Wings of Fire (book series)

Darkstalker

A prequel in the series was published on June 28, 2016. It tells the story about the character of Darkstalker from the second arc, and is set roughly 2,000 years before the events of the first series. It shows the perspective of several different characters, including Darkstalker, Fathom, Indigo, and Clearsight, as well as revealing the details of Albatross and the Royal SeaWing Massacre. ^[4]

Prisoners

Set between the events of The Brightest Night and Moon Rising, this Winglet focuses on Fierceteeth writing letters trying to convince her prison guard, a SandWing known as Saguaro, to let her go free and join her in overthrowing Queen Glory and Queen Thorn; before the guard frees her and Strongwings, she writes a series of letters to the guard that goes into life before the Dragonets of Destiny hatched.^[5]

Assassin

Set years before the events of The Dragonet Prophecy, this winglet focuses on Deathbringer's childhood, and how he was raised by his mother Quickstrike to be the best assassin he could be, an order from Queen Battlewinner and Morrowseer, telling him to always put his missions before anything else, until Quickstrike is killed, and he breaks his vow, saying he will put anyone else he loves before his mission in the future, revealing why he didn't assassinate Glory, and her friends, even though it was his mission.^[5]

Deserter

This Winglet is set during the reign of Queen Oasis and the moments after her death, focusing on the early life of Six-Claws and Dune as they served Queen Oasis, then Princess Burn during the war until she crippled Dune, and they flee to The Scorpion Den with a SandWing healer, Kindle. Deathbringer played a role in their leaving, as a part of his second mission assigned at the end of Assassin to infiltrate Burn's camp.^[5]

Runaway

This Winglet is set between the events of the Prologue and Chapter 1 of Legends: Darkstalker, showing how Prince Arctic escaped the Ice Kingdom with the NightWing visitors. It is revealed Arctic's act of injuring Snowflake, his would be wife, was a major reason for the war between the IceWings and the NightWings in Legends: Darkstalker, in addition to the misunderstanding that Arctic was kidnapped by the NightWings, not willingly left with them.^[5]

The Dragonet Prophecy

main point of view: Clay

The first book in the series, published July 1, 2012, is written in third-person from the view of Clay, and mostly revolves around the dragonets leaving their cave, and meeting the SkyWings.

A war is going on between five of the seven dragon tribes over who will take the throne of the SandWings. It started when Queen Oasis of the Sandwings is killed by a scavenger (Human) leaving the three options for the throne. Ditzy Blaze, cunning Blister and vicious Burn. A dragon named Morrowseer had a prophecy that five dragonets from the different tribes (SeaWing, NightWing, SkyWing, MudWing and SandWing,) will end the war. The dragonets (Clay, Tsunami, Glory, Starflight, and Sunny) are raised in a cave under a mountain by three guardians (Kestrel, Dune, and Webs), part of the organization trying to end the war, the Talons of Peace. One day, Morrowseer arrives. He half-approves of Clay, Tsunami, and Starflight, but is uncertain of Sunny, and hates Glory, because she is a RainWing, and not part of his prophecy, which called for a SkyWing. Morrowseer leaves after having a private discussion with the dragonets' guardians. The guardians chain Tsunami to a stalactite, and retreat to their cave, where Clay eavesdrops on them as they plan to kill Glory and replace her. Clay returns to the dragonets and they make a plan to escape. Clay travels down the underground river until he encounters some kind of acid, and is knocked unconscious. Tsunami rescues him, having escaped her chains using Starflight and Sunny's fire. Once outside, the two dragonets encounter a human (which are called 'scavengers' by dragons) carrying treasure, but a SkyWing appears to claim it, declaring that she is Queen Scarlet. She tries to take them captive, but Tsunami stabs her in the tail, and they flee, navigating their way back to the cave. Just as Clay opens the door from outside, Queen Scarlet reappears with a Skywing army, kills Dune, and they are taken to the SkyWing arena. There, Clay meets Peril, a dragon with fire-hot scales, who is also Queen Scarlet's champion in the arena. Clay fights an Icewing named Fjord in the arena, but Fjord is killed by some mysterious black acidic venom that eats away at his scales and one of his eyes. That night, Peril informs Clay that Sunny is being held in Burn's guest room. After a trial, In which Clay and Peril find out that Kestrel is Peril's mother, Peril is set to fight for her mother's freedom.Scarlet gets angry and drops the defendant, Osprey, (Who has a paralyzed tail and so cannot fly,) from a height. THAT night, Clay gets all of the prisoners to sing "Oh the Dragonets are Coming!" Just then, Burn arrives and locks up the Dragonets. Clay, Tsunami, and Starflight try to escape, but Peril betrays them. The next day, Tsunami is forced to fight in the arena, first against an insane SeaWing named Gill, whom she kills, Then against Starflight. When they refuse, Queen Scarlet releases successively more dangerous creatures into the arena, finally planning to have them fight all Four of the Icewing prisoners. Before the fight begins, a group of Nightwings descend from the sky and kill all of the Icewings, rescue Starflight, and leave the Dragonets with only four left to escape. When Clay and Peril are forced to fight, Glory attacks Queen Scarlet using the mysterious black venom, which is shot from her fangs, and Peril frees Clay and his friends from their chains and clamps, along with Kestrel. Both Kestrel and Clay offer Peril the chance to accompany them on their journey, but Peril refuses, opting to remain in the Sky Kingdom. The Four dragonets travel to the Mud Kingdom to find Clay's parents, and discover that Clay's mother sold him to the Talons of Peace for two cows. Clay meets his siblings, Reed, Umber, Sora, Pheasant and Marsh. Then he finds out that he wasn't trying to kill the other Dragonets, but only trying to help them hatch. His siblings offer to let him join them, but Clay declines, saying that he had to stop the war first, but that afterwards he could come back. After Morrowseer drops Starflight back in between the Mud and Rainforest Kingdoms,They decide to head towards the Kingdom in hope of finding safety there with Queen Coral. In the epilogue, Kestrel is violently killed by Morroweer and Blister, one of the SandWing successors.

