This vision wasn't like the ones I had about Ravana. Instead of all this detail shown, I only saw pictures. I saw two giant dragons standing over an egg, awaiting the birth of their child. I looked into their faces once two babies came out of the egg. Instead of the sheer malice that Ravana's father had, their parents had looks of worry.
Flash forward. Layla and Terron are older, and the parents seem happy with them. They seemed to hover over Layla a lot. Most likely because she was the younger twin. The flashes went ahead a little more, and the parents look worried. Their daughter was flying in the air, and she was still the same size as the last picture.
Forward again. The two big green dragons are being attacked by an ape army, but there are too many. The father fights them, while the mother gets away with Terron and Layla. The father is killed and soon enough they reach the mother. Layla and Terron take off to the skies, where they stumble to an island that is covered in shadows.
Another flash. They are a few years older now, and they live on the island. The dragons there are extremely intimidating and unruly. Terron seemed to blend in and not cause trouble, while Layla got in their faces, and they seemed to admire her for it. There was also a strange looking green dragon with black horns that was around her.
This flash only went ahead by a few months. I saw Layla hovering over an egg, and Terron was arguing with the strange green and black dragon from before. I caught a small sentence from Terron that said, "This child is Layla's, if you want nothing to do with it, leave!"
A few years later, the egg hatched into a little dragon that looked exactly like Layla. They had moved from the island to a forest, and they looked at peace. Layla was watching her child in a corner, she seemed to be thinking about something really hard.
The last picture was of Layla sending her child off into the sky. I don't know why she did it, but she left her child to the unknown, and she flew to the temple with her brother.
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"Oh my scales," I said as I jolted awake.
I looked around the cave, still shocked by the vision, and barely noticed Zepta and Silver looking at me concerned.
"Um…I'm alright, sorry," I explained, "Just a…weird dream."
"That's cool," Silver said, "We were just about to wake you anyways."
"Yeah, because Layla wanted to talk to you, but you were out cold, so we didn't bother waking you till you woke up on your own."
"Oh, well, thanks," I said, "I should probably see what Layla wants."
"Yeah you do that," Silver said, resting on the floor.
I went into the main cave, thinking she would be there, but instead I was greeted by Avrick.
"So young Glacia, off to see Layla today?" he asked.
"Yeah, she needed to see me about something…."
"Young dragon, I must tell you about your visions," he said.
"What about them?"
"There is a fine line between seeing something on accident and getting into someone's past. I will tell you that very few dragons like their pasts discovered. I'll just let you learn from those words."
He walked off in the other direction. Was I getting into someone's past? I thought a little, and I was pretty sure that I had not interfered. These things just happened to me. Maybe it was something to know for the future.
I walked into Layla's cave, expecting her to be there, and she was, but I didn't know she would look so irritated.
"Glacia, I need to go for a few days."
That wasn't what I was expecting. I thought she would yell about my vision.
"Why?"
"Because of Anayra's stupidity, Cynder knows that we are here. I need to go with a couple other dragons to make sure we aren't going to be attacked. I have also received word that the ice guardian and the earth guardian have been saved, but the fire guardian is now captured, so we need to go investigate that."
"Are we going to be in any danger?"
"You shouldn't be, although this place may be a bit more dangerous since some of us are going."
"Who is leaving? And why do you want to tell me this?"
"It will be me, Naela, Terron, Derrikus, and Silver has agreed to come as well. Krouger will be left in charge of the resistance while we are gone, and the reason I am telling you this is because if any trouble arises, namely from Anayra, you are the only one who can take her down."
"Are you serious? I can't do that!"
"Yes, you can, and I think you can lead too, that is why you are in charge, and Krouger is more of a mouth piece."
"I really have to protect us?"
"Yeah, I know you can do it. You haven't let me down yet."
"Well…thanks…"
Did she really want me to lead? I mean, couldn't one of the older dragons do that? And how was I supposed to stop Anayra if she went wild? She was three times my size and power.
"Now, we are going to leave now," she said, "everyone knows who is in charge and what's going on, so don't be too shocked about it."
"Yes ma'am,"
"Alright, we are off then."
"Wait!"
Before she left I had to know something.
"Why did you get rid of your child?"
She stopped dead in her tracks. She probably didn't think anyone but her brother knew how she had a child as a young dragon and let her kid go.
"A vision right?"
"Um...yeah...I mean I'm just wondering…"
"It's fine. It's just that no one here, except for Terron really knows about that. And I'll just tell you this, I was the next earth guardian, I could feel it in my bones, and I knew I could be a target for attack in the future, so I sent her off."
"So it was to protect her and not to get rid of her?"
"Of course not! If it was safe enough to keep her, then I would have. Things were just getting dangerous, and going to the resistance wouldn't help at all in her safety."
"Wow. That is pretty decent of you, but…uh…how did you have a kid?"
"Are you kidding right now," she said as she gave me a look of disbelief, "Hadn't Ravana taught you anything?"
"Apparently not."
She sighed and began. "There are two ways to have kids, one way is the way between a male and female dragon, and the other is when you get enough of the ancestor's powers, you can make your own."
"I understand the regular part, but how does the ancestor thing work?"
"You just get enough power absorbed by the gems lying around, and eventually you have enough magic to make your own child. The child typically looks like the parent dragon, or it takes genes that the parent dragon has. Just before you ask the next question, I had her the normal way, and I did not love the father, I was just a badass back then, and no I do not care, and as far as I know he is dead."
That answered all the questions I had left.
"So I need to go now and see what is going on, you behave."
She went out to the main cave, where the other four waited. Silver looked unusually jumpy as they prepared to take off. First Layla flew up, then Terron, then Naela, then Derrikus, and Silver. Everyone watched as they left, and I could see the look on everyone's faces. They were not ready for us to be attacked, and neither was I for that matter. Things looked alright for now, until a week went by, and still no return.
