Meanwhile, a few days later, the southern land of Kumand and the great broken hill at the stupas of the great city of Fang and the waterfall, it was already late hour, many beings and people were going to sleep, but not all, that day, that evening, three dragonesses appeared at the top of the waterfall. several times a year they met in a chosen place to look at the sky and tell stories from the past, stories written in the stars.
The first of the dragonesses was the blue dragoness of Sisu, with a lighter shade on the belly, arms, face and white-blue purple hair and two corners visible, her purple eyes looked at the image of the starry sky where there were various constellations of stars showing various characters and it all depended on the interpretation itself .
The joyful dragoness was accompanied by her two older sisters, the first one to focus her amethyst eyes seriously on the sky was a pink and purple dragoness Pranee with a deep purple mane with dorsal fins and a caudal fin, her focus was on the central arrangement that showed perhaps the most interpreted characters at this time of year , the fall season where everything changed and prepared for the coming winter.
The third dragoness was a pale purple-blue Amba with white streaks down her back, now more focused on her indigo mane, periodically tweaking it with her forepaws, her purple eyes looking more closely at the edge of the horizon where the sun was hiding and the other side where it rose. the moon, which was more interesting for her eyes, if only the sight of stars showing, in her opinion, rather strange views, associated mainly with cake or cake.
Usually these three dragonesses spent time alone in their company, but after defeating the evil spirits, the fourth companion joined them that evening, now she was dressed in a brown dust jacket, with a round hat always accompanying her, and now the indiscretion of a long-forged shiny sword with an ornate hilt, black-haired Raya looked at in the stars with her brown eyes waiting for the first dragon stories about both uncreated stories and stories from the old days about which Sisu herself heard little, and everything was now focused on the most visible star system showing everyone a view from the most distant times, and the older and younger sister of Sisu as it turned out, they knew a story that few knew about, only dragons, but they remained silent until today.
- so what do the stars actually mean, I can see there, I don't know, islands, weapons, I don't know. Raya said as she lay on the ground beside the three dragonesses, gazing intently at the sky full of stars.
- it depends on how you interpret it, I think I personally see a big cake there, but my sister will tell you something else, the truth. Said Amba, stroking her indigo mane.
- interpretation?. She asked Raya, exchanging a glance with Sisu lying next to her.
- exactly, it's up to you and your imagination, see what you see there. Sisu asked pointing her right hand at the visible first of the pictures, first rolling her hand from left to right to finally extend her hand up.
What was at first unnoticeable to the untrained eye, what could be seen with the power of her imagination, had just been set in motion, Raya suddenly rose from the ground focusing her brown eyes on the truly visible image that appeared to her after the advice and display of her dragon friends.
- something opens to me, I can see, but what is it?. She asked Raya focusing entirely on the image in the sky that was becoming more and more visible.
- what is written, what needs to be interpreted, for many it may be a cake, for others a weapon, a human figure, and for us the history of old times, a legend from before our tribes. Said Pranee, looking at her human friend with her amethyst eyes it was at the great picture written in the sky.
- but what is it. She asked Raya.
- something great, a story that few people know about, and among us dragons is a myth and legend, but it happened somewhere in the world. Said Pranee, this time looking at the lands and the city of Fang below.
- what happened. She asked Raya looking forward to the answer looking at Amba and at Sisu, but both Sisu and Amba looked silently at the older sister, waiting only for her.
Sitting next to Raya, she suddenly looked only at the sky, understanding one thing, understanding that what the dragons knew was probably meant exclusively for them, something that was part of their myths, traditions and culture and could not enter their culture.
- I think I understand.
- no its not like that. Sisu said quickly standing next to her human friend.
- it is not that you are human here, but that we have not talked about the history of two dragons, almost forgotten by everything, remembered by us for a long time. Amba said, focusing all her attention on their human friend wearing the round hat.
- two dragons?. She asked Raya, this time without urging, not raising her voice, completely silent and focused.
- two dragons from the past, look there are clearly, the one on the right is the golden dragon of knowledge and prophecy. Said Pranee, revealing the first form of interpretation in the sky, the form of a golden dragon great and mighty letting its breath out on an unknown figure in the center.
- Gold dragon?. She asked Raya.
- yes, the Golden Dragon of knowledge and prophecy, he and the other, the White Dragoness of the power of light on the left, fought together in the old days against the great enemy. Amba said this time, revealing an image to the left and a great dragoness of light visible, the White Dragoness of the power of light which, like the golden dragon, let its breath out on the unknown enemy in the center.
