I sat on a little rock watching the flames. It looked like the flames were slowly eating the small town. Ryuu, a red dragon with baby blue eyes, sat right beside me. He was at least 1000 years old. I was the last dragon keeper alive, the rest had been killed. Ryuu had traveled around the world to see if there were any more dragon keepers, or dragons. Me and the old dragon had been together since I was born. My grandfather had been a dragon keeper, and he hoped that his son would be one too. But my father wanted nothing to do with dragons, so he told my big brother, yuu, to burn everything that my grandfather owned, so no one could ever find out about dragons.
My grandfather lay on his bed. He coughed everyonce in a while, and every time he did I would pat his back and give him something to drink. He smile. At me and pressed a book into my hands. I was only four, but my sister, Suzuki, taught me how to read when I was three.
"Read that book to me." He said almost in a whisper.
I opened the book and read one of my favorite stories out of the book. It was about a little baby dragon named Silver, who had been captured and sold to different people. Humans had sold him again and again just to get money. After I finished the book he laid back in his bed and closed his eyes.
(Hes not going to make it by morning.) I realized.
"Do you remember *cough* Ryuu?" I nodded, "Hthat the dragon that follows you?"
He nodded and continued. "You are a Dragon Keeper, and I want you to take care of Ryuu." He closed his eyes and fell asleep.
I stayed by his bed till morning. When he died, I curled up on the floor in front of the bed. My mother came in to check on grandfather, and when she found out that he was no longer breathing, she crumpled to the floor. She screamed andthen sobbed quietly into her hands.
Ever since then different people had come after Ryuu and me. I was now sixteen. That dragon had followed me around and took care of me since grandfather died. My brother saved the books and gave them to me, and when my dad found out about the books he ignored me. My mom became afraid of me and my sister helped me take of the dragon.
Once again someone had come after me and burned down the little city. I didn't really care about the village or the people that had been burned in the city. I stood up and walked away. The only things I had with me was a multi-colored rock, a necklace that had a jade dragon on it, some apples, and a couple of switch blades. Ryuu trailed behind me.
New story! It wont be updated that much but I will be making some chapters for this because I have been reading some Dragon Keeper books.