Ali's Early Years Part 1

These next two chapters will focus on Ali's early years, his friendship with Cy, and he will attend the dragons' version of middle school, with new original characters. Enjoy.

It was about noon, or that's what the sundials read. It was me and my son, Ali, standing out in the Warfang Central Park area. It was 3 years since Ali was born. A lot has happended, the main thing being Warfang was rebuilt. After the two attacks in less than 6 months, Warfang officials began work on making the city more protected and beautiful at the same time. I scoffed at the idea years ago, but now I see they weren't kidding.

All the buildings were reinforced at their bases with obsidian. They painted the element with colors similar to the buildings, so it would blend in. They placed more cannons onto the city walls, and used obsidian to reinforce them. Cheetahs and Dragons kept watch through the day and night, while moles created weapons in case of an ape attack.

Those attacks don't happen much anymore, since a secret army was being built up. I saw the army and the way they were being taught and I shivered. However, I know the time isn't right to attack, so I focused on my family for the past 3 years. Ali was three now, I was sixteen, and my mate, Alia, was 17.

I looked at my son, who was running around, chasing a small butterfly.

I smiled at his innocence. "Ali, can you come here please?"

"What are we doing today Dad? Visiting Cyrus and his family? Going to the library with my uncle?" He was anxious to hear my response.

"Calm down buddy, we aren't doing much today. Your mother asked me to teach you some things you'll need to know."

"What are they?" He asked with his eyes wide with curiosity.

"Elements, son, I am teaching you about elements" I answer him.

He has a confused look on his face.

"Elements? What are those?" he asked.

"Follow me, Ali and will show you. Remember, you must pay attention because today I want to find out about your element."

He hops on my back, and I proceed to fly him to an open grassland not far outside the city. Ali's never been here before and I knew he was looking at the wide space filled with flowers and trees. We soon land and he gets off of my back. I proceed to begin my long lesson.

"Okay Ali, let's begin. There are five elements we know of. There is Fire, Ice, Earth, Electricity, and Convexity." I begin to explain. He nods after absorbing the information so far, and I continue.

"Most dragons can only wield one element, like your mother who's element is fire. The Purple Dragons can hold all of them however, and rare dragons like me can hold two."

"Dad, don't you have another element then? I know you have power over electricity and storms" he states with curiosity.

"I haven't discovered my other element yet, son. I am still training with Spyro and trying to bring it out. So far, little progress in these past years" I tell him.

"Anyway, there is a hidden power within dragons like me and purple dragons,and-"

"What kind of dragon are you, Dad? What are you called?"

"I don't know, Ali" I say sternly. "Can I continue my lesson please?"

"Sorry Dad" my son apologized.

"Thank you. Dragons like us can unlock a hidden power at will, like this…"

I try to summon my hidden mana, but I can't do so.

"I would show you but I can't. This isn't normal." I say, giving up on transforming.

"Okay, son, I want you to try out your breath. Focus on bringing out that Mana" I tell my son.

He seems to focus really hard. He opened his maw, and to my surprise, a small amount of fire came out.

"You are still young but you can access your element. Good, I can train you in it now."

Ali marveled at his fire, which burned the grass near my paws.

"Wow, can you teach me more?" he asks me.

"I haven't taught you that, you already had that in you. Still, I can teach you much more."

Ali hopped around excited that he'd learn more about his fire element.

"However Ali, I can't teach you everything today. It's already about we head back home. I will teach you in Fire and Electricity; because I'm sure you're other breath is electric. Anyway let's begin to head back." I say as we begin to fly back into the city.

I decided to visit Spyro, because Ali had wanted to see Cyrus and play. We landed outside their cave, situated nearby the Dam. Ali runs in, and greets Spyro, who was relaxing next to a sleeping Cynder.

"Hi Mr. Spyro! Is Cyrus around here?" he asks the purple dragon ecstatically.

Spyro smiled. "He's right next to Cynder, didn't you see?"

Cy was sleeping close to his mother, who had her wing around him. Ali's smile faded to disappointment.

"Aww, he's not awake, he won't be able to play" he says and walks back to my side.

I looked at Spyro and nodded my hello. In these past 3 years, Spyro and Cynder have only grown a few inches, nowhere near as big as Terrador or any of the guardians.

As far as our strength goes, we've gotten stronger, but things haven't been so good lately in training. Spyro said that he's had difficulty transforming like I had, and when he actually does, he can't hold it for long.

We both knew how bad this can turn out, because we both had to be of the combat strength to face the enemies in the other dimension.

Or try hopelessly and meet your end.

I hoped we unlocked more power within ourselves or everything and everyone will be doomed.

I sat next to Spyro.

"How you guys holding up?" I asked him.

"Fine, Cy has been good, spending most of the days outside or in here" he replies.

"How's Cynder?"

"She's okay, just enjoying her time with me and our son."

"It seems you guys are doing well…"

"Yeah, but what about you and Alia? She'd said something about sending Ali to school" Spyro asked sitting up.

He was right. Young dragons could start to attend school in 3 years, when Cy and Ali are 6. I wanted to see if the guardians could teach him until he's 12. Then he would go to Warfang School of the Ancestors, a school located on Warfang's northside, for ages 12 and up.

"Okay, but we're still talking about getting him taught by the Guardians. Maybe Cy could come too."

"That's not a bad idea."

…..

We stayed until the moon was high in the sky and we decided to leave. Ali was yawning when he climbed on my back. We were home in no time. Alia was on the floor, lying on her back and watching us upside down, clearly bored.

"Finally, you're back, I didn't want to sit here alone any longer" she said before hugging me.

"So, you guys saw Spyro?"She guessed correctly.

"Yes, but Cy was asleep so I just talked to Spyro while Ali played outside" I say, looking at my snoring son."

"Oh, well I saw you carrying him on your back. When are you going to teach him how to fly?"

"Soon, but at least I taught him about my kind and Spyro's today. He even blew fire for the first time! It was small, but still a fire nonetheless."

"That's great! So tomorrow you will continue in training and teaching him?" Alia asked me.

"Yes, I will."

"Good. Well goodnight Asyree" she says as she settles next to Ali.

I do the same.

"Good night Alia."