DragonLove- the love story behind dragonspell and other books
She woke up early to the sound of screaming. Her name was being yelled, a thing she hated. "Penny! Get down here this instant! We have company here!" they screamed. She knew who was here. A man. A very evil man. He wanted to do the opposite of what she was created for by Wulder. Created? And by who? If you read the series this story is based on then I will explain for this story is based on before, during and after the series which will be named at the end of the chapter. Wulder is the God of the series, the ultimate creator. Created as in Wulder sent her to the planet for a purpose, which will be explained later. And the man at the door, is the servant of the most evil man alive, Risto. Risto works for Pretender, the evil of the story. Risto's laugh can be heard from the first floor of the two-story little house. He was apparently pretending to laugh at a bad joke one of her guardians came up with. She was taken at a very young age, since her parents ha died. At least, that's what she was told. She never believed it, for she may be young, but she was as intelligent as an 85 year old man. The feminine voice shrieked, "Penny! You get down here this instant!" "Yes ma'am," she said loud enough for them to hear her. She then forced herself out of bed, sore from the cleaning she had to do yesterday. She then grabs her favorite dress, the one she kept super clean for "company", more like a recruiting moocher, she thought with a snicker. She knew she had special abilities, ones she got from her parents, at least she read it had to be passed down from her parents, or given by Wulder. She smiled, hoping that she had an important role in Wulder's plan to take down Pretender. She washed her face with a bowl filled with water she kept in her room, slipped on her dress, brushed her hair and sped down the stairs and into the living room. She faked a smile and curtsied for them and said "You called?" She was a young slave, basically, at that house. And she hated it there. "Yes. Risto wishes to speak with you, again," her "mother" said with a harsh tone. Penny turns to the man and says "May I ask what we are doing today?" Wulder, please save me. She didn't like Risto but she refused to fear him in any way for it would give him satisfaction, making him think he had control over her. She knew her fate was to serve Wulder and that if she proved loyal to him then she would get the "prince charming" every girl her age dreamed of. She wanted a man who would treat her right, which was the man that Wulder would make appear in her dreams when she wanted, which was every night. "Don't you think you're a little too young for romance? Besides, anything Wulder offers you, I can give you more, even better," he said with a glisten in his eyes. "I guess that's why you're here again, sir?" "Yes. Come. We will take a walk though the woods," he tried to hide the glisten in his eyes. She knew something bad was going to happen do she ran upstairs to grab her cloak, which looked like a silvery silk, ran back down the stair and left with him. They went a to a clearing, where dragons used to land. They took a right a went into the woods, to a place that had two logs laid down to sit on. Risto sat on one so Penny decided to sit on the other. "What do I have to do to get you to join?" he asked. "I will never join. You lie and do cruel things to innocent people, I don't want to join and I will stick to that no matter what you say," she said. "You shouldn't be talking to me like that, little girl," he hissed. "I may be 5 but i will never show anyone respect if I don't think they deserve it from me, including you!" She gets up and runs deeper into the woods as fast as she can, jumping over roots and climbing over logs. Risto chases after her, shouting "Little brat! I will teach you to show respect to me!" "The only one I respect is Wulder! I will never work for you and Pretender!" She made a loop and they went back to the clearing when she suddenly trips and falls. She turns onto her back to see a sword pointed at her. "If you won't work with me, then you won't with anyone at all!" He lifts the sword and swings down, Penny closing her eyes tightly, only for the sword to be blocked by another, more magnificent, shining sword. She opens an eye, only to gasp and see a tall man with shinning, straight, long black hair that swayed into the wind. He turned around to her and looked at her with shining blue eyes. He smiled, and she noted the fact that he had laugh lines which made him, in her honest opinion, look kinder than most. But the thing that threw her off was that this was the man Wulder had promised her, this was Paladin. She smiled for she knew she was now safe, that Wulder had sent her "prince charming" to be her savior. She stood up. "Thank you,"she said in a soft voice. She then gave a grin and whistled. A lot of shadow-looking creatures appeared in the sky. When the got closer, though, they revealed to be a swarm of baby dragons the size of cats. Each dragon was a different color to represent each's own ability. She smiled, feeling proud of herself. She then heard a new voice in her head, a sweet voice in her head, "You need to get into the tree. Can you do that for me?" "You can talk with your mind?" "Yes, an ability you have too but I will have to train you on how to use your ability," "You're going to train me yourself or you're going to find someone to train me?" Penny then climbed the tree and got to the top just in time to avoid being in the middle of Paladin and Risto fighting each other. "I will train you myself if that is what you wish," was Paladin's reply.
"Both of you are fools! I will take her to Pretender and have her trained to be so powerful that no one will ever beat her. Doesn't that sound better Penny?" Risto spoke with both his mind and mouth. "I will never join you and Pretender! That isn't my purpose!" She then took a rock out of her cloak and threw it at Risto, which bounced off his head. He turned to her and smiled, hissing "You'll pay for that" but before he could even try anything on her he had to block a swing from Paladin's sword. He then growled "Insolent fool!" He and Paladin were fighting each other, Paladin with ease and a smile as if this were a game to him that he found amusing while Risto looked like he was having a hard time fighting back put fought as hard as he could with anger. She noted that he had anger marks on his face like he scowled a lot, which he does. He kept swinging whenever he got the chance but Paladin blocked each swing with ease. Paladin was even laughing and mocking him with comments like "You're going to train her to be powerful? You can't even fight me!" while laughing like he was having a great time. "I think I shall end this fast," as he swung hard enough to knock the sword out of his hand with ease. "Quick, jump down! I'll catch you," he said to Penny, which she jumped down straight into his arms. He then ran at a white dragon which was swooping down and he jumped onto the dragon's tail and ran up its back and onto a saddle which he sat down on and strapped himself down with the leg harnesses. Penny was curled up in his arms and decided to look up. She looked around to see where they were and immediately was terrified when she saw she was high into the sky. She grabbed Paladin's shirt and turned herself towards him, clenching her eyes shut. "Do not be scared, you won't fall. I won't let that happen to you, not ever," he told her in a soothing voice. "Look around, it isn't that bad," he said encouraging her. She clung tighter, but decided to open her eyes and look around and grew mazed at the view she took in. She could see birds flying, animals walking on the ground below, and the clouds which seemed so close that she wondered if she could touch them. Paladin heard her thoughts and laughed about the clouds. His dragon heard her thoughts too and they both decided to bring her close to the clouds so she could experience what one felt like. The dragon started flying upwards, which she was wondering why, until they were right under a fluffy white cloud. She was amazed at the fact she could see one so close. "Here," Paladin picked her up high enough to where she could reach out her hand and just ouch the cloud. She stuck out her hand to touch the cloud and felt the moisture of the cloud. She pulled her hand back and saw it covered in water, which shocked her for she had always thought it was something like a fluffy piece of fabric floating in the sky. She smiled and stuck both hands into the cloud as water began to fall on both her and Paladin from this action. Paladin and Penny started laughing. The dragon then lowered them away from the clouds. "It's very pretty up here! I've never been flying before," She told Paladin. "Never? Not even once? Well it looks like i will have to take care of that," Paladin said in a playful tone. She smiled for she knew she now had a new friend and her future lover.