Chapter 1, The purple egg.
It was the year of the dragon, a time that comes only once every twelve years, a dragon egg will only hatch during this year and any eggs laid during the other eleven years will simply remain dormant until the next year of the dragon.
This year of the dragon was especially important as the dragons had been at war with the apes for many years and many dragons had lost their lives, thankfully there was more than enough eggs for the new generation and inside each one was a new dragon ready to be born.
Every single dragon egg had been placed inside the dragon temple where they could be protected by the strongest dragon warriors and the dragon guardians.
The guardian of fire Ignitus was making his usual inspection around the temple making sure that nothing was out of place, Ignitus was a red dragon with a gold belly and wings, he was the current leader of the guardians and had seen more battles then he could count.
Ignitus finished his inspection and returned to the room where the dragon eggs was being kept passing a couple of dragon warriors along the way.
Once inside the room Ignitus could see dragon eggs of many different colours, the colour of the egg indicated what type of dragon would be born from it, red for fire, blue for ice, yellow for electricity, green for earth and grey for wind.
Guarding the eggs closely was the guardian of wind Breeza, she was a white dragon with a grey belly and wings, Ignitus know why she was so protective of the eggs, most of the wind dragons had been killed in the war and it was feared that if anything was to happen to these eggs then the wind dragons may become extinct.
Ignitus continued into a separate room that had been reserved for a single egg, unlike all the other eggs this one was purple a rare colour for a dragon egg, and the dragon it was said to produce was just as rare.
Just as Ignitus was leaving the room with the purple egg he heard a loud explosion and felt the temple shake, Ignitus ran to a nearby window and saw that thousands of apes where attacking the temple.
The other dragon guardians ran to the room where the eggs where been kept determined to protect them, the dragon warriors ran to the temple entrances ready to battle the apes, Ignitus had never seen so many apes attack at once before and he began to fear that he and the other dragons would not be able to stop them.
Almost without thinking Ignitus grabbed a hold of the purple egg and flew out the window, he was lucky that in the chaos of the battle no one noticed him.
Ignitus landed on the edge of a long river called the Silver river, he then broke a piece of bark off of a nearby tree and placed the purple egg on top of it and then let it float down the river.
"May the ancestor's look after you, may they look after us all" said Ignitus trying to reassure himself.
Ignitus flew back to the temple as fast as he could hoping to save more of the eggs however as he neared the temple he could see that the apes had already broken through the door and was most likely deep inside the temple.
Ignitus flew through the window and ran to the room where the eggs where, as he entered the room Ignitus's face turned to one of horror at what he saw.
The purple egg drifted down the river for over a day until it became tangled in the roots of a tree which was on the edge of the river, after several hours the egg was found by two dragonflies, one was blue and named Flash and the other was his wife Nina who was pink.
The two approached the egg with caution, as dragonflies lived away from most of the other creatures they didn't know what this thing was.
"What do you think it is" asked Flash, "I don't know, is almost looks like an egg" said Nina, "That's impossible, if this was an egg then the creature that laid it would have to be gigantic" said Flash.
Nina hesitantly placed her hand on the egg, as soon as she did the egg suddenly gave a light movement, both Flash and Nina hid behind a rock fearful of what was happening, the egg continued to move and shake until a large crack appeared on the egg.
The creature inside the egg pushed against the crack attempting to break free, Flash and Nina stayed behind the rock terrified of what was going to come out of the egg, finally a large piece of shell broke off and then another as the creature inside began to crawl out.
The small chubby creature that crawled out of the egg had purple scales, a gold belly and red wings, the two dragonflies had no idea that this creature was a dragon.
The baby dragon had still not opened its eyes and instead it tried to wipe the goo off of its head using its tail, after several minutes the dragon gave up trying to wipe its own head and seemed to fall asleep, having used all of its energy.
The two dragonflies was both afraid and amazed at the sleeping creature before them, "it's actually kind of cute" said Nina, "Cute, that thing could eat us" said Flash, "I don't think it has the energy to hurt anyone" she said.
Nina left the safety of the rock and began to approach the creature, "What are you doing" asked Flash with fear in his voice, "It's ok" said Nina as she flew up to the dragon and gently wiped the goo off of its head.
Flash seeing that the creature was no immediate threat flew up next to Nina, "Where do you think he came from" asked Nina, "I'm not sure" he said.
Suddenly Flash had an idea and flew up high into the air hoping to see where the dragon could have come from, however the dragon temple was too far away to see and Flash flew back down.
"Did you see anything" asked Nina, Flash shuck his head "No, this river goes on for miles, there's no telling where he could have come from" he said.
Both dragonflies heard a squeaking sound and looked down to see that the dragon had opened its eyes and was looking at them with eyes as purple as its scales.
Flash and Nina froze in fear thinking that their lives was about to end, the dragon looked at them with curiosity in its eyes and gave another squeak.
Nina carefully touched the dragons head and seeing the creature as no danger began to stroke the dragon.
"What should we do, we can't just leave him here to be eaten by a Frogweed" said Nina, "I don't know, maybe someone's looking for him" said Flash though he didn't believe his own words.
Nina thought for a second "Well until someone comes to get him, maybe we should look after him" she said, Flash was clearly hesitant but when he looked the little dragon in the eye he couldn't bear the thought of something bad to him, "Ok, but only until someone comes to get him" he said.