You come upon a small dark house out in the outskirts of Altador. The rain in the sky poured heavy upon you as you ran up to the house and knocked on the door to get in from the cold and rain. As you made another attempt to pound on the door it creaks open and you step inside. You read about this house in an old book. It said the house was a legend and nothing more, yet here you are standing in the house that doesn't exist.
The legend told about the town that was called Terra where a lone warrior human girl, who was raised by Faeries, defeated a being that no one in Neopia saw before. The beings called Drakens. You came here to find out if the legend was true.
You look on the walls to see pictures of a young girl dress in black welding a sword made of fire and ice. She had black hair with the deepest emerald green eyes you ever saw. The eyes were sad in the picture, but her face showed courage and wisdom. You reach out to touch the picture when a hand was placed on your shoulder.
"Welcome to my home," a voice said in greeting. "Are you another looking for my story?"
You turn around to see a young woman of 18 years staring at you with her deep emerald green eyes. She looked just like the girl in the picture except with brown hair. She was wearing a tight purple shirt with black jeans. On her feet were metal tipped boots. On her back was a masamune.
"Did ya lose your tongue young one?" she ask you in amusement.
"Well… I came here… To see if it was true," you say to her.
"The legend or the person in the legend? I'll tell you right now the truth is a sad one," she replies.
"I want to know everything about Terra and the Drakens," you say. "Ever since I've read about the legend I wondered about them."
The girl laughs as she motions you to sit down in a chair that seemed to appear from behind you. She sits down on a soft armchair and smiles at you.
"Then where to start. I warn ya that this is a long story, best to start from when I came into Neopia," she says.
You gapped your jaw in surprise as she laughs again at you.
"Yes I am that girl in the picture. That picture is about eighteen years old now in Neopian years. My name is Dragon "Michiru" Dragonwolf…"
Dragon was dressed in a tight black shirt with black pants. She refused to wear the shoes her grandparents held out to her. She was a young 12 year old girl with black hair and deep emerald green eyes. She had fair skin and was developing into quite a lovely lady as her grandma said.
Dragon didn't have any parents anymore. Her mother disappeared from her life when she was five and her father was never around to be a role model to her. She was mostly raised by her grandparents and she didn't mind. She got good grades in school and did everything she was told to do, except she refused to wear shoes.
"Michiru please put on your shoes," her grandmother said to her, calling her by her birth name.
"First off woman, my name is Dragon, and second off, I'm not wearing any shoes," Dragon said. She smiled her special smile when she knew she would get her way. It was a slight smirk with a special gleam to it.
"Fine… Dragon please put on your shoes," her grandmother sighed.
"No."
"Please Dragon."
"No."
Her grandmother gave up and dropped the shoes on the ground. She walks away from Dragon and goes back to getting ready to go to her job as a cafeteria working in an elementary school.
Dragon sighed since she was off from school today and would be home alone. Her grandfather was working in his hospital job as a boiler person still and her father; well she didn't care where he was. Chrissy, her sister had school in the High School as well did her brother so she could either sleep the day away or have fun.
"Bye Dragon! Don't do anything to blow the house up!" her grandmother called as she got into the van to head for work. Dragon smiled and jumped off her seat and went out the back door. Outside there was a 4ft-deep 24ft-round pool with a 20ft-wide deck connected to it.
She ran up the deck stairs and looked up into the sky at the sun just rising into the sky. She sat near the pool edge staring at the reflection for the sky and sun when she noticed something else reflecting in the pool water.
There was stars reflecting out of the water at her and the scene was night. There was no sun reflecting in the water but the moon. She looked up into the sky and it seemed night fell upon her in a blink of an eye. She glanced at the house and saw it just as still as she left it a few moments ago and knew she wasn't seeing things.
Dragon looked back at the water to see the sun in the reflection again, but it was still night around her. She put her hand in the water and felt nothing… No wetness, no cold, it was like the water wasn't even there.
Then a force pushed her from behind and she felt herself fall into the water. She braced herself for the impact, but she felt nothing. It was like she was floating on thin air. She sank into the water and let herself fall into the depths of wherever she was. She closed her eyes and let herself fall into darkness.
Something soft was touching her on her face as she came back from the darkness. Bright sunlight hit her in the eyes as she opened them to see where she was. Blinked her eyes to cast the blindness from them and saw an amazing sight.
Before her was a field of flowers of all different colors. Pink, blue, green, yellow, red, gold, silver, purple, and even orange flowers blooming in the field before her. She looked out over the field to see the ocean and felt the breeze on her face. Dragon slowly got up from the ground and glanced around to see if she saw anything. Ahead of her she saw a small town and it looked at it was covered in flowers. She decided to see who lived there and walked towards the town.
