Outlaw

***This story is rated Dragon.***

This is my second story on the wiki, and it's about dragons. Even though some of the names are names found in Wings of Fire, the names are not based off of Wings of Fire dragons. All of the dragons are named after types of stones, rock, gems, and other minerals.

## Prologue

Pyrite hadn't meant it.

She hadn't meant to kill him. She hadn't meant anything she had said. She hadn't meant to cast dirty looks at the Council without knowing that the Royal Guard was standing directly behind them.

She wished that she could take it back. Everything back.

Except one thing.

Pyrite touched her stomach gently, and her eyes filled with tears. She needed to protect her dragonet.

*I need to make it to Jade's palace. Soon.*

There she would find not only refuge and food, but an old friend that would welcome her with open wings.

Pyrite was skimming across the rocky hills, determined to make it to Jade's palace before Tourmaline's royal guards tracked her down and took her to their dungeon.

*But would they imprison me, once they see that I have a dragonet on the way?*

Pyrite tried to direct her thoughts towards the thought of escape, but only the thoughts of capture echoed in her head. As the sun rose in the expanse valley her golden scales--she had been named appropriately--seemed to glow with a fiery golden blaze. Every so often she could cast her determined gaze to the sky, watching the clouds drift endlessly by. How she longed to fly through the clouds, taking her unborn dragonet on a wonderful ride through the late summer sky.

But she had to keep moving. Her eyes snapped towards the south, towards Jade's palace.

Pyrite's hope swelled as she spotted guards. These were surely Jade's guards, and they would be more than happy to see her. She knew the majority of the guards personality, and had even discovered a mutual friendship with one of them, the spunky young captain named Opal.

But what happened next filled her with wild horror and shock. The guards were flying straight at her, and one of them was even gripping chains in his talons.

"Wait!" Pyrite shrieked, frantically trying to get away. "It's me, Pyrite! I'm one of Jade's most trusted friends!"

Pyrite felt her blood run cold as Opal slipped through the small group of guards. Though young, the captain was surprisingly large and well-muscled. "Haven't you heard?" she murmured in a calm, lulling voice. "Jade is no longer queen. Her daughter, Amber, killed her and seized the throne. Queen Amber ordered us to capture you, so we are." Her eyes blazed with fiery strength as she continued. "We're just doing what we're told."

And with that she flung a chain around Pyrtie's snout and shoved her towards the castle.

## Chapter One

Onyx watched with sharp and cold eyes as the skinny black dragonet flew past with a grouse clutched tightly in his talons. He was only a small bit larger than her, and she decided that she could easily fight him off.

As Onyx stepped forward, her large, pale wings brushed the sand. The dragonet's head shot up in alarm, and Onyx quickly ducked behind a scraggly pile of dark rocks. She crouched there for a while, silent except for the quiet rasping of her breath and the pounding of her heart. As soon as her wild heartbeat quieted down, she peeked out from behind the rocks. She would try an ambush attack--that's what she was best at.

But what the dragonet did next surprised her. Instead of settling down and eating the grouse, like Onyx expected him to, he picked it back up in his talons and kicked off, flying north. Onyx scrambled to the top of the rockpile to get a better view of him as he flew away.

*Where is he going?* Onyx's wings twitched with curiousity, and she was tempted to follow him. This wasn't part of her plan, but she didn't mind. She could find food somewhere else.

*More coming soon*