Disclaimer: Hi folks, I decided to write a new story. This time it's a Dragonheart Story. That is one of my absolute favorite movies of all time so I want to write a story about it. I love Draco voiced by Sean Connery and thought he would be a great dad because had such a warm fatherly voice so that why I created my OC for this story. I don't own the characters except the OC from the Dragonheart movie, Universal Studios does. Now Enjoy.
"Li, Li-Li, Li," I strongly finished and took a deep breathe. Then I went over to the stream by the wall to get a drink. The cool water felt good as it trickled down my throat.
"Very good Kalias. You are coming along beautifully with your lessons," Papa says as I climb up to sit on his arm.
"Thank you papa, you are a great teacher. I love singing the old songs. May I go play now?"
"Yes, but don't go out of the cave."
"I won't, I'll just play near the entrance," I told him as I hopped off and made for it.
"Oh, and stay clear of the fire pits and steam cracks. I don't want you to slip and fall in them!"
"I won't," I call out to him as I grabbed my homemade dolls and ball.
Our home is a massive cave with fire pits and cracks that have hot steam coming up through them. Papa always tells me to stay away from them. My name is Kalias; papa says that part of my name means 'sky' in the Scottish Language. He is a huge magnificent dragon. Now I know what you're thinking, "A dragon?! What's a little girl like me doing hanging around a dragon?! He will gobble me up in an instant!" But that is not true. Those are just stories made up by traveling minstrels and other such people to frighten children. My papa wouldn't ever hurt anyone unless they tried to hurt him or me first and he would never ever hurt me.
I crossed over the stone bridge papa made for me and sat down a little ways from the entrance of the cave to play with my dolls. It is hot in here, but I'm used to it. I have been in this cave for as long as I can remember and the only one that has ever come here is Queen Aislinn. Papa says that she is the daughter of some people called the Celts. They and dragons were friends and always got along. She would bring me clothes and medicine if I got sick for papa. Sometimes she would even bring me sweets and she recently brought me a new ball to play with. I was tossing the ball up in the air for a few minutes and listening to papa sing in the back of our cave. He was singing a sad song for some reason, but I love to hear him sing the old songs. Then I heard another sound coming from the entrance, it sounded like something or someone was groaning in pain and there were several other voices. The only one I recognized was Queen Aislinn's voice. Then she came through with several other people dressing in armor. Two of them were carrying someone on a bed of some sort. He was groaning and moaning really loud.
"Hello young Kalias," She says to me and bends down to greet me.
"Hi Queen Aislinn," I say as I hug and kiss her cheek, "Why have all these people come with you? Is something wrong?"
"Yes, we need your father's help. My son there was hurt really badly. Will you go tell your father that we wish to speak with him?"
"Ok my lady," I said to her and then turned to run to the back of the cave, "Papa! Papa, Queen Aislinn is here!"
"My Lord! Great One, your song is sad," She calls out to papa.
"Are the stars shining tonight," He asks her.
"No. No, bright souls glitter in this darkness."
Papa comes out and stands before her and the knights. The ones carrying the boy set him on the stone table in front of him and back away with the rest of the knights. They seem to be afraid of papa for some reason, why I do not know. I was going to hold the boy's hand but papa said, "Kalias come away from there and sit on this rock next to me."
I nodded and obeyed. Papa was strict at times, but he was always fair and kind. But I didn't want to disobey him.
"Ah Queen Aislinn, daughter of the Celts."
"Who's people loved your kind and called you friend. I have come to ask you for your help."
"The king's son, cruel and full of trickery. Is this why you have come dragon slayer's wife?"
"Dragon Slayer's widow! This boy is not like his father," She says to him and places her hand on the shoulder of a knight next to her, "This knight here is his mentor. He has taught him the Old Code. I need your help."
I had heard of the Old Code. Papa says that King Arthur himself wrote the code and instructed that all the knights of his realm should follow it and pass it on to future knights after he went to heaven. It is the most sacred and important oath a knight can take. Papa knows it and says that when I am older that he teach it to me too. I can see Queen Aislinn pull off the blanket covering her son and I can see that front of his shirt is stained with blood.
"Kalias look away for a moment. I don't want you to see this."
I nodded, turned my head and closed my eyes. The boy's wound must be great if papa does not wish for me to see it. I can hear the boy moaning and gasping for air.
"The wound is deep. You know what you ask."
"I will teach him your ways. He will grow in your grace. He will grow just and good, just as young Kalias there will. I swear he will learn your ways alongside her."
"No! The boy must swear. Give me your sword knight. Kalias you may open your eyes now and come forward, but under no circumstances are you to look at the boy's injury. Do you understand?"
"Yes papa I understand," I said as I opened my eyes. I came forward and looked at the boy's face. I smiled and waved at him while the knight with blonde hair gave his sword to papa. The boy turned his head to look at me and papa. He growled a bit and that seemed to scare the boy.
"It's all right my son," Queen Aislinn said to him and held him in her arms, "Do not be afraid. He can save you."
