The Brightest Night (book)

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The Brightest Night, the fifth novel and finale of the first Wings of Fire series, was available on Amazon March 25, 2014, and released to everywhere else on the first day of April 2014. Sunny, the SandWing Dragonet of Destiny, is the main protagonist.

This book follows The Dark Secret.

The title most likely refers to the night when the three moons of Pyrrhia will be full all at the same time, known as "the brightest night" in the prophecy.

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Summary

One will have the power of wings of fire....

Sunny has always taken the Dragonet Prophecy very seriously. If Pyrrhia's dragons need her, Clay, Tsunami, Glory, and Starflight to end the war, she's ready to try it. She even has some good ideas how to do it, if anyone would listen to her.

But shattering news from Morrowseer has shaken Sunny's faith in their destiny. Is it possible for anyone to end this terrible war and choose a new SandWing queen? What if every thing they've been through was for nothing? What if the war would never end?

Buried secrets, deadly surprises, and an unexpected side to scavengers are all waiting for her in the shifting sands of the desert, where Sunny must decide once and for all: Is her destiny already written?

Or can five dragonets change their fate and save the world... the way they choose?

Plot

Prologue

The book begins with a flashback to twenty years before the events of the series. Queen Oasis hears a noise in the treasury and goes to investigate. On her way, she bumps into Blister and Blaze in the hallway. Oasis notes how Blaze is a good daughter, but would be a poor queen, and how Blister makes her uneasy. She realizes that scavengers have stolen some treasure. Oasis goes out to attack them, and tells Blister wake up Burn to come help. Queen Oasis then goes out to eliminate the thieving scavengers.

Part 1: The Shifting Sands

Sunny flees from the Night Kingdom after Morrowseer tells her that the prophecy is false. She keeps wondering what will happen to her and the other dragonets as she returns to the rainforest. She bumps into a NightWing and listens as Queen Glory begins talking to the NightWings about what is expected of them. Two RainWings then drag Mastermind forward and Glory has him bound, but before anything else happens, Fatespeaker, Tsunami, Clay and Starflight come out of the tunnel, escaping a massive ball of fire. Clay puts Starflight on the ground and before Sunny can get to him, she is dragged into the forest by three NightWings.

The three NightWings, Preyhunter, Fierceteeth, and Strongwings, reveal their plans to use Sunny as a bargaining chip to win Glory's favor. Sunny tries to derail their efforts by belittling herself, but soon feels guilty about it. Preyhunter then reveals the Obsidian Mirror and uses it to spy on Glory. In the image, Glory tells Jambu to count all of the NightWings, but changes her mind and has Deathbringer do it instead. Preyhunter then calls Deathbringer a traitor. Clay appears in the image with an update on Starflight's injuries. Tsunami appears and mentions that Sunny was upset and says not to worry about her. When Glory asks why Sunny is upset, and hears why, she gets mad and starts ranting at Morrowseer, promising to bite his head off, stuff him in a volcano, and kill him again. Clay and Tsunami belittle Sunny's faith in the prophecy and Sunny gets mad at them. The NightWings debate selling Sunny for a reward and decide on Burn. At that moment, Sunny bites Fierceteeth's tail and flees, pursued by the NightWings.

Sunny soon manages to get away from the NightWings, and after they depart, Sunny decides to prove her friends wrong about her and goes after the dragons. The dragons stop near the Jade Mountain, and Sunny manages to steal the Obsidian Mirror and leaves a cryptic message for them on a flat rock. Sunny searches for her friends, and then Blister, and the Fierceteeth when she hears the dragons find the Mirror missing. Strongwings mentions The Darkstalker, and Fierceteeth dismisses this. They soon decide to keep going without the mirror and Sunny follows them through the Claws of the Clouds Mountains. En Route, Sunny finds a scavenger den and marvels at the craftsmanship and wonders how the scavengers made the den so well. Sunny then continues to follow them to the desert. The three NightWings decide to go the Scorpion Den first, to send a message to Burn.

