This is my story, it is a major work in progress. Comments and critique are gratefully welcomed.
Also, you may pm me if you want to make a character for me to add in the story, you must give a detailed description though.
WARNING to younger people:: This story does contain some violence in it.
A long time ago, when it was still medieval times there was a kingdom known as Dragonia. Dragonia was a large, prosperous land excelling in producing objects that required natural resources to create. The land was filled with creatures only known in storybook tales though, but these tales were of woe and human dangers to the land. People were worried developing a kingdom would destroy the mythical creatures of the land that were so vital to its survival. At all costs people outside the kingdom would try to save the creatures before it was too late . . .
Little did those people know the kingdom knew they wanted to destroy their land and save the pretty little magical forest animals. So they only had one thing to do; kill their enemies and continue to thrive. A giant war had risen between the kingdom of Dragonia, and the rest of the small continent of Drascalle. There was one girl who survived the war as a baby though; she had been taken by a dragon to the heart of the forest where no humans could go unless they were invited to go there by the lead dragon or his messenger . . .
The girl’s name was Adrianna Marie Phoenixi; she was a fiery redhead with a temper to match. Her hair flowed down to the middle of her back and it had natural high-lights and low lights as well. The tips of her hair were almost a scorched dark red that represented the fire of a phoenix’s tail feathers. The young girl had eyes that were a dark, charcoal-like grey with flecks of a burning red lying near the pupil. Her skin was lightly tanned, but not so much that it was an orange color. When she was sixteen years of age, she was five foot eight and she weighed one hundred thirty-five pounds. She had lived with the rare dragons of the forest learning the art of breathing fire to both rejuvenate the forest and to stop her enemies from harming her . . .
Adrianna looked around one day as she walked into the dragon’s realm in a serene silence that surrounded her in its uncertainty. She heard the soft steps of a deer nearby the caverns that she had known as her home for so many years now. She then heard the rougher steps of a clan of hunters from the nobility of the kingdom. One of the clan members had brought a young husky along with them to help the hunting party on its quest to destroy all of the mythical creatures so the kingdom could expand. The dog then spotted Adrianna hiding in a small group of bushes, watching to see what happens the dog did not move forward. He just stared ahead as the hunters yelled for him to move.
Adrianna knew there’d be trouble if the dog barked so she took out one of the arrows out of her sheath and aimed with the bow at the dog. She closed her eyes, but she put the bow down and sighed lightly knowing she did not have the guts to shoot a dog with an arrow. One of the hunters had spotted her though and they yelled, “Hey there is somebody over there. It is an outsider!” The hunters ran forwards and Adrianna gasped as she jumped up and ran away as fast as she could.
The hunters began to catch up to Adrianna, so she looked back and spat a fireball at them in haste; it scorched the arm of one of them. She began to pant slightly, the fire had dried her mouth and she needed a drink of water or else she would collapse. She did not see any so all she could do was run until she could not any more. The dragons were out on a hunting trip so she could not call for them to come save her either. Eventually she stumbled and fell to the ground in a heap . . .
One of the hunters quickly bound Adrianna’s hands with strong rope and pulled her up from the ground. She growled slightly, her eyes showing the fire that was building up inside of her. The hunter examined her before saying, “This is no ordinary outsider; it is the survivor of the Great War. She must have been trained by the dragons to spit fire.” He pushed her forward and she huffed out a small bit of fire. She walked along the hunters grudgingly since she knew it would be no use to try and run away.
Eventually she was taken to the castle to be faced by the tyrant the people called their king. She was thrown into a small questioning room that was also used for torture with the king sitting across her. She growled, her pointed teeth showing slightly before she spit some fire directly at the king. The king laughed saying, “You think that your little spit balls will harm me. I can just capture one of your little dragon friends if you even dare to harm me in any way whatsoever. Now tell me, who are you? Can you even still speak like a human?”
Adrianna spat at the king, “Yea I can speak English, and I am the one who survived the Great War. That is all you need to know.” The king sighed and said, “What is your name, look we are not going to hurt you or your friends if you cooperate.” Adrianna sighed as she muttered, “My name is Adrianna Marie Phoenixi.” The king nodded and said, “Ok Adrianna, now I have an offer you cannot refuse. You are going to live in the castle for three months, unpermitted to use your fire power. You will then after the three months decide if you want to stay here and save your dragons, or leave and let them have an uncertain future . . .”
