Chapter 2 – the mourning comes?
Around the main plaza of Dragonhead is an old dragon with light blue scales, yellow feathers around his neck, grey eyes, spear shaped tail blade, and scrappy looking wings. The old dragon is Thunkar, the current baron of Dragoheim. His job is to deal with the affairs of the city under the service of the current koopa king Bowsire II. What he is doing right now is hold a clip board with a check list making sure all the décor and the events are going smoothly.
He looks around the plaza until a shiny statue shines into his eyes. The statue is a gold painted wooden carved dragon with a crown to represent the old empire. The large carved statue is being rolled into the city center for the most important part of the event. The only thing missing for the event is the torches to represent certain elements. Excitement shines among the folk until a guard rushes to the Baron.
"Milord! URGANT!"
Thunkar shivered with annoyance at the sudden outburst so he faces the guard. "Explain to me why the sudden interruption?" demanded Thunker with a mad look on his face. The Guard looks side to side, leaned to the Baron's ear and whispers something making the Baron freak out.
"B-B-B-B-B-B-Bowsire is here!?" Thunker studders loudly making all the participating dragons stop in motion as they all gasp about the koopa king's sudden arrival.
Meanwhile, back with Kai and Giggadon, the two drakes are both exhausted from the intense fighting they had. While they had fought, the Draggadon Frisk is having a nice conversation with his crush Chimi who seems to be interested. Chimi broke contact with Frisk only to see her brother and Giggadon finally stop fighting laying on the ground breathing resulting in a draw. Chimi trots to the boys with her arms folded. "You boys are finally done?" She asks as the boys finally got up. Giggadon stretched up and turns to Kai still panting out of breath. "One day (pant) we (pant) need (pant) a rematch (pant)" Giggadon demands as Kai nods hopping to once again fight in the future. From the ally, the large dragon Omeggadon calls out "GIGGADON ITS TIME TO HEAD BACK HOME!" Giggadon got disappointed as he wants to spend more times with his friends but his dad can be scary at times. So he looks at Kai, Chimi, and Frisk to say his goodbye heading to his father's direction.
Giggadon and his family lives in a large house that looks like a mead hall. Being the son of the current Harbinger, brings benefits as the mead house looks like a large mansion especially in the inside. Inside the house the family who are Pyra, Omegaddon, and Giggadon are preparing for the ceremony in separate rooms. For attire they wear fancy cloaks until a hard knock is heard from the door. Curious, Omeggadon opens the door to see a nervous looking Thunkar.
"Baron! Is something wrong?" Omeggadon asks with his family behind him.
Thunkar answers "he's here" making Omeggadon tense in anger, Pyra in fear, and Giggadon a little confused.
So the family joins up with the crowd of dragons gathered around the statue of the plaza. But they are not facing the statue but the main gates as they are about to have unexpected visitors. The Guards opens the gates revealing a crowed of turtle like creatures resembling draconic features, some of them escorted by the koopapatrol who are armored koopa troopas. Leading them is the king himself, Bowsire. Bowser resembles a lot like his son beside him except he has blue skin, more muscular, longer orange hair, and his face is red. Beside him is his son Bowser the future king of the koopas. Bowser's presence made the dragons nervous thinking the royal family are going to claim one of the girls for a future bride despite not being fourth gen. As Bowsire, the noble koopas, and his son came in looking around He laughs.
"Grahahahaha, what? In the king and you chums don't invite me?"
The dragon crowd, a little relieved yet agitated that the koopas would interfere but they had no choice as the koopas have them on a leash. Bowser in turn jumps in "yeah you big fat meanies you guys are supposed to invite us!"
Among the crowd, Giggadon is gritting his teeth in anger along with his fists shaking because he is getting urges to punch that spoiled brat. As the koopas came in, Bowser didn't stop ranting about how one day he will be their boss.
Not taking it anymore Giggadon attempted to run a Bowser to beat the crude at of him but his father stops him. "No Giggadon, not like last time." Omeggadon whispers holding Giggadon by the arm.
Giggadon definitely remembers first meeting the spoiled prince and it didn't go well.
FLASHBACK
In the middle of the street Giggadon was as usual enjoying beating the hell out of the little dragons to show his dominance. After finishing punching the last dragon a dragon like turtle shows up.
