Chapter 4 – meeting the face of lighting
Nightfall came to the Darklands. The once majestic City owned by dragons, Dragonheim is now a pile of ruin. The dragons that lived there were either dead or fled to other parts of the world unknown. Around the outskirts of the said ruin is a pile of black dirt that came from an avalanche that feel from the bombombend from the koopa army that destroyed it.
Suddently, from the pile movement is seen. From the moving pile a claw sticks out follow by another but its holding a skull hilt. Then a young Giggadon bursts out, gasping for air. The little Giggadon rubs his eyes than looks around his surroundings. In his surroundings are mostly more dirt from the mountain until he looks up to see a familiar place on it.
The little drake, worried, plops out of the dirt than uses his wings which still works to fly towards his destroyed home. Giggadon lands in front of the back gate. He Approaches the gate and slowly opens it to be meet by a destroyed city.
The sight of the city made Giggadon uneasy as he slowly walks in. The wreckage is as worse as the little drake expected. Almost every building are burned to the ground, even the large ones. His house too is destroyed, collapsed. In the town square, the once bustling market place is a ghost town filled with the still fresh corpses of defending dragons and invading koopa alike.
"HELLO!," Giggadon shouts with his claws to his mouth, hoping a survivevor could be around. His search leads to the front gates where there are more corpses of dragons and koopas. Among the corpses are two familiar dragons that Giggadon knows to well. The sight of it makes him drop to his knees with a horrified look with his jaw opened. Tears starts to come out of the drakes face indicating that he is about to cry. The Two familiar dragon corpses were his parents.
The corpses of Giggadon's parents were huddled together peacefully thank ancestors. But that did not stop the little drake from bursting into more tears, but his two claws on his face to cry. Suddenly he thinks of a name. Bowser, the thought makes his teeth grit as his two claws start to grip, shaking. As he gets up he is no longer crying. He looks at a direction where he believes were bowser's castle is.
"BOWSER! IF YOUR HEARING THIS, YOU ARE GONNA PAY FOR THIS!" The little drake shouts with all his might to declare revenge. Than he remembers what his father had told him about a place called the ruined kingdom. So he takes the big hilt that he dropped from the crying and heads off to a nearby kingdom not owned by Koopas so hopely he could find directions to find the ruined kingdom.
In almost every kingdom, Giggadon is met with ridicule and flat out bigotry. Due to the experience from his ancestors, many nondragons would either run away from him or try to chase him out. The humans in both New donk and the mushroom kingdom were not any better for him.
The Mushroom kingdom was acutally the first kingdom Giggadon came in contact with since it is nearby the Darkland or Koopakingdom. When various humans and toads who were brave back then would try to drive him out despite being a young dragon. It is true that dragons tend to be in unfriendly terms with just about any non-dragon due to all reports of raiding viliages, enslaving, and of course would sometimes eat various people. The mushroom Kingdom was no exception. Not wanting to risk future dragon attacks, residents of the Mushroom kingdom would form mobs to drive poor Giggadon out who was only trying to ask for directions.
When Giggadon flee to Yoshi island for the same reason, the yoshis would respond either in fear or threw eggs at him.
Eventually, Giggadon ended up inside a wastleland filled with destroyed building structures. Of all the buildings, He hid inside a destroyed tower with a roof intact. Inside he sleeps on the ground with a face of sadness. Everywhere he went, he is meet with hatred by the other nondragons of the world. All he wanted to do was to get help to find the legendary Ruined kingdom. Sadly, by what he had witnessed, the world is defenitly against dragons. Even him as he sheds a tear follow by another.
He slumps down on his belly curled up to try and sleep but painfull memories kept him sobbing. Momma, papa, I miss you…. Why is world so mean to DRAGONS like ME! the young sleeping Giggadon thought until a growl is heard in his belly. He needs to find food or else he will starve. He leaves his temporary shelter with the hilt inside his bag he made.
