep breath and say it. I am scared and nervous to see my grandfather again, but I have to do it, not for me, not for them, but for Hope.

Starleaf bit his tongue and then he started speaking. Starleaf said, "alright, this is my plan. I knock on the door to Venom's place and everyone hides nearby. Venom will see me and great me. He might ask me questions and everyone else will sneak inside and search for the treasury. Moonbuzz you should stay with me because I feel safer near you. I will distract Venom, and everyone will look for the dreamvisiter. Then someone tell Moonbuzz by flickering your tail a few times at him and then we will leave. It will be easy to get in but um. it will be harder to get out."

Moonbuzz nodded and so did everyone else. No one asked questions so Starleaf thought he said it good. Starleaf closed his eyes because he was nervous of what others thought about what he said. Everyone started talking to each other to prepare. Then Moonbuzz walked over to Starleaf and it made Starleaf jumped. Then Moonbuzz put his talon on Starleaf's shoulder to signal that he did a good job. Starleaf sneaked in a small smile and whispered to Moonbuzz, "thanks for being there for me," Moonbuzz nodded his head and started talking to everyone else about what to do.

Then everyone started getting materials and started to plan and improve the plan a little more. Starleaf kept telling everyone about it again and again to remind everyone what it was and to make sure they will do it right and not make a mistake and get caught. Then Starleaf thought, now that I have friends, they will help me, but they also believe in me, it is either we do this once and get it right or we will be walking into our own funerals.

Chapter 6

Everyone was ready, and everyone is flying to Venom's place. Then Starleaf thought, I hope this works, I really hope… Soon everyone was at Venom's place and the place was HUGE, it also looked like it was made of stone, wood, and silk. The front entrance looked scary but then Starleaf knocked on the door. The others hid in the bushes nearby the entrance. A minute later, someone opened the door. It was Venom. Venom was a LeafWing who had a lot of scars on him. He also could talk to plants, so he was known as a PoisonWing.

Then Venom said in a slithering like voice, "sooo you came, I thought you would, I knew you would. Well come insside. Follow me."

Venom's voice made Starleaf want to run away but he stayed confident and followed him. Starleaf was confused of why his grandfather knew that he would come. Inside the place had a lot of dragon's heads. It made Starleaf jump and shiver. Starleaf noticed that everyone else were following him. Then Starleaf flickered his tail and the group spread out and searched for the dreamvisiter, but Moonbuzz stayed near Starleaf.

Then Venom asked, "sooo what exactly are you doing here?"

Starleaf gulped down his fears and said, "I came to look for you to um, say hi to you."

"hmmm what is your REAL REASON for being here" Venom said as if he could read Starleaf's mind.

"To um look at your treasury, I heard from father that you have a dreamvisiter and I have never seen one before, also that you have other sparkling jewels."

"indeed, I have a dreamvisiter, and I have a lot of treasure, I got more once your father ran away, he paid me to leave him alone. Follow me."

Starleaf followed Venom carefully and Venom led Starleaf to his treasury. He did a password but Moonbuzz saw what he put. The vault door opened and Starleaf went inside. There was a lot of jewelry and treasure. He saw a leaf necklace that looked good. Venom saw Starleaf staring at it and he picked it up.

Then Venom said, "you like thiss, I am not a big fan of thiss necklace, you can have it if you must."

Starleaf took it from him and he put it on, then he started feeling weird and felt safer. what is happening Starleaf thought in panic. Then Venom started digging in the treasure muttering "where is it where is it"

Then Starleaf asked, "where is what."

"the dreamvisiter, it's missing."

Then Starleaf knew someone took it and he saw a flash of Moonbuzz's tail. I hope he has it Starleaf thought. Then Starleaf started playing along with what is happening.

"I don't know where it is, I will help look for it," said Starleaf. While digging in the treasure he found a very nice looking, moon leaf-like bracelet and he grabbed it. I will give this to Hope he thought, she will like this when I find her.

A while of searching later Venom said, "get out of the treasury I will look once more and then we can talk."

Starleaf went out of the treasury and decided it was a good time to run. He made a signal with his tail and Moonbuzz saw it and ran to tell the others. Starleaf then ran outside and hid in a nearby bush. Then everyone came out. Moonbuzz gave Starleaf the dreamvisiter and they flew back to their cave. Once back, Starleaf and the others were gasping for breath.

"We did it," Starleaf said happily, "let us use the mirror to see if Hope is sleeping, then I will dreamvisit her.” Moonbuzz took out the mirror and muttered "Hope" and breathed some smoke. In the mirror Hope was asleep.

Then Starleaf asked, “does anyone know how to use it?”

“I believe you have to put it on your head and think about the dragon who you want to dreamvisit,” said a dragon.

Then Starleaf put the dreamvisiter on his head and thought about Hope and wanting to dreamvisit her. But nothing happened. He tried it again and again. Then he tried to use it on a different dragon who was asleep. Nothing happened. Then a horrible thought popped into Starleaf's mind, it is fake, FAKE, this is a decoy in case dragons steal it. Now grandfather knows I tried to take it. I am sorry Hope, but I failed you.

Chapter 7

"It's fake," Starleaf said sadly. Starleaf looked at the ground. He looked at his talons. He was too sad to see everyone's shocked and sad faces. Then he looked at them. They either looked enraged or nervous, or both. Starleaf stared at the blue jewel, it looked like a dreamvisiter but instead it is a boring jewel. Starleaf thought, what did I do wrong, why did not this work. Hope I am sorry.

"WHAT ALL OF THAT AND IT IS FAKE," A dragon suddenly screamed breaking the awkward silence, then the dragon quickly apologized and said, "sorry, but it was dangerous and we did all of that for nothing, maybe we can try someone else who has a dreamvisiter."

"I'm sorry," said Starleaf, "I am sorry, I tried to be a leader for once, and tried to succeed but it failed, I failed. I am sorry everyone, maybe I should just leave the group and go back home, I feel like giving up. I am sorry."

"It isn't your fault, he just tricked us that's all," said Moonbuzz, "You have to stay here, Starleaf. We did not just do what you wanted because we wanted to help Hope. Remember if you do not succeed at first try, try again. But we helped you because you are our friend. Do not give up, there is still hoped to find Hope. Leaders, not always succeed, when they fail, they learn to overcome, then they learn from their mistakes and they only work harder.  We should go to sleep it has been a rough day."

