Clay

Clay is an adult male MudWing, and the main protagonist of *The Dragonet Prophecy*.

## General Information

### Orientation

Hall Monitor and Herbs and Healing Teacher

## Appearances

### Living

*The Dragonet Moon Rising, Winter Turning, Talons of Power, Darkness of Dragons, The Dangerous Gift*

## Clay's Backstory

Clay was the MudWing Dragonet of Destiny foretold to save the Pyrrhian tribes in Morrowseer’s prophecy, The Dragonet Prophecy. When he was still inside his egg, his mother, Cattail, handed it him over to the Talons of Peace without any protests, since there were still six other eggs in that same clutch, and those dragonets could survive without him.

Clay was later brought to the secret cave by his aunt, Asha, who was the chosen MudWing guardian for the five Dragonets. However, Asha died in a battle between the forces of Blister and Blaze, and Hvitur was killed alongside the SkyWing egg by Burn, who didn’t trust the prophecy. So, Clay was forced to be raised in the cave with only Kestrel, Dune, and Webs as their guardians.

After about six years training in the caves, four of the five Dragonets: Clay, Tsunami, Glory, and Starflight, started to have rebellious feelings and wanted to see the outside world for themselves. But, their guardians believed they should have two more years in the cave before being released to fulfill the prophecy. So, Tsunami, the SeaWing Dragonet, made a plan to escape. She would swim in the underground cave river, as the river would most likely end up outside the cave. Once she was outside, the rest of the Dragonets, still underground, would send a smoke signal to help her find her way back. After that, Tsunami would use all her strength to roll the boulder, and her friends would escape.

However, shortly after a visit from Morrowseer, Tsunami is tied up in chains by her guardians, and she tells Clay to take her place in her plan. Clay reluctantly agrees, and after saying their farewells, he swims in the underground river. Though he is initially starting out at a good pace and covering a fair amount of river at the start, he eventually reached a pool of water where a sticky white substance was crawling through his scales. Thinking he is helpless, Tsunami appears and saves him from the substance, and is revealed to have been freed from the combined fire of Starflight and Sunny.

Later on, the two dragons fly over a roaring waterfall and eventually soar in the sky, their wings fully open and outstretched for the first time. They see a scavenger along the way, its paws clutching a bag that contained likely precious jewels. The scavenger runs away, and Queen Scarlet appears, threatening the two that that was her jewelry unless they said so otherwise.

Though Clay and Tsunami greet Scarlet politely at first, Scarlet threatens to kill them, and they barely manage to escape before seeing the smoke signal from the cave. They fly back to the cave and were about to rescuse their friends, when Scarlet appears again with her soldiers, to everyone's shock. It was revealed that she had followed the two dragonets back to their home cave because of the smoke signal, and Clay feels guilt as it was his plan to create the smoke in the first place.

Scarlet orders her soldiers to capture the five dragonets, who she assumes are the ones in the prophecy. Dune dies trying to save them, Webs just manages to wriggle free, while Kestrel is captured in the meantime. Scarlet is slightly shocked to see her old enemy hidden in the cave, though she swiftly takes the five Dragonets of Destiny as well as Kestrel in the prisons of her SkyWing palace.

In the SkyWing palace, Clay is chained against a huge rock pillar that is open to the sky. He takes a look down at the steep drop below him and throws up, before a SkyWing with odd blue eyes and what seemed like smoke rising from her scales appears, asking him if he wants to eat.

## Relationships

### Peril

Peril was the first dragon Clay met in the Sky Kingdom, greeting him with a grin and a burnt rabbit. When Peril fought Horizon, Clay was terrified but amazed at Peril's abilities to fight, having that much fire stored within her. Peril asked if Clay was scared of her, Clay said kind of but she was better company then pigeons. Peril started to like the MudWing, but was jealous when Clay talked about leaving and, as Tsunami put it, rescuing other girls (Glory and Sunny). Peril turned on them and let Scarlet find out that they were free.

During the trial for Kestrel, Peril was chosen to fight someone of Scarlet’s choice, the old tradition of the Champions Shield. Scarlet chose Clay to fight Peril. When the two were fighting, Clay said that they didn't have to fight. Peril replied saying that they were born monsters, lived for fighting, saying she had a whole plan where she saved Clay and he liked her best of all. Clay replied he wanted his friends to be saved, but Peril yelled it was unfair, that she was Clay's friend, that she only wanted Clay and no one else could have him.

After Glory shot venom at Scarlet, they freed Kestrel then hid near a lake. Kestrel left when Peril said she couldn't come with them nor Kestrel. When Peril started to leave, she and Clay held talons and twined tails, then Clay said that her having firescales wasn’t the only good thing about her.

### Glory

Glory of thinks Clay as a big brother and a mushy ball of forgiveness. They get along very well like siblings. Clay wants to protect Glory as much as he can, risking to go underwater and opening a boulder to freedom, even going through prisons and SkyWings for her. Glory also protected Clay by spitting venom on Fjord, an IceWing Clay was chosen to fight in the SkyWing arena. Fjord nearly killed Clay, but Glory was there to shoot venom at Fjord, killing him.

### Tsunami

Tsunami thinks Clay as an older brother as well. She is bossy with him but still listens to him. Tsunami gets annoyed when Clay is in a 'mushy ball of forgiveness', example in The Lost Heir. They get along very well as best friends aka siblings.
Clay breaks out the fights and arguments between Tsunami and Glory which he is pretty annoyed about.

### Sunny

Sunny stands and looks up to Clay like a big brother. Sunny has always counted on Clay when nobody was listening to her.

## Family

**Mother:**

Cattail: Living [As of *The Brightest Night*]

**Sisters:**

Crane: Deceased [As of *The Dragonet Prophecy*]

Pheasant: Living [As of *The Brightest Night*]

Sora: Living [As of *Moon Rising*]

**Brothers:**

Reed: Living [As of *The Brightest Night*]

Umber: Living [As of *Moon Rising*]

Marsh: Living [As of *Darkness of Dragons*]

**Aunt:**

Asha: Deceased [As of *The Dragonet Prophecy*]

## Trivia

* Clay was born from a blood red egg, which gave him the ability to touch fire and not get burnt with his fireproof scales.
* Clay has been bitten by a dragon-bite viper, but he was saved by Peril's firescales.

## Family

**Mother:**

Cattail: Living [As of *The Brightest Night*]

**Sisters:**

Crane: Deceased [As of *The Dragonet Prophecy*]

Pheasant: Living [As of *The Brightest Night*]

Sora: Living [As of *Moon Rising*]

**Brothers:**

Reed: Living [As of *The Brightest Night*]

Umber: Living [As of *Moon Rising*]

Marsh: Living [As of *Darkness of Dragons*]

**Aunt:**

Asha: Deceased [As of *The Dragonet Prophecy*]