The Lost Heir

main point of view: Tsunami

The second book in the series, published January 1, 2013, is written from the view of Tsunami. It is set in the Kingdom of the Sea.

The book opens with the dragonets resting on a beach that borders the Kingdom of the Sea. A patrol of SkyWings passes, and the dragonets quickly hide. One of the SkyWings pauses, and Tsunami, thinking that they had been spotted, attacks. Clay joins in the fight and not long after, the SkyWing passes out. Starflight has the idea of tying the SkyWing to a tree. Four days later, the dragonets spend the night on an island on the Bay of a Thousand Scales. Tsunami decides to explore, and dives into the sea, where she meets another SeaWing. The Seawing tries to communicate using his glowing stripes, but Tsunami doesn't understand, and the two of them swim to the surface. The Seawing then spots Clay, who he mistakes for an enemy MudWing, and begins to attack him. Tsunami stops him and tells him that they are the Dragonets of Destiny, and learns that the dragon's name is Riptide. Riptide tells her that her markings show she is royalty, and that she must be the missing princess, who was stolen as an egg. The dragonets decide to go to the SeaWing summer palace with Riptide, where they meet Queen Coral and Tsunami's sister, named Anemone. Anemone is kept on a harness attached to the Queen to protect her. Tsunami explains that they are the Dragonets of Destiny and introduces her friends. but the queen orders that all except Tsunami be put under guard. Queen Coral then shows Tsunami her library where she meets a dragon called Whirlpool. Another dragon called Piranha appears and tells the queen that there is a dead SkyWing on an island not so far from the palace. They go to investigate, and Tsunami realizes the dead dragon is Kestrel, one of her guardians, but doesn't tell Queen Coral. The next morning, Coral takes Tsunami and Anemone to the Council meeting. The council discusses a rescue mission for Gill, the dragon Tsunami killed in the arena, and she learns that Gill was her father. Tsunami also begins taking Aquatic lessons, first with Whirlpool, where she doesn't learn anything, and then with Riptide. On her way back to the palace, she is attacked by an unknown dragon. She tells her mother, who starts fretting about the safety of the royal female eggs, so the council heads to the deep palace to check on the eggs. They find one of the eggs shattered on the floor. Tsunami takes the remaining female egg and swears to protect it. She then goes to find and release her friends, but she finds that Clay is chained to the ground and is about to perish from the flood. Tsunami convinces the guards(Snail, Flounder, Herring and Kelp) to use the keys to free Clay and spends the night with them. During breakfast the next morning, the dragonets, along with Blister (Who had arrived the earlier night) and Queen Coral, discuss Kestrel's death, and Blister asks Coral to show her how the "secret weapon," Anemone, is coming along. Tsunami learns that Anemone is an animus dragon, with the power to enchant objects to do her bidding.

Blister finds Webs, one of the dragonets guardians, spying on them. Queen Coral tries to kill him, but Tsunami and Clay save him, lying that he might have useful information. When Webs wakes up, Queen Coral interrogates him but doesn't get any useful information. A dragon brings in Riptide, and claims he was found outside the palace, and Tsunami admits she has been taking Aquatic lessons from him. Coral thinks he has been working for the Talons of Peace, and Blister latches on to the idea, saying Riptide might have been working with Webs to kill heirs to the throne. Tsunami realizes Blister wants Webs dead. Later, Tsunami is in the royal hatchery when she overhears something moving, and a statue of Orca (which is Tsunami's animus sister that died in a challenge to Queen Coral)attacks her. She traps the statue, which she realizes is animus enchanted, and escapes with the egg, which Tsunami names Auklet. Queen Coral has the statue destroyed, but when the dragonets try to leave, Coral imprisons them. Anemone visits them, saying she enchanted a spear to find Tsunami's attacker, who turns out to be Whirlpool. Whirlpool tries to kill Tsunami again, but Anemone accidentally kills him, allowing the dragonets to escape through the electric eels and free Riptide and Webs. A MudWing named Crocodile appears, and claims she followed Webs to the palace and brought an attack from Burn's army. Glory kills Crocodile with her venom, but Blister catches them escaping and scratches Webs with her tail. The dragonets decide to take Webs to the Rainforest Kingdom, as they may know how to treat SandWing poison.

