-Break-
Φ Looking up at the man in front of me, I tremble on the ground. As the dragon tears through the rest of the soldiers in front of me, I say, “How can you be so strong?” Before passing out.
Φ With as much force as I can muster I swing my sword against the soldiers in front of me breaking their shield. Then seeing a volley of arrows fly towards me, I let out a roar which blows them all away.
Then I jump up and crash down over the archers shattering the floor on impact. Turning around I see tiny women run at me with curved swords, but I simply stand still and let the swords hit me and as they do they break into pieces.
With a shaky voice, one of the women says, “You monster!?” Then immediately after I let an ear rendering scream which forces the women to their knees.
Seeing everyone unconscious I continue down the hallway they came through. After a few seconds I enter a large room with a giant door in the distance, and in front of that door is the largest amount of soldiers I have seen today.
“DEFEND HIS MAJESTY WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT, EVEN IF YOU DIE IN THE PROCEED DON’T LET THIS BEAST!”
With open eyes, I say, “He is behind that door!” I charge forward and then I see the shields of the men in front of me open up and moments later black balls fly out of them.
I don’t let this sight bother me and continue on, but the moment the balls hit me they explode.
Φ One of my soldiers beside me says, “He’s finished,” With a relaxed look.
In response to this, I scream, “BRACE!” And moments later I see the beast run out of the smoke cloud towards us. “WE WILL NOT FALL TODAY WE ARE THE SOLDIERS OF JEDIDIAH.”
Φ Reaching the soldiers, I use my fist the shatter the shield of the one who keeps screaming, then with my sword in my right hand, I attack all the soldiers in front of me to make a path.
The man who changed my sister is right there, I must reach him!
All around me, the soldiers try to pile up on me to stop my advance, but I simply swat all of them off of me as I continue my advance. But they still keep coming, so I break the floor of the room with my foot which gets all of them off of me, and then I am able to reach the giant door.
Standing in front of the door I prepare to open it, but then it opens for me. Walking out of the room I see my sister, with a sword attached to her hip.
Stretching out my hand, I say, “Pari, I have come to save you.”
Knocking my hand away, she says, “I warned you, Cyrus.”
“Sister why are you being so cold to me, I-I-I-I came all this way to save you. H-H-Has that man done something to yo-.”
With the sword on her hip, she slashes my cheek and says, “I warned you Cyrus and now you will have to finally deal with the consequences.”
As she swings her sword towards me again, I reflexively jump backwards. “Here I thought you would freeze up and take the cuts, but I guess even a failure like you paid attention during mandatory military training.”
Breathing in and out sister says, “But still your spirit energy control is utter garbage,” Then immediately she lunges at me and swings her sword directly at me. I dodge her fast swings, but then my leg is grabbed by her tail and pulled towards her, and in my moment of confusion she swings her sword at me, but I catch it with my hands.
“S-S-S-Sister, please stop.”
“Just shut up and die, Cyrus!” Increasing the force of her swing my sister breaks through my hands and slashes me directly across my chest.
I fall to my knee, and from the side of the room I hear a soldier shout, “Lady Pari, it is too dangerous let us fight him.”
With a tender smile, my sister says to the soldier, “Don’t worry about me I am also a dragon.”
Seeing this I freeze for a moment as my mind tries to make sense of what I had seen, then getting up I say, “Sister I know you're still inside there, you must be under some ability but don’t worry I will save you.”
Scoffing, my sister says, “You save me? Don’t you think your little fantasy has gone on too long? Listen to me Cyrus you can’t do anything!!!”
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With her sword in hand, my sister lunges directly at me, so I take out my sword and clash against hers. As our swords clash I admire her; she is so beautiful, so gallant, everything about her is amazing, “So sister I will save you.”
I activate my legacy on my sword and create a giant amount of darkness.
Φ Walking up to my library, I say, “Elia what are you doing out here so late.”
“Oh, da- I mean Avram, I was just moongazing, all the kids have been hard to deal with, so I was just spending some time with myself.”
“Well the kids seem to like you, but maybe some of that is fear after what you did to Mime.”
“That little girl needed to learn some discipline.”
After an awkward pause, I ask, “Did you almost call me dad?”
Immediately she responds, “Your crazy, you must be on drugs, that dementia is kicking in earlier I see.”
“You can call me dad if you want.”
Blushing she says, “I think the sandstorm just changed.”
“Changing the topic, I see.”
“Shut up, and just listen, the sandstorm I swear its density change, just look.”
Looking at the sandstorm I notice it has just become more see-through as if it has become weaker. “It wasn’t like that a moment ago.”
“The entire time we have been here I have never seen it change in the slightest, but I swear it just got weaker.”
After a moment, I say, “It looks even more see-through than it did a moment ago, is it fading?”
