As I walked beside the forest I heard something around me. I froze and spun. A man who was wearing a soldiers’ uniforms was walking slowly towards me with his sword drawn. I glanced around and saw three more soldiers walking towards me their swords also drawn. I backed away from them and then my eyes narrowed as I realised that they were cornering me. I was surrounded. The forest was behind me and they were covering my escape.
“Come with us quietly and we won’t have to hurt you,” the oldest one in the middle said. His voice was harsh. I glanced around me. All the soldiers were staring at me with the same harsh look.
I reached down and pulled out my sword, holding it in a defensive position in front of me. “I’m not going anywhere with you,” I growled at him putting as much steel as I could into my trembling voice.
“Fine.” The man leaned back and then leaped at me. Something inside of me told me to crouch and jump, so I did. The man stumbled past me his face shocked. I heard a sound of metal behind me and turned. My arms brought my sword up in a desperate parry as the man struck at me. My arms exploded with pain and his sword struck mine in the shower of sparks. At that moment I knew that I was outnumbered and could not win.
Something inside of me, told me what to do. I dropped to the ground, and kicked the soldiers’ legs. He fell backwards collapsing with a grunt on top of the other two soldiers. I heard the older man coming up behind me and twisted my grip on the sword. I flung my hand backwards, ramming the hilt of my sword into the soldiers’ stomach. As he doubled over gasping, I twisted kicking out the soldiers legs from under him. Then pushing my sword back into its sheath, I turned and ran into the forest, knowing that if I went down the track they would catch me.
I raced through the forest grimacing in pain as branches whipped at my face. I pumped my legs harder and kept running as fast as I could until I couldn’t hear any signs of pursuit behind me. Then I broke into a clearing and bent over hand in knees gasping for air. My vision flashed with darkness until I regained my breath. Then I lifted my head up and looked around.
With a jolt, I realised that this was the clearing that I had seen while I was unconscious. My breath caught. Was the glowing green rock I had seen here as well? I recognised the bushes, and ran to them, falling on my knees as I dug through the dirt. I gaped in amazement at the green rock that I saw before me.
Hesitantly, I picked it up. It started vibrating and then it glowed. It was so bright that I should have had to look away but I couldn’t. It was like I could see straight through the burning light. The green rock exploded and the remnants suddenly fell to the ground around me disappearing as soon as they touched the ground.
Then in my hands I was holding a small creature. It opened its eyes and it was like I knew everything. The creature was telling me that it was a dragon. A male dragon. His skin, a stunning green shone like a jewel. His deep green eyes looked into mine, with happiness. He unfurled something from his sides and I realised that they were wings.
Then he seemed to be enveloped in green flames. They shot out from him enveloping me too. I felt myself being lifted from the ground and my dragon floated of my hands, our eyes sill locked. Then my hands flung onto either side of my body and it felt like all my energy was being drained from me. Somehow, I knew that I was giving the energy was my dragon to live, and at the same time connecting us together. I could see my silver aura flowing from me into him, his own green aura flowed into me.
My body jerked wildly with pain as I felt my body being drained with energy, then before my eyes I could see my dragon growing bigger and bigger in front of my eyes. He towered over me, the size of two houses. He was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and I knew exactly what I would name him. “Eridor” I whispered through the pain. Then I was falling to the ground. I felt something I couldn’t recognise catch me.
I awoke surrounded by a sheet of green. I sat up, and only then realised that I was leaning on something that was warm and moving. Amazed I turned around and touched it. From the corner of the vast green curtain, a bright shaft of light appeared. The most beautiful thing I had ever seen poked his head in. My dragon. “Eridor” I murmured. I reached out towards his face with my hand and sighed in content when he extended his neck to touch it.
An electric current raced through my hand. I tried to pull back but couldn’t. My body jerked as it raced through my hand. Then the current turned into a soothing heat and the pressure that glued my hand to Eridors head disappeared. I yanked my arm back, cradling my arm to my chest before looking at it.
