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Chapter one: A deathly encounter
My name is Crescent Nyx, and I'm not the average teenager. The first reason is, my strange powers. Imagine someone you love dearly, but, imagine you can never touch them, that's what it's like for me. My hands drain the life energy of anyone who touches me. The only other power I have is that I can just, disappear, let me rephrase: I can become invisible. Only my mother, father, and sister know of these powers. The other reasons that I'm different are mainly related to my anti-socialness.
Currently, I was trying to come up with ideas for my story, Pokémon: The Odd One Out. Nothing was coming into my head at this moment. I banged my head onto the keyboard only to find out when I looked up, that there was a crimson red screen.
"What the-" I murmured, but I was cut off as I suddenly blacked out.
Dream
"Hey there! Hey! Wake up!" I felt myself being slapped, I also felt someone reaching towards my hands. My eyes bolted open and didn't register what was in front of me for a few seconds.
"No! You can't touch me!" I yelled, immediately getting to my feet. That's when it registered, there were dragons in front of me. "Dragons?! No, no, no!" I tried running, but then realized I had no shoes on.
"Wo-o-o-ah! Dude, calm down!"
"Do you think he has amnesia?"
"I do not have amnesia! I was teleported into this, this, place!"
"I wonder if that's his power? Teleporting"
"What are you talking about?!" I then noticed that I was also a dragon, something that fit the description of a book I had once read, I was a night wing! Only, when I saw there was a mirror and I looked into it, I had crimson, red eyes.
"Oh" I said, calming down. "Where am I?"
"Duh, the school were all the odd dragons with odd powers come, you know?"
"Alright, but, where am I?"
"Um, the continent of Metaliar"
"Oh, um, where's my-"I looked around real quickly, "dorm" I finished.
"What's your name?"
"Crescent"
"Species?"
"Night wing" I responded.
"Say! Night wings are super rare here!"
"Storm…"
"Right, right, okay Iron, you're in dorm…thirteen" At first, I thought nothing of it, then, I saw my roommates. There were dragons and humans, if I didn't know better, I would've thought that I was in a dream. But, alas I was on an island with anthropomorphic dragons and normal people that got along.
"That's it, I'm dead" I said, making his dorm mates jump.
"Oh, hey there" A sky wing with sapphire blue eyes said, reaching to shake Crescent's hand.
"Let's keep the touching to a zero" I said.
'Oh, does it have something to do with your power?"
"No"
"Are you just-"
"It's a curse" I replied. "Not, a, power. A curse is what it is"
"If you don't mind me asking, why is it a curse?"
"My hands and fingers drain the life energy of any living thing" I replied, taking the last bed. I immediately fell asleep, only to actually wake up this time.
Dream end
"Crescent! Time for school!" I groggily got out and put some clothes on. Rose walked out of her room, faking a high five.
"Haha, very funny" I said.
"I know, I want to die today, because I love dying" Rose said sarcastically, Rose was the only one who didn't treat me like a freak. My mother and father, eh, they just gave me my space. Sometimes, I wish I really could be in Phyrria. I grabbed my backpack, that I prepacked with stuff, sat down, ate, and walked outside with my gloves on. See, when I had gloves on, it only made people feel weak if I ever touched them. I climbed into my car and drove off to school, I never wanted to get on a bus again. I pulled into my high-school parking lot, about to start another day of torture.
"And that's it for today! Remember to do your projects and homework!" Our home room teacher yelled as we walked out, I was the first one to get up.
"Freak"
"Monster"
"Demon" I heard these whispers, but, I didn't care. The only reason I was ever optimistic was because of Rose, she was what kept my sanity intact. I hurried to my car, jumped in, and drove home. I parked the car and left my backpack in my car, I then locked the car, and walked into the forest behind our house. I walked along the path for a few minutes before veering right and walking through the brush, it's not like I can get the effects of poison ivy, oak, etc. I soon reached a small pond, where I sat on a rock ledge five feet above the pond.
"Summers almost here, then, I can work all I want on my stories. Someday, I'll be as amazing as my characters are" I promised myself, never knowing that my promise to myself would actually come true. I stayed on that ledge until the sun started to set, that's when everything changed. I heard a whistling sound and looked down into the pond, bad choice. Inside the pond was a whirlpool, the wind from said whirlpool was pulling me in.
