Chapter 1: A New World

Firebase Raptor, Vietnam

0:800 March 1965

We finally were here from the long helicopter ride. Once we arrived in Vietnam at an airfield we were escorted into Hueys and taken on a long ride to the Firebase. I had heard stories of guys getting shot down before they even got to a base or saw combat and I was scared of that. Warfare had changed so much from my fathers stories serving in the army during ww2 or grandpa's stories serving in the trenches of ww1. I looked over my shoulder and saw some ammo. We were to resupply the base and deploy at it. Airborne school had been hell but I had gotten through it. Eventually the huey landed and we were told to get out. I hopped out, hefted my m16’s shoulder strap over my shoulder and made sure my m1911 was in its holster then grabbed two ammo bags and started walking to the barracks. I noticed a sudden white light and saw some floating orb there. I tentatively reached out to touch it. It felt warm and soft like a pillow. Suddenly it emitted a bright flash and everything went black. 

???,Earth?

0:800 March 1965

When I came to, I was on the ground in some field. I slowly got up and looked around and saw the ammo bags. I checked my shoulder and holster. Both the m16 and m1911 were the same for all my other gears including a picture I kept. I readjusted my helmet, picked up the bag and looked at my compass. It was going haywire pointing in random directions. I just started walking around trying to find the base. 

2 Weeks later

It was pouring wet fat droplets of ice cold rain. My whole body felt like a popsicle. If it got any colder I would be an Alex Sharpe ice sculpture. My rations were near empty, same with my water. I didn't trust the water here to be clean. I'm still not sure where it is but it's not Earth. I saw 3 moons on my first night. I had always been a sci-fi fan and the thought of traveling to a new world always sounded cool. But now that I had done it I wanted to go back to boot camp and hear the drill sergeant yell at me one more time. I was up in a tree using the leaves as makeshift cover. Suddenly I heard bushes and what sounded like heavy footsteps trample the underbrush below me. I looked down and my eyes widened in horror. A big bright blue dragon was just gathering berries. I was scared out of my mind that it looked like it could swallow me whole. Right as I shifted back in cover I heard the branch I was on crack. Then it broke and I fell right  in front of the dragon. I immediately backed up against the tree and started praying. It had originally growled but when I started praying it stopped. I looked past my cross and saw it with wide eyes. Then I heard the weirdest thing, english. “You speak dragon?” It asked me. “My kind calls it english but that works” I told him. “Please don't eat me,” I begged. “Relax, I don't eat scavengers,” He told me. “Oh” I said then tried to get up. I felt a sharp pain in my leg and fell back down. I rolled up my pant leg and saw my knee was bent in a weird shape. I immediately put my hands together and felt how my knee was broken. I felt it was just up to much so If I shoved it down it should go back in place. I put my hands on my knee and took in a huge gulp of air and prepared for the pain. Then I shoved it down with all my strength. I let out a loud scream then started crying. “You're coming with me, if you don't another dragon's gonna eat you.” “You could hear that cream for a mile probably”. The dragon told me. I tried to protest but it just grabbed my vest and took off. Eventually we reached a cave where it put me down and pushed a boulder, revealing a cave entrance. He gathered up the fish and berries and grabbed me then went into the cave. He dropped me on the ground surprisingly gently then turned around and sealed up the cave again with the boulder. “That you Webs!?” I heard a female voice shout and saw a giant red dragon. She took a while to notice me but when she did she seemed to do a double take. “Why is there a scavenger in the cave!’ She roared. “He broke his knee and I felt bad for him, he would’ve died if I hadn't rescued him.” “Scavenger where?” I heard a young voice say. “Let me see, let me see!” I heard another say. I heard a bunch of footsteps heading straight to me and eventually stopped. There were five young dragon's in front of me all staring at me like you might stare at a tv in a window display. “Can we keep it Kestrel please”  a gold colored one said. “I am not an it and I'm not someone you can just keep so if you don't mind I'm leaving.” I turned around after saying that, saw the boulder then looked at the blue dragon who brought me here. “What's your name?” I asked. “Webs” He replied. “So Webs could you let me leave.” “Right as I said that I was tackled to the ground. I flipped onto my back and saw the gold colored one who tackled me. “Please don't leave, we've never met scavengers before let alone one who can speak dragon so could you please stay?” She asked. “Im a soldier kid not some guy who's gonna live with a fucking Dragon!” I yelled back. “What's the name of this continent Webs?” I asked him. “We call this continent Pyrrhia” He responded. “Do you have a map?” I asked him. “We have a couple but you can't leave, you will die.” He told me. “This cave is near the Skywing kingdom and they will kill you” He told me. “Fine, I will stay,” I told him. “YAY a new friend” I heard the gold dragon yell then hug me. “Please get off me, you are cutting off my air flow” I told her. She rolled over then got up and looked at Webs. “What are we gonna feed him?” She asked him. “Fish and berries I guess,” Webs replied. “That's okay with you?” She asked me. “Yeah, might need a fire to cook it though, say what are your guys names?” I asked. “Well you've met Webs he's a seawing the big red dragon is Kestrel she's a skywing, IM sunny a sandwing, the brown one is Clay he's a mudwing, The black one Is Starflight he's a Nightwing, the blue one is Tsunami she's a Seawing, and the Rainbow one is Glory she's a Rainwing. What's your name?” Sunny asked me. “Alex Sharpe,” I told her. “You said you were military” The blue one, Tsunami asked. “Yeah US Military, 101st Ground division.” I told her. “Is that scavenger kingdom?” Tsunami asked. “Sure, let's go with that,” I told her.

