So Dragon Lords has come out on top, so far though. The poll will continue to stay open. As for Atem's Starlit Seraph I will complete it but since my mistake I'm going through it carefully making sure everything is (almost) perfect. Allow me to tell you about the poll situation. While Dragon Lords could stay number one, let's say that one day Bound could suddenly become first and that would tell me that people want update of it. I'd call it update by demand. (sort of.)

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Dragon Lords

Chapter 1

In a mountain system that loomed over the green plains fed by a glittering blue river that snaked through the land and slipped behind the mountains to another kingdom far, far off, the sun was shining brightly. The green plains had a few odd castle ruins still standing but wind and time were slowly wearing the stones down.

It was spring in the plains below, early spring in the higher elevated mountains. Brightly colored flowers were starting to spread out their colorful petals of blues, purples, reds, yellows, and oranges while the trees were starting to flower themselves or grow back their tiny bright green leaves so they could gather the much stronger sunlight.

Massive mountain peaks still glittered with snow that seemed to reflect the light. The mountain rivers were gaining speed and power with the melting of the snow and changing seasons.

Animals were returning and stirring too. Deer munched on the new grass while even the mean spirited unicorns were resting in the sunlight, not even bothering to be grumpy after months of forbidden and unmerciful cold.

On the highest peak in the mountain a flash of bright sapphire blue could be seen slipping through the snow and rocks.

Upon closer inspection, the moving color was not just any animal, but a dragon. A female with a swan-like neck, a strong and nicely proportioned body with a long sinuous tail, her spine was covered in silver spikes and ended at her tail with three large spikes that made a dangerous weapon. Her horns, teeth, and claws were the same polished silver.

She was fairly large too; larger than most dragons in this world and it was a hint to her true status among dragon kind. A dragon that had silver markings, larger than most was the sign of a dragon god or goddess, and in this case, goddess.

The female dragon's blue eyes rimmed with silver flickered back and forth, her shoulders were stiff. She was on the alert for something . . .

A roar from above made the female look up to see a black dragon the glistened like onyx in the light. Gold and violet streaked down the spine of the other dragon while his pearly white teeth and claws flashed in the light. Eyes of crimson fire burned brightly. He was shaped much like the female with the long neck and tail but his body was more bulky with the heavy scales that couldn't be penetrated by any weapon. His wings were spread out to make him appear bigger, but the blue female was not cowed.

Snarling, she snapped her wings downward, pushing herself into the air with shocking speed for something that was so big. The female's tail slammed into the black dragon's side, her silver spikes making the male lose his balance, giving the female the chance to cling to him, putting all her weight into her feet, sending them both tumbling down the peak they stood on.

Their tumbling made a deep gash in the rock, their trail visible by air and by foot. The female quickly blew a flash of blue fire, making the male back off for a second before she was met with the male's black fire.

Snarling, her tail snapped through the flames, hitting the male square in the chest, sending him stumbling backwards. Thinking she had a chance, the blue female leapt through the flames but was slammed to the side when the black's own tail caught her by the side, slamming her into the rock wall beside her.

She got back up, though her side protested, she spread her wings out that were now crackling with skyfire. She sent a bolt right under the black's feet, making him rear up on his two hind feet like a horse to avoid the dangerous bolt. The female roared in victory and slammed into the black once more, both tumbling down to an icy pool of melted mountain snow.

A wall of water went straight into the air up upon impact of the dragons before it came down as a fine mist. The two dragons were not down, but standing in the water, the water belly high but they were impervious to the cold. Finally the blue female sat down in the water, her tail wrapping around her. "So, how'd I do?" she asked the black dragon before her.

He snorted. "Need you ask? You did well. Normal dragons will have a hard time or will die trying to find a weak spot before you blast them with your blue fire, your skyfire, or if you decided to turn them into pretty figurines. Had I not been who I was, you could have potentially killed me several times. Congratulations, Anzu you're about two or three levels away from being my equal."

The blue dragon, Anzu, smiled. "I have an excellent, teacher, though. Don't I Atem?"

The black dragon smiled. "Indeed, I guess I should have put that in the equation."

Anzu laughed and walked closer. "Seriously though, love, what mistakes did I make?"

"None, really."

She blinked. "That can't be."

"It is. You're learning and we're fighting everyday, Anzu. It was bound to happen where you would simply make no mistake in the mock battle. But now we're going to have to build your endurance now, because if you run out of energy right in the middle of a battle you're stuck."

Anzu sighed and pressed herself against her mate. "But I have you."

Atem chuckled. "That's true, but there will be times where I won't be there to help you. I need to make sure you have the moves to defend our little ones."

"I believe you have completed that."