As Dragon came upon the town she saw strange creatures she had never seen before. There were tiger-like creatures, wolf-like creatures and many more that couldn't be explained. She walked towards the center of town in a glaze and didn't notice the creatures staring at her as she walked by.
She came upon a house covered in blue roses that were being tended by fairy beings it looked like. She saw dark type, light type, and even one that has fire for hair. Dragon watched as they did there work and felt a hand on her shoulder.
"What is a human doing here I wonder," a voice said from behind Dragon. She turned around to see a water type fairy rising out of the river that she didn't noticed there before. She had golden eyes and long black hair held up by a golden crown. On her fin she had silver scales.
"Where am I?" Dragon asked the fairy.
"Why in Neopia of course. It's rare that we see a human here," the water fairy said. "And I'm what you would call a Water Faerie. My name is Feliea."
"My name is Dragon, Dragon Dragonwolf," Dragon replied.
"Well then. Welcome to the family Dragon," Feliea said.
Dragon nodded but the comment ran past her in her mind. "Welcome to the family? Wait? I can't go home?" Dragon asked.
Feliea shook her head at Dragon and gave her a frown. "I'm sorry… I don't know how to help you back to your world. No human has ever found a way to return to their world as of yet," she said sadly.
Dragon wondered about how her grandparents would react to her missing, and then remembered that she was abandoned by her parents. She heard the talks her grandparent had about the low income and the hardships for raising her. Maybe it would be better if she never returned home. Her grandparents could get along better without her.
She felt confuse by these thoughts. She loved her grandparents and she knew that they love her, but Dragon just couldn't gasp the thought of not returning. She looked at Feliea her eyes cleared of the confusion. She couldn't worry about this now. If she had a chance to go home she would think about it then, but for now Dragon had to take it one step at a time.
"Then I must agree to come with you then. I bet I have many things to learn," Dragon said.
"Good then! I'll show to the house and once you learn more about Neopia the training will start," Feliea said.
"Training?" Dragon questioned to herself.
Dragon spent many months learning about Neopia and the creatures that Feliea called Neopets. She also explained to Dragon about the Faeries and the different elements that they represent. Dragon took her learning seriously and soon became as knowledgeable as the Faeries themselves about Neopia. A few years passed in the town she learned to be known as Terra and she looked to be about 15. Feliea told her that it was soon time to train in the arts of the Faeries that only few humans could learn and in the skills of sword fighting. Soon that day came and that was the day Dragon truly felt at home in the new lifestyle she was forced into from the event three years ago.
"Dragon! Dragon! Where are you, you silly girl?" called a young Fire Faerie standing in one of the many flower fields around the town. "Today is the day that your training begins!"
The so called silly girl was sleeping in a flowerbed of pink roses and slowly opens her eyes as she heard her name being called. Then it hit her as would a kick to the head. Today she was to begin training with the Fire Faerie Sashunn. She remembered how Feliea said she was to train with a different faerie everyday as to learn all the elements.
Dragon lifted her hand over a silver necklace around her next and held the charm in her hand. It was a silver dragon wing wrapped around a black stone. "Never take it off," the Water Faerie had warned her, "or our Magics that you learn will be lost."
Dragon got up off the ground as Sashunn came up and gave her an angry glare. Dragon just smiled and gave a bow at the angry Fire Faerie. "Ello Sashunn! Ready for training now?"
"I should be asking you the same question Dragon. Sleeping in the fields on your first day… Why when I was just an apprentice…"
"You were just as stubborn to play out in the fields all day dear Sashunn," a voice said coming out behind them. They both turned around to see a Dark Faerie giggling at Sashunn.
"Never in my apprenticeship had I done that Vux!" Sashunn growled. "Fine if you want to act that way Vux can train you for the day. I'm gone!" Sashunn flew up into the air and disappeared in a burst of flames. Vux rolled her eyes at the flames fading away and gave a little smile.
"I love when she gets hot headed," Vux giggled. "It's always funny to see her storm off like that."
"Feliea is going to make you pay for that," Dragon said with a glint in her eyes.
"And Lutari will fly," Vux retorted.
Dragon grinned at the playful Dark Faerie and gave her a serious look. "So what do I learn first?" Dragon asked.
"We will start with how to make orbs of darkness to blind your attackers," Vux said with another grin and chanted the spell.
More time went by as Dragon learning the Magics of the Faeries and sword fighting. She knew from the healing spells of the Earth Faeries to the bewitchments of the Dark Faeries. Sashunn finally came around from being mad at Dragon and Vux, who became the best of friends. Unlike other Dark Faeries, Vux was the caring type and didn't really act like her siblings. She acted more like a Water Faerie than a Dark Faerie the way she fights with Sashunn all the time and she is an expert when talking about the ocean near the town. Dragon still looked 15 years old, and some speculate that it's from using the Faerie Magics. She was loved by all of the townsfolk and can be seen running around the fields with the children, teaching them all the fun games from her old world.
