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*Cricket is the third dragon seen in the books with scientific aspirations, the other two being [[Winter]] and [[Mastermind]].
*Cricket is the third dragon seen in the books with scientific aspirations, the other two being [[Winter]] and [[Mastermind]].
*Like [[Winter]], Cricket has expressed interest in studying, and learning more about scavengers, which she calls "reading monkeys."
*Like [[Winter]], Cricket has expressed interest in studying, and learning more about scavengers, which she calls "reading monkeys."
*Cricket is the second character in the series to be depicted on two book covers ([[Book 12]]), the first being [[Turtle]].
*Cricket is the second character in the series to be depicted on two book covers ([http://wingsoffire.wikia.com/wiki/The_Hive_Queen The Hive Queen] ), the first being [[Turtle]].
*On page 125 of ''The Lost Continent'', Cricket says that "My own two wings work perfectly fine," when in reality, she has four wings.
*On page 125 of ''The Lost Continent'', Cricket says that "My own two wings work perfectly fine," when in reality, she has four wings.
*Cricket is the first dragon to have her full body appear on two covers.
*Cricket is the first dragon to have her full body appear on two covers.

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"Really? Why don’t you know your father? Is that normal for SilkWings? Don’t you live with your parents? Or, I’m sorry, is that a question I’m not supposed to ask? I ask a lot of questions I’m not supposed to ask, apparently, according to my teachers - also my parents - actually, according to pretty much every grown-up HiveWing. Too many questions, Cricket! Don’t you know what happens to nosy little HiveWings? They lose those noses! Which is silly; I’ve never seen a dragonet without a nose and I’m sure I can’t be the first one with this many questions. What’s your name? Oh, that’s another question. Sorry. I’m Cricket."
— Cricket, meeting Blue, in The Lost Continent.

Template:Charbox Cricket is a young female HiveWing who is confirmed to be the main protagonist of The Hive Queen. She is interested in the studies of invention and science, although her curiosity is often frowned upon. The reason behind it is unknown, but she is also the only known HiveWing who is immune to Queen Wasp's mind-controlling ability. It is unknown if she returns feelings for Blue.

Personality

Cricket is immensely interested in science and invention, and is always eager to learn something new. She can also be a little rebellious, and often finds herself frustrated by the strict codes of HiveWing society. Although Cricket lacks care for authority and dignity, she is very empathetic, proven when she rescued Blue against her own tribe's wishes and helped him to rescue his friend Swordtail. Cricket carries none of the usual smugness and haughtiness that the rest of her tribe does, and has shown to be kind but firm, not letting anyone push her around.

Appearance

Cricket has orange-gold scales[1] speckled here and there with black scales that looked like tiny inkblots[2], golden-yellow talons[3], and warm, dark brown eyes[2]. She is smaller than Blue[3] and has small and sharp claws like a leopard’s, as well as an open and curious face. She wears gold-rimmed spectacles[2] and a bag tied sideways across her chest[4]. She is said to smell like books and apples by Blue.

Biography

The Lost Continent

Cricket made her first appearance by helping Blue, a young SilkWing, by pulling him into a shed that was hidden from the eyes of the pursuing HiveWings. Cricket explained that, for an unknown reason, she could not be mind-controlled by Queen Wasp, as the rest of her tribe was. After escaping through tunnels that were located under the school, Cricket brought Blue to an empty low-level library, where he began to feel dizzy. Cricket speculated that the HiveWings had probably injected him with a barb covered in sleeping toxin, probably implemented to make him easier to capture. After Cricket burned off Blue's wrist cuff with a strand of flamesilk belonging to one of the library's lamps, he fell into a woozy sleep.