The Hidden Kingdom

main point of view: Glory

The third book in the series, published May 28, 2013, is written from the view of Glory. The book is mostly set in the Rainforest Kingdom and the Night Kingdom. The story follows Glory and the other dragonets as they attempt to find out why RainWings are going missing. Glory is thrilled about finally going home, even if they are only returning to heal Webs, their former guardian. The dragonets (Glory, Sunny, Clay, Starflight and Tsunami) believe that the RainWings will be able to heal venom, since one of the RainWing abilities is to spit venom. The dragonets encounter a pair of MudWings patrolling, and overhear one of them bringing up the topic of the legendary monster that lives in the rainforest. When Glory follows them she hears loud dragon screams and finds them both dead, with their throats ripped out. Sunny disappears, then both Tsunami and Clay say something has bitten them. However, Glory and Starflight are not affected. When Glory yells for anybody nearby to show themselves, several RainWings appear and address Glory. She flies with the RainWings as they make their way to the hidden Rainforest Kingdom. She arrives safely with her unconscious friends to the hidden kingdom. Once she arrives she takes a sun nap, and when she awakens there is a sloth on her sholder which she names Silver, which becomes her pet for the rest of the series. She ends up finding out that twelve RainWings had gone missing recently, and that nothing had been done to find them. A RainWing, Mangrove, says Glory should find the RainWings.

Queen Magnificent agrees and Glory is now left with the task while her friends go and try to save their guardian Webs from the SandWing venom. Clay, Starflight, and Glory head out into the forest where they find a dying sloth. Clay mercifully kills the sloth while the other two look around for whatever infected the sloth. They end up finding an animus-touched tunnel, and Glory and Clay decide to stay and investigate. They stay overnight and watch to see if anyone comes out of the tunnel. Sunny, Starflight, Tsunami, and two other RainWings come to see the tunnel. They decide to wrap vines around Clay and Glory and the two enter the cave only to find themselves in the middle of the desert near Burn's stronghold.

The two return and have a discussion with the Dragonets and Jambu, when suddenly Mangrove appears and runs through the tunnel. Glory and Jambu follow and make their way to the Ice Kingdom. They arrive in the Ice Kingdom and Glory finds an assassin named Deathbringer. He is hiding near Blaze's fortress. She disguises herself as an IceWing using the a model of an actual IceWing named Fjord and questions him for why he's there. After she questions him, Glory sneaks away, and discusses Deathbringer with her friends. Glory and Jambu enter Blaze's fortress. Glory and Jambu bring Blaze and hidden Mangrove to the group. Deathbringer then attempts to kill Blaze and one of the weapons manages to cut her throat but the second is blocked by Tsunami's wing. Glory attacks Deathbringer and attacks him with his own weapon (throwing stars) and Deathbringer surrenders. Suddenly, the group sees a IceWings coming to save Blaze. The dragonets then flee to the rainforest. Glory and Tsunami hide near the tunnel, catch Deathbringer, and tie him to a tree. After that, Glory sends Tsunami away, and decides to use herself as a bait to the "rainforest monster". She instructs Clay not to let Deathbringer talk, afraid of the assassin telling Clay where she was going. A short distance away, Glory finds some traces of venom, along with a small talonprint, and gets kidnapped by the NightWings. She gets saved by Clay, Deathbringer, and one of the lost dragonets, Kinkajou. She gets back and warns Queen Magnificent who does not care even a little bit. Because Magnificent did not want to do anything Glory challenges Magnificent to the throne. Instead of fighting for the throne in a battle to the death, the RainWings use a competition of RainWing traits to decide who becomes the new queen. Glory forms a team of her new RainWing friends, while the RainWing queens form their own team. Jambu and Queen Exquisite have a tree gliding race where Exquisite cheats and nearly gets Jambu killed. Queen Fruit Bat competes against Tamarin, a blind RainWing, in a flower finding contest. Tamarin wins due to her powerful sense of smell. Glory and Magnificent go against each other in a camouflage contest which Magnificent wins. Mangrove and Dazzling go head to head in a fruit gathering competition where Mangrove wins, and Dazzling admits to cheating but the games continue. Kinkajou and Grandeur have the final match in a venom shooting contest. The two have a good match until a sloth crawls in between the venom and nearly gets shot but gets blocked by Kinkajou's wing. She gets hit and her wing begins melting only to be saved by Glory who sprays her own venom canceling Grandeur's venom, meaning Glory and Grandeur are related. Grandeur was descended from original RainWing queens, which technically means that Glory is the rightful queen of the RainWings. Grandeur forfeits making Glory the new queen of the RainWings, but then Clay crashes into the pavilion stating that Starflight has fled to the Night Kingdom to warn the NightWings of the RainWing attack.

