Coloring Contest Entry

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Harpy glided over the ocean, admiring the waves of cascading blues. It was beautiful out here, in the bay of Sand and Scales. Her battalion had been sent here to fight against the soldiers of the Sapphire alliance, which meant trying to fight dragons that could jump out at them from underwater, and dragons that would know their next move because of mind reading (if there were the right dragons). She sighed and slowly turned back towards the shore where a dozen fires were flickering. Her claws sprayed sand everywhere as she landed. Flare, a dark red skywing who she had been friends with since they had been drafted, gagged and spit out sand. "Aw, geez Harpy" He sputtered. Harpy rolled her eyes and flung more sand at him. Flare flopped onto the ground and grabbed a talonfull of sand and chucked it right back at Harpy. She laughed, and soon a full out sand ball war was being fought. it ended only when they heard all the other dragons around their fires go silent. Flare froze mid-throw and straightened. Harpy stood still as stone and pulled her shoulders back. The only reason that the 2nd Battalion ever was as quiet as this was when their supreme commanders, the queens, came to check their warriors. A sharp snap broke the silence, and everyone scrambled into a neat line. Their line was a rainbow, with red-and-orange skywings, icewings the color of snow, and rainwings in every color. Their colors might be all over the place, but each dragon held the same pose: shoulders back, chin up, eyes looking straight forward. Three regal figures emerged from the treeline. Queen Eminence looked a stoic as always, in her normal shades of deep blue and purple. At one point in history rainwings like Harpy had been called the laziest of the tribes, but now they were anything but. Sure, every rainwing had suntime and only ate plants, but they weren't afraid to fight. Harpy had heard stories of Queen Eminence taking out half a enemy battalion with only her claws and venom. The other two parts that made up the Amber Alliance were equally terrifying and awe-inspiring. Harpy hadn't heard much of Queen Frostbite, but then icewings had always kept to themselves. But she did look powerful, dressed in a silver cape with a narwhal spear strapped to her back. Queen Horizon was the skywing queen, and she had bronze rings all along her legs and diamonds embedded along her eyes. She was a fair and kind queen, according to Flare. All three queens had formed their alliance soon after the War of Flames had begun. Now they wre steadily making their way along the row of soldiers. "Second Battalion of the Amber Alliance, what are you here for?" Queen Eminence boomed, her voice carrying all along the shoreline. "To fight!" Everyone roared back at her. Queen Frostbite then stepped up. "What are you fighting for?" "Justice!" Harpy shouted back along with her fellow dragons. Queen Horizon roared. "And when will we deliver justice?" The sand seemed to tremble around Harpy's talons as the line screamed "TODAY!" the queens raised their wings in unison and the battalion rose into the sky, flying over the bay, flying away from everything they had known, towards a brighter future.