Origin of a Draconian Kingdom

Chapter 2

Few weeks later:

Volance was sleeping by his mother. The air inside their cave was rather humid, but that just helps them sleep, since they're steam dragons and all that. A soft growl woke his mother up, and she saw Fuego standing in the entrance of the cave. He looked rather panicked. Volance's mother got up without waking him and quickly followed Fuego outside to the coast, where a bunch of other dragons, including a few elders, were staring out at the sea. Out on the horizon, was a large, flaming cruise ship.

A crystal dragon was there and told them another one of those Grimm creatures attacked the ship. The dragons were looking among themselves, trying to figure out what to do. The crystal dragon roared to get the other's attention. He was going to go look for survivors himself. Before he was about to take off, Fuego and Volance's mother volunteered to help, along with a few other dragons. The crystal dragon rolled his eyes before he and the volunteers lifted off and flew over to the ship.

The ship was broken in half, and was currently sinking into the abyss below. Volance's mother and Fuego landed on one side of the ship while the crystal dragon and the other volunteers landed on the other half. At an instant, Fuego began to sniff around, trying to find who may have survived the attack while she did the same. Fuego picked up a scent. He roared to her, and the two flew into their part of their ship. A fire was raging inside as well, though not as bad as the one outside. Fuego looked around the room, his heat vision, that most if not all fire dragons are born with, somewhat hindering his mission. Vapor had no such problems, as she saw the world like we do. She noticed a young girl, unconscious, with her back against the wall and covered in burn marks.

She snorted in surprise, and quickly went to the girl's aid. She was just as old as her own son from the looks of it. She carefully picked up the girl from the collar of her shirt with her mouth and went to find Fuego. She fount him sticking his head through a wall of flames. But she wasn't worried about that. Fire dragons are immune to flames such as these. He pulled out a few more of different ages. One of them had bunny ears for some odd reason. Shaking his head from the thought, he grabbed them the same way Vapor did, and the two lifted off, flying out of the ship. The others were already done looking as well. They flew back to the coast, where many of the dragons were awaiting their return. After landing, they laid the unconscious survivors on the soft sand. Multiple healer dragons came to their aid and quickly took the humans to their healing cave, which worked in a similar function to a hospital.

Few hours later:

The girl from before was laying on a soft, make-shift bed. She was covered in bandages, mostly around her chest, arms, and legs. She slowly regained consciousness and fluttered open her glistening blue eyes. She slowly tried to sit up, but the pain inside her forced her back down. She stared at the ceiling of...a cave? Her mind went crazy, coming up with theories as to how she ended up in a cave like this. Before long, she heard something. It was akin more to a large beast. She feared it was a Grimm and hoped it didn't see her.

She heard footsteps coming to her. It saw her. She closed her eye shut and waited for her imminent demise. But nothing came. She slowly opened her eyes again, only to let out a pained gasp at what she saw. It was a dragon. The dragon had the same body structure as the dragon she'd seen on the news, but white instead of red and orange. The dragon looked down at her as if it was treating her like a daughter of some sort.

A groan came from nearby inside the cave. The dragon turned her head and quickly left her side, she guessed to check on another patient. Wait, she wasn't the only survivor? She slowly tried to sit up again, this time with success, and looked around. All of the survivors had bandages on them as well and were just starting to wake up.

She then looked outside. Another dragon was just coming in. He looked really old and wise, and she wondered if he was the leader of the dragons. He gently roared at the dragon working on the patients, and she gently gathered them up and put them against the wall, including her. A few more old dragons came inside and approached the first one. They then looked at her and the other survivors. One of them began to speak, which flabbergasted the lot.

"Hello humans. My name is Terberis, the elder of the rock dragons. We saw your ship get destroyed by those Grimm creatures, so we sent a few volunteers and managed to save the lot of you. We are planning on returning you to human civilization, so you better be ready to go. Vitalus healed most of your wounds, so you shouldn't feel any pain," the dragon explained.

"Thank you...I guess," one of the survivors said.

"However, we may need your help to know where to go. We don't exactly know how to traverse this place like you humans do," Terberis added. Everyone except her nodded, and slowly got up and followed the other dragons outside. The girl didn't know what to do. Terberis noticed this and approached her. "What's your name young one?"

"Um...uh...I don't know," the girl said. Terberis brought his head back in confusion. How does this girl not know her name? He decided to ask something else.

"Do you know any of your parents or guardians?"

"N-no."

"Do you even know where you live!?"

"I...can't remember..." Terberis signed in annoyance. Well this isn't going anywhere. Vitalus understood what was going on and butted into the conversation. The girl apparently suffered some immense amnesia after she was smacked by the creature that destroyed the ship. He sighed in realization before looking back at the girl.

"I'm heading out. I need to speak with the other elders about this dilemma. Vitalus, make sure she doesn't leave that spot, alright," Terberis ordered. Vitalus nodded and the rock elder walked out of the cave.

Later:

Volance looked at his mother. She was pacing inside their cave, obviously worried about something. He walked up to her as she sat down and asked her what was wrong. She told him she was worried about those humans, especially the girl she rescued herself. Volance thought for a moment before asking her if they could visit the healing cave. She nodded and the two headed off.

