Ever since the arrival of the dragons, the people's minds have been captivated by them. News stations have been running like clockwork reporting on the latest updates coming from the council. The councils meetings were long and drawn out this time various groups had formed with polar views on the dragons and them being on Remnant. Some were sympathetic to them while others fearing for the future of their kin. They believed if not already then later the dragons would become hostile to the natives of Remnant. This new council set up to decide the future of the dragons on Remnant drew more representatives from the four kingdoms. With the dragons presence currently held in Vale, Vale had been allotted more seats than the other Kingdoms.
Oscar and Qrow arrived outside the building reserved for foreign relations. The building was dual purpose with one tower housing foreign dignitaries while the other served as office space, the central building contained the council room. The architectural design had two symmetrical towers connected at ground level by a three story building, the towers themselves were much higher, rising up seeing as if they were close enough to kiss the clouds. The building itself was mostly metal with the base of both towers and the building connecting the two made of something like marble only stronger. The outside walls were adorned with various sculptures while the yard had two large fountains with a path intersecting the two going up steps to reach the entrance of the building, the fountains were rectangular while expanding outward in a circular shape in the middle of the fountains. Various trees and flowers also dotted the courtyard.
Oscar stopped for a moment looking up at the tall building admiring its architecture before pushing through the crowd of reporters and citizens hosting both pro and anti dragon protests. Both Oscar and Qrow continued through the crowd ignoring the barrage of questions and cameras, with the occasional cheer or insult being flung at them depending on what view of the dragons that person had. Oscar remained expressionless throughout the ordeal considering he had been use to it ever since he took office, he chuckled to himself thinking he might miss this if and when he ever decided to retire. The same couldn't be said for his friend accompanying him, Qrow being a quiet man never enjoyed the limelight, letting the anger slip giving anything and anyone around him a look of annoyance as he continued following shortly behind Oscar.
Making their way past the final reporter they stopped in front of a pair of large mahogany wood doors, almost as if by magic the doors swung open inward granting them and only them passage through as officers fended off groups of reporters and protesters trying to pry their way through to get inside as though it were a place of refuge. As the pair walked through two men in cerimonial military dress standing opposite each other. They offered their greeting as they have done countless times before, began to close the doors in unison as Oscar and Qrow walked through.
As they walked to their assigned seats they had stopped occasionally to offer greetings and courtesies to fellow representatives. Various representatives had been in conversation for what it seemed to be a while, some were talking about the previous meeting letting there disputes being known. Others had been taking about multiple topics such as current events while others discussed sports, weather, who would win the Vytal Festival, and some were discussing what they thought of the dragons.
The time was 7:45, the meeting wouldn't begin for another 15 minuets. Oscar sat down in his seat with his bodyguard sitting next to him. Oscar then began to pull out a fat stack of papers quickly scanning them before putting them in order. He then arranged them to the right of his nameplate, while Qrow took out his flask and began to drink. Oscar glanced at him he wondered how out of all the other Huntsmen and Huntresses he got stuck with one that was a drunkard. Not that Oscar didn't drink he was more reserved than his colleagues who lived to get drunk, he abhorred the idea of getting drunk thinking it foolish to reduce ones ability to think rationally.
Oscar glanced at his watch, 2 minuets left it read. He continued to sit in silence until they began.
The council chamber was mostly made of hewed mahogany wood, the floors were dark blue carpet with gold lining on each side. The room itself was a half circle with three rows of desks forming a crescent around the council president's podium.
The room that was once filled with conversation ceased as the president pounded his gavel on his podium signaling to the rest to take their respective seats.
The chamber became quiet as Representatives made their way to their respective seats. Once everyone had been seated the President opened up with a speech as he had done every meeting. The president was an older man in his early 70's he had short combed white hair and blue eyes He was a bit fatter than most not quite getting use to his metabolism slowing down. if it had not been for his age he could of eaten anything and not gained a single pound like when he was younger, but those days were gone. Unwilling to change his diet he would make his doctor angry quite often saying "if I am going to die let me die with my stomach full". His name was Robert Pearson.
