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Bloodworm- we need to follow them...

Sumac: we knew nothing about either of you, and we assumed the worst possible scenario is the likely scenario.

Bloodworm- oh ok I see... quite understandable

Sumac: I still believe that scenario is true.

Maple: I don’t think so.. but they will need time to change…

Jade: Maple’s right. Like we said before, they’re used to having Queen Wasp’s voice in their head and thinking that leafwings are terrible dragons. I’ve even seen stuff depicting you all as less than dragons.

Maple: I have to be completely honest, that’s war propaganda for every tribe. The only difference is who wins the war.

Sumac: only the winners get to write history. I’m sure the hivewings see themselves as leading a virtuous war or something.

Autumn: because that’s what Queen Wasp is telling them.

Bloodworm- it is what they are teaching everyone

Sumac: if we win, we’ll make everything right again. We’ll be able to live in the open again, we’ll be able to have trees..

Maple: planting trees and being free will probably be the best part.

Jade: yeah..

Autumn: *feeling homesick* I’m wondering if our parents are ok…

Jade: … we’ll save them, just like we saved you.

Maple: that’s right, we will. [and swallowtail]

Bloodworm- yeah! I want to help plant trees!

Maple: we have to deal with Wasp first..

Jade: we’ll figure something out.

*you all fly onward to Pyhrria, the temporary safety of the ocean had all of you relieved and gave you all a break.*

[end]

(amazing :D)

*by the end of the day the group had once again stopped to rest on an island midpoint.

Sumac: so in a couple days we should make it to.. Pyhrria? Whatever those blue dragons said the continent was called.

Maple: huh?

Sumac: they call themselves seawings, they swam all the way here apparently.

Autumn: that’s cool.

Bloodworm- really!? That's impressive

Sumac: yeah, they have gills and webbed talons though so I’m sure that helped a little.

Bloodworm- that sounds so cool!

Autumn: yeah. I wonder how long it took them to get to Pantala.

Sumac: it probably took a couple weeks since they didn’t know where they were going. At least we had the book and the map to get us to Pyhrria though.

Bloodworm- yeah that's good.

Maple: I’m assuming Sundew got the book?

Sumac: yeah, those dragonets I was talking about helped her. Of course Queen Wasp was lying about what was in the book the whole time. Nothing in there mentions the tree wars.

Autumn: I KNEW IT!

*Sumac turned around, not expecting Autumn’s yelling*

Autumn: I wonder how Swallowtail figured it out..

Bloodworm- not sure but that's surprising

Jade: judging by how he spoke in the caves, I don’t think he ever believed it in the first place.

Maple: yeah, and I wonder who let him try different experiments with the Hivewing version of the breath of evil.

Autumn: he told me once his teacher was helping him with his own project he thought of, maybe that’s what he was referring to?

Jade: maybe.

Bloodworm- possibly

*Maple is worried as well, then she reminds herself it’s not normal for her to be worried about a hivewing. She can NOT be worried about any hivewing. They’re all evil.. just as her tribe has told her her whole life. But Swallowtail wasn’t just any Hivewing either… he was smart, but kind, or at least he was nice to her and the rest of you…*

Maple: yeah.. he would.. want us to be safe…

Jade: is something wrong?

*Maple looked at Jade, she already felt relieved just by seeing her. Her emerald scales were shining brightly in the sunset. However, she was still worried about Swallowtail. Jade could see that.*

Maple: well.. not right now besides… *she looks back at the distant continent*

Jade: we’ll find him. The queen wouldn’t kill her own like that. He’s smart.. he’ll find a way to free himself. If not, when we come back.. we’ll free him.

*the four of you flew on until you caught up with the group. Jade focused on trying to give Autumn flying lessons while you and Maple flew under them to catch Autumn incase she ended falling into the ocean*

Bloodworm- *watched autumn fly through the sky*

Autumn: this is easier than I thought.

Jade: yeah.. it’s sort of like a natural instinct when flying over something at this altitude, now my concern is landing…

Autumn: which we won’t do for a long time I think...

…

*Maple is thinking about Swallowtail, and then thinking about Jade.*

Bloodworm- just be careful...there could be some strange wind currents that appear out of nowhere

Jade: I didn’t think about wing currents.. you don’t want to fly into wind coming from the other way unless you absolutely have to, or if it’s not the strong. Try to angle yourself so you’re going with the the wind, for now, just follow the main group since we have no idea where we’re going.

