"Urgh..." a rather young boy with sky blue hair groaned while slowly opening his eyes. His eyes had a similar color as his hair, but they were slightly darker, like the ocean.
"Hey boss, it woke up!" the boy could hear a voice shout. Also, he was laying on something hard and it was shaking the entire time. He could also hear the sound of rolling wheels.
"Keep it in the cage, you're sure that the chains are on it?" A really deep voice replied to the first one, probably the boss the first one was referring as.
- Cage? Chains? Are they talking about me? -
The boy finally gathers his strength and sat up. The back of his head hurtled like hell. And when he tried to touch it he could feel the dried blood in his hair. There were huge iron balls chained to both his legs and he was being kept in a cage that was being pulled by horses.
The boy finally remembered what happened when he looked at his own hand. There was a scale on the back of his right hand, a light blue one to be specific.
The boy was a member of the water dragon tribe, a mysterious tribe that used to be seen as deities by humans. They were the legacy of the 4 elemental dragons being water, earth, wind and fire. The 4 tribes used to be huge and powerful, but there was one problem, the lack of prosperity.
While being the legacy of the dragons gave them strength and power, the birth rate within the tribes were extremely low. So the time came when humans reproduced so fast that they started to push the 4 tribes out of their land and eventually dominated the land.
But that wasn't all, humanity started to seek control over the four tribes, they wished to find a way to obtain the powers of the tribes and started kidnapping the already few offsprings the tribes had.
Shiota Nagisa was one of them. He was a member of the water tribe, just got 10 years old a few days ago. His parents died soon after he was born so he was living with his aunt who didn't really cared about him.
Ever since the humans turned on the tribes, the tribes pulled back into deepest forest and protected themselves with a barrier, not as a whole, but still as four separated tribes. The tribes were too proud to fuse with each other and that was a huge reason for their downfall at the first place.
Usually tribe members are not allowed to leave the barrier, but Nagisa broke the rule after he got into a huge fight with his aunt on his birthday. And of course, he got caught. "Haaa, i messed up." Nagisa sighed and looked into the sky.
Dragons only gain their powers through time and training, a young dragon is no different than a human child with the exception of the scale on their hand.
Nagisa let out a slight sigh of relieve when he saw that all his cloth and the glove on his left hand was still there.
Nagisa was different since the day he was born. While a normal dragon only had a scale on their right hand, Nagisa had a scale on both his hands. A light blue one on his right which was the mark of a water dragon, and a grey one on his left. For as long as he could remember, he was wearing a black leather gloves on his left hand being told to hide it from other people, even his own tribe members.
His aunt never told him why he had a second scale and to be honest, Nagisa doubted that she knew the reason in the first place.
Nagisa took a deep breath to calm himself down. There were only a few occasions where a kidnapped dragon managed to escape back to the tribe, but at least there were a few.
Nagisa was more nature than any other 10 year old kid despite his slightly shy personality. He had been on his own since he could remember.
New born dragons always get trough a ritual that determines their compatibility with the water element. And Nagisa had hit a new low in the entire history of the tribe. The results of the ritual were so low that some even doubted if he really was a water dragon if it weren't for the scale on his hand.
So even the kids from his tribe were isolating him since his birth. Heck, the entire tribe was isolating him!
Strangely enough, Nagisa was mastering everything that he was taught in an immense speed, faster than anyone else his age which was clearly contradicting the results of the ritual. Nagisa concluded that the results must have been altered because of his mysterious second scale. But sadly, as soon as the tribe realized that, they all stopped to teach him anything new.
Already having a rough plan in mind, Nagisa started to gather the moisture in the air onto the chains that were on his legs. Even though Nagisa was still pretty much a newborn, he was still able to slightly manipulate the water element.
The ride continued for another 4 days and the people guarding the cage would occasionally throw in some dried bread that was hard as stone for Nagisa to eat.
On the 4th day they have finally arrived at their base. It was like a huge underground prison where they kept all different kinds of people or creatures.
"Hmm, looks like you guys caught something, what is it?" The guard at the entrance asked the man that was referred as boss in the group that captured Nagisa.
"Heh, hit the jackpot this month, got a lil water dragon." The man with the extremely deep voice bragged.
