Chapter 5
"When I was a young Dragon I had a family, like you have now, and then everything was torn from me" I said
--Memory--
"Hey where do you think you're going at this time, huh" I heard my father say behind me, but I acted like I didn't hear him and I kept on walking "Draco caeleste"
"Nowhere" I said, every time I hear that title it makes me freeze, like I know it somehow, and need to prove myself to live up to it. I turned to my father and slowly sulked over to him.
"Yeah that's what I thought, Imperium" he said and I bowed my head in apology, but he still whacked my us-side my head for disobeying. It was friendly, but still scorning, and I followed him as he lead me to the training room.
"We will be working on your claw-to-claw combat skills today" he said and added "where did you think you were even going to go anyways. Our country is in a split of civil war, and you think that you are going to sneak off with that lady friend of yours?" he said and my eyes widened in shock. How did he know? I hadn't said anything about her, or mentioned that I had a girl-friend to the family at all.
"Yeah I know, and don't think that you are going to go wandering off with her" he said "you know first hand from your mother, in which I had to kill to protect you sadly, how evil and twisted the Vibrant Clan can be" he said
"I know, but if you killed my mother, then why didn't you kill me" I said and he tapped a claw on the ground in thought.
"I-you were still an egg at the time, and I couldn't find myself to crush every single one in hopes of one being you, but when you hatched, and I saw that you were my child with your rainbow-colored wings, and silver eyes, but I couldn't. For some reason my heart accepted you in and made my mind and body follow, but our training is so that you don't turn into one of those evil creatures that tore our world apart" he said and I still wanted to learn more about the other race.
"Dad you say that all of the clans hate each-other" I said
"And we still do" he answered
"Then why have we all come together as one to fight side-by-side?" I asked and he sighed before telling me to go over to the side and practice the techniques that he taught me.
"We have all come together to fight a force that has taken control of the southern dragons, tearing into their minds and souls, taking over their bodies till they turned into creatures of pure darkness and evil. I hope that you don't have to see one in your future, and I hope it does not get the chance to infect you with it's darkness and pain, because that it why I had to kill your mother.
Look when those creatures first came here, we weren't ready for them, and they tore into our clans, our families, and our lives. Killing and infecting those that they bit or cut into with their claws and teeth, some decided to take pleasure in this shock and they took many of our females and bred them making the sired children into warriors and killers, and soon the new race rose up to outnumber us and overpower their own ancient race. They killed all of their predecessors and rose to power granting themselves a Dark King, and Queen, but the Queen's only purpose of the king was to be his slave and pleasure item, and then they attacked us again and again until we made our own warriors. Going to ancient texts and knowledge of fighting, war, and weapons, armor, and other things we needed to use in order to survive.
Then we attacked the second generation and got as far as the kings castle before the king himself came out and decimated our armies, making us have to retreat and go back underground for a while. We slowly rose back up and build our cities, and walls to protect us with wards and ancient runes that I shall teach to you someday, and a hundred years later, to this day. We are still at war, and haven't gained an inch over the king, or his armies."
The rest of that night was filled with him correcting my fighting stances, techniques, skills, speed, strength, and agility in the air. Dad then made me go to bed after bathing in the stream we created using the ocean in the east to make a sort of river going to the four corners of the city. I couldn't go to sleep that night though, because I was still thinking about the information that my dad had told me, and once I had finally fell asleep. I was awoken by the sound of a struggle, and I go out of bed and through the vines covering the entrance to my door. Before turning left and going to the source of the sound, and I had gotten to my fathers quarters and I found two dark shapes battling in the dark. My wings, since they were shiny and a glittering rainbow of colors, had flashed in the light causing them both to look over for a second. I saw the dark, soulless eyes of a Dark one, as we call them, and it pushed back my dad and stalked towards me. No doubt because of my glittering wings, shining silver eyes, claws, underside of my back, and a few creating a circle around my neck going along my spine, as wide and as long as my spine, bones, spreading from my shoulder-blades and going from the base of them to the tip of the bow of my wings, going down my chest and branching out here, and there to create the pattern of a roaring silver dragon outlined in silver, and filled in with the black scales of my chest.
The creature seemed to recognize this for some reason and it got within claw-range, in which I didn't hesitate to react. I lashed out and my claws dragged a long one-and-a-half foot long gash in the right side of it's face, making it stand there in shock before swiping at me, but I jumped up and away from it's range and I was about to go back in and fight when my father yelled from behind it.
"No Imperium! This is not your fight to fight, you aren't ready" my father had jumped onto the Dark one and dug his claws into it's shoulder-blades making black blood come out from the wounds, and it roared in pain at the new wounds and it started to slam into things trying to shake my father off, but it was having no avail.
"Run Imperium, and don't look back, this kingdom had been breached and no one is safe, nor trustworthy" he said and then the Dark one slammed him against the roof making him cry-out in pain before loosing and falling to the floor helplessly "RUN!!" he yelled and I did just that. I turned around and took off down the corridor, and I had jumped from the top of the stairs and I landed on the bottom, and I heard the scream of pain. I looked up and saw black flames spreading out through the air from the direction of dad's room, and I knew then and there that he was gone, and I had no family left. I took off fighting back my tears, and I got as far as thirty miles from the city before I collapsed on the sandy floor from grief, exhaustion, and emotional pain.