He woke up to Cricket's talons shaking him awake and voices echoing nearby. Cricket and Blue hid in the tunnels once again while three mind-controlled HiveWings searched the area; one of them was Cricket's own sister, Katydid, and another was an arrogant dragon named Bombardier, who believed that Cricket was madly in love with him. After the HiveWing trio had cleared the library, Cricket and Blue emerged into the light once more, where Cricket pulled a book off of a high shelf. From the book, they learned that if a SilkWing had one flamesilk parent, then they only had a fifty percent chance of becoming a flamesilk too. Leaving the library, Cricket led Blue throughout the school - she showed him her terrarium, where a little tree was growing in the middle. She explained that she had found its seed on one of her school gathering trips, and that she hadn't known what it was until it started growing. Next, Cricket took Blue into an art room, where she began to paint him in a mix of dull browns, reds, and blues to hide his vibrant scales.

Once they were out of the school, Cricket agreed to help rescue Blue's friend Swordtail from Misbehaver's Way. They found him frozen to his pedestal in an angry position, like he was trying to fight his way out of being paralyzed, but in obvious vain. Cricket held a bubbling green vial under Swordtail's nose to combat the HiveWing paralysis toxin, but the mixture also gave Swordtail green eyes, extra strength and made him a little loopy. After Swordtail smashed one of the rule tablets straight through the Way's treestuff, Cricket decided that it was time to go. Wrapping Blue's shoulders in a few strands of silk, Swordtail grabbed him and lifted off. They flew for most of the night, and by dawn they were nearly to Wasp Hive's border. Eventually, they hid in a massive divot in the ground, flying to the bottom and down a tunnel once there, where they encountered a small pool of cold water. At the other end of the pool, they discovered a small campfire and a small creature reading a book that resembled a monkey, presumably similar to Pyrrhia's scavengers. After the monkey creature was scared away by Cricket's voice, Swordtail passed out near the fire, and Blue took first watch while Cricket slept as well. When night falls once again, Swordtail tries and fails to lift Blue - the stimulant had worn off, and Cricket had used all of it the first time; Cricket eventually came up with the idea for Blue to climb, with Swordtail's silk wrapped around him in case he slipped and fell. Near the top of the divot, Cricket and Blue found a small cave, where they curled up together and Blue got some much-needed rest while Swordtail returned to the bottom of the divot. After the HiveWing parties had stopped coming to search near the hole, Swordtail flew ahead while Cricket and Blue snuck through the savanna's tall grass.

When they finally are able to sneak into Wasp Hive, they hide in one of the queen's greenhouses. Unexpectedly, they are captured by three strange dragons - and, terrifyingly, they turn out to be LeafWings, the supposedly deadly and cruel mortal enemies of the HiveWings. They introduce themselves as Sundew, Belladonna, and Hemlock. They explained that if Cricket, Blue, and Swordtail wanted to live, then they would steal the Book of Clearsight and return it to them. Cricket's initial plan was to leave once the LeafWings had let them go, but Belladonna sent Sundew with them to ensure that they got the job done. Disguising Sundew as a SilkWing, Hemlock rubbed flower juice on her scales to add more color. Belladonna also tied two makeshift wings made of leaves to Sundew's back, instructing her to keep her real ones folded to make them appear more realistic. While Swordtail stayed with Belladona and Hemlock, Cricket, Blue, and Sundew went out into the Hive to finish their task. Sundew gave Cricket a large flower, instructing her not to crush any part of it; Cricket held it under the noses of the two HiveWings guarding the entrance to the to Wasp Hive, knocking them out but leaving them alive. Pushing aside two heavy wooden doors, they walked through a series of hallways until they were standing at the foot of the Temple.

Once they were inside, Blue and Sundew acted as Cricket's servants until Sundew got close enough to the guards to paralyze them. In the final room, Sundew was confronted by a dark voice, which turned out to the Librarian. After she ripped off her dark veil, Cricket realized that her eyes were fully white - the unmistakable symbol of the queen's mind control. Sundew attacked the Librarian from her side, and the two continued to fight while Blue picked up the bookcase key - dropped during the fight - and stole the Book. After Sundew had broken the Librarian's arm, she speculated that enough pain would make the queen exit her mind for a while; while the queen was mind-controlling someone, she felt everything that said dragon felt. Cricket opened a jar and shook a pair of bullet ants onto the Librarian's scales; after they bit her, the queen disappeared, and the Librarian's mind was her own for the first time in years. However, hundreds of brainwashed HiveWings were now surrounding the Temple with the intent to kill Cricket and Sundew and to imprison Blue. The Librarian tried to help them escape, but Wasp had invaded her mind again, causing her to turn against her new companions. Cricket and Sundew were unable to help Blue as he fell into the waiting talons of the HiveWings; as Blue threw the Book of Clearsight into Cricket's talons, they fled.

