„Mommy, Mommy, we need to help her" is a five year old little girl just saying when she rans with something white in her hands towards her. At the first glance it looks like an albino lizard that got hurt by one of the stray dogs roaming around at the housing they live. The mother of the girl takes her plea serious and drives with her to the next vet who lives a two hours drive away from where they live at. She wraps her jacket around the small thing to somehow stop the bleeding and in order to keep her attention she starts to sing some children's songs she learns while staying with the other kids.

„Did you say something, dear?"
„I only told Grandine it is a pleasure to meet her"
„You give this lizard a name?"
„It's not a lizard, mommy, it's a dragon"

is she now responding while her eyes get bigger and brighter. Her mother shakes her head in disbelieve but she isn't saying anything about it.

„Wendy, dear, there are no so such things as dragons in this world. Obviously that Conbalt boy told you a big nonsense. Dragons are mythical creatures that only exist in Fairy Tales" is now her mother trying to reason with her five year old daughter and the small girl starts to pout at once. „But, Mommy, Grandine is a real dragon" is the little girl trying now to convince her mother to believe her and she pouts more. No matter what her mother says or thinks, she believes Grandine and she believes in real dragons.

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„Natsu, Natsu" is a boy with black hair shouting for his little brother. It is already past dinner time and the other boy wasn't seen near the house at all. Their parents didn't allow them to leave the house after five o'clock at all because of the lurking dangers through the amount of rattlesnakes and cougars roaming around in their next door neighbourhood called wilderness. A sigh of relieve comes from his lips when he finds his younger brother in a small canyon not far away from the house playing with something that looks like a small lizard to him.

„Natsu, mom is furious right now"
„Look, what I found, big brother"

is Natsu now saying with a big smile resting on his lips, holding up the red-orange scaled lizard up and he can see how bright the eyes of his younger brother just are.

„You know, you can't take it into the house"
„But I promised Igneel, he can sleep in my room tonight"

is Natsu now saying while slightly pouting and following his big brother back to the house. He's still carrying Igneel with him.

„Allright, but hide him good or otherwise..." is the black haired boy now saying with a smile, patting the head of his younger brother. Natsu seems to be really happy and that's all that matters for him. His younger brother immediatly nods in agreement, then he hides Igneel under his shirt when they reach the house. „Hurry in your room" is he saying to Natsu, who understands quite well and when they enter he rushes into the backarea of the trailer house where his room is.

„Please wait for a moment, Igneel, I'll be back in a minute"

is Natsu saying to him, hides him underneath his blanket, then he rushes into the bath room to clean himself up and stands seconds later with a sheepish grin in the main room only to be asked by his mother what he was thinking again.

Right now he isn't paying any attention to it because he wants to go back in his room right now and talk more with Igneel. His new friend seems to be very nice and interesting too. Because right now he sees Igneel as a part of his family and he is going to fight if someone tries to take Igneel away from him. This is a promise he makes and he is going to keep this promise as long as he's alive.

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„Stay away from it, child" is an elder man with a walking stick now saying to him and he's not paying any attention to the man at all. He walks straight to the small thing that looks for the most of the gathering pedestrians like an unwanted exotic pet got lost in the middle of the urban jungle they all live in.

He picks up the silver-greyish living being from underneath an old withered elderflower bush and his eyes show a short flicker of enjoyment. „Don't worry, I'm going to keep him with me" is he now saying towards the crowd of curious onlookers, hides it under his shirt and leaves the park right now before anyone can stop him to do so at all.

Honestly he doesn't pay a damn about what the people are thinking about him or his parents. On his way back home he looks again at the living being he just saved, that otherwise would be taken by local authorities into a rescue shelter for exotic animals or into the local zoo. „You are for sure no freaking lizard, gi~hi~hi" is he now saying with a smirk on his lips and sharp eyes are now fixed right at him. This one would be for sure a nice companion to be around with.

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His dad is of to work abroad (or so it seems to them) and his mother just left for her late night shift in the hospital. So he is all on his own. Ok, there is his big scary brother to look after his older twin and him but if he has to be honest he feels in a way being unwanted in this family. While staying in bed he waits up the moment where the older one is distracted enough with his video games, then he sneaks out silently of his room he shares with his twin brother. When he reaches the door he just tries to open it but fails. A silent sigh leaves his lips. He doesn't know why but it feels like someone is calling out to him. Someone who cares about him and knows him quite well.

For a while he stares at the closed door, then he finds a stool to climb on and unlocks the closed door. Whoever is calling out to him, he would stay there. Right here is no one who would miss him at all. Once he's able to open the door he runs down the hall to the stairs and goes downwards. Even through it is currently dark in the staircase he is not scared for a small boy his age at all. Down at the ground floor it feels like this voice is now calling out to him much stronger then before. He was never on his own down here. Mostly with his brothers or when his mother brought them to kindergarten.

How in the world should he leave this place when he isn't able at all to reach the door handle at all? With a slight sigh he leans his forehead against the glass of the main entrance of the housing complex he lives with his family. Through he is so small he can leave right in the moment mostly undedected when a young couple just opens the door and he runs out to a row of juniper trees near the car lot. Right there underneath some layers of old newspaper is somethign moving. Curious as he is he goes closer and a smile rests on his lips as he notices a creature now looking at him with striking eyes.

