WARNING!: This takes place in the fifth book. If you had not read it yet then don't read this! There are some spoilers!

A/N: I noticed that each dragonette had some kind of encounter with scavengers, and this story was originally planned to be about the scavengers they met but something happened in my head and it changed into this, yet I actually like it better this way. Still one of my first fics. Bound to be some mistakes and jumbled words, and I am sorry for any of it.

In the meantime, Enjoy!

Chapter 1: The Statue

Gold coins and jewels tumbled out of the sack and bounced through the ashes of the burnt scavenger den. The small jewels and coins formed a small pile in front of Sunny. She had bargained with two scavengers she found to give them the treasure she knew they stole form the Sandwing Palace. The biggest object in the pile was a statue of a dragon carved from blue stone, with emeralds for eyes. The Lazulite Dragon, Sunny thought but she could only guess from what she remembered (which wasn't alot) from the scrolls about the missing treasure.

It has to be here, Sunny thought as she started sifting through the small pile looking for the Eye of Onyx even if she didn't know what it looked like. Her heart sank after she went through it even if the first glance gave her the answer. There was nothing here that looked like it, just tiny jewels, worthless coins and the mysterious Lazulite Dragon.

But no Eye of Onyx.

"This isn't all of it! Where is it?" Sunny cried whipping around to face the two scavengers in front of her "Where is the eye of onyx?" They stopped chattering and jumped back sensing the dragon's anger, and tried to look as innocent as possible from what Sunny could guess.

"You must have it! Where else could it be?" Sunny started pacing. She could feel smoke rising from her snout and she knew she was scaring the scavengers. Yet they didn't run away. "I need the Eye of Onyx, it's my only chance to stop the war!" She stopped and faced them. "How am I supposed to end the war without it?"

The female scavenger Sunny named Holler, yibbled tentatively back at her.

"Well said," Sunny replied, even if she had no idea what she said, "That's very helpful." She then sat down and frowned crossly at the pathetic pile of treasure.

Miffed, Sunny picked up the Lazulite Dragon to get a closer examination. It was beautifully sculpted of bright blue stone with specks of gold scattered all over and had beautiful emeralds for eyes. As she looked at those eyes a strange tingling crept all across her scales, she tried to pull her gaze from the sculpture's but couldn't. Sunny began to panic as the tingling spread all over, turning painful and a sense of wrongness enveloped her from horns to talons. The Lazulite Dragon's eyes was the last thing she saw before the world tunneled and went black.

Sunny woke to the sound of voices.

"That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! We can't bring her underground, she's a dragon!" said a voice that sounded nearby, it sounded male.

"Not anymore and besides look at her, she obviously needs help. What are we going to do? Leave her out here?" argued a shrill voice, also nearby, this one sounded female.

Where am I? What happened? Why do I hurt so much? Sunny couldn't stop a small moan from coming out as she shifted position. Her body felt different too. Why couldn't she feel her wings or tail?

Sunny heard footsteps approach closer to her.

"She needs help." The shrill voice said determinedly, right above her.

"But- ugh! Fine! But how are we going to explain this? Just tell them she's a dragon that turned human right in front of our eyes and, oh yeah, she also kidnapped you for a ransom of treasure! What will the rest of the clan say-"

"Clay? Tsunami?" Sunny moaned "Starflight?" The fog of sleep was lifting from her head, and she wondered if the voices she was hearing were her friends. She opened her eyes gingerly. Sunny found herself on her stomach, her face against the ashy dirt. She slowly pushed herself off the ground with her forelegs and looked around. The sky was still dark and the ruins were bigger than she last remembered. And the two scavengers were standing over her, bigger than she last remembered. She looked at them perplexed.

"Fluffy? Holler? What-?" What happened, how is this possible? She was a dragon, she was bigger than any scavenger. Then she looked down at her talons.

They weren't talons, but the stubby hands and scaleless skin of a scavenger. Fear replaced her bewilderment and she somehow found the energy to jump back with a high pitched bird-like yelp. She tried to land but her wings and tail weren't there to gain balance, and her hind legs were too long and clumsy. She fell on her back with an 'umph', and stayed there, her mind racing. What happened to me? Why is my body so different? Did I… change into… a scavenger? No, that's impossible! Isn't it?

