Bubbles could see dragons from every tribe, all tribes. All different colors and faces and thoughts and feelings. All of them were chatting, even Seawings to Skywings, SandWings to Icewings, and Silkwings to Mudwings. There were the Queens! Queen Glory and Queen Ruby and Queen Thorn and Queen Moorhen and Queen Snowfall and Queen Coral and the SilkWing and LeafWing leaders named Blue and Sundew!

After a few moments, Cricket and Bumblebee (Bumblebee being six) entered the stage and sat down. Queen Snowfall stood up and addressed the crowd.

“Alright, settle down, everybody,” Her voice boomed across the crowd of dragons. Everyone stopped talking and listened. “As you should all know, the Queens of Pyrrhia have come up with a plan to create the HiveWing tribe and make it bigger so it’s a true tribe.”

The audiences’ faces looked around with confused, curious, and excited expressions. Queen Thorn pulled out a giant map that showed the two continents and Queen Ruby stood up to help her unroll it for the audience to see. Glory took out a stick and pointed to the land mass that was marked as ‘Pyrrhia’.

“This is where we are,” Glory explained, “And this is where Pantala is.” She pointed the stick to the left, where the other land mass was marked as ‘Pantala’. “Pantala is where the Silkwings, Leafwings, and Hivewings lived before the corruption and rescue of the Silkwings and Leafwings.”

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Bubbles cooed in awe. The other continent! This was amazing!

After Bubbles got home, he couldn’t wait to apply. Before he fell asleep, he went over the Queens’ plan in his head:

Nine dragons are given a month to venture out to Pantala, one dragon from each tribe. Their job is to go across the world to the Lost Continent and sneak into the HiveWing’s hatchery. There, they would steal ten HiveWing eggs, one for each dragon. Since Queen Wasp’s mind control plant was destroyed, she couldn’t inject the newborn eggs with the mind control poison. Then, the ten dragons would fly back and restore the eggs to the new HiveWing hatchery in Pyrrhia. If one of the eggs hatch along the way, then the dragon whose egg was hatched would have to take care of the HiveWing until adulthood. If this happens, then the ten dragons would be given a pass to take an extra week to get home. Any dragons who don’t come back home will be given a ceremony and assumed dead.

To apply at his age, Bubbles would have to go to a special school where he would be trained for seven months to fly long distances without getting tired, survive a week without food or water and still have energy to fly a straight six hours per day, be able to know first aid with surrounding materials such as sticks, leaves, and mud, and other survival skills. The school was on the western outskirts of where the Sand Kingdom met the ocean.

The next morning, Bubble talked to his parents about signing up for the school. Since he had always talked about adventure as a younger dragonet, they had agreed.