Broken Skies
A.N. Chapter 2 up now, requesting OC's for pirate crew (swordsman, marksman, cook, shipwright, musician, other etc). Also leave a review. I'm putting I Hate Mondays on hold for some time due to some serious writers block, not abandoning it.
Loki P.O.V.
'What the flying monkey fuck just happened' I thought as I began to regain consciousness, 'remind me to never go on a train ever again' I added as an afterthought as I sat up painfully. I was sitting on a piece of rubble from the train wreck, Evie was to my right. I instantly began to panic and began checking her plulse and breathing, she seemed OK just asleep. I rolled my eyes and nudged her with my foot. "Hey Evie, wake up." I I asked, Evie groaned. "Whaddya want? I was having a nice dream too." I turned around and my jaw dropped, we were in a cave. Gold and riches littered the floor as far as the eye could see, but what really caught my eye was the two cases sitting on top of an alter made from bone. Evie, who had only just regained her sences, joined me in awe. Without realising it Evie and I walked slowly to the bone alter, with each step the gem of our necklaces glowing brighter and brighter. The two cases on the alter both were made of leather and had gold woven around the opening like a lock, this golden lock joined up in the center and formed a padlock. By now our necklaces were glowing blindingly bright and gravitating to the cases. I took off my necklace and let go as it flew to the padlock, before it reached it however the necklace began to melt and take a new shape. When the liquid had solidified it was now a key hanging on a chain.
I picked up the key and inspected it, it had a dragon coiled around the key holding the blue gem in its jaws. I placed the key in the padlock and began turning it hearing the sound of creaking gears open, once the lid was open my eyes widened further. Inside were four large stones, one beige orange/gold, one dark red, one silver and blue and one black and red. Next to the stones were an envelope, a map, a compass, a strange pendant in the shape of a sun with a dragons head in the middle, a pair of leatherbound books and a black feathered quill. I reached into the case and nearly gasped as my skin began to feel as though it was burning, besides me Evie was squirming in pain biting back tears. After what felt lkean eternity the pain died down, I looked at my hands and saw on my right palm just below the thumb was a burned on tattoo of a dragon biting its tail and in the middle was a ice blue crown. My arms had silvery black blue scales fading into my skin and my nails were sharper than they were originally. Evie suddenly broke me out of my thoughts. "Holy shit why the fuck do we have scales?" She asked rather loudly in her best JackSepticEye voice she could muster, at this I broke up laughing. "Always finding something funny in the worst situations." I chuckled, Evie grinned at my reply. "Yeah, not gonna lie but this tattoo is fucking awesome!" She exclaimed as she showed me the tattoo on her left hand, it was in the same place as mine but had a blood red crown instead.
In Evie's case there were also four stones but they were a different colour, one was red and grey, one was white, one was green and brown and one was purple. Other than that the contents of the cases were the exact same. I reached into the case and pulled out the letter cautiously. I raised an eyebrow at the adress 'Loki' I shrugged and opened the letter, what came next got me on my knees fighting back a wave of tears.
Dear Loki and Evie
If you are reading this then I am most likely dead. I'm sorry your mother and I weren't there when you needed us most and I'm sorry that I cannot tell you this in person. My name is King Dramo of Aeirdale and I am your father. When you had just turned twelve-your graduation day-an army attacked, I had to send you and your sister Evie through a portal while erasing your memories. I write this to you as I lie wounded on the vault floor, I want you to know that your mother and I will always love you even when we're not here. Encased in the cases are four dragons eggs and a vial that contains a liquid that will help you regain your memories. The rest you should figure out. I leave to you and your sister my will and kingdome in hopes that you will one day rule fairly and justly. I must hurry now, soldiers are reaching the vault. The map leads to the hatchery and after that the docks. From there the journey is yours, please make sure that nothing falls into the wrong hands.
I love you-Dad.
By the end my eyes are red from tears, Evie is sobbing as well after reading her own letter. I store the letter back in the case and search for the vial, eventually I found it. The vial was see through, had a cork lid, was filled with a red liquid and had a sign around it that siad 'drink me!'. I shrugged and pulled of the lid, putting the vial to my lips I drank all of the liquid. Instantly my head began to hurt as memories of my past came back to me.
...Mom...
...Dad...
...the dragons...
...the other riders...
...everything...
...my, no, our life...
All at once these memorise both good and bad returned to me, I picked up the map and examined the route to the hatchery. The route was coloured in red and lead out of the vault and into the hatchery then from the hatchery to beneath the dens and into the docks through the catacoumbs. I closed up the case holding the dragon eggs and walked over to Evie. "Hey, I got a map for the way out, lets go before some more spooky crazy shit happens." I asked as I walked to the exit, Evie following close behind.
At the entrance to the catacoumbs were two unlit torches, I pulled out the lighter from my backpack and lit the torches and passed one to Evie. The passage we were in was covered from ceiling to floor in dust, cobwebs and skulls and had an eerie chilling stale air. After about twenty minutes of walking and carrying torches that seemed to weigh a fucking ton we reached the entrance to the hatchery. The door was made of a thick looking metal with brass patterns and scattered across the floor were small white shards of egg shells. I took in a dep breath and pushed open the door, what lay on the other side of the door made me sick to the stomach. Scattered across the floor were bones of not just dragons but people as well, crushed egg shells lay among the bones, scorch marks and old blood splatters covered the walls and at the far side of the cavernous room were four dragons chained to the wall and floor. It was too dark to see the dragons' features. One of these dragons was dead with a metal spike through the heart, the other three were no better off with chains cutting into their flesh and muzzles keeping their snouts shut.
