My Pharaoh I Trust You
This is a trilogy called the 'My Pharoah' series this is the first book about Atem and a Night Fury forming a friendship. There will be war, death, and swearing. Friendship, hurt/comfort, angst, and dragons. A friendship that forms in the most unlikey of ways.
NOTE: This is NOT like HTTYD. I just use the Night Fury breed and a few other refs of the movie.
Mighty was I. A warrior of my kind, born of Lightning and Death themselves, called the Night Fury by humans and dragons alike. I was power. I was the Storm of Death.
Prologue:
The great Pharaoh rode out into the desert on horse-back. He had guards and his priests accompany him, as well as a small child of only 3 summers. The child rode in front of his father on the horse, asleep becuase the journey had started just as Ra had begun his journey across the desert sky. The Pharaoh did not tell his priests what was going on or why they had left so early. And they did not question him.
By the time Ra was nearly to the center of the sky, the group came to an oasis. The oasis was large and beautiful, blooming with lush green plants. It was nothing any of the priests had ever seen.
"Wait." The Pharaoh put up a hand to stop the others. They stopped their horses and the guards halted, "I and the priests will go alone from here."
The priests and the Pharaoh, taking his son into his arms, dismounted then they ventured further into the oasis. Before they reached the clearing in the bushes however, the Pharaoh turned to his piriests, "When we enter their domain, do everything I tell you without question. Do not use magic or give them reason to harm you. We are to pay our respects."
The priests were confused by their king's words. But they obeyed and the Pharaoh stepped forth. The priests followed and gasped. There before them were at least 10 maybe 15 dragons. The size of a small horse and with grace of a panther, the dragons lay or sat on flat topped rocks. They turned to look at the humans with lamplike eyes of light shades of yellows, purples, greens, or blues. They did not seem threatened and turned away from the humans as they approached. The dragons then turned to the higher rock and all lowered their heads. The Pharaoh kneeled with his son still held close to his chest, and the priests did the same.
A larger black dragon with dark sky blue eyes emerged from behind the rock and trees. The dragon saw the humans and gave a low rumble.
"Akunumkanon, son of Ra," The dragon spoke, wisdom and royalty was evident in her voice, "Rise."
Pharaoh Akunumkanon stood and he motioned for the priests to also rise. The dragoness then turned to the other dragons.
"Leave us." She told them. They slunk away or flew away into the trees and bushes. The dragoness turned back to the humans.
"Greetings, Death, daughter of Hel and Thor." Akunumkanon greeted.
"What brings you here, My King." Death asked.
"Does one need a reason to visit an old friend?"
Death smiled, actually smiled, pulling her scaly lips into a wide line which curved up on either side. Her eyelids drooped slightly and then she slipped from the rock like a snake or a panther and slunk toward the humans. The priests stiffened and death stood on her hind legs then pulled Akunumkanon into a hug using her wing. He laughed and exchaned the hug with one arm, giving her a firm pat on the back.
They then pulled apart and Death saw the child clining to his father's tunic, awake and obviously shy.
"And who might this one be?" She asked, gazing at the 3 summers old human child.
"Atem, my son and heir to the throne." Akunumkanon replied. Suddenly another dragon similar to the first but with gold eyes not blue, krept cautiously forward.
"I see I am not the only one with an heir." The Pharaoh pointed out. Death turned to the newcomer.
"Night Fury, the only in my clutch to survive the hatching." Death said. The smaller dragon walked up to them. Atem snuck a peek and his eyes opened wide, revealing deep crimson. He squirmed in his father's hold and Akunumkanon set his son down. Atem reached out to the golden eyed dragoness who glanced at her dame for explanation.
"This is Atem, Night Fury, future king of the humans. He shall take care of us, for his father is good and shall teach Atem in the ways of peace."
Atem took a few steps forward, reaching out to the pretty black thing, and soon got excited at nearly reaching it. Suddenly he tripped and fell. But before he could hit the grass covered ground, a warm flat-topped scaly head was under him. The head nuzzled the human's stomach and Atem giggled. He then fell back gently onto his backside and stared wide-eyed at the dragon. The dragon nuzzled him more, prodding him with her muzzle and purring as he giggled with laughter.