Adrianna could not speak, if she stayed she might not ever see her dragons again, but if she left then her dragons could be killed. She looked down and she said, “Fine . . . I will stay here.” The king smiled and led her up to one of the many bedrooms in the castle. It was black stone with a large white bed and black-wood dressers and an ornate mirror as well. Adrianna could not help but be amazed; she was actually going to stay here for three months. The king then had to add in, “There is a ball tonight and you are required to come, an assistant will be here to help you choose your look soon . . .”
Adrianna narrowed her eyes after he left; she was required to go to some formal ball? Of all things for a dragon girl to have to go to it had been a ball . . . When the young helper came in she smiled at Adrianna and said, “Hello I am Anastasia, I will help you get ready. I know you have never been to a ball before but I will help you be lady-like. I hope you are not overly furious about this situation though madam.” Adrianna shrugged and said, “I am not furious, definitely not at you since you seem like a kind soul.”
Anastasia nodded and smiled at her before placing a book on both her and Adrianna’s heads. Adrianna looked confused but Anastasia explained everything to her step by step. Eventually Adrianna learned how to do everything lady-like and she felt kind of weird doing so. She was used to the rough life of a dragon, now she was subject to the life of some princess. Anastasia went out of the room for a moment and returned with a dark red gown with a charcoal black sash. The dress was put on Adrianna and Anastasia said, “That looks gorgeous on you Adrianna.” The dress was strapless and it went to Adrianna’s ankles. It was a little bit slimmer than most gowns being worn to that ball and Adrianna frowned slightly. She stood there for a moment in silence . . .
Adrianna said, “Do I have to wear this Anastasia.” Anastasia then nodded and Adrianna sighed lightly in defeat. Anastasia got some black feather earrings and a few red and black bracelets as well. She put them on for Adrianna and eventually it began to get dark out so Anastasia led Adrianna outside to a small horse-drawn carriage with two black horses at the front. Adrianna got in and looked around as the carriage was driven to the ball in an almost serene type of silence.
Adrianna watched as they reached the building the ball was to be held in, it was a very formal place to say the least. Adrianna had never been to a place like this, but she already could tell that she was going to dread the decision. She got out of the carriage before it had completely stopped and the driver drove off in a bit of haste. Adrianna walked inside of the building and looked around to see everyone stare at her; they must have been informed some forest girl was to be at the ball.
Everyone soon went back to their own business and Adrianna went over to an empty table. Sitting down and watching the other people a bit confused. She had never needed to be here and she surely never wanted to be here even if her own life was at stake if she hadn’t. Eventually someone had asked her if she wanted to dance, Adrianna thought, “Great I don’t even know what that is.” She shook her head without a word and the person sulked off looking a bit disappointed.
The person who asked her to dance was some guy that was around her age, he had short black hair that was a little spiky and he had warm brown eyes as well. Adrianna sighed lightly when suddenly a roar was heard outside. She gasped as a dragon flew through the building breathing a spiral of flames as it spotted Adrianna. It was her dragon, a jet black dragon known as Shaded Flames. The dragon landed and Adrianna smiled as she climbed atop of him. She yelled something in dragon tongue and the dragon flew up. The person who had asked her looked up, their eyes dilated in fear, and curiosity as well, He suddenly moved and grabbed the dragon’s tail in an act of purely rushed stupidity.
A few hours later the dragon landed and Adrianna got off, quickly taking the bun out of her hair and shaking her head. She then turned to see the person and she began to yell in dragon, the dragon flicking the person off of its tail and growling. Adrianna sighed knowing the human could not understand before she yelled in human, “Who are you and why did you grab onto my dragon’s tail! I could have you killed in seconds yet you still dare to follow me here to this sacred land!”
The boy gulped and said, “Uh I am Alexander, the prince of Dragonia. And I am sorry, I just wanted a way to escape the castle and I saw you leaving.” Adrianna’s eyes widened and she practically screamed, “WHAT! The king already wants to kill these dragons and now he will want to kill us all since he’ll think we kidnapped you!” She rambled on in dragon before the golden leader of the dragons walked up, mumbling something to calm her down.
The golden dragon looked at the boy and said in human, “Look, small human you must leave this land before you get us all killed.” He then had an idea and continued, “Wait you said that you are the prince, I have an idea. Adrianna, you shall teach the boy to breathe fire so he can help us overthrow the kingdom. Are you betrothed to anyone young human, if not you must hurry so you can claim the throne to the kingdom.”
