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

Chapter 4

The dragonets set up camp on the beach. Clay caught the world's tiniest pig, but he let it go when Sunny felt sorry for it.

"You can have some carrots instead," she said, passing him a few of the orange vegetables.

Clay sniffed them and wrinkled his snout. "These are edible?"

"Of course!" she said, crunching on one. "And also way better than seaweed."

"You've eaten seaweed?"

"It's really hard to be a vegetarian in a cave."

Tsunami appeared, dragging a load of fish. "Dinner!" she said cheerfully.

"None for me, thanks," Starflight said. He was lying down because he still felt faint from the drive.

Tsunami passed Clay a barracuda and started eating a trout. She stopped when she heard him start screaming in pain. "What's going on?"

The barracuda was actually still alive, and it had bitten Clay on the nose. Tsunami pulled it off and killed it for good this time. "Thanks," said Clay, rubbing his nose.

"That's why I eat carrots," said Sunny. "Because they don't bite back." Just then a carrot bit Sunny on the nose. "AAA HELP!"

Glory yanked it off and held it at arm's length. "Nobody else jinx themselves," she said, tossing it into the ocean. She took one of the carrots, carefully inspected it for teeth, and bit into it.

After they had finished their dinner, the dragonets went into the nearby woods and set up camp. Glory hung from a tree by her tail and swung back and forth. "I'm so glad we left," she murmured, eyes closed.

"Definitely," agreed Tsunami. "Now we can save the world on our terms, not anybody else's."

"Hey Nami?" Sunny asked sleepily.

"DON'T CALL ME NAMI!" Tsunami shouted.

They slept well, and in the morning they went back to the beach. Suddenly Clay spotted several SkyWings flying over the ocean. "Quick, hide!" he said, shoving Starflight back into the woods. He dove into a mud puddle with only his nostrils and eyes above. Wow mud is great!

Tsunami disappeared into the ocean, Glory became sand colored and flattened herself onto the beach, and Sunny ran into the woods. However, one of the SkyWings seemed to notice her golden tail as it disappeared into the trees. He flew closer to investigate, and the rest flew on without him.

Tsunami burst out of the ocean and grabbed the SkyWing before he could protest, throwing him into the water. He immediately started screaming because there was a jellyfish on his head. The other SkyWings wheeled around and came towards them.

The dragonets tried to fight back, but they were outnumbered. "Sweep the woods and find out if there are more," a red SkyWing with pinkish underscales ordered.

"Yes, Commander Vermilion." Three of them left and returned with Sunny and Starflight.

"Is that all of you?" Vermilion asked Tsunami.

"Let us go!" the SeaWing snarled. She snapped her teeth at his face.

"Actually," the SkyWing said, "You're on SkyWing land, and my orders are to bring any prisoners back to Mom."

"Why does your mother get to take prisoners?" Tsunami demanded.

"My mother is Queen Scarlet."

"This is bad," said Sunny, who was covering her eyes. "Couldn't we please go home? I promise we won't come onto your land again."

"Sorry. Orders are orders, especially when they come from the queen."

The SkyWings brought them to the Sky Palace and put them on top of some really tall pillars. So they couldn't fly away, they had their wings clamped shut and they were chained to the pillar.

"I will kill you all," declared Tsunami ferociously. A couple of the SkyWings shuffled away from her.

"You will appear in the arena tomorrow," was the reply. "Bring the RainWing and the yellow thing to the bottom. Sorry, but you are definitely not escaping."