Starleaf nodded his head and went into a room with a silk bed, blanket, and pillow and curled up into it. Starleaf felt very sad and guilty. He wondered what is happening to Hope right now but he felt to guilty to ask. Before he fell asleep Starleaf took off the necklace, and he felt a little different. Then he wondered what is this necklace it is making me feel weird. He put the necklace back on. He felt safer and more confident. He took it off and he felt more scared and weaker. is this animus touched?

Starleaf walked over to Moonbuzz's cave. Starleaf saw Moonbuzz sitting on his bed. He looked like he was thinking about what happened. Starleaf put the necklace on again and said, "hello, sorry for bothering you but I think the necklace that Venom let me have is animus touched, when I put it on I feel safer and more confident, but when it is off I feel weaker and scared, can you put it on and tell me if you feel the same?"

Moonbuzz nodded and he put on the necklace, then a weird look went over his face, "yeah your right, I feel safer, but it is yours Venom gave it to you and it looks better on you, also you will feel better with it on but remember you can't always rely on the necklace for courage and leadership. Those are traits that you slowly gain over time. I was born with great leadership, but I was afraid to tell everyone my opinions. After a while I gained more and more courage and now, I am a leader of a small group that trusts in me. Trust your gut too. Every little while take off the necklace practice being brave without it so in case you lose it, it will not be that big of a deal. Also, what if you lose or forget the necklace, you have to learn to live without it. Did you take a bracelet with you?"

Then Starleaf blushed, "um, yes, it is going to be um, Hope's because it will look nice on her and she likes gifts from me. but I don't feel different with it on and off so I guess it isn't animus touched," Starleaf put the bracelet on and then took it off, then he put it back on and said, "yeah I still feel the same with it on or off."

"ok I was just wondering, well good night."

"good night."

Starleaf walked over to his cave and curled back up in his bed. He thought about all the stuff that happened that day. He remembered walking into the tunnel and being scared. He remembered walking into the middle of the conversation and then being attacked. He remembered meeting Moonbuzz and telling him he was finding Hope. He remembered shaking hands with Moonbuzz agreeing to the deal. He remembered planning and going to Venom's place and finding the necklace and feeling different. He remembered everyone following him He put the necklace back on and went to bed, then he fell asleep.

When Starleaf was asleep he had a dream.

Starleaf was leading a group of dragons and they were going to Hope. Starleaf was very confident and brave and walked into there with bad dragons dying with a flicker of his tail. Then he reached Hope's prison and opened up of cell door. Starleaf and Hope hugged each other.

Starleaf gave Hope the bracelet and she put it on and smiled. Starleaf and Hope escaped and went back to the kingdom and the Queen was very happy and let the group live in the Rainforest Kingdom.

Then the dream ended. It was a quick dream, but it was a dream. Starleaf woke up for a second and then Starleaf thought, now that this necklace makes me feel safer and more confident, I believe that I will try to find Hope, wait… I WILL FIND HOPE.

Part 2: Truth and lies

Chapter 8

Starleaf woke up, but he wanted to lay in the sun. It was uncomfortably warm in the cave and he was in and he was hungry and wanted to gain energy from the sun. Starleaf walked out of the cave and he adjusted his animus-touched necklace. He met a dragon who looked like a SkyWing and NightWing, with scales of a HiveWing.

"Hello," Starleaf said, "I am Starleaf, you?"

"Hi," said the new dragon, "I am Nighthunter."

Nighthunter was a tribrid of a SkyWing, NightWing, and HiveWing. He had very big wings with stars on them. He had the shapes of NightWing scales, but some were orange/yellow. Nighthunter had kind green-looking eyes.

"Why did you get kicked out of your kingdom, Nighthunter," Starleaf asked.

Then Nighthunter responded by saying, "I got kicked out from the Hive that is located in Pyrrhia by Queen Hornet. She visited the hive one day and she looked at me in disgust and talked to me privately. She said I looked really bad in her kingdom and I was forced to leave. I tried going to other kingdoms but on my way, I saw a large group and they invited me to stay with them. That group I am still in and it is this group."

Then Starleaf nodded his head.

Moonbuzz was looking for someone and when his eyes laid upon Starleaf he started walking to him.

When Moonbuzz made it to Starleaf he said, "I should have done this earlier, but it is my mistake, I will introduce you to the other dragons here. I can see that you just met Nighthunter, he is the newest member of this group," then Moonbuzz yelled, "alright I should have done this earlier but I will be introducing Starleaf to everyone in here. So, everyone please line up."

There were nine dragons all lined up and waiting for Moonbuzz to continue.

"alright, the ones you already know are, Fly, me, Fairyfly, and Nighthunter," Moonbuzz said while going down the line, "the SandWing IceWing hybrid's name is Antarctica."

Then Antarctica waved at Starleaf. Antarctica had a barb on her tail, but she mostly had white scales.

Then Moonbuzz said, "The LeafWing, MudWing over there, is named Moss."

Moss just looked at Starleaf, did a weak smile and then stared at the floor again. Moss had thought armor like scales, but they were green. Moss also had leaf shaped wings but a normal tail.

"The SeaWing, MudWing over there is named Bowfin."

Bowfin was staring at Antarctica but when he heard his name he jumped. He looked like he could breathe underwater. He had blue scales, but he did not have any glow in the dark scales.

"The SilkWing, IceWing is named Heteronea."

Heteronea looked like a blue and white butterfly, she had four wings and her name is a kind of butterfly and she looked like it.

"And last the two twin looking dragons are both SandWing, SkyWing, and they are twins, but their names are, Heat and Heatstroke."

Heat and Heatstroke looked up at Starleaf. Heat coughed and Heat and Heatstroke both looked suspicious, but they probably always seemed suspicious. They both looked the same they both had big wings and barbs. They mostly had red scales but there were a few yellow lines that made them look somewhat like a bee except instead of black and yellow stripes they had red and yellow. Starleaf thought that the pattern looks interesting. Then Moonbuzz nodded and everyone continued doing whatever they were doing before.

Then Moonbuzz said, "I hope that was interesting," Then Starleaf nodded and thought this is where I want to belong, now I am determined to help find Hope. And just like what Moonbuzz said, if I make a mistake I learn from it, I fail so I can learn to overcome, I fail to learn how to deal with the situation when it happens again. I cannot give up. I have to be strong not only for myself but the group and for Hope. Hope I will be there for you soon.