Alexander shook his head and said, “Uh no, I am not yet.” He looked as the rest of the dragons gathered around and he gulped, seeing a small silver dragon with cold gray eyes. The golden dragon continued, “Ok well you either must become betrothed, or learn the ways of the dragon. Silver-Moon, you shall teach him the rest of our ways.” Adrianna and Silver-Moon both growled slightly, both of them a little furious.
Alexander nodded and Adrianna said, “But he is not born of the dragons, you raised me from a baby and he is around the same age as me. It would take years to train him the ways of the dragon.” The dragon glared at her for talking back to his decision and she looked down, muttering sorry in dragon. As the golden dragon walked off she looked up at the prince and growled lightly, she walked off to where she slept. She climbed up a tree and sat on one of the higher branches, holding her knees up to her chest.
Soon after she fell asleep, she heard knocking on her tree and jolted up, almost falling out. Her eyes scanned the forest floor to see the prince and she quietly snapped, “What!?” The prince gulped and said, “Where do I sleep around here?” Adrianna sighed and held out her hand saying, “You are lucky that I have to help you, come up here and I will show you all of the available sleeping areas.” He grabbed her hand and she pulled him up to the branch.
Alexander said, “Ok, so where can I sleep?” Adrianna pointed to all of the areas and said, “Well in one of those spots, or since I am going to be nice you can sleep up here.” She pointed to another thick branch next to the one she was in. He nodded and hopped over to the other branch over, laying his head against the trunk of the tree. Adrianna nodded before going back to sleep, her vicious demeanor seeming to disappear as she slept. Alexander watched her sleep for a moment before he also fell asleep.
Alexander woke up when he was pulled out of the tree by Adrianna as she said, “Wake up, you have got a week to find someone to marry before we train you.” Alexander tilted his head, he thought training was to begin then he looked for someone. Adrianna smirked saying, “I actually have training myself today so you are free to go.” She walked off, leaving Alexander to himself for the day.
Alexander was about to say something but he ran back to the kingdom instead, instinctively going into the castle. His father ran up to him and said, “Where were you, the townsfolk said that Adrianna girl captured you.” Alexander shook his head, a small smile tugging at his lips as he explained, “Actually, I kind of grabbed the tail of the dragon she was riding and I went to the dragon’s lair. His father smiled and said, “Prepare the army; we are going to attack immediately.” His son nodded and ran off in a hurry . . .
A few hours later the army appeared at the dragon’s land and set the land on fire, Alexander at the back on his horse. The dragons got up swiftly, but not quick enough. The knights threw nets of steel on the dragons and captured them quickly, even the golden dragon. One of the knights was being attacked by Adrianna; she swiped her claws at him and blew fire onto him. Alexander than came up behind her and knocked her out with the blunt end of his sword given to him by none other than his father.
Adrianna did not wake up until the next day, her hands chained to a wall and the other dragons chained by their necks with fireproof muzzles on them. Their wings were tied down and Adrianna yelled in dragon to ask if they were ok. She didn’t get an answer and tears rolled down her face. Alexander walked into the room and Adrianna shrieked in a mixture of dragon and human, “How could you, I almost trusted you! You have destroyed everything that mattered to me!” She then just said with tears, “How could you . . .”
Alexander laughed and said with a smirk, “You think I haven’t planned this all out, you are dumber than I thought you were for being partially a dragon.” He then walked up to Adrianna and smiled evilly as he kneeled down to make eye contact with her. She tried to breathe fire in his face, and when he got singed he slapped her across the face and snapped, “Now things are going to be a bit different around here, starting that you will never breathe fire again for the rest of your life!”
Adrianna stayed silent as he held her face up and muttered, “Do you understand, you worthless dragon . . .” The golden dragon woke up and tried to move, but he was critically injured. Adrianna yelled something to him and he tried to smile encouragingly, but he drifted off to sleep forever. Adrianna cried and Alexander laughed before walking off. Adrianna knew that she was to get vengeance for her fellow dragons.
Adrianna soon was asleep, weakened since she actually had been brutally beaten before the night had arrived to save her momentarily. She was going into a flashback, the only memories of her life in the kingdom. She saw herself as an infant, when suddenly a large bang distracted her mother from caring for the house. Her mother had looked out the window to see bombs being thrown, and cannons being fired.
