Hi jessiebear, Felistia here with a review for you on this wonderful day.
A quick grammar and punctuation check, then onto the good stuff.
When they got to the town hall it was magnificent. The wood was so smooth and glossy. The colour of the wood was a walnut brown. It was a wonderful sight.
“Wow,” gasped Smoke with wide black eyes.
“Uh, what's so amazing about a hall?” asked Diamond with a very confused look on her face. “It's just wood.”
“But just look at the size of it!” answered Smoke.
“Okay, you two it's time to go in and talk to Blade,” said Scorch, walking up to the door. He walked over to the big brown door and knocked his talons against the door.
'Oh, why is it so hard to talk to Blade. What if he does not listen to me? What if he gets angry with me and thinks we will be very bad teachers? And the most terrible thing that can happen is if Diamond finds out I am scared of Blade,' thought Scorch with a very unhappy look on his face.
“Come in,” called a big scary voice.
Scorch and the others opened the door slowly and stepped into the big hall. In the centre of the big room was a big dark red thrown. Sitting on it was is the Blade, a smoke black and ruby red coloured dragon. He got out of the thrown and looked at the guardians with a displeased look.
“What are you here for?" asked Blade with a confused look.
“Um…um well, we're here to ask you a question," stammered Scorch. Before he could say what he wanted to say, Blade opened and closed his wings with frustration.
“Well come on! I don’t have all day. What did you want to ask me? Oh, the three of you are wasting my time. If you don’t ask me right now then get out,” growled Blade sitting back down.
“Here I'll tell him,” whispered Diamond to Scorch with a very suspicious look on her snout.
“Okay, I'll tell you,” Diamond called to Blade stepping in front of Scorch and Smoke.
“I am listening.” answered Blade with a very amused look on his snout.
“Okay here's the thing. We don’t think we can carry on with this job anymore. We need to find younger dragons to take our place,” said Diamond looking him right in the face.
“Well, I just have one question,” Blade said with understanding as he started to cheer up.
“Okay,” said Diamond.
“Well… the queen has a daughter and she has been waiting for you three to decide to quit your job so she can try and take your places. So… if you guys won't a razor wing in your group go talk to the queen," replied Blade. he fidgeted in his seat waiting for their reply. His red and black scales sparkled in the sun light coming from a big window beside his seat.
“Well, I think it will be nice to have a razor wing!” yelled Smoke with excitement in his big black eyes.
“Then it's settled!” said Blade with a very happy smile. “You can go visit the queen right now if you want. You are dismissed,” yelled Blade to let the three dragons know that they may go see the queen.
So, Smoke, Scorch, and Diamond got up and walked out of the hall and closed the wooden door behind them. Diamond turned around and looked at Scorch with a funny expression on her snout. Smoke looked at Scorch as well with shock.
“What was that?” asked Diamond and Smoke at the same time with funny expressions on their snouts.
“What! What did I do?” answered Scorch with a very confound look on his long snout.
Diamond and Smoke looked at each other and then back to Scorch. “Well, you didn't talk to Blade. Diamond did. You seemed afraid of him, Scorch,” Smoke said with a worried look on his own snout.
Scorch shook his wings with frustration. “Okay do you guys promise you won't make fun of me?” asked Scorch.
“We will have to see what it is,” answered Diamond with excitement in her eyes.
“Well okay. I don’t really like Blade that much. He scares me a little,” confessed Scorch with a very worried look in his eyes.
“Is that all. You have got to be kidding me!” giggled Diamond with tears in her eyes.
“So you don’t think I’ m a wimp?” asked Scorch.
“No of course not. We're afraid of Blade too.” mumbled Smoke in between his giggling. When he was done he shook his wings open and closed.
“Oh,” giggled Scorch.
“Well, we better get to the queen’s palace now," Diamond said, still smiling.
So the three of them took to the blue sky once again and set out for the queen’s palace on the mountains. When they arrived the the palace there were two guards posted outside the steel gates. Both of them were wearing shiny, metal armour that covered their whole body.
“Are you here to report to the queen?” asked one of the grades.
“Yes, we are.” replied all three dragons at the same time.
“Then you are allowed to go in.” smiled the second grade.
Both of the grades opened the shiny steel gates, and allowed Smoke, Scorch and Diamond to pass and enter the queen's front garden. There were roses and lilies all around them. Wonderful smells came out of the flowers. As they walked up the brown path way they ended up standing right in front of a big silver door.
Smoke slowly walked up to it and tapped his shiny talons against the door. The door slowly opened and another two grades were posted by the door. Now the three of them stepped into the palace, and out rushed a small dragon.
“Oh hello my name is Memory and I'll take you to the throne room were queen Horizon and king Rip are waiting for you,” squeaked Memory running ahead of them with his green and black wings wide open and nearly tripping himself up.
“We better follow him,” said Smoke with a giggle.
As they walked they looked at everything they could see. The place walls were as smooth as the top of a pearl. Smoke looked up and saw that light came through big, shiny windows in the roof. The three dragons followed Memory and stopped at the throne room. The whole room looked like it had been made of diamonds. Opposite the door were three thrones. The biggest throne was in the middle and it had another big one on its right and a small on its left. The thrones were a light red with jems all over them. Sitting in the thrones where the King and Queen and the Princes.
