Chapter Two: Meeting Dawn
Chapter Two: Meeting Dawn
That morning, the sun radiated the lands of Avalar while many of the town folks awoke for their daily activity.
Glacia and her son, Blade, who was waltzing out on all four, exited the temple while the sun bathed down to them from the heavens.
Afterwards, Glacia beckoned her son to play amongst the other young dragons in the grassy area while Blade happily obeyed.
As soon as Blade made his way there, the other young male dragons greeted him and invited him to play a game with them called 'Dragonfly Tag,' a somewhat resemblance to football. The only difference to the game is that there was only one touchdown line and three rules to the game: No breathing fire, no flying and no swallowing the dragonfly. But the purple dragon wasn't going to have those kinds of problem since he doesn't know how to breath fire or fly at the moment and has no intention of gulping down a dragonfly. At the beginning of the game, it takes only one dragon to snag a single flying dragonfly into the grasp of its mouth to become the receiver. Once that happens, that single dragon becomes a fugitive and must charge to the single touchdown line, while others gave chase, in order to win.
However, if the receiver is tackled, the win goes in favor of the five parties and the receiving dragon will lose the game.
Right now, the dragonfly that volunteered for the game is none other than Sparx. Glacia couldn't remember the last time that she saw the dragonfly, but last she heard, he, several days ago after the tragic death of his brother, has resided back to his parents and hasn't been seen since until a day later after she gave birth to Blade.
Sparx.
The moment the dragonfly has laid eyes on the baby dragon, his emotions grew high with falling tears and attempted to hug the life out of her baby. But she held him back from that attempt, yet she understood his reason. It was the same as everyone else, including her, for that matter. This baby has reminded him of his late brother, the close relative of his family.
Glacia remembered Sparx telling her that it was his brother that eventually got him to see the goodness in the black dragoness known as Cynder. It was also his brother who encouraged him to start a date with a female fairy known as Zoe, and, despite his shyness, that date eventually lead to romance.
He had his brother to thank for all of that and now he was gone. And upon that devastating truth, an emotionally saddened dragonfly, despite the protest of Zoe, has made his leave and without return.
And then, Blade was born and a reluctant dragonfly, due to the plea of his parents, issued his return to an emotional sight.
Now, with a smile, she watched as her thirteen-year-old son eventually grasped the dragonfly in his mouth and raced on all four to the other side of the grassy playing field.
While Blade made his race to the touchdown line, a voice that was not his own issued from inside his closed mouth.
"You know, Spiky, sticky saliva isn't my best suit. Hurry to the touchdown, pal."
"I'm going, I'm going." Blade's muffled voice spoke, while getting used to the 'Spiky' comment placed upon him by the dragonfly.
Suddenly, a young, male bluish dragon raced in his direction in an attempt to tackle him down.
But as soon as he made the lunge, the purple dragon took a daring leap over the blue dragon while time virtually slows upon their actions.
While the scenery issued a clockwise rotation, the air flowed around Blade as he passed up the charging blue dragon, but was unaware of the flow of time that surrounded him.
Eventually, the rotation seized to Blade's left side and time reverted to normal before the purple dragon, upon landing, grunted and did a rollup to the ground before quickly regaining himself and resuming his run.
During the run, he took a look back to find a party of five young male dragons chasing after him for the tackle and their win.
Blade issued a mocking expression in their direction.
"I'm gonna win." His muffled voice teased before issuing a chuckle.
Suddenly, Blade grunted and tripped over a small pebble in the ground, which caused him to arch forward, and, upon landing, roll onto the ground.
During his constant roll, he managed to sprint pass the touchdown line, which caused the party of young dragons to halt their advances upon that outcome.
Blade's rolling frenzy eventually ended as he grunted upon his chin harshly hitting the grassy landscape, which forced his mouth open and his tongue to roll out.
From out of the clutches of the purple dragon's tongue poured a saliva-filled Sparx, who gagged and coughed from the specks of saliva in his mouth. Eventually, he subdued himself before sticking his tongue out in a measure of disgust while the dizziness entered his senses.
