"Dragons... what foul creatures! Eating peoples cattle... destroying peoples livelihoods! I'm so happy to live in a world where there's no such thing as a dragon, but those darn vicious creatures won't leave me alone in my dreams!" I paused a moment to look in the mirror, my brown hair tied back into a ponytail and my brown eyes as fierce as ever. "Well Melody Drachen here's to another boring day in your sorry excuse of a life. All twenty-four years of it, stuck here in this sorry excuse of a city known as Seattle."
I stood, ready to grab my keys and purse and to rush out the door off to work, when a noise caught my attention. As I Walked towards the source of the noise, which was my front door, I wondered what could be making such a racket.
A small orb twitched on the ground, looking as if was about to break open. I moved towards it slowly, grabbing a umbrella, and I poked it.
It rolled back a bit and tapped the door, not noticing the movement. I cautiously picked it up, and walked back towards my kitchen, wondering what this strange thing was. I grabbed my cell phone from my pocket, never allowing my eyes to leave the strange orb for more than a second, and dialed my brother's phone number.
"Hello?" A sleepy voice answered.
"Hello William,"
"Mel? Is that you?"
"Yes, and I have a question for you,"
"What?" He whined. "You woke me up!!!"
"You'll get over it! Now, did you send me a present? I have this weird... orb, and it's moving around and making noises. And you are the only one who'd send me such a present,"
"Well I didn't send it. Why would I? Your birthday was last month, and it's five months before Christmas!"
"Why so bitter brother?"
"Bitter? Bitter?! Look who's talking Melody! You're nothing but bitter! Why are you bitter? You had a good childhood! And you wonder why you aren't married!"
"You have no room to speak William." The orb began to crack.
"I have plenty of room to speak! You sit around and mope all day. Do you even KNOW how mom worries about you?!"
"This isn't what I called to talk to you about."
"No it's not, but you need to talk to someone about it!"
"William, why don't you just hang up? Leave me to mope about in the library all day."
"Go, I don't need to talk to someone so bitter this early in the day."
"Fine. Good Bye!"
"B-"
Before Will could finish, a small, lizard like creature with wings, flopped out of the, what I realized was at last, egg shell, looked at me, and a bright light hit me, knocking me unconscious.
But I had a terrible feeling that I wasn't in Seattle anymore.