Fluffy and Holler move to stand over her again. Sunny started twisting around as much as physically possible to get a good look at herself. Her golden scales were gone, along with her wings and useless tail. Golden colored fur fell into her face and around her shoulders more than once and tan colored cloth covered her shoulders, midsection and legs. She was a scavenger, just like to two that watched her now with mixed emotions in their dragon-like eyes.

"Are you okay?" Holler asked. Sunny was shocked that she could understand the words coming out of Holler's mouth

"H-how can I understand you? What happened to me?" Sunny asked, hysteria in her voice. The two scavengers looked at each other, seeming to have a silent conversation as to what to say to the distressed dragon-turned-girl in front of them.

"We have no idea how to tell you this but…" Fluffy started but trailed off, looking very uncomfortable. It was as he was talking that all of Sunny's recent memories came back to her.

"The Lazulite Dragon! It did this!" Sunny suddenly gasped, sitting up fast. That startled the two scavengers back a step. Without thinking, she got on her back legs and reared up straight. It felt weird but she hardly noticed and started pacing back and forth, instinct telling her how to move her new form.

"Or did it?" Sunny said talking to herself, trying to figure out how it happened to her. "If it did then it must be animus touched. But I don't remember any scrolls about it being so, let alone it being able to change a Sandwing into a scavenger! Ugh, if only Starflight were her, he would know!" Sunny whined, but that thought lead to a realization of a new problem, "Wait! My friends! How am I going to get back to my friends if I can't fly! Oh no, this is bad! This is just so-"

"Um, excuse me," Sunny's despairing rant and pacing was cut short by Fluffy's confused voice. "But, um, what are you, um-"

"What are you talking about? What Lazulite Dragon, what's animus, what's a scavenger, Who's this Star-flight, and what friends, you're a dragon!" Holler finished what Fluffy was going to say plus several more questions added on. Sunny was momentarily stunned again at being able to understand scavengers and all the questions pointed at her, then her senses came back to her along with the situation.

"Um…" was all she could say, because she didn't know where to begin. I guess just start talking. Sunny looked around till she found where the Lazulite Dragon was and pointed at it with her odd scavenger paws. "That's the Lazulite Dragon, and it's what I believe turned me into this." She gestured to her new form, while picking up a foot to examine it, and balanced on the other. But she was still unused to her new form and promptly lost her balance and started waving her forelegs around in a very undignified way. She caught herself just before she fell face first into the ashy dirt. With a sigh of relief she righted herself again and looked back at Fluffy and Holler.

Holler looked like she was slightly amused, where Fluffy looked confused. Sunny, trying to hide her embarrassment, moved on to the next question. "Um, animus is magic or magic related. And a scavenger is what you are." Sunny answered, almost over the shoulder as she started really looking around at her surroundings or at least what she could see within the light of her torch and the moon. It was disorienting how big everything was now that she was so small.

"Wait, did you call us scavengers? We're humans, and you are a dragon no matter what you look like." Fluffy said rather defensively.

"Humans? No I don't know what humans are, but you're scavengers." Sunny replied back returning her attention to them, curiosity obvious in her voice.

"No, we're… wait could that be what dragons call us?" Holler started but ended as a question directed at Fluffy, who just shrugged in return. "Is it?" Holler turned back to Sunny.

"Well, yeah, that's what all dragons call you, because we always see you scavenging for, whatever it is you want." Sunny replied She looked around at the pitch black horizon, she saw the silhouette of Jade Mountain and looked south to where she thought the rainforest was. Her friends. How is she going to get back to her friends before Queen Scarlet did.

"What about your "friends"?" Holler said as if reading her mind.

"My friends…" Sunny said wistfully continuing to look south. "Clay, Starflight, Tsunami and Glory. I have to get back to them. They're in danger, I have to warn them…" Sunny trailed off and started to anxiously pace again. Fluffy and Holler just gave each other quizzical looks not understanding what the young dragon-turned-girl ment.

They were all startled when a voice called from the dark.

A/N: Let me know what you think of it, and please point out any mistakes in character or anything else. I won't notice it otherwise. Thanks for reading!