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Claen'tor: This is my prelude to the events of the fic I'm writing in Fire Emblem. No muses, no worries, except maybe I threaten you once or twice. Now that I have that done, on with the fic!
Chapter 1: Arrival

Cale approached the continent from above with Jasith riding his back. "We'll be landing on Elibe momentarily," he said to his wife of two years. They were flying in from Ershal, a continent on the other side of the planet.

Aria saw the white wyvern approaching. "A white wyvern? Let's check it out, Alar." She vectored her pegasus in the direction of the approaching wyvern, intent on driving away the beast, keeping Bern out of Ilia.

"Cale! A pegasus!" Jasith called. Indeed, there was a pegasus incoming at high speed. "Is that... a rider?"

Aria charged, lance extended, then halted when she saw the rider atop the wyvern. A woman. On a wyvern! Unfortunately, Alar could not stop soon enough. "Look out, Lady!"

Cale smoothly rolled away from the charging pegasus. "That was close, Jasith. Why don't you speak to the rider? I'll land so we don't have any more aerial engagements."

Jasith called to the strange woman. "Why don't we talk on the ground? Follow Cale here." She pats Cale's back, indicating that he could dive now. Cale dove steeply, enjoying the feel of air rushing past his wings. The ground approached quickly.

Aria was taken aback. The woman wanted to talk? "Let's go, Alar!" She urged him to follow the wyvern in the dive.

Cale pulled up just short of the ground, then coasted to a smooth landing in a clearing among the trees. "It is safe to get off now." Jasith hopped lightly off of Cale's back, and let him revert to his natural form, a handsome human with snow-white hair and dragon wings.

Aria landed lightly, and dismounted. "Where is your wyvern, Lady?"

Cale bristled. "WYVERN! Never call the noble race of dragons wyverns, miss...!"

Aria was confused. "Did you just call yourself a dragon, sir? And my name is Aria."

Jasith smiled. "Don't mind Cale. He's my husband. But why did you call him a wyvern?"

"Wait... you mean..." Aria's eyes went wide.

"I'm a part-dragon. What of it? Aren't there dragons here on Elibe?" Cale opted to lean against a tree, eyebrow raised.

Aria stared. Pa...part-DRAGON? She took in the strange man, his pure white wings, snow white hair, sculpted physique.

Jasith frowned. "Cale, I thought you had important relatives here."

"I do! Or at least I did. But the records are almost one thousand years old, a lot might have changed since then." Cale looked at the young woman across the clearing, staring at him. "Are you going to stand there all day or are you going to help us?"

Aria snapped out of it. "What do you need help with?"

"Do you know of the glacial dragons of the Nlect Mountains?" Cale asked.

"What? There are no dragons around here. Haven't been since the Scouring, about one thousand years ago. Never heard of the Nlect Mountains either." Aria moved forward. "Can I touch them?"

Cale was busy processing the fact that all of the dragons were... gone... "Hmm, what?"

Aria tried again. "Can I touch your wings?"

Cale wasn't paying attention to Aria. "Hmm, yeah, okay..." Cale took off the pack with Jasith's change of clothes. "You were saying before, you needed to change?"

Jasith took the pack. "Yes, I'll be back in a second." Jasith went into the trees to change.

Cale felt something touching his wings. "Hey!"

"You said I could touch them," Aria said. "How is it possible that you are part-...dragon?"

"Easy. My mother was half dragon and my father was a human. Simple," Cale couldn't see the issue.

"Okay..." There was an uncomfortable silence as Jasith changed.

"Why was there a war? Why are my relations gone?" Cale asked.

Aria wasn't sure. "I... don't know. There supposedly a great arguement, it escalated. Humans attacked first. The dragons disappeared soon afterward and humans took over..."

"..." Cale frowned.

Jasith came back. "Well?"

"No dice," Cale replied, "They seem to be gone..." Cale vented, anger being fought back. -Several trees lose their bottom half, then the forest around the glade crumples, lacking roots- "WHY?"

End Chapter

Claen'tor: Sorry about the sudden ending. There will be more. I have some plans for Aria, which you'll find out later. Pleeeze reveiw! Ta!