Origins of a Draconian Kingdom
Chapter 3
Despite only living on Dragon Island for four days, Hiromi was already fitting in well. Almost all the dragons were nice to her and treated her like one of their own...except for a few. These being the steam dragon elder and the rock dragons. The steam dragon elder hated her because she was human. She never understood why, because he never said anything about it. Vapor never told her why the rock dragons probably hate her as well, and she began to wonder why.
But that's not important right now. Right now, she wants to build up her relationships with the other dragons, specifically Volance. He has taken to calling her "sis" ever since she was adopted by his mother. Their mother had to leave them today because she was called in to help the healer dragon with some life dragons. These life dragons were apprently trying to introduce some creatures into the surrounding waters but were attacked by a sea Grimm. They suffered some serious injuries, some of them getting infected. The healer dragon, seeing this, called Vapor in to help disinfect the wounds, leaving Hiromi and Volance by themselves.
Luckily, they have someone to look after them. Fuego. He watched over the two as they played together outside. The two decided to take a break and laid down in the soft grass outside the cave.
"I've only been here for just a few days and everyone treats me like I belong here, even though I'm human," Hiromi said.
"That's because most of not all dragons don't discriminate. Sure, there may be a few exceptions, but, in reality, most dragons are fine with other races as long as they don't outright hate us. Then we have a problem," Volance told her. Hiromi smiled at him before turning on her side.
"Despite that, don't you think it's odd that a kingdom of dragons is taking care of some random human girl that they fount inside a shipwreck," she questioned.
"Nope," Volance replied.
"I see..." Hiromi sits up and looks at him. "Could you...teach me to be more like you and your kind?"
"What makes you say that," Volance asked.
"I just...wanted to blend in easier."
"I'm not really good at teaching, if at all. But I'm sure Fuego could teach you to become a dragon."
"I'll go ask him then. He probably doesn't mind," Hiromi said as she got up. She turned towards Fuego as he noticed her. He swiftly got up and approached her.
"Somethin' wrong amigo?"
"Could you teach me," she simply said.
"Uh...okay...what do you want to learn," Fuego asked.
"To be a dragon, just like you!" Fuego spat some fire in the air in surprise.
"Oh, uh...that's an odd request. I'll try my best to help...I guess," he told her slowly. Hiromi cheered as Fuego began to decide on what to do first. "The first thing we should learn is how to get you to fly. Flying is one of a dragon's many distinct traits that separates us from other reptiles like crocodiles and snakes."
"But I don't have wings," Hiromi told him with a frown.
"That is a problem...let's go visit the knowledge dragon. There isn't a dragon elder that could gift you the power of flight, so we'll just have to give you the next best thing," Fuego stated. He lowered his body and motioned the two to get on. Volance got on Bieber back with no hesitation, but Hiromi was a little more troubling to convince. In the end, she got on him.
His body felt warm. Really warm, like a fire in the middle of the night. She held onto one of the spike protruding from Fuego's back, and he took off. Hiromi gasped but quickly regained confidence as she looked down below. They were right over the plaza. She awed at the sight while Fuego simply smiled.
Fuego landed outside a cave near a large, crystal structure that was built many years ago. Hiromi and Volance got off and followed him to the entrance. There was a metal plate hanging from a branch above the cave. Fuego simply whacked it with his tail and it made a loud gonging noise.
"I'll be right there," Hiromi heard from...further above the cave? After a little bit, they heard something tumble down what she thought was a staircase. Stepping into the light is a dragon with white scales and a pair of glasses over his eyes, which she fount a little odd.
"Took you long enough," Fuego told the dragon.
"Ah, Fuego. What a pleasant surprise seeing you here. What's your problem today," the dragon asked.
"I'm teaching Hiromi here how to be a dragon. I need you to find some things that could help her, like some sort of glider or something," Fuego explained. The knowledge dragon looked down to see her.
"Oh, your that human girl that the island decided to keep. I'm Cyclos, short for Cyclospora," the knowledge dragon said, appearing beside Hiromi. "It may sound odd that I was named after a certain disease spreading, microscopic thing, but I assure you, I'm not a killer."