There was a green symbol carved into the side of my right palm. I looked at it closer. It was two dragons heads twisted together, looking into each other’s eyes. One dragon looked exactly like Eridor. The others eyes were brown but the body was silver. With a start I realised that the dragon was symbolises me. It symbolised us together. I reached out touching his face. This time there was no current. I could feel his cool, smooth scales beneath my fingertips. I felt his body vibrate around me as he hummed with satisfaction.
His deep green eyes looked at me warmly. His nose, which had a crystal clear spike was the central point of his face. Scales ran along his face growing smaller near his eyes. He was beautiful and he was mine, as I was his.
Lyra. Young one.
I pulled back in shock as a voice sounded in my head, saying my name. The voice was soft and caressing, with it was also strongly male.
I realised with a start that I was my dragon’s voice. “Was that you?” I asked, touching his face again.
Yes.
“Can I come out?” I asked, softly, realising that I was under his wing, pressed to his stomach. He withdrew his head and lifted up his bat-like wing. The light that came through blinded me for a minute. Leaning on Eridors’ stomach I stood up carefully and walked away from him a few paces. Then I turned to look up at him and was stunned. He was huge and glorious. The sunlight bounced off his emerald scales. His wings, folded close to his body were amazing. The tips and edges were covered in scales like armour, nut the middle was web-like and had no scales.
I looked up to see his face, squinting against the sun. “You’re the most beautiful creature I have ever seen,” I complimented him. I smiled as I felt his satisfaction in my mind through our link.
Thank You.
I heard him say in my head. Then he froze. His wings locked against his body for an instant and I could feel his caution in my head. In the next instant he was in front of me, his wings drawn up, his scaled tail curled on the ground in a circle around me. His whole body was acting as a shield for me.
“What is it?” I asked urgently trying to see around his enormous body. I stiffened as he growled, a low menacing sound that was also protective. It was the first sound I had ever heard him make.
Four men are coming towards us. I can smell you’re sent on them. They are looking for you they want to get you. I will not let them touch you young one.
I could feel his anger in my mind. Then another thought occurred to me. I couldn’t let them see Eridor. No one had seen a dragon since the riders disappeared with their dragons one hundred years ago. “Eridor you have to go,” I said urgently touching his back. Hi body remained poised in front of me, but he turned his head till it was level and in front of mine.
Why? I will not leave you young one.
I could feel his anger towards the men and his fear for me in my mind. “You have to go. You can’t let these men see you. I don’t know what will happen. You can fly away, but you can’t carry me as well, you’re only a few hours old. Please. For me.” I begged him, knowing he could feel my desperation.
He turned to face me and nudged my shoulder softly with his head.
Young one. I could feel his pain and worry. I won’t leave you. They could hurt you.
“You have to,” I said to him softly leaning into his head. I heard crashing sounds around me. “Go!” I shouted desperately pushing away from him.
Making a low keening sound he turned and ran a few steps in the clearing. Then he spread his wings wide and bent his legs, launching himself into the air. He flew off the ground, his wings beating unsteadily until, he got a rhythm. The turned his head to looked at me, and I motioned with my hands for him to go. I stood, transfixed by his beauty, until the sound of people running towards he broke into my thoughts.
I raced into the forest away from the sound. In my mind I saw vivid flashes of Eridor, he was flying through the air, glancing back towards me. Go, I shouted in my head. I saw him freeze, as he heard me, before he kept flying.
I didn’t realise that I was slowing down until I rain through another clearing, but by then it was too late. I was surrounded. The four men, approached me from all sides, scowling their swords drawn. “You’re not getting away this time girle,” he shouted, his voice harsh. I reached down to grab my sword, but another flash of Eridor flying distracted me.
One of the soldiers ran forwards, hitting me hard on the side of the head with the hilt of his sword. I vision turned black, and the last thing I heard was the enraged roar of Eridor in my head as he felt my pain through our link and saw what had happened from my mind. I could feel his anger seeping into me. Stay away Eridor! I screamed in my mind with as much force as I could, and them everything went black.
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