So this is my first story, and I'm not quite sure if it is okay to put up work that is only inspired by a book and not using the actual characters.
Characters: mine
Plot: Mine
I sat in my chamber; my warm inviting cell. It was no fault of anyone that I stayed locked in my room in the castle. It was by my unspoken decision. I could hear the bells in the distant chapel down in the town calling the workers in for food and sleep. It reminded me of the day I said my last farewell to my father and the day my life changed forever.
"Elanor! Come say good bye to your father!" My mother called from the kitchen. I raced from my little room and hugged my beloved father.
"Ah. My sweet daughter. I'll see you tonight," he said his voice a low rumbling timbre, "You be good for your mother." I nodded my head vigorously and he chuckled. My father walked out that door and never returned. I could still remember the happiness I felt that he would be coming home after the church bells rang. But he never came. He never would come back.
Not until I was fifteen and my mother dying of the pox did I learn why he had never come back. "Your father my girl was a dragon. He was killed by a dragon-slaying knight," my mother had wheezed out, "You are also a dragon." When I had tried to protest this nonsense, she said, "No, it is true when you turn sixteen you shall find out." She breathed her last breath that same day.
She was right I did learn what she meant when I was sixteen. The night of my birthday, I transformed into a dragon, a beautiful red and purple beast. I learned to fly on my own and also learned that I could only be my alter self at night. I learned that by an almost fatal accident while flying until dawn.
Then when I was almost seventeen, a sorcerer had somehow gotten hold of one of my scales and used spells to ensorcel it to make me do what he wanted; destroy stuff, eat people, pillage and burn, the dragon stuff. But when he found out that I was a girl by day, he found an even better source of control. Blackmail. He had me come to the court and live as his "niece" in the castle of the King and Queen whose kingdom I was destroying against my will.
And this is where my true story begins.