I am so, so sorry about this. First, I had bad writer's block, and since I have so many books I put two on hiatus. Look in the summaries for which ones. Second of all, if some things don't match to Wings of Fire lore, it's because I'm new to the series most likely. Sorry about that. I hope you enjoy the chapters, because I'm leaving it up to my writing because the next two chapters or so are just a rewrite of Wings of Fire. But we'll see my OC soon enough. Bye everyone! - Steven

Chapter 1: Under The Mountain

Clay's POV

Imagine being stolen away from your home just to stop some war that you didn't even know about. You were pretty much just born to fix some problems. That was my life. There was some sort of prophecy that me and four other dragons had to complete, something about choosing the next SandWing queen. We were born underneath a mountain in the middle of Pyrrhia, and we had been here ever since, training for the day where we eventually go out into the world and choose a new SandWing queen, thus ending the war. The three guardians that were supposed to train us though were complete jerks though. Then again, Webs isn't too bad.

There were apparently five guardians, but two of them died while bringing our eggs to the mountain, specifically mine and the SkyWing. That egg died, along with this IceWing called Hvitur. Webs decided to go find a replacement egg against Kestrel's wishes after they found Hvitur's dead body and the shards of the broken SkyWing egg. His philosophy was that if they needed five dragons and one died, he didn't care about which tribe they came from as long as they had five. That's why Glory came into the picture along with me, Starflight, Tsunami and Sunny. Since no one really liked us, we all became good friends with each other.

I would say that out of the three remaining guardians Kestrel is the meanest, and of course with my rotten luck I was training with Kestrel at the time. Honestly, couldn't she be a bit nicer? I have absolutely no clue why she's like this. Maybe something about her past… I mean, all five of the guardians did betray their tribes by just leaving because they believed in some prophecy a NightWing gave out. I think his name was Morrowseer. Anyways, of course since it's a war dragons need to fight. So of course we needed training in fighting. Kestrel did that mostly while Dune and Webs, the nicer guardians taught us other things.

Anyways, as I was saying, I was training with Kestrel, who was pushing me to fight as always. Honestly, I never liked these training sessions. Kestrel was just too mean, and she shouted a lot as well. With that in mind, I was currently flying as high as I could, avoiding the snarls and shouts of Kestrel from below.

"Come down here and fight like that monster I saw five years ago!" she yelled at me. Apparently, I was the first who was born, and the biggest as well, so of course I was supposed to be big and scary, a fighter. But I wasn't dangerous at all. I felt clumsy. Apparently I also tried to kill the other dragons once I got out of my egg, but I don't know. I don't feel like someone who would do that, and neither did the rest of my friends.

"Do you really have to stay up there?!" she continued. "I'll pull you down myself if you make me!" I just stayed afloat.

"Can you give me a break? I don't know, maybe we could talk this out?" I asked her. She responded by opening her mouth, and I heard the familiar sizzling sound she makes before she breathed fire, courtesy from my past training sessions.

"Whoa!" I yelled as I dodged the attack, the fire singeing my wing slightly. As I stared down to look at Kestrel as my wing started to heal, I realized she had disappeared. A few seconds later, a shadow was above me, and I realized she had took the time I had to get away from the fire to get above me. Her talons grabbed my tail and she dragged me back down to the ground. As I shook my head as I got my bearings, Kestrel started to circle me.

"So, now are you ready to fight?" she asked.

"No!" I replied. "I was never ready! Can we just talk this out?"

She scoffed. "On the battlefield, when will there be a "talk it out" moment? There is only fighting out there. This is the only way." she said before she lunged at me. I barely rolled out of the way before she got another fire attack up and ready. I rolled again and ducked as the fire went harmlessly over my head. She eventually pushed me into a tight situation, getting me stuck in a corner. As she raised her talons for a swipe, I closed my eyes and braced for impact. But a very familiar voice cut through the room before it came.

"Hey!" Tsunami called from the entrance of the cave. "Can't you give Clay a break?"

"And why would I?" Kestrel replied. "After all, I did save you five years ago."

"Yeah, yeah we would all be dead if you big dragons weren't there. We heard that story a hundred times. Besides, the point was that you should give Clay some slack. No one is born how someone else wants them to be."

