-1Sailor Moon: Mythical Risings

Prologue Part 1: The fall of dragon, birth of Kaida

By Dragonstar

Author's Note: Before reading please note that this is a combination of Dragonheart the movie © Paramount, and Sailor Moon © Naoko Takeuchi. Some help came from and so I give credit there also. I don't claim any ownership of those two. However please bear with me these are short but the next few chapters will be parts of the over all prologue before the starting of the story. I hope you enjoy it and email me and let me know.

Murasaki, Kaida, Helle, and some of the places such as the idea of the Dragon Divinity © To me Dragonstar/Annie. On to story

Before the attack of Queen Beryl, something else had happened on Earth that wasn't a threat to human kind and so was erased from our history and so erased from our minds. Everyone was later told so much that they were convinced that these things we had fragmented memories of were nothing more then just dreams. A figment of our imagination if you will.

But I know that this is all false and so I am here to tell you what your people have done to beings beyond our own understandings, and how they have pushed them away from the one place that they called home before we did. Dragons.

Other 'Mythical' creatures wandered the earth also but they weren't forced out quite as quickly. This is where my story will begin.

During the ages of medieval times the Dragons gave everything even after humans had begun to lose faith in them. Killing the dragon kind became a sport of the knights of the new code and the old code was forgotten by most, except for the few remaining individuals whom grew up during the time of the old code. One of these was a man named Bowen, he was a kind hearted elder knight who taught a young knight about the old code in hopes that he would return the village back to a prosperous and wonderful place to belong to.

The current king, the young boy's father, was a very greedy man and taxed the townspeople out of everything causing a civil war between the different economic levels in the King's state. But his queen was a woman of the old code and so begged for Sir Bowen to be her son's mentor. So the lessons began between Prince Einon and Sir Bowen. When Einon was in his late teen he fell in battle and was taken by his mother to the great Dragon, whom was called by his followers, Draco. Draco gave the boy half of his heart and healed his wounds. But this would prove to later be one of Draco's mistakes.

As the boy grew, Einon's personality grew to be more and more like his father's and this worried both Bowen and Einon's mother. As time progressed and the King passed on, Einon took over as ruler and proved to be more greedy then his father. Upset and distraught Bowen leaves from his services to the castle and Queen Aislin, Einon's mother, and seeks out Draco believing it to be his heart that has poisoned the mind of Einon. But things took another turn and as time progressed the two became close friends and were eventually in a truce between the two.

As time passed the war with Einon drew Bowen back in to his lands and of course Draco followed him there. Along the way they were joined by Brother Gilbert, a young woman named Kara, and the townspeople of King Einon's village. They lead a revolt against the castle, during battle Draco is captured by Einon and held hostage once it is realized that Draco is the last dragon, there fore making him the dragon that holds the other half of Einon's heart. If he is killed Einon to will fall.

Bowen and Kara along with Brother Gilbert manage to reach Draco with the help of an old friend. Queen Aislin leads her old comrade into the back of the castle where Draco is helped. The two converse with Draco about what should be done. It is decided that he should be killed and Bowen should be the one to do it.

So that is how the end of the Dragon race came about, except for one survivor who will come later in the story. That would be the son of Draco, and that is the only dragon who ever survived on Earth.

Bowen: Without you Draco, where will we go, where do we turn?
Draco: To the stars Bowen, to the stars.

100 years after the fall of the dragon race on earth, the old code had been obliterated along with other mythical creatures. Still there were the few believers few and far between who sought out what they were told was only legend and dreams. They didn't believe their superiors that these 'dreams' were just that and nothing more. So they prayed, they prayed to the constellation known as The Dragon in the night time sky or Draco. In this group of constellations lies The Divinity, which is the council of Dragon Elders' spirits. They protect the place known as the resting place for a dragon's soul once he or she has earned the chance to enter through the gate to the after life.

The fairy tale wars had Broken out on the Earth and most mythical creatures were gone, a young woman kneeled at the warn down ruins of an old palace and looked up at these stars. Tears streamed down her face as she played with a ring on her finger that bore a symbol with an open circle, and two slanted lines coming off either side. Her family had been lost for years, and her husband had just recently died in battle. Her stomach bulged to show she was only a few months pregnant. As the night passed and she was wrapped in her own sorrow she fell to the ground in sobs. Her dark red hair falling in streams over her face and her eyes as dark as the night time sky were swollen with the constant rubbing away of tears. Looking back up to the constellation she clasped her hands over her stomach and began to mutter a prayer.

"I seek guidance from the being I see through out my dreams. I do not know the proper way to make a request but I hope that you will hear the dreams of my unborn child if you do not hear my own. What?" she paused as more tears began to flow. And a voice sent a chill down her spine as it echoed in her head

Who are you? Speak your name human that calls on us the forgotten of your planet.

She froze in place but still clasped her stomach and then stood proudly to answer the request made of her. "I am Helle of Winchester; I seek the guidance of you because a war has been raging for a hundred years after your kind was forced from the earth in one form or another. Please tell me you weren't just dreams, but that you once roamed here!"

We did. But you still have not answered why you seek us now. We are all obviously gone.

The voice replied but it seemed to have a softer tone in Helle's head. She began to ponder how to put her feelings in to words. "I," she paused and then looked back down to her stomach, where an unborn child slept. She then continued "I am alone in this world now except for my unborn child. The child I believe is the one causing my many dreams lately of a past I never knew but heard stories about. Please my husband died fighting to keep the greater beings alive on Earth. He fought and I seek help for my child. Why am I seeing these things from my child?"