Then soon afterwards Dragon forgot her past. She forgot her grandmother, her grandfather, the house she lived in, and even how she came to be in Neopia. She forgot going back to the human world and even who she was back then. Here she was Dragon Dragonwolf, Human Faerie Apprentice to Feliea herself who ruled this small town and the land around it. She didn't need another home; she was home here in the Faerie House.
Dragon remembered the first time she saw the house; it was covered in blue roses which were tended by the Faeries. The petals of the roses are used in potions and are said to be a cure for some of the most deadly diseases around these parts. Inside was even more beautiful. The rivers that ran though the town made there ways across the floors towards the center of the house where the fountain was. Feliea told her the fountain was protecting a powerful artifact, but she refused to tell Dragon what it was. Dragon always tried to sneak a glace when Feliea was resting in her chambers, but she was always caught.
Now it was almost time for her ceremony to become a full Faerie Magic User, the first human to be able to do so in over 200 years. The ceremony in which she would become the heir to keeping that which is hidden away from the sight of all. The artifact she had tried to sneak a peak at so many years ago. The next step in her life was just beginning, but also near its end.
Dragon looked at herself in the mirror to see the black dress with silver flames she was wearing. Since she is more mastered in the arts of the Dark Magic she was to be known as a Demi-Dark Faerie. The silver flames represent her second highest skill in Fire Magic and also the becoming heir of the Sacred Artifact of the Water Faerie Fountain. Her black hair shone in the moonlight of the full moon making it tint to a silver sheen and her eyes glowed in the darkness.
She had always asked herself why the Faeries let her learn their arts and become the heir of something so sacred, but all Feliea said that it was meant to be. Dragon saw flashed of burred images in her mind as it tried to make her remember something but pushed it out of the way as she made the final adjustments to her dress and took a step out her bedroom door.
Vux stood outside with a huge grin as she grabbed Dragon by the shoulder and gave her a hug. "Oh my sweet little Dragon. Finally you have made us all proud of you," she said.
"Thanks Vux. Did you see Sashunn this morning when she heard the news?" Dragon asked as she ran her fingers though her hair.
"Yeah, I did indeed. It looked like she was in shock. She was expecting to get that position you know," Vux replied with a sly grin. "It was like she was ruler of the world or something."
Dragon nodded as they headed down the staircase to the dance that was being held in the ballroom, or as they like to call it the dancing gardens. It was a courtyard in the house that was filled with soft flowers and grass that the Faeries dance on in union for ceremonies or just to have a fun time. Tonight Feliea said they would meet special guest from faraway.
Dragon entered the room with Vux to see the Faeries standing around waiting for her to enter and she also noticed some men standing around the room as well. They looked like the Faeries, but they had angel-like wings instead of the Faerie wings.
One stood out to her as she walked down the stairs into the clapping garden filled with her family and guests. He was dressed in pure white with white wings and hair, but his eyes were of the deepest violet that she had ever seen. He glazed at her with a tender look that made her heart flutter and she was almost sure that she must have skipped a step. Feliea came up to her side and took her by the hand and Vux walked away from the two.
"Tonight we have three things to rejoice under this brilliant full moon! Our sister Dragon has finally completed training and is ready to become a Demi-Dark Faerie as well as take on the responsibilities of becoming the heir to The Sacred Orb of Akeru, and also we welcome our long lost brothers the Drakens of the Northern Wastes!" Feliea proclaimed in her speech voice, "We shall move on with the ceremony as planned for Dragon's Coming, but first let us welcome our guests of honor, Nero the Draken King and his Draken council!" The Faeries in the garden clapped joyously for their guests. Dragon remembered about Feliea talking about the Drakens who were banished to the Northern Wastes because of their King trying to kill the last Faerie Queen. Dragon guessed that Fyora must have lift the sentence placed upon them.
Feliea gave a signal to the crowd and the clapping and chatter stopped to leave only the nightlife to make the sounds in the bushes with the wind. Dragon felt all eyes on her and it made her nervous at first. The white Draken that was looking at her nodded and it gave Dragon a boost and she got ready for what was to come.
Once the secret ceremony was done the dancing started and Vux pulled her into one of the circles with their Draken guests for one of the more happy tunes. She jumped, skipped, and intertwine with the beats just as well as the other Faeries. She noticed the white Draken again and she felt his hand touch hers. It was like a spark in her system as she felt him tug her away from the dance and into a corner behind some rose bushes. His violet eyes looked deeply into hers.
"My, what a lovely night it is tonight dear Dragon," he said to me. "You are truly a gifted human to be a Demi-Dark Faerie and the heir to the Sacred Orb. Feliea must see something in you."