When the President had finished giving his speech the council was divided up into two groups one for and against The settlement of the dragons on Remnant. When the division had been made members from both sides drew lots to see who would speak first. When the lots were cast, the pro settlement Council members won the first turn to showcase their arguments. When their time was up the same happened for the other group. Both sides had made valid arguments while some were based purely on emotion not in anyway bringing reasonable solutions to the problem. This continued until lunch when the president called for a recess pounding his gavel onto the podium. Some Councilmen and women began to stretch as the got up off their chairs while others simply walked towards the door with their stomachs rumbling.
Oscar got up with everyone else, he hadn't gotten a chance to speak that morning nor the previous meeting as their time had been cut short on that day. Oscar made his way towards the cafeteria arranging his thoughts as he grabbed a tray from the stand making his way slowly through the line. He had one hand on his tray while his other hand was occupied with his notes.
Once he had gotten his food which was a Chicken and Caesar salad, club sandwich, strawberry yogurt, and a tall glass of milk he made his way towards an empty table by a window looking out to the courtyard. He set down his tray first with his notes sitting to the right of the tray not long after that Qrow sat down opposite of him with a Burger, Fries and a milkshake.
"So" said Qrow as he took a bite of his burger. "What do you got up in that mind of yours? Surely you have something that would break this stalemate." Qrow paused as he took a sip of his milkshake.
"Not that I don't enjoy being your bodyguard and all but this has been going on for too long. The dragons have been living in sub par conditions for days and they have started to become restless." Qrow paused taking another bite.
"We have been lucky that their hasn't been a breech of Vale's border, who know what they might do if they get attacked by Grimm." said Qrow reclining in his chair putting down his burger to take a swig of his flask before looking back and forth between his milkshake and flask then deciding to dump the whole thing into the shake itself.
Oscar looked at the sight with disgust in his eyes. "Well" Oscar paused lifting his arm to scratch his back. "I have been looking over my notes from the past few days." Oscar reached for his notes shuffling them between his fingers pausing for a quick moment before resuming. "you and I both know that it is impossible to send them back to their world nor any other."
"Right" said Qrow. "Sending them back would be sentencing them to death and it would also open up the possibility of the problem spilling over into our world, nor can we send them to any other world without being able to Recreate the portal that they came through."
"Which is an impossibility in of itself we have no idea how much their physics deviate from ours nor do we have the manpower or strength to achieve such an accomplishment" Said Oscar.
"not to mention they didn't bring with them the blueprints to make one when they came through" Said Qrow taking another drink while staring at the table.
Oscar looked back at his notes again before speaking up. "It seems to me that the biggest problem is not that the Dragons are here but where to settle them."
"Go on" said Qrow looking at him confused
Oscar placed his notes back down bringing his hands back up to motion his thoughts. " What I mean is that I believe the opposition believes is that if we were to settle them here on Remnant they would be settling near Human and Faunus populations it would place a strain on resources getting to those population centers. Which I do agree it would but what if we didn't settle them near Humans or Faunus."
"So you're saying let them loose in the wild to fend for themselves facing off against countless Grimm? What if they don't survive." Argued Qrow.
"That is not what I am saying, well kind of but what I meant was to give them their own place. You know that continent just north of us? Why not just give it to them it hasn't been inhabited by any Kingdom in years nor does it look like it will in the near future, its free real estate honestly heck it even looks like them" said Oscar.
"True but wouldn't you say its risky? After all the reason it has been uninhabited were due to the High Levels of Grimm on that continent" said Qrow.
"Yes but I believe those dragons are capable of much more than they let on not to mention their size plus I already thought of having Atlas's military involved with securing a place of settlement for them" Said Oscar.
"And if they don't?" Said Qrow with one eyebrow raised.
Oscar leaned in and sighed "Lets hope for the best."
Lunchtime had ended and the council was back in session with them resuming their tireless arguments. The council continued like this for four more hours. Oscar looked at his watch noticing they had one hour left he signed thinking he won't be able to speak yet again. Just as he had finished that thought the last person of the opposition party had finished speaking. The president looking tired had been resting his head on his hand dosing off a few times during the meeting. After the last person had finished speaking he looked at his watch noticing one hour left sighing. He then looked over to where Oscar had been seated realizing he hadn't spoken once during the meeting.
