Okay, if you're here to talk about how much you hate it and judge it because it's a human AU, I suggest you go right now, because you're not wanted here. Go on, no one will judge you.

Now that those guys are gone, to everyone still here, I just want to make things clear that the humans will still have dragon-like qualities. While they won't be able to breath fire, NightWings (or in this story, Nights) will still be able to blend into shadows, Sands will be able to withstand long periods of heat and vice-versa for Ices, a Rain's hair can change and their skin can turn invisible, and so forth. Got it? Good.

Also, I decided to rewrite the prologue, so here you go!

Moonwatcher

If there was any person Moon could have chosen to be, chances are she wouldn't choose herself.

Oh sure, her mother often said that she was "a gift from the stars, the light of her life", but Moon scarcely believed that. While she did love her mother, and her mother loved her back, sometimes she found herself wondering what would happen if she hadn't been born the person she was now. She found herself having these thoughts so often, she wondered if it would worry her mother if she told her.

Sometimes, on particularly hard days, Moon would sit in her bed or in class and just wonder if she was someone else. Someone who wasn't quiet and anxious all the time, but rather extroverted and popular. Someone who all the Night students at her high school liked, and who didn't resent her out of jealousy. Someone who raised her hand in class because she knew the answers, and didn't keep quiet because she was worried about what other dragons would say.

She remembered one near the end of junior year, this one girl, Lightpiecer was having a party to celebrate the end of school, and had invited the whole school, which she hadn't considered included Moonwatcher. The young Night, considering herself an intorvert, had struggled for hours whether or not to actually show up, but in the end her mother had convinced her, saying that it "would be fun".

However, when she finally did arrive, Lightpiecer's boyfriend, Strongrune had answered the door, his dark brown Night skin glaring in the moonlight. "Uh...what are you doing here?" He had asked, looking down at Moon with what would only described as a look someone gives when they find a rat in their kitchen. Shifting under his gaze, Moon managed to sputter out the words, "I-I was invited," and held up the invitation.

Strongrune had studied it for a moment to make sure it was authentic. "Yeah...I don't know what this is, but there's clearly been a mistake. Lightpiecer made it very clear not to invite any freaks, so, yeah, bye," he had said, slamming the door in her face. Moon wasn't sure if she had imagined it or not, but she thought she had heard Strongrune retelling the story, and laughter following it from inside. She had gone home and spent the rest of the night crying.

That was basically how senior year went. She had graduated as valedictorian, and when she received her diploma, her mother had stood up and starting cheering, snapping pictures with her camera. However, she heard the murmur of other student's minds as she walked past.

What a freak.

Show-off.

No one can be that perfect.

I bet she's secretly a whore.

Poser.

Loser.

When she had finally graduated, Moon had been ecstatic. The chance to stay at home all day, reading scrolls and with only her mother for company was her dream come true, though her mother didn't seem quite so excited.

"Moon, baby, come on," she had pleaded with Moon one night on the couch. "You're eighteen. I never got a real education; but you can!" Moon had sat with her arms crossed, staring at the computer screen that bled with the hard truth of a full-paid scholarship due to her academic achievements.

"Mom, come on!" Moon had pleaded, sinking deeper into the couch. "You know how horrible those kids were to me! I can't live through high school twice!" Her mother had simply shaken her head. "Sweetie, it won't be like high school. You're just looking at the next four years, and not anything after. You're smart enough to do anything you want in life, but it'll be so much harder if you don't go to college!"

"I-I'll figure it out!" Moon had cried, but she had felt her opinions begin to waver. If she did go to college...then maybe she could get a good job, and rise higher in Night society. If she did, then maybe everyone else would start to like her and respect her. If there was one thing Moon wanted in life, it was for the other people to simply like her, nothing more. "Please, baby?" Her mother had asked.

Looking up at her mother, Moon sighed. "Fine," she muttered, slumping down in the couch. If anything, going to Jade University would be better than going to SORN (School of Rain and Night, built by Queen Glory) or even worse, Midnight Academy, the Night college nearby, where Moon knew most of the people from high school would be going. If she was going to get an education anywhere, it should be far away from the Night Kingdom, and any of her doubts.

"Okay, mom. I'll go."