Autumn; could I potentially use my silk as a sail to catch the wind?

Jade: I wouldn’t advise that. Just basic flying for now. You also want to avoid storms since it can be too windy to fly. Especially if it’s a thunderstorm.

Bloodworm- yeah thunderstorms aren't very fun when flying

Maple: and dangerous. Lightning looks deadly.

Autumn: … okay okay..

???: Maple? You made it! * you all look forward, another leafwing joined you. The new leafwing looks at you and suddenly he’s not all that happy..* another Hivewing?

Maple: he can’t be controlled by the queen, I would have been dead a lot sooner if he was.

*the new leafwing looks at you with disgust. It doesn’t appear that he trusts you*

???: I’ll believe it when I see it. It’s bad enough we have two of those menaces. *then he looks at Autumn, and he looks even more angry with Maple* You brought a hybrid?! Remember the last time we had one of THOSE in our camp?

Autumn: I would appreciate it if you could be more polite. We helped her get out of the hives and another Hivewing covered up our presence.

Maple: she isn’t like Ivy. I’ve been around her long enough to know that. And in my defense, I didn’t know this was Jade’s sister. Everyone, this is Sumac. He’s been training me for combat and stealth. *Sumac looked younger than Jade, around Autumn’s age, Maple was older. Sumac was just taller.*

Sumac: *he didn’t like this at all* *facepalming* why did I let you do this?

Bloodworm- *nervous* he won't kill me will he?

Sumac: only if you don’t give me a reason too.

Bloodworm- I don't want to die...

Sumac: I think their name was Cricket.. I don’t know really, all I know is the four of them also managed to sneak an egg out of the hives and figure out how Wasp could control all of the hivewings at once.

Maple: I’m assuming she figured out a way to infect them when they’re young?

Sumac: worse, before the dragons even hatched.

Jade: yikes, so how did you avoid that Bloodworm?

Bloodworm- I'm not sure to be honest...I think before I hatched I was moved between a couple hives so I guess that's what happened.

Autumn: yeah, she probably missed you if that was the case. I’m not sure how Swallowtail avoided it for so long though.

Maple: I don’t know if he’s telling the truth or not.

Autumn: if he was being controlled, he would have never accidentally helped the chrysalis steal from the storage buildings on the docks. He wouldn’t have distracted the guards when we ran away. I’ve known him for 3 years and not once was he controlled by the Queen. We even hid together when everyone else was being controlled. He knew some pretty good hiding spots.

Sumac: then he must have been infected later. All that matters is he can be controlled by the queen now. I still wouldn’t trust him.

Bloodworm- yeah...as much as I would like to trust him...we all can't.

Maple: I want to free him from Wasp and see what he’s like without the mind control. Without Wasp, he seemed like a nice dragon.

*Sumac turns around confused*

Autumn: he is.

Jade: I think all of them need to be freed from Queen Wasp.

Bloodworm- yeah there are genuinely nice dragons.

Jade: not sure how we can change the generation that came after the tree wars though, like directly after. Our generation is already starting to think about how wasp got her power in the first place if none of the other Hivewing queens had it.

Autumn: it would make sense for more hivewings out there that are ready to question the queen but can’t because they’re controlled and they’re used to her voice in their head. It feels natural to them.

Sumac: apparently it’s not just Queen Wasp, there’s some “othermind” that Queen Wasp is using or working in cooperation with for power.

Maple: well, that’s fun… why didn’t we just use leafspeak to get rid of the plant entirely?

Sumac: someone probably thought it was useful. *whispering but reprimanding tone, over the wind you couldn’t hear much of it. * WAIT A MINUTE YOU GAVE AWAY OUR POWER! THREE MOONS MAPLE, HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING?

Maple: not like they would know what it is.

Jade: are you.. whisper-yelling at Maple or something?

Sumac: nothing that concerns you right now. *Jade looked at Maple, who shrugged*

Bloodworm- *thinking about how queen wasp uses the plant to control the hivewings*

Autumn: I feel like my wings are about to fall off. *she begins to glide*

Maple: I’ll catch you if you fall.

