Chapter Two - Only a memory, from long ago.

"My only desire, is to learn to fly."

She jolted awake with a start. The girl rubbed her eyes, attempting to let them adjust to the dull light of the sun peeping through the canopy above her. It was almost evening, and her mother still had not returned. Today was supposed to be a rigorous training day, but the dragon had to leave suddenly. Her mother never told her where she was going, but the girl always imagined that the dragon was hunting. She imagined her mother soaring high above the clouds, looking for prey. Her string of thoughts was soon interrupted by the sound of her stomach.

"Oy," she sighed "I'm starving." The girl pushed herself to her feet, and began to look around for something to eat. The dragon always left her to find her own food, considering she was well old enough to hunt for herself. "I'll show her, someday I'll be able to fly alongside her, and join the hunt!"

The though of flying brought images from her dream back into her mind. She knew she needed to go back to the nest and check the egg, but in her heart, she knew that her soon-to-be brother was fine. Though she had been out for some hours, she believed that she would be able to sense if the egg had been in any real danger. But still, ominous thoughts hung around her. It had been the sixth time she had had the same dream. Could it be a precognition?

The shaking of the ground brought her back to reality. Her mother was back, and she ran to great her. "Tannin, you're late for training!" The girl said firmly.

"The teacher is never late, and a child should never talk back to her mother." Tannin replied, looking deeply into the girl's eyes. Unable to hold the gaze coming from the dragon, the girl looked away quickly and sighed with defeat.

"Shall we begin?" The dragon asked before laying beside a dark blue egg. The girl nodded. And so began a night filled with training.

She would learn so much from her mother. But she would never learn to fly.


- 1 month later.

The girl found herself waking up in a cold sweat to the same dream that had been haunting her for some time. The dream was always the same, and the same feeling of dread clung to her. Tonight was different though, it was worse.

It was due time for her new brother to hatch. She and, Tannin both knew it was going to be a boy. They both had waited for this moment for 2 months, but Tannin was away again. She laid close to egg, keeping her new sibling warm. She had promised Tannin she would safe guard the egg. And nothing was more fierce than an over-protective sibling. But even the girl wouldn't be able to protect the egg from the horror that she faced in her dream. But it was only dream. It was only a dream?

The girl began to drift off to sleep again, but she immediately came to when she felt the ground shake beneath her. But even she did not have to look up to realize that the newcomer was not her mother. It was the same feeling she always had post-dream, that clung to her now. A nightmare come to life, she put herself between the egg and the milky black dragon in front of her. But everything from that moment on happened so fast, but lasted an eternity.

Before she could react, the dragon unleashed it's fiery black breath. Trying to guard egg, she used all the magic power she could muster, but even she could not save her brother. She laid on the ground helpless where the egg had been.

'I'll never learn to fly... I'll never fly beside my brother, or my mother' Was her last thought before she felt the heat against her skin once more. But this wasn't her end. She did not see her mother come back. Tannin had placed herself between the girl, and the black menace.

Suddenly, everything became quiet. Too quiet. And when the girl opened her eyes: both dragons were gone. She was alone.