Chapter 1

Draco Wrath's twenty-fifth birthday was coming up in two days. He would stop ageing this year. Things started looking up for him at eighteen he finally found his family his home, and got the answers he always wanted. He never understood why he was so different, why his eyes where electric blue why he could glance at a language and he knew it. He was abandoned as a baby on the steps of a orphanage with a letter from his mother. He found the letter when he was sixteen when he was digging through his files. That letter changed everything. On his eightieth birthday when they kicked him out he tried to remember her face and then he felt like he was falling. He slammed his eyes closed when the sensation stopped he opened his eyes and was staring at his mother. She was sitting in a chair smiling at him with tears in her eyes. She was a beautiful she had fire red hair and electric green eyes, she was wearing a long black and red dress, she looked tall when she stood he was correct. He had no idea what had happened where was he. That's when she spoke.
" Draco oh my you look just like your father. Tell me everything about you please." He just stood there unable to speak this is the woman who abandoned him, his mother he had no idea what to say. "well son are you going to speak or are you going to stare at me?" He blinked a couple times and said" your my mother? Where am I? What happened? What is this place? Who am I?"
She started to giggle and said "don't worry in time you will know, for now are you hungry the staff has some food cooking we were expecting you and have been for years." Over the next couple hours his mother told him that he was to be king of his people immortal people created by the gods, and they were now in a secret land in what he would call a country called Stronghold. She told him how his father lead his people and that he was a dragon he always assumed they were mythical. Well he was on a secret land hidden by humans. His mother told him there are tons of different creatures each had their own hidden land. Almost seven years ago that was and he learned everything he could about Stronghold.
His second in command of his army after he changed was Maxims. Maxims was his father's second in command and his best friend since they were hatchlings. Maxims was Draco's teacher he taught him everything he needed to know about fighting and leading the drakes. Maxims told him about how every dragon had one person in there life their other half also known as mates. He told him how when one dies the other dies and in rare occasions like his mother and fathers case one can survive manly if they have young hatchlings who need one parent to survive. They feel the other die and they chose to stay for their young, many choose to die after they are old enough to survive on their own.
Draco asked about the change many times, Maxims would tell him it is the most painful thing you will ever go through, your bones will snap and grow, your muscles will form so quick your skin will stretch you will wish you were dead. "Although you are your fathers son so it could be worse for you since he was so big, he had a easy time though that son is why he is was feared by all, no one could control him everyone but your mother that is."
Many times over the years he asked his mother if she was going to leave him to be with his father she would say
" I cannot leave you son, for there is much you need to learn and I wish to know my son before I go to the other side. I also want to tell him everything about you."
She gave the same answer every time. After all these years he just started to adjust in stronghold. The way of life here was so strange at first. The only way he could describe it was it was like the renascence time. There was no electronics, no cars there transportation was their feet or horses oh and their wings that will come out of slits on their back after they change. He loved his life here everyone was just like him in some way. Two more days and he would change on his twenty-fifth birthday.
Over the years he explored Stronghold as much as he could. It was a secret that he was home for no one knew he existed and that was a good thing. After his father died the war with the ice dragons slowed down, the ice dragons wanted his father's blood line dead no one else but a Wrath could become king. The ice dragons slaughtered almost every male Wrath most were hiding so they weren't killed, that was why he was hidden. The only time he could go out was with Maxims and two other guards and he had to dress like a servant with a hood over his head so no one would see that he looked just like Orin.
Maxims snuck him out many times to have a beer, or to get some. women, on is twenty first birthday he took him to the royal tattoo artist, he got a red dragon with a black outline and electric blue eyes, the tattoo called out to him little did he know it was the same tattoo his father had. It was the dragon inside his father, and the dragon inside him. His mother was not to happy to see him tattooed but when she seen what it was she cried her eyes out. He didn't know why until he asked Maxims, he confessed it was his father's tattoo.
He was having a great life in Stronghold his didn't miss the out side world mostly because he never got to explore it to be out in the city, he was always in the orphanage he never left there but the few occasions they went to field trips.
There were seasonal balls people would dress up where masks he loved the balls he just wished he could mingle with the other dragons. One dragon in particular a pretty little red head always had her eyes on him at the balls. Oh he wanted to talk to her the girl looked so familiar he could never place her though. She tried talking to him many times he had to stay hidden though so he would run off so she couldn't find him or follow. His life could be lonely at times he lived for the balls just to he could see her. He vowed one day woman from mu dreams I will talk to you.
That day was his party ball where they would announce who he is, he would finally take off this hood and stand before his people as prince until he went through the training for that. Oh he hated training.