"Yes, why that is true you know all this about me, but what do I know about you sir?" Dragon said in a soft giggling tone.
"Nothing of course," he said. "But I can tell you if you wish pretty maiden of the silver flames." He moved closer to Dragon as if he was to seduce her, but he then backed away. "I am Nero, King of the Drakens as you have heard. I never really saw a pretty human like you before."
Dragon huffed at him and pushed him away from her and went out of the bushes. "If that is all I am, a pretty human, then I'll be on my way Nero Blackfayt," she said in a bitter tone.
"Ah… So you did know me," Nero said with pleasure.
"Only by books, but not by face," Dragon replied. "For a King you are sure flirtatious with us Faeries."
"Oh so you considered yourself a Faerie now, one without wings I must say dear Faerie," Nero said as he placed a hand on her arm to drag her back into the bushes.
Dragon felt enraged by his stunt and muttered a shield spell under her breath that locked Nero in a shield away from her. "Like to see you get out of that then, precious King," she laughed as she walked back into the dance circles. She found Vux and pulled her off to another corner and told her what happen.
"And then I trapped him in that shield spell you taught me and walked away," Dragon finished. "I wanted to grind the little Draken bones up." Vux gave a laugh and hugged Dragon close to her.
"Don't worry about him. He always does that when he is around a new pretty face. He tried it to at least most of us here," Vux said with her sly grin.
"All of us? But I thought he couldn't leave the Wastes!"
"He had permission from Fyora to collect healing herbs here once in awhile for the Drakens. We can't be as cold hearts as our Dark sisters now can we?" Vux said in a calm voice.
"He still made me mad," Dragon muttered.
"Well let's us find that out. I think you like him dear Dragon," Vux joked.
"I do not!" Dragon shouted.
"Too…"
"Not…"
"Too…"
Dragon gave a growl and made her way to chase Vux around the room that just flew out of her reach. Thanks to her Air Faerie mentor her caste a spell of flight and chased after her in the sky and laughing the whole time as the dances continued below them. The stars sparkled high up above the two at their game and made them glow in the dark, like two fireflies dancing their ritual; lighting up the dark star with the starlight on their backs.
Dragon woke up in the flower fields still in her black dress which was to be her daily wear from now on. She felt a pair of eyes on her and slowly lifted herself from the ground to see Nero staring at her in an odd way.
"You are annoying for a King," she muttered while shaking her sleep away from her body.
"And you are shining from your nightly dance in the skies young human," Nero said with a charming grin as he held his hand out to her.
Dragon felt stunned by his kindness after the way she left him left night and slowly put her hand into his. She felt another heat wave come over her as she heard her heart pounding in her ears. He helped her up off the ground and pulled her closer to him giving her a kiss on the forehead.
Dragon felt stunned and couldn't move as his arms went around her. She tried to find her voice to say she didn't want him near her, but she couldn't find it. Finally she asked, "Why? You've just meant me last night?"
"One does not need a reason to fall in love at first sight pretty flame. Just one glace at you made me wants to come closer and feel your body underneath that dress. Just to touch your skin and feel the wave hair in my grasp," Nero said with a smile.
"We shouldn't be doing this. I may be considered a Demi-Faerie, but I'm still human all the same. We are two different species all together. We can never be together," Dragon said sternly. She turned away from Nero and walked away from him. That would be the last time she would see him for the next five years.
Dragon spent her years watching over the flowers of the fields and learning more of the arts of the Magics from Feliea who shared to her the secrets of the treasure of Terra. Feliea had not told her all the secrets and soon Feliea felt that the time was coming when all of them must be revealed. She has taught her that the Elemental Orb of Akeru was a powerful object filled with light energy, but it could be used for darkness if the wrong hands fell upon it. Though secret arts Dragon learn that only Feliea and she could touch the Orb where it was held in place in its protecting of the Water Faerie Fountain deep in the water where few can go. It is the source of the fountain and without it the land would die and become a black land like the Haunted Woods, or so they say.
"Feliea, why do you hide all the secrets from me about the Orb? Have I proven worthy enough to bear these secrets?" Dragon asked one day during the summer months.
Feliea gave her a long look a sighed. "I guess it is time for you to know everything, but do not tell another soul except your heir these secrets that I'm about to tell you. It is the truth about our Sacred Orb that we have long guarded in this town," Feliea said.
"I promise with all my Magics," Dragon replied settling herself next to the fountain where her mentor floated in the water.
"The Elemental Orb of Akeru as I said before is filled with light, but there is another energy that is filled in it as well. Chaos is the real power of the Orb. Without it the Orb would not be here. Only few know of this chaotic power and even fewer know how to bring that power to its full potential. If one with evil intentions lay his hands upon the Orb he would feel the chaos surrounding it and try to use that power which will set the world off balance and it will be a time of darkness, but if one with a pure heart who can touch it without turning evil that is not the guardians then the world will be at peace for many years. Or so they say.
