Chapter elven
A day past and the villagers had gone home late the night before. Luna struggled to get out of bed again she never let go of the silver stone. She was taking a nap when it had woken her up. It was squeaking.
Alex came in side for lunch and sat by Luna's bed.
"That stone is the one of the many I have looked for I think." Alex said he had not heard the squeaking a second ago.
"Why do you figure?" Luna asked
"It looks like a dragon egg. My mission was to search and return dragon eggs and another kind of stone to the elf capital." Alex said. The stone started rocking now. Luna almost dropped it and put it down.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"The stone started rocking." Luna said. Then it cracked down the middle.
"Get down!" Alex said dropping to the floor. Luna rolled of the bed and covered her face as the stone exploded in a bright silver light. When Luna could see again she saw a Silver dragon hatchling siting on her bed. She sat up. It was silver all over; its wings looked too big for it so did its paws and eyes. It looked straight at her. She reached out slowly to let the creäture to sniff her hand. The silver hatchling sniffed then hick upped. Luna saw silver flames and she passed out.
Luna woke up about an hour later. The little dragon was lying next to her doing a sort of purr. Jayson was sitting by her bed. Alex was nowhere to be seen.
"You okay, Luna?" Jayson asked.
"Yeah, where's Alex? My head hurts like there's no tomorrow.
"He went to get some water. He'll be back soon." Jayson answered as the front door opened and Alex came in with a bucket of water.
"Oh you're up, good." Alex said putting the pail of water down, "How do you feel?"
"My head hurts."
"That's normal when you hit your head and fall. Anything else?"
"It burned my hand it doesn't hurt" Luna said softly.
"You've been chosen." Alex said softer like he couldn't believe it. The little silver dragon cuddled tighter to Luna in response.
"What does this mean?" Luna asked confused. She stroked one of the little dragon's wings.
"I mean this hatchling has decided that you're worth patterning up with and protecting. It chose you to carry on the legacy of dragon riders."
"Does this mean we have to leave the farm?" Jayson spoke up.
"For now we don't have to if you want to stay but..." Alex responded.
"Let's go." Luna said softly.
"What! Luna you can't be serious. This farm is everything we have our life is here!" Jayson said frantically.
"Well our life is changing. Mother's gone. Mya's gone. All that's left is us and the animals. Everywhere I look I can't help but feel sadness. I have to see the world Jayson. If you won't come with me fine but don't stop me. I know what I am, but I need to find out who I am." Luna said standing up. The dragon squeaked in protest as Luna moved away from it.
"She told you didn't her?" Jayson asked darkly not looking at Luna.
"Yes, she told me the night before she died. She told me that I was... I am not human. That I'm elf. Almost everything in my life now is different." Luna said as she pulled back her hair that covered her pointed ears. Luna had been hiding her ears for the last ten years. She shivered and her knees went weak as she lost her resolve and fell.
Alex caught her as soon as he noticed.
"Are you alright? Alex asked feeling Luna's forehead. Luna felt hot way too hot. "You have a fever. All the stress as made you sick. Lie down and don't talk anymore." Alex said worrying.
"But I..." Luna tied to talk
"No more. How long has it been since you have eaten anything?" Alex asked as he laid Luna back down on the bed. Luna blinked.
How long had it been? I don't remember eating anything since finding Mya. That was two days ago. Luna thought.
"Maybe two days. I haven't felt hungry so I didn't eat. Other things just kept getting in the way." Luna admitted.
"Idiot," Jayson said softly. He walked to the door and looked back before speaking again, "I'll start packing things up. I'm not going to fight with a sick person. As soon as your better we'll go. I'll sell the sheep tomorrow at the market. There are plenty of them to go around I'm sure we can get a good price for all of them."
Alex nodded as Jayson left. The little dragon curled up with Luna as she fell asleep.