Disclaimer:I do not own Dragon Prince. If I did... I would make King Harrow say the n-word, just for fun.
Chapter 1: You dumb human
"Run, Callum, run!" Rayla and Callum were running for their lives from Sol Regem. The Sun Dragon was soaring through the air hot on their trail. He opened his mouth. A large fireball started to form in his throat.
"Heads up!" Callum shouted! It was hard for him to run while carrying the Dragon Prince. Azymondias wasn't heavy, but running while carrying the baby dragon really took its toll on the prince's stamina. 'This isn't going to work. I can't keep running like this." He thought to himself. "Think, Callum, think. Wait what if... No stupid plan, Callum, just run!" He ran faster. The dragon fired it's deadly fire blast. Fire spread out from his mouth in a giant cone. It was about half a meter away from them. They could feel the dreadful heat on their backs, scorching like the sun in the desert.
"Jumo to the side!!!" Rayla yelled out as she and Callum jumped on opposite sides of the Fire cone. They survived only a few minor scorch marks. The fire barrage passed them and dissapated. Sol Regem flew up to the sky and started to circle around.
"He's coming around!" Rayla notified before she started looking around. The mesa was big, dry and empty, there were some holes in the walls, but not big enough to hide in, until... "Over there, quick!" Rayla started to run towards a small cave opening. Just big enough to fit everyone in. Callum followed behind. Sol Regem, eyeballed them with his working eye, he started to descend, opening his mouth to prepare for another fire blast. Fire started to form in his throat.
"Here it comes!" Callum shouted as he ran. His running was getting slower and slower. Zym was whympering in his arms. Callum tightened his embrace to keep him safe. "Don't worry Zym, I got you." Rayla was already at the cave entrance. She turned around to witness in horror as Callum was lagging behind and Sol Regem was about to fire his deadly fire blast.
"Callum!" She cried out at her friend!
Cal turned his head to look at the Dragon. "I'm not gonna make it, unless..." He stopped dead in his tracks and turned to face the Sun Dragon.
"What are you doin'!?"Rayla shouted in horror. She knew her human friend was foolish and reckless and she hated that about him. But risking the life of the Future King of The Dragons was too much." If you die, I'll kill you!"
Callum quickly drew the lightning rune. "Fulminis!" He lunged his arm forward. Lightning sprang from his finger towards the Dragon who fired his cone of fire to block it. The fire started to overwhelm Callum's lightning spell. His life was on the line so he had to use everything he got. "Alright Sky, give me all you got." Suddenly a massive amount of Sky energy flood his body. It was like he was the Sky Arcanum itself. The lightning grew into a massive storm of lightning bolts shooting out of his fingertips. Rayla was just watching in awe. She couldn't believe her eyes. It was bigger and more powerful than any Fulminis spell she'd seen before. It pushed back the fire. Sol Regem noticed and turned up the heat on his fire. The two attacks clashed and were in a stalemate. They danced merged and dissappeared at the point of impact. On the sides, the flames and lightning dispersed into different direction, creating a magnificent display of light and power. At first Callum started to get the advantage, slowly pushing back the flames. But Sol Regem was still charging through the sky at him. His flames getting stronger and more concentrated, pushing Callum's lightning bolts further and further back.
"CALLUM!!!!!" Rayla shouted. The fire blast grew bigger and bigger, it pushed back the lightning faster and faster. Callum's spell was overwhelmed. The flames engulphed his whole body.
"Aaah!" He stood up from his bed in shock. He was breathing heavily. His heart was racing. Sweat was dripping from his head. He felt incredibly thirsty. There was a bowl with water on a Rock right next to him. He took it and drank it all in one go. After quenching his thirst, he started to look around. He was in a cave, about the size of the inside of Villads' boat. There was another sleeping mat, on the other side, most likely Rayla's. Zym was sleeping in between the two mats on the rocky floor. He looked around for Rayla, but she was nowhere to be seen.