--End of Memory--
"It sadly wasn't done and it had torn apart the city trying to look for me, luckily the wind was in my favor, so it didn't get to find my tracks nor my scent. A few days later I went back into the city to see if my father was still alive, and though it was a long shot, he was just ashes on the ground like everyone else in the city. It had stayed behind and ambushed me while I was searching through the city. It turned into a bloody fight, with me being beaten around as it played with me, and then it made a mistake of diving at me, and I cut off it's head with my tail and left the area forever. I was thirteen and the sole survivor of an ambush that destroyed my entire race, and left me infected, bleeding, hurt, and dying as I traveled across the continent to find help" I realized that my claws had dug into the ground and my vision was very shaded, so I closed my eyes to calm down "pretty soon I found myself lying in-front of the Demon King and Queen begging them to end my pain. They didn't, and instead he threw me into a dungeon, and let the venom take over my body, turn my scales midnight-black, my claws as well, and then he left me down there for five more years as the last transitions happened. My teeth had fallen out and were replaced with painful black and silver ones, my claws as well, the old ones turned black like they were diseased, and new ones grew in, the front ones Black and Purple like they are now, and the back ones completely Purple. Then after I killed, was infected more through punishments and training, they turned black, and gained their fire."
I felt a hand on my wing and I looked over and growled making the angel-blessed back off, and then I continued to glare at the offspring.
"Then after a couple-hundred thousand years of being in the kings service, making new runes, searing them to my skin, and killing for him. I was captured by Asmodeus and tortured for another two-hundred thousand years" I said and they seemed to connect everything together, and I scoffed as I thought about the name they called me "they called me 'The Chained Beast of the Deepest part of Hell, and as much as I hated it at first. I began to have the need to make everything fear it, long to meet me, or tremble at the mention of my name, and now that I am free I can finally start doing that. Making my enemies tremble in fear, and run from me because of it."
I smiled at the thought of my many enemies running from me in fear, only to me cut down by me with no mercy, and the others snapped me out of my evil thoughts.
"So that's why you hate me so much?" the offspring said and I growled baring my teeth at him "well I've had no contact with my father at all since he abandoned me saying that I was nothing to him, and I created portals first" it was trying to defend itself already, wow. I laughed deeply and genuinely at the fact that this immortal thought that it was the first one to create portals.
"No you stupid creature" I said and Magnus and the human next to him went forwards dangerously but were held back by the vampire and the angel-blessed "how do you think I traveled from dimension to dimension? Through taking the long way by going to the end of space and breaking through the blackness before ripping into another dimension and causing them both to be sucked into a rip in reality that would consume the two places that I was trying to destroy my way. No I use portals and cracks in the fabric of the dimension I am in to travel as those ones can seal themselves after a short period of time. Or I make my own, travel through it, and close it like I did to the other portal you guys saw yesterday"
Everyone seemed to be confused and shocked that I was the first thing alive to be able to travel by supernatural means, or reaching out and connecting two places or dimensions to a single hole for travel. I activated a half circle completely made of different portals leading to many different planets filled with dangerous beauty. I walked around everyone looking through them to see if I could grab something that wouldn't blow-up, try to eat anything on this planet, or be dangerous to the touch, and once I found it I reached my paw through and cut a small rose-like flower from the planet Axium, and I dragged it through the portal and closed them all before giving it to the angel-blessed. The vampire was nervous at seeing something alien to this world in my claws, and he was about to grab it, but I put up a force-field around it keeping them all back.
"Don't worry Demon, I am still under oath and can't, and won't harm her, but this flower will hurt you" I said and I gave her the flower "and it will agonizingly destroy all of the demon blood in your body starting with the skin, and traveling down to the bones and organs for a very painful, and very gruesome death" I said the last phrase smiling at the demons, and I took down the field. The demons stayed back, but the others rushed forward and pulled Clary back before standing at her side, and surprisingly they all didn't try to have her get rid of the flower, or take it from her and destroy or throw it away. I used my powers and slowly lifted it from her hands.
"I am actually glad that you all decided to be smart and not try to destroy it because it can't be destroyed by human-worldly means" I put a shield around it and said the weaker rune for fire, water, nature which it used for it's own reasons and multiplied, air, light, darkness, and earth. I filled half of the field with earth and made the flower turn sideways, and then I reopened a scar on my left arm with my right before raising it up and letting the blood soak the earth, and after five drops my wound healed and the earth in the field dried up, and then I let the flowers from my control and they dropped onto the infected earth and started to grow into it. Turning the earth black, and then darker and darker until it turned into a rock, and then it got hotter and hotter until the Earth was a half circle of hot magma in the field with the flowers inside of it and after a couple more minutes it cooled and turned to ash. I took away the field and used my powers to make the ash float and spread out into a wide rectangle with the flowers next to it on their left side, my right. They were now a deep red with black stripes all around them and the pedals had turned a deep yellow, making the flower look evil.
"It will not react to my skin, but it will react to other Demon's skin and blood in this way, and this planet would be destroyed in a year due to Demons having infected every ounce of the very earth underneath us with their DNA" I said and then I said the ancient word for fire and the flowers burned to ash, and I let everything go from my control and all of the ash aged and turned to dust in the wind.
Thanks for reading and I'll have another chapter out soon.
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