The Dark Secret

main point of view: Starflight

The fourth book in the series, published October 29, 2013, is written from the view of Starflight. The book is mostly set in the Night Kingdom. Starflight was kidnapped by NightWings while watching the tunnel with Clay. He wakes in a NightWing dormitory, surrounded by NightWing dragonets. He meets two of them, Mightyclaws and Mindreader. Starflight discovers he has a half sister, Fierceteeth. Morrowseer arrives and takes Starflight to a council meeting. Starflight realizes that the queen of the NightWings is hidden behind a screen, and speaks through her daughter, princess Greatness. The NightWings are worried that the RainWings will attack the tribe, because of Glory and Kinkajou escaping. Morrowseer takes Starflight to a forest, where the big NightWing eats a half dead giant albatross. Starflight realizes that NightWings have a special bacteria in their mouths that infects their prey, and while he said that, Morrowseer realised who Starflight's father is. Morrowseer takes Starflight to meet his father, and Starflight meets a NightWing dragonet, Fatespeaker. Starflight realizes that Fatespeaker was his replacement. Morrowseer takes them to Starflight's father, Mastermind, who is a scientist. Starflight finds Orchid, who is one of the missing RainWings. Starflight then meets the "alternate dragonets of destiny": a MudWing named Ochre, a SandWing named Viper, a SeaWing named Squid, and a SkyWing named Flame. Fatespeaker is an "alternate" too. Morrowseer orders the "alternates" to kill Starflight, but he escapes and hides in the RainWing prisons. Fatespeaker finds him and convinces him to come out of hiding. That night, he and Fatespeaker decide to explore the NightWing's fortress, where Starflight discovers an old, animus-enchanted gemstone called a Dreamvisitor. This allows him to walk into any dragon's dream, so long as he has seen them before and that dragon is asleep. He can communicate through the dreams as well. Starflight uses this to dreamvisit Queen Glory and warn her of the impending NightWing attack. The next day, Morrowseer takes the alternates and Starflight on a long flight back to the mainland, where Starflight realizes the NightWing island is way off of the northern SkyWing coast. Morrowseer forces the dragonets (except Fatespeaker) to try and convince a small outpost of SkyWings that they are the real Dragonets of Destiny and to change their alliance from Burn to Blister. It's almost worked when a group of NightWings shows up and burns the outpost down, killing all of the SkyWings inside. When Squid gets upset and starts to whine, Morrowseer sends him away alone in enemy territory. Even though Squid was mean to her, Fatespeaker is very upset about Squid's safety and she decides to find and talk to the NightWing Queen about Morrowseer's treatment of the Dragonets. That night, she and Starflight go exploring, and end up finding a secret room where a giant vat of lava is sitting on the floor, behind the screen that Starflight noticed earlier. Suddenly, a huge black dragon rises from the lava, and turns out to be Queen Battlewinner of the NightWings. She was blasted down her throat by an IceWing with frostbreath, so she had to live in the lava in order to counteract the ice taking over her body. She tells them Morrowseer can do whatever he wants. A few nights later, Flame snuck out of the dorm, so Fatespeaker and Starflight followed him. He went all the way down to the dungeons, where he conversed with Deathbringer about becoming an assassin. The next morning, Morrowseer took the dragonets out for battle training. Flame and Fatespeaker were paired up to fight. When it wasn't going well for Fatespeaker, Viper was thrown in to help Flame kill her. Starflight found this unfair, so he jumped in to help Fatespeaker. Somehow during the battle, Viper was thrown into a lava pit, where she died. Before she fell entirely in, however, she managed to scratch Flame with her venomous tail. Morrowseer was extremely upset, as Flame was the only SkyWing dragonet the Talons of Peace had. Starflight realizes this is his chance to escape. He uses Flame's injury as an excuse to go into the rainforest with Fatespeaker and then "through the other tunnel to the desert", where the antidote to SandWing venom was found. He never went through the second tunnel, however, but took Flame to the healer's hut in the rainforest because they also had the antidote. He was able to warn Queen Glory and talk to all of his friends, and they formulated a plan to attack to NightWing island. The RainWings used their camouflage scales to sneak on to the island by the tunnels, and they used sleeping darts to tranquilize any NightWings they came across. They freed all of the captives when the volcano on the island started to erupt. Glory offered the NightWings a deal: accept her as their queen and they could pass through the tunnel and live in the rainforest. If they didn't, she made them fly off to the continent to fend for themselves. Right as the last dragons are heading into the rainforest, Morrowseer appears and confronts the original five Dragonets of Destiny. He tells them that the prophecy was a lie made up by the NightWings in order to be able to find themselves a new home. Sunny is very distraught and flees into the rainforest. Then, the volcano erupts entirely and fills the tunnel with fire. Morrowseer is killed, but Clay was able to protect the dragonets from the brunt of the fire,due to his fireproof scales. However, Starflight was badly burned, and ended up being blinded.