"What happened? Was that a dream? Or was it... a memory?" He slowly got up from bed. He slowly snuk past Zym to not wake him up. "Poor thing. Barely a week old and already going through so much trouble." He thought to himself as he snuck out of the cave to look for Rayla. Outside the sun was shining brightly on the yellowish rocky hills. There was no one around for miles. "Where's Rayla? Oh no, did the Sol Regem burn her to a crisp?" Callum started to worry about his elven friend, before realizing. "Wait, no, she must be here, otherwise who would have set up camp. Is that dragon still around?" He looked around, but there was no sings of life.
"Rayla! Rayla where are you!?" There was no response. He walked around to the rocky hills, staying close to the cave, so he doesn't get lost. He climbed up a particularly large hill to get a better view. When he got to the top he could see something in the distance. It was a river cutting through the desert. It had small fertile patches on each side. It was a beautiful sight to behold. "Rayla's probably looking for some food or something, sooo..." He sat down and started scetching the scenery in his scetchbook.
About twenty minutes past, Callum had finished his scetch of the river a while ago and was looking at some of his older drawings. He was looking at a drawing of Claudia. "How could you do it, Claudia? How could you betray us like that?" He started talking to his drawings "I thought we had something. Were you just following orders? Who's orders? Lord Viren, your dad? What are you going to do now? To us? To Ezran? Are you a friend or a for?" Shivers went down his spine, just thinking about it. He turned the page. It was the drawings of Rayla he made after Rayla went to help the injured dragon." Rayla... I didn't trust you at first. Come to think of it I don't know if I still trust you one hundred percent. You're always hiding something from me. From us. But even with that you... You stood by me when my old friends betrayed us. You were a voice of reason and a shoulder to cry on when I needed them most... Everything I knew about elves was wrong. You..."
"Callum?" A familiar voice called out. He closed his scetchbook and turned around to look who it was. It was Rayla who was holding a small bundle of fish.
"Rayla!" He stood up to face his Elven companion "I've been looking for you."
"You're awake...?" She stood completely still. Her voice was cold. Her expression was a mixture of "I'm glad you're alive" and "I want to kill you".
"Uhh yeah, I think. I had this weird dream. I was running from a dragon, then I used fulminis to block it's attack and then..."
"That... Was not a dream... It really happened."
"But I got burnt to a crisp in my dream!" He yellped.
"Well obviously that part didn't happen . You were, almost, burnt to a crisp. You're lucky Zym was there." She was scolding him like the baker would scold Ezran after he stole his jelly tarts.
"Z-zym saved me?"
"You don't remember?"
"No, it's" Callum put his hand above his forehead. And closed his eyes. "It's very blurry, I... Can't quite make sense of it.. ."
Rayla looked towards the cave The Dragon Prince was sleeping in.
(A/N: Everything in Italics is Rayla telling the story)
"We were almost to the cave..."
Callum was doing his best to repel the massive barrage of fire, with his Fulminis spell, but the fires just kept getting stronger and stronger.
"It looked like you were about to give in."
"CALLUM!!!" Rayla shouted from afar and started running back to try and rescue him.
"But then, something happened. Something..."
"It...It happened so fast, I-I don't know how to..." Rayla tried to explain.
"Just spit it out." Callum demanded to know what happened.
"Alright..."
"You were about to get burned to a crisp when..."
Zym jumped out of Callum's grip and looked towards the coming flames.
"Zym, what are you doing?" Callum shouted to the baby dragon while still holding on to the spell. Zym closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened them, his eyes were glowing in bright cyan. He threw his front feet in the air, while balancing on his hind legs before slamming his feet into the ground unleashing a deafening roar.
"Wait? Did you say roar?" Callum asked.
"Yes..." Rayla simply replied.
"...a mighty roar that shaked the sky itself. It definitely sounded like Zym, but louder, fiercer and stronger..."
Suddenly there was a strong gust of wind. The wind swooshed in to support Callum's lightning and pretty quickly dispersed the Sun Dragon's attack like it was nothing. Sol Regem was stunned. The rapid gust of wind threw the big dragon off balance. He was rapidly flapping his wings, trying to maintain his balance, but he failed. The gust of wind propelled the Sun Dragon far away from them. Zym's spell, started fading, more and more until he closed his eyes and collapsed on the ground. Callum was disoriented by the gust and his fulminis spell that drained his last bits of strength and started to fall to the ground.