- two dragons. Raya whispered to herself.
The picture was perfectly visible, Raya saw perfectly the picture portrayed by the three dragon sisters, also revealing the history and legend of the dragon peoples that have been known to few people until now, until that one evening when the constellations of the stars were in the correct position showing the history of an ancient war with an unknown heretofore evil.
- Golden and White, knowledge and light, amazing, it means they are. Said Raya as she inquired about the rest of the story of the dragon legends.
- this legend has been passed down orally since time immemorial. Sisu said looking now at her sisters.
The three sisters looked up at the sky again, recalling with joy and sadness what their parents had passed on to them, the stories of the struggle at the dawn of time and history, the struggle with inexhaustible evil, sacrifice and loss.
- at the dawn of time, two dragons, the Golden Dragon of knowledge and the White Dragoness of light, fought when the world was still young, in the old days when the dragon tribes were very young, an indescribable evil arose with which the two dragons had to fight, evil, pure death and doom, eternal flame, eternal war, father of all evil, many of us say that evil forces like Druun are in part the work of pre-eternal evil, evil that fell from heaven, evil that was an evil star, or something that did not deserve to inhabit among the stars. Said Pranee, knowing the stories of the old days best of what was part of the dragon tribe culture, revealing a truth as well.
- soon dragon tribes. She asked Raya.
The question of the brave warrior caused both the mane of Pranee and Amba to twitch slightly because so far the world knew only one tribe of dragons, water dragons, and today a certain truth was also to be revealed.
- yes, we water dragons are not the only tribe of dragons, there are more of us, but after the great battle with the unnamed evil, our tribes, in accordance with the will of the golden dragon, spread to the four corners of the world. Amba said, taking a deep breath to reveal the dragon's final secret.
- there are as many dragon tribes as there are elements, fire, water transformed into ice, fire and earth, and there are the same number of dragon tribes, there are four dragon tribes and each set off in a different direction to protect the world from the consequences of the wrecked evil at the dawn of time. Amba added, exhaling the meadow and taking a few heavy breaths afterwards.
The whole flood of news shocked the young warrior, Raya never thought that she would learn so much that one evening staring only at the stars, and here today she first learned about the great war with the father of all that is bad, ending with the fact that there are four tribes of dragons, water , fiery, dragons of earth and air, dragons of all elements, except maybe one that was often visible in a cloudy and dangerous sky.
- Wait a minute, and what about the lightning. She asked Raya looking at the three dragon sisters.
- thunder dragons never arose, even the ancient two dragons did not wield such power, when the Golden Dragon wielded the beam of knowledge and the White Dragoness the beam of light, and their unnamed opponent wielded the navy blue power of destruction, no one understood such power in their reign mainly because it was there is another element. Pranee said, staring intently at the sky.
- oh I once met a certain scientist with problems with Druun, he classified the power of thunder with some kind of energy element or something like that. Said Amba, recalling the days before the fight with black spirits.
Raya, seeing the focus on the blue face of Sisu and her sisters, sat down next to them, arguing at the sky and the figure between the two dragons began to compose an uncomplicated picture of the great evil with which the two ancient dragons had to fight.
- and the third one in the middle is something, this is an unnamed evil?. She asked Raya.
For a moment, none of the three dragonesses wanted to answer the question of their human friend, afraid to speak about the unnamed evil in the human world simply called the Demon, because this was the shape of a terrible creature, a huge humanoid monster with horns on its head and a pair of wings that appeared in bats, the terrible monster was shown by Sisu who, like the other sisters, looked away for a moment, come evil has long been defeated fear of the indescribable was still strong and very justified.
- Listen, let's finish this conversation, maybe you will tell me about it one day, I'm not that interesting, you don't have to, really. Raya said, getting up from the ground and trying to get off the ridge of the waterfall but was quickly stopped by both Sisu and Amba who stood in her way.
- you need to know it and we have to finish so look at what was shown there, this evil, with a name unknown to us, even if we knew it, we would never say it, but know one thing. Said Amba, pointing to the central figure, to a great demon with a great sword fighting two dragons.
- this evil, attacked the known world, with its navy blue power, the power of evil and destruction, wanted to extinguish the sun, cover the world with an inexhaustible cloud, two dragons, the Golden Dragon and the White Dragoness stood up to fight with him. Said Pranee, staring with great intensity at the image in the sky taking a deep breath.