Adrianna’s mother gasped and she grabbed Adrianna, running outside to see exactly what had been going on outside of her home. Adrianna’s mother, whose name had been Angelica, had also been raised by dragons as a young child herself so she knew Adrianna would be safe with the dragons. A small group of knights who already had hostages from other kingdoms happened to spot her.
The group of knights quickly ran up to Angelica, knocking her down and taking the infant Adrianna away from her. They took Adrianna and threw her into a bush in the woods, laughing thinking she would burn with the forest. The kingdom Angelica was born into was Iridessia, a kingdom with a great respect for nature in all forms, fauna or flora. Angelica had been lined up with other mothers, and she watched as they burned the forest.
Angelica smiled and yelled a blessing in dragon tongue, that whatever happened to her daughter in the next five days would determine a unique appearance for her. Her mother imagined her daughter as a blank canvas, ready to be painted upon to represent nature itself. Then a baby black dragon flew up to Adrianna as the forest began to burn, carrying her to the other dragons.
Adrianna’s neck was burned, along with her head. Flecks of charcoal and ember got into her eyes as well, leaving her with her flaming appearance. Her fiery personality was just so fitting to that appearance the dragons could not help but laugh at how fitting it was. Anyways, Adrianna was taken to the hills where the caverns she lived near were located.
There she was trained the way of the dragon, learning how to breathe fire and speak the dragon language. One day she had been lying under a small fern, the leaves acting as a canopy of shade for her to lay upon. The soft forest grasses were uninterrupted with no rocks protruding from the ground and no thick roots to lump up the ground beneath her . . .
As she lay there, someone tripped over her and she opened her eyes to look at them. Since she was only about the age of nine years old, she was not the vicious person she was to become in the future. The person who tripped over her was a boy about the age of twelve; he had deep blue eyes with very light blue tips. The boy had dark blue eyes that were as blue as the nearby lakes and rivers of the area, and he was quite tall and thin. The boy then looked at her and he said, “Oh sorry about that, I should watch where I am going next time.”
Adrianna looked at him, her head tilted as she wondered why he was so very blue in his appearance. He was overall a pale person; his skin tone reminded her of the ocean floor. She then felt some sort of connection to this boy, as if she actually knew him for a long period of time. She then simply said, “Who are you . . .” The boy simply replied, “Oh I am Nat Oceaphus. Who are you?” Adrianna simply said her name before she continued to try and remember where she had seen that boy . . .
The two of them began to hang out when they both had free time, Adrianna had learned Nat was being raised by serpents and they also took him in during the Great War. They soon developed their own secret language, and soon enough they began to teach each other the languages of dragon and serpent as well. They became best friends until there was a flood one day and Nat, along with the serpents, had been wiped out in it.
She looked around to see the dragons gone, and she realized they were being killed at that moment when she heard roars of pain. She then screamed, in great pain since her jaw was almost broken, “Leave them alone! Please . . .” She then sobbed in continuous agony and waited for someone to come and beat her again with the brute force they had already executed when around her. She then gasped lightly as someone suddenly kicked her in the stomach and took the chains off of her hands. They then bound her hands again with rope and lifted her up, carrying her out to where the dragons were being killed.
Adrianna yelled for someone to help her in the serpent, dragon, and human tongues before they threw her to the ground. She gasped as the little air she had was knocked out of her. Then someone stood at her side and whispered, “We warned you Adrianna, we warned you this was to happen if you left the castle. She realized it was the king and she wondered how he could do such a thing as this. He lifted an axe and was about to kill her when a wave came down upon the kingdom.
Adrianna looked up to see the now nineteen year old Nat on a deep blue serpent, rushing towards the executioner. The water flowed into the hole meant to be Adrianna’s grave and Nat jumped out onto the ground. He yelled, “Touch a hair on her head and die!” The executioner dropped the axe right next to her face when Nat knocked him out cold. He swiftly picked Adrianna up, taking her back to the one remaining dragon, Shaded Flames.
Nat signaled for the dragon to follow since he still remembered the language himself, and the dragon nodded lightly to show it understood the serpent boy’s priorities. Adrianna was barely breathing when they reached the home of the serpents. Nat wondered what he should do, the only thing left was for her to die, well if she were in mortal hands that is.