"Now listen to me boy," Papa says to him with a stern voice and holds the knights sword over him, "Swear that your father's blood lust and tyranny died with him. Swear that you will live and rule with mercy. Come to me and learn the Once-Ways alongside my daughter here. Now swear!"
"Papa," I asked and gently poked his arm to get his attention, "Does this mean that this boy is to take lessons from you with me?"
"Yes it does if he promises and swears to keep his promise little one."
"Oh," I said and turned my attention back to the boy.
"I swear," He says to papa in a hoarse voice and then falls asleep.
"Einon! Einon awake," The knight yells and slightly shakes the boy. But he doesn't seem to be breathing or moving, "He's dead!"
Then the knight snatched his sword out of papa's claws. I whimper and move closer to papa as the sword had sparks coming from it when he did that. The knight and I look at his sword and I can see the sword has a long scratch all down the front from papa's claws.
"Peace, Knight of the Old Code. Kalias it is ok I am not hurt. Now please step away from me a bit and witness the wonders of an ancient glory."
I do as he asks and move away a bit. He lifts up a few scales from his chest and uses his thumb claw to open it. I winced at the sound, but then I can see bright light coming from his chest. I can hear his heart beating and can see him scoop out a bright red light from his chest. The light also sounds like a heartbeat and feels warm like one of the fire pits in the cave. He puts the light on the wound of the boy and the light shines brighter. Brighter than any flame papa has ever made. Then it quickly fades back into the wound. I know papa told me not to look at the boy's injury but I was curious about the light and saw it shining in the wound on the boy's stomach. Papa blew some fire on the wound and in an instant it closed up.
"Half my heart to make you whole," He said to the boy as he scoops me up in his paws and places me next to him, "It's strength to purify your weakness. Live and remember your oath."
The boy starts breathing deep breaths and starts to wake up. Then the knights pick him up and start heading towards the entrance. Queen Aislinn hugs me and bows to papa before she too starts heading towards the entrance. The last one to leave was the mentor of the boy, but then he turns to papa.
"I served the father only for the sake of the son," He says as he goes for his sword, pulls it out and holds it before his face, "All my hopes rest on him. Forgive a doubting fool. Call when you need of me. Ask what you will of me. Should you or young Kalias need me, my sword, my service is yours and yours little one."
"Thank you sir knight," I giggled and curtsied before him, "I will remember your promise."
"I only ask you to remind him always of his vow, knight of the Old Code. Come Kalias, it is time you are in bed. Go get your things."
"Yes papa," I say to him and run to get them. The knight noticed them, gathered them up, and handed them to me.
"Thank you sir knight," I said to him as I took them back and curtsied.
He bowed a bit and said, "It was my pleasure mi' lady. Have pleasant dreams as you slumber."
"Good night and pleasant dreams to you too," I giggled, curtsied one more time and ran off to join papa in the sleeping cavern.
I put my toys on their shelf before changing my clothes into my nightgown. Then I say my prayers and climb onto the blanket in my papa's arms. He sings me one of the old lullabies before I fall asleep.
The next morning I can feel papa nudging me gently with his claw.
"Time to wake up Kalias."
"Mm-mm don't want to get up."
"Come on little one, time to greet the day."
"Papa, I'm still sleepy. I don't wanna get up."
Then I felt something tickling my stomach. I squealed and giggled as papa tickled me with one of his claws.
"No stop! Papa that tickles stoooppp!"
"Are you still sleepy now or do I have to tickle you some more?"
"No I'm awake! I'm awake! Stop!"
He stopped but I was still laughing. I got up and went to pick out my dress for the day. I undressed and got into the hot springs near our bed to take a bath. Father watches me with a towel. I swim and splash around for a bit and then papa uses a claw to help me wash my hair. I use a wash cloth and a bar of soap, courtesy of Queen Aislinn, to clean the rest of me. I duck under the water to rinse off and swim over to the edge to get out. I try to get out, but I'm still too little to get out on my own. Papa scoops me out of the water and gives me the towel. I dry off, put on my clothes and finish brushing my black hair. Papa always says it is as pretty as the night's sky.
"Papa, is the prince going to be joining us for lessons to today," I ask him as I ate my breakfast which was fruit and some bread. Papa was having some meat from an animal he just caught.
"Probably not today little one, he will need to take a few days to rest. Then I expect the knight to bring him."
"It will be fun to have someone to share lessons and to play with."
"Yes I expect it will. Now if you are done with your breakfast, we shall continue where we left off in the reading lesson yesterday."
Over the next few weeks, I saw a change in papa. He seemed sad for some reason. I never saw the prince come once since the Queen brought him to our cave. In fact, Queen Aislinn had not come anymore either. I don't know what is going on around here, but whatever it is, I don't like it. It felt like something is wrong or something bad is about to happen.
"Papa, are you ok?"
"Yes I'm fine Kalias. Why do you ask?"