- both dragons fought bravely, but even united, creating a Raya of life together, they were not able to defeat evil, only the union with the four tribes and the sacrifice of the White Dragoness allowed to shatter the enemy's sword and defeat the nameless evil, throwing it from the firmament of the world. Said Pranee, looking at the ground this time with great regret.
- the loss of the White Dragoness in the old days was a great blow to all dragons, many of them still call her the mother of dragons, and the terrible legacy of the nameless evil continues to this day, the Golden Dragon well predicted that the legacy of the nameless will be repeated around the world so he advised our tribes we would go to the four corners of the world, he always knows everything. Sisu said avoiding the gaze of her human friend as if she was hiding something.
Raya, seeing and hearing the reactions of a usually confident and joyful dragon friend, knew that Sisu was hiding something that was both important and painful, for the brave warrior the knowledge she learned today was too great and she did not want to ask or torment her friend with unnecessary questions, instead she was standing at the head of the Pranee gave the last answer.
- I see that you are silent, you do not want to bother us with questions. Said Pranee looking with her amethyst eyes at her human friend.
- Er, no, I mean, sometimes too much knowledge is a burden. Raya said.
- here you are right, but you must know, the Golden Dragon sees the future as it is and it can happen, you can say that he has a future written in the palm of your hand, and he reads from it when he wants it, since then, after a great conflict, he made many prophecies, many prophecies, one of them fell into our hands a long time ago, told us that the Druun plague would come one day, but did not say when and how to defeat it, usually such scrolls do not show the end but the beginning, but there are also those that show and the end is hidden in the unknown us places. Sometimes it seems to me that our fate is a written page from which only he, the dragon of wisdom and the scribe of prophecy can read. Pranee said looking at her listener with full concentration, while Raya looked at the tall pink-purple dragoness with wide eyes, unable to understand what she heard today.
- dragon of knowledge, sees the future, but it means that when he sees the future, it cannot be changed, amazing, I already understand why you call him the dragon of knowledge, only someone who is truly wise can look at the cards of the future, but does that mean, is it not bad that we cannot change anything since our future is saved. She told Raya at which both Pranee and Amba suddenly growled which was rather shocking.
Even Sisu standing to the side shuddered nervously but not with anger at her human friend and at the possible reactions of her sisters, Sisu quickly stood between Raya and Pranee and Amba.
- please enough, she doesn't know how she might have known. Sisu said, easing the tense situation.
- but what happened, I'm sorry, I didn't know if I offended you. Sorry, I mean I don't like that we can't change anything, isn't that wrong?. Raya tried to ask but was quickly caught by the face by Sisu and she quickly explained what she had done with Raya's words.
- Raya, listen to me, unnamed evil contradicted everything, now you with your words contradict one of the principles of the Golden Dragon, he gave us a pair, the first is to never doubt the foreseen future and no matter what it may be, we can only accept it. Sisu said as she pulled her left paw back.
- which means that we are to accept our fate, and if in one of the prophecies our destruction will be written, the destruction of our peoples, will you do nothing. She asked Raya, raising her voice a little.
Sisu took two steps back and Pranee and Amba appeared before their sister revealing the question of the future and their principles given to them by the Golden Dragon, the dragon of knowledge.
- you must understand, young warrior, what is written cannot be changed, because what is written is unchangeable, even if one of us tried to change the future, it cannot be changed, the actual change would break the laws of nature, the laws of the world, and this would only lead to to extinction. Said Pranee.
- so nothing can be done. She asked Raya, clutching her hands, unable to accept that what was written was unchanging.
- all that can be done is to delay the inevitable, that's all. Amba added, bowing her head in front of the young warrior.
For a moment Raya debated the knowledge that the dragon interlocutors had given her, and after everything she had heard, recognized, understood and tried to understand, Raya adjusted her round hat and sat down in front of the flowing river, looking at the sky reconciled with the inevitable.
- if the future cannot be changed and cannot be delayed, what are the other rules. She asked Raya.
- there are two more rules, including the most important one. Said Pranee, exchanging a glance with Amba as if their knowledge of one of the principles was greater or contained some secret.
- first, you will always protect the world from the consequences of a nameless evil. Amba said, then she sat down next to Sisu, staring at the horizon.
- and lastly, you will never mix between tribes and other races, this is the most important rule, breaking it will cause the wrath of the Golden Dragon, he can see it, you must not break this rule because you will break the laws of nature. Said Pranee looking haughty at Raya who did not understand the last rule.
