<p>1000 years ago, in the Desert Kingdom of Dragona, there was a small town called Cacti Town. In one of the sandstone houses in the town, a chirping sound came out of it, as Sandstorm pushed his way into his house. His frown softened as he saw his one-hour-old daughter lying on the little sand pit they’d built for her.</p><p> </p><p>“Have you thought of any good names for her?” his wife Peccary asked. The baby dragon also turned her head towards her dad and looked at him with her Onyx like black eyes as if she understood what her mother asked. Sandstorm had never looked more closely then ever at his daughter’s eyes, which did match the eyes of Sand-dragons, black and piercing. However, it also has a shinning red shimmer in them, just like the the onyx the jewellers sold downstairs not far from their house. “How about Onyx?” Sandstorm said, “Onyx...” Peccary murmured, “yes, Onyx, that’s a good name.”</p><p> </p><p>Peccary looked into Onyx’s eyes saying: “Onyx, darling, welcome to this world.”</p> <p>7 years later...</p><p> </p><p>Onyx neither planned nor wanted to have an epic life. She just wanted to be her, Onyx, and she didn’t expect anything to change when school started.</p><p> </p><p>That day she woke up on her own. She splashed her face with some water and ate a lizard for breakfast. The school was quite far, but the rumors said many of the Queen’s advisers graduated from that school, so it was worth it. Then she grabbed her bag of scrolls and said good- bye to her parents leaping into the sky.</p><p> </p><p>The sky was full of dragons flying towards their schools. A few minutes later Onyx landed as the school’s warning bell rang. She’d better hurry into the classroom. Almost crashing into a cacti, the teacher was reading a scroll of names with an ink stained claw pausing above the scroll.</p><p> </p><p>Onyx breathed a tiny air of smoke and spilled out the speech she’d been preparing all night: “Hello, my name is Onyx, nice to meet you guys!” “Alright,” the teacher said slowly, “so we are all here, everyone sit down and listen. My name is Ms. Scorpion.”</p><p> </p><p>“The mirror of onyx,” Ms. Scorpion said, “was made by...” “an animus dragon name cacti, the mirror will kill anyone who isn’t worth to be the queen.” Onyx interrupted. The teacher glared at her and hissed: “Onyx, don’t interrupt me while I’m speaking...” “I’m sorry, Ms. Scorpion.” Onyx apologized.</p><p> </p><p>After class, Onyx wondered around the school hall. In the hall, dragons were organizing their scrolls, dragons were flying towards the sky, dragons were talking and laughing, “Maybe I should go to the library,” Onyx thought, “but I don’t even know where it is.” Her eyes darkened as if she was blind, and all the walls disappeared but, a neat room appeared on her left, 15 feet away, then everything went normal again immediately. “Huh?” Onyx thought dizzily, as she walked 15 feet away from her original place and turned left. There was a sign in tidy handwriting labeled Library.</p><p> </p><p>“Wow!”O(jiān)nyx gasped, “Do I find it just by looking around?” She walked in the library with huge shelves full of scrolls and bumped straight into another dragon, “I’m sorry!”the dragon yelped, “It’s alright,” Onyx said kindly, “What’s your name?” “Goldink”, said the dragon, “it’s because of my gold speckles.” “Wow! My name is Onyx.” Onyx replied, “l(fā)ets be friends!” “Sure!” Goldink said excitedly. Onyx had her first friend and she trusted her completely.</p><p> </p><p>The next couple of days were the worst days in Onyx’s life. Whenever she went in the classroom, Ms. Scorpion was always staring as if she could kill Onyx with her piercing her eyeballs. She also said Onyx was wrong even though she was right, making her upset but she still met Goldink at the Library every day, which made everything feel better, until that day...</p> <p>On a perfectly nice day Onyx was flying to play with Goldink, but suddenly 8 soldiers crashed on her back and pinched her wings back, stopping her from flying away. “Stop!” Onyx yelled, “Leave me alone!” The soldiers ignored her pinning her wings in two iron bands and snapped her legs together with cold chains. Onyx wanted to scream, but nothing came out and then “Bang!” with a rush of pain and everything went black.