Introduction

There were once two brothers that rose to become the lords of a region in the Chinese Kingdom of Xia, three thousand years before the birth of Jesus Christ and five thousand years before a boy named Jacob Long would be born in a country that was located in a part of the world that wasn't known to exist. They were beloved by the people that they ruled and in the numerous uprisings that were commonplace in the time period, the people of their lands defended their lords with uncharacteristic vigor. They were magnetic in their personalities, brilliant, handsome and very brave.

Their bravery was legendary, and also envied.

Envied so much that a band of rival kings from other Chinese Kingdoms banded together to ruin the two brothers and their family for the rest of time. This band of Kings was so desperate to diminish the power of the brothers that they engaged in a practice of witchcraft and speaking to beings from other worlds. It took ten years for them to gather the appropriate resources and in that time, the brothers had married and grown their family into the dozens. These children as well as their fathers and mothers would suffer the first blow of an action that would change history.

The band of kings had made a bargain with an ancient spirit known as Amal that would prove costly for the Kings.

In exchange for cursing the brothers and their descendants until the end of time itself by transforming them and all of their heirs and descendants into monstrous, terrifying beings, the band of kings had to do one thing: they and their subjects had to worship him like a god. However, when the Nobility of the Kingdoms found out about this, they were outraged at the sacrilege and delivered an ultimatum to them: stop this or we'll destroy you. The Kings, being the typical monarchs, capitulated and refused to uphold their end of the bargain.

Amal, completely outraged by his betrayal, could not reverse the damage done by the curse, but he could alter other things.

Instead of being bloodthirsty, terrifying beasts, he gave them the power to transform at will back into their human forms and took away their need to feast upon humans. He gave them unnatural powers that made their senses ultra-powerful in both human and beast forms and the ability to breathe flame. He also gave them the ability to inspire and to be incredibly charismatic, to almost put people in a trance and the ability to make people follow them onto death. The abilities of magic were given to the brothers and their family to wield, they could also share or give this magic to other people as well. To spite the traitorous Kings, he gave them the ability to transform others people into the beasts, to create massive armies like them, but the final gift was also given to them out of spite for the other rulers, it was a gift that allowed them the possibility to rule the Earth.

The gift of immortality, this gift was for the brothers to decide how to disperse and it was a very tricky gift.

The Immortality was assured if the person who possessed the gift was not killed be another's hands, if they lived a passive life, they would live forever, if they lived a barbarous life, they would perish. And thus, with these gifts, the brothers and their family set out for their revenge.

One by one, the kingdoms of modern day China fell to the power of these brothers until at last they ruled all. But they could not stop there, with armies that went into the millions and with immortality at their feet, the next seventy years were spent conquering what would known as Eastern Siberia, South East Asia, Korea, Manchuria, Parts of India, Mongolia and Japan. They had forged a massive Empire, an Empire that would become known for the next three thousand years as the Su-Chin-Draco Empire and would rule the entire planet for two thousand years.

To their subjects, they became known as Draco.

Or what the word would eventually turn into, Dragon.

Although, in the final years of their campaigns to conquer the world, the full extent of the Immortality Gift would become known.

After the death of the first brother at the hands of a Barbarian Tribe in what would become Modern Day Germany, the second brother assumed the title of Emperor and he would rule his Empire without interruption for 1,500 Years and would enslave the entire population of humans in that time. But after that 1,500 Year Mark, he began to lose his memory, he began to gradually forget things until one day, he forgot himself.

His youngest daughter, who had been the last of her siblings to received the immortal gift and his favorite, was made regent and within a year was crowned Empress. Her reforms and her passivity in ruling angered her cousins, the descendants of the long slain first brother. Her chief rival, her eldest cousin, Marrierk was particularly dangerous in that he was able to gain the support of the Military and that of the Imperial Family's personal bodyguards. With the permission of the Military and the Guard, he went to his cousin, the Empress and told her to step down, renounce the gift and name him as successor. The Empress, Majarhet, for fear of her own life and that of her father, whom was under her personal care, said she agreed, but instead of she and her father renouncing their gifts, they would keep their gifts of immortal life and the Dragon Powers and she would order her side of the family including her children, as Empress not as their Family Member, to renounce their gifts of immortal life and remove them from the line of succession to the throne.