"Oh really? That makes two dragons this month! Our Lord will be pleased." The guard smiled and nodded while letting the group in. Put it in the same cell as the other dragon, number 22 don't get it wrong." The guard told the group as they were passing by.
"Gotcha! Maybe we'll get a month off next month, haha!" The "boss" waved at the guard as he laughed out loud.
"Urgh!" Nagisa grunted when he was thrown into the cell and crashed into the ground. The extra weight from the iron balls on his legs made the fall twice as painful.
"You'll have to work here as a slave before we find a buyer so don't try anything stupid!" Warned the man who threw Nagisa in here. "And you're the other dragon here huh?" The man walked towards a small figure in the corner.
"Ihhh!" The figure in the corner shrieked as the man approached it and started to shiver.
"Uhh, not bad not bad, aren't you a cutie, bet you'll sell for a nice price." The man started to laugh as he forced the figure in the corner to lift its face by grabbing it by its hair and pulling it out of the shadow.
"Ahhhh!" That's when Nagisa also managed to see the figure. It was a small girl, probably around the same age as Nagisa. She had green hair and beautiful hazel eyes. But they were filled with terror and tears at the moment while she was screaming out of pain because the man was pulling her by her hair. Don't forget that she also had these iron balls on her legs and that made it so much more painful.
Simply the sight of this made Nagisa angry, he was prepared to be humiliated here, but the way the man had fun while torturing that girl made Nagisa snap. "You scum!" Nagisa yelled while charging towards the man and biting his arms as hard as he could.
"OW!" The man let go of the girl and shook Nagisa from his arm and onto the ground, "why you little bastard!" The man cursed as he started to kick Nagisa who was desperately trying to defend himself while being kicked several times.
"Tch, fucking animal." The man looked at Nagisa who was laying in a corner with a disgusted look and locked the cell before leaving.
"Keh..." Nagisa coughed and grasped for air while holding his stomach with his face twisted together out of the pain.
"A-are you okay?" Nagisa heard the girl asking him while she was giving her best to crawl towards him.
Nagisa wanted to answer, but the pain was hindering him from bringing any word out of his mouth. But when the girl finally reached him, he suddenly started to feel how the pain on his stomach was slowly getting better.
It only took 5 minutes and the pain was barely there anymore, "how did you do that?" Nagisa looked at the girl completely surprised. Now that she was right in front of him, he could see what the man was on about.
The girl had beautiful long green hair, a pair of pure and large hazel eyes und smooth and white skin. On top of that, she really looked adorable.
"I-I learned some basics of healing magic..." the girl shrugged back as soon as Nagisa started to move but still answered.
"Hmm, thank you." Nagisa said while still touching his own stomach in disbelieve. This was the first time he had someone cast magic on himself.
"No... thank you... he wouldn't have beaten you it you didn't try to help me..." the girl took a deep breath and said.
"Maybe, but I couldn't just sit there and just watch." Nagisa thought about it and answered before pulling himself into a corner and away from the girl. He was not really used to talk to other people.
"Uhmm, I'm Kaede... from the wind tribe." The little girl introduced herself.
"Well I can see that." Nagisa laughed and pointed at her green hair, "Nagisa, water tribe if it's not obvious. Nice to meet you Kaede... well actually never mind, meeting you here isn't really a good thing." Nagisa sighed and checked out the cell.
"You're probably right..." The tiny little bit of Kaede's good mood disappeared after Nagisa's comment.
"Well, at least you don't have to be in this cell alone anymore, right?" Nagisa felt slightly guilty for making her sad again and tried to cheer her up.
"Yeah!" To his surprise Kaede seemed really happy about that, like way more than he expected. He was used to people being annoyed by his presence.
Well, this is the story I was planning on writing after I finish "Last Assassination" but I wasn't sure if people will actually like the concept of this story. This will be a mix of adventure, action, leveling-up and of course romance.
Tell me if you like the general idea of the story and if you wish to see more or not. If you don't like the idea I'll start working on another one.
But anyways, even if you decide that you like this, I'll only start updating after I'm done with "Last Assassination".
And for now, I'm off to my parents and I'll see you all in three weeks ;) bye!