Here it is, the first chapter of my modern AU story. I just decided to go ahead and let this be an only dragon universe, unless you guys have any objections. Please let me know if you do, I can always work things around y'know? Anyways, if you came here from Crescent's Deadly Touch, my profile, or you just found this story, hello. I do want to say one last thing before we get into this: If you guys want humans, monsters, or both in this story, humans will be the same size as dragons, as will monsters, but monsters won't have human forms, monsters will be anthropomorphic. Anthropomorphic simply means human-like, think…I don't know, a furry. There we go, think around the terms of a furry. Don't search furry in the search bar, I learned that the hard way. Think Zootopia actually. Note: I have nothing against furries. Let's get into this (one last thing, do you guys want a font other than Calibri? I'll change it to Times New Roman if you guys want.) As for why this story is so late, I'll explain in the ending author's note.
Sick of it, chapter one: Introduction to the story.
Calcite (submitted by Lynxtheicewing)
My name is Calcite, I'm a sand wing/sea wing hybrid. I'm a dragoness that loves reading, gaming, and writing. Who thought someone could be so interested in things so completely different? I'm somewhat shy, but when I'm around the few friends I have currently, I love to joke and become really enthusiastic. Back to books, the only books I'm not really interested in, are ones written by the night wings a long time ago, they're interesting, but most of them have been debunked. I do have a brother (I didn't know if Limestone was supposed to be boy or girl, I hope this suffices Lynx) name Limestone, who is also a sea wing/sand wing hybrid. Now, onto my actual appearance, I have gills on my neck and my scales are a dusty copper color, like wet sand, but I often try to keep them as clean as I can. Kind of ironic, huh? Anyways, my eyes are a shining turquoise blue and I can see in the dark, by choice. I have two horns on my head that curve back and slightly down. I don't have barbed tail, which I'm kind of thankful for, since I don't have to worry about stabbing anyone with it. I do have a padded tail though, If I ever needed to fight, I wouldn't exactly have to worry about missing a barbed tail. Limestone on the other claw, he has more sand wing in him than sea wing, he does have gills and the ability to see in the dark, but he has two barbed tails. Good thing he's a very careful dragon and patient dragon. Limestone has dusty yellow scales, and dust copper colored eyes. Limestone has two horns on his head that curve back and then inwards, like a spiral (except they don't make a full spiral). Now that descriptions are out of the way, y'know how siblings are either really different or really similar? Y'know, there's not much in between. We were lucky to be the siblings that are really similar and get along very well. Our cousins on the other claw…they're polar opposites and often get into fights…I'm one year older than my brother (I'm doing human years in this story, it's easier that way.) and I'm a Sophomore in high school, so that makes me fifteen, and Limestone fourteen. Now, onto the first day of school (I'm thinking of making Calcite and Limestone Venture Scouts, what do you think? Let me know your thoughts!).
6:00 AM-Calcite
I heard my alarm go off as I woke up. I groggily came to and hit the "off" button. I gave myself a good slap to the face and rolled out of bed.
"Here goes another day of school." I thought to myself. I wish I could just relax in the water instead of going to school today, we only had one week left of school, and I was about to turn sixteen. My brother and I lived on our own, and we were only able to do so because of my secret, but, more about that later. I was just glad that the school was only a about two minutes of walking away. Dragons weren't allowed to fly until they turned eighteen, and when they pass one year of flight school. When dragons turn sixteen, they're allowed to glide, and obviously drive. I was also glad we lived right next to a grocery store. As for why we live on our own, our father died on a mission for who I work for a few years ago, and mother just simply disappeared last year. I work for a SWAT team, I don't often get involved directly, more of things like getting into databases, and hacking doors open. That kind of stuff, however, sometimes I drop by and the team will give me shooting lessons, they said once I turn sixteen I can start doing easy, small missions with them. I personally am content with that. I haven't told Limestone yet, and I've only told one of my friends my secret. I trust this friend with my life, she is actually a night wing named Crescelia. I may not like night wing history, but I'm fine with night wings in general. Except the ones that act high and mighty, and act like jerks. I backhanded one of those, kind of jerks last year, it felt so good. He still hasn't stopped his advances on me, but I just keep ignoring him. I'm not exactly popular, and I'm fine with that, I guess my looks are just distracting (in a pretty way). However, Crescelia sure is, Crescelia is one of three, night wing heirs to the "throne". Crescelia doesn't really care about her popularity though, she'd rather have real friends (I'm not trying to be rude if you're popular, not all popular people have friends that just want to use their popularity. Some people are like Crescelia.) Anyways, back to school. I quickly put two pieces of toast in the toaster, got out some honey, and took out a cold fish from the fridge. I walked to Limestone's room and knocked on the door.
