Legends: The Storm; The Burning Betrayal

This is book 2 of a series written by Cheetah1117=gud, Nightseeker, and an anonymous real-life friend of theirs, and edited by Nightseeker437.

Book 1: https://authors-academy.fandom.com/wiki/Legends_The_Storm:_The_Last_LightWing

Note from Nighty: Hey guys! We know you were all very eager to get book 2, so we have decided to give you a sneak peek of the first chapter!

Chapter 1
Pigeon woke up feeling strange. He felt like he was ON FIRE. In his eyes, he felt an eternal burning, and it destroyed him, his mind felt blurred with anger. He didn’t know what to do so he ran around in circles. His tail hit the door and it melted into a puddle of metallic gunk. “WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?? ” Then, he saw Clover running towards him with a key. Together, they freed lots of other prisoners. “Where are Apple, Cheetah, and Seaweed?” Clover asked. “Look, there she is!” Pigeon said. There were scavengers guarding Seaweed. “I got it.” Pigeon said. He shot a fireball at the guards, and all of them melted. “How did you do that?” Clover asked. “I don’t know.” Pigeon replied. “This must be a dream., he said. Then, he woke up, thinking wow, even dream me is annoying. He pondered about the dream thinking about how he could get out. He roamed around his room for about a minute, searchings for any kind of lockpick and such.

He then paced around, whacking anything with his thin tail. He liked to pace because it gave him something to do while he pondered for any ideas. Pigeon, ever since he was little, liked to read scrolls, and loved formulating plans in his mind. He suspected he got this from his mother because the very few memories he had of her were her pacing around.

When he was a one or two-year-old dragonet, he was taken to the main scavenger encampment. His mother and father didn’t come with him, however. So, as soon as he figured out they weren’t coming, he started planning to escape. As he got older his escape plans got better and better, but every single one was foiled by Falconshade’s scavengers, he hated living in complete isolation. He longed for the day when he would just meet his parents. While he was pacing, he saw a dragon holding a key, just outside his door. It was a SandWing, likely a servant of Falconshade, who was taunting him with it. He placed the key on the floor just out of Pigeon’s reach. Pigeon growled. The SandWing laughed. He moved out of the way as two scavengers walked past, squeaking with what looked like laughter. “Well, SkyWing, you gonna get the key? Or are you just going to keep pacing?” the SandWing laughed. Then, he quickly leaped out of the way as Pigeon breathed fire at him. “Rrrrr, why can’t I tease anyone without getting burnt.” the SandWing growled. He finally left after Pigeon hit him with more fire.

About thirty minutes later, five scavengers came with a rope. One of the big, strong ones they used for restraining workers who had refused to do their job. Pigeon remembered seeing one of those scavengers, back when he was working at hunting. He had been eating his fruit instead of putting it in the scavengers’ carts. He was tranqed, tied up in that rope, and immediately carried away in one of those same carts.

Pigeon tried to roar but the scavengers had fireproof armor and weren’t as intimidated as the guards protecting the door to the palace. They tied Pigeon’s mouth shut, and then they wrapped the rope around his talons. He was brought into a giant room, filled with books. Lots of very old books. Then, he saw the throne. It was huge, laced with gold and silver and had a huge black velvet cushion. Then he looked over at Falconshade. He had a  dark purple body, and black underbelly scales. He was extremely muscular, and he was massive, probably the spell to keep him a scavenger. Falconshade is ancient. Pigeon thought. He must be at least 5 times the size of a normal dragon. “Where is the Jade Dagger?” Falconshade growled from everywhere in the room.

“Where is it, SkyWing!”

“Hnmm rmm?” Pigeon said, annoyed.

“You imbeciles, take off that rope!” He growled at the scavengers.

“The Jade Dagger?” Pigeon asked. “I thought you confiscated it?” “What do you mean, SkyWing?” His face looked annoyed and a little confused.

“I thought you took it?” He said louder, trembling, “Clover had it.”

“The Jade Dagger is with her!?” Falconshade yelled.

“It was, the last time I checked,” Pigeon replied. He felt bold talking to Falconshade normally.“You are excused.” said Falconshade