"Okay, okay. Let's just get this over with," Fuego grumbled. Cyclos nodded and motioned them to follow him inside. The inside of the cave was lined with lots of human artifacts. Hiromi eyed one of these devices, a long stick with a pointed rock at the end.
"Alright, lets see what I can find." At the end of the room was a large crystal with holograms surrounding it. Cyclos sat down and began moving these holograms, searching for something that could help Hiromi fly. After he was done, one hologram was on the crystal. "Ah, this is it. The Battle Suit 1300. This one has a draconic design and a built in avatar."
"Wait, that?"
"Yes, it will be perfect for her to help blend in with us. It provides our flying aspect with it's rocket boots and jet pack, and it has an avatar that would allow her to shoot the element of her choosing, kinda like a dragon," Cyclos explained. They heard a stick fall on the ground, and they turn to see Hiromi standing beside a spear, smiling in embarrassment.
"It's just a stick with a rock at the end, it's going to be fine," Fuego told her. She sighed in relief as Fuego turned back to Cyclos. "How long until you can get this thing complete?"
"It would probably take a week or so. I'm pretty fast at making things, but this battle suit is the most advanced in the Ottoman arsenal. It's gonna take me a while to get it right," Cylos told him. Fuego sighed before turning back to Hiromi and Volance.
"Dont worry amigo, you'll be one of us...sooner or later," he said. Hiromi smiled at the fire dragon as Volance cheered.
"Woohoo! Sis is gonna be a dragon!"
"Yeah!" Fuego smiled at the siblings before he looked over at Cyclos.
"We'll be leaving now," he said. Cyclos nodded as Fuego was about to walk it with Hiromi and Volance. An alarm went off. Fuego rushed back in to see Cyclos moving more holograms around. "What's going on now!?"
"Wait, hold on, let me see...oh...oh my."
"What is it!?"
"It's an...airship. It doesn't have any of the designs of the nations of Earth. This must be one of the nations that live on this planet," Cyclos explained. Fuego looked at him in shock before he turned towards the entrance of the cave.
"Where is it landing," he asked.
"In the plaza." Fuego growled before rushing out of the cave. Hiromi and Volance jumped onto his back and he took off towards the plaza.
The airship unhinged its landing gear and softly touched the ground. It opened its hatch to reveal Ozpin, who stepped out of the airship. He shielded his eyes for a moment before looking out into the plaza. Dozens of dragons were looking at him, wondering what he would do. His simply adjusted his glasses and held onto his cane.
"Hello." The dragons looked at each other in confusion. They probably didn't understand him. It was worth a shot though. A loud roar signifies the arrival of another dragon. This one was much older than the other dragons, and covered in some sort of rock armor. This dragon snorted at him before he began his approach.
"Who are you," the dragon questioned.
"I am Ozpin, principle of Beacon Academy. We have noticed a few of your kind come to Vale, and we've tracked them to this island to investigate," Ozpin introduced himself and his mission.
"Is that so? No human had ever stepped here to investigate this island before. The only humans that did come here were fount at a shipwreck that we nursed back to health and sent back home, except for one of course," the dragon told him. Ozpin raised an eyebrow in interest. A human living here among dragons? He now had the evidence that these dragons aren't like those from fairytales.
"I would assume you are the leader of these dragons," Ozpin questioned.
"No, I am simply an elder of my sub-species. Each sub-species has their own elder, but the elder, the king, the GOD of dragons, lives up there," the elder said, pointing up to the top of a volcano that was on the island.
"I see..."
"While I would love for you to stay and discover some of the basics of us...you should probably leave. Not all the dragons here are...well...kind towards humans," the rock elder stated.
"I assure you, I'm not the bad guy here," Ozpin told him.
"You said that your a principle at this "Beacon Academy." What is it exactly?"
"Beacon Academy is where hunters and huntresses are trained to be protectors of the people," Ozpin explained.