"Hey, you awake!" I yelled through the door.
"Yeah! I just got out of the shower!" Limestone yelled back.
"Oh right, a shower. Completely forgot about that…Oh well, I'll just take one tonight." I shrugged, took the toast out of the toaster, spread the honey on it, and stuck the fish between the honey covered toast. I learned to appreciate the weird taste. My attention was turned to Limestone, who had just entered the room. I waved as I ate the honey, toast, fish sandwich. He waved back and smiled. He then put some waffles in the toaster. I quickly finished my sandwich and grabbed our packs. I set Limestone's pack next to him, and I put mine on my back. I quickly made sure my wings were comfortable and checked the time on my phone. I looked back and saw Limestone quickly eating one of his waffles. They had just gotten out of the toaster. He was trying not to burn his claws with his other piece of toast. I rolled my eyes, shook my head, and smiled.
"C'mon, we still have to get through the last week of school." I called out to my brother as I walked out the door. He walked out and then I locked the door behind us. Limestone sighed out of relief as we walked.
"Man, I'm so glad summer break is almost here." Limestone remarked. I smiled, not only because I'd have more time to spend with friends and Limestone, but because I was also going to actually start going on missions with my SWAT team. There were two members especially that I liked in that group, they are both a few years older than me. It was rain wing and night wing couple, though the rain wing never wanted to admit it. Their names are Glory and Deathbringer. I love those two, they're great. While I was distracted by my thoughts, I hadn't realized that the school was right in front of me. I shook my head and said a quick goodbye to Limestone. He waved as he walked to his own classes. As I walked to my classes, I heard the usual talk about a certain YouTuber that had blown up over the year. I shook my head and smiled, I knew that certain YouTuber. That YouTuber was one of my sea wing friends, he was really into gaming and animating. His YouTube name is INeedCoffeeGaming and INeedCoffeeStories (I don't know if either of those two actually exist, so if they do, just know I didn't intentionally take those names). His real-life name is Phantomstorm, though we all just call him Phantom. He is a rain wing and sea wing hybrid, though no one on YouTube knows that that's his actual name. I planned on telling him about my SWAT operations after school, he made me and Crescelia make an oath that we would never tell anyone. I held onto my backpack as I walked into the classroom.
"I can't wait until school is over." I thought to myself. I didn't hate school, but I didn't really like it either. School was more of a, "I just want to work claws on with my SWAT team," for me. Here goes another day of school.
As usual, after Math and Science, I'd walk down the hall, get a few insults from bratty dragonesses, ignore the insults, throw a few myself (my favorite is: You're a sad excuse for a rotten strawberry), and then walk into the cafeteria. I quickly grabbed a tray, got some food on it, and shoot, too late. I sighed as I saw a night wing, a sand wing, and a sky wing walk up to me, they were all males. I groaned and gave my tray to Crescelia.
"Just take this and eat with Phantom, I'll take care of this." I grumbled. Crescelia simply shrugged and walked over to wherever Phantom was, probably at a table closest to a corner, trying not to be noticed. I turned to the three males, specifically the night wing.
"What do three want?" I rolled my eyes.
"C'mon babe, don't you want to hang out sometime?" The football jock, which was the night wing, named Nyx asked.