Chapter 9

Starleaf was bored and wanted to be in the sun. He knows that he has to stay on the island so Starleaf sat next to a small lava pool. The heat from the pool wat hot but Starleaf also felt a little better. Moonbuzz started at Starleaf and made a 'come here' signal so Starleaf got up and went to Moonbuzz.

Then Moonbuzz said, "if we want to find your friend, let's use the obsidian mirror and see what is happening and we can try to find more information."

"Sure, let's do that," Starleaf said back.

Monbuzz walked into a different cave and he put in a passcode. Starleaf could not see what he put but then the door opened and there was the obsidian mirror. Moonbuzz closed the door once Starleaf walked inside.

Moonbuzz sat next to the mirror and muttered, "Hope," and then he breathed some smoke at the mirror and then the mirror started working.

The mirror showed Hope, looking sad and in the prison-like cell. Hope looked like she was asleep, but she was muttering things in her sleep. Starleaf thought Hope was saying, "Starleaf help, help," but Starleaf did not know for sure.

Then Moonbuzz stared at Starleaf and smiled at him, he gave Starleaf a weird smile. Then Moonbuzz said, "Hope likes you, it is obvious, also I am guessing you like her."

Starleaf blushed not knowing how to respond to it. Moonbuzz let out a small chuckle. Um – um yeah Hope and I are friends, but does she like me that much? But I do like her. He continued looking at the mirror. Nothing happened for a while so Moonbuzz said, "I will be back in a few minutes."

Starleaf nodded and once he left Hope woke up. Then he heard talonsteps coming Hope's way. Starleaf in the cave heard a small woosh and when he turned his neck to the noise the dragon was gone. That was um… odd. Who was that and why was the dragon watching me?

Then someone said, "she keeps talking about a dragon named Starleaf, maybe if we find him then she will tell us everything."

"yeah good idea," another voice said. He saw that Hope was panicking.

"then let's do it, Stinger," the first dragon said to the second dragon. Then Starleaf got an idea. He now knows a new dragon's name and he is about to leave the secret place. Starleaf said "Stinger" to the mirror and then breathed some smoke at it. Then the mirror changed, and he saw Stinger walking next to Hope and laughing.

"please don't get Starleaf," pleaded Hope.

"HA no, we are going to find him and then we can force you to say everything," laughed Stinger.

"noooo," Hope moaned sadly.

"HaHa yesss," Stinger said while being pleased that he can get the information out of Hope once he finds Starleaf, "OR will you tell us everything right now."

"No," Hope muttered, "Starleaf be careful, please."

"when I come back, I WILL have Starleaf, ha-ha," yelled Stinger. Starleaf could hear Hope quietly sob. Stinger was walking up stairs. The Starleaf yelled, "MOONBUZZ come."

Then Moonbuzz ran into the room and saw Stinger walking out of the room, then Moonbuzz said, "thanks for letting me know, you figured out his name and now we can find where he and the base is."

Stinger opened up to what looks like a trapdoor and walked through it. Then he was outside on the muddy, leafy ground. There was a banana tree next to him. Stinger picked one off the tree, ate it, and started flying to the direction of the Rainforest Kingdom.

Then Starleaf looked at Moonbuzz and said, "now we know where their lair is now, we have to plan and find Hope."

Chapter 10

Then Moonbuzz shouted, "everyone we know where Hope is, we need to plan and find her."

Then everyone went to Moonbuzz and Starleaf, then they lined up. Moonbuzz then said, "alright we were using the obsidian mirror and we know where Hope is. Does anyone have an idea of how to get inside without being seen?"

Then after a while of silence, Fairyfly then yelled, "sleeping darts, we should use those, so we don't have to kill anyone, and they work well."

"Good idea Fairyfly, do you agree Starleaf," Moonbuzz said while looking at Starleaf.

Starleaf nodded his head and started thinking of the plan. Then he started speaking, "alright I think I got an idea. We will use what Fairyfly said, we will use sleeping darts to knock out the people inside and then when everyone is asleep, we can rescue Hope. But there is one problem, we have to GET the sleeping darts first before we can do anything else, also there is a dragon named Stinger who is trying to look for me. Moonbuzz and maybe Moss can come with me and stay with me while I ask Queen Berry for the darts, or maybe we can make the sleeping darts ourselves…"

"Then where will we find the darts and how will we make them," Trench asked.

"My mother knows how to make the darts because she was one of the dragons who made them for Queen Berry. My mom told me that it was made from a blue frog that has poison that can knock dragons out. If the frog is eaten then the dragon will fall asleep or maybe die, if injected then the dragon will be knocked out but you have to take away the poison part in order to not kill the dragon," responded Starleaf.

"I do have a pet frog and it is blue," said Moss, "her name is Potato."

"can you get it," asked Starleaf.

"um sure," said Moss. Then Moss went out of the room and came back with a small frog that is blue and has black dots.

"yeah that is what the frog looks like," said Starleaf, "I promise Moss, unless you want to, we won't kill it and use it for the darts, instead now we know what they look like and then we can find them."

A wave of relief washed over Moss's face. She looked glad that Starleaf did not have to kill her pet frog named Potato.

Starleaf looked at Moonbuzz and said, "we need to search for the frogs, lets gather about 5 of them and then we can make the darts. Everyone goes in groups of 2 and search around the jungle and come back if you get a frog and when the sun sets everyone come back. I will go with Nighthunter, Moonbuzz you stay here and when someone comes with a frog, put it in a cage and keep it alive."

Starleaf walked over to Nighthunter and then they both walked outside to search for the frogs. Everyone else grouped up and then they walked out of the cave and into the forest to look for the frogs. Once Starleaf and Nighthunter were alone they started talking to each other.

Nighthunter said, "that was a good idea, so we don't have to kill anyone to find Hope."

"yeah," said Starleaf. Nighthunter and Starleaf walked in silence and they were looking around for the frog. Suddenly someone grabbed Starleaf around the throat and yanked him back. Starleaf yelped and Nighthunter went to where Starleaf yelped and tackled the other dragon down. Then once Starleaf was free he slashed his claws trying to hit the dragon. The Nighthunter pinned the dragon down and Starleaf looked at him. He was a familiar looking HiveWing.

"Stinger," Starleaf blurted.

