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The sun shone down on the soldier’s barracks up in the peaks of the sky kingdom Pyrite sat with her best friend Eagle playing chess.
“You see I have you backed into a corner now!” Eagle cheered moving a piece “Checkmate!”
“Ugh, I can never beat you I guess I'm just not smart enough..” Pyrite frowned. Eagle stopped laughing and looked at her serious
“Hey don’t say stuff like that you’re great remember when you beat me at quiz night?” He frowned
“But that was onl-” She objected
“No excuses! You’re amazing” he interjected. Pyrite wanted to believe Eagle but that wasn’t what the commander told her.
“How about we spread our wings! Race you to Jasper Mountain!” He stood up triumphantly
“There’ll be no need for that” another voice objected “Pyrite Queen Scarlet has requested an audience immediately” A skywing commander explained
“Oh I’ll do anything for the queen I’ll rush along…!” Pyrite exclaimed. Eagle chuckled he was the only one who’d ever notice the tones of sarcasm in her praise of the queen that’s what she liked about him.
She landed in Scarlet’s throne room curiosity buzzing through her
“Your majesty you requested to see me?” She bowed noticing a strange dragon next to her who appeared to be a rainwing???
“Yes.” Scarlet hissed
“For what reason?” Pyrite asked
“You’ll see in a moment! You’ve been chosen for something very special” Scarlet smiled a horrible smile which made her scales crawl.
The rainwing wrote something down and she could feel something coursing through her. It started as a small buzz and turned into waves of sensation coursing through her whole body. It felt as if her scales were melting and hardening again and her mind was chipping away into darkness. Slowly reality faded away as the last thing she heard was
“Thrilling! Now bring in the icewing you better not have just wasted one of my soldiers for nothing” and then she was gone.
Eagle tapped his talons nervously Pyrite had nearly been gone for a whole day, one incredibly boring day. But suddenly from Scarlet’s castle a dragon with golden scales flew out.
“Hey Pyrite!” he called and waved as she landed
“Uh do I know you?” she asked. She didn't seem like she was joking but surely she had to be.
“I’ts eagle your friend?” he explained
“Oh yeah, Eagle sorry my memory is a bit fuzzy.” she mumbled “Sorry.”
“Hey, I told you. you need to stop saying sorry so much” he teased brushing against her wing affectionately
“Sorry oops..! Uh..” she stuttered. Eagle noticed something around her neck. an odd necklace he’d never seen before with a pouch instead of a gemstone on the end
“Hey what’s that for?” he poked at it
“Don’t touch it! Queen Scarlet said I can't ever ever take it off!” she exclaimed pulling it away from him
“Since when did you care so much about the queen’s orders?!” he laughed
“Why wouldn’t I?” she looked genuinely confused. She was acting strange as if Queen Scarlet had done something to her…
“I’m on watch now I think so see you” Eagle lied.