The Brightest Night

main point of view: Sunny

The fifth book in the series, and the last of the first arc, published March 25, 2014. It is written from the view of Sunny. Following the events of ‘’The Dark Secret’’, the NightWings have submitted to Glory’s leadership and are residing in the rainforest alongside RainWings. Sunny is captured by three NightWings,holding the obsidian mirror, but she escapes her captors and follows them as they head to the Scorpion Den, a large town surrounding a desert oasis, where they plan to sell information to Thorn, the leader of the Outclaws, a gang of criminal SandWings who guard the oasis. Thorn kills one of the Nightwings who had captured Sunny and has the other two imprisoned. She questions Sunny about the NightWings, and repeatedly asks if she is "here for the reward". Sunny denies all knowledge of a reward, and tells Thorn about her life growing up under the Talons. Thorn puts the puzzle together, and figures out that Sunny is her daughter. She is distracted by a dragonbite viper, which is the only snake that could kill a dragon. Sunny falls asleep, but when she wakes up, Thorn is throwing a party for her. However, as she exits the tent, Sunny is captured again and taken to Queen Burn with hopes of a reward for the funny-looking dragonet. At the stronghold, Sunny meets Smolder, Burn's brother. He is nice to her and shows her his pet scavenger, aka a human, named Flower. However, Smolder tells Sunny he has to keep her locked up until Burn gets back, and he puts her in Burn's "weirdling tower", which is filled with all sorts of disturbing dragon parts and creatures. Also being held captive in the tower is ex-Queen Scarlet, who's throne has been overtaken by her daughter, Ruby. The next day, Smolder takes Sunny out of the tower and down to the treasury rooms. He asks her to help him solve the mystery of how three scavengers emptied four rooms filled with treasure, and got away with only two horses at full gallop. Before Sunny can explain her theory, an attack was launched on the Stronghold. Sunny flies up to a tower to see what's happening, and it turns out Thorn came to rescue Sunny after finding out what happened. Sunny can't think of any way to stop the fighting, until she sees someone wriggling out of the sand. It's Peril, who came to rescue Scarlet. Sunny intercepts Peril at the Tower door and explains her situation. Peril agrees to help, so long as Sunny won't interfere with her rescuing Scarlet. Peril stops the fighting and rescues Scarlet. Thorn meets Smolder, who tells him that he has something for her. He takes Thorn and Sunny down to the library, which is in shambles. He starts looking for an old letter labeled "Thorn" when he gets the news that Burn is on her way back. He locks Sunny and Thorn in the library with no way out. Sunny uses her fire to burn a careful hold in the door, and Thorn finds the letter for her. It's from Sunny's father, Stonemover, and says that he's waiting for Thorn at Jade Mountain. Sunny learns about her father, who is a NightWing, which explains how she doesn't look like the other SandWings. She and her mother, who is Thorn, escape, and Sunny decides to fly back to her friends and warn them that Scarlet is free. On her way, she stops at Jade Mountain and finds her father. She stays the night, and makes it back to the rainforest where she is welcomed with open wings. She tells her story to her friends, and they devise a plan to end the war even though the prophecy isn't real. They contact all three of the SandWing heirs and tell them to meet at Burn's stronghold at midnight, or they forfeit their chance to be queen. When the day arrives, everyone is there. Dragons from all across Pyrrhia gathered to see what would happen. Blister asks her sister, Burn, if she got her present. Burn says yes, opens the lid, and snatches the contents out. It's a dragonbite viper. another snake slither out and bites Burn on the leg. Blister only laughs, and says that she forgot to tell Burn that there where two vipers. Then, Burn is bitten and killed by the second viper, and she drops the first one. It bites Clay on the hind leg when he tried to push everyone else out of the viper's way. Peril is there, and she starts to burn the poison out of his leg. He healed due to his fireproof scales, but he is heavily scarred, and limping for the rest of his life. Blister then challenges Blaze to a duel, and they begin to fight. Smolder's pet scavenger, Flower, shows Sunny a spot by Queen Oasis's grave and begins to dig. They uncover Oasis's skeleton, and in her mouth are two bags. Sunny opens one and finds the Eye of Onyx, which makes any fair and just SandWing holding it the queen. Blaze and Blister stop fighting, and Blister tells Sunny to give her the Eye. Sunny refuses, and gives it to Thorn instead. When Blister grabs it out of Thorn's hand, the Eye electrocutes Blister and turns her to ash. This fulfills the false prophecy anyway, and Thorn is made queen, making Sunny a princess.