"And I'm glad for it." He said as they took flight, winging their way back to their lair where their little ones were being watched by Anzu's Uncle Caleb. Instead of being in the lair though the small horse sized baby dragons were crawling and play fighting over the mountain peak while Caleb watched from the very top. Anzu and Atem landed beside the ancient dragon. "Did it get crowded in the lair?" Atem chuckled.

The male sapphire dragon with the same silver markings as Anzu snorted. "I'm never feeding them mountain goat again."

Atem's brow rose. "You didn't know the mountain goat meat is sweet?"

"I'm a plains dragon used to the great deer of the north, not the mountain animals." Caleb huffed. "Anyway, how was the mock battle, I saw the wall of water rise into the air."

Anzu smiled, a little bit proud of herself. "As Atem puts it, I'm two or three levels behind him."

Caleb gave the black male dragon a toothy grin. "Magic wise though?"

Atem snorted. "If she uses her abilities I'm dead, but without magic, yes, she is two to three levels behind."

Caleb nodded. "Good. You should be proud of yourself Anzu. Not many young dragon goddesses are this powerful when they're young. Even your mother had to grow into her power for some time. Oh yes, by the way, Mahado and Mana is here to talk to you two about something."

Atem and Anzu blinked before slipping through the entrance, leaving Caleb to chase after the young squealing dragon fledglings. "I wonder why they're here now." Anzu said softly. Atem shrugged.

"I thought they went back with my mother but I suppose I was wrong." They came to the main cavern of the lair that had a pit of lava popping and boiling slowly. Two familiar forms were curled up against each other, Mana, a light purple dragon with a hint of sky blue mixed in while Mahado was a much darker purple dragon. "It's good to see you two. I thought you went back home."

Mahado swished his tail a little bit. "We did but when your mother told us where you were going we thought it would be best to warn you."

Atem and Anzu settled across the dragon couple, their sides pressed together merely for the touch. "You know of the world I picked out?"

Mahado nodded as Mana spoke. "We lived there for a time helping the people as much as we could, but compared to you, we're minor gods. Most of the dragons that stand for gods are minor, so the moment both of you enter that world the priests will know."

Anzu blinked. "You know the priests?"

"Mahado had a relationship with a priestess named Isis."

Atem snorted. "You allowed that?"

Mana shrugged. "We weren't together at the time, when we finally told each other how we felt it was right after Cindara told us that you guys needed our help, that was when we met up with you guys and the whole Calieve thing."

Atem's brow rose. "Mahado had to break a heart? How shocking."

The dark purple dragon glared at the black dragon before continuing. "No, both Isis and I broke it off for the best interests when we told them we had to leave."

Mana snickered. "And yet she still cried. I could see it too; her bottom lip was shaking a bit." Mahado gave her a horrified glance as she and Atem broke into suppressed giggles. Anzu finally smacked both the laughing dragons with her long tail.

"Enough. Relationships aside, what did you come to warn us about besides the fact that we'll be felt by the priests?"

Atem and Mana, both miffed, sulked quietly as Mahado spoke. "Before we left Gormerca the land was experiencing some hard times, well, that's the better way to put it."

Mana bounced back from her sulking, eyes wide. "Oh yeah! I remember all that, it's why they asked, more so begged, us to stay. A group of small rebels was causing some trouble throughout the land."

Atem sighed, looking slightly displeased. Anzu nudged him. "What's wrong?"

"This whole situation. I wanted to pick out a land that was in need of some gods, but the little ones have to be a thousand years old before they can truly be on their own like normal dragons. They're only a hundred."

"And a little bit bigger than horses." Mana pointed out. "The only thing you need to worry about is other dragons. The humans look to dragons as gods. So there is no worry from the human side of things."

Anzu tipped her head to the side. "But there had to have been a moment."

Mahado nodded. "There was one. A human decided to get too close to a nest full of eggs and the female killed the human. It caused a small stir but once the facts came out the people were soon saying that the man should have known not to go near a dragon nest."

Atem snorted. "How true. I nearly lost a leg when I sneaked up on Anzu." Mahado raised his brow. "Well, that's how she says it but I came up from behind her and so on so forth." He said with a wave of his claw but he mentally flinched when he thought about Anzu whipping around and clamping down on his front leg.

Anzu sniffed as though insulted. Mana left the cave to go play with the little dragons while Atem, Mahado and Anzu were left to talk. "I should also mention that Mana became close friends with an apprentice priestess, by now she should be fully fledged but I believe Mana talked to the apprentice about you."

Atem sighed. "Was she doing her 'matchmaking skills'?"

"Like I said, not that I know but I would suggest that, for any female's sake, state you're not at all interested."

Anzu blinked rather innocently. "Now why would any female need to worry?"

Both males eyed her until she sighed. "How judgmental."