"Only we can touch it since we have bonded ourselves to the Orb in order to keep it safe from all who seek it. Once someone else took it our lives would be in jeopardy as well.
"They would be able to control us against our will if they could figure it out, but that is most unlikely since only the strong willed is chosen as a guardian to prevent this. We gain insight on the whereabouts of the Orb if it is indeed stolen from us, and we can sometimes borrow its power, though it might be dangerous to do so," Feliea explained.
"Why would we need to borrow its power in the first place if it is dangerous?" Dragon asked trying to take in all the information.
"You would know when the time comes young one, but for now let us leave it at that. I hope you never have to borrow its powers young one," Feliea said. "Now go off and take care of the children."
Dragon got up and made a small bow before she ran out the door taking in all she heard. It was confusing at first, but it slowly it made sense. To use the power of the orb might bring down the destruction of her very well being. Shaking away the cold she felt she ran into the sunshine and the fields towards the young Neopets in play.
Everything was hot to her. She was deep under the covers and she didn't know where she was. She couldn't even move her body. Dragon didn't know what to do. The other Water Faeries couldn't place the sickness that fell upon her only three days ago and already it has rapidly spread in her body. Nothing they tried worked so Feliea decided to send her off to Faerieland to see if the Faerie Queen would help. Vux and Sashunn went with her to help her towards the palace in order to see Fyora herself.
"I have never seen a sickness as such before," Fyora mused. "Do you think it only affects the Demi-Faeries, or even just humans themselves?"
"Some of our townsfolk have the same symptoms as Dragon, but she is the worse case. We are afraid for her Queen Fyora. She means so much to us and she is the heir to guarding the Sacred Orb," Vux said bowing to the Queen.
"Yes, she always was a carefree student, but she doesn't deserve this kind of suffering," Sashunn added.
Dragon could feel herself being lifted in the air to be taken to another room. She couldn't remember who the purple faerie was, but somehow she thought she knew her. Her mind scream out the pain only she could hear and it blinded her.
Days went by with Dragon getting worse and Fyora did all she could do. The Magics were not working and even the few herbal remedies do not seem to affect the illness. Dragon could not even open her eyes and only listened to those around her trying to care for her in this time of pain. All she thought about was the pain now.
Something touches her head and she felt something go into her mouth and down her throat. It was sweet and smelled of a lost forgotten scent. Weariness came over her and the pain stopped in her head and she fell into the darkness of slumber.
There she was surrounded by a blue light as she started to remember who she was and her memories. The light got brighter as she came to herself and moved around in the emptiness of the area around her. There she felt the chaotic energies and shielded herself as they came around her, but the magic was weak and it broke though and slowly consume her body. She knew this power… It was the same power she felt during the bonding ceremony. Somehow she was inside the Orb itself.
Dragon let the chaos overcome her, but it did not drive her insane. It slowly made her stronger and she felt thoughts in her head. You are me and I am you. We are truly one at last Demi-Dark Faerie. You were sick with a non-curing illness, but I decided I wanted to save you, which is rare of me. Feliea does not even know all of my power. Beware the one you care about the most, for they will turn on you in the end. I can feel the chaos, though you cannot yet. You still have much to learn from me that Feliea could never teach you. Listen to the words of Akeru… Listen to the teachings. We cannot be separated now that the true bonding is complete. My thoughts will always be your thoughts; your thoughts will be my thoughts. Remember that young one… Remember…
Dragon was scared at first that the Orb she had been guarding could speak, but then it made sense. Chaos is thought itself in some ways and chaos is in all who can think. Dragon felt the last of the sickness go away and she fell back into the darkness and open her eyes to the light on the window outside.
"Dragon you are awake at last!" Vux exclaimed as she rushed over to the bedside. "We hoped he wasn't too late with the cure. It is truly a miracle!"
"Vux… I… Where am I?" Dragon said confusingly as she noticed the highly furnished room she was in.
"In my palace of course. It is nice to meet the heir of Sacred Orb at last, said a voice from the door. Dragon moved her head towards the voice to see Fyora herself standing there in all her regal glory.
"My Queen. I never expected to meet you under these circumstances," Dragon said as she tried to get up off the bed to give Fyora a bow. Vux held her down.
"Don't you even think about it sister. You are staying in bed!" Vux said sternly.
"I'm afraid I have to agree with Vux. You must rest. It has been three years since the sickness overcame you," Fyora explained.