One of the dragons looked up and snarled, mesmerized by these majestic creatures I walked forewards. "Loki,what the flying fuck are you doing you crazy bitch?" Evie hissed as I approached the dragons with my hands stretched out. "Its all right, I don't want to hurt you. I'm just going to free you." I said soothingly, slowly pulling the all-purpose torch out of my bag and activating the lock pick all the while the dragon watched. I did the main chains first, this chain held all of the dragons to the wall and floor. Once that was off I walked to the barely concious dragons. "Trust me?" I asked as I grasped the muzzle and began picking the lock, looking the dragon in the eyes. The answer I got a low purr as the lock and muzzle came off. I removed the muzzles off of the two other dragons who seemed to trust the larger dragon's trust in me, suddenly a claw nicked my cheek. A small trickle of blood ran down my cheek, from what I regained from my memories this was how dragons could tell if the blood belonged to a relative of their rider. Torchlight flashed across the larger dragon's face revealing a mix between light blue and purple coloured scales, sharp teeth, twisting black antelope like horns and wise glowing blue eyes. "Aster." I gasped in surprise, the dragon was no other than Aster-my father's dragon! Recognition sparked in the dragon's eyes as he nuzzled his face into my neck like he used todo when I was a child, I giggled and scratchd the scales beneath Aster's jaw which got a cat like purr from the dragon.
"Its been a while huh? Don't suppose you know where the exit to the docks are?" I asked, Aster rolled his eyes and growled out an order to the other two dragons. My eyes drifted to the one on the left and almost instantly felt a pull deep in my soul (no, she is not 'that' kind of 'attached/attracted' to her dragon XD) that connected me to the dragon. He had midnight black scaled with a navy blue hint to them, the underbelly scales were the same colour but had ice blue outlines, black deer antler like horns sat proudly atop his head with smaller spines lining the sides of his head, a glowing blue mark on his forehead looked exactly like the one on my hand, glowing ice blue tribal marks lined his scarred back, legs, wings and tail, piercing yellow eyes stared calmly into mine, the spines along his back were connected by curving skin (see cover image), his tail had two blade like spines along it-one running three feet from the tip to three feet away from the tip while the other ran from two feet from the tip to two feet away from the tip-he had multiple scars that ranged in size, depth and width and there was a rather long scar that ran across from his neck to his right wing. I'm not sure whether I'm actually going crazy or I actually heard a voice whisper 'My name is Noctis' in my mind, a chuckle knocked me out of my confused state. 'Do not worry miss Loki, its just me. You know, the giant dragon standing right in front of you. Dragons speak telepathically with their riders when in this form. I'm sure that you remember that a guardian's dragon is technically half of their soul, well because of this we can create a telepathic link with our riders and some of the more powerful dragons can create a human-ish form for themselves if need be. Oh and as for the confusion over why I'm male instead of female, the split off soul acts like a twin only it is born the opposite gender of the original. I know it doesn't make much sence but...yeah?' Noctis spoke in a smooth calming voice. 'So what you're trying to say is that we're basically twins in a freaky way?' I asked telepathically, Noctis just grinned and nodded his large head.
Noctis and I looked over at Evie and the other dragon. This one was the opposite of Noctis with pearly grey white scales with rose hints, the underbelly scales were the samecolour but had dark rose outlines, black deer like horns also sat above his head only they were shorter and had more horns branching off, a glowing rose mmark on his head looked like the one on Evie's hand, the only tribal marks on this dragon were small ones on its shoulders, wing bones and neck, calm red eyes bore into Evie's similarly coloured ones, this dragon had two rows of spines across his back, his tail was shaped like a spade with a split running down the middle and he had multiple scars across his body like Noctis only he had a large scar running from his right temple that crossed across the top of his snout and down his neck to his collar bone. I could tell the two were getting along well as Evie was giggling and sitting on top of her dragon's head. 'Your sibling seems to be getting along with my brother Matutinus. Heh, we all call him Matty to annoy him.' Noctis mused and I nodded. 'Hey Noctis, do you think we should head to the docks?' I asked. 'Yeah sure, hang on a sec. I'm just gonna convey this to Matty' Noctis replied as he let out a string of growls an grunts, Matutinus nodded and followed Aster and Noctis. With my backpack clutched in my arms as it held the case containing the eggs Noctis picked me up and plopped me on his head before trundling through a large tunnel which I guess leads to the docks.
After a while of walking we reached the docks, a large cliffe with a platform built into it. At either side of the platform were two dragon heads made of stone, water flowed from these fountains before it dissolved into clouds around the sky island (no this is NOT Skypia). Anchored at the docks was probably the most awesome ship I had ever seen. The ship was made of mahogany coloured wood, had three three masts (if anyone has ever seen the animated movie Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, the sails look like the ones from Sinbad's ship-same colour and all), the sails were orange, there were wing like sails on the sides of the ship and the figurehead was of a snarling dragon.
"Well, anyone know how to fly a ship?" I asked.