"You seem sad in fact everything around here feels odd. Like all the happiness has disappeared. I don't hear you sing anymore and neither the prince nor Queen Aislinn have come to visit us once since he got hurt. Is that why you are sad?"
"Well yes in a way. Aislinn is the Queen of our land so she has to take care of everyone and has not had the time to visit us. As far as the prince is concerned, I fear he has forgotten his promise to me."
"But that's bad isn't it? You always told me that when someone makes a promise, then he is supposed to keep it. It's mean that he has forgotten about us."
"Yes that is true I did tell you that. Next time I see that boy's mentor, I am going to remind him to remind the prince of the promise he forgot."
"Great, can we go for a swim in the underground pool?"
"Yes we can, now change out of your clothes and climb up.
Then I took off my dress, put it in its spot in our sleeping cavern and hopped onto papa's paw. Then he lifted me up to ride on his back. We walked down a slope for a bit until we came to a huge boulder. Papa rolled the boulder to one side and we walked in. The pool was a beautiful blue color and the water was cool compared to the rest of the cave. It was the one place, beside the entrance of the cave, that we could see the sky. The sun was shining down into the cavern, making the water sparkle like gems and lighting up the place. Papa walked into the water for a bit, held out his paw for me to climb on. I jumped off his shoulder onto his paw and sat. Then he lowered me into the water, before flying up in the air a bit and diving into a really deep end of the pool. The splash from his dive sent out waves and I rode them to the edge of the pool. Papa's head quickly came up and he started swimming towards me. I swim out to meet him, but he quickly caught up to me. We swam together for a long time, but soon I started feeling sleepy. Papa got out of the water, went out our sleeping cavern, wrapped me in a blanket and cradled me on his arms. After some time had passed I woke up, yawned and stretched out my arms.
"Did you have a good nap?"
"Uh-huh. Papa I'm hungry."
"I thought you would be," He said with a warm chuckle while handing me my clothes, "That is why I caught us some deer to have for lunch. I already cooked yours for you."
"Yummy, thank you papa," I say to him as I slip my head through and smooth out the rest of my dress.
After lunch, papa and I moved onto my singing lessons. I sang my best for him, but he seemed to be distracted for some reason and wasn't paying attention to me anymore.
"Papa what's wrong?"
"Nothing is wrong little one. I'm sorry; I have just been a bit distracted today."
"Oh," I say to him, "Papa I've been thinking about what you said this morning about the prince and I'm not sure I like him."
"Why do you say that Kalias?"
"Because he broke his promise to you, it doesn't seem right that he just forgot a promise he made to a dragon. That knight mentor of his too, he also broke his promise to you. I don't like that. He's mean, they both are! And I don't think I will ever like them if they don't come like they said they would."
"Kalias don't be angry with them. I am sure they will come any day now."
"No! They promised to come visit and they didn't. That boy could have lied to you. I am not ever going to like him for as long as I live unless he keeps his promise to you. And that goes for the knight too even if he did help me pick up my toys!"
A few days have passed since I told papa that, then papa stood up very quickly and look towards the entrance.
"Kalias quickly pack your things! I don't have time to explain now but we need to leave this cave and go to another I know of."
I don't say anything because something in papa's voice scares me. I quickly gather everything Queen Aislinn has given me into the large blanket. Then papa scoops it up and I climb up onto his back. We make our way to the pool, papa throws the rock roughly aside and we take the sky. This is the first time I have ever flown with papa, so I shut my eyes tight. When I open them up again, we are back on the ground and by a river. He walks in the river to a waterfall, when we get there he sets our things on the ground. Then he holds out his paws for me to climb onto and he gently holds me to him as we pass through the waterfall. I got a little wet but otherwise I am okay. He sets me on a dry ledge and goes back outside to get our things.
He sets them up on the ledge behind me and I move deeper into the cave to give him more room to come up here with me. It is not like our old home and I still don't understand why we had to move.
"Papa, I don't understand something. Why did we have to leave our warm cave?"
"Because it was not safe to live there anymore my daughter, you were right about the boy. He lied to me, and his mentor became very angry with me. I could sense that he was coming to hurt me and that is why I had us come here."
"But why did he want to hurt you? You did not anything to hurt him!"
"That is point Kalias I did hurt him in a way. That light you saw well, it saved the boy's life, but he was like I said, he is cruel and full of trickery. The knight didn't see that about him before and now the knight thinks that light I gave the boy changed him but in a bad way. He thinks it was my fault the boy is bad now."
"But it's not your fault. That's not fair to blame you, when it's the boy that's at fault. He should be mad at the boy for being bad not you," I cry to him and hug him around his face. It was not fair.
"You are truly a gift and a very sweet girl my daughter," He smiles and kisses me face.
"I don't care where I live, as long as I have you, I'm home. I love you papa so much."
"I love you too Kalias and am glad that you are here with me as well."
Author's Note: Ok so that is the first chapter of this story. Please review and tell me what you thought of it. I am working on the 2nd chapter so hopefully I will be able to get it out to you soon. ;D