“That’s impossible, I know for a fact that the sandstorm here has been going for millennia.”
“But regardless that is what is happening, the real question we should be asking is why.”
Φ Clashing my sword against Cyrus’s, I feel myself struggling. The darkness coming off his blade increases its range and the force of each of his slashes, even with Cyrus’s poor use of spirit energy he still is able to overpower me.
As we continue to clash the room starts to shake and break apart, but I start to lose as his blows become stronger and stronger. Gripping my sword tighter I bring out as much strength as I can and continue to fight, this causes the room to break even more as we clash.
Yet the strength of Cyrus’s legacy is still overpowering me. Cyrus bringing his sword to his left strikes me with a sweeping slash, so I put my sword to block it and am sent flying into a wall at a ridiculous speed.
As I lie in the wall my mind goes crazy. HOW, HOW IS HE DOING THIS?
19 years ago
Continent: Dragon continent of Avesta
Location: Dragon country of Nirvana; city of Damavand
My earliest memory, no, my most important memory is when I saw my brother fall.
Running over to him, I say, “Cyrus I am coming.”
“PARIBANOU!” I hear my mother shout. “He is the son of the monarch of this city, he should be able to walk on his own two feet, so let him get up by himself!”
In front of me, Cyrus tries to stand up and walk but trips and falls down again.
“Again!” My mother shouts.
Running over to my mother, I say, “Mother he cannot do it by himself, so please let me go help him walk like usual.”
“Hush child, you know not what you speak.”
Like a brat, I complained and said, “Mother please stop this!!”
Angered, my mother raises her left hand and slaps me, saying, “Disobedience will not be tolerated, Pari.”
As tears form in my eyes, I am picked up by my father who says, “Don’t cry now my daughter, you’re mother meant no harm.”
“But Cyrus can’t do this by himself, and every time he falls, he hurts himself since his scales haven’t come in. I don’t want him to be in pain.”
“You’re mother is aware of that but right now she is trying to destroy a monster in the making.”
“A monster?”
“You might not understand this now, but Pari remembers this, Cyrus should be able to stand on his own two feet.”
The day continued on as my mother watch over Cyrus as he repeatedly failed to stand up, and as my mother repeatedly told him to keep trying, and eventually the sun set, and my mother and father went back inside with me.
As we enter the house, my mom screams, “If you want to return to the house, you better do it on your own two feet.”
After dinner is served for me and my parents they go to their rooms as I go to mine, but unable to sleep I look out my window to see that Cyrus has gotten bloodier.
So, I grab some cloth and head outside. Walking up to a bloody Cyrus on the ground, I say, “Cyrus are you ok!?”
“S-S-S-Sister!” He mumbles on the ground.
Taking the cloth in my hands I wrap up Cyrus’s wounds and say, “I knew this was too dangerous for you to do.”
As I wrap him, Cyrus says, “S-S-S-Sorr-r-r-ry,” With tears falling from his eyes.
Looking at his cute little face, I hug him and say, “Don’t apologize, Mother and father are crazy to be mean to this adorable little creature.”
“I l-l-love you, sister!”
With utter elation, I hug Cyrus tighter and rub my cheek against him saying, “I love you too!!!” As we hug the ground breaks around us.
Getting up I say, “Don’t worry Cyrus I am going to go give mother and father a talking too.” At full speed I run inside the house, then head towards my mother and father's room.
When I reach the door, I burst straight through and say, “Please reconsider!!!”
But to my horror I see both of my parents laying on the floor surrounded by feathers, and out of their bodies, I see blood. Running over to them I say, “Mother, father!”
But as I touch their bodies, I instantly realise they are dead. So, I cry my heart out over their bodies.
-Break-
Later that night the elders of our city came to check on the scene that had just taken place.
In my arms, I hold Cyrus as I tremble and wait for the elders to come out. When I finally see them leave my house, I run up to them and say, “What happened?”
The eldest dragon there, Asha says, “The rest of you go home as I talk to her.”
With the rest of the elders leaving he says, “It seems your parents were murdered.”
“Of course, there were, but by whom, where is the traitor scum that has snuck into Damavand and has slain its monarch.”
“It was no dragon that has done this, the smell was human.”
“A human?”
“Yes, it has been centuries since I have smelled one, but I can guarantee what I smelt had the whiff of a human.”
“Where can I find this lower lifeform!!”
“They were able to sneak in her without being noticed so I am sure they are long gone, and right now you have much more important things to deal with than revenge.”
“What are you on about, the killer of my parents is still out there!!”
“While it is a tragedy that Cambyses and Mandana were slain, the true enemy you face are the people of Damavand, since when word spread that you’re parents were killed by a human the damage to the Damavand name will be irreparable.”