Also, you may pm me if you want to make a character for me to add in the story, you must give a detailed description though.
WARNING to younger people:: This story does contain some violence in it.
A long time ago, when it was still medieval times there was a kingdom known as Dragonia. Dragonia was a large, prosperous land excelling in producing objects that required natural resources to create. The land was filled with creatures only known in storybook tales though, but these tales were of woe and human dangers to the land. People were worried developing a kingdom would destroy the mythical creatures of the land that were so vital to its survival. At all costs people outside the kingdom would try to save the creatures before it was too late . . .
Little did those people know the kingdom knew they wanted to destroy their land and save the pretty little magical forest animals. So they only had one thing to do; kill their enemies and continue to thrive. A giant war had risen between the kingdom of Dragonia, and the rest of the small continent of Drascalle. There was one girl who survived the war as a baby though; she had been taken by a dragon to the heart of the forest where no humans could go unless they were invited to go there by the lead dragon or his messenger . . .
The girl’s name was Adrianna Marie Phoenixi; she was a fiery redhead with a temper to match. Her hair flowed down to the middle of her back and it had natural high-lights and low lights as well. The tips of her hair were almost a scorched dark red that represented the fire of a phoenix’s tail feathers. The young girl had eyes that were a dark, charcoal-like grey with flecks of a burning red lying near the pupil. Her skin was lightly tanned, but not so much that it was an orange color. When she was sixteen years of age, she was five foot eight and she weighed one hundred thirty-five pounds. She had lived with the rare dragons of the forest learning the art of breathing fire to both rejuvenate the forest and to stop her enemies from harming her . . .
Adrianna looked around one day as she walked into the dragon’s realm in a serene silence that surrounded her in its uncertainty. She heard the soft steps of a deer nearby the caverns that she had known as her home for so many years now. She then heard the rougher steps of a clan of hunters from the nobility of the kingdom. One of the clan members had brought a young husky along with them to help the hunting party on its quest to destroy all of the mythical creatures so the kingdom could expand. The dog then spotted Adrianna hiding in a small group of bushes, watching to see what happens the dog did not move forward. He just stared ahead as the hunters yelled for him to move.
Adrianna knew there’d be trouble if the dog barked so she took out one of the arrows out of her sheath and aimed with the bow at the dog. She closed her eyes, but she put the bow down and sighed lightly knowing she did not have the guts to shoot a dog with an arrow. One of the hunters had spotted her though and they yelled, “Hey there is somebody over there. It is an outsider!” The hunters ran forwards and Adrianna gasped as she jumped up and ran away as fast as she could.
The hunters began to catch up to Adrianna, so she looked back and spat a fireball at them in haste; it scorched the arm of one of them. She began to pant slightly, the fire had dried her mouth and she needed a drink of water or else she would collapse. She did not see any so all she could do was run until she could not any more. The dragons were out on a hunting trip so she could not call for them to come save her either. Eventually she stumbled and fell to the ground in a heap . . .
One of the hunters quickly bound Adrianna’s hands with strong rope and pulled her up from the ground. She growled slightly, her eyes showing the fire that was building up inside of her. The hunter examined her before saying, “This is no ordinary outsider; it is the survivor of the Great War. She must have been trained by the dragons to spit fire.” He pushed her forward and she huffed out a small bit of fire. She walked along the hunters grudgingly since she knew it would be no use to try and run away.
Eventually she was taken to the castle to be faced by the tyrant the people called their king. She was thrown into a small questioning room that was also used for torture with the king sitting across her. She growled, her pointed teeth showing slightly before she spit some fire directly at the king. The king laughed saying, “You think that your little spit balls will harm me. I can just capture one of your little dragon friends if you even dare to harm me in any way whatsoever. Now tell me, who are you? Can you even still speak like a human?”
Adrianna spat at the king, “Yea I can speak English, and I am the one who survived the Great War. That is all you need to know.” The king sighed and said, “What is your name, look we are not going to hurt you or your friends if you cooperate.” Adrianna sighed as she muttered, “My name is Adrianna Marie Phoenixi.” The king nodded and said, “Ok Adrianna, now I have an offer you cannot refuse. You are going to live in the castle for three months, unpermitted to use your fire power. You will then after the three months decide if you want to stay here and save your dragons, or leave and let them have an uncertain future . . .”