Then Stinger said, "how do you know who I am."

"You were going to get me and try to use me to get information out of Hope but it won't work Stinger, I know who you are and YOU are coming with me," said Starleaf bravely.

Chapter 11

Nighthunter and Starleaf dragged Stinger with them after they clubbed him on the head, so he got knocked out. Stinger was a heavy dragon so they both had to carry him at once. Once they were back home Moonbuzz saw them with Stinger and he went over and helped Starleaf and Nighthunter carry him inside their place. Moonbuzz quickly laid him down to the ground when they were inside, and he gathered chains to chain Stinger down.

Then Starleaf said, "this was the one who was trying to kidnap me, I heard that he was going to do it from using the obsidian mirror."

Moonbuzz's expression was a little shocked and he chained Stinger so he could not escape if he woke up. Moonbuzz chained Stinger's legs to the ground. Stinger moaned a little and he woke up. Stinger glanced around the room and moaned again because he noticed that he is now a prisoner. Stinger gave Starleaf, Nighthunter and Moonbuzz and death stare. Starleaf went over to Singer while trying to look scary.

Then Starleaf said with bravado, "tell us where you are hiding Hope."

Then Stinger responded, "ugggg," Stinger seemed like he did not want to say anything even though he would soon be forced to tell everything.

Then Starleaf tried to say bravely from what he remembers about spying on him with the obsidian mirror, "I know that you are not popular in the hideout so no one will come and save you, so if you don't tell me you will die, is it a trapdoor next to a banana tree, true?"

Stinger nodded his head while looking a little shocked that Starleaf knew about the hideout. Stinger looked back at his talons and he seemed afraid to look at Starleaf in the eyes. Moonbuzz stared at Starleaf with a 'you got this' look on his face. Starleaf noticed that he was not wearing the necklace and he had to be brave without it. Moonbuzz looked like he also noticed that Starleaf was not wearing the necklace and he gave a small nod. I can do this, this is how I will learn.

Then Starleaf said, "where is the trapdoor located?"

Then Stinger moaned, "um… it is um…um."

Then Starleaf said, "Tell us right here and right now, if you tell us we will not kill you for now but if you don't tell we will hurt you."

Then Stinger finally said, "um it is right next to the banana tree, the trapdoor is nearly touching the tree so all you have to do is sweep your tail around and you can feel it. Once you feel it there is a lock on it and you have to put in the code 6492 to open the trapdoor. Then when you open it you can go inside and do whatever."

Then Starleaf asked Stinger, "what is inside the place, how do I find the prisoners."

"Um, you have to go down to the bottom of the lair and then there are the prisoners, the reason the prisoners are on the bottom is because it will be harder to go…um… back up and escape with the prisoner."

"what cage is Hope in?"

"um if I remember correctly, she is in prison cell 8."

Starleaf asked a few more questions to Stinger and then the others came back. In total there were about three frogs. Starleaf gently grabbed the alive frogs. Then Starleaf used his claws to gently scrap off the slime on them. He then put the slime into a jar and then Starleaf had to kill the frogs. Starleaf pinned each frog down and stabbed his claw into each frog's heart. Starleaf felt guilty about it but he did it because he wanted to find Hope. Then he gathered the slime from the frogs, and he started to make the darts.

After a while of making darts using the frogs, he got about 12 darts.

Then Starleaf said, "I hope this is enough." Then Starleaf looked around the room at the other dragons, "thanks for helping now all we have to do is go to their lair and rescue Hope."

Chapter 12

For the rest of the day Starleaf and the others started preparing to rescue Hope. Then when everyone was ready, Starleaf found his necklace and he put it on. Then Starleaf started telling everyone his plan to find Hope.

"Alright," Starleaf started saying, "This will be the plan to find Hope. I will walk inside first and then Fly and Heatstroke you can get ready to shoot any dragons that are nearby. If we run out of sleeping darts, then we have to knock the dragons out. Once we find and rescue Hope then we will take all the knocked out dragons and put them in the prison cells so they will be prisoners until we have an idea of what to do with them."

Starleaf repeated the plan one more time and then everyone was ready. They talked to each other and ate some food until it was midnight. Then everyone went out of the place and they went to the dark, muddy forest ground. Trench glowed most of his scales so the others could see him. Then everyone started to follow Starleaf to the banana tree. Everyone was silent and ready to shoot a dart at a moment's notice. When they reached the banana tree. Starleaf gently swept his tail around the tree. The tree was big, and it had a few bananas growing on it. Once Starleaf felt something unusual he dug his talons around the area and then he found the trapdoor. Then Starleaf put in the code 6492 and then it made a quiet clicking noise and it opened up. Starleaf signaled with his tail that they were about to go inside. At least Stinger told the truth about the code. But what is Heatstroke doing, he is being even more suspicious, and Heat is more suspicious than Heatstroke?

Starleaf shook that train of thoughts that was in his head and Starleaf went inside first and then he waited for the others to go inside with him. Then he started walking through the place. Inside looked very stony, and it had a lot of rocks. The lair looked like dragon carved it so there will be a secret base for others. It looked poorly designed, but it was a secret base, so it did not have to look good for others. Starleaf and the others walked deeper inside and then someone closed the trapdoor.

Then Starleaf saw two dragons but they looked half asleep. Starleaf then saw them fall to the ground. Starleaf went to them and checked their pulse. They were alive but they were asleep. Then they continued walking through the lair. There were a few more guards but Starleaf's friends quickly knocked them out. They soon ran out of sleeping darts and then they had to knock a guard out instead of using a dart. Then when they were in the prisoner's level Starleaf started running to cell number 8 and he saw Hope, but she was asleep. Starleaf grabbed the keys from a sleeping guard and he opened up the cage. Then he gently woke up Hope.

Then Hope muttered, "noooo don't wake me up."

Then Starleaf whispered, "Hope wake up it is me Starleaf."

Then Hope jumped awake and stared at Starleaf in shock.

Then she shrieked, "STARLEAF," and then she hugged him. Then Starleaf hugged Hope back.

"Starleaf I knew you were trying to find me, WAIT who are the other dragons behind you."

"they are my friends and they helped me find you, without them I would probably be dead, or I wouldn't be able to find you."

"ok, but I am SO GALD that YOU are here I KNEW that you were going to come and RESCUE ME!!!"

"shh, don't be that loud, Hope."