- why, even if the heart cries out, you cannot, I do not understand it, why, is it wrong when two contradictory creatures of contradictory tribes and species are united by a feeling?. She asked Raya.
The two sisters looked at each other again to finally look at the sky full of stars, where you could see not only the stellar image of the two dragons and the great evil between them and a shooting star that disappeared somewhere beyond the horizon, both sisters were silent for a moment, even Sisu at first did not answer to her friend's question.
- understand these are our rules, we mustn't, even if our hearts were screaming, we mustn't do anything for it. Sisu replied knowing the third and final rule of the golden dragon.
- so the Golden Dragon, there is something like this somewhere. She asked Raya.
- oh yes, he lives somewhere in an unknown place, supposedly inhabits the greatest peak of the world somewhere in a distant and inaccessible land, this is where he writes down his prophecies and places them in various places of the world, so that when the time is right they can be found to show the true path that everyone of us must follow. Said Pranee, focused solely on the view below the great city of Fang.
There was a momentary silence, actually Raya did not understand these strange rules, commandments set by the golden dragon, and did not understand why the future must be so determined, why nothing can be changed, but since everything was created from the thoughts of the great dragon of wisdom, the wisest being in the world there was no reason for the Golden Dragon to make a mistake.
Raya finally put aside any conflicting thoughts as well as her hat as she sat at the edge of the ridge of the waterfall to gaze at the city below, sincerely hoping that the future would be kind to her relatives, friends and herself that recorded prophecies would not bring ruin to her home and world. Kumand.
- I have to admit one thing. Raya said, staring at the sky where everything was so still and silent.
- What?. Sisu asked, sitting down next to her human friend and also staring at the starry sky.
- and how today I look at the sky full of stars, I always had them in front of my eyes, but from today I look at them completely differently, as when I was a small child, with my imagination, or something I didn't miss when I became an adult. She asked Raya, touching an element also well known to the three dragon sisters.
Both Sisu, Amba and Pranee looked up to the sky remembering the time when they were still young.
- Yes, there is something in it, we all grow up, it's normal, natural, but sometimes we forget too easily, but it's also normal, that's why I like staring at the stars so much to remember our parents when I was still young. Said Amba, recalling when she and her sisters and brothers were young, when life was so carefree and uncomplicated.
- I remember those times, mum, dad, those days and times. Pranee said in a rush of memories, releasing one tear.
- why I don't remember my dad. She asked Sisu what quickly shocked her sisters who stuttered and looked at each other.
- tell me why I don't remember dad. Sisu asked.
For a moment, both Amba and Pranee were silent, exchanging words in silence and short glances. Finally, Pranee replied recalling a story that Sisu did not know about because she never asked.
- Your father left, fought with great evil and left and your mother, you know how she looked and acted then, she was bursting with despair, she could not bear it anymore.
- Pranee is it evil Druun. Sisu asked looking extremely fiercely.
- no it's not Druun, something that was destroyed a long time ago, we don't know what it was, we were too young to know and know the truth but it is gone, just like your mother a few months after that. Pranee said, lowering her head and closing her eyes, sounding real enough to make everyone believe her, both listening to her sister Sisu and sitting next to Raya.
Finally, wanting to break everything, Raya suddenly lay down on the ground yawning loudly letting everyone know to end the current conversation and what was the most difficult.
- but something struck me as sleep, and not you. She asked Raya, at the same moment both Pranee and Amba yawned loudly and lay back down, closing their eyes.
And Sisu, standing in front of the ridge of the waterfall, stared at the sky for a while, trying to look for the image of her father in her memories, the image of happy parents, because the only thing she remembered after her birth was her mother's pain and childhood, and her siblings, despite her efforts, did not find the image of her father , Sisu bowed her head, knowing that she would not find what she did not have again, then she lay down close to her sisters and the sleeping Raya and closed her eyes to the depths of her dreams.
When Sisu fell asleep Pranee and Amba opened their eyes for a moment and in the words of silence a few glances exchanged a secret, then nodded to each other and fell asleep, their last gesture was like confirming another promise, consent, which was again the consent of the two sisters.
The night was not, however, quiet and calm, and even less so, the morning everything shone, a great powerful flash woke Amba sleeping in an empty place, the terrified dragoness quickly got up seeing how the water once flowing from the waterfall stopped flowing completely and everything was suddenly different, suddenly the world like was known it began to burn, the earth began to tremble and in the north a strange smoke began to rise, the smoke rushed faster and faster and after it a terrible glow of strange lights, black and navy blue to finally illuminate everything and cover the sky with eternal fog, Amba tried to look for her sister, friends, whose age, but her trials were for nothing.