Adrianna could not speak, if she stayed she might not ever see her dragons again, but if she left then her dragons could be killed. She looked down and she said, “Fine . . . I will stay here.” The king smiled and led her up to one of the many bedrooms in the castle. It was black stone with a large white bed and black-wood dressers and an ornate mirror as well. Adrianna could not help but be amazed; she was actually going to stay here for three months. The king then had to add in, “There is a ball tonight and you are required to come, an assistant will be here to help you choose your look soon . . .”
Adrianna narrowed her eyes after he left; she was required to go to some formal ball? Of all things for a dragon girl to have to go to it had been a ball . . . When the young helper came in she smiled at Adrianna and said, “Hello I am Anastasia, I will help you get ready. I know you have never been to a ball before but I will help you be lady-like. I hope you are not overly furious about this situation though madam.” Adrianna shrugged and said, “I am not furious, definitely not at you since you seem like a kind soul.”
Anastasia nodded and smiled at her before placing a book on both her and Adrianna’s heads. Adrianna looked confused but Anastasia explained everything to her step by step. Eventually Adrianna learned how to do everything lady-like and she felt kind of weird doing so. She was used to the rough life of a dragon, now she was subject to the life of some princess. Anastasia went out of the room for a moment and returned with a dark red gown with a charcoal black sash. The dress was put on Adrianna and Anastasia said, “That looks gorgeous on you Adrianna.” The dress was strapless and it went to Adrianna’s ankles. It was a little bit slimmer than most gowns being worn to that ball and Adrianna frowned slightly. She stood there for a moment in silence . . .
Adrianna said, “Do I have to wear this Anastasia.” Anastasia then nodded and Adrianna sighed lightly in defeat. Anastasia got some black feather earrings and a few red and black bracelets as well. She put them on for Adrianna and eventually it began to get dark out so Anastasia led Adrianna outside to a small horse-drawn carriage with two black horses at the front. Adrianna got in and looked around as the carriage was driven to the ball in an almost serene type of silence.
Adrianna watched as they reached the building the ball was to be held in, it was a very formal place to say the least. Adrianna had never been to a place like this, but she already could tell that she was going to dread the decision. She got out of the carriage before it had completely stopped and the driver drove off in a bit of haste. Adrianna walked inside of the building and looked around to see everyone stare at her; they must have been informed some forest girl was to be at the ball.
Everyone soon went back to their own business and Adrianna went over to an empty table. Sitting down and watching the other people a bit confused. She had never needed to be here and she surely never wanted to be here even if her own life was at stake if she hadn’t. Eventually someone had asked her if she wanted to dance, Adrianna thought, “Great I don’t even know what that is.” She shook her head without a word and the person sulked off looking a bit disappointed.
The person who asked her to dance was some guy that was around her age, he had short black hair that was a little spiky and he had warm brown eyes as well. Adrianna sighed lightly when suddenly a roar was heard outside. She gasped as a dragon flew through the building breathing a spiral of flames as it spotted Adrianna. It was her dragon, a jet black dragon known as Shaded Flames. The dragon landed and Adrianna smiled as she climbed atop of him. She yelled something in dragon tongue and the dragon flew up. The person who had asked her looked up, their eyes dilated in fear, and curiosity as well, He suddenly moved and grabbed the dragon’s tail in an act of purely rushed stupidity.
A few hours later the dragon landed and Adrianna got off, quickly taking the bun out of her hair and shaking her head. She then turned to see the person and she began to yell in dragon, the dragon flicking the person off of its tail and growling. Adrianna sighed knowing the human could not understand before she yelled in human, “Who are you and why did you grab onto my dragon’s tail! I could have you killed in seconds yet you still dare to follow me here to this sacred land!”
The boy gulped and said, “Uh I am Alexander, the prince of Dragonia. And I am sorry, I just wanted a way to escape the castle and I saw you leaving.” Adrianna’s eyes widened and she practically screamed, “WHAT! The king already wants to kill these dragons and now he will want to kill us all since he’ll think we kidnapped you!” She rambled on in dragon before the golden leader of the dragons walked up, mumbling something to calm her down.
The golden dragon looked at the boy and said in human, “Look, small human you must leave this land before you get us all killed.” He then had an idea and continued, “Wait you said that you are the prince, I have an idea. Adrianna, you shall teach the boy to breathe fire so he can help us overthrow the kingdom. Are you betrothed to anyone young human, if not you must hurry so you can claim the throne to the kingdom.”
