The Next Bloodline

The ice has melted

TOP released his wings.

“You can touch it. Look inside.” Said TOP

Sulli touched TOP’s wing and as her hand tried to smoothen the feathers, she noticed that TOP’s feathers are black near the roots…

“I don’t understand.” Said Sulli

TOP hid his wings.

“I was born a white dragon. But as years go by…I noticed some change in me. It started with my feathers…and then with my hair. Elder Farah noticed it too. So he gave me something to color my hair to keep what’s happening a secret. I was able to keep it a secret from everyone…except myself…” said TOP

“I have always wondered…why am I different…why do I have this feathers and hair which is black near where it grows…why can’t it be pure white as the others…what am I exactly? I had questions all my life…until your circle came to our Island…and I saw Minho.” Said TOP

“From the time I fought against him…I already felt the Dark aura form him. His strength…his power…I know black dragons are gone…but it made me curious…until I heard he had black wings…Right then…I was almost sure he is a black dragon.” Said TOP “Dragons…somehow feel the presence of another.”

“You…wanted to know why you have the dark that’s why you joined the circle?” asked Sulli

“I had a theory. And Elder Farah…he mentioned it to me too…but he quickly ruled it out.” Said TOP

“And that is?” asked Sulli

“That I am a product of the joining of a black and white dragon.” Said TOP

Sulli gasped.

“That’s taboo in the dragon world. We are not supposed to interbreed with another kind of dragon.” Said TOP “That’s to avoid creating another kind of monster.”

“Elder Faha also thought that way…but he said Black dragons are extinct…so it’s impossible that I came from a black dragon.” Said TOP

“Where are your parents?” asked Sulli

“I was a baby…left at Mount Yukjun. Ariyah’s mother found me and took me to Elder Faha because she clearly saw I was a white dragon.” Said TOP “She was wrong.”

“And now that you see the black dragons still exists…what is your theory?” asked Sulli

“I think that Mistress Muklan is my mother.” Said TOP

“What?!” Sulli almost stood up.

“I am 50 years of age, Princess. I couldn’t have been conceived the time when black dragons still widely exist. I was only conceived way after the black dragons were exterminated.” Said TOP ”It could only mean that my mother or father is any of the existing black dragons. My mother could be Mistress Muklan or Adah…that means my father is a white dragon…you can also think that my father is Minho and my mother is a white dragon…”

TOP saw Sulli’s reaction. It’s like her eyes are going to pop out.

“I have not overruled Minho being my father…but I have reason to believe that my mother is the Mistress.” Said TOP

“What makes you think that?” asked Sulli

“When I appeared before her in the house in the village…when I saw her…I felt she’s a dragon…she also felt me…and not only that…she asked me a question that struck me…she offered her house for the circle. As I went out my room, I saw her waiting for me. She asked ‘Are you the one who has been suffering by being half light half dark? Are you the dragon I left behind? You poor child. I have caused you pain by leaving you.’ That was what she said.”