Konnect

Chapter 1: What has this world come to

"Run!" I yelled as I was running along one of my friends. We weren't running away from anything. We were just running so she could get back to her family. She wasn't an ordinary friend you'd find in schools or streets. No. She's no human. She's a dragon.

"Come one, Scal! You can do it! Fly!" I encouraged her. Scal was one of the scale-type dragons. That's why I named her Scal. She got lost on her way to the south and got shot by the Hunters. I rescued her before they could come and kill her or be a subject to experiments. The Hunters are specially picked proffesionals by the rulers of Earth. They hunt down any dragons they see.

People always saw dragons as a threat, except me. I always took care of any injured dragon I see. I've been doing this since I was 12 and now I'm almost 18. Sometimes the dragons come back just to see me and hang out with me. I love it but it's painful for me to see them come here because they could get injured any second.

I saw Scal finally starting to fly towards me. She flew for a bit and then bumped into me, making me fall down in the grass. I laughed as Scal licked me, as if saying sorry and and being happy. She jumped off of me and sat besides me. She was wagging her tail like a dog, which was adorable. Scal was the size of a full grown wolf. She wasn't that heavy but I've grown pretty strong, since I work out in the gym and train dragons for fun.

I looked at my phone. It was almost 8 AM. My lessons start at 8:30 AM and I leave my dragons at exactly at 8.

I stood up and walked Scal back to her shelter. Her shelter was in the ruins, terribly damaged homes by war. The Hunters or other people rarely come here.

"Stay here, Scal, and be careful," I said and she licked my face. I put her food on the ground and patted her head before leaving.

I took out my mirror and looked at myself. There was some dirt and leaves in my wavy hair. It was hard to clean out hair like this. But my favourite part of my hair was that it was dark like the sky in the night. My eyes were the opposite. They were blue, as if an angel took some blue out of the sky and put in my eyes. People always complimented me and my eyes. The worst part of me that I am pale like a zombie. Whatever I do, I can't get a tan, not even a sunburn. And I also have stretch marks on my legs beneath my pants.

It was 8:05 already. I would be late 5 minutes if I walked. Good thing I took my hover board with me. Can't leave my house without it, even if my school doesn't allow them.

As I was hovering, I noticed my best friend. This one is a human. His name is Lukas and he's a few months older than me. He has short blonde hair but not warm blonde. It's more like cold blonde. Our parents have known each other since kindergarten. We are basically like siblings. We tease and help each other. His parents tried to hook us up once but neither of us were interested.

"Hey, nerd!" He called me. I stopped by him and he ruffled my hair. I swatted away his hand and tickled his sides. He started fighting it and grabbed my hands so I won't tickle him.

"Let's just go! Don't wanna miss the lesson about dragons," I wasn't obsessed with dragons but I needed to know about them more so I can help them. When I was younger, before I met my first dragon I healed, I wrote an essay about why the dragons are attacking us. And of course I got into trouble for that. Got detention for a week and grounded for a month. When I was finally allowed to go for walks, I went to the ruins and met Valkyre. He was my first dragon friend and the first dragon I healed. I see him from time to time and I miss him all the time. It's been 6 years and I still don't know what kind of a dragon he is. Valkyre never shows his abilities.

"You're so obsessed with dragons, you know that, Skylar?" Said Lukas while I pushed him to the lesson room. I sat down on the closest ring to the centre. The lesson rooms are circular. Students sit around the centre. The room is divided in rings. The main one is, of course, in the centre where all the holographic images are shown and explained. Basically the room is like an auditorium.