Summary: Amity thought it would be a simple mission, get an ancient artifact, get out, be respected. That didn't work out when she finds the protector's of said artifact.

Amity felt her back hit a large stone as the beast kept advancing towards her, her Emperor's Coven uniform was ripped and she was bleeding. A small growl emerged from its throat and Amity was afraid of what was about to happen. The massive fangs she saw sticking out of the creature's mouth made her terrified. It opened its mouth, and was about to attack, when another creature, roughly the same size, bit down on its neck. The new creature was different, instead of the black and red scales the other one had, this one had purple and white scales. While the other creature's wings were connected to its arm, the purple creature's wings were connected to its back, usable via a special joint connected to its spinal column. Amity knew what the purple creature was.

"A Dragon?" She said in surprise, "I... I thought they were banished to a far island."

Amity watched as the dragon lifted the other flying creature and threw it with its mouth. Amity took the opportunity to run away from the battle. Amity ran into a cave to hide. She started breathing heavily when she noticed something. She walked over to the wall and looked at the images on it.

"Wait... this is what I'm looking for." Amity said, "Long ago, in the Savage Ages, there was a group that sold their souls in order to gain dangerous power."

On the wall, was the image of someone holding an object and offering it to a dragon. Amity looked at the object and knew that she had to complete her mission. She reached up and grabbed it, pulling it out and making a massive wave of energy and magic come from the opening, and making the lights on the wall dim. There was the sounds of screaming and pain.

"T-t-that's probably nothing." Amity said.

She ran out of the cave, where she was surrounded by a bunch of guards. They had leather pants, straps that formed an X over their torso, and had animal skulls as helmets. In their hands, were spears made from bones, which were pointed at Amity. They spoke in a language that Amity didn't recognize, but she knew the spears pointed at her didn't mean well. Another guard came running with a woman in his arms, she was bleeding from what looked like a claw swipe against her eye. They spoke that language again and motioned to the cave. Several guards poked Amity with their spears, moving her back into the cave while the others focused on the woman. They brought Amity into a large room and put the woman on a stone table in the middle. Another woman, older than the injured one, came in.

"Iko." She said.

The rest of the guards bowed and left. She looked at the woman on the table, Amity had to assume this was the woman's mother or something, seeing as they looked very similar. She turned to Amity and saw the woman had two golden dragon eyes. She walked to Amity, clearly annoyed.

"Hikil, isa fly inco!" She said, getting closer to Amity.

She grabbed Amity by her uniform and slammed her against the wall. She opened her mouth and revealed sharp teeth and forked tongue.

"I... I don't know what you're saying." Amity said, very afraid of the sharp toothed woman.

A growl came from the woman's throat.

"Give. Me. The. Dragon's. Heart." She said.

"Slom." The other woman said, getting up.

The older woman dropped Amity and looked at the woman getting off the table. They started to speak to each other in that language before the injured woman walked over to Amity. She reached into Amity's bag and pulled the glowing sphere.

"You are not allowed here." She said, "You have attempted to steal a sacred item, given to us by the last dragon."

"Last dragon?" Amity said, "I thought they were banished."

"And where did you learn that?" The older woman asked, "We've witnessed the destruction of our Spirit animal, unable to do anything to stop it. They gave us the Dragon's Heart so we can gain the power of them... and then you stole it. Resulting in my daughter getting injured."

"Mama, calm." She said, before looking at Amity, "I am Luz, and this is my mother Camila. She is the Chief of our clan."

"Luz, we do not introduce ourselves to outsiders." Camila said, "Especially ones that hurt the tribe."

The cave started to shake, with a familiar roar, and Luz looked nervous.

"No, Mama, the Death Glider is back." Luz said, "I don't have my powers, I can't fight it!"

"Don't worry, I'll get your powers back." Camila said, taking the Dragon's Heart from Luz, "Everything will be fine."

Luz nodded and went to the front of the cave, grabbing a spear, while Camila ran to place the heart back. She put it in and... nothing happened.

"What?" She said, "Why isn't this working? What needs to be done in order to fix this?!"

Camila looked at it and noticed the power was fading. The only time this happened was when they were first given the Heart.

"If it needs to be recharged, then it needs blood, but none of ours can be used, it needs to be an outsiders." Camila said.

"I'll do it." Amity said.

Camila looked at her. She didn't trust this girl for a second for a second, especially to do this, but... she didn't have a choice.

"You understand, that not only will this recharge it, but it will give you the powers of a dragon, binding you to the tribe."

Amity looked at the object in Camila's hand before hearing the screaming outside, screaming that she caused by trying to take the object.

"I'm sure."

Amity took her knife and poked her finger before putting her hand on the Heart. Outside the Death Glider swung its tail, knocking several guards into the surrounding rocks and trees. It turned its attention back to Luz. It raised its wing, ready to claw Luz, when something bit down on it. Luz looked up and saw a bright green dragon, biting down on the Death Glider's head. Luz felt her power return and turned into her dragon form. She bit down on her tail and the two dragons threw it a few dozen feet. The Death Glider got up and looked at the two massive dragons. Deciding that it would be better to flee instead of fighting and flew away. Luz turned and looked at the new dragon, noticing that it had the same eyes as the girl that tried to steal the Heart. Luz turned back and watched as the other dragon did as well.

"You gave help the Heart." Luz said, "You gave up everything in order to help us?"

Amity nodded and was surprised when Luz hugged her.

"Thank you." Luz said.

"You shouldn't thank me, you lost your eye because of me." Amity said.

"Yeah, but that's why we have two, isn't it?" Luz asked.

Amity chuckled.

"I... I guess so." Amity said, "So, I'm... part of the Tribe now?"

"Yep, and... my mom didn't tell you about the important part did she?" Luz asked.

"Uh, maybe?"

Luz sucked in a breath.

"Well... when an outsider sacrifices their blood to become part of the Tribe, they... are engaged to the most important member... which is me." Luz said, "So... we're... partners."

Amity became very pale, don't get her wrong, Luz was very beautiful, and she wouldn't be against marrying her, but she was very caught off guard by that. Luz barely had time to catch her new fiancé. From the cave entrance, Camila smiled, she needed to get Luz married at some point, and she could tell that her and Amity would get along great. When she was willing to offer her blood, she knew it would kill two birds with one stone.

"Pretty soon, I'll have a grand egg."

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