The Dragonet Prophecy (book)
The Dragonet Prophecy is the first book in the Wings of Fire series, detailing the life, escape, and capture of Clay and his friends.
Summary
The proluge begins with the dragon Hvitur attempting to steal the Skywing egg from their palace. However, he is captured by Burn, one of the three contenders for the throne of the Sandwings. Due to her distrust of the prophecy, she decides to smash the egg, and kills Hvitur. The member Kestrel sees him, and tells Webs and Dune. It is then revealled that Asha died earlier delivering the Mudwing egg.
The timeline speeds up 6 years later, with Clay, the Mudwing, reflecting on his position and importance. However, he does this during a training battle with Kestrel. Kestrel taunts him and then pins him. Before she can do so, the Seawing Tsunami blasts her with fire, threatning to bite her. Thanking Tsunami, Clay reflects on their desire to leave the cave and make their own life. He later on pushes on the boulder blocking the exit, sadly reflecting on how he cannot move it. Procceding to studing, he encounters Starflight, the literal Nightwing, Sunny, an odd Sandwing, and Glory, a Rainwing subsitiute for the Skywing. The group begins to play out the death of Queen Oasis at a scavanger, the spilt decision of Burn, Blister, and Blaze, and finally, the alllegiances.
Kestrel inturupts this, rudly insulting them and calling Glory out. At that moment, the alarm goes off, signalling the message of the arrival of Morrowseer. Clay and Tsunami, the only two able to listen, recall them mentioning Morrowseer telling the prophecy. The following day, Morrowseer arrives. As he inspects, he rudly calls out Glory, deming her unworthy. Tsunami, Clay, and Sunny attack him, promting him to accept them. However, he still calls out Starflight to have a private audience. The two leave, and the guardians turn on Tsunami. After Starflight returns, Clay speaks to him, noting his reluctance. He then hears Tsunami be chained, and he is forced to spy on the guardians. He overhears them plot to kill Glory to appease Morrowseer. The group frantically decides to send Clay down the underground river to save them. Acting on advice from Starflight, he manages to get into a cavern full of glowworms, which he mistook for stars. He heard roaring, than was hit with a substance that started to dissolve his scales. He falls unconciouss. He is later roused by Tsunami. She cleanses him from the poison. then the duo cascades over a waterfall. Having it revealled Tsunami wrenched her wing , he saves her and encounters mud. The pair then sees a scavanger with treasure, who is in turn killed by Queen Scarlet. The queen of the Skywings then asks them their purpose, and calls Tsuanmi a spy. Having weeded them out, she asks them to return with her. The pair impalls her tail to the ground to escape, following a smoke signal to save the others. However, the signal attracts Scarlet too, and the entire group (minus Dune, who is killed, and Webs, who escapes) is taken hostage.
Scarlet is fond of taking her enemies and pitting them in gladitorial style fights to the death. The queen decides to use Sunny as a plaything for Burn, and Glory as her new work of art, due to her colors that change constantlly. She invites her ally Burn of the Sandwings to come and visit to the see the dragonets of prophecy battle her Champion, a Skywings called Peril. Peril has never been beaten. She was a twin egg, rare among Skywings, and took all of her brother's fire, so she has twice the amount she should have. She radiates heat and burns all she touches, including other dragons, which makes her invulnerable.
Clay has to figure out some way to get himself and his friends out alive, but first he has to survive the arena. He can only hope his friends can too. And if he does survive the arena, he will be pitted against his new best friend, Peril.