"oh ok, sorry," Hope whispered.

Then Moonbuzz said, "I think we have to go now because the knocked-out guards will soon wake up."

Starleaf and Hope needed their heads and they started going to the exit. While the others started to put the knocked-out guards into a cell. Then Starleaf and Hope were nearly at the exit. Then their guards jumped in front of them. Suddenly Starleaf saw a few more dragon's appearance they were pinning the other Dragons.

Then a NightWing said, "you will all be our prisoners now."

Then Starleaf jumped at the nearest dragon who was holding Moonbuzz and then a fight began.

Chapter 13

Starleaf made the SandWing let go of Moonbuzz and then Moonbuzz attacked a dragon who was pinning down another dragon. Hope then yelled and she charged at another dragon. Then Hope shrieked while a big NightWing pinned her down. While Starleaf looked at her a dragon tried to pin him down. Starleaf used his claws and he tried to hurt the dragon. Then the dragon slashed at Starleaf's neck and there was a small noise. Starleaf tried to fight the dragon but then another dragon ran into Starleaf and then he got pinned down. Starleaf saw that everyone was pinned down by another dragon. Then Starleaf felt a small prick on his neck and before he could see what pricked him, everything became black.

"wake up," said a quiet voice, while he was being shaked awake. Starleaf woke up and he saw Hope next to him. His talons felt heavy and he saw chains on them. He saw chains on Hope. He saw chains on everyone else but one dragon. They were all in one big cage, but they were chained so they could not escape. Starleaf noticed that someone was missing but he did not know who. Starleaf peeked outside the cell bars and he saw two NightWing guards with spears. The place looked familiar, he was in a prison cell in the lair. Something smelly hit Starleaf in the face. Starleaf saw that it was an animal carcass. Starleaf thought it was a sloth and he put it to the side because it smelled bad. He saw that Moonbuzz and Trench were eating the carcass while everyone else left it alone. Everyone looked sad. Starleaf saw Moonbuzz who was eating, he saw Trench who was also eating, he saw the twins sitting next to each other, he saw Antarctica huddling with herself, he saw Fly and Fairyfly looking confused, and Moss, Bowfin, and Heteronea looking sad.

Then someone said, "everyone goes to sleep, tomorrow we will get information out of you guys."

Starleaf thought that he could do anything but sleep. He laid down next to Hope and snuggled with her. Starleaf closed his eyes and he quickly woke up to a small noise. He thought he heard dragons' scream. Starleaf looked at Hope and she looked confused too.

Then a familiar voice, "hey, I will get you all out of here."

Then there was a noise that sounded like keys jangling. Then the cell door swinged open. Then Starleaf saw a familiar face, it was Nighthunter. Nighthunter went to everyone and he unchained them. Then he got to Starleaf.

Then Starleaf said, "thanks now let's get out of here."

Once Starleaf's chains fell off he went up and he started going out of the cage. He saw the two NightWing guards on the ground and they were dead. It looked like Nighthunter slashed their necks to kill them. Then everyone started to run out of the lair. Once Starleaf opened the trapdoor everyone ran out.

Starleaf said, "everyone goes back to the base and Hope follow me."

Then everyone started to fly in the air to go back to the tree. Then Starleaf said, "do you remember the weird tree hole?"

"yeah why"

"it is where the place is, I first thought you were trapped in the hole but instead it lead me to the group, the reason why they formed the group is because they got kicked out of their kingdom because they are hybrids."

"oh ok, I thought you were going to try to find me, I knew you were out there, but how did you know where I was."

"we had the obsidian mirror and we used it on you, and we got information."

"oh, that is cool."

"yeah um…"

Hope sounded like she was going to ask something, but she seemed too afraid to ask, Then Starleaf and Hope made it back to the tree hole and then went inside. Then Starleaf decided and told Hope that they will go back to the rainforest kingdom the next day.

Chapter 14

Once they were back Starleaf told Hope everything that happened. Starleaf told her about how Queen Berry reacted, and he told her how he looked for her and found the tree hole, he told her about what happened and what he found in the hole, and he talked about Venom and trying to find a dreamvisiter. Then he told her about his necklace and then the trip to find her.

Then Hope asked, "where is your necklace?"

Then Starleaf said, "Right he- "

Starleaf felt his neck and he felt a scratch, but he did not feel the necklace.

"no, it must have fell off when the dragon scratched my neck."

"that is not good, but listen, you do not need an animus touched object to be brave, you have to be brave on your own. Even without the necklace you are still a very brave dragon to me," said Hope while putting a wing around Starleaf.

"yeah, I do not need a necklace, I can be brave without it!"

Hope gave a smile and Starleaf smiled back.

"let’s go back to the rainforest kingdom and Queen Berry will be really happy that you are back but we have to convince her that we need to allow the group that helped me find you, live in the kingdom,” said Starleaf.

“ok, let’s go back home, and bring them with us.”

Then Moonbuzz walked into the cave and he asked, “do you have an idea of what to do with Singer?”

“No why,” replied Starleaf. I did not think of that, thanks for reminding me Moonbuzz. But why… oh wait I already know the answer to that.

“because we do not want to let him starve to death in here because we forget about him, and we cannot let him go because he will tell the others about where we live.”

“let us not kill him but we could keep him here for another day or two and once we go to the rainforest and live there, we can get Stinger and put him in the rainforest prisons. Let us keep some food and water next to him.”

“Ok good idea but we did not steal their treasure, but it is ok we do not need it as long as we are alive, it would have been nice if we got it but we do not,” said Moonbuzz and he walked out of the room.

Then Nighthunter walked into the room and said, “what should we bring with us, should we bring the obsidian mirror?”

Then something popped into Starleaf’s mind, he forgot to give Hope the bracelet. Starleaf said, “I will be right back,” and he ran out of the room to where he put the bracelet. He grabbed it and he presented it to Hope.

“Here you go, this is for you,” offered Starleaf.

“oh, thank you,” said Hope while taking the bracelet. She put the bracelet on her wrist and Starleaf thought it looked good on her. Hope smiled at Starleaf and some of Hope’s scales turned into a pink color. Starleaf knew that she was blushing.

Then once everyone got everything, they got ready to leave the place, Moonbuzz put some food and water next to Stinger and told him to use the food for about two days. Then everyone walked out of the tree hole and then everyone started flying over to the Rainforest Kingdom.