"What the heck!" I shouted out. "Rose!" Was the last thing I said before being pulled into the darkness below. I took one last look at the darkening sky above me before everything turned pitch black.
When I woke up, I was in a cave, not sure how I got here, but, alright. I explored the dimly lit cave, what did I find on a podium in the middle of the room? Good question, on a rock pillar perched on it were three rocks. One rock had a scythe on it, it was completely black, save for the white scythe. The next one was white with a black scythe. The last one, peaked my interest the most, it was red, like my unnatural eye color, and had a pair of dragon wings on it. I grabbed this stone, only for my world to start turning, I got an extreme head ache and fell over, hitting the cold, stone floor.
I woke up again, in a different environment, I was really getting tired of this. This time, it was just a cave, nothing in it. I decided to finally get out of the odd place and I walked out of the cave, only to be nearly crushed by a falling rock that filled in the entrance as I jumped out of the cave.
"Well then, that was close" I said, a little shocked at what just happened. I turned my attention to a small river, which I walked to, noticing my reflection.
"I'm a dragon?!" I yelled, immediately covering my mouth with my claws. "Oh, my, gosh" I spent the next hour contemplating my situation, eventually coming up with: just deal with it. After that hour, I took in a deep breath, and tried seeing if I could breathe ( it looks weird but, its accurate) fire, what came out was much more interesting. Out of my mouth came a red and black laser! Awesome! I then decided to study my appearance more carefully. My scales were black with some red tint to them, my eyes were crimson red, my horns were in the shape of an S, I had decent sized wings, a tail with a cone on it, my tail seemed to have something going on with it, I didn't want to figure out what though, I had pretty normal claws, and I had some odd back spikes. The spikes on my back were in the shape of a Z. However, after I had finished studying myself, I heard wingbeats. I looked to the sky to see some orange and red dragons (Crescent has forgotten all about the WoF series from his world).
"Surrender!" I put my hands up in the air as soon as I heard them yell that. They wanted to tie my claws but, I told them not too, and then touched a tree to show my point, so they ended up just getting more dragons to escort me to, wherever we were going. Metal wires were put and locked on my body, specifically my wings, legs, and arms.
"So, what are you in for?" I tried to joke to some white dragon.
"Grr! Buzz off" The white dragon growled.
"Alright then, Mr. Personality" I said, rolling my eyes. I turned my eyes to a blue dragon beside me, she seemed to be studying me (Mysterious Author: Who are you and what have you done to Tsunami!). "So, how's it going?" I joked.
"Are you even aware of the situation we're in?!" She yelled at me.
"Yes, so, what kind of dragon are you?"
"Why don't you know that?"
"I'm not from here" I replied.
"Obviously" She replied. "Anyways, I am a sea wing and you are?"
"I can't say that I know what I am" I replied. I noticed some guards coming over to us. They had trouble with the sea wing but, I just went willingly, wondering if I should've put up more of a fight.
"I guess I still can" I murmured to myself.
"What was that?"
"Nothing" I responded. I continued walking beside the guard until we reached some sort of throne room, I noticed a few dragons kneeling in front of some important looking dragon.
"Bow" The black dragon timidly, quickly told me.
"Wait, what?" I asked the air seemingly.
"Have you lived under a rock your whole life? Or are you not from here?" The important dragon asked me. "You're supposed to bow to me, I am the queen of the sky wings after all" I quickly realized my mistake.
"I am truly sorry, your majesty" I humbly said, also kneeling on the floor. We waited for a little while until the sea wing was dragged in.
"Alright, now that the dragons I want are here, I am Queen Scarlet, and you three, are the dragonets of destiny. Except, you" She said pointing at me. "Now, the only reason that you are here, what's your name?"
"Crescent, your majesty" I said.
"Right, the only reason you're here Crescent, is because of the power you hold in your talons. I'm going to give you two choices, one, you fight for me in my army, or two, you fight in the arena until death. Which one do you choose?" I was shocked, but, I already knew my answer.
