I was running... I was afraid... my whole clan... they hated me... now... they wanted to kill me... The betas and the alpha... they wanted to 'dispose of me...' they said I was a blood traitor... Why were they doing this? Why did they hate me...? I tripped on a stone and fell. I backed up and grabbed a pick. They drove me to the forgotten part of the mines... They had me trapped.

"By order of Arian, you are sentenced to death... you are an abomination to our clan, your blood has brought bad omens on this clan. For this you must die to return favor from the gods..." Oles drew his sword... he was crying... I thought we were friends... why was he doing it...

Because he hated you...

What?

He loved his precious clan more than he ever cared about you...

No, it's not true...

I don't blame him... they would have killed him as well for defending you...

NO! It's not TRUE!

Face it... your friendship couldn't save you... here... the strong live... the weak die...

NOOOOO!

Then PROVE IT!

"Oles... Why?..."

"..." He stayed silent...

"Why!?" Tears fell from his face and mine...

"...." I asked one last time...

"WHY!!!!!!"

"Because YOU'RE NOT ONE OF -" He stopped... I held a pickaxe in my hand...I stood up...

So much for being your friend...

"So its true... all of it... was just a lie..."

"Don't make me do this."

"SHUT UP!"

"Ubi..."

"DON'T TALK TO ME... YOU MADE YOUR CHOICE... I thought we were friends.......... I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS!!!" He raised his sword above my head. I swung the pickaxe... It pierced his skull, splashing blood and bone over the cavern walls. I picked up his sword and slashed through 3 others... they used to be my brothers... they used to be my friends... I had no one now...

"The strong live...... the weak die...." I started running again... digging my way to the surface, I had to run... I had no one now... I crawled out of the ground, lying there... crying... I had no one... I was alone... I killed someone I thought was my only friend... he betrayed me... he betrayed me and died for it...

What will you do now? You can't stay here anymore...

I don't know! What is there left for me to do...

Instead of asking yourself why... find out why...

I dug a hole and stayed there, curled up, crying...

Crying's not going to turn back time... but it helps... I held on to Oles's sword... the last thing I could depend on...

My life become a daily fight for survival... I barely ate more than once a day. The only gem i could really eat was diamond... any other gem would cause me to either feel sick or vomit. Around the forests it was scarce to find diamonds, so I moved on to the mountains, where it's said that the gems were more pure. All I had was a sword and a pickaxe... so i dug, finding occasional diamond and selling the gems I do find to a town nearby... I stopped talking to other diamond dogs... I had lost all trust in them. If my clan thinks I'm a traitor, then others must think the same thing. I never trusted anyone anymore. I lived on my own.

One day I remembered what I was going to do...

Instead of asking yourself why... find out why....

They hated me, called my a blood traitor, and abomination... Why... Oles said I wasn't one of them... If I wasn't one of them, who was I one of? I didn't have any parents... So who were they? I started to think more and more about who I was, but it always lead back to me being alone. I looked at my reflection in a lake one day, spending all day trying to list differences between me and other diamond dogs, I had silver fur, a trait Oles told me was extremely rare. I had two black marks at the corner of my eyes. I looked at my claws, longer than most diamond dogs. So what did the difference mean? I continued to mine for diamonds, getting stronger fighting off other clans that wanted to capture me.

One day, I started to dig far into the mountain and ended up in an empty cavern filled with diamonds, a white dragon on top of the pile, the dragon seemed familiar somehow... I slowly walked up to it... gazing at the great beast. Then It opened its eyes and looked at me. It lifted its head high to look down on me, the cave suddenly turning cold.

"Ah... so, you've finally found me..." I was shocked...

"Who are you?" The White dragon smiled.

"It's been so long, Ubi." She knew who I was, "You don't even remember do you?" Remember what? She stood up now, her head almost touching the top of the cave.

"How do you know me?" She chuckled.

"So does time and fate... time erased your memories of me..." She then brought over her tail, and tapped it on my head, "But fate will bring you back to me," She had a soothing voice, like one almost like...

...like that of a mother...

"Mom?" She nodded slowly. I started to cry, her head went low so she looked at me at eye level and licked my face. I did something for the first time in my entire life. I hugged her...

"Why did you leave me? They almost killed me!"

"I never thought they'd do that, I thought you'd be safe... I wanted you to be along with your father's people... like he wanted." I sniffled.

"Dad wanted me to live with the clan? Why?"

"I'm not like the other dragons... the other dragons would try to eat you any chance they got. We sent you to the clans because we thought it would be the best place to grow up for you." Things started to piece together, My silver fur, the diamonds, the other's calling me an abomination... it all made sense now... I started crying deeply now... for the first time in my life, I was now home again... I had a family again... I smiled again.

We spent months together, enjoying the horde mom had, her telling stories spanning across millenia, catching up on lost time. She taught me many things about my lineage. I was part dragon... mom said it would only be a matter of time before I could learn magic.

"Magic? Like what?" She pondered it over.

"Like breathing fire, or ice, or even lightning," she demonstrated by breathing out a chilling blast of air across the ground, making it glossy. I tried blowing outward, but nothing happened.

"In time, you'll learn."

She also told me that most dragon's are suppose to leave their young to fend for themselves. It was sad that parent's would just abandon their children on a whim. I understood how mom and dad left me with a clan, but the feeling of being abandoned never goes away. But it was in the past now... this was my new life now.

One day, It all changed. I woke up to roars and rumbling outside of the cave...

"WHERE'S MOM!" I got up and ran, ran to the outside of the cave. I saw mom, bleeding, and another dragon, standing in front of her, he looked like he was grinning...

"UBI, RUN!!! Get as Far away from here as you can..." I stood there with my eyes wide....