„Did you call out to me just now?"
„Yes, I did. What's your name, boy?"
„Rogue Cheney"
„Nice to know, you, Rogue. I'm Skiadrum"

is he now hearing the small black creature saying to him and with a nod he picks him up.

„Can I go home with you, Skiadrum?"
„Actually, my home is whereever you live, Rogue"

is Skiadrum now telling him while he decides to sit down underneath one of the juniper trees and a sigh leaves his lips. No one in this family would ever allow him to keep Skiadrum with him. Most likely his big brother will claim him as his pet or their mother will bring him to the next shelter for homeless animals next thing in the morning when she would see Skiadrum being with him. „Then let's look for a new home together" is he now saying to Skiadrum and a smile rests on his lips. If he only could stay forever with him, then he'd be the luckiest child ever in this world.

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Fancy dinner parties, expensive clothes, constantly some room maidens around and even a nanny to take care of him. This is the life he's born in to and honestly it is boring for him. You aren't allowed to have a pet on your own, you can't go outside to play like the other kids do, you always have to behave. With a sigh he sits at a sofa, showing of his best behaviour he has. His mother had taken him along again to one of those cocktail parties and a sigh leaves his lips. He could easily dismiss this kind of living at all. In his eyes it is not only boring but also quite false. His nanny was supposed to keep an close eye on him but she had vanished minutes ago with the young son of one of the party guests.

A blond girl older than him decides to talk to him for a while until a boy around her age shows up and asks her for a dance. So therefore he's all on his own again. He would still stick to the rules when he only goes outside to catch some fresh air. Once standing in the garden of this huge house he catches the glimpse of something bright in one of those fancy trimmed hedges. When he comes closer a smile appears on his lips. He looks straight into golden eyes and picks up gently a living being that could easily go through as a white scaled lizard.

„Mind if I take you along?"
„Actually, I was waiting for you"
„For me?"

is he now asking back and he's quite puzzled as this white being nods to answer him. That's the first time he hears about someone actually waiting for him to show up.

„Where are my manners? I'm Weisslogia and yes, I've been waiting for you"
„Nice to know you, Weisslogia, I'm Sting Eucliffe"

is he now saying with a smile and wraps his dinner jacket around Weisslogia when he just picks up his mother's voice calling out for him. He runs back into the house towards his mother and she looks more than amused. When she drags him behind and still holding on to Weisslogia who's now in his dinner jacket he catches shortly the glimpse of a man he only knows from some photos she had thrown weeks ago into the trash can.

While they are on their way back home and he assures himself Weisslogia is ok he listens carefully to what is mother has to say. Even through he's still a five year old boy he's able to comprehend the situation he's in at all. His parents are going through divorce right now and the man known on the paper to be his biological father doesn't give a damn about him at all. This man is a renown state attorney while his mother works for one of the big movie companies in the financial department. It doesn't matter at all for him because the only wish he cares is to have a working family around him.

Once back in the house he goes right into his room and another sigh leaves his lips. „You are strong to go through things like this. Even through this is the first time I'm around humans at all" is Weisslogia saying to him while he gets out of his fine clothes and looks right at him. „Why are grown-ups always acting up like this?" is he now complaining and he starts to pout. Just minutes later he recognizes what Weisslogia just had said to him.

„Wait, does that mean you are a real dragon?"
„Yes, actually I'm the white Dragon as my name is implicating"
„So, are there more then you?"
„Yes"
„Are they nice?"
„Well, I don't know for sure. I've never met them before"

is Weisslogia explaining to him while he wraps up the white dragon in a towel and takes him along. Even with the nanny constantly around he figured out on his own how to turn on the water or how to open the fridge. Sometimes he acts like he's like a child who's going to primary school but only if he really wants to.

„Hurry up, Sting, you need to be in bed now" is his mother reminding him when he is still sitting in the bath tub joking around with his new found friend and thanks to the remaining bubble foam he's able to hide Weisslogia for now. He steps out of the tub, gets a towel, takes Weisslogia and wraps the towel around the little dragon. Then he gets himself one, wraps it around himself and with Weisslogia in his arms he returns in his room. The first party that wasn't so bad after all. Because he stumbled across the white Dragon. With an satisfied expression on his face he falls asleep fast while his arms are wrapped around Weisslogia who is still in the towel.

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„Sir, we got five anomalities confirmed on the radar" is a female voice just informing him and he jumps up from his seat as if he were sitting on needles, looking at her in disbelieve. Last time this happened were during his time as Lieutenant during the Cold War.

„Where exactly?"
„Upper New York State; the Appalachian Mountains; Four Courners Region; Orange County and the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska"
„Send some teams out right now. Retrieve them at once"

is his order now and honestly he's quite concerned. What if some terroristic cell is behind this?

He can't afford to act like this is nothing at all. It would otherwise taint his reputation as highly decorated General of the US Military. They need to act quick or who knows what is going to happen at all. Any unknown anormality is a threat to the State itself. Therefore they need to secure whatever it is to prevent the entire population to panic. Even if it means they need to kill the potential threat to this country, he's willed to do any step neccassary to protect and stay to the oath he had sworn to when he joined as a young man the Military. The safety of this Nation comes first. Always.