*Jade follows at a close distance, ready to catch Autumn if her wings fail her, Maple loses some altitude*

Bloodworm- *watches autumn carefully and looks around*

Sumac: either way, we’ll be safe for the time being. Or at least safe from Wasp.

Jade: anywhere that is where Queen Wasp could reach us is safer than anywhere else. I’ll take a few war torn kingdoms over having my mind controlled.

Bloodworm- same for me

Autumn: so, how do we think we can stop wasp?

Sumac: by finding a cure for the plant.

Maple: BY THE TREES, I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THAT HIVEWING’S BAG!

*Sumac looked at her confused*

Maple: he had a sample of the plant, it was one of the ones wasp was growing but I imagine if we found a cure for that one, we could find a cure for the other plant.

Sumac: now you tell me. Either way, we’ed still new a good scientist.

Jade: it’s probable that we would find one wherever we’re going.

Bloodworm- yeah!

Sumac: ugh.. another chance wasted.

Maple: I was busy thinking about the hivewings chasing us and catching up to you.

Autumn: all that matters is we live to fight another day. We’ll get our chance eventually.

Sumac: .. I guess that’s a way of looking at it.

Bloodworm- it's always a waiting game

Jade: I guess burning out the hives wouldn’t work..

*Shmac turned Around, stunned*

Jade: I’m assuming that’s why you wanted my flamesilk..

Sumac: yeah, it would bring maximum destruction to your hives. Losing your home is the most demoralizing thing we could think of.

Jade: when the hivewings are all controlled by the queen, you only affect the silkwings, drawing them further away from your cause. Depending on the hive, some would help you and tell silkwings to evacuate before it happens.

Bloodworm- ...I didn't want to lose my home...

Jade: … and free hivewings like Bloodworm. It’s a good plan for all out destruction and winning over other allies seeking territory here, but if you’re looking for silkwings, destroying their homes without them prepared to leave won’t help. And the hivewings will hate you more if you’re looking for another kingdom coexistence.

Sumac: that’s the thing, we’re trying to inflict the same punishment on them as they have done to us.

Autumn: you were going to kill all of them?

Sumac: by the trees, was it not obvious? You’ve seen what they’ve done to your tribe, and frankly I think they deserve it. That blasted tribe should be wiped out.

*Jade looks at Maple*

Jade: is this true?

Maple: .. yes we were. And half of our tribe vowed to keep fighting, I joined that half thinking it would make a difference, that we would no longer have to live in secret in a dangerous jungle. The other half the tribe, with our queen, wanted to lay low, keep ourselves hidden for when the time was right. See where that got us. That’s why I’m named after a tree while some of the others are named after hazardous plants. Now I don’t think all hivewings are bad, Bloodworm and Swallowtail helped me realize that, but your queen and other hivewings in power have to go. Once they’re gone, I believe the hivewings can change for the better, and a semi-peaceful relationship can be restored.

Sumac: I’m not as optimistic as you are, in fact I think we’ll go back to warring with each other. That’s why the whole tribe has to go.

Autumn: what about free hivewings, like bloodworm and the other one you mentioned? What about those who are sympathetic but can’t do anything to help, like Swallowtail? What about hybrids, like me?

Sumac: … to be completely honest, I never considered those groups of dragons until now.

Bloodworm- wow...you didn't tink of all of the possibilities and factors?

Sumac: did you think we wanted to die when your tribe—

Maple: that’s enough Mr. Angry.. sorry Bloodworm..

Sumac: what is wrong with you? Why are you defending—

Maple: because he helped me and Jade scout out the hives. Turns out I didn’t get back in time for my help to be of much use.

Bloodworm- it's ok maple...he has a right to...even though I had no control I still feel really bad...

Maple: it’s not ok. He hasn’t been around a good Hivewing.. what most of us leafwings know is how you all have acted 50 years ago, and same for silkwings. The same probably goes for your point of views about us since you guys probably thought we were extinct.

Jade: all of which I guess is partially true since Wasp is still in power and busy shoving propaganda down all of our throats.

Maple: and we haven’t seen any hivewings besides those expeditions in a long time, and we haven’t seen a silkwing since the tree wars.

Sumac: you’re acting crazy.

Maple: when we’ve been together for a few days you’ll see.

