Amaya never understood why she got funny looks everywhere she went, She hated it, she hated being the center of attention, there was nothing special about her. So she tended to stay away from everyone. At school she always sat at the back of the classroom so no one could stare, and when the other children asked her to play she shunned them with cold indifference. She was happiest when she was alone.

One night the sky was unusually filled with aurora, so she decided to go out. Her parents didn't care that she would be out so late, they never cared. So she announced she was leaving and stepped out into the bitter cold of summer.

Amaya lived at Neo Midnight, in class they had told her of an ancient city that rested on top of the neighboring mountain. Amaya found that hard to believe considering the sheer height of it. They had also told them how an evil dragon had destroyed the entire city at the start of some war… but Amaya didn't pay attention after that. All she knew was her home had been built to replace it, and it held the northern Dragon Temple.

As she walked through the empty alleyways towards the outskirts and the wall, she stopped and stared at the stars. Why do they treat me so special? I'm not that pretty, I'm not smart, heck, the only thing special about me are my purple scales…

Amaya hated her scale color. Unlike other dragons, her color was a shade of purple, with a light green underbelly and wings. She'd never seen any other dragon like her before, and it didn't help that at 14 years old she still hadn't learned her element. She didn't even know what it was... Everyone always stared at her scales when all she wanted was to be left alone.

"Hey! Twerp!"

Amaya sighed and turned around. "Frost, I don't want to deal with your-" Amaya stopped as she looked around her, In addition to Frost; a classmate who had never liked her, there were a total of five other dragons of various elements.

"Meet my freinds." Frost said.

Frowning, Amaya camly said "And who are these?"

"I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't remember us." One said, an electricity dragoness.

"Yeah," said another, an earth dragon. "All we wanted was to be your friend, and you treated us like dirt!"

"We're sick of you and your meanness, so we're going to show you what it feels like to be hurt." A fire dragon said.

Amaya turned to the last one, a gray dragoness. "And you?"

She shrugged. "I just don't like you."

"So what?" Amaya asked. "What's your plan?" In response they all started to walk towards her, boxing her in.

Sighing again, she got down into a crouch. The earth dragoness attacked first, leaping at Amaya, who leapt backwards, pouncing forwards the second she touched down and taking the surprised dragoness off guard and knocking her to the ground.

Next two more attacked at once, Amaya smiled and leapt high into the air, laughing as their heads collided with a crack. On her way down she used their skulls to break her fall, shoving their faces into the cold dirt. Stepping away she grinned at their groans.

Turning to Frost, she said "Haven't you told your goons what it's like fighting me?"

Frost smiled. "It must have slipped my mind."

"Well don't think I'll be so easy." The gray dragoness said. As she spoke, he body seemed to become coated in a dark gray metal, until her entire body was made of metal.

Amaya smiled. "Finally, a challenge." She leapt at the steel dragoness, who simply stood there. When Amaya collided it was like tackling a wall. She mentally berated herself. Of course she'd be heavy, her element's steel!

A second later the dragoness spun around, slapping Amaya with her metal tail and sending her sprawling. The dragoness walked up to her and rose her paw, ready to strike. Amaya looked away, grimacing, then suddenly looked past her opponent. "What the?"

The second her opponent looked, Amaya spun in the dirt, using her tail to sweep the dragoness off her feet, she fell to the ground with a heavy clang, and tried to get up, only to find Amaya on top of her, grinning.

"Can't get up, can you?" Amaya said.

"Ergh! Get off!" The dragoness groaned, struggling to overcome both her own weight and Amayas.

"Heh, your body's heavy enough without me on top."

"We'll see." She retorted, reverting to her normal form, but the second she had changed back, a firm smack from Amayas paw to the side of her head knocked her out cold.

"One left." She said, turning to Frost.

Frost smiled. "I've gotten better Twerp, you won't beat me this time."

"We'll see. I always kick your butt" Amaya said, and circled around Frost, who simply watched. When Amaya had gotten behind Frost, she leapt, Frost turned his head, spraying out a stream of icy air.

Flapping her wings, she juked to the side, avoiding the debilitating blast, and touched dirt, closing the distance in a second bound. Frost then swung around, his tail covered in glowing ice. Amaya had seen this a dozen times and leapt high into the air again, arcing down to strike from above.

Just as she was about to get in striking range, Frost curled up, then flared open his wings, a blast wave of icy energy traveling in every direction.

She dropped like a stone at his feet, her legs giving out as soon as she landed. She tried to move but found the cold had made her body sluggish. She looked up at Frost, and with a heavy slur, said "When dija…lan tha?"

Frost grinned. "I've been practicing. You would know if you weren't so shut up in your little corner of the training room during class. The guardians thought I was so good, Pritsua herself is teaching me." Then he turned and walked away. "I'll let someone know you're out here. Be careful, the winters coming!" He said, laughing.

As she watched Frost turn the corner and vanish, through a fogged mind, Amaya thought I… I have to learn my element too…