Dream

I open my eyes. I see nothing but white. "S-Speedy? Holly?" I ask the background. A dragon appears, accompanied by a younger version of her.
"I am your mother." the big dragon says.
"And I am your brother." says the small dragon.
"Look at this." they say. "This is where we are." A little screen opens up out of nothing. I see many dragons, in small spaces. A tiny Motley dragon, stuck in what looks like a sloping path up to a very small mountain with fire in it. "It's only a baby!" I cry. "Poor thing!" A relatively small Paper dragon, sleeping in a patch of earth with spiky trees sticking out of it, and a bony head in the corner. "That must be really uncomfortable..." A massive Antarian dragon, sitting on a small floating island gazing up at the sky forlornly. I say nothing, but cry instead because the poor thing looks so sad. A deep blue egg, in a patch of hay boosted up by a tree trunk. "An Azurite dragon egg." says my mother. "And next to it, a Daydream dragon egg. And here," she says. "Is a short video, depicting two baby dragons playing together and growing up with each other if they're free." The screen then shows a Melancholy dragon egg with a Turquoise dragon egg. The eggs then hatch, showing them walking toward their mothers. The picture fades, being replaced with those two babies jumping round and chasing each other. That bit fades away, showing them slightly older and learning to breath fire. The Melancholy dragon accidentally breathes fire on the Turquoise dragon. She looks shocked for a minute, and then they both burst out laughing. It then shows them as adults, watching a sunset with their tails wrapped round each other. The screen fades to black. "And this video shows two dragons growing up in captivity."
The screen shows a baby Meadow dragon and a baby Dusk dragon running together. The Meadow dragon trips and falls. The Dusk dragon goes back to rescue her, ending them both being shut in a cage cart thing. A tall person in a hat chants something like: "Abracazee, abracazale, bring me and these dragons right back to the vale!" And they all teleport away. The Meadow dragon is put in a sandy spot, with an Ember dragon who teases her. The Dusk dragon is put in a sandy spot with a pyramid leading up to a big sun, with a Sunstruck dragon who whimpers and hides. They are right next to each other, but can't visit. It shows them older, saying hi to each other once in a while, but nothing else. And it shows them as adults, utterly ignoring each other, walking round and round by themselves. The screen fades to black.


"We need you to thrive. And when you are ready, save us. Us and all the dragons."
"Save my friend, Chilly! He's a Mountain dragon!"
"Wait!" I shout. "How do I know all these dragons?"
"Instinct." my mother says. "All dragons are born with the ability to know every dragon they see. Goodbye, Athena."