This is the first chapter of what is going to be mine and Unmerciful's fanfiction collab. We're using our own characters, and might make refferences to characters owned by Square Enix
Not as long as I would personaly write but Vox wrote it so I got no say in the matter.
Chapter One: Perfection
The great blood dragon walked into the large circular cavern, a hint of anxious in her steps. She looked to her left, a round circle of rocks around oval, multicolored objects in bright blue and white fire. A different dragon, smaller, without wings, but with a long frill and triangular tail spike looked up from the thin stream of flame he had been raining on the objects. His crystalline like body stood from his crouch, his darker forearms and forelegs catching the fire and reflecting it off the cave walls in brilliant colors. His green eyes stared in question at his mother, whose own large black and red bulk walked over to him.
She lowered her frilled head to gaze into the fire that kept her eggs warm. Her long deep pink tongue slithered out of her mouth, feeling with utmost accuracy the temperature of the eggs. Just one degree too high or too low would kill the precious creatures inside. She knew her first son could very well take care of them perfectly, but her mother instincts would not allow her worried mind to be quelled.
She checked each and every egg, all five. She checked the deep blue egg with a fire kind of design first, the temperature right in line with a male to hatch. A dull orange egg with deep dark red stripes was next, it's own falling right in line with its leftmost neighbor at male. The next, the temperature dropped significantly, and this worried the mother dragoness about the deep purple egg. She breathed a bit of her own warm breath on the egg, hoping that the girl inside wouldn't die. She knew the temperature was well above the dying point, but she wanted to make sure, in an attempt to quite her mind. The deep black egg beside the purple was above the temperature of its left neighbor, and the blood dragon dubbed it male. The final egg was a smoky sickly deep yellowish green with red swirls and stripes fogged around it. It's temperature was perfect at female.
The blood dragon lifted her head, her violet eyes gleaming in wonder, "Three males, and two females. Almost as even as you can get with an odd number." She said to herself.
The diamond dragon behind the eggs had laid down, watching his mother intently. He knew that inside her messed up head, she was cursing his adoptive father for not giving her more females than males.
"Drkhons, be sure to keep a tongue read on the purple and the green. I don't want my girls freezing to death." The diamond drake nodded, before circling and gently huffing his warm breath on those two specific eggs to raise their temperature slowly.
The blood dragon took another tunnel to the immediate left, the smell of fresh air wafting in from the cracks around the large bolder blocking the entrance. She looked at it in a sour glance. She wanted to bad to fly, but her motherly duties had kept her grounded inside the huge mountain. Grumbling, she cursed the rock, who in turn cursed her, and started to walk away.
"Perhaps some fresh air would be good for you, Mother. I can take care of the eggs; I've got their temperature under control. Go, fly. Stop being a grumpy grouch." Drkhons said, his diamond tail tapping the rock gently.
She turned, her violet eyes narrowed, "I'm not being grouchy or grumpy, Drkhons. I'm merely bored."
He snorted, brownish white smoke whisking from his nose, "Yes, your right. You're just being stubborn."
Vox bared her back teeth at her son, her right griff twitching in her slight anger. She turned around, and walked toward the wall, admitting defeat quite willingly. She turned her mass into thin streams of blood that squeezed in the cracks easily. She reformed in the tunnel, the smell of trees, animals, and water filling her nose. She breathed it in, and walked up through the curving tunnel to the rock ledge exit. Vast forests of green forests and a river in the distance filled her sight, the bright light blinding her eyes that were used to cave darkness. She looked to her right, seeing the other mountain peaks of the rage go off into the horizon, the same with her left. She looked up, the inviting clouds white and puffy, like they wanted to play.
The blood dragon grinned, before opening her vast black and red wings, "If you so wish, mighty sky. Take me to soar upon you!" she jumped off the edge, folding her wings in, and opening them at the last second. She took flight in blinding speed, her arms and legs against her body like a serpent. Her frill fluttered on her neck, her tail becoming a rudder in the ocean of the sky.
Flapping her mighty wings, she roared a powerful roar, making the woodland animals scurry up trees, birds to take flight, and deer to scatter. She then laughed her draconic accent clear on her voice. She dived down toward the wide long river, wider than her wing span, and flew close to the calm surface.