"Three years? How could I survive so long?" Dragon asked, but somehow she knew the answer to her question and she felt words appear in her head. Yes, it has been that long since I have been keeping you alive. You wouldn't have survived otherwise for that long…
"You should thank your savior for that and your strong will," Fyora said. "Vux come with me so we may discuss about the arrangements for her stay till she gets well." Vux nodded and followed the Queen out the door and left it open. A few minutes later a familiar while robed figure appeared in the doorway.
"Nero…" Dragon said.
"It is good to see you again my little flame. I was lucky to have found the cure in time to save you," he said.
"You saved me?" Dragon slowly sat herself upright on the bed so she could see him better. She felt weak from moving, but that was to be expected.
"I came here to see Queen Fyora the day they brought you in. I swore to find the cure to save you and have spent my time traveling around Neopia looking for it. Figures I would end up in Terra to find it since the place was unlike any other. The blue roses are what cured you of the illness," Nero said as he placed his hand on hers.
"Nero… How can I thank you?" Dragon said.
"Give me the kiss that was meant to be," Nero said as he drew closer to her. He placed himself around her on the bed and slowly their lips touched. Dragon felt hot with the pleasure and let his tongue slip into her mouth and move around. It was like ecstasy that entered her mouth and not just his tongue. This forbidden love they felt for one another was pure pleasure.
Nero removed his tongue and slowly moved away from her. He gave her that look that she first saw the day of her ceremony and she knew that she loved him. "Are you going to hit me now?" he joked.
"Why don't we do a repeat? I don't think I've paid you fully enough," Dragon said as they embraced again.
Three months pass in the palace and Nero and Dragon meant in secret when there duties weren't interfering with one another. Fyora had decided to let Dragon in the Uber Faerie meetings in Feliea place while she was here since as the heir she would have to attend these meetings as well.
Most talk was about the troubles of the almost forgotten Faerie Wars which left an impact upon Neopia that would last for years to come. Other talk was about sightings on the Drakens slowly joining the world again since Fyora had recently lifted the exile on all of them, but the Uber Faeries still have distrust to them.
Dragon sat in the meetings and only gave her opinion when asked since she wasn't a true member of the council itself. The other Uber Faeries were amazed about her opinions on handling the Draken unrest with such ease.
"I can understand how we Faeries can feel about the Drakens entering the world again without restrictions, but think of it as this; some of us would say that we distrust Dark Faeries only because of our history. That because we control the Dark Element of the Magics that we are evil. Now I know all of us here know that to be untrue, but the other Faeries will still think that way because of the history.
"It is the same with Drakens. We are judging them for their history. I say let us give them a chance to prove that they are not evil for their past mistakes. We are in a whole different generation since the Draken Uprising. Let us give them some room to prove themselves to be worthy of this gift that our Queen gave to them," Dragon debated.
"I agree with Dragon fully. Most Faeries do distrust our Dark Sisters because of the past like with the Darkest Faerie and the past Faerie Wars. I mean look here, we have our Demi-Dark Sister and I know our Uber Dark Sister here is worthy of being mention of being kind to others despite their dark past with the Dark Magics being their main element," said Cecilia the current Uber Light Faerie.
"There is nothing the same between the Drakens and the Dark Faeries!" Zushunn the Uber Fire Faerie shouted. "The Drakens will cause trouble again just like before. That perverted King of theirs is going to be the downfall of them even if they did learn their lesson!"
"Nero is a good Draken and is honorable despite his attitude towards the Faeries! Why judge him for what his Grandfather did?" Dragon asked.
"There is no honor in a Jubjub-brained fool like him," Tasha the Uber Earth Faerie stated.
"But he does deserve a chance to prove his leadership," Qera the Uber Water Faerie said calmly.
"I agree with Qera for once. Let him prove himself before we caste of judgment," Netsume the Uber Dark Faerie replied. "Let all the Drakens prove themselves to be granted this freedom we held back from them for so long."
"Then it is decided. We will keep a close watch on the Drakens to watch for their acts of kindness or of malice. Until then let it be known that no Faerie will do anything to start another uprising. My mother died for that war and I do not want to see her life waste in vain for what she has taught us all," Fyora said in a final tone.
The Ubers nodded their heads and left the council chamber to talk to their own kind. Fyora walked up to Dragon and put her hand gently on her shoulder. "You did well today Dragon. I can see Feliea made the right decision is choosing you as her successor," Fyora said. "Come, I have a present for you before you return to your home in Terra."
Dragon rose from her chair and followed Fyora from the chamber towards the private apartments of Fyora herself. There Fyora led her to a small room that held a Fire and Ice Blade sitting on a table.
"This blade is no normal blade as it appears to be. This is Dragonfang; it was made from one of the oldest dragons known in Neopia. I feel that this blade belongs to you," Fyora said.
