Wings of Fire - Shattering Souls, Book 1 (FANFIC)

THIS IS A FANFICTION INSPIRED BY TUI T SUTHERLAND'S WINGS OF FIRE SERIES
THE SETTING DOES NOT BELONG TO US
SOME CHARACTERS DO NOT BELONG TO US
THE PICTURE ON THE BOOK COVER OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IS NOT OURS. IT BELONGS TO BIOHAZARDIA.
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River is a dragon who has always longed to meet the father she never had.

As a SeaWing princess, everything in her life spells out rules, rules, and RULES. About her curfew,
about her etiquette, about the kingdom, the council, everything... including her animus magic.

"You need to pay ATTENTION! Your soul could be lost forever, Your Royal Highness, if you can't learn to protect it properly!"

Her soul... such a vague threat. What was it? Her spirit? Her life? Her essence? Can anything actually be her own? Her future and magic seemed like it was shattered, taken away from her by many people, each stealing a shard of her broken life...

Would she always be under the steely pressure of the possibly evil Queen Angelfish of the SeaWings, also her mother?

Ah, problems.

So she was eternally grateful when an invitation to Jade Mountain Academy arrived. It just seemed like her problems were finally solved. But they weren't. In the Sea Kingdom, she was just Princess River, a weird-looking dragonet who no one dared to disrespect because Queen Angelfish had harsh punishments for those who did. But in JMA, everyone knew she was a hybrid, put in a new winglet with three slots reserved for hybrids. She wasn't special. Royalty didn't matter. The motto literally was 'everyone is equal, so treat them with equal respect'.

But she wasn't alone.

There were two other hybrids in her winglet.

One a friend... and one a possible enemy.

Is JMA really the place that it seems like it is?

Or is it just a mask pulled over a face with rough features and chipped-away stone?

Princess River thinks that taking back the broken shards of her life will be easy, but is she doing it right?