Chapter 1
"Let's have a contest to see who can eat the most strawberries!" Amethyst said to Peacemaker, her best friend.
"Hey! You got a head start!" He said.
Amethyst giggled between the strawberries that she was shoveling into her mouth. By the end of the contest, their stomachs were full. The bushes were almost empty, with only one or two strawberries left. They both flew back to Jade Mountain Academy, talking about the dragonets of destiny the whole time.
"Do you think they liked strawberries?" Peacemaker asked.
"I'm pretty sure they didn't even get the sun when they were under that mountain," Amethyst replied.
They both landed back at the entrance to the great hall when they were blocked by a mean-looking Sandwing.
Oh no she thought.
"Get out of our way Saguaro!" Peacemaker growled.
"Oh yeah? What're you gonna do about it?" He sneered, waving his tail menacingly.
"This," Peacemaker said as he tried to go around him. Saguaro blocked him with his wing though.
"Let us through!" Amethyst exclaimed. Saguaro raked his claws across her side.
Peacemaker roared angrily and jumped onto his back. Saguaro ran his back into a wall, knocking him off. He then put a long scratch on his back with his tail. Amethyst had had enough. She felt the electricity flow through her bones and gather in her throat. Then, she let it out. The next thing she knew, there was a pale yellow dragonet lying in the clearing, half burned.
She gasped, and ran inside to get the dragonets. She came back with Clay, Sunny, and Tsunami. There was also an annoying large audience of dragonets following them to see what had happened. A perfectly wonderful day had turned into the worst day ever.
"How did this happen?" Clay asked.
"OUCH!" Tsunami roared when she tried to pick up the half-baked Sandwing. "SOMETHING SHOCKED ME!"
Amethyst felt uncomfortable knowing that it was her who had nearly killed Saguaro, if he would live, anyway. She had never done that before and had no explanation. She wanted answers, but those were something nobody had. She was regretting doing it, but she also felt this strange, static, sense of power. Then, she had a flashback.
Dragons were chasing her in a giant storm while someone was carrying her to safety. They reached a beach and a dragon landed on them. She felt crushed and wriggled free of the two dragons. The storm scared her, though, and so she stepped back a few steps. The biggest mistake of her life. Before she knew it, she didn't see land anymore, only the black water stretching to the horizons.
She thought about this thought many times a day. She thought it was a memory, but it might just have been her imagination. Yet, it felt so real...
"Who is responsible for this?!" Tsunami growled at them.
"I-I am," Amethyst said quietly. " I did this," she said a little louder.
"You?" Clay asked, "You don't even have fire, how would you do something like this?" He motioned towards Saguaro.
Peacemaker groaned and everybody turned to look at him. His scales were black near the cut.
Then, Sunny said, "Enough fighting! It doesn't matter who the culprit is, what matters is that these dragonets survive!"
"Wait for me in my office," Tsunami said to Amethyst before she and Clay rushed off to the lake, carrying Saguaro. Sunny went to get some cactus for the Sandwing slash, so everyone's attention went to Amethyst.
"How did you do that?" "What shocked Tsunami?" "Why do you look funny?" Were some of the questions the dragonets asked, but she knew that the real question they were all thinking was "Why are you so different and strange?" She knew they were all thinking that dragon's crazy and where did that freak come from?
She felt overwhelmed without Peacemaker to help her and flew to Stonemover's cave. That was the place she always went to get some peace when Peacemaker wasn't there.
"Hey Stonemover," she said.
"Hello Amethyst," He replied. "What happened?" Him saying that startled her at first, but then again, it always did. Stonemover said this because he knew she only went there when something was wrong. She went there a lot.
"I have possibly killed a dragon. I felt a wave of energy gathering in my throat and then I let it loose. Then, there was a burned, electrocuted Sandwing in front of me. Also, Peacemaker got stabbed by his tail."
"Electrocuted?" Stonemover asked.
"Yeah?" She said.
"I've heard myths of dragons with electricity powers, but I never believed them. If those myths are true, then there is a storm coming. A deadly storm, like none you have ever seen before."
End of chapter 1