"And that is why he needs to learn!" Kestrel shot back. "If you want your friend back, fine. I was done with him anyways." She turned to me. "Mediocre at best." she told me. "Get ready for tomorrow." With that, she left the room. I then turned to Tsunami once she had left. "Thanks. You saved me."

"No problem." she replied. "Besides, what are friends for?"

"Good point." I said. "So, besides from saving me, why did you come here? Did you want to tell me something?"

"Honestly, how did you forget? You always wait for this! It's dinner!" she told me.

"Oh right!" I said, shocked. MudWings were for some reason very gluttonous, so I always looked forward for when we could eat. I was surprised I could forget about that. Tsunami looked at the different expressions I was making with a smirk before she asked, "Race me there?"

I smiled at that. "Deal." I replied. With that, we both ran off for the dining room. Once we had gotten there, Sunny, Starflight and Glory were already there. Sunny was eating a lizard, and she seemed a bit down, but once me and Tsunami entered the room she brightened.

"You finally found him!" she exclaimed. "What took you so long?"

"Kestrel was having another training session with him." Tsunami replied.

"More like torture." Sunny pointed out.

"Exactly." Starflight suddenly added in. He was reading a scroll, as always. He loved knowledge. He was probably the smartest dragon in Pyrrhia by now. "Scrolls are better."

Glory snorted at that. "At least we can stop you from reading them to us." she put in. Everyone agreed at that comment. Starflight looked at all four of them looking very hurt.

"My reading isn't that bad!" he protested. "It isn't the reading." Sunny assured him. "It's just the fact that reading the history of Pyrrhia over and over again gets boring." Starflight looked a bit more happy, but I think that the fact that Sunny had just told him that everyone else believed that history was boring, because his expression was priceless. He turned to me and everyone else for confirmation, and we all nodded. I mean, I rather eat some food.

"Can we just eat now? We can talk later. I'm getting hungry." I said.

Tsunami sighed. "Do what you want Clay. It's not like anyone is stopping you, unless said person was really, really cruel."

With that, everyone digged in, and after it was time for the worst time of the day, history. We entered the room, which was full of scrolls. I really didn't have any love for scrolls, but Starflight loved them. Then again, The Missing Princess story wasn't that bad. It was about this SeaWing who went missing, and she was the heir to the SeaWing throne. Her family tore up the ocean looking for her, and after she went through a bunch of adventures, she returns and is greeted with open arms.

They had a feast at her return, and being himself, he had to admit that he really only cared about the feast at the end. It had given all five of them ideas of how their parents might have went desperately searching for them after their eggs disappeared. It had also made Tsunami think that she was the lost SeaWing heir to the throne. After all, the story was made after the heir actually disappeared in real life. Anyways, as everyone filed in and spread out, everyone was bored, not wanting to learn any history again. Only Starflight seemed comfortable, reading yet another scroll.

"Hey, why don't we teach ourselves in our own way?" Tsunami suggested. Glory groaned at that.

"Please don't suggest roleplaying the start of the SandWing war." she told her.

"Hey, that's a great idea!" Tsunami said at that. Glory sighed and curled up on a rock.

"Whatever. I don't really care, so I'm in." she said.

"I'm in as well." Sunny added. Tsunami looked at me and I nodded. She then finally turned to Starflight. He didn't seem to like it too much, because he said, "That's isn't really proper learning." However, after a few seconds he replied, "But I'll join in."

Tsunami nodded in satisfaction. "Good." she said. "Now let's get the cast prepared. I would be a good queen, but I'll let Sunny be the queen. After all, she is a SandWing."

"More or less." Glory muttered. I guess that was true. Sunny was smaller than the average dragon, and for some reason she didn't have a poisonous barb on the end of her tail to stab with. It was strange, but none of us spoke of it.

"Now, Clay will be the scavenger. Take this rock, it'll be your weapon." Tsunami told me, handing me a sharp rock. I grabbed it and grinned at Sunny wickedly. Sunny seemed to cower a bit at that while Tsunami continued to set the roles. "I'll be Burn, Glory can be Blister and Starflight will take Blaze."