When they got there, his mother felt her motherly instincts kick in. She rushed inside the cave with Volance following behind. She scanned the room, trying to look for the girl she saved, but she noticed that all the humans had left. She lowered her head before she heard her son trying to get her attention. She looked at him before she noticed one of the healer dragons approaching her.

Volance stared at her mother as she asked if the human girl was still here. The healer dragon told her that the girl was the only one left. The other humans left on dragons that were taking them back to their own kind. His mother then asked why she didn't come, and the healer dragon explained that she suffered some really bad amnesia.

Her eyes widened when she heard that. She wanted to meet the girl again, and the healer dragon led them to her. She quickly approached the girl, who tilted her head. Volance's mother looked back at the healer dragon. The dragon told her the rock elder came here earlier and he should come back after he finished talking with the other elders.

Volance slowly approached the girl. He has never seen a human before in his life. He tilted his head at her, and she did the same. They both stared at each other for quite a while until the rock elder came back, bringing with him another elder. He and the elder came up to them, with Volance's mother getting out of the way.

"The elders have made their decision. We do not know anyone from your family or had seen your guardians, so you're going to stay here with us," Terberis told her. The other dragons roared in shock at him, as only elders can actually speak like us humans. "Since you can't remember your name, we have decided to give you the name Hiromi because someone watched too many cartoons!"

"Hey! It wasn't my fault humans make good shows! It gets boring being the holder of knowledge," another dragon yelled from the entrance of the cave.

"Anyways, we will be calling you Hiromi. Do you understand," Terberis questioned her.

"Y-yes, I understand," Hiromi replied.

"Good. Before I let you go, Bassor, do your thing." The other dragon closed his eyes before opening his mouth, expelling some sort of energy beam that hit Hiromi's vocal cords. It didn't hurt her, and the beam went away after thirty seconds.

"What did you do," Hiromi asked, feeling her neck.

"Simple. I gave you the ability to speak and understand dragons. It's the least I could do to help you have an easier life here," Bassor explained. Hiromi's eyes widened in shock. She decided to test it out and looked over at Volance.

"Hello. I'm Hiromi."

"Hi! My name is Volance and I'm a steam dragon! We're gonna be the best of friends," he introduced himself cheerfully. Hiromi smiled before Terberis got her attention again.

"You are still very young. Your gonna need someone to watch over you...Vapor. You will take care of Hiromi until she can go off on her own. Understand?" Vapor nodded. The two dragon elders soon walked out of the healing cave. Hiromi and Volance were staring at each other in shock. They were going to be brother and sister!? Volance playfully pounced on his new sister, who played along after realizing he was playing with her. Volance's mother smiled at her children before looking back at Terberis.

"Thank you."

"It's the least I could do. Your father was a good man to everyone. But I do recommend you be careful around him now that you are taking care of a human. Your father...he isn't exactly fond of humans. He may end up killing Hiromi if he sees her." Her eyes widened when she heard that. She forgot about the fact that her father, who was the steam dragon elder, actually hated humanity. He never told her why he hates them, but he always claws at pictures of them when he notices one. Who knows what he will do if he saw Hiromi with Volance by her side.

"I...I'll keep her in and around the cave. I'm sure he won't look there," she told him.

"That's probably the best thing you could do. Well, I shall be off. Some rock dragons have been causing trouble in the lava dragon district again," Terberis said. He and Bassor walked out of the cave, leaving Volance and his family to do their own thing.

Meanwhile:

He kept watching the clip over and over again, wondering just what to do. The clip showed multiple creatures, which he assumes to be dragons, dropping off multiple people before flying off, probably back to their own home. As he was thinking, his assistant principle came up beside him.

"Ozpin, you've been watching that for a while now. I think you need to give it a rest," she told him.

"Intriguing." He swiveled around in his chair and brought up a hologram map of the world with multiple lines coming from one point on the map to another. "These dragons are highly intelligent animals from the looks of it. And it looks like their path may lead us to their home."

"Your not planning on finding this island are you," she questioned. He didn't say anything, only taking a sip from his coffee mug. "As I suspected. Ozpin, these creatures may be intelligent, but they're dragons! Who knows if they're friendly or not! Those dragons in that video may of been the only friendly dragons on that island."

"I understand your concern Glynda, but if we are to make sure they aren't going to try and kill anyone outside their island, we need to find them and see their stance on humanity. We could gain some powerful allies," Ozpin explained. Glynda sighed before turning her back to him.

"I'll go get an airship then." She walked off, leaving Ozipn to his thoughts.

Woop! This chapter is finished finally! If you liked the chapter and wanted to see an idea of yours in this story, leave it in a review and I might add it.

Alright, I'm gonna explain a few things. First off, this, and probably a few after it, chapters take place six years before the events of RWBY. Secondly, I made a picture of Hiromi on Deviantart if you wanted to check her out. And lastly, I'm sorry if I made this story suddenly very cheesy. For some reason, it feels like, to me, that the first chapter is great, but then the second chapter, of any of my newer stories, just, literally, kills it (I mean like I instantly hate it or something like that).

Anyways, this is Sporedude135, signing off...