"I have noticed you haven't said anything at all during our meetings" said the president looking at him sluggishly.
"I haven't been graced with the chance to speak your honor" said Oscar humbly.
The president Yawned. "My apologies, must be my dementia" said Robert cracking a joke at his old age while everyone chuckled quietly.
"Anything that you can say that might bring an end to this meeting so that I can retire would be wonderful" said Robert yawning again as he shuffled in his seat.
" I do your honor" Oscar stood up holding his papers in front of him."
"My fellow councilmen and women for days on we have been discussing this matter yet not reaching a single conclusion. Yes it was unexpected never in my life would I have thought we would encounter beings from another world yet here we stand. For days I have been silent on the matter reading the reports and continuing my talks with the leader of these beings whom we know as dragons. I have watched carefully and listened to the arguments of both sides by which both raise reasonable complaints." Oscar paused as he panned over the crowd
"For if we are to reach a decision we must ask ourselves these questions. Do they mean us well? Where will they go? And how can we support them if they were to live in our cities? Even though I sympathize with settling them on Remnant we must think this through." many from the opposition side scoffed at Oscar.
"The fact is we cannot support them nor can they settle inside of our towns and cities. First of all their size, we would have to spend fortunes remodeling the cities to accommodate their large stature. The most important of all is resources are already stretched coming into the Cities, taking in such a large population will eat up resources intended for the native citizens of the Cities. So what do we do then? If we cannot allow them to settle surely they must be removed from Remnant. The problem is they cant, during my initial talk with the dragon known as Pyrdyrth I came to know most of their history and the reason for them being here. For in their lands they had a prophecy that a purple dragon would be born every ten generations bring peace and justice to the dragon realms, but the first purple dragon known as Malefor abandoned his duties and pursued selfish passions ultimately bringing an end to their world. With their end in sight they drew up plans to construct a great portal to flee their destruction, with the enemy near they hastily fired up the portal not caring where it brought them thus they ended up on our world. So then they could just build another portal right? No. The portal took immense resources and time to build not to mention the scrolls containing the blueprints on how to build them are lost. So what then? We cant afford for them to stay here nor can they leave it seems we are caught in a predicament." Both sides were watching closely now even the president ever tired as he was seemed more lively than before.
"Fear not for I do have a solution to our predicament." Oscar at this time took out a large map of Remnant putting it on display.
"The Kingdoms are too populated to settle the dragons inside any of the towns or cities even if we divided them up evenly, so my solution is to give them the continent north of Vale. It is currently uninhabited and no Kingdom has current plans for expansion there, any questions?" Oscar stopped and looked at everyone.
"That would be suicide!" Said one councilman. "There is a reason why that continent is currently uninhabited it is crawling with Grimm." Said another.
Oscar was bombarded with an onslaught of objections quickly refuting them. "Look I know it is dangerous I expected that, unlike any of you I have been inside their current camp. Despite them having almost no projectile weaponry they have been able to keep Grimm at bay even keeping them away from the City, multiple huntsmen and huntresses have commented on that I feel they would be a great asset in our fight against the Grimm." Oscar using his charisma managed to persuade most of the council into agreement. With their time drawing to a close the president called for a final vote on the issue with most voting in favor of Oscars proposition mostly out of the idea of ending the meetings to they could go back to their respective Kingdoms.
AN: Welp I wanted to make this chapter more in depth with Dialogue but I have still been settling back in at my home and trying to balance other things. Plus I want to get done with this back story so that I can get to the main one. Spyro most likely will not make an entrance in the next chapter (Sorry!) Ch 6 will be the last chapter for the back story it will detail the plan to settle the dragons in the continent plus some battles too (I haven't written any battles before so this will be my first shot) idk when I'll have the new chapter out ive been kinda bored of writing and distracted with my OC Story im currently working on for Fictionpress. I hope to have the new chapter out either next month or in June