- Sisu, Prane!, Pengu!, Jagan!, where are you!. Amba screamed, spinning around that she stopped on a shining beam coming somewhere from the north from an unknown region, to finally hit the lands of Kumand, and from the dark sky covering the sun flaming missiles began to hit, one of the missiles flew straight at the city of Fang.
- no!. Amba screamed, but her scream was for nothing because the bullet hit the city, destroying it completely, and after the explosion and torn falling debris, the earth began to blacken and terrible structures rose up.
Amba in total shock saw what was getting up, something that reminded people but there were no people, suddenly a terrible scream began to rumble in the area and Amba, looking north over the burned forest saw a hand emerging, grabbing her left paw and pulling her north whispering one word.
- help!.
The whisper seemed to be getting stronger every moment and turned into a terrifying scream until everything flashed again and the vision of the terrible world suddenly faded, Amba stood up on her feet like a lightning shot, staring at the world around her, seeing her sisters, a human friend, the city below and the flowing water at Amba Falls took a deep breath until she saw the rising sun and the northern region.
- was it just a dream?. Amba asked herself but what she saw was all too real.
The dragon tribes have always treated dreams as a symptom of prophecy, premonitions and something contrary to the teachings of the golden dragon, because dreams were never in the hands of the dragon of knowledge, they often themselves showed a strange future that usually did not happen, they could often confuse, show contradictory visions and even trying to deny the future written by Golden Dragon in his prophecies, nevertheless Amba quickly made up her mind.
- I have to check it, I have to do it myself. Said Amba, but before she quietly left her sisters and her friend left a message to everyone, writing it on a white stone, then she jumped into the depths of water, swimming through the lake and river at dizzying speed, to check her vision in her dream personally.
It didn't take long, however, until the next dragonesses and their friend woke up welcoming the next day.
- right where Amba is. Sisu asked, getting up first.
Standing on the other side, Pranee expected such a turn of events after the previous day and conversation.
The pink-and-purple dragoness did not worry about the lack of a younger sister, you could say that it was good for her, Pranee just shrugged, expecting everything, but not what Raya was about to show, picking up a white stone from the ground.
- I don't know if this is normal, Amba left you a message, I think she went to find answers to her dreams. Said Raya as suddenly Pranee snatched the white stone from her hand.
- Pranee what happened. She asked Sisu, seeing the trembling of the dark purple mane and the fear in the amethyst eyes of her older sister, she also looked at the white stone with the message engraved on her own.
- we cannot trust in dreams, they often mistake, lead astray, our sister writes that she sailed towards the north, she saw something in her dreams and wants to find answers, it would be better if we follow her, we must hurry quickly Sisu. Said Pranee standing at the edge of the waterfall.
- and what about me, wait, Tuk Tuk quickly to me!. Raya screamed, and at the same moment a faithful companion and the steed of the brave warrior, the bronze Armadillo Tukl Tuk, fell from the bushes below.
- Raya, listen to me, you will take a different route, no one knows where our sister might have gone, certainly north of the city, we will check the northwest sector and you will check the eastern sector. Sisu said before she jumped after her sister down the waterfall into the water below.
Sisu, led by Pranee, jumped into the water, swimming beneath its surface for some time until both of them, using their powers, ran over the surface, running along the emerging traces of ice, rushing north to meet the unknown, while Raya watched for a moment the two dragon sisters herself not understanding another strange behavior of dragons.
- dreams?, When the crowd do not understand it, why are they so afraid of it, no matter what, take us to the meeting with the future, Tuk Tuk. Raya said as she mounted the back of her faithful steed.
Tuk Tuk looked ahead with intensity, then he rushed ahead to meet the unknown, but no one knew or expected that the dream that Amba had visited was not only a dream, but something more, provoked by the unknown, and what was now waiting for the pool of the night what called everyone, and most of all the water dragons.
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This chapter is a history of the past and the fact that apart from the four tribes of dragons there were two original dragons, only one of them now alive, a Golden Dragon of indescribable power that could create the future and the fate of mortals, but is it good when some force such as destiny rules us, or it is good when someone introduces us to a fait accompli, where none of us has a choice and we must walk the path that someone has created and chosen for us, NO!.