"... RUN!" I don't wanna leave you again....

"JUST RUN!!!" I went back inside, gathered all the diamonds I could and escaped out of the side cavern I once came in from. I ran again... I ran... leaving behind my mom. The only family I had left... Part of me wanted to go back and help her... part of me wanted to keep running... the time we spent together... the lessons she taught me... all passed me by... I was crying... for the first time in months... I hated it... I ran... hoping I could run away from it all... I collapsed by a familiar lake...

Now you're all alone again

I woke up and went back to the cave... the horde was gone and so was my mother... I stepped through the puddles of blood on the ground... I sat there where the horde used to be for several hours, wishing mom was still there... I wanted her back... I wanted her back home... I stared at the blood on the ground... it was still crimson...

I remembered something... 'When a dragon dies, it's blood turns a deep black color, but if the dragon's still alive, it's blood will still stay red, even after the blood has left the dragon's body," Mom was still alive somewhere... I wanted to find her again...

I stepped outside the cave and looked at the sky, no dragon in sight. I had a new goal... find my mother again... I started asking questions, then going from town to town... nothing.

I kept going, still hoping mom was still alive... I started to go to other clans, asking. I was mainly encountered by angry Alphas, but some were docile enough to give me some leads... all of them turned up a dead end.

I started sitting by the lake more often, it was more of my last refuge, since no warren tunnels were made beside them. I still had Oles's sword with me... my old clan... the one's who betrayed me... I heard small footsteps and turned around.

What I saw confused me, it looked like a wolf with wings. I pointed my sword towards him.

"Who are you?" I stared at him. He just paced back and forth with a grim look on his face.

"Sorry kid, I'm the one they sent to kill you..."

"Who's they..." I drew back my lips in a snarl...

"Well since you asked so nicely.... no." I needed answers, "All they said was something about betrayal and yadda yadda yadda. I really only wanted to know the target and the price." My old clan still wanted me dead.

"I BETRAYED NO ONE!"

"Well it's not my business..." he was in it for the money...

"... how much did they offer you?..." I lowered my sword.

"30 high quality gems, I got half already for taking the job," he jingled a small sack, "Going to fetch me a nice price with the embargo on Gem Fido Celestia put up..." he put the sack away. I reached into my pack and pulled out some of the best diamonds I had.

"Here's 20 if you leave me alone and tell me why they sent you?" He raised an eyebrow in interest and had a crooked smile.

"Now you're talking my language. But what's to stop me from killing you and taking the gems?" the wolf sat on his haunches at this one. "Tell you what, give me the diamonds and a little blood. I get paid, they think you're dead. We both win." I didn't like the idea... I made one of my own...

"You want a fight... come get one..." I need to make it look convincing. I sheathed Oles's sword and stood there.

"*Sigh*, always have to do it the hard way..."

His wings popped open as he lunged for me, I jumped to the side as his claw grazed my leg. I grabbed a handful of feathers and yanked them out. He let loose a snarl and jumped towards me, I hit him with my rear legs and flipped him over. I got back up as he went into a low crouch and growled. I brought my claws out and lunged at him, he rolled over and scratched dirt into my eye, then slashed with his, cutting into my side. I barked at the pain... I scratched his rear leg, feeling warm blood on my claws. He stopped and stood up wright again, wiggling his claws, looking tenaciously at them.

"Alright, this should be more than enough to convince them you're dead. So just toss over the gems and I'll be on my way." I got back up holding the wound at my side with one paw.

"Here's your pay..." I tossed him the sack... now I needed one more answer... "Before you leave, can I ask you something?" The winged wolf waved his paw for the me to continue as he double checked the gems for quality.

"... You're an assassin, in it for the money, you have no clan..." he nodded indifferently, "so you won't be offended by this..."

"Do you know why they wanted me DEAD?" his ear twitched in my direction.

"You were a traitor or something, I didn't pay attention really. Makes the job easier if I don't know stories." He would want to know mine...

"Heh... the truth is... they tried to kill me before... just because I was different...," I saw a glint in his eye as he glanced at me.

"...not that you'd understand..." I went over to the lake and washed my side. The water felt cold against the wound. He sat there, "...you have your pay now... go!" I waved at him and looked away.

The wolf gave a harsh bark of a laugh and sneered,

"Kid, where I'm from you didn't get that mercy. If they wanted you dead for being different, they made your life hell until you took it from yourself. By the way, how old were they when they tried to end you?" he lingered on the last word. It's been many years since then, but I still remember.

"13... they sent someone I thought was my best friend to do it... someone I thought I could trust..."

Anger flashed in the wolf's eyes for the briefest of moments before he hid it away. "Well kid, I got my money and I 'killed' you so I'm good to go. Enjoy the rest of your life kid. Maybe I'll see you around some other time, but," he turned around, "I got some dogs to see..." the wolf said the last part with a cold tone in his voice before launching himself into the air, a rainbow shock wave left in his wake. The wind brushed by me, my side tingling, still sensitive to the air. I watched him fly away, and I smiled.

"He heard me..."

I kept wandering in search of any hints or leads, none to be found. I tagged along with some other diamond dog rouges, Elt and Koal. They weren't strong, but they could hold their own. I mostly kept to myself. We traveled along until we heard of the Lunar Legend appearing in Equestria.

"Ubi, don't you see what this MEANS?" Kelt asked excitedly.

"If we can join the Lunar Legends clan, we can bring down our old clans and bring peace again to Gem Fido." A wolf, and a dragon slayer as well... I started to worry. What if he finds mom and kills her... I couldn't let him do that. So I went along with them to look for the Lunar Legend. It wasn't until later until I found him...