Disclaimer: I own nothing of Dragon Flyz, which is owned by Gaumont Pictures. Only the plot and OC's are mine and I make no money from this.
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Dram had taken to visiting other regular dramen villages, to see if any more were interested in learning to fight back against the dark dramen and mutants.
He was on one such visit, accompanied by Zarkan, when he got the surprise of his life.
They had just finished talking with the village chief and were getting ready to head back to the flying city when a hesitant voice called out to the pair, "Dram? Dram is that you?!"
It went high at the end, making the draman turn around to see a female draman approaching him quickly. When she saw his face, she cried out and broke into a run, "It's you! It's really you!"
She was nearly on him when it finally clicked why she seemed familiar and Dram welcomed her sudden, crushing hug with one of his own. His throat suddenly felt tight but he managed to say, "Eta! I can't believe it's you!"
She squeaked something into his shoulder but neither of them let go just yet. Zarkan blinked at the pair and interrupted their moment, "I hate to break this reunion, but who are you?"
He moved his hand away from his wind jammer once he realized that the female draman wasn't a threat but he was still lost. Dram broke the hug to turn to his partner, motioning between her and Zarkan, "Zarkan, this is my younger cousin Eta. She, she.."
He trailed off, not certain how to actually phrase everything but Eta did that for him. She gave Zarkan a very cautious smile, explaining, "My mother married outside of our old village after my father died. As is custom, she and I moved to her new husband's village, which is why..."
She trailed off and turned to Dram, tears in her eyes, "Oh Dram, I'm so sorry! We didn't hear about the attack until nearly a week had passed! The village sent some people to do what they could but the news they brought back wasn't good. We heard rumors that you survived but until now I never knew if they were true or not."
He shook his head, trying to give her a smile of some sort but there was a burning question he had to know the answer to, "Eta, were there any others? From the village?"
His cousin shook her head sadly, "I'm sorry Dram. Aside from you, Mother and myself, everyone from the old village is gone. Kreigo was horribly thorough in his attack."
She pasted a smile on her face, though sadness was still clearly present in her eyes, "Dram, you must come see my children! I'd love for them to finally meet you after all this time and ..."
Eta hesitated, looking uncertainly at Zarkan. The dragonator waved the pair off, "It's alright. I'll let the watch tower now he'll be back later. They might call him on his communicator to verify everything but that should be it."
This was only possible because they weren't on an official mission, just a survey of the area and a contact with the local dramen village. Dram gave Zarkan a nod of thanks as Eta smiled and began to drag Dram off, chattering about her two children and their latest escapades.
It was wonderful to find that at least some of his family was still alive.