Scarlet
Template:InfoboxQueen Scarlet is the queen of the SkyWings and the prominent antagonist of The Dragonet Prophecy. She is a small, petite, orange SkyWing with blazing yellow eyes. She often wears gold chain mail armor on her torso and various jewels on her wings and face.
Biography
Queen Scarlet is one of the longest lived SkyWing queens, surviving fourteen challengers. No one had even tried in almost nine years prior to The Dragonet Prophecy. She decided to ally with Burn and the MudWings in the great war, and she began to use the war to entertain herself and to catch prisoners to make them fight in the SkyWing Arena . She would pit prisoners she captured against each other, saying that if they won a certain number of fights, they would go free. In The Dragonet Prophecy, she was described as "smaller than Clay had thought" implying she might be smaller than the average female SkyWing.
Years before, Kestrel entered the breeding program and yielded one egg with twin dragonets. Because one was born with too much fire, and the other too little, she ordered her to kill the dragonets and stay out of the program for her entire life. Despite this, Kestrel tried to flee with them, prompting Scarlet to change the order: if Kestrel killed one of the dragonets, she would be allowed to go free with the other. Kestrel killed the one with no fire with her own claws (an act that haunted her for the rest of her life), but Scarlet revealed she had lied, keeping the one with too much fire and letting Kestrel escape. She named the dragonet Peril, and due to her invulnerability, she trained her as her champion of the arena. To ensure loyalty, she told her Peril herself had killed her brother and her mother abandoned her. Scarlet also told Peril she needed to eat black rocks to survive, poisoning her food the day she did not eat them so she would believe her.
Years later, a scavenger stole treasure from her and fled. This led her to stumble across Clay and Tsunami, who were escaping from the Talons of Peace. She told them to come with her after Clay tried to explain what they had been doing in SkyWing territory for six years. To escape, Tsunami impaled her tail into the ground with a scavenger claw, infuriating her. This led to her following their signal fire and capturing Kestrel and the dragonets, killing Dune in the process and leaving Webs to safely escape using the underground river.
Scarlet caged Sunny in her hall, made Glory an art-piece, and put Clay, Tsunami, and Starflight into the arena. She wanted to place Starflight in first, but Clay talked her out of it by denouncing Tsunami as "Just another SeaWing." She pitted Clay against Fjord, telling Peril to stay away from him. An unknown black substance (now known to be Glory's venom) killed Fjord, so she allowed Clay to live. She held a trial the following day where Kestrel was sentenced to death, Osprey killed, and Peril learning who she truly was. After Burn arrived, she took the three dragonets into a cave for singing. After Peril helped them escape, she told the queen where they were to keep Clay in the Sky Kingdom. The next day, which was Scarlet's hatching day, Queen Scarlet pitted Tsunami against a mad SeaWing named Gill, then she and Starflight against scavengers. However, they defeated two of them before Queen Scarlet decided to pit Starflight against a group of IceWings, who loathe NightWings. Before she could do so, Morrowseer came to Starflight's rescue and the other NightWings proceeded to slaughter the IceWing captives.
Queen Scarlet then pitted Peril against Clay, knowing Peril was using the Champion's Shield (the SkyWings' tradition that a champion may stand in for a prisoner scheduled for execution; the prisoner goes free if the champion wins their next battle) in an attempt to save her mother, Kestrel. During the battle, she told Clay to use his venom, not knowing it was Glory who possessed that ability. Ironically, upon asking him to do so, Glory reared up, broke her chain and spat the venom onto Queen Scarlet's face. She was presumed to have been killed in the chaos, with her daughter Queen Ruby succeeding her.
Scarlet does not formally appear. However, two SeaWing soldiers claimed that they had seen a group of SkyWings fighting, and some of them had been shouting that Scarlet was still alive and was the rightful SkyWing queen.
Scarlet used a magical artifact from an animus dragon called a dreamvisitor to talk to Glory via her dreams. It is said that her face has become a "smeared mess". When Glory asks where she is, Scarlet says that she will tell her if the RainWing promised to free her. Glory refused to do so, and this caused the former queen to become angry, because she believed Glory owed her for damaging her formerly good looks with her venom.
Scarlet does not formally appear, but she is mentioned by Burn, who has for some unknown reason kidnapped her and is holding her prisoner in her stronghold.
Personality
Scarlet has never been afraid of conflict, which she demonstrated through her brutal arenas, where she made use of Peril's unusual abilities. She was a harsh and cold ruler, someone who was not easily defeated or outsmarted. She also believed that using fear would carry out her orders unquestioned. However, this led to her losing Peril and Glory, both of whom she had lied to and threatened with death more than once. She also used other dragons' ignorance to her advantage, such as when she lied to Peril about the black rocks and poisoned her food. She also liked showing off her wealth, and wore chain mail studded with rubies and amber drops and encrusted her eyebrow scales and wings with gems. She held the SkyWing arena and trials to entertain herself. She seems to over-react or become extremely excited about certain events, and she often says the word "thrilling". This tendency also proved to be a weakness, distracting her long enough for Glory to attack her.
Trivia
- The dead SkyWing dragonet of destiny may have been Scarlet's child, as the egg was stolen from the royal hatchery.
Gallery
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after Glory's venom
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