It wasn't long before Cricket came back with the next group. Sadly it wasn't Glorys group.

The third group to arrive wasn't Glorys group either. It had been roughly three hours since the last group was supposed to be here.

It was extremely worrying. I had been pacing in large circles for over half hour.

"Permafrost you need to calm down I'm sure their fine." Pastel comforted.

"No it's not Pastel you know it to! They should have been back 3 hours ago! The only message they've sent you was that they were safe and that could have been anybody who sent it! All they would have had to do is steal one of the other's wood slabs!" I rambled panickedly.

"Hey, hey, hey, calm down it's ok have you tried messaging Glory again yet?" Pastel asked calmly.

"Yes! And she hasn't answered yet either and thats also a really bad sign!" I answered scaredly.

"Urgh!" I growled, my talons gripping painfully at my many horns, feeling tears prickle my eyes.

"Hey! What's going on? is she ok?" Sundew said as she walked into the cave.

"No she's panicking because Glorys group is 3 hours late and ever since the message to me saying they were safe they haven't been answering." Pastel explained.

"So why is she panicking if they said they were safe?" Sundew asked.

"Because apparently anyone could have sent that message if they stole a wood slab from one of the Rainbowings. Even though! I already explained that thats not possible becaus they would need to know my name and that I was here, and how to use the wood slab in general!" Pastel explained annoyedly.

"Hey you need to calm down ok?" Sundew said sternly walking up to me.

"I can't! It's my responsibility to bring Glory back safely to our friends on Pyrrhia!" I yelled tears threatening to fall from my eyes.

Sundew pulled my serrated talons away from my head. She winced when she saw the small beads of dark purple blood.

"It's going to be ok Permafrost even if Wasp has somehow captured Glorys group and figured out how to use the wood slabs we will get them back." Sundew said determinedly.

Just then Cricket came splashing out of the water and into the cave.

"Is Glory's group back?!" I yell asked instantly.

"Erm not exactly..." Cricket said.

As she said that Moth and Irei came spluttering out of the water, Irei helping Moth climb out of the underwater tunnel into the cave.

I instantly ran over to them and helped Moth stand.

"What happened?" I asked very calmly for my extremely panicked state.

Moth tried to speak but broke down in a coughing mess so Irei explained for her. "Wasp found our group. We were waiting at scorpion lake which was when we sent the message that we were safe, but when we were on our way to the sinkhole Wasp ambushed us. We barely got away."

I had fallen back tears starting to prickle out from my eyes. I growled in anger scaring Moth and Irei's Scavenger.

"Hey! Calm down it's ok we'll find them their probably at the Wasp Hive we'l-" Sundew started before being intrupted by me.

"Get me rock." I said.

They look at me with confused looks on their faces.

"Quickly!" I demanded.

Pastel jumped up and ran over across the cave where we had cleared the rocks away to.

She came back and handed me a decently sized one. I held it between my talons and barely took time to think of the enchantment.

"I enchant this rock to turn into a slab of stone." The rock warped and flattened itself into a slab. "I enchant this slab of stone to show me what dragons are doing at the moment I say their name and tap the stone slab."

"Glory." I said to it while tapping on it's surface.

Little colored stone figures rose outof the surface and started moving.

Their was two black and yellow tinted stone figures standing still infront of a red orange and black stone figure that I could tell was Glory because it's colors were shifting around.

Their were multiple other dragon figures that I was guessing was the rest of Glory's group. Suddenly another Black and yellow figure rose out of the stone.

The words "Queen Wasp." Echoed from the two original Black and Yellow figures and they sank back into the slab.

"Hello." Wasp's figure said.

Her fakely sweet greeting was met with growls of hostility and a scoff from Glory.

I scratched the surface of the slab knocking away the stone figures. I had seen enough. I knew where they were and who was with them.

"Another rock." I growled.

Sundew was already ready however and she dropped a roundish shaped rock into my talons.

"I enchant this rock so if I touch a dragon with it they turn invisible, are unable to be heard or felt, and are transported outside of Glory's groups cell. This enchantment includes the dragons items they are wearing or holding and it will last until I smash the rock."

The dragons around me nodded in agreement and understanding. I tapped all the dragons who walked up to me which was a majority of my group and a few from the others.

Once no one else approached me I nodded at the left over dragons. They nodded back which was all the approval I needed. I tapped myself with the rock and immediately felt a tugging feeling.

It felt like I was being dragged through nothing but everything at the same time. I couldn't feel anything but there was pressure on all sides of me.

I couldn't breathe and all I could see was an inky blackness. All of a sudden the unpleasant feelings were gone and I was inside a poorly lit dungeon.

My lungs expanded gratefully at the damp air. I looked around the room and nearly jumped out of my scales when I saw Wasp.

She was in a stare off with Glory. A few of the dragons from her group were in a cell with her but the others were in cells to both the left and right of her.

I looked to the right and saw one of the locks being very very slowly opened but the door staying closed.

A moment later the other one did the same. Even though I knew my companion dragons couldn't see me I nodded in approval.

I placed my talons onto the ring on my horn.

"I enchant this ring to make it so the rock that I tapped myself with dosen't work on me." I said out loud.

Wasp immediately seemed to feel my presence in the room but it didn't matter. My deadly sharp talons were at her throat in seconds.

There I stayed Wasp frozen in place from shock and my talons pressed up against her harshly yellow scales that were in that area.

"Don't move." I said in a very threatening voice.

As I spoke I noticed I could now see the other dragons here but Wasp still couldn't.

The doors to the other cells opened instantly and the dragons piled out out.

I used my free talons to squeeze the rock they were holding tighter.

"Tap yourselves with this rock it'll turn you invisible like everyone else." I said holding it out.

Catapillar took her chance. She grabbed it without question and walked around the room tapping the non invisible dragons.

One of the Leafwings with me managed to unlock Glorys cell and it's door flew open.

Glory gave Wasp a triumphant look before being tapped by Catapillar.

Wasp growled in anger but stopped almost immediately when I pressed my deadly serrated talons closer to her throat drawing small beads of blood.

Once Catapillar had tapped everyone I told her to tap everyone herself and hand me the rock. Of course once she did I could still see her but I knew it must have worked.

Once I was holding the rock I slipped it into my pouch around my chest.

Even though Wasp was alot bigger then me I was still able to guide her into the cell.

I shifted to be infront of her and with lighting speed before Wasp could attack me I was out of the cell locking it.

I touched my talons to my bracelet.

Queen Wasp.

My scales instantly shifted and I grew larger. My wings seemed to fold in on themselves as they shrank, spilt into four separate wings and changed to look like Wasp's wings.

Wasp seemed to stunned to speak.

Looks like shes never heard of a magic dragon.

I giggled to myself in Wasp's raspy deep voice. I walked out of the dungeon without being stopped by the gaurds.

It didn't take me long to find a hidden spot to transform. I turned myself into a Silkwing.

With that disguise I was able to easily walk out of the Hive, the rest of my very large group following.

(How we feeling about this chapter as we can tell I'm not the best at writing scenes like this TuT 👍 anywho 1536 words!)