Saturday, June 22, 2019

the lost heir: part four

Queen Coral grows frustrated with trying to talk to Tsunami and heads for the surface. She demands that Tsunami return the egg to the royal hatchery where it will be safe but Tsunami refuses. She points out that the hatchery clearly isn't safe and insists the egg must stay with her. She asks Coral how she protected Anemone's egg and Coral tells her that she stayed in the hatchery for a year, never leaving the egg. Gill ran the kingdom then but he got caught, making Coral realize she could not leave her post as queen again. Anemone is shocked to find this out. Tsunami wants to return to the summer palace with the egg but Coral says she won't be returning there for some time and the egg will not be safe there. She speaks of the flood coming and Tsunami realizes all of her friends are in danger from drowning. Tsunami insists on a harness and Coral agrees, though she does warn Tsunami that if anything happens to the egg she will have lost two daughters, not one. They return to the deep palace and Tsunami and the egg are fitted into a harness that somehow Anemone can control. When Tsunami asks, in aquatic, about it Anemone responds that they will talk later. Tsunami leaves on her suicide mission to keep the egg safe and to save her friends before the summer palace floods.

Lost, Tsunami tries to find her way back to the summer palace. She tries following the current in the opposite direction but it is exhausting work. She tries flying to the surface to find an island she recognizes but when she gets to the surface she cannot distinguish anything. The water is choppy, the sky gray, the storm violent. She sees some scavengers in the water and saves them, hoping it will give her luck. She then returns to the water and tries to find Riptide by lighting up all of her scales. He finds her and she tries to explain to him she needs to return to the summer palace immediately. He takes her to another current and they follow it. By now she is really worried about her friends and regrets not visiting them. When they reach the palace Riptide tries to leave her but she asks him to come along. They enter the palace and she finds no guards anywhere. Worried she approaches her friends' cave where she sees a large lump in the back and fears it is her friends' bodies.

Tsunami is relieved to discover that the large lump is just her friends piled on top of each other. She asks them why they haven't left the filling cave and discovers Clay is chained up. She is furious and wonders if her mother knows and lied to her about her friends safety. The dragonets are happy to see her but they are also upset that she kept away for so long. She also discovers that they haven't been fed anything but the breakfast leftovers. This upsets her as Lagoon told her mother at the council meeting that the dragonets were well fed. Leaving the egg with Sunny, she leaves to get the key from the guards. They are terrified of her and spill that Shark ordered Clay tied up. At first she considers attacking them to take the key but then thinks on her mother killing Tortoise. She decides to try a different approach. She uses the prophecy - and the prospect of killing one of the dragonets who are supposed to stop the war - to convince them. As the guards talk she realizes they were debating these exact same things. Some want her for queen, others want Anemone, but all of them want the war over. They surrender the key with the request that Tsunami takes care of their families after they are punished. She returns to the cave and frees her friends. Riptide leaves and then Tsunami takes them to a dry cave to rest while she looks for food. She Tsunami leaves her friends she realizes she feels warm inside, like she has come home - and she wonders why she doesn't feel that way around her family.

Tsunami finds food for her friends. She is shocked when they tell her of the theory that Coral is killing her daughters. The theory goes that since Orca almost won when she challenged Coral for the throne, Coral has been secretly having her daughters killed off while acting as a grieving mother. Tsunami is shocked by this theory and insists it cannot be true. She even points out to Anemone's harness but everyone else just sees that as proof that Coral is crazy. Tsunami tells her friends of the attempt on her life and how she believes Shark is behind everything. Clay feels that Tsunami isn't safe and wants everyone to leave. Glory tells Tsunami that she can stay if she wishes. Tsunami feels torn. She wants to go with her friends but she also feels the need to stay. Sunny pips up saying she won't leave the egg. Starflight agrees that they need to stay and meet Blister. Tsunami agrees to stay with her friends - which is what she secretly wanted - and they all settle down. As she dozes off, Tsunami realizes she forgot to tell everyone about Kestrel.

The next morning queen Coral is in a panic over her missing daughter and egg as well as the missing dragonets. This wakes up Tsunami and Sunny. Tsunami realizes someone is in the cave with them so she wakes up her friends. It is queen Blister and she informs Coral that she has found everyone. There is something about Blister that unnerves Tsunami but she can't figure out what it is. Tsunami is even more shocked that Blister knows all about Glory being a RainWing instead of a SkyWing. Coral announces it is time for Tsunami and Blister to join her for breakfast but before Tsunami can insist on her friends joining them Blister does. Blister tells Sunny to leave the egg behind but both Sunny and Coral vehemently refuse - much to Coral's shock. Everyone heads to breakfast and Tsunami realizes she has to do something about the guards quick before they are punished. She loudly announces to her mother that she has shocking news. She tells her about finding out about her friends being starved after Lagoon specifically told the queen they were being fed. Coral orders Lagoon thrown in the dungeon. Lagoon is shocked but Coral tells her to be quiet in aquatic. Tsunami is devastated to realize her mother knew exactly what was going on. Tsunami then loudly talks about how the dragonets of destiny were chained up against their wishes and against the wishes of Coral. She speaks of how the guards had to choose between following their commander or their queen - and of course how they chose their queen. Coral makes the observation that the guards are practically heroes and then orders Shark locked up. Blister is amused by Tsunami's stunt. She then asks the dragonets what they intend to do about the war. Tsunami and Glory stall but to their shock Starflight, very embarrassedly, says he thinks Blister should be queen. His friends are all shocked by his pronouncement and quickly overrule him. Blister seems annoyed by this. Talk then turns to the mysterious dead SkyWing and before Tsunami can stop her Sunny reveals it to be Kestrel. Coral is upset with Tsunami for keeping this news from her but Tsunami counters that she felt she had to tell her friends first, as Kestrel was like a mother to them albeit a poor one. Blister sides with Tsunami remarking that she wished to slash her own mother's throat at times. Tsunami is shocked to realize that Blister knows more about Kestrel's death then she should.

Well here we are. Starflight made a rather pathetic play for Blister like he was ordered to. I am so disappointed in him. And Blister knows too much about Kestrel's death and the dragonets because Morrowseer told her these things.

I like the theory about Coral actually being the one behind her daughters deaths, but I wasn't buying it until it was revealed she knew exactly about how the dragonets were being treated. She knew they were chained up, she knew they were being starved, and she lied to Tsunami about it. I'm not saying she is killing her eggs, but she clearly isn't as honest as she makes herself out to be. Lagoon and Shark will be out of prison in no time. And I am starting to see Coral in a new light. I initially thought she was a bit empty headed and surrounded herself with people who fawn over her without realizing they are lying to her and using her. I mean, take Whirlpool and his ridiculous aquatic lessons. Now I realize this isn't true. She knows EXACTLY what is going on but instead is choosing to play dumb - and to make things worse she is counting on Tsunami not knowing aquatic in order to hide things from her. This means she could actually be behind the murder of her eggs - and it might mean she is not as happy with Tsunami's return as she is claiming.

I just hope for Tsunami's sake that her mother doesn't turn out evil. It is also sad to see that neither Clay or Tsunami found what they were looking for when they sought out their families. Granted, people tend to hope for the best and picture what they need when they seek out long lost family members. But Tsunami and Clay were just looking to be loved and wanted. Clay didn't get that and it is beginning to look like Tsunami might not be getting that either.

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