When Sunny arrives at the Scavenger Den, she watches the NightWings try to gain entry and decides to bury the Obsidian Mirror. When the NightWings are admitted, and Sunny follows them, but is intercepted instantly by a SandWing who introduces himself as Six-Claws. Sunny tries to deny that she was following the NightWings, but Six-Claws doesn't appear to buy it. He explains about the Scorpion Den on the way to see Thorn. When they arrive, Thorn questions the NightWings about Morrowseer, and is told the NightWing prophet is dead. This angers her, and so she proceeds to kill Preyhunter, as she believes he is lying.

Thorn tries to get a more satisfying answer out of Fierceteeth and Strongwings, but they back up Preyhunter's story. In an effort to save Starflight's sister, Sunny confirms the tale. Thorn asks who she is and the two NightWings try to ask for a message to Burn, but Thorn refuses. Then Fierceteeth claims that Sunny is the SandWing dragonet of destiny. Thorn dismisses the NightWings to "someplace unpleasant" and further questions Sunny about her past. Thorn soon reveals that she is Sunny's mother. Addax threatens Ostrich, Six-Claws' daughter, so that he can take Sunny and so he, Sunny, and Ostrich fly to Burn's Stronghold and send Ostrich back in one hour.

Part 2: Burn's Stronghold

Sunny falters while in the stronghold, smelling the rotting smells. Sunny remembers where she had first saw Addax, at Scarlet's palace. Where Addax meets Smolder is when Sunny goes into the wierdling tower.Smolder tells Sunny that there were three scavengers that had killed Queen Oasis and they encounter Scarlet and Flower, a scavenger. Smolder lets it slip that the Eye of Onyx is needed to be SandWing queen. Soon, the stronghold is attacked by Thorn and the Outclaws. Peril had come to save Queen Scarlet and instead makes the Outclaws and Smolder's army stop fighting. Smolder tells Thorn that she had a letter from someone that was intercepted and locked Thorn and Sunny in the library. When they escape, Sunny leaves for Jade Mountain, Thorn takes care of the remaining Outclaws, while Peril gets Scarlet out. When Sunny lands in Jade Mountain, she meets her father Stonemover.

Part 3: The Eye of Onyx

Sunny has woken up and is now ready to leave the cave. She tells Stonemover and he doesn't want her to leave. Sunny decides on a plan and goes toward a scavenger den. She meets the two and names them Fluffy and Holler, gets the dreamvisitor and realizes they don't have the Eye of Onyx. She meets the rest of the Dragonets and alternate Dragonets and tells them the plan. First, Tsunami and Sunny send a message through Riptide, Nautilus, Avalanche and a SandWing to Blister. Clay and Sunny send a message through the MudWings to Burn after sending Jambu and Mangrove to the IceWings to get a message to Blaze. When the message through the IceWings fails, Sunny uses the dreamvisitor to tell Blaze the message. At Burn's Stronghold, the three sisters meet and Burn gets bitten by a dragonbite viper and Clay protects them from it, getting poisoned. Peril burns out the poison and Blister and Blaze fight one-on-one and in the middle, the Eye of Onyx is found by Sunny, Glory, Tsunami, Thorn and Flower. Sunny decides that the queen of the SandWings should be Thorn, and Blister dies because of the enchantment of the Eye of Onyx when she grabbed it.

Trivia

• It is one of the only books (along with The Dark Secret) where nighttime is of the background.
• Although The Brightest Night was originally thought to be the final book in the Wings of Fire series, Tui T. Sutherland has revealed that she will be writing five more books, making ten in total. However, if the author chooses to write a sequel series rather than expanding upon the original books, this could be considered the final book of the Original Wings of Fire series.
• If you look closely at Sunny on the cover of The Brightest Night, you can see her NightWing-like features, such as her scales are pebbled like a NightWing's, and the scales that march up her wings are like a NightWing's, not a SandWing's. These are also shown on Sunny's back toes, her tail ends like a NightWing's, she has stars that go down her side like a NightWing's, and she has stripes on her underscales like a NightWing's, and the spines on her tail are like a NightWing's
• The author hinted that a SandWing dragonet based off the name of one of her sons would be briefly mentioned.
• The book reveals a new side to the scavengers.