In the epilogue, the five Dragonets are on top of Jade Mountain, talking about a good site to build a school to teach dragonets of all tribes.

Moon Rising

main point of view: Moonwatcher

The sixth book in the series, and the first of the second arc published December 30, 2014. It is written from the view of a female NightWing, Moonwatcher. The event of Jade Mountain Academy took place several months after the event of the Dragonet Prophecy. Moonwatcher, the daughter of Morrowseer, is a young NightWing dragonet who lived in the rainforest when all the other NightWings had lived on the volcanic island. In the first chapter, her mother, Secretkeeper, takes her to a new-found academy which had been created by the Dragonets of Destiny, who have plans to bring ever-lasting peace to all the kingdoms of Pyrrhia. Yet Moon has powers that had been thought to only be myths or forgotten. The old NightWing powers of mind-reading, and seeing the future. She feels as if she doesn't fit in inside the new school, nervous that dragons won't like her. She wants to go home. Then she meets her winglet: a silent, grumpy SkyWing called Carnelian, A jumpy and excited RainWing named Kinkajou, A loyal Mudwing called Umber, A SeaWing called Turtle, who's thoughts Moon cannot read, A cold IceWing named Prince Winter who is Queen Glacier's nephew, and a warm, smart, funny SandWing named Qibli. With Kinkajou, She visits the library, where she meets blind librarian and dragonet of destiny, Starflight, and Clay's quiet sister, Sora. Afterwards, she visits the prey center, where she is threathened by her clawmate Winter to have her face ripped off, because she is holding his pet scavenger, Bandit. Yet there is one strange thing that Moonwatcher can't understand. She's hearing another voice inside her head, one that was likely to be another mind-reader. She has ideas, yet she wants to find out who is speaking with her. During the night, she is woken up by a vision of Jade mountain falling, and everybody dying. While she is still awake, she decides to slip off to find Stonemover, an animus NightWing, and finds out that the voice was not him. On her way back to bed, she hears somebody discussing a murder with Queen Scarlet in her sleep. The next day, she goes to the library to study Dreamvisitors. Finally, she finds out that she is hearing the voice of Darkstalker, a two thousand year old NightWing animus. Shortly afterwards, she sees a vision of a bomb going off in the History cave, and tries to stop her friends from going in there. They are all confused by her panic and her worry that they are unsure what to do. The History cave then explodes, killing two dragons: Her SkyWing clawmate, Carnelian, And a NightWing, Bigtail. Tamarin was also in the cave, and received serious burns. Just then Peril arrived and helped Clay retrieve the bodies from the cave. Winter suspects that since she (Moon) had known about the explosion, she had been the one who did it. Yet she had kept all her secrets inside, not telling anyone to remain safe. If she doesn't tell them, she would lose friends. But if she did, they wouldn't believe her. Winter tells her that she has 24 hours before he tells all the Academy what he accuses her of doing, and then stalks off. Moon then breaks down, and tells Qibli, Kinkajou, and Turtle about her powers. Kinkajou gets angry, before stomping off in a huff. Qibli follows her. Moonwatcher is then left alone with Turtle, who brings her to an underground lake to wash off her wounds. while she is there, she finds a Seed pod of the SkyWing weapons, dragonflame cactus, embededd in her skin. Turtle tells this to Tsunami and Sunny. Moon then has the same vision of Jade Mountain falling. She and Turtle they go to the prey center, Where somebody tries to kill an IceWing named Icicle, who is Winter's sister, and Flame the SkyWing alternate dragonet. A school assembly is then held, in which Moon invades the minds of Three of her and Qibli's suspects's minds: Pike,A SeaWing who had argued with both Bigtail and Carnelian before the fire, Icicle, Winter's sister Later, they find out that the killer of Carnelian and Bigtail was Sora, Clay's little sister. Icicle had Killed her sister Crane in the war, and Sora had been trying to avenge her death. Moon, Qibli, Sora, Umber and Winter hurry to the library, to see Icicle threatening to slit Starflight's throat. They then find out that Icicle had been the one talking with Scarlet, and that she had made a deal so that if Icicle killed the Dragonets, Scarlet would free her and Winter's brother, Hailstorm. After Icicle is confronted by Moon, Kinkajou, Winter and Qibli, she leaps out the window, and disappears. Later on that day, Winter leaves Jade Mountain to find Icicle and stop her. However, the entire Jade winglet (Apart from Umber, who had already ran away with Sora) Follow Winter, and convinces him to take them with him.

Winter Turning

main point of view: Prince Winter

The seventh book in the series, published June 30, 2015, is written from the view of Winter. It starts at the end of the sixth book when the friends decide to fly to the rainforest as Icicle (Winter’s sister) will target Glory because she knows that Queen Scarlet hates her most. Icicle was working for Scarlet, because her brother, Hailstorm, was kidnapped by Scarlet during the war. She believes that if she kills Glory, Scarlet will give her Hailstorm back. When they get there Winter is hating the bugs, the heat and mud. They stop at a river where they talk as Winter mentally kicks himself for wanting Moon there. Soon Winter spots a sloth and thinking he can eat it tries to do just that, but a highly protective ex-RainWing queen stops him. Once they get to the village border, they find a dead NightWing guard in a tree hollow.