"Protectors of the people...you mean like from those Grimm creatures that have been harassing our dragons for years," the rock elder questioned as another dragon landed beside him. Ozpin recognized this dragon. It was the same dragon that was spotted reading books in the library. He fount it odd that a dragon was reading books in a human library in the middle of a human city, but the dragon was probably looking for knowledge.
"Ah, Fuego, I see you brought the child here." Child? Ozpin raised a brow as he noticed a young dragon, and a human girl, get off his back.
The girl was young, eleven years from what he sees, with black, bushy, long hair, blue eyes, and wearing a simple blue dress with puffy shoulders that was open around her neck. He was beginning to wonder if this girl was part of a royal family. The girl looked at him before she hid behind Fuego's leg, apparently a little shy.
"We fount this girl with a bunch of survivors on an attacked ship a little while off from our island. From our guess, a Grimm attacked it and killed many on board before knocking her out and destroying the ship. When we fount her and brought her back to the healer cave, she remembered nothing of her past, as well as a little bit of her own identity," the rock elder explained.
Fuego gently pushed the girl out of her hiding spot and in front of Ozpin. He knelt down in front of her as she blushed a little.
"What's your name?"
"H...Hiromi," the girl told him. Ozpin fount it a little odd that she wasn't named after a color, but assumed that dragons name their children differently then humanity does.
"Hm..." he slowly got up and looked at the rock elder. "Your island must've been really isolated. We have no data on your kind all. You mind if we walk around so you can help us understand your kind?"
"I wouldn't reccomend it. Like I said before, there are a few dragons here that...well...don't like humanity as much as we do. What I do reccomend, is that you leave immediately. Vokun will provide you with a skybridge to get you back to your place," the rock elder told him. Before Ozpin could speak, a thick cloud of water vapor surrounded them. Ozpin and Hiromi couldn't see a thing. Hiromi felt something grab her as she was lifted into the air. She screamed as the water vapor reformed into a dragon, an elder from the looks of it. It gripped her with his abnormally long tail, trying to suffocate her life away as he tightened his grip.
"Hurican! Put the girl down," the rock elder roared.
"Never! Humanity is a plague that's only purpose is to destroy our precious kingdom! I will make their deaths swift and painful," the steam elder replied, tightening her grip more. Hiromi screamed in pain as the rock elder had enough.
The elder jumped into the air, rolling himself into a ball which was soon covered in rock. The elder rammed himself into Hurican. He grunted in shock as he dropped Hiromi and turned into vapor, moving behind the rock elder as the two reformed. They stared down at each other before the clashed. Steam and rock flew everywhere as the young dragon rushed over to Hiromi's aid. Tried tried to get her to awaken, as the force of the steam elder's constrictive tail made her go unconscious.
"Need a hand?" The young one looked up to see Ozpin. He picked her up and rushed her to cover, the young dragon following behind. Ozpin was impressed. These dragons...they were much different than story dragons. They cared for life, and they seemed strong enough that they could even be a huntsman. But something wasn't off about them. He didn't even sense aura inside them. All living beings with souls had aura. But he sensed nothing in these dragons. He did sense another energy, but he wasn't sure what to make of it.
After a few minutes, the rock elder pinned Hurican to the ground. Rock rose from the ground and wrapped around the steam elder's tail, wings, and, at least more gently, his neck. He thrashed about, trying to break free of his bearings. The rock elder snorted before turning to Ozpin, who held Hiromi in his arms. The rock elder rushed to her and gently picked her up from the back of her collar. She was wet due to all the steam generated by the battle, but overall, she was okay.
"Thank you for your quick action. Who knows if a stray rock may of impacted her skull and crushed it," the dragon said.
"I'm impressed. You fought well, just as good as a professional huntsman," Ozpin told him. Flattered, he gave a smirk.
"Why thank you. Elders are the third strongest dragons on this island. Well, since the main problem has been taken care of, maybe I could show you around. It's the most I could do," the rock elder told him. Ozpin straightened his glasses as the rock elder looked at Fuego. "Get Hiromi and Volance back to her home." Fuego nodded, and gently took Hiromi and led Volance back to their mother's cave.
"Where will we begin," Ozpin asked.
"Well, we will just start with the basics and work up from here."
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