Atem chuckled and pressed his cheek against hers. Mahado stood up then. "Mana and I are leaving for home. Your mother says hello and she's very happy to be a grandmother."

Atem grinned. "I'm sure she is." The dark purple dragon left the cavern, leaving Atem and Anzu alone once more.

"So, potential females, human females, for that matter." Anzu said. "I hope you still have that no-no thing for humans."

Atem chuckled. "I have a mate, a permanent mate. If I could I would put her in my hoard and never let her out, a living jewel that has made me whole."

"You make me sound special." She giggled.

Atem was about to speak when five bodies slammed into him, making him turn to see his children clinging to him, each giving their parents toothy grins. He snorted and playfully shook them off. "So they try to take me on again, hmm?"

They squeaked and tried to get away but Atem scooped them up but one of them, a black female, slipped away. Anzu smiled. "Leading the attack again, Raven?"

"As always!" she laughed and pounced onto her father's back. Anzu laughed and pulled her daughter off. Raven pouted but was interrupted when one of her siblings, a sapphire dragon like his mother, slammed into her, sending them both tumbling. The other young dragons had calmed down now and watched the two scuffling dragons quietly.

"Gahiji," Anzu said, parting their play fighting. "Enough." Both dragons broke away from each other. Now that everyone was calmed down Anzu decided that it was time to move and just get it over with. "Remember what your father I told all of you?"

Yugi, a smaller version of Atem, nodded. "Didn't you say we were going to a new world?"

"Indeed." He turned to his mate. "I have everything I need to move so if you want to go, now is the time." Anzu nodded.

Raven blinked. "Wait, we're leaving right now?"

"Yes, unless you don't want to."

She paused for a moment, a frown on her face. "But what about Uncle Caleb?"

"Uncle Caleb is coming with." The dragons looked over to see Caleb sitting there at the end of the tunnel, waiting for them. He grinned. "Besides, you might need a babysitter and my sister would probably reach from beyond the grave and kill me for leaving her daughter and grandchildren all alone."

Anzu smiled. "Thank you, Uncle."

"That's what family is for."

Atem snorted. "At least Anzu and I can go hunting and leave the chicks alone with someone we trust." The young dragons cheered and zipped over to their great uncle. They stood in a small circle, their auras glowing around them as they built up the magic before pooling it in the center of where they stood. "Anzu, create a small storm, would you?" Anzu looked up, her eyes turned to a bright glowing blue as dark clouds started to appear. Skyfire flashed in and out while thunder rumbled through the air. Atem grinned. "Perfect, love."

Skyfire zipped down, slamming into the rock. Shocked squeaks went up as an orb of white light appeared. "And now we step on through."

"That simple?"

"It's that simple." He chuckled. The dragons stepped into the orb together, slipping through the worlds to Gormerca.


Selena slipped through the tall grasses of the plains, following the footprints of a dragon, her sword in hand. Her blond hair was tied up in a bun to prevent it from getting in the way. She took another step and felt something wet hit her.

Stopping she looked up to see the storm clouds, rather violent ones, loomed before her. Cursing, she started to pace. Her sister, Antioette, stopped. "What's wrong?"

"It's about to storm. The dragon has probably taken cover somewhere, hiding himself. Damn." She growled.

Antioette was calm and collected as always. "We know where the dragon will return. It's not like it is gone forever."

Selena sighed and was about to turn and leave when Antioette's jewel started to glow. "It can't be."

"What?"

"Your jewel has the ability to sense dragon gods. We haven't destroyed them all but Hothgar is dead, and that was all we needed to destroy the dragons but now." She gritted her teeth and screamed. "We're back to square one. If that jewel can sense the new gods then so can those damn priests."

"How is that putting us back a step?"

Selena spun to face her sister. "Because, they'll spread the word to the people, the people will know that there is a powerful god out there they can pray to, it will renew hope and the devotion to those stupid lizards!"

"Then we kill the new dragon god."

Selena growled. "Damn right we will."


Isis gasped loudly as her hand flew to cover her mouth. The priests looked over at her. Shimon spoke first. "What is it, Isis?"

"Hope. We have hope. There is a new god in this world, a powerful god." Teana smiled as tears gathered around the corners of her eyes.

"Our prayers have been answered!" she gasped.

Shada looked over at the prophesy slab and smiled. "Perhaps this time the prophesy will come true." Karim nodded.

"I wonder what the god is like . . ."

"Powerful." Isis said, grabbing their attention. "Now I understand why Mahado and Mana didn't want to take up being the main gods. What they said was the truth, they were minor gods."

Shimon shook his head. "That doesn't matter, right now we need to search for that god."

The priests nodded and started to move around. The servants were already spreading the word. A powerful god was here, something to pray too, something to have hope about.


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