THE DR AGONET PROPHEC Y

THE GRAPHIC NOVEL

BY TUI T. SUTHERLAND

ADAPTED BY BARRY DEUTSCH

ART BY MIKE HOLMES
COLOR BY MAARTA LAIHO

AN IMPRINT OF
 For Jonah, my little bigwings.
T.T.S.

This book is dedicated, as always and forever,

to Meredith, and to our pets, Heidi the dog and
Ella the cat, whose personalities and poses can
be found all throughout this book.
M.H.

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When the war has lasted twenty yearS...
the dragonets will come.
When the land is soaked in blood and tearS...
the dragonets will come.

Find the SeaWing egg of deepest blue,

Wings of night shall come to you.

The largest egg in mountain high

will give to you the wings of sky.

For wings of earth, search through the mud

for an egg the color of dragon blood.
And hidden alone from the rival queens,
the SandWing egg awaits unseen.
Of three queens who Blister and Blaze and Burn
two shall die and one shall learn
If she bows to a fate that is stronger and higher,
shell have the power of wings of fire.

Five eggs to hatch on brightest night,

five dragons born to end the fight.
Darkness will rise to bring the light.
The dragonets are coming...
 It cant hatch yet!
prologue We have only four!
I have it!
Feel
free to
The explain
MudWing is that to
hatching. the egg.

Crk rk
crr
crk

Webs, thats a
RainWing egg,
you brainless
salamander.

Its all I
could get!

Put it
with the
others.
Quick!

rrk k The prophecy calls for a

C c c r SkyWing! And you bring us a Hes

Ck lazy, stupid rainwing? hatched.

Crrk Queen Scarlet

destroyed all the
SkyWing eggs that
would have hatched
tonight. And we need
five dragonets for
the prophecy!

Look!
So thats Hes kind We need Very
a baby of... cute. a MudWing insightful,
MudWing. A little... name for Dune.
him. How
blobbier about
than I Clay?
expected.

He looks dim.
Exactly as I
expected.

Yes,
something...
muddy.

Kestrel,
Rrrooar! What is
he doing?
what is
wrong
with him?
Hes
attacking
them! Stop
that!

Nothing.

Hes just
what we need.
A little
monster.
Part One: Under The Mountain

Six Years Later...

Wheres
the monster I
saw when you
hatched? Thats the
dragon we
need for the
prophecy!

Urm...
 Fight! OW! You said
stomping tails
was cheating!

Im trying!
Maybe if we Im your teacher.
could stop Nothing I do is
and talk cheating.

Roll right!
Use your fire!

Fight!

Maybe
we could try UGH!
fighting without
all the shouting
and see

^% 56
7
 Are all

A a a a a h!
MudWings
this useless,
or just
you?

Find the
monster
inside you!
Let it out!

Stop picking Tsunami.

on Clay! Arent you sweet?
Protecting a dragon
who tried to kill
you in your egg.

But luckily Were finished

you big dragons anyway. Another
were there to save unimpressive session,
our lives. MudWing.

And now
we get to
hear about it
all the time.

^% 56 8
 Shes going Oh no!
How unexpected! Ha ha!
to be so mean Owwww.
to you during Ive never seen
training Kestrel be mean
tomorrow. before!
Kestrel
will be
sorry one
day, when Im
queen of the
SeaWings.

I thought only a I wonder

queens daughters or I wonder if
what my any of our
sisters could challenge parents
her for the throne. parents are
are like. still alive.

Well, maybe
the SeaWing
queen is my
mother and
Im a lost
princess.

You think Definitely.

they ever I bet they tore
miss us? up the world
looking for us.
The Talons
of Peace hid
us well.
But...

^% 56 9
 Im ready to save
But the world now.
what? Arent you?

Um, no.
We cant stop
the war by
ourselves.

Yes, we can!
Thats the
whole point
of the
prophecy.
But what if
we escape?

Just think Moooo. Dinner!

about it,
ok?
Mooooo! Race you!

All right.
Ill think
about it. MOOOOO.

Dinner! Cows!
HOORAY!

^% 56 10
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