Alexander shook his head and said, “Uh no, I am not yet.” He looked as the rest of the dragons gathered around and he gulped, seeing a small silver dragon with cold gray eyes. The golden dragon continued, “Ok well you either must become betrothed, or learn the ways of the dragon. Silver-Moon, you shall teach him the rest of our ways.” Adrianna and Silver-Moon both growled slightly, both of them a little furious.
Alexander nodded and Adrianna said, “But he is not born of the dragons, you raised me from a baby and he is around the same age as me. It would take years to train him the ways of the dragon.” The dragon glared at her for talking back to his decision and she looked down, muttering sorry in dragon. As the golden dragon walked off she looked up at the prince and growled lightly, she walked off to where she slept. She climbed up a tree and sat on one of the higher branches, holding her knees up to her chest.
Soon after she fell asleep, she heard knocking on her tree and jolted up, almost falling out. Her eyes scanned the forest floor to see the prince and she quietly snapped, “What!?” The prince gulped and said, “Where do I sleep around here?” Adrianna sighed and held out her hand saying, “You are lucky that I have to help you, come up here and I will show you all of the available sleeping areas.” He grabbed her hand and she pulled him up to the branch.
Alexander said, “Ok, so where can I sleep?” Adrianna pointed to all of the areas and said, “Well in one of those spots, or since I am going to be nice you can sleep up here.” She pointed to another thick branch next to the one she was in. He nodded and hopped over to the other branch over, laying his head against the trunk of the tree. Adrianna nodded before going back to sleep, her vicious demeanor seeming to disappear as she slept. Alexander watched her sleep for a moment before he also fell asleep.
Alexander woke up when he was pulled out of the tree by Adrianna as she said, “Wake up, you have got a week to find someone to marry before we train you.” Alexander tilted his head, he thought training was to begin then he looked for someone. Adrianna smirked saying, “I actually have training myself today so you are free to go.” She walked off, leaving Alexander to himself for the day.
Alexander was about to say something but he ran back to the kingdom instead, instinctively going into the castle. His father ran up to him and said, “Where were you, the townsfolk said that Adrianna girl captured you.” Alexander shook his head, a small smile tugging at his lips as he explained, “Actually, I kind of grabbed the tail of the dragon she was riding and I went to the dragon’s lair. His father smiled and said, “Prepare the army; we are going to attack immediately.” His son nodded and ran off in a hurry . . .
A few hours later the army appeared at the dragon’s land and set the land on fire, Alexander at the back on his horse. The dragons got up swiftly, but not quick enough. The knights threw nets of steel on the dragons and captured them quickly, even the golden dragon. One of the knights was being attacked by Adrianna; she swiped her claws at him and blew fire onto him. Alexander than came up behind her and knocked her out with the blunt end of his sword given to him by none other than his father.
Adrianna did not wake up until the next day, her hands chained to a wall and the other dragons chained by their necks with fireproof muzzles on them. Their wings were tied down and Adrianna yelled in dragon to ask if they were ok. She didn’t get an answer and tears rolled down her face. Alexander walked into the room and Adrianna shrieked in a mixture of dragon and human, “How could you, I almost trusted you! You have destroyed everything that mattered to me!” She then just said with tears, “How could you . . .”
Alexander laughed and said with a smirk, “You think I haven’t planned this all out, you are dumber than I thought you were for being partially a dragon.” He then walked up to Adrianna and smiled evilly as he kneeled down to make eye contact with her. She tried to breathe fire in his face, and when he got singed he slapped her across the face and snapped, “Now things are going to be a bit different around here, starting that you will never breathe fire again for the rest of your life!”
Adrianna stayed silent as he held her face up and muttered, “Do you understand, you worthless dragon . . .” The golden dragon woke up and tried to move, but he was critically injured. Adrianna yelled something to him and he tried to smile encouragingly, but he drifted off to sleep forever. Adrianna cried and Alexander laughed before walking off. Adrianna knew that she was to get vengeance for her fellow dragons.
Adrianna soon was asleep, weakened since she actually had been brutally beaten before the night had arrived to save her momentarily. She was going into a flashback, the only memories of her life in the kingdom. She saw herself as an infant, when suddenly a large bang distracted her mother from caring for the house. Her mother had looked out the window to see bombs being thrown, and cannons being fired.