"Bleech! God, that was plenty yucky. But that was a hell of a game." He started before the dizziness caused him to faint.
Blade groaned from his wake and attempted to stand, but before he could, a voice spoke.
"Need some help?"
Slowly, he opened his eyes and looked up to find, to his awe, the sight of a young female dragoness, at assumingly his age, in front of him. Positioned on all four, she had a coloration of light orange and yellow on her body. Two pinkish curved horns protruded on the side of her head while two slightly curved scales occupied the top. Small curve spikes protruded from the back of her head and down to her tail and the tip of her tail took the shape of the bright sun. Her webbed wings were an orange color folding at her back.
But what caught Blade's attention were her eyes, a perfect shade of sunlight yellow that was almost more than enough to put the purple dragon in a hypnotic trance.
"Huh?" He asked, his expression intact.
The female dragon giggled upon his reaction.
"Do you need any help?"
Blade grew hesitant for a moment.
"Uhh…Uhh…no, that's alright. I-I got it."
Blade strained himself to all four and grew successful while the female dragon took a good look at the new dragon's appearance. Then, she noticed the spikes protruding from his forearms and grew worried.
"Are you alright?" She asked as Blade shook his head from a recent dizziness before his attention was met with her.
"Yeah, no, I'm fine." He answered, yet the female dragon kept her worries intact.
"The reason for me asking was because of those spikes on your forearms."
Blade looked down to his forearms and took into anticipation of what she meant.
"Oh, what, these?" He said before returning his attention to her and shaking his head. "It's nothing to worry about. I was born this way and it hardly hurts."
Upon the comment, the female dragon creased an eyebrow with a hint of surprise.
"You mean y-you didn't feel any pain?"
Blade flexed his neck from side to side, which resulted in a few cracking sounds before speaking.
"Other than the pain in my chin, no."
Silence, she diverted her gaze downward with the expression intact and nodded softly.
"Huh."
"Hey, Spiky." A young dragon called from the field, which caught Blade's attention. "If you're done chatting with your girlfriend, we would like to finish up the game."
Blade issued a sigh of annoyance.
"Yeah, okay, I'll be there in a minute. And she's not my girlfriend!" He replied aloud before turning his attention back to the female dragoness. "Sorry, I got a game to play."
The female dragon shook her head in comprehension to this.
"Hey, no prob."
With a smile, Blade nodded and started to leave, but turned back towards her while the five young dragons groaned in annoyance upon the display.
"Say, you wanna come and play 'Dragonfly Tag' with us?"
The female dragon shook her head in rejection to the offer.
"No, I don't think so."
"Why not?"
"Well, because Dragonfly Tag is a male thing and I'm kind of out of your league at the moment. Plus, I'm hardly the type to tackle anyone."
Blade chuckled inwardly.
"Well, you can always watch and see me mop the tile floor with these guys."
The female dragon nodded.
"Yeah, that'll work."
"Good."
Side by side, they started waltzing back towards the field.
"Say, I didn't catch your name." Blade spoke before looking to her.
The female dragon returned the look in kind and spoke.
"Dawn. You?"
"Blade." He replied before issuing a nod. "Nice to meet you, Dawn."
Dawn smiled.
"Likewise to you, Blade."
As they, along with Sparx, made their way back to the field, the five dragons took note of Dawn and started lecturing Blade on the issue of bringing a girl into the field. But the purple dragon extinguished that fire by informing them that she was only here to watch, which was good enough for them at this point.
And without further explanation, they resumed the game as Dawn kept watch, momentarily cheering onto the purple dragon.
Glacia, who was watching the entire scenery, smiled upon the fact that her son has found a feminine friend before making her way back inside the temple.
A/N: Looks like Blade made a feminine friend. Hope you like the description, Guardian. Next chap, an unknown evil being makes its presence known in the realms. Keep on the lookout!