After a few days trapped in the flamesilk factory, Blue felt talons brush his through a hole in the building's wall; they were Cricket's talons, and she was accompanied by Sundew and Swordtail. After telling Luna - who had emerged out of her cocoon - and trying to convince his father, Admiral, to go with them, Admiral had refused and had tried to alert the watching HiveWing guards. However, Danaid, another of the imprisoned flamesilks, helped them by starting an argument that covered the noise of Admiral's warning. Knocking down the loose stones around the hole, they all escaped down a series of tunnels.

Cricket next appears when someone grabs Blue's talon as he reaches through a hole in the flamesilk cave. It turns out to be her, as she escaped the HiveWings, and she is accompanied by Sundew and Swordtail. They agree to flee that night, and Cricket, along with the rest of the gang, escape through the LeafWing tunnel. When it ends at the sea, she is ecstatic, and begins to express hope at finding the Distant Kingdoms (the Pantalan name for Pyrrhia). Afterward, she shows the others what is written in the Book of Clearsight, and that the last vision recorded took place over a thousand years before.

Luna and Swordltail decide to go for a flight, and Cricket stays with Blue, discussing his metamorphosis, and assuring him that it will be fine. Luna and Swordtail are discovered by some HiveWing soldiers, and a fight starts. As Sundew rushes to help, Cricket is left with Blue, about to start his metamorphasis. She guides him to a cave she found for him to hide in while he changes, and stays with him while he begins to spin his cocoon, promising him that she will be right there "the whole time", and will be next to him when he wakes up. As he weaves his cocoon, Blue reflects that he is in love with her, even though he had been dropping hints about it all through the book.

The Hive Queen

Note: The Hive Queen is based on Cricket's perspective.

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Family Tree

CadelleUnnamed
KatydidMalachite
Cricket


Quotes

"You sure are. Oh dear, I'm sorry, I bet you've heard that one before." - to Blue about his name in The Lost Continent

"That is reassuring. Thoroughly utterly reassuring, execpt for how it's exactly what a dangerous criminal would say." - to Blue about escaping in The Lost Continent

"I hope that's a good sign. Do you think you could smile and stand up at the same time? I would love to let you sleep more, but I think we really need to move." - to Blue in The Lost Continent

"She doesn't know what it feels like for me to have to hide from her." - to Blue about Katydid in The Lost Continent

"We're not barbarians, Blue. The queen's a little scary, but she's not a murderer." - to Blue about Wasp in The Lost Continent

"Oooo, the perfect title for my memoir. 'Right about almost everything', by Cricket."

"Neither can I. I should write a paper about this! No, a book! I mean, it's a real scientific breakthrough, right? We could - Oh . . . no, I guess I can't do that." - to Blue about freeing Swordtail in The Lost Continent

"I promise we won't hurt you, little monkey! What are you? Please come back!" to a scavenger in The Lost Continent

"Mystery animals in a cave under the savanna - who can READ! Blue, this is the biggest scientific discovery of our lifetime! I wouldn't have to be a gardener if I told the queen about this. I'm sure she'd let me change disciplines so I could study them. Don't you think?" - to Blue about a scavenger in The Lost Continent

"Magic is just science we don't understand yet." to Blue about Clearsight's powers in The Lost Continent

"They won't be OBVIOUS questions. They will be VERY SUBTLE. I am an EXCEPTIONALLY subtle dragon, sir." to Blue about her plan to ask about where flamesilks are kept in The Lost Continent

"I'll be right here, Blue. I'll be here the whole time. I'll be here when you wake up. You'll be safe, I promise." - to Blue before his Metamorphosis in The Lost Continent

"Really? Why don’t you know your father? Is that normal for SilkWings? Don’t you live with your parents? Or, I’m sorry, is that a question I’m not supposed to ask? I ask a lot of questions I’m not supposed to ask, apparently, according to my teachers - also my parents - actually, according to pretty much every grown-up HiveWing. Too many questions, Cricket! Don’t you know what happens to nosy little HiveWings? They lose those noses! Which is silly; I’ve never seen a dragonet without a nose and I’m sure I can’t be the first one with this many questions. What’s your name? Oh, that’s another question. Sorry. I’m Cricket." —Cricket, meeting Blue, in The Lost Continent.