"Are you kidding me?! That's the worst choice I've ever been given in my life! I haven't even had a very exciting life and you're asking me to choose death or death?! Are you stupid?! I'd rather eat a rotten bird on the side of the road!" I yelled, catching the queen off guard, I ended up being dragged back to my spot on the tall stone pillars, but on my way out, I was able to yell one last thing: "You're a sad excuse for a rotten strawberry!" To this day, I've only told a few specific people what the insult actually means. As I was sitting on the pillars, I heard wingbeats and looked to my right.
"Sorry for the sudden interruption, you looked like you were thinking, but is it true you also have weird powers?!" An excited, enthusiastic, energetic, etc. Sky wing yelled, landing on the other half of the platform.
"Um, I wouldn't call half of it a power" I replied.
"What do you mean? Isn't it a gift?"
"Well, I guess some of it is, but imagine not ever being able to touch a loved one" I said, turning my head to the sky.
"I don't have to imagine that, because I can't touch hardly anything" The female sky wing replied.
"Hmm? What do you mean?"
"I have fire scales"
"Oh"
"What can you do?"
"Well, I'll tell one of the two things I can do, my claws drain the energy out of any living thing until death, if living thing even touches me, they/it will feel weak" I replied.
"Wow, so, you really won't tell me what else you can do?"
"No"
"Hmpf, fine then, do you need anything?"
"No"
"Alright, call if you need me!" She then flew off, her tail hit a part of the wires, making it very loose. I was able to separate the wire from the circular hook in the stone. I took a closer look at the sky, noticing what time it was, it was almost dark. I buried my snout in my arms and tried to fall asleep, when I was about to fall asleep, the noisy sea wing returned. She went on a rant, I'll be honest, I wasn't listening, and I tried my best to block out her yelling. When she finally stopped yelling and started mumbling to herself, I took the wire (since I wasn't going to get any sleep at this point) and started tweaking with it. I made a guitar like noise with the wire, noticing another similar sound coming from across the arena. After a minute, all the dragons started to sing, and with the loud sea wing beside me, I couldn't understand the lyrics.
"Would all of you dragons shut up!?" The queen's voice rang throughout the arena. I wanted to annoy the queen anyway though.
"Bright city lights, another night of pain. All these days are passing by, I question myself why, I'm such a monster. I fear the day, I throw away, any chance to take this, away. We'll see how this all turns out, everybody get up!" I yelled, still singing though, like a metal song. Most of the dragons turned their attention to me.
"I don't care if others think I'm a monster, because, I'm cold as ice! I'm cold as ice, Sky wings watch out! Everybody get up! What's this evil, so evil, Queen Scarlet! Watch out! What's this evil, so evil! Queen Scarlet, so evil! What's that evil, so evil, creeping under our skin!" I looked around, most dragon starting to hum.
"I fell into this place, might have a concussion in my head. Is this a dream or am I still sleeping in my bed? If only. Everybody get up! I'm on a role, annoying this evil! What's this evil, so evil, creeping under our skin. Everybody get up! I'm cold as ice, what about you? She knows, I don't dare to fight alone, no oh! Don't go, she knows, trapped inside this horrific dream, oh oh! I don't dare to fight alone! No, oh!" I looked around, all the dragons had started adding in their own, small lyrics.
"Survival all's we know, blood and sweat, flesh and bones. Get to cold, so you catch a cold!"
"Slashing and fighting! I stay active though!" The sea wing beside me yelled.
"I'm cold as-"
(#Lyrics were taken from many different songs, so, if you thought you recognized any lyrics, you probably do)
"Shut up!" This time, the queen came out with a big yellow dragon with a scorpion tail. "All of you shut up or I'll have you all killed on the spot!" Everyone shut up and sat in silence.
"That's better" The two dragons went back into the tunnel but, not before the yellow dragon gave me a look.
"Party pooper" I mumbled to the sea wing next to me.
So, what do you guys (and girls) think about this first chapter? I think I've put a different touch on the approach to WoF stories, would you say so? Anyways, for those of you who like T.O.O.O, I'll be updating on that only once or twice a week, due to lack of motivation. But, anyways, remember to never give up and always pull through, bye!