Escaping Peril

main point of view:Peril

The eighth book in the series, published December 29, 2015, is written from the view of Peril. Queen Ruby comes to see Flame and during that visit, ex-Queen Scarlet pays a visit to Jade Mountain Academy , drops off a head and leaves. To everyone's dismay, it appears to be the RainWing queen's head, Glory.Turtle finds a scrap of paper tucked inside the head's ear.When he pulls it out the head turns into a totally different head. Luckily, it is just a random MudWing's head. Peril, accompanied with Turtle, set out to find her. On their journey they travel into the town of Possibility to find Moon, Winter, Qibli and Kinkajou. Peril gets hit by a Dragonflame cactus, just before the rest of the Jade winglet shows up. Turtle ditches Peril, as he checks on Kinkajou in the healer's hut. Peril begins to fly off into the desert, when she collides with Winter, who is travelling with Foeslayer, and gives him severe burns. Before any of them prove fatal, though, Turtle saves Winter by rubbing a magical healing stone on his wounds. Minutes later, Turtle spills the secret that he is actually an animus. They find Scarlet and Peril's father, Soar. He tells her that he is really a RainWing named Chameleon and that he has jewelry that can change his appearance to dragons from different tribes. Ex-Queen Scarlet gives Peril her own necklace. To her delight, her firescales subside, making her normal. Scarlet heads back to the Sky Kingdom to reclaim her throne. Scarlet goes to the wingery and fetches Price Cliff, Queen Ruby's only son. She tells Peril to watch over Cliff while she sleeps. In the Night, Cliff sings Her a song, "We the Dragons Of The Sky." In the morning, she actually forgets who Clay, her giant crush, is. Queen Ruby is shocked by this. Scarlet taunts Ruby,stating that "I will make Cliff into a monster you'd never recognize" and Peril realizes that Scarlet had done that to her and rips off her necklace, which was also enchanted to make her completely loyal to Scarlet and forget about Clay. She immediately remembers Clay and no longer feels loyal to Ex-Queen Scarlet. She nearly kills Scarlet but Ruby insists that she must kill Scarlet.Scarlet and Ruby go to the arena. Peril meets Chameleon and asks him if Tourmaline, Ruby dead sister, is alive. Chameleon nods. Peril then asks if Tourmaline is in the arena. Again he nods. Peril notices that Ruby is wearing a earring with a pendant large enough to hold a scrap of paper. Peril tells Ruby to hold still and melts Ruby's earring. Ruby's scales then turn orange and her wounds all heal. Her brother, Vermillion, recognizes her as Tourmaline, Scarlet's missing daughter. Tourmaline severely wounds and kills Scarlet. The next night, The SkyWings hold a party to celebrate that Scarlet is dead. Peril flies off to rejoin her friends, who are at Agate Mountain. She burns up Darkstalker's scroll, thinking that this will trap Darkstalker, but it actually just transfers the animus powers back to him. The book ends with Darkstalker rising up and out of the mountain.

Talons of Power

main point of view:Prince Turtle

The ninth book in the series, published December 27, 2016, is written from the view of Turtle.

Talons of Power starts off with an explanation to Turtle's shyness and wanting to be invisible. The prologue of the story is a flashback to when he failed in getting help for soldiers who were guarding the queen's eggs. The first chapter of the book starts right where the previous book, "Escaping Peril" left off. Turtle sees Darkstalker look at Turtle with eyes of a murderer and decides to enchant a stick to prevent him from being seen or heard by Darkstalker in the physical world or in anyone's thoughts or in any of the futures he can see. Turtle's sister has the opposite reaction to Darkstalker and reveals that she is an animus dragon to impress him. Darkstalker then enchants some Neckalaces to protect him and Anenome's souls. Mindreader, Fearless and Mightyclaws turn up, stricken with fear. Darkstalker gives Later in the book Turtle enchants Qibli's earring to make it so the wearer can't be affected by any of Darkstalker's spells. Turtle shows Qibli his stash of animus items which include:

• A bowl that will double its contents whenever someone says "twice as much please". This bowl can't double past 32 things, so if there were 20 things in it the bowl would only produce 12. It will not double if there are 32 or more things in it.
• Two slates. One of these slates will replicate whatever is written or drawn onto the other slate. This only works one way.
• A rock that heals all damage to skin, muscles, and bones. It doesn't heal any damage to any vital organs.
• His stick of invisibility(etc.) from Darkstalker.
• A piece of coral for finding lost things.

