A Dragon's Glory

Chapter One, Everyone has their spirit.

In this world, at birth, everyone was given an animal. This animal was embroidered into a pendant. No matter who you were, you had a pendant.
Some put theirs on necklaces, some put them in pocketwatches, some wore them on bracelets, it was all up to the person.

Riju was walking to school. He took a deep breath in. The cool, dew-filled morning air filled his lungs. He generally disliked getting up early, though he chose to every morning.
He looked down at his phone. The clock showed 6:15 a.m. He sighed with releif. He knew he wouldnt be late.

The walk to his school was a little over a mile. He knew he could just ride the bus, but he never did. He had a few reasons for doing so. One was that he just didn't like the bus. Another was that he used the walk to wake him up in the morning. Lastly, and most difficult to explain, he always felt like he needed training.

Of course he didn't take sports, so that led to many "For what?"s. He always felt like magic existed. He wanted to beleive that with every fiber of his being that it existed. He felt something. Something that lingered in his head when he laid down to go to sleep. Something that he felt in the middle of the night. A battle, where swords beat bullets. A call to action. A chance to rise up, and fight for the light side. He felt it.

His animal was a dragon. That always confused him, yet intrigued him. He thought dragons were not real. Though sometimes when he would be camping for hiking, he would see eyes. Or a shadow against the night sky. He tried to take pictures of them, but they wouldn't show up on his phone. He thought about these sightings almost every night.

He was almost to the school when he saw something out of the corner of his eye. The eyes were back. Those oval-shaped, slit-pupil draconic eyes. He walked into the woods after them. They backed up, and seemed like they bolted off. But where they were standing was a box.

    A small one, a little bigger than a ring box. He picked it up. It had a small bit of weight to it. "What the.." Riju murmured. He opened it, to find what looked like an mp3 player. But it looked like it was made of a material he had never seen before. It felt cool to the touch, and hard as steel, but weighed as much as cardboard. He took his headphones out of his pocket, and plugged them into the strange device. He put them in. He heard what sounded like the ending of Creo: Start your engines. He continued listening. He heard no more. He decided to keep one earbud in as he finished his walk.

When he got to school, he examined the device throughout first period. It had no stop, pause, or play buttons. Just runic designs etched into the metal, a glowing ring in the center, wich glowed through the metal, making it slightly visible from the outside, and the aux jack he had plugged his headphones into. It fascinated him. He dubbed the device, "The X Player".