“I hope everything will be ok when we get back,” said Starleaf. I hope Starleaf’s mind went on.

Once they were at the kingdom, Starleaf saw dragons dying and the forest on fire.

Part 3: The Only Hope

Chapter 15

Starleaf saw dead dragons, a few dead SandWing, and more dead RainWings and NightWings, and some dead LeafWings.

“Wha-What h-happened?” asked Hope.

“I do not know,” replied Starleaf. Starleaf and the others were shocked, but Hope was the most shocked. What is going on? Starleaf thought in panic.

Hope stared at the Rainforest Kingdom, she looked happy that she was back, but she was sad, mad, and scared that dragons are attacking them. Then Antarctica ran into a SandWing who was about to plunge his tail into an innocent LeafWing. Then Antarctica quickly slashed the SandWing’s throat and he clutched his throat and he fell to the ground, dead. Heat and Heatstroke both looked at Antarctica in shock.

“Why are you so shocked, the dragon was about to kill an innocent LeafWing,” asked Antarctica.

“um- “began Heatstroke.

“we don’t li- “said Heat.

“like to see dragons die,” finished Heatstroke. It sounded like a lie to Starleaf but he just cared about finding Queen Berry so he could return Hope to her. Also, he wanted to stop the invading SandWings from killing more dragons. Then a dragon swoped down and tried to attack Hope. The other dragon was a LeafWing, but it looked like it has been in many battles. Then Heat said something to the dragon and then he flew away.

“What did you say,” asked Starleaf.

“um I said go away unless you want to die,” replied Heat.

Starleaf then became more suspicious of Heat but he just cared about finding Queen Berry.

Then Hope asked, “wait that doesn’t sound true. Tell us what you said, please.”

Heat and Heatstroke both looked at each other and then at the battling dragons below them. Then Heatstroke was about to say something, but Heat shook his head, so Heatstroke was silent. What are they up too, why are they acting like this, Starleaf thought? Starleaf got ready to fight if something was wrong. Starleaf edged a little closer to Hope so he could protect her if she needed help. Starleaf noticed that Heat and Heatstroke were always suspicious, but that made Starleaf think that they are even more suspicious. Then about ten dragons appeared, one was the scarred LeafWing, and the others were mostly SandWings, and LeafWings, one of them was a SeaWing.

“Surrender now or prepare to fight,” said the scarred LeafWing.

“We will not surrender,” said Moonbuzz.

“Wait, Heat Heatstroke what are you guys doing,” asked Starleaf while Heat and Heatstroke were flying to the other dragons. Then Heatstroke whispered something to the SeaWing and the SeaWing nodded his head.

“Do you know how Venom knew you were coming,” started Heat.

“Did you figure out why he put a decoy dreamvisiter,” continued Heatstroke.

“Did you notice how Venom allowed us in,” added Heat.

“and how he easily let us out without him calling his guards,” said Heatstroke while trying to be menacing.

“that was us we told him, now prepare to be captured,” yelled Heat.

Chapter 16

The puzzle pieces fitted together in Starleaf’s mind. Wait that is how it happened, that is how Venom knew that were coming, thought Starleaf. Everyone else looked either surprised or shocked, Moonbuzz’s face was filled with anger.

“ATTACK,” yelled both Heat and Heatstroke.

Then it happened, the twelve dragons attacked. Heat and Heatstroke were fire-bombing Moonbuzz. Then Heat tried to sting Moonbuzz with his tail. Moonbuzz quickly turned around and pushed Heat into another dragon that was attacking Fairyfly. Starleaf noticed that his friend Nighthunter was battling two dragons and then Starleaf charged into a dragon that was attacking Nighthunter. The dragon was a LeafWing, and the LeafWing threw a plant on Starleaf and then it started to grow. Starleaf noticed it was very strong vines, but the plant was already wrapped around his hands before he could claw them off. Antarctica noticed that Starleaf was in trouble and she used her sharp IceWing claws to cut the vines off. Then she charged at the LeafWing that attacked Starleaf and then he fell with blood pouring out of his neck. Nighthunter killed the other dragon that was attacking him. Moonbuzz had Heat pinned to the ground. Heatstroke tried to save Heat, but Hope swooped down and tried to pin Heatstroke. Then Moonbuzz stabbed Heatstroke with his tail and then Heatstroke became paralyzed. Moonbuzz jumped off Heatstroke and helped Hope fight off Heat. Then the SeaWing charged into Starleaf.

“oof,” went Starleaf and then Starleaf breathed his weak fire at the SeaWing. The SeaWing did not care about the pain from the fire and then he tried to slash at Starleaf’s wings, but Hope came and pushed the SeaWing away. Before Starleaf could thank Hope, a SandWing tried to sting Hope put Fly flew fast and he saved Hope from being stung. Bowfin and Moss were fighting three dragons while Moonbuzz paralyzed Heat with his HiveWing tail. A little while later all the bad dragons were killed and Fairyfly was badly injured. Her wings had been caught on fire during the battle and they were black. She growled weakly and Heteronea came and helped her up. Heteronea had a bleeding slash on her neck but Fairyfly’s injury was the worst. Moonbuzz went over to the two paralyzed dragons and he started asking questions.

“Why did YOU do THAT,” barked Moonbuzz.

“Just kill us,” said Heat, weakly.

“first answer the questions, and the more you answer the less painful your deaths will be,” said Moonbuzz with anger in his yellow eyes.

“ok I will speak,” started Heatstroke, “we met Venom a little after we joined the group. He asked us a few questions and we answered them. He offered us a lot of treasure if we would help him with his plans. We agreed and we got some treasure, we told him about you guys coming to his place and then he put the decoy, after we met him, he used the dreamvisiter to talk to us. Once we did not want to do an order and then he said that he would kill someone he knew, so Heat and I noticed that we had to help him. But Venom offered us something else that we could not resist.”

“what was his plans and what did he offer,” asked Hope with a curious expression on her scared face. Hope tilted her head and then she looked at Starleaf, then she smiled and looked back at Heatstroke, “please answer us,” she added.