Sumac: I’m fine with the silkwings, I knew about all that, I’m just not sure about him. *points to Bloodworm* Or her. *pointing to Autumn now*

Autumn: I have to say this, you aren’t making a good impression for your tribe right now, Sumac.

Sumac: … *he looks like he’s going to snap, Jade hushed Autumn and Maple flew between Sumac and Autumn* you’re going to—

Maple: calm down. Trust me Sumac, they’re good dragons.

Sumac: .. fine then. We’ll see how it goes.

*over the next few days of flying, Sumac’s mood improved and he began to trust you. Sumac and Autumn were getting along well now, and he even began to admit that he might have been wrong about you and another Hivewing that joined the group you all traveled to Pyhrria to safety*

[End..?]

(We can continue if you want)

Bloodworm- *does a couple flips in the air*
(Sure we can continue :> )

*a day and a half later from the last dialogue*

Sumac: … ok… maybe I was a little too quick to think you would be a risk *looking at Autumn*, but bloodworm I think you know why I don’t trust you.

Bloodworm- yeah I know and I don't blame you.

Sumac: *definitely not sorry about yesterday* hmph.. sure.

Maple: well.. I’m sorry about Sumac’s behavior yesterday. The last time I’ve seen him that angry was a couple months ago when I almost got caught scouting the greenhouses.

Sumac: well of course I was mad at you. You would have put all of us in danger if you were caught.

Maple: I wasn’t, and here I am taking lessons from some who actually did get caught over a year ago.

Sumac: I said I think I was almost seen.

*Maple sighs knowing this is going nowhere*

Bloodworm- well at least we get to leave that awful continent

Maple: for now. I don’t want to leave the rest of the silkwings to queen wasp.

Jade: why were you evacuating?

Sumac: … apparently another flamesilk showed up with a regular silkwing and a Hivewing who also couldn’t be controlled. They were traveling with Sundew apparently, they theorized that if they burned the Breath of Evil, it might release Queen Wasp’s control. I think you noticed the result, we’re down half the leafwing tribe which is now under the control of Queen Wasp, what silkwings were with our group fled. Who knows what’s going to happen to the remaining dragons.

Autumn: my friend, despite being infected with the plant, flew all the way out here fighting the Queen’s Control, just to tell us not to get anywhere near the smoke. We made it through the forest underground.

Sumac: so you had two hivewings with you?

Jade: well.. yeah, Swallowtail was only with us while we were in the cave. You must have had a different variation of the “Breath of Evil” plant in the jungle than we did.

Sumac: how is that so?

Autumn: Wasp was growing it in a greenhouse. If she could use it against silkwings, we would already have been under her full control.

Bloodworm- yeah...wait another hivewing? What's their name?

Autumn: I guess we’ll figure it out when we see him again.

Bloodworm- if we see him again

Maple: we will.. we have to stop Wasp somehow anyway. [And I’ll make sure I see him again. Wait.. what..? I’m not supposed to… who am I kidding?]

Jade: what if someone else does?

Maple: I’ll still come back. I’m not leaving Pantala’s forever.

Bloodworm- me either

Sumac: by the book, we all plan to come back. But we need to figure out a way to deal with wasp and the othermind first!

Maple: hm..

Bloodworm- yeah your right

Sumac: we just need time to regroup and maybe get a little help from these other tribes.

Maple: how many are there?

Sumac: like 6 or 7.

Autumn: with an army made up of every tribe combined, Wasp doesn’t stand a chance!

Sumac: unless we make the same mistake and she burns our variation of the breath of evil that affects all dragons.

Bloodworm- 6-7 TRIBES!?

Sumac: yes. It sounds like they all just got out of a war themselves so I’m not sure how much they’re willing to help us.

Bloodworm- huh interesting...I'm excited to see they look like

(That shouldn’t say “don’t” when Sumac says he might kill you, that’s a mistake)

(ohhh ok)

Autumn: *looking at her wings and back over the water, concerned* I’m not sure if I can…

Jade: we need to make a decision on the next few minutes or it’s going to be made for us. *she looks out over the water*

*upon hearing Autumn, it became clear that Swallowtail was having another flashback*

Bloodworm- hmmm...well autumn you got this...it's a leap of faith and if you fall I can catch you.

