Hey guys! This is my first chapter for my first fic.. Hope you like it :)
Hunter's Universe - Chapter 1 ; How it started
Hunter's POV
I was watching the sky, as always... One more night of calmness in my small house... Where do I live? In an island called 'Sáluhjálp', which means 'Salvation'... Maybe it was because of the hundreds of sailors that got here telling stories about getting lost in the vastness of the ocean and finding this place in the middle of storms.. But I don't really know the exact story about how the island got it's name. What I really know was about the time. The moon was closer to the "raid point", and by my markings, today was the day of another dragon raid.
You heard it right, dragons.
By the time I saw the moon shining its way around my window map, it was almost late. I got to my feet and started my way through my house, trying to activate my "defense system". You see, I was an inventor. I created a lot of things: A clock that worked by using sunlight and moonlight, a "calendar" that showed me the day of the raids and the cycle of the Earth around the Sun, a sound machine that scares the dragons... Which I didn't know how it was working without making a single sound.. There are more things, but that is what I can explain by now.
The raid was approaching, the moon was almost in the raid point, I needed to turn my machine on by turning the lever till it starts to vibrate.
"Come on, come on! Start already!" I turned it around and around until... -clang- A metal gear had clinged on something. "...oh great! Not now, stupid machine!" I said out loud and started kicking the machine where the gear had stopped. "Let's try again, time's running short!" I said to myself as I started to turn the lever again. "Come on now! You can't fail this time!", and in some seconds the machine started, just in time. The raid had started, vikings screamed their lungs out all around the village... in the other side of the island. I lived alone in the far side of the village because of my inventions and ideas, that everyone called them just "scrap"..
I got upstairs to my window, to watch the raid with my small telescope that i made some time ago.. The village was going down and, at the same time, the dragons too... These creatures were incredible at everything! Their body structure, their ability to breathe fire, their colours! I wanted to know more about dragons... I wanted to know more about the stars in the sky... I wanted to know about everything there is.
I was called "insane" by everyone in the village because of this, my need to obtain knowledge gave me my name... I was called "Hunter the Insane", while my real name was "Hunter Vitur Drengur", came from the name of my mother and father... Who both died on a raid five years ago. They protected me by bringing me to this house where I live in today... They made sure I was safe and then they ran back to the village to protect it from the raid.
I stopped watching the village and the dragons for a second and i laid my eyes on the sky... The stars were shining as bright as the torches... It was just too beautiful to let this scene pass. I got on my way to my room to grab my drawing feather, my big book for drawings and some ink. When I was on my way back to the window, I heard something crashing right in front of my house... And then lightning.
Unknown POV
I'm hurt.. My left wing had a cut all the way over... There were arrows all around my body... I need to protect my.. my baby... I need to find somewhere safe for him to live.
I was flying with the last of my energy, carrying my only offspring in my back as far away I could from the human village. I wouldn't make it. I needed to land.. I saw my chance at one of these human houses, far from the village.. Empty.
I couldn't slow down fast enough. I tried to get my baby between my wings before I hit the ground.. I did it.
Hunter's POV
I knew it was a dragon, but why did it crash right in front of my house? What type of dragon? I dropped my stuff by the window and started to run to the stairs.. I needed to know.
Getting downstairs, I grabbed a bag with some fish and fresh water. Why? I don't know, I just had a bad feeling about the sound it did, and if it was what I thought, the dragon might need help. Why was I going to help a dragon? Because they wasn't the mindless beasts the vikings thought they were, I knew it after I learned with a Terrible Terror.. Which got killed by one of the vikings in the village. Yeah, my life had a lot of losses.
When I got to the door, I heard something else.. Well it was just the raid, vikings screaming so loud that they made Thunderdrums envious. I opened the door and.. I just didn't believe what I saw... A Skrill! A beauty... which was hurt.. His left wing was torn apart with a clean cut of a sword and his body was covered in arrows... I needed to help him.
Skrill's POV
I couldn't feel a thing.. I need to get up, I need to... Save my baby.
I tried to lift my head.. Didn't work so well. I heard something.. Humans screaming.. normal. I tried again, no luck.. I heard something out of normal.. Steps? There was a human close! I need to protect my baby!
I tried one more time, now I could move my head! I started to look around to see where the footsteps where coming from.. What I saw was just.. Different. The human didn't have a weapon, neither a helmet.. Just a bag. Maybe he was going to help me? No, humans never helped dragons! It was just a dumb thought.. I tried to get up.. No luck, just made my entire body hurt. I screamed in agony, making the human get back a little.. He said something to me, which I didn't understand. Why didn't he try to kill me? Why did he have that bag?
What I saw next was impossible.. The human grabbed a salmon from the bag and got closer to me... He was trying to feed me! I was scared.. There is something wrong with this scene.. I sniffed the fish.. It was normal.. I got a little closer to it and I ate it.. It was good! The human gave me food and it wasn't poisoned! He was really helping me.. Maybe he could help my offspring..
Hunter's POV
I still didn't believe there was a Skrill there! I needed to help! I got closer to him and... The Skrill moved its head! He was searching for something.. Me. He locked his eyes on me and tried to get up.. Fail. He fell back down and roared loudly! I got scared and I moved back a little... I needed to show that I wanted to help him. "Calm down.. I'm not gonna hurt you.."
I opened my bag and grabbed one big salmon that I had bought some hours ago.. I tried to get closer again. The dragon didn't move. When I was close to his snout, he started to sniff the fish around.. And ate it. I had fed a dragon.. The dragon looked surprised by this.. And I saw him moving his wings.. Not him.. Her!
Skrill's POV
I was in pure shock by what the human did to me.. Maybe I can trust him.. It's worth a try.
Slowly, I opened my wings that were protecting my offspring, showing to the human what I was doing.. He looked surprised! I tried to show what I wanted him to do by moving my wings in a protective manner and touched my son with my snout.. He was understanding!
He was going closer to my son.. He looked.. sad. There was something wrong it my baby? No.. The problem was in me.. I was dying and he knew that.. He wrapped his arms around my son and made some sounds which I didn't understand again..
I felt my head getting heavier and heavier.. It was my end.. At least my son was safe.. The human was protecting my baby for now.. He got closer to me and kneeled down by my side placing his hand on my head.. I tried to move some more but.. I couldn't.. This was my end...
Hunter's POV
The dragon was protecting his baby! I couldn't be more surprised now! She started to move her wings.. She was trying to tell me something.. She wanted me to protect her baby? I got closer to the little one, who was with just some small cuts, probably from the fall.. I saw something that made me sad.. she had an arrow through her chest.. right by her heart.. She was dying.. And I couldn't do anything to save her..
I wrapped my arms around the baby Skrill, "..Heh, he's heavy!" I said, just to get some of the sadness away.. Didn't work quite well as I thought it would.. I wanted to say something else for her but... I kneeled down by the side of her head and placed my hand.. She didn't move... She died... "I'll keep your baby protected.. Promise."
I was crying... Something I didn't do for a long time...
Hey! Thank you for reading the first part of my fanfiction! The updates will be slow as hell.. But I promisse, I'll update! It's just a matter of creativity! :P
HTheCrazy.