Adrianna’s mother gasped and she grabbed Adrianna, running outside to see exactly what had been going on outside of her home. Adrianna’s mother, whose name had been Angelica, had also been raised by dragons as a young child herself so she knew Adrianna would be safe with the dragons. A small group of knights who already had hostages from other kingdoms happened to spot her.
The group of knights quickly ran up to Angelica, knocking her down and taking the infant Adrianna away from her. They took Adrianna and threw her into a bush in the woods, laughing thinking she would burn with the forest. The kingdom Angelica was born into was Iridessia, a kingdom with a great respect for nature in all forms, fauna or flora. Angelica had been lined up with other mothers, and she watched as they burned the forest.
Angelica smiled and yelled a blessing in dragon tongue, that whatever happened to her daughter in the next five days would determine a unique appearance for her. Her mother imagined her daughter as a blank canvas, ready to be painted upon to represent nature itself. Then a baby black dragon flew up to Adrianna as the forest began to burn, carrying her to the other dragons.
Adrianna’s neck was burned, along with her head. Flecks of charcoal and ember got into her eyes as well, leaving her with her flaming appearance. Her fiery personality was just so fitting to that appearance the dragons could not help but laugh at how fitting it was. Anyways, Adrianna was taken to the hills where the caverns she lived near were located.
There she was trained the way of the dragon, learning how to breathe fire and speak the dragon language. One day she had been lying under a small fern, the leaves acting as a canopy of shade for her to lay upon. The soft forest grasses were uninterrupted with no rocks protruding from the ground and no thick roots to lump up the ground beneath her . . .
As she lay there, someone tripped over her and she opened her eyes to look at them. Since she was only about the age of nine years old, she was not the vicious person she was to become in the future. The person who tripped over her was a boy about the age of twelve; he had deep blue eyes with very light blue tips. The boy had dark blue eyes that were as blue as the nearby lakes and rivers of the area, and he was quite tall and thin. The boy then looked at her and he said, “Oh sorry about that, I should watch where I am going next time.”
Adrianna looked at him, her head tilted as she wondered why he was so very blue in his appearance. He was overall a pale person; his skin tone reminded her of the ocean floor. She then felt some sort of connection to this boy, as if she actually knew him for a long period of time. She then simply said, “Who are you . . .” The boy simply replied, “Oh I am Nat Oceaphus. Who are you?” Adrianna simply said her name before she continued to try and remember where she had seen that boy . . .
The two of them began to hang out when they both had free time, Adrianna had learned Nat was being raised by serpents and they also took him in during the Great War. They soon developed their own secret language, and soon enough they began to teach each other the languages of dragon and serpent as well. They became best friends until there was a flood one day and Nat, along with the serpents, had been wiped out in it.
She looked around to see the dragons gone, and she realized they were being killed at that moment when she heard roars of pain. She then screamed, in great pain since her jaw was almost broken, “Leave them alone! Please . . .” She then sobbed in continuous agony and waited for someone to come and beat her again with the brute force they had already executed when around her. She then gasped lightly as someone suddenly kicked her in the stomach and took the chains off of her hands. They then bound her hands again with rope and lifted her up, carrying her out to where the dragons were being killed.
Adrianna yelled for someone to help her in the serpent, dragon, and human tongues before they threw her to the ground. She gasped as the little air she had was knocked out of her. Then someone stood at her side and whispered, “We warned you Adrianna, we warned you this was to happen if you left the castle. She realized it was the king and she wondered how he could do such a thing as this. He lifted an axe and was about to kill her when a wave came down upon the kingdom.
Adrianna looked up to see the now nineteen year old Nat on a deep blue serpent, rushing towards the executioner. The water flowed into the hole meant to be Adrianna’s grave and Nat jumped out onto the ground. He yelled, “Touch a hair on her head and die!” The executioner dropped the axe right next to her face when Nat knocked him out cold. He swiftly picked Adrianna up, taking her back to the one remaining dragon, Shaded Flames.
Nat signaled for the dragon to follow since he still remembered the language himself, and the dragon nodded lightly to show it understood the serpent boy’s priorities. Adrianna was barely breathing when they reached the home of the serpents. Nat wondered what he should do, the only thing left was for her to die, well if she were in mortal hands that is.