Dragon felt a power from the blade and felt words appear in her mind like it did the day she came to. The sword… I remember it. It was wielded by one of the guardians that protected me during the Draken Uprising. Take it and wield it well for both of us…
Dragon placed her hand around the handle and felt it familiar. Like she had wielded this blade long ago, but had forgotten it. She felt the blade call out to her as she removed it from its sheath. The blade roared with its flames and sparkled with the ice. It was different from the normal Fire and Ice Blades for there was an engraving of a dragon wrapping around a fang on the handle.
"It is perfect Fyora. I feel like it is a part of me that was lost long ago and was just found again," Dragon said replacing the blade back in the sheath.
"Good. Then it is almost time for you to return home. Nero will be accompanying you on your journey home," Fyora said.
The journey home was filled with pleasure just as they reached the Shenkuu outpost before they reached Terra. Dragon lost track of the time they spent together and she was truly in love with Nero. They parted ways since Nero had some business in a Kingdom close by in the mountains and Dragon made her way home towards the ocean and saw her first glance of the flower fields. As she walked upon her home a song came up in her mind and she felt the need to let it out.
All along the high roads,
Heading towards the sea,
There I'll be waiting,
In the town of Terra.
Look this way and that way,
Listen to the music,
There I'll be waiting,
In the town of Terra.
The King will bow to me,
His white wings shimmering,
There I'll be waiting,
In the town of Terra.
I'm his bride to be,
Though I'm far away,
There I'll be waiting,
In the town of Terra.
There I'll be waiting,
In the town of Terra.
The children heard the song and came running to Dragon to greet her return. They dance and sang around her as they made their way towards the center of town following the streams that came from her home. The familiar blue rose covered house came into view and there Feliea was waiting for her return. She was truly home again after so long.
For all of you who have read Lythenn's story know the events that came to pass. Nero went to Cizar to trick Price Lythenn in coming with him to Terra so he could take over Terra and Cizar in one attack. Lythenn and Esa spent the day with Dragon in the fields while Nero planned the attack with his troops were getting ready to steal the Sacred Orb. So now I will start from that night where Dragon woke up.
Wake up young Dragon! Wake up! Feliea is in danger! The Orb shouted in her mind snapping Dragon awake.
"Feliea in danger?" she asked. She grabbed the Dragonfang by her bedside and silently walked down the stairs and towards the fountain room. There she heard the voices of Nero and Feliea.
"You will not get what you came for," Feliea said in a calm tone.
"Feliea I have my army surrounding this town! All your people will be slain if you don't give me the Elemental Orb of Akeru!" Nero shouted.
Dragon gasped at what she heard. Nero was the traitor? She loved him, yet he would do this? Tears fell from her eyes as she drew the blade out and held it up towards Nero.
"You dare threaten the place I called home since I came to this world! Nero how could you? You don't understand about that Orb! I can never let you have it! I thought you came to try and take me away again, but now I see the truth. I hate you..." Dragon said as she held her sword up.
Nero glared at Dragon and laughed at her. His eyes were cold as he lazed into hers. "If that is the way you want it little Dragon then I will attack now. Cizar will still be attacked at dusk tomorrow anyway. I'll let Blake deal with you in person," Nero said and he flew up into the air. He summoned a dark energy ball in his hand and blew a hole in the roof. He made his call to the other Drakens to attack. A flash of dark light entered the room and Feliea gave Dragon a look of horror as she was struck in the heart.
"You know what to do Dragon... Save the Orb and go save the two others from Cizar. Hurry..." Feliea cried out as she fell in the water. Her blood dyed the water red and it ran though rivers towards the flower fields. Tears fell out of her eyes as she gave her last breath. Dragon nodded and rushed off to wake Lythenn and Esa from their slumber.
"We must leave now. Nero is attacking the town and tomorrow he will attack Cizar to take it as his own kingdom. Don't speak yet. Wait until we are away from here," Dragon said softly as she woke Lythenn from his sleep. Esa was already behind her with Ryu the Ukali on her head and sword out. Lythenn took Oniyuri the Biyako and reluctantly placed her on his head still sleeping and drew his sword out. They followed Dragon though the house to the outside.
Outside in the fields Dragon wanted to get the two to safely before anything else occurred. She saw the town being ruined from their spot on the cliff. The houses were burning with golden flames, gusts of winds tearing down the flower fields surrounding the city, waves of water were crashing into the cliffs making the ground soften so that parts of the land fell into the sea below.
Dragon turned and looks at them slowly casting her glaze on the ground. "I'm sorry that this had to happen. Nero is blinded by power. If we meet again I will explain the reasons, though we never will I think," Dragon said, "But if we do, my name will be Michiru. I will return to my birth name to fight the Drakens till my last breath. Now I must send you home before Nero destroys it. Good thing I was taught some magic from my Faerie family."