The humans and dragoness watched the exchange fondly. Then something unexpected happened.
"Kitty!"
They all stared at Atem. He had said his first word. And instead of being mama or daddy or even Ra, it was 'kitty'. And what was even weirder, the boy was pointing at the golden eyed dragoness. The dragoness blinked and then her eyes narrowed. She snorted and pulled away roughly, causing Atem to fall on his back. The boy gave a small 'oof' sound then stared up at the dragoness that was playing with him a few minutes before. She had backed away with a look of discust. Atem, worried he had done something wrong but not knowing how to make it better, began to cry.
Bewildered, Night Fury stared at Atem. What had she done to hurt him? She knew from her dame's teachings that when a human cries it is out of saddness. She didn't want her little Atem to be sad. Night Fury lowered her head and cautiously crept toward the boy. She wanted him to laugh again. To giggle and make her feel all warm inside. She lowered her head toward the prince and opened her mouth. The priests grew tense again, then Night Fury stuck her tongue out and gently licked the boy's tears away. They tased salty, almost like the ocean.
Atem stopped crying and was suprised to see Night Fury licking his tears away. She was making a low trill and some chirps to cheer him up. He began to giggle again and Night Fury nuzzled him more. Her little Atem was happy again, so she was happy again.
Death then gave Atem her blessings and the humans left with thanks. Atem clenched and unclenched his tiny fingers a few times as he looked back over his father's shoulder and said the word again.
"Kitty."
He was waving good-bye. Night Fury twitched her earflaps and gave a coo of aknowlagement. Atem then smiled and rested his head on his father's shoulder, a smile on his tan cherubic face.
Once the humans were out of sight another of the black dragons slunk from the darkness. He had bloodred eyes which were cold and hateful.
"Why do you waste your time with those creatures?" He growled. Night Fury glared at the newcomer.
"They are still young, Darceon." Death replied as she turned to return to her cave.
"They are weak. And the little brat with them looks unfit to rule our land." Darceon scoffed, "When he grows up I bet he'll cowar at the very sight of us. If I were in charge I would have spit out his bones by no-"
Darceon didn't get a chance to finish, Night Fury had him pinned to the rocks.
"How dare you insult not only my dame but the future KING of Egypt!" Night Fury snarled, "How dare you! I will kill you slowly and painfully if you lay so much as a CLAW on that boy!"
"Have feelings for him great 'Deathly Storm'?" Darceon mocked. He used Night Fury's title to excpessially set her on edge. She growled in his face and her paw whent deeper into his throat, almost cutting off his windpipes. Darceon tried to swipe her away but realised he was trapped and gave up, slumping in her hold showing grudging submission. Night Fury released him and he glared at her before slipping back into the cover of the exotic plants.
"Do not take it personally, Night Fury." Death said, "Darceon has been through much hardship as a hatchling. He was led to believe the humans are all as cruel as Galbrox."
"I understand, mother..." Night Fury bowed, "But I can't imagine what will happen to Atem if Darceon get's his claws on him..."
A few things to point out;
1.) If any of you have seen the movie 'How to Train Your Dragon' then you'll have understood why I named Night fury's mother 'Death'. It's because in the Night Fury description in the Dragon Manual-or book-it says the Night Fury is the unholy off-spring of 'Lightning' and 'Death' itself. I was guessing that Thor-god of thunder-and Hel-godess of the underworld-in Norse mythology, became dragons for a time and created Death nd Lightning, thus creating the Night Fury breed. Death was the first Night Fury made and in this story they are called 'Shadow Kreepers' as a breed since one of the dragon's is actually named 'Night Fury'.
2.) I'm not sure if babies are able to talk at the age of 3 but I am gonna pretent Atem is smart for his age. At least smart enough to talk.
3.) In Egypt fics I've read they say that the people keep track of their age through summers. Like say if I was from Egypt I'd be 15 summers old. So I used that.