Clay

**Clay** is a dragonet who is one of the five main characters from the first five books of Wings of Fire, he is raised under a cave with four other dragonets and three guardians. He is immune to fire due to the fact he was born from a blood red egg.

## Description

Clay is muscular, burly, brown and stocky with a sloping back, thick, long neck and a broad head, he is the largest of the dragonets of destiny and has a rumbly, friendly voice. He also has fire-proof scales the make him immune to any kind of fire. He has white teeth and scales that are a mixture of different browns, and gold glinting between and under his scales.

He has enormous, strong wings and his right thigh is scared with a dragonbite viper bite and a permanent limp from where the dragonbite viper bit him.

## Personality

He is kind, caring and always looks out for others. Like all MudWings he is a big fan of food and as such is okay at hunting. Because of his love for food, from the beginning of book six and onward he added a food hall to the school, where there was live prey that you could want and a abundant amount of fruit for dragons that weren’t a fan of meat (mainly RainWings). He never complains except to say he’s hungry and even then it’s more in an adorably cute way rather than a pushy way.

His love for the dragonets of destiny is immense but only as siblings no more or less, there are also hints throughout the series that he may have some unique feelings for Peril, but that is yet to be confirmed.

Clay also appears to have some medical knowledge since he teaches healing at Jade Mountain Academy, where he is responsible, protective and worried towards his students. He believes that prophecies are not like instructions, but rather as hints in the right direction, and it is up to the dragon on how they use them. Although he teaches at a school he is often challenged with academic study, it took him an entire day for him to realise the SeaWing palace was underwater.

## Relationships

#### Glory

Glory is among Clay’s closest friends and therefor they have done a lot for one another. In The Dragonet Prophecy Clay was willing to risk his life in order to try and save Glory’s, he swam in an underground tunnel which for all he knew could lead him to certain death, luckily he survived and successfully saved Glory but accidentally lead Queen Scarlet to her, leading Glory to get captured. When Glory went missing in the rainforest Clay became worried and with the help of Deathbringer successfully rescued her. In Excaping Peril he was devastated when he thought Queen Scarlet had murded Glory.

#### Starflight

Like with the other dragonets, Clay thinks of Starflight as a brother. He took the dragonbite viper bite instead of Starflight and shielded him when the NightWing volcano erupted. Even though Clay gets bored of Starflights’s lectures sometimes, he cares about him a lot, so much that he would risk his life to keep him safe.

#### Sunny

Sunny is like a little sister to Clay, and he treats her that way. When Clay decided to swim down the underground river, Sunny says to him, “Don’t you *dare* die!” When they were in the SkyWing palace Clay constantly fretted about Sunny, (so much so that is annoyed Peril.) Whenever Sunny has an idea in a group discussion she often uses Clay to tell the other dragonets since they won’t listen to her. Clay took a deadly snake bite to save Sunny, and says he would do it over and over again if he could. He is one of the only dragons that will take her seriously unlike the other dragonet of destiny.

#### Tsunami

Tsunami is among the four dragonets he grew up with in the cave along with their guardians. He thinks of her as brave and tough like a hero should be. In book 1, The Dragonet Prophecy she calls him a “handsome idiot” hinting that Peril likes him, but he does not understand. Throughout the book Tsunami often stops him when he talks about Sunny or Glory in front of Glory since she is aware that Peril gets jealous. In The Lost Heir, she mentions that she had had feelings for Clay when they were younger but had gotten over her crush when she discovered that he only thought of her as a sister. She was the second egg that hatched, Clay was the first and the first dragonet that Clay had tried to help hatch.

#### Peril

Upon meeting Clay, Peril became to like him and even reaching the point of love, Clay on the other hand just thinks of her as a friend. Whenever Clay discusses Sunny and Glory Peril becomes jealous, and frustrated. In book one she helps them to escape the palace only to then betray them and turn them in to Queen Scarlet. Towards the end of the book she escapes with them and Kestrel but says she couldn’t stay with either of them and returns to the Sky Kingdom. She was born with too much fire, leading her to be impossible to touch by all dragons except Clay due o him having fire-proof scales

#### Siblings

Clay had six siblings: Reed, Marsh, Crane, Pheasant, Sora and Umber, their number stunk to five when Crane was killed in the siblings first battle. He met them just after Crane death and therefor never got to meet her. If the talons of peace had not taken his egg he would have been their bigwings, due to his size and the fact that he was first born. However with him not there to take his place Reed stepped in and became the siblings bigwings. When Clay met them, Reed offered to step down and give him the place of bigwings but Clay declined knowing that Reed would do a much better job, having grown up as a MudWing and having already grown the trust of his siblings. Clay seemed shocked and sad when he discovered that Sora was the one that had set off the dragonflame cactus at school.

#### Students

Clay cares deeply about the students at Jade Mountain Academy and their safety, happiness and friendships. They think of him as a hero because of his limp. He is good at stopping arguments between students and taking suggestions from students. He also claimed that he try’s to write as little as possible, due to his bad spelling, which he mentioned to Peril in Darkness of Dragons.

## Trivia

* Clay often dreams about food, and sometimes dreams about Starflight giving him lectures.
* Clay is not very good at spelling
* Clay's egg is depicted as brown instead of blood-red in the graphic novel.
* He was originally supposed to have a crush on Glory, but Tui eventually decided that it would not work.
* Clay was the first *Wings of Fire* character that Tui ever came up with.
* Clay is known as the bigwings among the other dragonets of destiny, as he was the first one to hatch.