"Well, once again I'm a princess." Starflight observed. "I'm not sure I like this game."

"Suck it up and get into character." Tsunami snapped at him. Starflight stretched as he stood up from his little reading perch.

"Let's do it." he then said.

"Okay, so Queen Oasis was just having a normal day, looking at her mound of treasure." Meanwhile, Sunny was strolling around with a large mound of rocks to represent the treasure.

"Suddenly, a scavenger appears!" Tsunami threw out. I emerge from the shadow with my sharpened rock. Sunny looked at me in surprise. "How did a scavenger sneak in here?" she asked herself. "If you want my treasure, you have to get through me! And a lowly scavenger cannot kill the queen of the SandWings herself!" I made a bunch of strange squeaking sounds since dragons don't understand what scavengers say. I started to chase Sunny around the room while the other three watched, and that continued until I pinned Sunny down and pretended to stab her with the sharp rock. She screamed in pain.

"No! How does a scavenger kill me, Queen Oasis?" she asks before she pretends to die. I make more squeaking sounds before I grabbed all the rocks I could and left back into the shadows. "Spurred on by the noises coming from the room, the three possible heirs to the SandWing throne entered their mother's room only to find her dead." Tsunami narrated.

"Our mother is dead, and none of us killed her! What do we do now?" Starflight asked.

"I'm the youngest and the prettiest, so I'll have the longest reign! I should be queen!" Glory said.

"Definitely not! I was just about to challenge Mother for the throne! I will be queen!" Tsunami countered.

"Both of you don't know what you are saying." Starflight said. "I'm smart, so I'll be a good queen!"

"With that, the land of Pyrrhia was split in three from the war that ensued once the three princesses couldn't settle who could be queen." Tsunami continued. "Burn made alliances with the MudWings and SkyWings, while Blister took the SeaWings as her allies. However, Blaze has the majority of the SandWings on her side along with the IceWings. The NightWings and RainWings didn't join in the war, prefering to just watch from the sidelines to see what would happen."

"That's when Morrowseer, a NightWing issued a prophecy that involved us five to save Pyrrhia and choose the new SandWing queen." Tsunami finally finished. Everyone broke into applause once Tsunami finished. She took a bow before suddenly she shushed everyone. "Quickly, do something!" She quickly grabbed a scroll and pretended to read it, and I grabbed one too right before Kestrel walked in. "What was going on in here?" she asked. She stared us each down in turn before she said, "I heard something over here. What were you doing?" "We were just roleplaying the start of the SandWing war!" Tsunami suddenly blurted out. Kestrel snorted in disapproval.

"That again? I'm guessing you were the ringleader again no?" she asked her. Tsunami blurted out, "Yes!" before I could jump in, but after she added, "But it's just an alternative way of learning!"

Kestrel looked really mad. "There's only one way, and that's what I taught you! That means no sleeping in the river for you tonight." With that, she left the room.

"You should have let me say that I started this!" I told Tsunami.

"She would have probably removed your food or something like that." Tsunami replied. "Not sleeping in the river for one day won't kill me." With that we all sat there in the room in silence for a while before Starflight suddenly said, "You know, I don't like it here. I wish we could leave, but of course that boulder is too heavy." There was this large boulder that blocked the entrance to the outside world. I tried to push it before, but I wasn't strong enough, and neither was anyone else. "Maybe we should try and make a plan to leave." Sunny pointed out. "Perhaps we can escape the prophecy and have a normal life." Everyone agreed to that. Who would want a destiny that was already laid out for them?

"Then let's make a plan." Glory said. I nodded. "Why not? Let's do it." I replied.

"Well guys, can we at least make the plan tomorrow? I'm starting to feel really tired right now." Tsunami put in.

"Why not?" I said again. With that, everyone headed off for bed, and while I walked behind everyone, I was starting to think that life might become much more interesting starting tomorrow.

I will tell you all that my OC will reappear back in Chapter 4, so stay tuned for that. Also, thanks to Venomheart the Dreamer I have realized something I never saw before. I'm trying to do that now. Along with the clarification from LeederLee and from me reading lots of books, I understand everything now. Thanks you guys. Anyways, I hoped you enjoy. - Steven