The Dark Secret (book)

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The Dark Secret is the 4th book in the Wings of Fire series and features Starflight, the NightWing Dragonet of the Prophecy, as the main protagonist. It follows The Hidden Kingdom and precedes The Brightest Night.      

Summary

The Wings of Fire saga continues with a visit to the mysterious land of the NightWings, where Starflight must face a terrible choice - his home, or his friends?

The Dragonets of Destiny are on their way to see the NightWings - and Starflight doesn't need his psychic powers to know it isn't going to go well for him and the other dragonets.

Starflight knows it's his duty as a NightWing to convince the other dragonets to choose Blister as queen. But he can't help feeling that there's something Morrowseer and the other NightWings aren't telling him, something that could put his friends in grave danger. While other NightWings have their powers to help them, Starflight has to rely on his brain - and with SkyWings chasing them and Blister and Burn on their tails, that might not be enough. 

Plot

Part 1:

The book begins with Starflight worrying about where Sunny is. Starflight then awakens to find himself in a room full of NightWing dragonets, one being his sister Feirceteeth. He tries to tell them about the main land but Morrowseer bursts in and brings Starflight to a meeting with the queen. Starflight figures out that Queen Battlewinner prefers to stay hidden and commandes her orders through her daughter Greatness. Morrowseer is then ordered to get information of the impending attack from the RainWings, but is accedentally given false information. Morrowseer then brings Starflight to meet his father: Mastermind. There they encounter Fatespeaker along the way. They meet Mastermind and learn that he has been performing experiments on the kiddnapped RainWings, especially Orchid, who is imprisoned in his lab.

Part 2: The Queen's Secret

Starflight is brought to meet the false dragonets, and almost imediatly afterward, Morrowseer orders the dragoents to kill Starflight. He runs away and hides in the RainWing prisions. They fail in killing him and soon go to sleep. Fatespeaker wakes Starflight to explore. They find the old tresurey and Starflight finds a dreamvisitor. He attempts to contact the real dragonets but enters Kinkajou's dreams and is unable to contact the others. He wakes and Morrowseer brings them to the main land, to try to convince the SkyWings to switch alliences to Blister. They fail and Morrowseer kills the SkyWings. Squid then says he dosen't want to do this any more and Morrowseer takes off without him. The next night Fatespeaker and Starflight wander off to tell the Queen about everything. They meet her and find out she is forced to stay in a tub of lava because an IceWing shot his breath into her throat. Starflight returns to his bed and manages to contact Glory and tells her about everything. The next day Morrowseer instructs them to do battle training and while attempting to kill Fatespeaker, Viper falls into the lava, but manages to accedentally scratch Flame.

Trivia

• The Dark Secret is the only book where the dragonet featured on the cover is fully depicted on the front panel only, including the dragonet (Starflight's) wings.