well I finally got found to posting up this chapter so enjoy.
Chapter 2 the beginning of a legend
**shadow dragon's POV**
The effect of the device soon wore off and it left me wanting more, as my fears and doubts came rushing back in a flooding torrent and I roared in pain, anger and frustration as I once again tried to break out of the chains that bound me in place. Suddenly the chains round my neck started glowing green again but instead of the pleasure I was expecting, I just felt calm and relaxed and I stopped struggling as I waited for the inevitable. A couple of minutes later I started to hear a faint humming noise that gradually got louder and louder until it was almost deafening. I looked around for the source of the noise but couldn't see anything, then I realised that it was coming from the crystal, which although it could've been my imagination, seemed to be glowing brighter and brighter every few seconds, then bolts of purple electricity started arching round the crystal like they did on the chains every time the Apes punished me, for a second I thought that I had done something wrong. As I was wondering what was happening, everything suddenly turned pink, as I found myself trapped in a purple beam emitting from the crystal. bolts of purple lightning lanced down and broke the chains that were holding me in place, but I still couldn't move. I felt myself being pulled up into the air, until I was halfway between the ceiling and the floor. It was at this moment that the pain that had, up till now been nothing more than an annoyance, increased till it felt like my very soul was being ripped from my body. I let out a roar of pain, then I noticed it, purple and black mist was swirling around me, to my horror it clung to my fore and rear legs and started to swirl upwards till they were covered in the mist, the same was happening to my wings and tail. Then it started to creep up my body, twisting into shapes that resembled Apes and even other dragons which began clawing at my scales, I was getting more scared by the second. Eventually the mist started to reach my head, I felt an intense burst of pain, I saw a flash of purple light, then my world went black.
**In the dream. Shadow dragon's POV**
I was surrounded by darkness, a thick black fog that sucked in all visible light, then a blinding light appeared to my right, forcing me to close my eyes and cover my face with one of my wings , when I opened them and removed the wing, I found that the light had dimmed a little, so I turned towards the source only to find that it was a dragon like me, except he had dark green eyes and shimmering golden scales that radiated light. "hello there young one" the dragon spoke, "who are you" I asked curiously, just as I said that I heard a savage growl off in the distance somewhere, the dragon paused for a moment and hurriedly looked around in the direction of the sound and then turned once again to me, I could tell in his eyes, whatever had made that noise was making him worried, "My name is Parthunax and I'm sorry but we have very little time and there is very little that I am aloud to tell you, but there is one thing I want to show you that may be of interest to you, first I want to tell you that there are dark days ahead, you are in for a lot of pain and will have to make some difficult decisions, but you are not alone, unfortunately I can tell you no more, the rest you'll have to figure out for yourself, we will meet again young shadow drake, but until then farewell" Parthunax said, disappearing in a blinding flash. I just stood there, my mind still processing what Parthunax had just said, about me having to make some difficult decisions, about not being alone and also about what he said of us meeting again and there was about a thousand questions that I now wanted to ask him. I was concentrating on my thoughts that I hardly noticed the world around me had started break up like a thousand shards of glass.
When I finally snapped out of my thoughts, I found myself in a large hallway that was decorated with torches, there were a couple of other dragons like me wandering around but these were much larger than me and were different colours too, with some being different shades of red or yellow, whilst others were green or blue, there were also some smaller strange furry creatures, with weird pink noses. I quickly decided that I must still be in the dream as none of the dragons or other creatures took the slightest notice of me when I called out and several passed right through me. I decided that since I had nothing else to do, I might as well go and explore, so I got up and walked down the hallway in the direction I had been facing, As I walked I passed several other dragons and a lot of doors, most of them were closed and I didn't see much point in trying to open them, the doors that weren't closed, either led into other hallways or into where I guessed these dragons slept, although I myself had never seen anything like it. I finally came across another door at the end of the hallway, and I was about to turn back when the door opened and a large black dragoness, who I guessed by the colour of her scales, was a Shadow dragon like me walked out with a large smile on her face, she had the same color scales as me and also her tailblade was the same shape and colour as mine. The dragoness continued down the hallway, before turning off into one of the other hallways. After she had gone, I carefully stepped through the door and what I saw made my mouth drop open, inside was a large cavernous room containing piles of stones, each one formed into a bowl shape and filled with straw. in the middle of each pile of stones was a large oval shaped object, which I assumed was what the apes had called an egg.