Relationships

Katydid

Cricket is shown to have a close relationship with her sister, who, unlike her, isn’t immune to Queen Wasp’s mind control. Before she met Blue, Katydid was the only other dragon to know of Cricket’s mind control immunity, since after realizing that Cricket was immune she encouraged her to hide it out of fear of what Queen Wasp would do upon finding out. Cricket also states that though she often goes missing during and after the periods of time in which Queen Wasp takes control of the other HiveWings, Katydid always covers for her.

Bombardier

While Bombardier believes Cricket is in love with him, the HiveWing never had any loving feelings for him. She describes him as awful and arrogant, and also comments that there isn’t much difference between his normal self and his “brain-dead”, mind-controlled self. Cricket does say that if she had the power to save the HiveWings from Queen Wasp’s mind control, she would save Bombardier, but perhaps last, after all the others.

Blue

Cricket and Blue became close, fast friends throughout The Lost Continent. She and Blue say they are best friends, with Cricket saying she would be Blue's best friend even if she knew every dragon on Pantala. Blue values her friendship and is also in love with her. It is unknown if she in turn harbors romantic feelings toward Blue or if she regards him as only a friend, but she does describe him as being one of the most colorful (and handsome) SilkWings she'd ever seen and upon looking back at the moment at the end of The Lost Continent when she promises to stay by his side until he wakes up, she describes the moment as romantic.

Lady Scarab

Lady Scarab comes up in conversation between Blue and Cricket. We don't know much about this relationship, but it is implied that Cricket is closer/knows more about Lady Scarab than she says. When Blue says that that Lady Scarab was "fiercely not awful" to him and Luna, Cricket replies with, "yeah, that sounds like her", implying that Cricket knows Lady Scarab well.

Trivia

  • Cricket is one of three dragons known to wear glasses or spectacles, the other two being Thoughtful and Lady Scarab.
  • Though trees no longer are widespread on Pantala, Cricket somehow managed to grow a small tree in her terrarium in her botany class, having found the seed on a gathering trip, and not having known what it was until it started growing.
  • Cricket is the third dragon seen in the books with scientific aspirations, the other two being Winter and Mastermind.
  • Like Winter, Cricket has expressed interest in studying, and learning more about scavengers, which she calls "reading monkeys."
  • Cricket is the second character in the series to be depicted on two book covers (The Hive Queen ), the first being Turtle.
  • On page 125 of The Lost Continent, Cricket says that "My own two wings work perfectly fine," when in reality, she has four wings.
  • Cricket is the first dragon to have her full body appear on two covers.
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References

  1. ↑ The Lost Continent, page 143
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Lost Continent, page 66
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Lost Continent, page 63
  4. ↑ The Lost Continent, page 99


HiveWings
Queens

Present: Cochineal • Jewel • Wasp
Historical: Cicada

Royalty

Bloodworm • Cicada • Hornet • Mantis • Scarab • Tsetse • Vinegaroon • Yellowjacket

Other Dragons

Aphid • Bombardier • Bumblebee • Cadelle • Carabid • Chafer • Cricket • Dragonfly • Earthworm • Earwig • Inchworm • Grasshopper • Hawker • Glowworm • Katydid • Librarian • Lubber • Malachite • Midge • Pinacate • Rootworm • Sandfly • Treehopper • Weevil

Kingdom

Bloodworm Hive • Cicada Hive • Hornet Hive • Jewel Hive • Mantis Hive • Tsetse Hive • Vinegaroon Hive • Wasp Hive • Yellowjacket Hive

Society

Book of Clearsight • Tree Wars


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