First Strike
Having not learned to fly yet, my brother and I rode on our parents' backs for the day's journey. The view from so high up was breathtaking, despite the rain. I saw green forests filled with towering trees, and lakes as blue and beautiful as the sky. We passed over large cities, with buildings that reached almost as high as we were. It was a truly amazing sight, but after a long flight with few breaks, we finally had the Earth temple in sight.
"It is near now, we will land soon," Scream said.
As we got closer, I saw why this fit as the Earth temple. It was covered in vines, and had large rocks all around it. On top of that, it was on the side of a large mountain, with statues of dragons at the entrance.
We landed at the entrance, and my father casually knocked on the huge front door. Some rumbling occurred, worrying my brother and I, but left our parents unfazed.
Finally the door opened slowly, and we all walked into the large temple. We reached the main hall, which of course, sported multiple large statues and vines. Not only was the Earth Guardian family here, but so was the Ice and Electricity Guardians. All in all, there was about 14 dragons, 3 with the electric family, another 3 for ice, and 3 with the Earth family.
"Ah," the Earth Guardian said, "It appears that our friends have arrived."
"Finally," the Ice Guardian said.
"It is good to see you all," Apollonir said," The Ice Guardian, Shiv, Electric Guardian, Volt, and the Earth Guardian, Gravel."
My father nodded to each of them and their families.
"I assume you have learned of the events of the past day or so?" Gravel said.
Scream nodded, "We saw the dragons involved. There are four of them, and they came from a portal, but that is all we know.
"Weshallseeinthepoolofvisions," Volt said, too fast for us to get.
"What?" Shiv said.
We all just assumed he meant the pool of visions after Volt tried again and again.
We all looked into the pool, albeit with difficulty.
Seconds later, an image of the Electric temple appeared. It was high in the clouds, surrounded by lightning flashes.
"Why our home?" Volt said, surprisingly slow.
Volt's mate, Light, squinted her eyes.
"Something's about to happen…"
A moment later, the temple was hit with a concentrated dark bolt of lightning. Small explosions occurred around it, then the entire temple exploded in a bright light.
Volt and his family screamed, devastated at the sudden loss of their home.
"So many memories… family paintings, statues, gone like that…." Volt said.
The image of the now burning temple then flashed to another temple. This one had ice all around it, near the summit of a snowy mountain.
"How dare they?" Shiv said in a voice of both fear and anger. He knew what would happen.
And just as he'd thought, a beam was shot at his home as well. The entire mountain side was frozen over in dark ice. Suddenly, the ice cracked, then exploded, destroying the entire mountain summit, and sending all the snow into a huge avalanche.
By now, we knew this was the dragons' doing, but we didn't know what powers they had or why they were doing this.
We looked on to see the pool switch to the temple we were at.
We tensed, and we realized what was happening.
"EVERYONE! GET OUT NOW!" Apollonir said.
We all ran outside, quickly got on our parents backs, and flew out as fast as they could. We all made it out in time too, as the temple was engulfed in a dark substance.
"What do they want!?" Gravel said, distraught.
The dark energy began to close on the temple, crushing the mountain around it. It destroyed almost the entire mountain, and crushed the temple with a horrible cracking noise.
We sat there in the rain in silence. These events were clearly attacks meant to kill. Had we not know we all would have been done for.
We then decided to fly back, all of us. However, we knew that the last temple was not safe. So we flew into a large cave used as a nearby shelter, and we rested for another day. In the morning, we decided to try to gather our thoughts.
"Why us?" Shiv said.
"A question we all want to know, my friend," Gravel said, "Maybe these dragons have a reason to… want to kill us.
"Areason? Tokillusguardiansandourfamilies?" Volt said.
"Work on slowing down, Volt. But yes, there may be a reason, but first, we need to know how they got here and who sent them," Apollonir said.
My brother and I left the room and let the adults talk. We went to where the rest of the younger dragons were. They all sat there, and seemed to have recovered more from the loss of their homes.
"I guess were going to be roommates for now huh?" Splitfire said.
The dragons, 3 of them in the room, glared at us.
"Look we can learn to be friends right?" I said.
Gravel's son walked up to me and growled. Even though it was as threatening as a kitten, I knew he was serious.
"Look, Ignitus, just leave us alone. We don't want to be reminded that we could have died today, got it?" he said.
Volt's son stepped between us.
"Let's not worry about that right now. We're targets too, so we must stick together to survive," Volteer said.
Gravel's son silently walked off and lid down.
"His name is Terrador and he's a little jealous, but give him time and he'll feel better. I'm Volteer and over there is Cyril."
"Thanks, I'm Ignitus, and this here is Splitfire," I said.
Volteer nodded to Splitfire, and so did Cyril. Then we all sat back down.
"I hope we'll be safe here. Being blown to bits isn't my idea of fun, and neither is having my home blown up," Splitfire said.
"We will be alright," I said.
However, I was trying to convince myself. I figured our home was next, and I hoped that they didn't find us here.
I decided to go back to sleep, and try to calm myself down.
However, after I drifted off, in my dreams, I stood in front of a door, in an area surrounded by stars, as if I was in space. The door was large, and decorated with dragons of all colors, shapes and sizes. The door itself had a radiant aura around it, glowing multiple colors. It was an amazing site to see and I spent minutes just taking it all in.
I refocused on the door, realizing I was here for a reason.
I was about to open the door and hesitated a little, wondering if whatever is behind it is dangerous.
I shook my head, then took a chance and opened the door.
What I learned from that entire visit was something both terrifying and yet extrodinary.