"Ryurei, where are you?" the Dragon-Queen shouted for her daughter, finding the child standing beside her, with a katana ready in her hands. "Child, you must escape with your brother, now!" The Dragons of the Eastern Ocean had attacked their palace, and most of it already was destroyed… It would be their last stand, and she was prepared to mark a fantastic end to the wars that claimed most of their people.
Ryurei heard her mother's words, but she did not wish to leave the Dragon-Queen's side. "I will fight beside you and Otou-sama like Onii-sama!" she exclaimed, slashing one of the enemy's prawn-soldiers in the abdomen. Still a child, but already she had more courage than adults three times her age, the Queen knew that her daughter would be just like her brother and her father, a warrior to the very core. However, this was not her stand to make.
The Dragon-Queen knelt beside her daughter and caressed her small face. "No, Ryurei, you must live," she told the child. "If you die here, you can change nothing, but if you live, you can change the course of the world… Please, do as I say, Gojun cannot wait for you any longer." With her double-blades in her hands, she hugged her daughter when her son appeared to bring her to safety… "Gojun, take care of your sister," she told Gojun, who nodded urgently.
"Don't worry," their father, the Dragon-King said to them. "If things turn out well, we'll meet you all in Heaven," he flashed his usual, casual smile, vainly reassuring them. "Ryurei, then the four of us shall spar from dawn till dusk, alright?"
But that promise could not even be made… When the Dragon-King had spoken, the Dragon-King of the Eastern Oceans stormed into their family's quarters and killed every single guard that defending the royal family. "So, this is the end of the Toushin Taishi, the Dragon-King of the Western Oceans," he taunted, "With his wife and children, cowering in fear…"
Fear was not something shown in the likes of the Western Dragons, and immediately, the King and Queen charged towards their enemy, locking him in a deadly dance of weapons and death. But courage alone could not defeat an enemy that plagued the Four Oceans of the World…
Gojun and Ryurei watched as their parents were killed before their eyes, falling, not because of their lack of skill, or courage, but because the only things in their mind, were to protect their young children. Gojun was still hardly considered to be a man, while Ryurei had only just gained her transformation for a few decades, a mere youngling at the most…
Taking up his father's sword, Gojun dashed towards the Eastern Dragon in a fit of rage, and made short work of the enemy, by slicing him vertically in half, staining the water around them red, before running back to Ryurei, who was already crying. He, Gojun of the Western Oceans, did not. At the death of their father, he was now the Dragon-King, and kings did not weep. He would honor his promise to his parents, and he would protect Ryurei with his life, even if it meant that he would lose his own life…
But Ryurei... Ryurei looked over the carnage and she swore to never let anything happen like this, ever again. She would become stronger, and more powerful, and she would be ready to fight for those that she had loved... She would rise from the ashes of her home, and one day, she would so to the World, and to the Heavens just who she was: Ryurei, the Dragon-Princess of the Western Oceans.