CHAPTER ONE
Echeveria intensely disliked the old Night Kingdom. The ruins were gross and black and ash-y and her SandWing scales hated it. Next to her, her clawmate Copper wasn't managing any better. "I hate it here." Copper announced for the fiftieth time. "Don't we all,"Comet, a member of the Amber winglet, sighed. "This place is boring." Suddenly, Aurora groaned. "Did you already forget about the bracelet Turtle gave us, you dodos?" "What bracelet? Did he declare his undying love?" teased Copper. "No, you fool, the ANIMUS TOUCHED one."
"Oh yeah!" said not-so-bright Comet. He scratched his head. "THAT one." He said while sniggering "Let's just clear the ash using the bracelet," suggested Echeveria.
They started to clear all the dust and the ash out of the Night Kingdom using the animus touched bracelet. "Hey, how about me and Copper go to the east side to look for stuff?" Echeveria asked. "Like what," Aurora asked them skeptically. Her opinion on her Comet's and Dragonfly'intelligence level was desolate. "Y'know, we were sent here to find stuff!" Copper rolled her eyes and said. "Don't you REMEMBER?" "Oh yeah! THAT one," Comet said again, using his primary catchphrase.
So Copper and Echeveria left for the east side. They slowly walked along until Echeveria needed to rest. Copper didn't. As she moved away a little, she saw a carved, ruby statue of a scavenger. "Copper," she yelled. "Check this out!" "Okay, Eche." Copper said and moved over. "I CAN call you that, right?" When Eche and Copper touched the statue they fell down. but as they got up, they changed into scavengers.
"Whoa, I feel DIZZY," Eche said.
"Me too!" moaned Copper.
She held out her talons, only to see they were..paws?
"WHAT in the three moons happened to my talons?" Eche screeched.
"I don't KNOW! What happened to my AWESOME scales?" Copper demanded.
"I am so TINY!" Eche complained.
"Eche..I think we turned..into..scavengers…" Copper was horrified.
"No way..no way.. My tail!" Eche was even more horrified.
"How do we change back!?"
"CHANGE ME BACK!"
The rest of there clawmates were gone, presuming Eche and Copper would stay late and join them later. Eche and Copper were both wearing simple cloth dresses that were the colors of their scales. Copper's dress was bright red while Echeveria's was an indistinct sandy color.
Eche was full-on panicking. To a dragon, she would have sounded like -"HELP HELP HELP MY TAIL MY HEAD MY CLAWS WHAT OS THIS AM I WEARING HELP MEEEEE my tail-"
"Wait Eche." Copper spoke very calmly. "First, we are going to sneak through the tunnels to the Kingdom of Sand."
"But SandWings love to eat scavengers more than any other tribe." There was a note of fear in Eche's voice as she spoke.
"Yes, I agree", said Copper, "but there are more scavenger dens there than in any other kingdom. We will find one and hide out there."
"So we are going to hide out in a scavenger den until…"
"We turn back into dragons or get killed," Copper grinned at her manic plan.
"Good luck with that," Eche knew she had no other choice than to use Copper's crazy plan.