Beyond Souls

Chapter 1 – Beginning

OST: Once Upon A Time -BS Ver.-

A long time ago, two races ruled peacefully over the Earth: HUMANS and MONSTERS. One day, a terrible war broke out between the two races...

Some humans and monsters fearing the worst, fled from the war to live as refugees.

These refugees built an isolated village and lived there while the war continued.

After a long battle, the humans were victorious. They sealed the monsters underground with a magical spell.

The refugees continued their lives, living in harmony, humans and monsters, but isolated from the humanity.

Year 201X: a woman that was walking in the forest finding something, found a curious scene: a dragon child was collapsed on the floor and had two souls (that the color, were of monsters) floating and being absorbed slowly by the unconscious child.

- But what's that? It's c.. can't possible! He is a monster, how he…? I'll get closer.

The woman came near the child's body and realized he was awaking.

- Hey boy. Are you ok? What your name?

The boy doesn't react and can't remember his name.

- Are you alone? Where are your parents? They live near from here?

The child still doesn't remind anything, neither who were his parents. His stomach began growl.

- Hi hi… It's seems you are hungry. Come with me, I'll take you to my home. My husband can help you to find your parents, right?

The child was carried by the woman to her house. She lives in a village near where they were.

Liliam Mira was her name (but always calls her Lily). She feed the boy and introduced him to her husband, Durval Humphrey (better known as Doceo). For days they searched for the little dragon's parents, but couldn't find them.

Without answers, they decided to adopt the children and named him as "Drago" (it's the character's standard name), because of his apparently dragon aspect. (Awnnn how useless!)

A year passed after this entire event. The dragon child socialized well with the peoples of that region, although being shy and crybaby, he had the sympathy of everyone. He played with the kids and always went at the village festivals.

After a common day, Drago had a dream… A very weird dream… He was in a dark place and just ahead, had a strange creature, a flying red rose with an eye in its center, also had a lateral vines that undulated constantly. This creature began to speak some interesting thing to Drago:

- Ha ha… Boy, you can't remember anything?

Drago don't understand these ask. The creature continues:

- I have answers… You will to come to me… I will tell you anything, in that mount. I'll be there. Goodbye!

(light flash)

No OST

Drago awakens and don't understand nothing that happened in his dream. He was still sleepy, so he downs the stairs to the dinner room.

His parents were there. Doceo was preparing to left.

- Hi Drago, good morning! Today have so much firewood to cut, hehe!

Doceo was a lumberjack; it was the profession that gives more rent to the house.

Lily greeted the boy too. She was a little boring, because her friend was sick and didn't have anybody to help in the chocolate candy selling. Lily always sells chocolate candies to help the family rent.

A good remedy to treatment of this sickness is the Butterfly Honey, that it's produced by the Butter Bees, however they are little difficult to communicate. They were very moody and charge very expensive money for the honey. (That's combined hehe!)

- Man... It's been two days since she became sick! Hope that Pamela gets better soon, because this is becoming complicated. Bye son!

After saying goodbye, Lily left. The breakfast was already in the table and Drago was eating. After this he cleaned everything.

Drago always clean the dinner room after breakfast, even more because he is the only that stay in home at day while his parents are working. Sometimes, after clean everything, Drago left from house to play with neighbors. This time wasn't different.

OST: Forest Dreams

In the village region where Drago lives, have many wood houses, (including his house) some have electrical network and phone network. His house still haven't phone network, but had electrical network. (But doesn't had television)

Drago found his friends in a waste ground. Three humans and four monsters. (Five with him)

- Hey Drago, just in time! Said Leroy, a human boy who is ten or eleven years old, also he have some bandages in the face and in the legs. – We were preparing to play.

- Yeah, we will play hide and seek! Said Ivy, a female mouse monster, seven years old, brown fur, somewhat short and with a ribbon in the head.

Everyone was deciding who will begin to count for the others hid. Drago was chosen to count.

Drago turned his back and everyone began to hide. The boy began to count.

During the countdown, he felt strange. Something began to speak with him:

- Ha ha ha… Why you don't finish them?

Drago stopped countdown and lifted his head. He looked around and realized that had nothing. The boy thought it strange but ignores completely. So he began to find his friends.

He tagged five friends and two were saved. (They were playing the Brazilian/Russian hide and seek variant)

The children stayed two hours playing in that ground and Drago didn't importuned by that voice. So he returned to his home finding Lily on the way.

- Hi Drago, looks like you were playing on that ground, right?

Lily smiles and they enter in the house.

- Unfortunately I'll don't prepare much dinner today because I'll visit Pamela to see if she is better. Said Lily.

Lily always prepares the dinner about 1 pm, after that, she back to the candy selling. She eats along with Drago and saves a little for Doceo. (Saving the food to save the husband's health! Congrats to me for the worst joke ever! ^o^). That was very common in that house, but in that day, she couldn't continue the selling anymore because she was worried with Pamela.

Lily prepared rice with vegetables and fried some meat. (The basic). She eaten, packed the bag and leaves, so Drago eaten also and packed the father's dinner.

In afternoon, Drago spends his time sleeping or drawing in a little notebook. (I'm so proud with him). This time were drawing. The boy drew many things and generally involving his family, although he isn't that good designer.

Some hours later, Doceo arrived at home and Drago down the stairs to hug him. (Drago always hug Doceo after he return from his work, it can be a reciprocate felling or a dissimulation, but this is up to you, reader).

-Whoa! Hi son, are you good? How was your day?

Drago smiles to him (with eyes closed) and runs to kitchen to take the father's packed dinner.

- Thanks son! Apparently Lily prepared something very basic today. That's okay, it's delicious.

Doceo finish eating, so he washes the dish. After that he goes to Drago:

- Well son, you are a little older. Hehe. I think that it's time to you learn some things, a very important things. If you prepared, just call me!

Drago accepts and Doceo answer:

- Well, just let's wait your mom to come. She said me she was going to Pamela's house earlier.

Doceo would teach Drago something that will help him on his future journey…