Memory went forward and did a big bow to them. Then Smoke, Scorch and Diamond walked in and bowed low, and finely Memory said, “These are the three dragons that protect the valley and they want to talk to you about something very important.”
“Okay Memory, you may wait by the door,” the Queen said with a friendly smile then turned to the three gardens. “Well what do you need?”
“Um... well we are retiring from guarding the valley and we wanted to know whether Princes Scarlet would like to be a guardian?” asked Smoke. “Oh and she'd be joined up with another five dragons and they'll be from different tribes.”
“Well that sounds marvellous!” shouted Queen Horizon shaking her black and yellow scaled body all over and looked at Scarlet and asked, “Do you want to join them?”
Scarlet looked at her mother and nodded, her black and orange scaled head at her with excitement in her big black eyes.
“Great! Memory!” called the Queen and in came the small green and black dragon, and as he ran very fast, but he did look funny at the same time!
“Scarlet is leaving the castle to be one of the new protectors of the valley! So will you show her to the door?” said the queen in a delighted tone of voices.
“Of course your majesty!” answered Memory with a squeak as normal.
“Oh and Scarlet I and your father are very proud of you and I might come and visit you sometime if I have time,” sighed her mother in an upset kind of way. “Anyway you must get going. Oh and good luck with your training!”
“Thank you mother and father, I will come and see you too,” replied Scarlet with a smile.
So Memory, Scarlet, Smoke, Scorch and Diamond walked to the front door. Scarlet said goodbye to Memory and walked out the door into the real world.
“Wow, I've never been outside the castle before! It is so pretty out here! It feels strange to not be behind the walls,” gasped Scarlet with wonder in her eyes.
“That's your first lesson, Scarlet. It may be pretty, but it is also has many dangers," warned Diamond in her you'd-better-listen tone.
They were very quiet all the way to the cave. When that landed on the rough, stone flour Scarlet said “I heard you guys say you need five more dragons to complete your group. Well if it is okay with you guys, I would really like to choose the five other dragons,” said Scarlet proudly.
“Well, I don’t see why not,” Smoke exclaimed, looking at the others.
Scorch and Diamond nodded their heads at her..
“Great because I already know five other dragons. Okay their names are Sakura, Scorpion, Shadow, Helga and Marsh. So what do you think?” asked Scarlet.
“Well do you think you can tell us if they are royalty and what tribe they are from?” answered Scorch.
“Sure! Okay,” agreed Scarlet. “Well Sakura is a sea wing princess. She likes to fight a lot, so she'd be great at fighting battles, and Scorpion is a sand wing. He is the son of one of the sand wing guards. He is also very strong. Shadow is a very smart night wing. I thought we could have some brains in our group. Oh and Helga is a lava wing princess. I am just putting her in my team because I like her, and Marsh is a swamp wing. He can be more muscle, ooh and he can be a little silly sometimes... okay a lot.”
“Hmm and are you sure you know that these dragons want to be gardens?” asked Smoke.
Scarlet nodded her scaly head. "It's all we talk about,” she said with pride.
“Okay I will go to the sea in the morning and see if princes Sakura would like to join,” said Diamond.
“Now let’s all get to sleep. It has been a long day.” Scorch said sleepily. So all four dragons huddled together in one of the corners in the cave and fell fast asleep in a matter of minutes.
Smoke with wide black eyes. Smoke with excitement in his big black eyes.
You use these tags after dialogue way to much and though it is good in small doses you put on of them an almost every second piece of dialogue. I'd recommend cutting a whole lot of them and replacing them with different tags like (said Smoke, his heart racing with excitement.) or (Diamond hissed, her tail lashing back and forth.Diamond with a very confused look on her face. Asked blade with a confused look. Diamond to Scorch with a very suspicious look on her snout. Blade with a very amused look on his snout.
as I said in me previous reviews, your adult dragon's dialogue seems really childish. With Scarlet, it was fine and actually helped with the fact that she'd young, but you really need to work on the adults dialogue. Another thing I've noticed is that the adults make their decisions really quickly. I mean they've been the guardians for practically their whole lives and for the last two chapters they've been so worried about choosing the right dragonets to take their place. Now they just let a young princes they don't really know that well and who hasn't been outside her palace ever, choose the five dragonets that are going to protect the valley. I think maybe you should expand upon that conversation so that they talk about it for a bit. Let them have a reason for letting her choose the dragonets.“Well, I think it will be nice to have a razor wing!” yelled Smoke
Okay so these three dragons that the guards don't know land outside the queens palace and just get to walk in after saying they are going to report to the queen. This seems very strange. Maybe have the guards recognize them as the guardians and then let them in. Right now they just seem like terrible guards, because any dragon could walk in and possible kill the king and queen with this system.
“Are you here to report to the queen?” Asked one of the guards.
“Yes, we are.” Replied all three dragons at the same time.
“Then you are allowed to go in.” Smiled the second guard.
The last thing I want to say is that you still need to include more description on the outside world. You described the palace pretty well, but I still don't have a good picture of the outside.
Anyway that's all from me and let me know when the next chapter's out. Never stop writing and I hope you have a great day\night.
Your friend, Felistia.
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