Five years ago
AMBER'S POV
I was drifting across the open seas, as free as a dragon. I ran away from my home because I was going to be forced to marry a complete stranger who I had never even heard of.
I had left my Gaelic home waters months ago. I had no clue what waters I was in, but frankly I didn't care. I was free. I noticed an island about a nautical mile off my starboard bow and I changed my course and I was now heading for the island.
When I beached my boat, I hopped off it and I put a hand on my sword, ready for an ambush at the drop of a hat. I continued walking, and as I did, I kept on finding these old traps that were rusting away. I set all of them off with sticks so that way, no animals would get caught in them because I could tell that these traps were old, and forgotten about.
As I was going along, I found what looked like a really large black yak caught in one of these traps. I slowly approached it, while getting my sword out and ready incase this animal wasn't what I was thinking it was and was dangerous.
When I got to the beast, I saw that the fur was actually scales, and the tail was very long. As I looked at it, I realized it was a dragon, but not just any dragon, it was a NIGHT FURY! I ran for the nearest tree and I looked at the beast, but it remained still. I kept my sword at the ready just incase.
I went around it carefully, making my way to its head. When I got there, it was looking right back at me, but it still blinked! It was alive!
I saw that it's right foreleg was caught in the trap, but the dragon was so thin, that it wouldn't survive much longer in this trap. I ran back to my boat and grabbed a few large fish from below deck and I ran back to the poor thing and I set a fish down right in front of it.
It slowly lifted it's head and ate the fish. I smiled to myself, now knowing that it still had a chance to survive. I set the rest of the fish down and I went to its trapped leg and I grasped the thing and I pulled as hard as I could, the trap slowly opening, until it locked open and I got a good look at the dragon's injury.
It must have been caught in that horrid trap for days. All the scales and skin were gone and what was left, was the exposed muscle and I knew that by looking at it, the leg from the wound down, was infected, and I knew I had to amputate the leg in order for me to save the dragon's life.
I found a bunch of dragon root, and I burned that, waving the smoke into the dragon's nostrils, putting it to sleep for a while. I ran back to my ship and got my biggest axe I could find. I grabbed my other axe and went back to the dragon and quickly built a very hot fire.
While I waited for my biggest axe to get red hot, I took my pants off and I used that to cut the circulation off to the leg so I wouldn't have to worry as much about blood going everywhere. I tied it as tight as I possibly could and when I checked my axe, I saw that it was ready, so, I took the other axe and I covered my mouth and nose before bringing the axe down as hard and fast as I could, going clean through the leg. Before I could puke, I grabbed the red hot axe and pressed that against the wound, to cauterize it, to keep it from bleeding out. I kept the axe on for about thirty seconds, before taking it off and seeing that the whole wound was cauterized.
I dug a hole and kicked the severed foot into it before burying it and when I lowered my shirt, all I could smell was burned flesh, I puked in the bushes a few times before I went back to the poor dragon. I had to know if it was a boy or a girl, so after taking a quick peek, I saw that it was a girl.
I ran back to my ship and put a new pair of pants on before grabbing a basket of fish from my cargo hold and going back to the dragon who I had decided to call Grainne Mhaol, after the pirate queen of my home of Ireland. She was starting to wake up so I set the fish down and I got my sword out because I had no idea how she was going to react to this.
She groaned a lot and rolled around for a minute or two before slowly opening her eyes. I was trembling like a leaf and I was clutching my sword as tightly as I could. She looked at me and then her leg, before setting her head down and rolling her head to the side.
She wanted me to decide her fate.
I slowly lowered my sword and set it on the ground before offering her a nice big salmon. She sniffed it once before taking the fish. I smiled and I dropped my sword on the ground and I slowly put my hand out to her nose. She pushed her head into my nose and let out a little chirp.
After spending a few hours cutting down a tree and chopping it up to decent sized pieces for more fire wood for the night, I sat down on the stump exhausted. I noticed a small log off to the side, and after looking at it and Grainne Mhaol's leg, I got my knife out and started carving.
After carving for five hours, I set my knife down and looked at my work. I had just carved a dragon leg. I carefully put it to her leg stump and she flinched. "Sorry girl." I held it above her leg stump and saw that it was the right thickness.
I took my pants off her leg and I folded those up and set them aside.
I grabbed a cod fish out of the basket and I skewered it before putting it over the fire, to let it cook. She moved closer to me and put her head in my lap. I gently stroked her head a few times before I turned my fish to let the other side cook.
When I was done eating, I threw the bones into the ocean, and noticed a village about three kilometers away. I decided I would check it out in the morning. Maybe they could help me heal Grainne mhaol. But just incase the village had already seen me and was planning an attack on me while I was sleeping, I set up a few quick booby traps and I grabbed my blunderbuss and loaded it full with my own signature mixture of grapeshot, bits of iron, and nails.
I grabbed my bed roll and went back to her and laid it out and I quickly fell into a light sleep.