Majarhet would not live without her father, so much that she would make her children forsake their immortality and that of their descendants, so that she and her father could keep their lives. It was selfish, yes, but it was also born out of love for the man who gave her eternal life.

Marrierk, seeing this as his way of ascending without claims from his cousins, giddily agreed to the terms, even offering his cousin and her side of their incredibly large family safe passage off the Capital Island.

And thus, the Empress Majarhet and her father retained their immortal lives, while the rest of their branch of the family did not.

After his cousins were safely out of sight and out of mind, the now Emperor Marrierk reigned with an evil in his heart and an Iron fist.

Much to his surprise though, Amal, the source of his family's immeasurable power grew angered. Marrierk had upset the balance of nature. And so, he delivered upon the humans, the subjects of the Dragon Imperial Family, abilities that did not match the Dragons in intensity, but had enough power behind them to overthrow them. In no less than two hundred years, Marrierk and his actions caused the Dragon Empire to collapse and for Humans to take their rightful place as rulers of the Earth once again. At the onset of the revolution, a group of nobles formed a council, or what would later be referred to as the Dragon Council, stripped Emperor Marrierk of his Imperial Power, banished him and his family and took heavy measures to conceal themselves on the former Capital Island of the Empire, or what would be known later as the 'Isle of Draco'.

After three years of banishment, the first brother's descendants and those of Marrierk were hunted down and killed by a group of humans that would later be known as 'Huntsclan' all accept Marrierk. He was the only one on his side of the family to escape and he would later go onto become one of the darkest forces the world had ever seen, and he lives currently into modern times. To his subjects, he was known as his Imperial Majesty, Autocrat of the Earth, Marrierk, but to the descendants of his subjects, knowledge of this time had all but faded out and he was simply known as the Dark One, or The Dark Dragon. His evil and his immortal life were bound into one, and it would take a force of the gods themselves to kill him because of that. Many had tried, all of them had failed except for one, his history is bound to the Dark One in more ways than one.

With the Dark One presumed dead, the Dragons returned to an age of peace.

And as for other side of the Imperial Family? They married, had children, and their children had children and so on and so forth. Their family and their genes spread to every continent on Earth. The family had gotten so large that the one particular gene, that of Amal's curse, or that of the Dragon was selective in what body it took over. One generation of the family were dragons, the next were not. The gene was so diluted by the time of the 21st Century, most of the family, save a select few that returned to serve the Dragon Council, did not know of their heritage or that of their Imperial Blood. Balance had been restored to the world, and at last, Amal could rest and forget the mess that he had created.

After all, his creation had become something of folklore to the Humans as time had passed. He had assisted in that to cover up their existence as well. He had used his power to make sure to contain their existence and make them a myth. that was the crucial restoring balance to the natural order of things

In Dragon Culture, knowledge of these events is only in a select few people. Most of them are descendants of the Empress Majarhet and her father. But it is recorded in one incredibly ancient book. It had seen battles, it had seen peace, it had seen opulence and it had seen tyranny, but in modern times, it sees itself sitting on a bookshelf in an electronic store on Canal Street in Manhattan, New York. Cared for by none other than a direct descendant of the Empress Majarhet and her father, the second brother, Luong Lao Shi and his grandson, Jacob Long.

As for the Empress Majarhet and her father?

No one really knows.

The people who did know were long since dead.

They were immortal, and with their passive nature, the diseases and plagues of the five millennium that had taken place between their receiving of the gifts of Amal and the 21st Century could not have killed them. Perhaps the hundreds of wars that had gone on since then had killed them?

Then again, they were passive and perhaps they stayed out of history's way.

But the time would soon be upon their descendants to find the answers.

Authors Note:/ I told you it was something of a change. You have no idea the amount of weeks I researched to make this creationist story even possible. It took me a whole month to fill the plot holes that I saw. If you spot any, please feel free to tell me. Well what do you think? Should I continue this or scrap it? Oh, and I should tell you that for this to work, let's pretend that the Dark Dragon was never introduced, but at the same time, that Huntsclan has never been destroyed and Jake's just about to graduate High School? Can you do that for me?

Please?