Then Heatstroke replied, “his plans were to rule all the tribes, he wanted power from everyone, he knew about the group that kidnapped Hope and he offered them help if they would help him, they rejected, Venom was furious and he came up with other plans that he did not tell us about. Venom offered us an animus touched object that would be helpful. Venom told us that he had a bowl that could double the stuff that is in it. He had the object that we wanted, it was a necklace, but it looked like a chain that can turn the wearer indivisible. Venom told us that he would double the objects so that he would have one and so Heat and I would have one, we wanted to be indivisible because it sounded interesting and we wanted to have that power.”

“what do you have to say for yourself Heat,” asked Moonbuzz.

“um,” said Heat quietly.

Moonbuzz stabbed both Heat and heatstroke with his tail and Moonbuzz said, “they will be prisoners for now until maybe Berry can decide what to do with them.”

“it is QUEEN Berry now that you will live here, you have to call her that,” said Hope.

Moonbuzz said, “ok” and then he started at Heat and Heatstroke. Fly, Moss, Fairyfly and Heteronea decided to stay with Heat and Heatstroke until the others came back.

Then the rest of the group started to head over the Queen Berry. Once they were there Queen Berry was ready to go on attack mode but once she saw Hope, she ran over to her. Queen Berry threw her wings over Hope, hugging her fiercely.

“HOPE YOU ARE BACK,” Queen Berry screamed.

“mom yo-your squishing m-me,” Hope gasped.

“oh, sorry Hope,” said Berry while loosening her grip, “who are the other dragons?”

“oh this is my BEST friend, Starleaf,” started Hope while she went over to Starleaf and put a wing around him, “and the others are from a group that helped Starleaf find me, they did want to ask if they can live here because they have nowhere else to live.”

“Oh sure, can you tell me what happened to yo-, “Berry’s voice got cut off when a dragon drove a spear into her heart.

Chapter 17

Queen Berry said, “Hope be- be careful,” and then she fell to the ground with her eyes closed. For a moment no one knew what to do. Then Hope screamed and ran to her dead mom. Starleaf stared at the dragon who killed her. It was Venom! Oh no what do I do nowwwww.

“well that was eassssy,” Venom hissed, “let us just say that is revenge for you trying to steal the dreamvisiter even though you got the fake one.”

Starleaf’s body filled with rage. He was so angry that he wanted the entire forest to go on fire. He has done so much to us HE DESERVES TO DIE. Starleaf charged at Venom with his claws out, he opened up his mouth and he shot some venom at Venom’s face. Then Antarctica shot some frostbreath in his face followed by Moonbuzz who shot some fire.

“You DESERVE a face full of flame, frost and venom, you deserve to DIE,” said Hope and she added more venom at Venom. Then Venom fell to the ground. He was dead. No one talked for a while and Hope was the first to move. She went over to Starleaf and she wrapped her wings around him, while crying. Starleaf hugged her back and he heard Hope’s soft weeps. No one did anything.

Then a RainWing ran into the room and yelled, “Queen Berry, we have defeated the intruders.”

Then the RainWing noticed Hope was there but she was crying, he yelped when he saw the dead Queen.

“Who KILLED OUR QUEEN,” the RainWing yelled.

“It’s w-was V-Venom he k-killed her but we k-killed Venom back,” said Hope softly.

“oh,” the RainWing said, “um that means you’re the new queen, Hope.”

“I-I am?”

“Yes, Queen Hope,” said the RainWing with a bow, “sorry about your mother but you need to move on and help restore order, everyone is going crazy.”

“Alright,” said Hope and she stood up straighter and walked towards the RainWing, “spread the news that Berry is d-dead and let them know that I am the new queen, then tell them to meet in the meeting area so I can talk to everyone.”

“yes, your majesty,” the RainWing said with another bow while being glad that Hope knew what to do. Once the RainWing left Hope burst into tears again and Starleaf hugged her again.

After a minute she stopped crying and she said, “we need to go to the meeting area, I have to go, Starleaf please stay next to me while I tell everyone the news. Moonbuzz can you go to the dragons that are guarding Heat and Heatstroke and bring them to the leaf hut with the red berries,” she pointed a claw to the hut, “over there. Everyone else follow me, and you are allowed to live here.”

Moonbuzz flew out of the room and the others followed Hope to the meeting area. Starleaf stood close to Hope while everyone else was gathering around the area. Once a lot of dragons were there Hope started to talk.

“Alright everyone, please bring any wounded dragons from this place and bring them to the healing center. Bring any dead dragons to the healing center, move all the dead dragons that are from the evil group to a big pile next to the healing center and then we will Berry then. Try figuring who in our tribes died, and please try figuring out their name. Queen Berry is um d-dead,” then Starleaf put a comforting wing around Hope, “and I am now the new Queen. If any dragons missed this meeting please give them a summary of what I said. Alright everyone please do what I said.”

Then the dragons started flying out of the area and they went to find the dead and hurt dragons.

“Thanks, Starleaf,” said Hope, “let us go to the healing center and check on our friends.”

“just remember that I am here for you,” Starleaf said.

“I know Starleaf, that is why I love you.”

Chapter 18

“Y-you do,” asked Starleaf, “um I love you too.”

“yeah,” replied Hope, “I know,” she added with a smile.

Then Starleaf and Hope started to fly to the healing center. The jungle was wild, there was a lot of marks and some blood on the ground. Then when Hope and Starleaf made it to the healing center they saw Heteronea and Fairyfly laying in the bed while being treated by the healers. Heteronea looked a lot better but Fairyfly looked like she would never be about to fly again.

“There might be a way to heal Fairyfly,” said Heatstroke.

“What are you doing here,” Moonbuzz asked.

“you brought us here because you did not know where the prison is.”

“oh”

“yeah, but you can go to Venom’s place and steal his stuff, there is a healing animus touched object that you can use to save Fairyfly.”

“Then we have to go there,” said Hope, “Starleaf can you go there, some RainWing will go with you, stay camouflaged and use this bag,” Hope pulled out a bad, “to carry all the treasure. The RainWings will be next to you in case there is danger.”

“I remember the password for the treasure,” said Moonbuzz, “it is 5 7 2 9.”

“ok thanks Moonbuzz,” said Starleaf.

Then about five RainWings came. “they will assist you while you go to Venom’s place,” said Hope, “please be careful.”

