Hi everyone I am Tiamat, the water dragon you all met in chapter 12. Since the author is too lazy to continue the story, I will begin one of my own. This is a tragic tale about two lovers who fought to be together.
Although it is cliché, let's start with Once Upon a Time.
Eons ago there was a land filled with majestic beasts that would fly around. For each element, you had a dragon to represent their majesty as they ruled over the beasts' kingdom. The Earth dragon was green, the water dragon blue, the fire dragon red, and the air white.
Now in the old days, we had witches as well and these were there to guide the future guardians of these four majestic dragons.
Every ten years boys and girls from all over the heavenly realm would try to see if they were the chosen guardian and most failed. Well, that was until one day four courageous teens stepped forward and we were deemed the guardians. Among the four was the youngest princess of the heavenly realm Aelia.
Young Aelia was adventurous and wanted to go out and travel, to see the mortal realm which sadly was forbidden. Unlike her elder siblings, she didn't like the thought of staying in a stuffy palace only to be later on married off for someone else's benefit.
She had often sneaked out of the palace to go exploring and it was during one of those escapades that she stumbled upon the majestic egg. Feeling her presence, the dragon deemed her to be a worthy guardian and bonded with her after hatching. From then on the princess became the guardian of the water element dragon and he became her adventure buddy.
Since no one was there when the dragon hatched from his shell or bonded with someone they thought it vanished. Meanwhile, the other three guardians were used by the heavenly emperor to start a war with the other kingdoms.
When Aelia found out, she decided to escape the palace only to be sold out by her jealous sister Amelia. Both happened to be identical twins and the other happened to be the guardian of the fire dragon.
The two sisters battled that day and Aelia was almost arrested as her father deemed her unworthy of being a guardian. He then stripped her of her heavenly status and banished her to the mortal realm to suffer the seven humans' sins before dying and evaporating out of existence.
They then destroyed her heavenly core and threw her to earth while keeping her dragon locked in a cage. However before they could take him away, the water dragon cursed them into years of drought before escaping to find his master. One would expect them to feel fear after that but sadly they thought the dragon was bluffing.
Meanwhile in a valley filled with natives, lived a young hunter named Marcel. Since his parents died, the young male was well sought out by the maidens in their little village. However he was not interested in any of them and so he spent his time hunting or with his black beautiful horse, Shadow.
It was during one of his leisurely moments that he stumbled upon an injured figure. He jumped off Shadow and ran to the figure only, to see that it was a badly injured woman who was bleeding profusely.
He quickly took off his robe and placed it on her as he got on Shadow and raced them back to the village. The villagers looked at the young male and the girl he carried weirdly for it was the first they'd seen someone that looked like her.
Marcel made the village grandmother take care of the injuries as he stood outside worried. After what felt like an eternity, he was told that if he brought her any later, then she'd have died.
Marcel was shocked to hear that the girl almost died and so he asked about her current condition. He learned that she's now alright but she'll not awake due to her trying to recover.
It took three weeks before the mysterious girl opened her eyes and she was honestly shocked. She felt tears run down her eyes at the ordeal that happened. She knew she wasn't one of the favored children, but she thought that she had a special place in her father's heart. However, from the looks of it, she didn't.
'Since they don't want me then I don't want them either," she thought as she quickly wiped her tears.
"I see you finally awake child," said the village grandma.
"Hello thank you for taking care of me miss-"
"Agatha. Call me Aunty Agatha," said the old lady as she smiled at the girl.
"I am glad you are awake as young Marcel would not stop worrying about you," said Agatha as she went and grabbed the tray filled with food and handed it to the girl.
"Marcel?" she asked puzzled.
"Ah yes his name is Marcellus but we call him Marcel. He's one of the village's hunters and he was the one who found you. However, child what is a holy being like yourself doing so far?" asked Agatha.
"What?" Aelia asked shocked.
"Don't worry dear we are from the same place but I chose to come here as I didn't believe in their beliefs," said Agatha.
Aelia could only look sadly as she recounted her experience with the old lady. Agatha looked at the young girl and realized that her core wasn't damaged much as it was being protected by her guardian but she didn't want to say anything.
"Grandma I found-"
"Oh my you are awake?" said Marcel as he rushed into the little house only to see Aelia awake.
"Are you Marcel?" Aelia asked.
"Yes ma'am," he replied as he walked closer to the bed.
"I heard you save me and for that thank you," said Aelia as she smiled at the dark-skinned male who blushed in response.
"Since you know my name, what's yours?" he asked.
"Ae-"
"Her name is Emma and she'll be staying with me since she's an orphan," said Agatha as she rest her hands on the young girl's shoulders.
"It's nice meeting you Emma," Marcel said with a smile.
From then on, Emma would try her best to grow accustomed to her life in the village while helping Agatha with the daily chores. The young girl grew even more accustomed to her new name as it showed that she has left her old identity of being Princess Aelia of the Heavenly Realm in the past.
As the days turned to months and the months turned to years, Marcel and Emma grew from strangers to friends and finally lovers. After five years of being in the village, Marcel didn't waste another second as he proposed to the love of his life. The two loving pair got married under the full moon pledging their love for everyone to see.
Sadly, their peaceful moment was broken as Emma was finally found by the heavenly soldiers and her sister. Marcel was shocked to hear that his wife and the mother of his unborn child was a heavenly being.
Reunited again after years, the twin princess fought one for her now destroyed kingdom and the other to protect her husband and family. Amelia was angry as she looked at her pregnant twin. She couldn't stand that while she and everyone else were dying due to the drought in the heavenly realm, she was here playing house with a mortal.
The two sisters once again engaged in battle as their dragons fought alongside them. Marcel who was shocked decided to protect his family by fighting the soldiers and defeating them. However, he noticed one of them aiming a sneak attack at his wife so he rushed in front of her taking the attack and leaving him fatally wounded.
"No Marcel," she cried out as her husband fell to the ground with blood pouring out his mouth.
"Don't worry love, I'll be fine," he said but she knew he was only saying that so she wouldn't be sad.
Feeling angry, Emma gently placed him down on the ground and angrily attacked her sister with everything she had. Eventually, she broke her sister's core and Tiamat killed the red dragon killing both the guardian and master.
Emma ran back to her husband and they spent their final moments together as he took his last breath leaving her and their unborn child. Agatha who saw the whole thing used part of her core to ensure that even after death the two would be reunited once again and she'll continue to be Emma's protector.
Well Everyone that's the end of the story and even though a lot of time passed, my master was reborn countless times and she was once again reunited with her lover. However, in this life, she became a mermaid and until she recovers her powers, Agatha and I will continue to protect the destined lovers.