Dragon held up her hands and started chanting a spell that made a light surround Esa and Lythenn. She didn't see the Dark Draken behind her readying his attack. The Ukali that was on top of Esa's head chirped loudly and jumped off of Esa's head at the Draken as the spell was completed a bright light took the rest of them away.
Dragon took out Dragonfang and blocked another attack from the Dark Draken and she saw the Leader of the Draken Army, Blake before her. He slashed down his sword from the side and she blocked the attack with ease.
"So the little human can fight. How I always hated you for messing with our King's mind Dragon," Blake said. He thrust the sword forwarded at her to try and catch her off-guard.
Dragon was ready for the attack and let her sword drop down to block the attack. The sword made it though her defense and it tore though her dress leaving small bits on the ground. She jumped back and readied a spell that set up a silver shield around her.
"Then you must be happy that I love him no longer Blake. I will kill Nero for the destruction that he and the rest of the Drakens done here. And I gave you a chance to repent. I defended you to let the Faeries stop watching your every move!" Dragon shouted.
"Well at least one of you saw some sense, but you are still just a weak human. Without that pretty charm on your neck you wouldn't even be able to use the Magics,' Blake retorted.
Another clang of the blades came together again and separated when Blake set up his own shield. Now it would become a battle of Magics. Blake readied his spell when Dragon tore off the necklace around her neck and caste it to the ground.
"I don't need the charm to use the Magics any longer Blake. I promise you this. The Sacred Orb will never belong to any Draken!" Dragon replied casting purple energy balls that shot at Blake.
Blake blocked them with a hand shield and flew up into the air and sent a group of energy balls raining down upon Dragon. Knowing she would never beat him on the ground she ran at his form in the air and caste a spell that made the transparent wings appear on her back and she flew up into the air. Blake drew out his sword again and their blades clanged in the air as they flew at each other.
Dragon knew that removing the charm was risky, but she trusted that being bonded to the Elemental Orb would hold the connection between the Magics and herself. She felt herself in two places at once as she was batting in the air and soon they both ended over the gapping hole in the ceiling of the fountain room.
Blake got the better of Dragon and broke her block and the sword went into her side. She gasped as the wings disappeared from her back from the shock and she slammed into the water of the fountain and sank into its depths.
Blake grinned as he thought he finished off the human at last and flew away to report what happen to Nero. Soon the Orb will be theirs and the plan to rule Neopia will become reality.
Dragon couldn't move as she sunk deeper into the fountain to where the Orb lay. She fell the power grow stronger in her body as she reached the bottom and landed next to the Orb who she finally saw as the object was for the first time.
Do not worry… The wound isn't fatal and will heal with time young one. Rest for now and wait until the fires die down. The Orb said in her mind.
"I can't… The townsfolk… They need help… And my sisters need the help as well…" Dragon sputtered as she quickly caste an underwater breathing spell before her air ran out.
Wait until the wound heals then. Use my power to help you. Just let my power flow with yours. The Orb glowed with a bluish light in the water as Dragon chanted the spell that made the wound close at a greater speed than it normally would. After she did that she placed her hands on the Orb and brought it close to her.
"I need to find another place to take you, but how would I be able to hide you…" Dragon wondered as she floated there thinking.
Take me into yourself. We are bonded so it can be done. I wouldn't be able to say within forever and it would be dangerous to do so. Temporary can work since it won't affect you until a certain amount of time.
Dragon nodded her head and placed the Orb closer to her body and forced it in inside herself. Pain shot though her body as the Orb became a part of her body and she heard many voices in her head going at once. It was all in a dialect she never heard before and blocked them from her mind. Now she knew what the Orb meant by it would be dangerous to keep it inside of her. She would go insane from the voices. She kicked her feet and made her way back up to the surface of the fountain. She felt the breathing spell wear off as she hits fresh air and climbed out of the pool.
Silence filled her ears and it made the land seem dead. She took off what was left of her dress and made her way up the stairs naked as the moon itself until she reached her room. She looked into her dresser and found the outfit she was looking for. It was a tight black shirt and black leather pants. She put them on and rinsed the water out of her hair onto the hard wooden floor. She reached back far into the dresser and found something that Vux gave her long ago. It was a pair of black metal-tipped boots that she never wore. She placed them on her feet and looked around the room. She would never she this room again.
A scream came from outside her window and she looked out to see a small Royal Boy Draik running from one of the Fire Drakens that followed behind him. She jumped out the window and landed on the ground a caste a fireball spell and hit the Draken on the back. The Draken turned on Dragon and drew his sword and changed after her. She drew back out her own sword and the blade went right though the Drakens chest, letting him fall to the ground. The Draik looked at her with a grateful look and ran off into the flower fields. It was here Dragon cast away her name she had known for so long and became the name she was given at birth. Her name was Michiru again.
To Be Continued…