Book One of the Chronicles of Onyx series. (FIRST DRAFT) War. For lifetimes it has consumed the lands of Druzatria, coursing and destroying all freedom and peace. Claiming innocent lives as victims. As for Onyx, she has known only one thing her whole entirety of her existence, to fight. For years she has felt long and forgotten by her father, the memory of her mother fades with each passing day, and the Queen has kept her as an item of destruction. Yet, even as she may wield the most potent power of all, she remains powerless against the Queen's hold over her. And even as the many, long, years in an arena has made her hard and unbreakable, she is in a constant battle with herself. That is until she is to fight an Orcish halfbreed. Will she succumb to the Queen's motives? Or will she fight for what is rightfully hers? Her freedom.