"No, I really wouldn't. Don't you even bother, Stratus, Sandstone." I glared at the sky wing and sand wing respectively. They were about to reply when the four of us turned our attention to screaming.
"Quit it! Stop! Haven't any of you ever seen a wraith before?!" I heard a male yelling. I rushed over to crowd and pushed myself through it. I saw a weird looking dragon dodging food trays. The ones that "hit" him, simply went through him.
"What the heck are you idiots doing?!" I shouted, which ceased all the noise. I shook my head and walked up to the dragon, before turning to face my classmates.
"Are you deaf?! Haven't you been listening to Web's history lessons?! This is obviously a powerful, yet seemingly patient, wraith in dragon form!" I shouted at the group throwing food trays. I shook my head and turned to the thought to be extinct monster behind me.
"Thanks, but their trays just went right through me." The monster started to stretch.
"The name's Crescent, or Eclipse, whatever one. After all, I am two in one." The monster grinned.
"I'm afraid I have to leave, I wouldn't want to attract them to your universe." Crescent, or Eclipse, grinned. As he passed me, I felt him slid something into my pocket. I turned just in time to see him grin before he simply disappeared.
For the rest of the day, most every dragon was silent. After the school day, Limestone quickened his pace back to the house a little bit faster than usual. I head to quicken my pace to catch up with my lil bro.
"Hey, what's up?" I asked Limestone as we approached the steps to our shared house.
"Well, let's see here…We just saw a Z-class monster, (I still need your guy's and girl's inputs about the whole monster and human thing, I'm trying my best to keep this first chapter kind of neutral) at school!" Limestone shouted, I rolled my eyes and unlocked the door to the house.
"Yeah, but, nothing really happened." I replied as I set my pack on the table.
"I'm going to take a shower." I informed my brother as I walked to my room, leaving Limestone gawking in the kitchen.
As I walked out of the shower, with new clothes on, I reminded myself about the object Crescent, or Eclipse, whichever one, slid into my pocket. I fetched my shorts, since it was somewhat hot here when summer approaches, and pulled out the object. I looked at the object really closely. It was a necklace, it had a silver chain and a dragon with its wings spread out, this dragon was made of some sort of gray/grey calcite. What a coincidence…I slid the necklace on and walked out of my room and into the kitchen. I had spent around thirty minutes taking a shower, two and half drying, and about two minutes finding and getting new clothes on. I found the Limestone had most of his homework finished. I smiled and got to work on my own. Tomorrow is another day…
Okay, so, this reason this is so late is because of NYLT, which stands for Nation Youth Leadership Training, it's for Scouts (Which means Boy Scouts, which is technically just Scouts now, Venture Scouts, Sea Scouts, and I'm pretty sure it also includes Varsity and Girl Scouts.) So, I'll tell you about that. I arrive at Latimer reservation and get registered and all that. I then walk over to my patrol, the Dragon patrol, cool huh? So, I walk over, and our patrol guide, Jordyn, is yelling and waving her hands at me going: "We got another dragon!" That was such a good way to make a nervous, socially awkward Life Scout (Boy Scout, Scout, rank before Eagle) not nervous and socially awkward. Anyways, so, I was there for six days bonding with a group of people I had never met, six people, including me. Anyways, five out of the six days, we had a tropical storm come in (though, Friday and Saturday weren't bad, since Friday it only rained in the morning, and Saturday it didn't rain at all). On Wednesday, all my stuff got wet, minus my backpack, sleeping pad, and sleeping bag, as well as my clean clothes, my dirty clothes and shower towel weren't so lucky. Anyways, it was fun though, I got a "spirit feather" for yelling at my tent, that was fun. They really liked it when we showed enthusiasm, like when my friend, who I'll call G, had three tents collapse on him. Yep, G had three tents collapse on him. My social awkwardness was put in a paper shredder after NYLT, I have almost none left. Also, we were shouting and singing the whole week, so now my voice is really horse. Anyways, sorry for this being so late, and don't forget to leave constructive criticism, reviews, and what you think about the monster and human idea.