Mangrove
Template:Infobox CharacterMangrove is a RainWing featured in The Hidden Kingdom. He and his mate, Orchid, are fruit gatherers for the tribe. He is first seen in Queen Magnificent's treehouse, waiting in line to see the queen and protest about the missing RainWings.
Biography
After Orchid goes missing, Mangrove became determined to find her. He stood in line at Queen Grandeur's palace for days, waiting for his turn to tell the queeen about the dissaperances. When it became apparent she wasn't going to do anything about it, he volunteered to help Glory in looking for the "rainforest monster." The search lead to the discovery of a wormhole that lead to the borders of the Kingdom of Sand and the Ice Kingdom. Thinking Orchid might be in the latter, Mangrove took off while the dragonets weren't looking.
Glory and Jambu then disguise themselves as IceWings and find him hiding in Blaze's Fortress near the Ice Kingdom and rescue him.
During the competition in which Glory tries to become queen, she picks Mangrove as part of her team. He participated in the fruit gathering contest and collected seventeen fruit, beating Queen Dazzling by one who originally had nineteen (through cheating), but ate three on the way back.
Starflight and Glory led an attack on the NightWings through the wormhole. There they rescue Splendor, Orchid, the rest of the missing RainWings, and Deathbringer. Mangrove and Orchid reunite by locking tails.
Starflight mentions that he was feeling a rumbling in the earth, and Mangrove replied that it was "like all the happiness in us is trying to burst out."
Mangrove appears in The Brightest Night when tasked along with Jambu to enter the Ice Kingdom disguised as IceWings.
When Glory visits Burn's Stronghold at the end of the book, he and Grandeur are left in charge of the Rainforest Kingdom.
Trivia
- Glory seems to trust Mangrove more than most other RainWings.
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A typical RainWing. Art by Joy Ang -
A mangrove
