Chapter 15: Traitor
"I'll let you two get acquainted." Commander said, clapping Venom's shoulder. "Get along. I need our two greatest assets to this army in cooperative order."
When Commander left, Dreamseeker cleared his throat.
"Don't worry little fox. I don't bite, you don't shoot. Not really a scary Night Wings, really." Dreamseeker looked at his talons with boredom.
"You...." Venom began, unable to fathom the choice words she had for this conniving reptile.
"Yes. I can talk." Dreamseeker said snidely,as if he got this question every day of his life.
"You... YOU TRAITOR!!" Venom screamed, slinging the rifle around her shoulder and into her hands. "Dreamseeker, I oughta blow your brains out!"
The NightWing looked astonished. "How did you, my name? What are you talking about?" He tried to play it off.
"I know exactly who you are. You survived the first barrage on Possibility. You can see multiple future visions. That ugly scarring and missing eye was caused by a venom attack from my friend Capuchin! And you... YOU'RE WORKING WITH THEM?!?" She shouted, cocking the gun.
"Whoa, whoa!" Dreamseeker put his talons up. "Don't get so hasty! How did you know all of that?"
It then hit Venom. Dreamseeker didn't really know who she was.
"I'm one of the dragons you abandoned. The rest are still in the Rainforest Kingdom, probably dead, because of you!" Venom shouted. "You've been feeding them information about the tribes this whole time, haven't you?! TALK!"
"Okay, okay! Yes, you're right. I take it that you are somehow a scavenger embodiment of Venom." Dreamseeker said, then got frantic as Venom put her finger on the trigger. "Yes, yes! Since left, I found a ton of loot in an old scavenger den. Used it to upgrade my animus-ring here. I can talk to them now, they pay me with gold, and immunity in this war; and I give them information on any visions or any tribal information I can lay my claws on!" Dreamseeker gasped for air after talking non-stop.
Venom put away her rifle. "I am disgusted with you."She turned on her heel, and started to storm out of the room, when she felt cold, deadly talons wrapped around her. She looked up. There, holding her in her claws, was the animated skin of Queen Fierce of the SkyWings.
Dreamseeker tisked smugly from the floor. Ring around his finger glowing an etheral green. He had done more to it than allow him to talk to scavengers. Venom was sure of that.
"You know. Well, you probably do, but you have too much information in your little brain, Venom." he said. "I can't let such a petty thing ruin my lovely reputation here, now can I?"
He looked up at the SkyWing skin. "Take her out."
As Venom covered her eyes, waiting for the incoming fatal blow. Her mind wandered to Insight, Capuchin, Ash. She had let them down. Tears rolled down her cheek.
When the thundering roar of thousands of dragons shook the mountain they stood on. Firece's head swiveled to the open wall of the throne room. So did Dreamseeker and Venom.
There, crashing like a tidal wave of scales over the mountains, were the armies of every single tribe. Dragons of all sizes, colors, and rankings flooded into the valley. IceWings, MudWings, SandWings, SeaWings, RainWings, and NightWings. Venom could even see and army of hybrid dragons mixed into the fray, most likely all students from the Tribes United Academy.
Their leader, the only SkyWing, an ashy red one, with black accents. Ash! venom's eyes widened. He was alive! And so was Capuchin! Struggling to fly next to the SkyWing.
"FOR PYYRHIA!!" Ash shouted his morale into the wind.
"FOR PYYRHIA!" thousands of dragons shouted back.
The sound was like a shockwave of energy. It blasted the side of the Sky Palace with such force, that Queen Fierce was knocked back against the wall. Venom fell out of her open talon, and hit the floor with a thud. She swung her rifle around to its target.
CRACK
Dreamseeker's head snapped back. The bullet had hit home.
As the NightWing slumped back against the wall, the dragon army flooded into the Sky Palace. Immediately, Fliers were frozen over, dragon-cactus bombs were planted in the Tankers, and scavengers were scurrying for their lives, plucked off the ground by hulking dragons, who snapped their tiny necks and went to the next one.
Venom watched from the turrets placed strategically around HHQ. The sounds of firing hundreds of rounds filled her ears, as dragons of all tribes were pumped full of gleaming lead. Bodies began to drop like flies.
Two dragons stumbled into the throne room,and Venom defensively raised her rifle.
"Venom!" Ash and Capuchin yelled, stumbling over to her. "You're alive!"
"You're alive too!" she shouted, not realizing they couldn't understand her. She hugged Ash's arm.
"Sister!" Insight shouted happily, sliding off of Capuchin's good wing. He ran and tackled Venom with such force it knocked her to the floor. He smiled, and handed her a silver-studded leather armband. "Let's take back what belongs to us."
Insight was willingly giving up his life of living peacefully in Pyyrhia, so Venom could be the dragon she always was. That was okay. She would make sure they'd live normally again.
Once this was all over.
Venom took the band from her brother, and tied it to her arm.
And all disappeared in a flash of white.
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