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Revision as of 20:41, 9 April 2019
Template:Infobox BookMoon Rising is the sixth book in the New York Times bestselling series Wings of Fire, as well as the beginning of the second arc. The main character is Moonwatcher, the first telepathic and prophetic NightWing in centuries.
Moon Rising follows The Brightest Night, which was the end of the first arc, and precedes Winter Turning.
The title most likely refers to Moon metaphorically rising above her fears and anxiety.
Moon Rising begins at the dragonets' school at Jade Mountain.
There is a new prophecy for the second arc, called the Jade Mountain Prophecy. It has come from Moonwatcher herself and is the first true NightWing prophecy in generations.
Summary
Peace has come to Pyrrhia . . . for now.
The war between the tribes is finally over, and now the dragonets of the prophecy have a plan for lasting peace: Jade Mountain Academy, a school that will gather dragonets from all the tribes and teach them to live together, perhaps even as friends.
Moonwatcher isn't sure how she feels about school, however. Hidden in the rainforest for most of her life, the young NightWing has an awful secret. She can read minds, and even see the future. Living in a cave with dozens of other dragons is noisy, exhausting — and dangerous.
In just a few days, Moon finds herself overwhelmed by her secret powers and bombarded by strange thoughts, including those of a mysterious dragon who might be a terrible enemy. And when someone starts attacking dragons within the academy, Moon has a choice to make: Stay hidden and safe? Or risk everything to save her new friends?
Quote on the back cover of the Hardcover
Moon's head snapped up. This voice — it was unlike anything she'd ever heard before. It sounded crisp and clear, like it was talking to her.
I am talking to you.
Another telepath — how was that possible? Moon tried to push back. She imagined reaching out with her talons, trying to grab on to the voice and open up what was happening in the mind behind it.
"Who are you?" Moon demanded. "How are you doing that?"
You really have no idea, the voice mused. Hmm. Let me think about that.
Moon listened, but the voice didn't come back.
Did I imagine it? Maybe I imagined it. But if it was a real mind reader, maybe they could teach me how to use my powers.
Or expose me to everyone.
Dedication
For all the FanWings and everyone who reads these books - I hope you love the new dragonets as much as I love you guys!
Plot
A Guide to the Dragons of Pyrrhia
The book first starts off with a description of the new school and the "winglets." The winglets are groups of dragons attending the school. The winglets are Jade Winglet, Gold Winglet, Silver Winglet, Copper Winglet, and Quartz Winglet. Each winglet has seven dragonets in it, one from each tribe. Starflight has updated and edited the Dragon Guide of Pyrrhia.
Prologue
The book begins four years before the events of Moon Rising with Moon's mother, Secretkeeper, who was hiding Moon's egg in the jungle to keep her safe. She thinks about her mate, who was confirmed to be Morrowseer. Moonwatcher hatches from a silver egg under two full moons and gets her name when she reaches up to the moons. Secretkeeper has to go almost immediately, but Moonwatcher has to stay hidden. She is quite scared of the images of the volcano and danger that her mother left in her mind when she left.
Part 1: Welcome to Jade Mountain
Moonwatcher is very nervous about going to school. She thinks everyone will do something bad to her and hate her if she reveals her powers. Secretkeeper, who was there, spots (and Moon identifies) Queen Coral with Anemone and Auklet. Tsunami, greeting them, booms in delight when seeing Anemone and another SeaWing named Turtle who is one of Tsunami's thirty-two brothers. Tsunami appears to be shocked at the fact she has thirty-two brothers. Anemone is put in the Silver Winglet and Turtle is put in the Jade Winglet with Moonwatcher. Then Queen Coral leaves with Auklet, followed by Secretkeeper. Moon goes into Jade Mountain Academy, where Fatespeaker greets her excitedly, commenting on Moon's teardrop eyes scales and how shiny and big they are compared to her's. She asks Moonwatcher her name and keeps on repeating the NightWing's nickname, looking for her cave. She finds it exclaiming, "You're going to love your clawmates." As Moon goes to find her cave, she reads several minds and wonders how she will cope. She then notices a scroll rack on the wall and one by the door. The sign above the one above the door says Free reading! Hope you like them. While in her cave, she hears a voice in her mind later revealed to be Darkstalker, who visits her in her mind during the day, while she's asleep, and even when she is in the middle of her visions. Moon shares a cave with Carnelian, a grumpy SkyWing, and a RainWing named Kinkajou who she quickly becomes friends with. They are both in her winglet, the Jade Winglet, along with Turtle, his clawmate Umber, an awesome genius SandWing named Qibli who also helps her not get killed by her final winglet member, an IceWing named Winter who is obsessed with scavengers and has hated Qibli, the Dragonets of Destiny, Jade Mountain, NightWings, Moon, the fact that he has a crush on Moon, and himself with icy passion. He and Carnelian team up to make Moon's life miserable.
Part 2: Stay Hidden
The bracelet that had Darkstalker in a deep sleep so that he could not wake up broke when the comet came by, six months before the story. He asks Moonwatcher to help him escape and tells her that he can see all the possible futures. Moon hears someone yelling "The SkyWing! She's here to kill us all!" Starflight immediately told her and Kinkajou to hide, because he thought it was Queen Scarlet. Instead, Moon goes to the source of the commotion and sees a SkyWing. Clay comes up from behind her and sees that it's Peril.