“Alright let’s go,” Starleaf said and he flew out of the healing center. We can also bring Stinger back as a prisoner Starleaf thought. The RainWings followed Starleaf into the hole and through the tunnel. They followed him into Venom’s place. They followed Starleaf to the treasury, “5 7 2 9,” Starleaf muttered while putting in the code. Then there was a small click and the door opened. The RainWings helped Starleaf put the treasure into the sack and then they searched around the area. They found a dreamvisiter under a pillow. They did not find anything else, so they left with the treasure. Starleaf told the RainWings about Stinger and they grabbed him, and they brought him to the prisons. Starleaf went to the healing center and he saw Hope. Then he dumped out the treasure to look at it.

Then Heatstroke pounced on a piece of treasure and said, “this is the healing treasure.”

Heatstroke put the gray rock on Fairyfly, and the blackness of her wings started to turn to normal color. Fairyfly gasped with shock while her wings were being healed.

“thanks for your help Heatstroke,” Hope said.

Heat was looking at his feet. He looked tired and weak.

“Heat since you not helpful and you did not talk you will be killed while Heatstroke will spend some time in prison and then you can be in the village,” said Hope with her wings outstretched. Hope went to Heat, and she shot some venom at him. Heat screamed but he was paralyzed so he could not do anything. Hope added more and more venom to make Heat’s death painful. Once Heat died some guards came and they dragged Heat’s body into fire and then they moved his ashes into a hole and buried it. He deserved it Starleaf thought. Then after a while Starleaf and Hope started to dig in the treasure, there were a lot of golden coins and small jewels. They found an animus bowl, necklace, another necklace, an earring, and the dreamvisiter. Hope told a trusted guard to put the treasure into the treasury, and he flew off with the treasure. Hope kept the animus touched objects next to her and she duplicated the healing rock so there was two, then four, then eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two. She kept two, and let the healers have the other thirty rocks for the injured dragons.

“Your majesty, there is something that is wrong,” said a LeafWing, “A RainWing has found something suspicious on the coast. There is a suspicious dragon that we have never seen before. I will take you there. They are both in a cave and the strange dragon is badly injured, but I think that the dragon is from a different continent.”

Chapter 19

“WHAT, take me to the strange dragon now,” Hope commanded, “Starleaf please follow me because I want to be with you.”

Before Starleaf could say anything that he wanted to say, Hope was already out the door and following the LeafWing. Starleaf pushed his back legs on the ground and he started flying after Hope. There was a lot of wind causing the flight to be rougher than he thought. He quickly caught up to her and then Hope started to talk.

“Wow a new dragon from a different continent, this is exciting, hopefully the new dragon will be nice,” Hope said.

“Yeah, I wonder If the dragon speaks our language and I also wonder what tribe he or she is in,” said Starleaf.

“If we can figure out what tribe he or she is in.”

“but overall, this will be exciting, do I have to call you Queen Hope?”

“when it is just me and you alone, no, but if we are in front of other dragons then please call me that, but it will take me a while to get used to it.”

“have you ever wanted to be Queen?”

“I thought about it when I was younger, I was like, treasure! Power! Ruling everyone! Yay that sounds fun! But now I think it will be difficult and everything and everyone depends on me. It feels like the entire tribe weight is on my wings and I will feel guilty if something bad happens. Also, I would feel guilty if something bad happens to you.”

“ok, hopefully you will get used to it soon.”

“Well that is my name, right. Hope. So, I hope that I will be the best Queen ever.”

“yeah you will be amazing!”

Once they arrived at the cave Hope ran inside and saw a sleeping injured dragon. The dragon had long wings, longer then Hope and Starleaf’s wings combined, it was the longest wings Starleaf had ever seen. The dragon had cloud and lightning like patterns on her scales and she had puffy white things going down her spine. The white things looked like clouds. Wow this is a new dragon from a different continent and different tribe. Hopefully, she will be nice. Hope and Starleaf started at the dragon in awe. The dragon looked like it got knocked out.

“how did she get knocked out,” Hope whispered.

“I think she is exhausted, and she passed out from her being so tired, I gathered some food and fresh water for when she wakes up, if she wakes up,” said the RainWing.

“I have an idea,” Starleaf said. Starleaf walked out of the cave and used a small tree stump he used his claws to dig out the inside of the tree. Then it was like a bucket so Starleaf scooped up some ocean water. Then Starleaf went back to the cave and splashed the water on the new dragon, the dragon moaned and woke up.

“I need your help,” the new dragon said.

Epilogue

Sky staired at the new dragons. There were four in the room. One of them was super colorful, another was black with some colorful scales, another had a leaf-like tail and was also colorful, the last dragon was green and also had a leaf like tail. Sky was very hungry and thirsty, her stomach was growling like a bear. Sky had a horrible headache, “I need your help,” Sky said again. Sky saw the food and water and she greedily grabbed some food and gobbled down the delicious fruit. This is a new fruit, this is a new place, I need to be careful. I cannot trust them until I trust them.

“Who are you,” the black with some colorful scale’s dragon asked.

“I am Sky, and who are you,” Sky asked. Where even am I, did I make it to the lost continent?

“I am Hope, my best friend over there is Starleaf,” she pointed at a colorful dragon with a leaf tail, “the other two dragons, I do not know their names,” said the black dragon, “what are you?”

Sky winced, she knew she had to tell but the way that Hope said what are you made it sound like Sky was an evil creature that was dangerous, Sky could be dangerous but she chose to act harmless. Sky touched her head making sure she was ok. She stood up and looked outside the cave and she stretched out her very large wings. She had bigger wings then her body so she could be the fasters of all tribes. I guess I have to tell them Sky thought while drinking some water.

“I am a dragon,” Sky tried.

“From what tribe, if your continent does tribes,” asked Hope curiously.

“Yeah we do tribes, and I am a CloudWing,” said Sky, “what are you?”

“I am a hybrid of a NightWing and RainWing and I am the queen of the LeafWings, NightWings and RainWings.”

She is not MY queen, so I do not have to bow down to her. Sky thought. Then Sky said, “ok, but I came here because I need help.”

“Why do you need help what is wrong,” asked Hope. I hope they will help me, Sky thought.

Then Sky said, “There is a battle all the hybrids on hybrid islands are in danger, they are being kidnapped and they have not been seen for a while, there is also a war going on with the DarkWings and SpikeWings for territory because DarkWings use planty like land and they absorb it to eat and their islands are all out of food. I flew here to ask for help, I- we knew that there was another continent, and I flew North to go here. The island that I came from is called Paradise. Can you please help me and everyone else?”

To be continued in the book The Only Storm…