——
Swallowtail was pulled back into his memories one last time. First it was the greenhouse at Wasp hive. He wasn’t supposed to be in there but he found it interesting. Besides it got him away from the other students. He went into the run down one out of curiosity. He wandered around the front for a bit and ended up finding some of the breath of evil plant.

“What in the book is this?”

He couldn’t help but feel he was being watched, so he stuffed a few samples in his bag he was carrying. He thought he heard someone moving towards him and assumed it was a Hivewing guard.

“Sorry, I’ll be on my way, I got lost,” he said as he bolted for the door.

Scared that he would be punished for entering a restricted area, he left. Swallowtail gets thrown into another memory and he was now standing in the streets of Bloodworm Hive. Autumn was working so he didn’t want to bother her. He ended up talking to another silkwing who mentioned the chrysalis by slipping up while talking. He ended up getting him access to a storage building where he was stealing food from, a little while later, hivewings arrived and arrested some of the silkwings who broke in after the two of them had left.

Finally the last memory.

“Why didn’t you report anything abnormal about the greenhouse?”

“Because I wasn’t supposed to be anywhere near there. I thought I would have been punished.”

The Hivewing interrogator kept circling the room trying to intimidate him, and it was working.

“So you’re saying you have the book?”

“Why would I have the book if I never went to the temple?”

“There were dragons hiding in the greenhouse while you were there who we assume have stolen it. Do you know anything?!”

“No!”

The interrogator grabbed Swallowtail.

“Don’t test me dragonet, I know you know something. You allowed the chrysalis to steal from our secured storage facilities, you’ve helped them by distracting guards, and just recently you’ve let an silkwing escape the hive. So I think you know something.”

Another Hivewing came in and whispered something to the interrogator.

… “We’ll finish this later. The queen is here to make sure you are under her control.”

“WAIT, STOP, I WAS TELLING THE TRUTH! I HAVE NO IDEA!”

“Well I’m afraid the Queen doesn’t care what you have to say, this is mandatory.”

He could only look at them both with fear, he had no idea what this would mean for him.
——

Swallowtail: *he paused* … go. You can make it there. I know you can.

Bloodworm- *looked at swallowtail them back at autumn with an encouraging look*

Autumn: I..

Swallowtail: if anyone can make it, you can. Believe in yourself.

Autumn: you’re right, I have too. For mother and father.

Maple: what about you Swallowtail?

Swallowtail: I cannot join you. *taking off his blindfold* I would risk giving away how to fly to your destination. I’ll be better use here in trying to find a cure for this mind controlling thing.

*Maple is scared about him without his blindfold on but forgot there isn’t much to reveal here anymore, just that the dragons were fleeing. Swallowtail turns to face her*

Maple: … *looks slightly worried queen wasp might come back again*

Swallowtail: it was kind of stupid for me not to realize you were a leafwing at first. I’ve always wanted to meet one.

Maple: well you have your wish.

Swallowtail: good luck, and take care of yourselves. I’ll see what I can do here.

Jade: we’ll do.

Swallowtail: now go. You don’t have much time to catch up.

*it’s time for you to take off, Swallowtail sat down and watched as you flew away*

Bloodworm- it was nice to meet you swallowtail...*takes off with the others*

Jade: you never wrote that you were friends with a Hivewing.

Autumn: it wasn’t important. I couldn’t see him often because of work and school.

Maple: well he seems like a nice dragon, you’re very lucky Autumn.

Autumn: well, it makes up for some of bloodworm hive.

Bloodworm- swallowtail was very nice well he seemed to be nice

Jade: he sure was..

*Maple and Autumn looked back at him, he was still watching, but some hivewings were coming up behind him, he turned around to fight and he did well slowing them down for a few minutes while resisting the queen’s control, but was overwhelmed and taken back through the cave*

Autumn: we have to go back!

Jade: we can’t, we’ll get caught!

Maple: Swallowtail’s in trouble!

Jade: … *concerned, she looked back* I think he would have wanted us to leave while he distracted them. It’s the best thing we can do, if we get caught, he would have fought for nothing.

Autumn: you’re right… not like the hivewings know how to follow us.

*you could tell Maple’s mind was having an argument with itself, she followed you all out to sea anyways*

Bloodworm- i hope he will be ok...