Giggadon scouts the purpleskied wastleland with no luck in finding any food. It is as expected when attempting to live in a place void of life with only buildings to remind that a civilization had lived there. Speaking of civilization, the young dragon wonders who actually lived here. He was thinking further until a pair of voices shouts.
"FREEZE YOU VILE FIEND"
Giggadon whips his head with a scared expression to see a pairs of four knights with red Walffenrocks with a mushroom symbol indicating they were from the mushroom kingdom. One knight looks overweight wielding an ax. One female knight is holding a pair of daggers. One short knight is holding a short blade. And finally an average sized knight who is probably the leader due to wearing a cape is holding a sword and shield in his hands.
The knights looks at Giggadon who is now the size of an average truck. Despite his size the leading knight speaks in a mocking tone "that is the infamous dragon of the Ruined Kingdom? It is pretty small for a dragon!" The other knights starts to laugh with him.
"if it's the dragon than we will be having an easy fight" the female spoke getting ready to fight.
Giggadon just couldn't stand being treated like a monster so he decided to toughen up like his father would have done. He stands up straight with a fierce looking face, puffing his chest to look fearful and threats "YOU JERKS BETTER GET OUT OF MY SIGHT OR ELSE".
"or what will you do fiend?" the lead knight mocks.
Giggadon was about to make a roar until a bigger roar is heard behind him. The Knights and the dragon turn their heads to a mountain to see a large black dragon with tones of purple. Its eyes are orange which are looking down directly at the knights. It makes a few sniffs with it's large snout than makes a large roar.
"BY THE FRICKN STARS IT'S THE DRAGON OF LEGEND!" the Lead knight shouts in fear. The other knights behind him are also shivering in fear yet still held their weapons. Giggadon however is observing the large dragon with a bit of curiosity yet a bit scared not knowing if it's a friend or foe.
The Giant dragon than spread its large wings than with a whish it flies up. Than it launches itself down aiming at the intruders. Giggadon only ducks down as the knights begin to run away like a bunch of cowards.
Giggadon hides behind one of the broken walls that are scattered and pecks to see the larger dragon who is as big as his dad fighting the knights.
The female knight attempted to leap at the black/purple dragon only to be grabbed by its humongus claws, crushing her and ate her. The Short knight tries to charge but the dragon spots him with its eyes then puts his claw on the ground to flick the short knight away. The short knight was screaming to his death by the flick. The lead knight who witnesses two of comrads perish drew his sword pointing it at the giant. "YOU WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH THIS YOU MONSTER!" The lead knight provokes.
The large dragon than spots its latest prey. The knight than stupidly makes the same leap as the female only for the large dragon to breath lightining out of his snout electrifying the knight to ash. The large dragon searches around and spots the last remaining knight who is the fat one.
The dragon's teeth starts to drool at the sight more meat as it is still hungry. The big knight who is just looking in fear is shaking to oblivion chattering his teeth. The Giant dragon starts to trot slowly only for the big knight to get a heart attack and dies. The giant dragon flinches with a confussed face woundering what the hell had happened. It agressivily shakes its large head than continues to its latest prey until it smells something.
Giggadon who just witnessed the Giant dragon kill the knights tucks his head out of sight from the wall. He does not know if the dragon who is the size of his father was a savior or just another killer. He hears stomps approaching him as a large shadow starts to form. He looks up only to see the big dragon looking at him.
"Who are you?" the big dragon spoke with a masculine tone confirming it is a male. Giggadon comes out of hiding to face the dragon who just indirectly saved him from the knights and responds with a studduring voice "m….m…..m….my name is Giggadon sir?" The large dragon moves his head closer at the fellow dragon in toe. After a long pause the large dragon smiles and said "young one, I am known by many names. Most humans would call me "the lord of lighting".
As you all should know, this story takes place almost before the events of Super mario odesey. if anyone have any questions let me know so see you next time in Super DragonLord