Some time passed with no response and Helle sat back to the ground. She looked up at the ruins of the great castle and contemplated what had just transpired. Were they now seeking what they should do about her request or was she just dreaming again? But soon after the image before her began to shift and a beast of great height stepped forward. He stood there with a pale tan color and bright golden eyes. But he seems only to be an illusion as Helle could still see the ruins still perfectly behind this being. He looked down at Helle and seemed to have a grin.

"Do you know of the old code mi lady?" He spoke now in her own tongue. She was astounded and knelt now before his presence. She couldn't speak and so only nodded her head. The dragon laughed.

He then took a on a serious demeanor again "I am sorry if my form scares you. I am dead you know, because of your kind. Specifically because of one named King Einon but that was long ago. You are having these dreams because your child may be one of the chosen children we believe to have a strong enough heart to help us win our battle. All we seek is peace between all of the beings again. Will you promise your loyalty to us? If so I can take you far from Earth."

Helle bowed her head in thought for a few moments before answering. "I pledge this to you, Draco, which is who you are, isn't it? I wasn't sure until you mentioned Einon. My great grandfather told me the legends of you when I was a youngling. My life is yours great being and I thank you for hearing my prayer even after my fellow kind has turned there backs on you and our now turning against others of the Mystical kind."

There was no answer but instead the spirit shimmered away and took Helle with him. Not much time past before they reappeared on a very small silver orb. It was known as the moon of Jupiter, Métis. It was only habitable because of the magic of the dragons, Helle assumed. She was introduced to other refugees of earth and some people from the planet of Jupiter. Astounded by the new facts of learning that each planet in the solar system was inhabited like Earth, but her people never knew it because they pushed this off once they started to ignore magic in their own lives and so cut off their contacts with the other worlds.

There Helle met Murasaki, a purple dragon who stood no taller then herself. She wasn't a spirit like Draco, but a real living Dragon. She came from a small line of dragons that fled from Earth to Métis when their kind started to be killed for sport. Helle learned from Murasaki about their kind, why they had been erased from even her memories, how she could help, and how Draco was able to take on a semi-physical spirit form. He was the leader of the council of Dragon elders and was now in charge of helping those who seek the dragons throughout the Universe. Murasaki was also the dragon assigned to Helle, as her guardian until her child was born and then they would go from there as to where Helle and her child would be moved to.

Their friendship grew from that day and until Helle was too far along in her term, Murasaki would take her flying throughout the moons of Jupiter and they would do nothing but talk. Then the fateful day came when my mother was 9 months pregnant, when a seer of Métis looked into Helle's near future it was revealed that by giving birth to me, she would pass on. So then Draco was called upon again for guidance.

"Great Dragon I have learned much in my 6 earthen months here on Métis. I have learned that my people are fools and that even now after everything that was done to the dragon kind you seek to help those who are weaker than you. I also know that my child will be taken care of and raised the way I would want her to be raised. I will go through with this birth with no regrets because I had nothing left but my unborn child, and now I can return to your kind what you have so easily done for me. My child will be a guardian and I want her to realize a dragon should come first before that of a human, with no kin left. I also wish for her to be raised by my dear hearted friend Murasaki. I haven't ever been strong willed about any of my own decisions before but these two I know are the best I can give to my child and the ones who saved me from my despair."

Draco nodded his head in agreement. "If that is what you wish you will be considered one of our greatest allies. I can offer your spirit peace and the promise that your child will be cared for properly with compassion as much as her physical necessities."

And so it was decided and Helle then repeated her decision to Murasaki. The purple dragon's lavender eyes opened in astonishment. She didn't know how to respond but then humbly accepted the duty of raising Helle's unborn child.

Three Metis days later Helle went into labor. It went on for quite a long time and she continued to grow more and more pale as she looked up at the face of Murasaki who watched in disbelief at the process of a human birth. The purple dragon glanced at the spirit form of Draco next to her and sent a thought pattern to him.
You know this whole thing makes me glad that I came from an Egg. Right? Draco gave her a serious look back but a small laugh escaped from his jaws as Helle screamed out in agony again. The scream snapped the other two back into reality as a small bundle was finally delivered. The human doctor from Jupiter looked sadly at Helle as he rested me into her arms. She could barely hold me, or so Murasaki told me, as she looked at my brown eyes and my sleepy, crying body wrapped in a bright green cloak.

"What will you name her?" Helle asked of Murasaki.

Murasaki looked even more surprised and sadden by the question but she pondered. She could see the last bit of Helle's life force slipping from the young pale woman. Sweat dripped from her head and the purple dragon could tell that her fragile human friend had lost way to much blood in the process of giving birth to her baby. My mother died because of me.

"Kaida" Murasaki finally answered to my mother. Helle smiled at the name and nodded thoughtfully.

"My little Kaida. Please live your life always making the best of what you have. I will watch you from where ever my spirit rests. Please dear Murasaki take care of my beautiful baby." She mumbled softly as her breaths turned into gasps and she handed me to Murasaki whom already had a special place for me to ride at the small ridge between her wings.

Helle, my mother, then continued to watch the two of us with now glazed eyes and short breaths. The breaths grew shorter and shorter until they to finally came to an end but Murasaki tells me that even to the last breath she smiled at the promise that Draco had given. That they would take care of and raise me right, the way she had requested them to. She made the ultimate sacrifice to help dragon kind.

Helle, the mother I never knew is also the best role model I'll ever have in fulfilling my duties. So this is where my story will begin, I am Lady Kaida of the Dragon Divinity.