"HEY YOU!" the turtle dragon shouts getting Giggadon's attention.
"What do you want fatty?" Giggadon mocks as he steps in front of Dragon Turtle towering over him as he is well bigger than him. But that didn't stop the turtle Dragon brat from trash talking him.
"When I'm king, you are going do to everything I say!" the turtle-dragon jabs his finger claw at the larger Black/orange drake.
"Says who?" Giggadon fold his arms. "Says my status as prince and I'm going to be better than you and you are going to do every I say!"
Giggadon starts to get angry, his teeth are gritting, and his head looks like its boiling with rage. Than out of nowhere Giggadon lashes at the prince known as Bowser.
The other drakes that Giggadon beaten up got up only to see in horror that Giggadon is fighting with the koopa prince. The Koopa prince made a few punches at Giggadon but not as effective being younger than him. The punches by the prince only serves to make Giggadon angrier delivering stronger blows at Bowser's snout to the point his nose started to bleed.
Bowser looks around and notices his father nearby making him smirk and starts to cry. His father, and the other adults went to the scene witnessing that a dragon had dared harassed the prince. Giggadon attempts to defend his action that Bowser started it but that didn't stop Bowsire from punishing the dragons for not controlling their young. As a punishment the dragons were forced to pay high taxes for Bowser's healthcare and Giggadon was punished in his bed room for many moons.
Present time
And now they are back to cause some sort of trouble. All Giggadon can do is watch the spoiled royals talking dirt about them.
In the middle of the plaza Bowsire is looking around the draconic subjects with glee spotting a pub booth. He points at the bartender dragon who is pouring drinks. "You there! Pour me one of your famous dragon meads!" Bowsire demanded. With no choice the dragon bartender fills up a cup and hesitantly went to the blue skinned koopa lord and gave it to him.
Bowsire drinks it up while the dragons watches. The other Koopa nobles however did other things like getting kinky with the dragons of opposite gender.
Bowser on the other hands spots Giggadon among the crowd with his father doing a spit at him getting a mad reaction from Giggadon.
Thunkar finally approaches Bowsire hoping to not cuase trouble. "Milord, please forgive me, my people are doing a very sacred ceremony so I would advise you be in your best behavior please?" the Koopa king next to him only laughs as if he was told a joke.
"Dear Thunker, my mama is of your people!" Bowsire turns and points to all the koopa nobles who are also dragonfied due to history of dragon breeding. "and so are they, hehehe, so I believe we could be allowed in your whatever holiday you guys are doing."
Thunker looks down in defeat so he allows the koopas in to the other dragon's disappointment but Thunkar isn't done yet "with all do respect lord we are actually in a middle of the fall ceremony so I think you and your friends have a seat."
With that all the dragons, the dragon-koopa guests, and the koopaPatrol sat around the large golden dragon statue as three young hatchlings were given tourches with different color of fire. Among the young hatchlings is Giggadon who is choosen to be one of the torch holders.
Coming out of the crowd is an old grey she dragon wearing a pair of robes looking like a priestess. All the dragons made small bows except Bowsire and his crooks. Approaching her is Thunkar who greets her than escorts her on the stage. Once on the stage, the light turns off replaced with stage light shining on the golden statue. With the cue, the priestess spoke.
"dragon brothers and sister, today is the 50th Mourning the day when our beloved empire perished scattering our people! Once upon a time, we dragons were a mighty people forging an empire that lasted many years. It was founded by the legendary Bahamut founder of the empire, demigod of dragonkind, and most importantly the Dragon lord. But sadly it did not last as three factors lead to empire's destruction."
The priestess points to one of the torch holders who raises it
"The first contributer of the fall was our ancestors sudden tolerance with the mortals who decived us making us soft little wimps."
First touch lights up the statue which represents the empire slowly crumbling.
"The second factor is the dragon leaders who were supposed to guide us would turn a blind eye at our pleas."
The second torch lights up the statue.
"now the final nail of the coffin that finally destroys our beloved Dragonia is the death of Bahamut clan followed by the rebellion of the mortals."
With that Giggadon lights the final torch causing the statue to be engulfed in flames making the dragons bow their heads in sadness. The purpose of the statue is to represent their once proud empire and the burning signifies a reminder that the said empire destroyed.