Turtle decides to follow Darkstalker and the NightWing students who went with him with to the rainforest and leaves his animus touched objects with Qibli. Darkstalker says that all the NightWings that wish to go with him to the old Night Kingdom can and all who wish to stay can. Queen Glory lets him do this because she is being affected by Darkstalker's spell that makes him seem more charming and agreeable than he really is. Darkstalker becomes king of the NightWings. Turtle gets Anenome to heal Kinkajou and Turtle slips in a spell that makes her seem worthless to Darkstalker but Anenome also slips in a spell which makes Kinkajou love Turtle. Turtle follows pretty much the entire NightWing tribe along with Anenome and Kinkajou to the old Night Kingdom. In the middle of the night, Turtle finds Darkstalker up and wandering around the palace. He places a pearl in front of him and Darkstalker believes it is Clearsight from beyond the grave. Later Anenome casts a spell on a rock to make it into something that Darkstalker would like and it turns into a snake earring. Anenome tries to hurt Moon but Darkstalker stops it and tells Anenome to leave and go kill the SeaWing queen while she's at it. Turtle goes to stop her and has ends up fighting her. He reveals that she was enchanted by him to be an animus. Darkstalker senses all the animus spells and calls all the animus dragons in Pyrriah to his palace. He asks Stonemover how many dragons there are in the room and he says four. After some threatening and spells, Turtle tosses the stick to Anenome and Darkstalker enchants him to lose his animus abilities.

Darkness of Dragons

main point of view: Qibli

The tenth book in the series and the last of the second arc was published July 25, 2017, is written from the view of Qibli. It is mostly set in the Sand Kingdom, the Night Kingdom, and Jade Academy. The story takes place after Turtle leaves in "Talons of Power". In the first chapter, Qibli has a flashback to his childhood where he lived with his abusive mother, Cobra, and his two siblings, Rattlesnake and Sirocco. Moonwatcher, Turtle, Princess Anemone, and a large group of Nightwings leave Jade Academy and follow Darkstalker. A SandWing named Ostrich disappears at this time. Qibli receives information about Darkstalker's trip to the Rainforest from Turtle via the animus-touched slates (see above). He notices that despite Darkstalker's lack of knowledge about the location of the village in the Rainforest Kingdom, the dragons still follow Darkstalker's leadership and make him King of the Rainwings. He figures that this event, as well as the dragons at the schools' opinion of Darkstalker, is because of the spell that Darkstalker casts to make himself more charming. Qibli realizes that he can take an earring that Turtle enchanted so that the wearer will be immune to Darkstalker's spells, and the enchanted bowl, to make multiple earrings. He gives two of them to Sunny and Tsunami, who realize that Darkstalker has enchanted them and left with six dragonets from the school (Moon, Turtle, Anemone, and the NightWings). Sunny says that she used a Dreamvisitor to visit Ostrich's dreams, and that she dreamed about a tall dragon with a lot of skull tattoos, which Qibli believes is his grandfather, Vulture.

The Lost Continent

main point of view:Blue

The eleventh book in the series was published recently, on June 26, 2018. It is from the point of view of a male SilkWing called Blue, one of three new species unique to the lost continent of Pantala. In this book, he and his sister, Luna, are trying to go through their metamorphosis peacefully, but their whole world is thrown upside-down when they realize they are flamesilks during Luna's metamorphosis and are wanted by the HiveWing queen,Queen Wasp. Blue escapes the HiveWings with Io, who does not manage to make it to the HiveWing school. Blue hears mind-controlled HiveWings issuing orders and a dragon calls to him to hide in a tiny shed attached to the school.She leads him into a series of boltholes. Blue later realizes she is a HiveWing. She introduces herself as Cricket and explains that Queen Wasp can mind-control all of the HiveWings except her.Blue feels a sharp prickle of pain under his wristband (a heavy metal band the color of dull brass with his school's name Silkworm Hall) starts to feel woozy and cannot stand up.Cricket tells him that the poison came from his wristband and comments that she heard of the idea but didn't know it had been implemented.she take a dust rag,unscrews a lamp, smashes it and picks up a thread of flamesilk. Blue never thought how HiveWings made their lamps. she burns off his wristband and Blue faints.Cricket cleans up and wakes Blue.They hides and a few moments later, three mind-controlled HiveWings burst in. they start searching through the library.Blue notices Cricket watching a orange-yellow HiveWing speckled all over with black spots. later Cricket reveals it is her sister,Katydid. Blue, a Hivewing named Cricket, and Swordtail, a rebellious Silkwing who is Luna's boyfriend, must escape the HiveWing queen and her army of mind-controlled Hivewings, rescue Luna, and recover the Book of Clearsight with the help of a Leafwing named Sundew.

The Hive Queen

main point of view:Cricket

The twelfth book in the series will be published on December 26, 2018, and will be from the PoV of a female HiveWing called Cricket.

The Poison Jungle

The thirteenth book in the series will be published on June 25, 2019.