Chapter 4

My mother had decided to bring me to one of the restaurant in the town so that she could tell me how she met my father. We arrived there at the restaurant where a there was two stories of seating for customer to dine at we went over and sat at a seat near the windows.

She told of the day she met my father, she had apparently gone into the forest so that she could enjoy the sight of a simple stream as she adored nature above all else except me of course, she had been doing this when an elf with white hair appeared and startled her. At first she was scared of him but she began to talk to him about how much she liked nature and how she enjoyed just watching the plants and animals on a daily basis. This went on for a good 60 years before they actually began a physical relationship as during that time they had gotten to know each other rather well and would meet at the stream they had first met at least once a week, one day my mother had asked him if they could have a child together to witch he laughed and said that it may take a while but if that is what she wanted then he would give her a child of her own, they tried to have a child four another 40 years before I was finally conceived and on the day I was he told her who he was and then left before she could say anything. My mother didn’t blame him for leaving as he is a god and most likely had business to attend to or it could be a rule between gods that once a child is conceived with a non-god the godly parents would have to leave and only appear before them when the time was right.

When mother had finished tell me her story I was confused as she didn’t look a day over twenty to me and she was in my biased opinion rather beautiful.

Xarjurn-‘’ mother how old are you?’’ I asked wanting to know

Mother-‘’ I stopped counting after 10000 years so I have no clue but I was one of the original elves so that should give you a clue’’ she said to me as she looked over the menu.

Xarjurn-‘’ so then how many aspects have you completed then’’

Mother-‘’ only two the aspect of the fire lizard and the aspect of the growing forest’’ she said to me as we ordered our food.

It didn’t take to long for our food to come I had a simple plate of fruit and bread with a small amount of cheese while mother had a vegetable soup, as we were eating out food a elf came over to us with his daughter in tow.

Elf-‘’ hello I am the noble Eleds ordet and I would like to talk to you about our sons future’’ he said to my mother as he bowed slightly.

Mother-‘’ hmm what about his future’’ my mother answered after letting the noble sit there for a few minutes while she finished her soup.

Eleds-‘’ I would like to offer my daughter to him as hid bride’’ he said with a look of greed in his eyes, I could tell just from this he was only thinking of making his family more powerful and trying to gain the dragon gods favour by having his daughter marry me, this personally disgusted me as I had known things like this to happen in my old world and I didn’t want any part of it.

My mother looked at him with look that said ‘what the hell are you doing’ before telling him that I was free to choose who I would marry and such, this angered the noble but he didn’t do anything rash as he knew who we were and didn’t want to anger the dragon god he just walked away from out table.

After we had finished our food my mother and I went back home and began to do some work around the farm, I went and began to thresh the grain while she dug up the vegetables we had planted and replanted those one that were to be used for cultivating, as we were doing this a priest came to us and told me that I would have to pack a bag with clothes and such as I would be head to were the dragons lived to be taught by my namesake and that a dragon that lived in the forest would be bringing me there in the next hour. My mother had look of shock on her face after hearing the news but she came up to me and embraced me telling me she would miss me and that I should try my hardest in my lessons. I hugged her back a cried into her bosom as I dont want to leave her as she was the first mother I knew. She just rubbed my head and told me to become strong while I was there so that I could protect what I cared about.

She led me back to our small house where she made a simple bag for me and put in a few set of spare clothing for me and couple of apples so I had some food. She then began to lead me towards the temple again so that I could met with the dragon that would take me to my new teacher.

When I arrived there I saw my future bride there with her family but she was wearing some simple leather armour while holding short sword in one hand and a dagger in the other. I was guessing that they were presents from her family who were also blood elves. There was also a large blue dragon there waiting for us with a look of amusement on it face.

I walked up to the dragon and looked into is eyes where I could see a vast amount of intelligence. I began to lift my hand towards the dragon when every voice in the area suddenly went quiet and I could feel eyes looking at me. My hand moved closer to the dragon as the air around us began to fill with tension, as my hand touched the scales of the dragon I felt warmth like no other coming from the dragon as if it was the warmth of a long lost family member being welcomed home again. The dragon let out a slight growl at me but I couldn’t feel ant anger or fur from it but more a feeling of contentment.

Mother-‘’Xarjurn you do know that dragons generally won’t let anyone touch them’’ my mother called to me as I was bust scratching underneath the dragons chin.

Xarjurn-‘’ no mother I didn’t’’ I said as I slowly moved my hand away from the dragon, but I felt the dragon moved its head to my shoulder and place it there.

The dragon then began to talk in a feminine voice that was gentle yet brutal at the same time.

Dragon-‘’ why wouldn’t I let one of my kind touch me young elf’’ she said with a slight amount of confusion in her voice

Mother-‘’ one of your kind?’’

Dragon-‘’ yes this young one is one of my kind in a sense he is the only reason that I an letting him and the other young elf ride on my back to their new teacher’’ she said as she nipped the back of my tunic with her teeth ad lifted me onto her back before grabbing the pink hair girl and doing the same. She then took off before saying that it was time to leave, my mother shouted up to me to be careful before the dragon began to beat her wings and head towards the mountains.

I tried asking pinky(that’s what I called her as I didn’t know her name) about herself but she wouldn’t respond to me. I then tried talking to the dragon whose name I learned was Saphira, she told me that we would most likely have two ears of magic training and two ears of physical training before being given a year to complete a test that would be extremely difficult. She then began to teach me how to turn into my dragonic form, she told me to imagine a dragon in my mind and then place myself into is to begin the transformation, I didn’t do this at first for obvious reasons but once we landed for the night as we had been traveling all day and it would take another few days to reach the mountains, I was about to begin trying to turn into my dragon form pink came up to and said in the sweet voice I had ever heard that we should begin gathering some firewood for heat.

I put off my practice and helped her gather some wood that was rather dry as this would catch light quicker than wet or damp wood before using a piece of flint to light the fire, after a rather small meal of rabbit and apple I began to try to enter my dragonic form. I began to imagine a dragon in my mind and slowly began to pour m being into it after doing this for a while I opened my eyes and felt myself on all fours aswell as being taller than I was normally, I looked down and saw that I had indeed transformed into a dragon with dark emerald scales that glistened in the fire light.

I suddenly felt very tired and slipped into a deep sleep, I awoke once during the night to see that pinky was leaning up against my bod to try and stay warm as the fire had gone out, this made me smile before I realised I was still in my dragonic form, I moved my wings to shelter her and then fell asleep again.

Author’s notes

So here is another chapter for you to enjoy and for those who are waiting on a tear soaked flowers chapter one may be out soon as I am currently trying to figure out how I want the story to progress also any comment and suggestions are welcome peace out