</p><p> </p><p>Onyx woke up in a cell, her back feet linked to a strong chain plunged deeply in the earth. Two dragons were standing in front of her through the bars. One was pale gold sparkled with gems, wearing a huge gold crown; the other Onyx realised with a sickening lurch was Ms. Scorpion.</p><p> </p><p>“Who do we have here?” hissed the queen. “The dragon who tried to assasinate you in your sleep Your Majesty.” Ms. Scorpion said flatteringly, “No!” Onyx cried, “I didn’t! I was just...” “Give me the proof.” A guard walked in holding a sharp dagger, “We found this in your room,” the queen said smugly. “How about that?” “I didn’t put that in my room I swear!” “Why should I believe you!?” very furious.</p><p> </p><p>“Treason” Ms. Scorpion said smoothly “and the best way to punish a betrayer is to...” “Yes!” The queen agreed, “Plan her execution three days later at sunrise.” Then she marched away with her venom tail waving, “So long, Onyxsss...” Ms. Scorpion hissed with a face of glee that made Onyx want to vomit.</p><p> </p><p>The following two days were hard to endure. Onyx looked at the hole with iron bars to see the sun rising up and down, until the sun of the second day drooped down in the dunes. Knowing that she was going to die the next morning, she started to sob, until she heard a whisper. “Pst, Onyx, It’s me, Goldink.” Onyx whirled to see her friend standing in a hole below her, “Goldink, what are you doing in here?” “Rescuing you!” Goldink hissed, “Now take this rock. I’ve burned its’ tip super hot, it might burn your chains off.” She handed over a rock steaming with smoke.</p><p> </p><p>Onyx crushed the rock on her chains, which melted away gradually with both feet, “Let’s go! Let’s go!” Goldink whispered. As Onyx dropped in the hole, one of the guards yelled: “ Prisoner is escaping!” ringing a huge gold bell, “UH-OH...” Onyx said, “Go!” Goldink yelped, they charged through the winding tunnel until they can heard nothing.</p> <p>That early morning they’d sat around a campfire. Goldink was shuffling with a pile of blankets and Onyx was staring at the rising sun. “You need to start a challenge duel.” “What?” Onyx asked, “A challenge duel,” Goldink continued, “ we can’t stand this anymore, you can be a better queen then her.” “Really?” Onyx asked, “Yes!” Goldink said, Onyx looked into her friend’s eyes, and found that she was deadly serious.</p><p> </p><p>That day they went back to the palace starting the challenge duel.</p><p> </p><p>As both sides arrived, Onyx and Queen Sandpion started to circle each other with their tails raised. Suddenly, Onyx felt the blindness circled her again; she saw Queen Sandpion’s whole body skeleton and muscles, and saw that she was concentrating all her might to her right front talon. She rolled just before the queen slammed her right front talon down. The queen clawed, bit and stabbed, but Onyx got away, using her X-ray vision. Even if the queen stabbed her tail in the earth, she still scraped Onyx’s side with her sharp claws.</p><p> </p><p>Onyx didn’t see that coming, so she didn’t roll away this time. The queen’s claws landed heavily on Onyx’s side and slashed with red blood right behind them. The pain was blistering, Onyx kicked and stabbed, but it was useless since the queen was too strong.</p><p> </p><p>As the queen was going to stab Onyx with her barb, a sharp red light came from the roof top. Onyx and the queen both looked up; it was the Mirror of Onyx! “Ha!” The queen laughed melaciously, “you are going to die soon. Do I need to finish you off?” As the venom tail barb wooshed and lightly touched Onyx’s under belly, Onyx heard a scream from the queen. As Onyx was strongly flung back with straight into Goldink, they both watched, horrified, as the queen was sucked into the mirror.</p><p> </p><p>They heard the queen shrieking in the mirror and finally silence. The mirror spat out a pitch of black sand andthe queen was dead. Silence fell in the crowd, but suddenly someone shouted: “LONG LIVE QUEEN ONYX!” “HURRAY!” the crowd bellowed.</p> <p>After Onyx became queen, she ruled the dessert kingdom with her courage, wisdom and kindness. Ms. Scorpion was executed for framing the queen and the whole kingdom lived happily ever after.</p>