The next morning I woke up next to my Dragon Father protectively curled around my body with my sister suckling on the tip of his index claw. He watched her smiling as she suckled on him. I curled closer to his arm resting my head on his elbow the both of us watching my sister peacefully relaxed while the early morning birds sang outside the cave.
"Did you watch her all night father," I asked drowsily.
"Some what," he chuckled moving me closer to his head resting me against his neck, "You talk in your sleep."
I blushed a little, "Really I hope I didn't cause any trouble for you."
"You didn't cause any trouble for me in fact it was very entertaining," he smiled kissing my cheek, "You spoke of many amusing things like a purple horse walking on water." I smile back at him cuddling closer to his neck he curled closer to me moving my sister closer to his neck so we all were cuddling in the crook of his neck. We spent all of the morning and well into the evening cuddled and napping like that. Near dusk he took us out of the cave moving us to another location. My sister and rode on his back with he carried my horse. Just as the top of the sun was disappearing behind the horizon we can to water fall rushing into a river that wasn't too deep only going up to my thighs at the center than getting deeper as it went out. Behind the water fall was a large cave that had water from the river but also a large area of dry land for all of us to sleep together.
"This will be your home with me now," he said as I stepped onto the dry rock with Abiagael in my arms. Even though it was growing dark outside the waterfall still caused a rainbow to be reflected onto to cave walls. My sister stretched her arms out to the colorful light giggling and making her baby sounds. I walked closer to the walls allowing her her to to run and pat her hands all other the colors. Our father stayed out of the light watching my sister to play in the light of the rainbow till the light of the sun faded away and the moon shown through the cave. Before we went to sleep our father breathed fire onto the stone floor than gathered my sister and I onto the warm rock where we cuddled up against his neck. The next morning I let my horse free to roam about as he pleased though he usually stayed close to us except during the winter.
Durning the winter my family barely ever left the cave. Father would keep the cave warm and when we went to bed he would blow a ring of fire around us keeping us warm. He would do most of the hunting so I could watch my sister but I did gather wood and berries and I fished in the river. Our lives were mostly peaceful for the first two years, than hunters started showing up.
it was the middle of Spring when the first ones came. I was washing Abiagaels now two years old and my dresses in the river while she splashed around in a shallow pool by the shore of the river just around noon. Two men dressed in armor, armed with spears and swords. They rode horses that were pure coal black. The very sight of them sent chills down my spine thinking of what they had come to do. I stood from my work hoping I was wrong about these men's intentions.
"Greetings noble knights what brings you out here this day," I greeted them.
"We are searching for a dragon that rumors say that it lives in this area," one of the knights said in a gruf voice.
"Dear maiden would you be able to confirm this is the area or that there is a dragon that lives here," the other asked circling his horse behind me.
"Good knights you have been mislead the only creatures that live here are my father, my sister over there playing in the water behind me and myself. There are no dragons here." I wasn't really lying to them since the dragon they were looking for really was my father I just hoped they didn't figure out that.
"Where exactly do you and your family live," the gruf voiced asked moving his horse closer to me. Both men nearly boxing me between their horses.
"Behind the water fall in the trees," I said trying to ignore how close their horses were getting to me.
"Sis sis," Abiagael looked up from her game stumbling towards me. I squeezed through the horses quickly going to my sister picking her up holding her close to my chest. She looked over at the men making a disgusted face at them then started near yelling no and go away. This shocked the knights that a child would dare speak to them like that.
"It seems your mother has not taught your sister manners," the knight who had moved his horse behind me said dismounting his horse, " Maybe I could teach her some."
"No bad men you leave," Abiagael said waving her index finger at them. The knight then grabbed her hand and wrist in his metal covered clove causing her to scream in pain. Reacting to my sisters pain I punched the knights nose causing him to release her hand stumbling back holding his now bloody nose.
"Don't you dare touch my sister," I said stepping back and turning my protectively holding my sister.
"That bitch," the knight said looking at his blood covered hand.
"And watch your language around a children," I said kicking his face, " I should was your mouth out."
"Aby are you okay," I asked softly setting her on the ground she was crying now holding her hand, "Can I see your hand?"
She nodded yes reacting her hand out to me so I could look at it but before I could something metal hit the side of my head causing me to fall to the ground on my side. A thropping pain echoed through the side of my head and I felt a small amount of blood trickle into my ear.
"That was very unladylike miss," the gruff knight said though I could only make out every other word in his next sentence but I could tell it wasn't good. As the the gruff knight dismounted his horse walking towards me a roar came from behind me and a deer carcass fell onto the knight as a large shadow passed over us.
"Papa," Abiagael sniffled as our father landed behind me pinning the other knight with his tail. Abiagael ran to our father as best as a two year old could hugging his froarm. He smiled at her picking her up in the palm of his hand bringing her to his chest craning his neck to look at her.
"What is wrong my little Abiagael," he asked her looking at the knight struggling to get the deer carcass off him.
"Bad men man hurt me," she said holding out her injured hand to him then pointed to me, " Other bad man kicked sissy."
Our father growled in anger as he looked closely to both our injuries than at the two knights. He lifted his tail off the knight he pinned picking me up in his mouth by the belt on dress and carried my sister and I into our home gently setting us down on the many fur blankets that made up my sister and my bed. He set my sister down first than placing me in both his hands gently layer me onto the blankets. I tried to sit up but I became very lightheaded and flooped back down onto the blankets. He kissed both my sister and I then left the cave. At that I blacked out only coming back out when I felt something wet and cold on my head and smelled cooking meat. Father was cooking dinner and my sister was patting ( or trying to) a cold clothe on my head giggling as the clothe smacked my skin. It didn't hurt really it was just annoying and not helping a forming headache. After we ate and father gave me some herbal plants to chew on for the headache I found out what happened when he left the cave.
He had told the men to leave his home or else but the didn't and instead attacked him. In self defense he killed them. After that day I started training harder to get stronger but I wasn't getting any stronger. My father then decided he would help me and when my sister was old enough he would train her as well. Since I was going to have to fight men bigger than me father would spare with me. Teaching me to us my size as an advantage, to us even the smallest of opening to make them bigger, and when my sister was five we started her training.
She was a fast learner at tracking, swimming, the Old Code, even basic hand to combat. Everyday early in the mornings right before breakfast we would run five miles around the cave, morning sparring sessions with father, decide if it was my turn or fathers turn to go hunting for breakfast, eat, than finally swim a mile and back before noon. If any dragon slayers were to come to our home my sister and I were to hide in the cave not to make a sound. Only on rare occasions did I ever have to draw my sword, and even fewer times did any knights fall by sword. For seven years we lived like this and in those seven years more and dragons were dying and at sometimes it was getting harder for my family. The king was taxing every thing and squeezing what ever he could out of the people and even better marking off large parts of forest as the 'Kings Forset' causing more hunters to come after my father and I when we tried to feed our family. Then one day something happened that sent my whole family rolling down a hill towards one big mess that envoled a poetical monk, a village girl, an old friend, and a whole lot of 'what were you even thinking' moments.
Thanks for the reviews guys I'm glad you are enjoying my story. To MMM I don't really know about a sequel but I have thought about going into New Beginning.