She dropped her hands, her talons breaking the surface, small water droplets landing on her thighs and feet. She flapped once to keep her glide, pulling in a wing to turn with the river. She knew how liquids flew, a knowledge that only liquid elements know. It cannot be taught to solids, they will never be as graceful because of their stocky bodies.
A pale blue liquid-like dragon burst from the rivers surface, leaping over the blood dragon, showering her in the rivers coolness. The blood dragon pulled her wings up, folding them in, before landing in the river. Her body turned into a snake, only letting her limbs linger in the water for stability. The water dragon formed her head from the surface, her deep dark blue eyes looking at the blood dragon with a kind gaze.
"Vox, my daughter, I have not seen you upon the mighty sky for months, dear one. I had feared of your fate. What has kept you from flying free, dear child of mine?"
Vox, the blood dragon, tilted her head down, her various jewelry tapping together gently, "I have been busy mother. Abyss, has taken good care of me, please calm your worrying." She said, walking a fine line or truth and white lies.
The water dragon, knowing her daughter too well, knew that there was more to the answer than just being busy.
"My daughter, all your life, you have never given me the complete truth. I've had to reach down your black and red throat and pull it out with much strife. My dear, I'm getting old, don't hassle me anymore." She said, a snap to her words.
The blood dragon, with a glint in her eye, responded, "Ah, but mother, you haven't aged a few millennia since the last time we've spoke. You can't be that old."
"Your five billion, Vox Vocis, I'm nearly double that."
The blood dragon smiled, ignoring the fact that her comment went unheard, "If you must know, Abyss has done more than just taken care of me."
The water dragon narrowed her eyes, her stern gaze piercing through her daughter like a watery spear.
Vox smiled, her violet eyes dancing in mischievous joy, "Drkhons is tending to eggs."
The water dragon snorted, "It's about time that drake got a mate, his wings should be popping anytime soon-"
"Drkhons hasn't mated yet. He doesn't even know any females of his age yet."
The water dragon looked confused at first, but her eyes widen when she caught on. Her jaw dropped and the river started to make rapids.
"Vox Vocis Cruora De Vita La Elementia!" her mother roared in anger and disbelief, the river tormenting from her wrath, "Do you know how dishonorable it is to mate with a dragon not of the line of Vita?!"
Vox narrowed her eyes, "I'd rather mate with a slug than with any of the idiotic Vita ass-kissers that call themselves 'noble dragons'!" she snorted and tossed her head to the side, "Besides, I stopped caring for honor a long time ago. Do you not remember what you sung to me so many times? I've finally started listening."
The water dragon gapped at her daughter, blinking, looking very dumbstruck. She shook her head, regaining her elegance, "my daughter, you must be careful. Vita knows of every being borne, even those that shouldn't be. You remember what happened to…oh, what was his name….Namesake?
"Naeovex."
"Ah, yes, Naeovex. You remember? She caused that horrid action! And she'll cause the death, or at least the maiming, of these new hatchlings! Vox, she doesn't like such things."
"what the hell are you talking about, she never liked me to begin with, so why should I be any more worried?
Water glared at her, "Remember those words, for fate likes to twist himself around such things and bite you in the ass." She reached forward and nuzzled her daughter like she had when the blood dragon first hatched, "just please, take care, my daughter. Vita may or may not do anything, but if she does, you must be prepared."
She pulled back, returning the river to its calm nature, "Take care, dear, and congratulations. You have indeed fulfilled the one refrain from the daughter song I sang to your heart. Take Care, she is kind and loving, and will protect you. Farewell, my precious daughter."
The water dragon fell beneath the surface, becoming one with the river again. The blood dragon swam to the river bank, turn and looking at the shining water one last time, "I will, mother." She spread her wings, and launched herself up into the sky again, flying back to her and her mate's lair.
"He should be back from hunting by now," she thought to herself, her empty stomach reminding her she hadn't eaten in a while, "Perhaps today he actually caught something with the nutrients I need."
As she landed on the edge in front of the tunnel, she turned around and took in the wonderful sight once more. The deep green trees, the shining river, the light blue sky, the puffy white clouds….
"It's all just…..Perfect." she whispered as she walked into the tunnel.
The water dragon watched her daughter enter the tunnel, remembering it's placement for future need. She shook her head, swimming with the river again, worry filling her heart.
"Precious daughter of mine….." she sang softly, "Foolish daughter of thane Life's line……perfection never existed, and never will……foolish daughter……you will see in time……"