**no one's POV**
There were very few eggs in the temple at this time as most dragons preferred to keep their eggs at home beside them, the few eggs that there were in the temple either belonged to one of the dragons guarding the temple or their parents were dead. Most of the eggs were either, red, brown. green, yellow or blue, however there were two that weren't and these immediately caught The Shadow dragon's eye. One was a Purple egg which sat on its own, away from all the other eggs, the other egg was the same colour as his scales and this too sat away from all the other eggs. This egg drew his particular attention, he slowly walked up to it to take a closer look.
**Shadow dragon's POV**
I was holding my left foreleg up against the egg to check if it really was the same colour, when the floor started vibrating and I heard a rumbling and crashing sound and several hurried voices came from behind the door that I had originally entered through, the door opened and a large red and orange dragon, along with five other dragons hurried through, after a quick search, the red and orange dragon carefully picked up the purple egg in his maw and ran through a door at the opposite side of the room from which he came in quickly followed by the other five dragons, each of which had picked up as many of the eggs as they could, there were only a few eggs left in the room by now, the egg that was the same colour as my scales was one of them. I was wondering what on earth was going on, when suddenly the door which I had originally entered through, burst open, letting several heavily armed and armoured Apes into the room. To my horror the Apes began to smash up any of the eggs that were left, that is until they got to where the purple egg had been, which seemed to be their main target, several of the Apes roared angrily, one of the Apes noticed the egg that I was standing near. Several of the Apes crowded round, "well...we might as well take this one, it might at least lessen Gaul's anger at us failing to take the purple egg" the Ape in front said as he cautiously inched forward and slowly picked up the egg. I watched helplessly as the Apes ran out of the door, by which they had entered, I wanted to follow but something made me stay in the room. A couple of minutes after the Apes had left, the dragoness that I had seen earlier rushed in and then stopped, with a look of what I could only imagine to be shock and horror at the sight before her eyes. I watched as she composed herself before making her way over towards me. When she reached the spot that the egg the Apes had took had occupied, she immediately broke down and wept. It broke my heart to see her crying like this, I wanted to comfort her but I knew there was nothing I could do, I wondered why she was crying over the loss of this egg in particular, then it hit me, that egg must belong to her. My head became clouded with thoughts and doubts as I just watched the weeping dragoness, I was curious about the similarities between me, the egg and this dragoness, was I somehow connected to this?, was that the egg from which I had hatched? If so it certainly explained why the apes had treated me the way they did. I decided that I had seen enough and was about to get up and leave, when the scenery around me started to change again.
I was surrounded by purple mist again, but something was different, it seemed darker, more malevolent than when I had met Parthunax. Then I heard the same noise that I had heard with Parthunax. A strange and horrifying creature emerged from the mist. The creature walked on all fours like a dragon but instead of scales, it had fur and it had no wings, it's face too was not like a dragon's, it was more pointed and elongated with two bits of flesh sticking up out of its head. I was wondering what on earth this strange creature could be when it reared up on its hind legs and smashed its forelegs on the ground, sending a wave of earth thundering towards me, I tried to dodge it but it smashed into me, I felt a wave of pain wash over me as the impact knocked me through the mist and I could feel myself falling and then...nothing.
** in the dragon lands no one's POV**
A fierce storm was raging over the southern forests, lightning flashed, the wind howled, thunder boomed and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a bolt of purple lightning lanced down and struck the middle of a clearing, leaving a crater and in the middle of the crater lay a young dragon, his dark purple scales shinning faintly in the moonlight. An odd symbol started glowing on the bottom of his right forepaw, it consisted of four dragons sitting together with their heads raised up towards a fifth dragon which had its wings outstretched, there were several small runes going round the outside. The symbol continued glowing for about a second and then the glow faded, leaving the mark imprinted on the dragon's paw.
well that is chapter 2 up and I hope you liked it. this is xXShadowTheWolfXx Signing off