Chapter 1

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"NOW SCRATCH!" yelled a voice. Another hour of this and I'll be a goner.

"Athebea, to become a guard for the queen herself, you to train!" growled the dragon, who quickly swiped at Athebea. The golden dragonet growled angrily.

"Vixen, what if I don't want to be one..."she mumbled in annoyance as she slouched on the ground. The russet dragon called Vixen looked at Athebea as is if she was going to rip her guts out.

"OKAY, I'll just tell Queen Scarlet that you refuse to be any help to the Skywing kingdom, and then you'll be killed." Vixen smirked viciously, "And believe me I'll be happy to see that."

Taken aback, the golden dragonet shifted her talons on the ground. How did I get in this mess?

"Now try to attack." snarled Vixen. Gladly! Athebea pounced on Vixen, who quickly scratched her in the chest...again. Gripping the wound, Athebea flopped on the ground into a blob of frustration.

"YOU USELESS WEAKLING!" roared Vixen, "You know, NO food until you start fighting."

"I rather die than become a guard." mumbled Athebea, as she watched her harsh mentor stomp away. She quickly wrapped some cloth around her wounds and did the best she could to clean them. On the day she was born she was forced to fight and train to become a warrior. Vixen told her that her parents had abandoned her because they knew that she would be useless.

How could they even know that before she was even born, Athebea finally finished wrapping up the last wound on her chest, one ay she'll get out of here. I better go check if there's a fight going on in the arena. Athebea quickly launched herself into the air and flew toward the stadium.

Millions of dragons, mainly Skywings, were walking around and talking about things like the weather an so on. Wow it's busy toward! All of he Skywings had their attention on the two dragons fighting in the center of the arena.

The first dragon was a Seawing named Scales and the second was a large Mudwing named Coal.

"Hmm... those two were friends." muttered Athebea. She knew them well enough they would always talk to each other and even her sometimes...well until the announcement of the two of them fighting together. The want to be able to live was more powerful than a simple friendship.

Athebea hid in the crowd to watch them fight. Honestly, she hated this, she hated fights especially watching the people she knew fight. The first time she saw a battle like this, she swore that she'll look at one again. Unfortunately the lack of anything to do and the lack of friends drew her back to them.

The fight was getting pretty brutal, Scales hissed at the Mudwing and quickly snapped at his legs. Coal swiftly rammed himself into Scales sending the Seawing into the air. Coal swooped from the air pinned down the Seawing and broke his former friends neck. Athebea cringed at the sound of cracking bones and the last shrill of a Seawing. Then on cue the sound of happiness and excitement erupted form the crowd, while Athebea cringed in horror. She guessed that she was the only sane one there.

"ATHEBEA!" a roar echoed through the crowd. It was Vixen. A very angry Vixen! Then it hit Athebea. Her mentor did mention something about meeting the queen and blah blah blah. What did she say after that... Athebea tumbled through the crowd, of the queen found out that she snuck out again, she'll end up like one of those dragons in the arena. The dead one that is.

Panicked the dragonet shot into the air, only to be knocked by the talons of Vixen. Her mentor yanked one of her wings, and dragged her forward.

"Stop being stubborn and get over here." she growled. Athebea, when released, followed Vixen to the castle. They both flew in silence. Once inside the castle, they made their way down the hallway. It was lavishly decorated and filled with gems and the heads of some dragons.

"Hmmph! I got tired of shout your name, so I sent Vixen to get you, you stubborn dragonet!" sneered the queen, as she played with her ruby necklace. "Vixen is that little monster training well?"

"No, not at all, she's horrible at everything." Vixen did the same vicious smirk from before. "If there's any punishment that I can give her let it be the worst. Athebea bared her teeth keeping herself from saying that her mentor is too hard on her. Scarlet chimed in.

"Ooo so you're being disobedient to your queen again, Ath-a...they..thigh YOU INSIGNIFANT CREATURE!" The queen smirked, "I think Miss "Weird-name" should be sent to the arena."

"I agree." sneered Vixen. Athebea listened to the two converse on what they were going to do to her, and had enough of it.

"NO" yelled Athebea, "UH-uum I'll train harder." The Skywings stared a her and laughed.

"Silence." snarled Vixen "You can't even be better. The arena is a good place for dragons like you." Filled with fear, Athebea launched into the air and flew straight toward the open window.

"After her!" yowled Scarlet. In the air Athebea was still on the run for her life, because the thousands of Skywing guards began to surround her. With her wings on the verge of tiredness, she tore her way through the guards. Scratching, biting, and anything else bloody and graphic, she kept going. Then something hit her... tiredness, and Athebea plummeted toward the ocean.

The guards returned with the report of their failed mission.

"Where did she go?!" demanded Scarlet, "She is a rare thing to me no matter how useless she is."

"S-she uum… I don't know your majesty." said one of the guards, Bob was his name.

"You useless guard, I'll deal with her later." growled the annoyed queen. "And you!" Bob stopped in his tracks and swallowed the lump in his throat.

"Y-yes your majesty."

"I have no use for you, guards take him away." snarled Scarlet. The guards excited the building dragging their fellow guard away.

Bob(2018-2018), see you guys next time. Updates will be kinda slow, but I'll try to update it every week or every to weeks. THANK YOU FOR READ AND PLEASE COMMENT!