CLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chapter 1

Clay was trying to fight Kestrel but failing miserably. "Oh come on fight like a SkyWing!" she yelled.

But I'm not a SkyWing! I'm a MudWing! Clay tried to hide behind a stalagmite, but Kestrel hit it until it broke, sending rock shards flying everywhere. "Why can't I fight one of the other dragonets?" Clay asked. He wished he wasn't stuck in this cave with all the horrible teachers. Well, Webs was okay, even if he was a little boring, but Dune and Kestrel were absolutely awful.

"You don't get to choose your opponents on the battlefield!" Kestrel snarled. "And plus, the RainWing is lazy and the SandWing is weirdly tiny."

"Glory isn't lazy!" Clay protested. "She's just-"

"QUIT TRYING TO DEFEND YOUR FRIENDS AND FIGHT ALREADY! ARE ALL MUDWINGS AS STUPID AS YOU OR ARE YOU JUST DEAF?"

Clay tried to run away again, but Kestrel stomped on his tail and he fell over. Suddenly Kestrel screamed and turned around.

Tsunami was standing behind her. She spat out a red-gold scale. "Stop being mean to Clay or I'll bite you again," she growled.

"WHATEVER." Kestrel stomped out of the room, then poked her head back in. "Clay, you get an F in fighting. Again."

"Why does she think you're supposed to be the best fighter in the world?" Tsunami asked.

"Maybe because I tried to kill everybody when we were hatching." Clay winced. He had a lot of bruises because he hit his head on a rock and fell on another one. Why are there so many rocks here?

"Pffft, I don't believe that story," Tsunami said dismissively. "Now get up and jump in the river."

"But it's cold!" Clay whined.

"You'll feel better." She grabbed his tail and started tugging him towards the river.

"NO NO NO NO NO!" screamed Clay, digging his claws into the ground. He threw a tantrum but Tsunami dragged him over and pushed him into the water anyway.

He stuck his head back above water and saw her floating around and splashing herself. How come she looks like a dolphin or something and I look like a blob? he wondered, then remembered that she was a SeaWing.

"This water is definitely too cold," he told Tsunami.

"Whatever." She splashed him in the face, causing him to splutter. "It's dinner time. Race you!"

"No fair!" Clay chased after her and almost crashed into her when she slowed down.

"I just had a great idea," Tsunami whispered. "We should sneak out of the caves and be free!"

"Umm, why?" asked Clay, confused.

Tsunami rolled her eyes. "So we don't have to spend the next two years under this mountain with Kestrel."

"I get that part. But how would we get out of here? All we really have to do is wait for a while, then we can go home and eat all the cows we want."

"I'm not waiting." Tsunami walked into the dining room, where they saw their friends already eating.