The comet in book five, The Brightest Night, apparently woke Darkstalker from the enchanted slumber; he is immortal; Darkstalker isn't as evil as legends say he is, there's panic in the school with the dragons thinking, "SkyWing coming to murder us"; which is just Peril arriving at school. Moon learns more about friends, goes to Mightyclaws (another NightWing at the school) at the painting gallery to try to learn more about NightWing powers. Darkstalker then learns that legends about him have been extremely over-exaggerated, Moon learns that NightWing powers come from the three moons, Darkstalker asks for Moon to set him free from being trapped underground; he can't use his animus powers because he didn't want to lose his soul. So he put all his power in an object, later to be found that his powers were contained in a scroll Darkstalker calls the 'Talisman'. Moon then sees a future of dragons dying in a mysterious fire, the strange vision takes a turn when she tries to stop Winter, Qibli, Kinkajou, and almost anybody else from going into the history room, but unfortunately, Carnelian was too stubborn to listen and got killed by the explosion, the NightWing named Bigtail also died from the blast, and Tamarin and Moon were injured. Turtle guesses about her powers and Moon admits that this is true to Tuttle, Qibli, and Kinkajou. Moon learns that the explosion was caused by a cactus called the 'dragonflame cactus' that explodes when it's in contact with fire, something Turtle recognizes because it was used for bombing the SeaWing's Summer Palace. Moon hears the dreamvisitor conversation again, a weird, ominous voice saying that someone must be killed in Jade Mountain Academy, or there will be consequences.
Part 3: The Darkness of Dragons
Moon decides to use her mind-reading powers to help find the killer, aided by Qibli. Moon discovers that Onyx wears a stone that can block mind reading. The stone is called skyfire. Both Onyx and Turtle have them, so she is unable to read their minds. She sees that someone attempted to kill Icicle and the malicious IceWing realizes that she was the target and that it was Sora, a MudWing assigned to be her clawmate, was the one who caused the explosion. The Qibli and Moon inform Sora that Icicle is aware and she wants to kill her. As a result, Sora and her brother Umber leave the academy.
Moon realizes that Icicle was the one who talked with the strange, evil voice (who happened to be Ex-Queen Scarlet) and dashes to the library before Icicle can kill Starflight. Qibli rushed to stop Icicle before she could manage to get away with killing the blinded NightWing, attempting to stab her with his barbed tail, but he got knocked out by the large IceWing. Then Icicle charged at Moon, choked her, and threatened to kill her. Winter came in contact with his sister and attempted to get her to release Moon. Shockingly, Winter smashed his tail across Icicle's head to save Moonwatcher from his older sister, despite his' and his tribe's hatred of NightWings. This causes Icicle to flee to the rainforest in another attempt to kill a dragonet of destiny, Glory. Hailstorm is Winter's older brother, and because of an incident with the SkyWings when they were both looking for scavenger dens, Hailstorm was captured, leaving Winter to hate himself more than anybody else. Winter had suspicions that Hailstorm was killed by the NightWings when they raided the SkyWing arena in an attempt to save Starflight. Later that day, Moon gives the skyfire to her friends through Turtle with his bracelet, which contained the skyfire stones. Qibli notices that Winter has left to find his brother, Hailstorm, who Icicle said was alive. The Jade Winglet follow him. Winter says that he is going back to the Ice Kingdom for Icicle. Qibli deduces that Icicle actually probably went to the rainforest to kill Glory, and they (except Turtle) decide to go with Winter to stop Icicle (despite his protests). After Moonwatcher gives the Jade Mountain Prophecy, it ends with Moonwatcher ready to tell Winter about herself and her powers.
Epilogue
Scarlet is seen with a dreamvisitor and another dragon, who is tapping something against his talons. Scarlet asks why she is unable to get to 'her' (probably referring to Icicle). The mysterious dragon replies she must not be asleep, so Scarlet goes into Peril's dream. She asks Peril who was died today, and Peril says nobody was killed, but several dragons had left Jade Mountain. Scarlet leaves the dream out of frustration and asks the dragon with her what he is carrying. In response, he holds up an ancient scroll in the moonlight that is most likely to be Darkstalker's talisman.
Trivia
- Moon Rising's cover is one of the only three covers that have the logo above the focus character, the others being book one of the first arc, The Dragonet Prophecy, and book one of the third arc, The Lost Continent.
- The cover is one of the only three books where the main protagonist has their mouth closed. The others are Darkstalker (Legends), and The Hive Queen.
- On the corner of the cover, there is a SeaWing in the water, most likely Turtle.
- Moon Rising is also the first out of four books to have more than one recognizable character in the foreground of the full jacket, the other three being: Escaping Peril (Peril and Scarlet), then Talons of Power (Prince Turtle and Princess Anemone) and The Lost Continent (Blue and Cricket).
- Moon Rising is the first book to come out on a day other than the first of the month it is released.
- Instead of "The ___ _____" title pattern for the book titles, Moon Rising, Winter Turning, and Escaping Peril appear to follow a pattern of the main character's name and a gerund.
- The cover illustration shows Moon and Turtle at the underground lake at Jade Mountain with a view of the sky.
- The book states that two moons were half-full when Moon was at the underground lake. However, on the cover, they were shown to be crescent moons.
- Moon is missing her wing membranes on the cover of Moon Rising like Starflight and Glory on their covers.
- It is the second book of six to have a NightWing point of view.
- In Moon's final vision of the book, she sees Starflight´s daughter (most likely with Fatespeaker), a purple dragonet (Firefly) is Glory and Deathbringer's daughter, a blue dragonet is Riptide and Tsunami's, and the deep orange-brown dragonet is most likely Clay and Peril´s dragonet.
- It is the only book where the protagonist doesn't visit their respective kingdom.
Gallery
Covers
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Fanart
