Aminara
By: Gwen Conrod
Prologue
A Dragon's Sorrow
One of the soldiers on the parapet dropped to the ground with an arrow buried deep within her chest. It caused the old general to sound the alarm before the hail of arrows fell upon them from the edge of the woods.
"ELVES! ELVES FROM THE FOREST!" He yelled from a megaphone. Every one of the girls and the few boys in sight scrambled to get their weapons
But that had been two days ago. Now the few girls left were trying to keep the elves from entering a chamber that held a few teenagers and the old general. All of the girls were no longer completely human.
Here a girl with whiskers and claws. There another with wolf ears. Yet another bore a squirrel's tail.
"But general we're needed here." A girl with eyes the color of blood said. Her face was pleasant to look at but not overly so. It had that look of a face that would only be memorable because of the person who owned it. Brown hair was pixy cut to reveal that the girl had no ears of any kind what so ever.
The girl next to her crossed her arms and hissed to reveal a forked tongue. With her the no ears thing was not so noticeable because her black hair was long but her eyes were more noticeable. "Ssshe'sss right general. Drake wwwwood be more sssuited heeeear thhhan wwwith usssssssss." She said.
A low hiss permeated the words like that of a rattle snakes tail before it strikes. It was a warning to any listening not to get too close to her. But the general just frowned.
"You five are the only ones who haven't been registered by the elves in their record books. They have no idea who the lot of you are." He said.
Drake sighed. The general was right, every time she or the others were spotted the elf died soon after and that meant no reports to the council. "Fine, I get it. I'll go." She mumbled angrily.
The five girls turned in unison towards the giant arch behind them. A blue power whirled at the center and the first one to jump into it, a girl with white hair and bunny ears along with elf ears, made it expand to the whole arch.
The door banged and cracked slightly. The general turned around to face the door and drew his sword. "Go!" He yelled.
"Beth, Kitty, get through now!" Drake yelled. The girl with ram's horns and the cat girl both nodded and ran for the portal. "Ra, you too." Drake told the snake girl.
"Are you ssssure?" Ra asked. Drake nodded just as the door broke open. Ra nodded back and dived through the portal as elves marched into the room.
Drake walked towards the portal but turned at the last moment. Her eyes went wide as she saw them stab the general through his chest. She took a step back and screamed as the portal swept her up.
The girl landed on her back still screaming on cold cobblestones. Scales crept over her skin and fangs descended from her gums.
"WYVERN! DADDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Drake screamed at the full moon above her head.