"It was like nothing I've ever seen before."
Rayla quickly grabbed the two Princes and quickly dragged them to the cave, before Sol Regem decided to come for round three.
"Sol Regem circled around the area for a wee bit, but couldn' find us."
When the sun Dragon regained his balance he swooshed in again to check where his pray was, but couldn't find anything. He landed on the ground and started walking around. He went by the cave they wee in and peered his big lizard eye inside. Rayla was quietly standing back to the wall out of sight, holding the two unconscious Princes. The dragon's eye looked towards the left and the right. He gave a frustrated grunt, before turning around and walking away. He spread his wings and flew off into the distance.
"Wow, I... Wait, Zym did all that?" Callum asked.
"Yeah, pretty unbelievable, is it? He's the future King of the Dragons, alright."
"Yeah, well I guess I was lucky that Zym..."
"You could have gotten killed again!" The elf assassin suddenly snapped at him. "What were you thinkin'? Tryin' to challenge one of the strongest sun dragons in Xadia?" Callum was taken aback by his friend's sudden change of mood.
"I-I guess I thought that since I can understand the Sky Arcanum now, that..." Callum tried to defend himself, but Rayla stepped forward interrupting him again.
"Exchange blows with a powerful sun dragon?"
"Well... Yes...? At least, buy you some time, or try to fend off it's attack until it went away I... Thought it would work..." He paused for a second. "But it didn't... If it weren't for Zym... I... We..." He starred into the distance thinking about his choices. The choices that almost got him killed and Azymondias killed. He turned to face Rayla again. As soon as their eyes met, her expression softened. "I acted foolish, I know, it's just... I got so excited that I can finally do real magic that I... wanted to..." Rayla didn't let him finish, she went up to him and pulled him into a tight embrace. "You're alive, at least." Tears started pouring from her eyes. "You dumb human!" More tears started pouring and she started to cry.
"R-Rayla..." He started, but couldn't finish his sentence, he just wrapped his arms around her and held her close until she stoppedm
"Callum?" She almost whispered.
"Yes, Rayla?"
"Why do you always do this? Riskin' your life..." She wanted to scream it out, but it came out soft and tired. "I can't bear to watch it."
"Rayla I had no idea that you, felt that way, I..." She pushed herself out of the embrace.
"Do you have any idea how important it is to get a human to return The Dragon Prince to his mother? It would finally bring peace to the world. And that won't happen if that human gets himself and the baby Dragon killed along the way. Don't you understand Callum! Xadia needs you! The world needs you... I..." Rayla started to get nervous." Callum, I... I..." Callum's eyes widened as she was about to say the last word when she heard rumbling.
"Excuse me, I haven't had breakfast yet? You were saying?" Callum, put his hands on his stomach.
"Ohh, well if that's the case I'll go make us some food." the elf quickly changed the subject "Hope you like Scorpionfish!" She wiggled the fish in front of him with an innocent looking smile. They had little stingers on their back fins.
"Uhm... Never tried one, but sure. Uhm, what were you going to say earlier?"
"Oh that? Forget it. I'll go prepare the food."
"Huh? Forget what? Rayla!" Callum was confused.
"Just forget it!" With that she leaped towards the cave with the fish still in hand.
"Rayla! Forget what!?" He called her out, before snapping back at her "Alright then. Keep your secrets!" Callum was getting tired of all her little secrets. She was hiding something again, he knew it? But what? Why does she always do this? He sighed, sat down, opened a fresh page of his scetchbook and started to draw.
Author's Note: Hope you all enjoyed the first chapter. Feel free to leave me some feedback. I'm mostly doing this for fun, but I want to get better at storytelling and I love improving myself. I can't promise I'll post often since University got my hands full with projects and exams, but I'll do my best if you guys like it. Peace out.