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Webs handed me a fish and some berries then gave some to everyone else. “Any of you think you can make me a fire if I don't eat the cooked fish I will get sick?’ I asked. “Sure” Clay said then literally BREATHED FIRE! Creating a hot flame which cooked my fish in 2 minutes.

After I ate everything I got my blanket from my bag and took off my helmet making sure my night vision goggles before putting it in a secure little nook in the wall then tried to use my backpack as a pillow. Emphasis on tried it didn't work at all and was painful. I'm guessing Sunny sensed my discomfort because she moved my backpack and let me rest my head on her. She was surprisingly warm which was a nice change to the cold wet grass as my previous pillow before being rescued. That was how I met the dragonets of destiny. We went through many hardships with me being forced to fight in the Skywing arena and almost freezing to death when talking with Blaze. I Fought with Moon against Darkstalker.I went with them to Pantala and beat the evil plant. So that's my story then but now it's time to learn what will happen along with me in the present.

2 Years After meeting the Dragonets of Destiny

Jade Mountain Academy, Pyrrhia

“Hi Alex” I looked down to see it was Kinkajou who had said that. “Hey Kinkajou, how are you doing.?” I asked. “Really, really good me and some friends are gonna go fly around.” She told me. “Did you get permission to go?” I asked her. “Well I hoped you would say yes.” “Kinkajou, you know I don't have that authority” I told her. “Pretty, pretty please” She said while looking at me with those cute puppy eyes of hers. “All right but be back before dark.” I told her. “Thank you, thank you, thank you” She said before giving me a hug and flying off. “That Rainwing is something” I mumbled to myself before heading into the mountain to talk with Clay and Sunny about a potential little trip to take all the dragonets on. When I finally reached the founders office I heard arguing so I went in to break it up. I saw Clay and Sunny arguing which surprised me as they almost always agree with each other let alone argue. “Alright what's going on here?” I asked them. “We heard that queen snowfall was coming but we can't agree on whether that might interfere with the trip or not.” Clay said. “Well maybe we should invite her on the trip,” I suggested.”It might even be fun for her,” I added. “Snowfall having fun does not sound right at all” Sunny said. “Hey she's still pretty young so who knows?” I said. Right as I was about to add more the door burst open and Kinkajou entered the class. I say entered but it would be more realistic to say she burst through the door, tripped and fell right on her face. She got up surprisingly fast and looked at me with excitement. “Kinkajou didn't I just let you and your friends go explore outside?” I asked her. “I know, I know but we saw Scavengers, hundreds of them marching in formation and they had some kind of weird flag.” She said, “That doesn't make sense. I have gone exploring before and no Human settlements I know of have a red flag.” I said. “Clay and Sunny get Tsunami and Glory if possible. You know what maybe bring Starflight so Sunny doesnt get sad leaving him behind even though he won't be much use” I said. Once they all did that and we were outside I hopped on Clay and we followed Kinkajou to where she last saw the humans. When we got there we had to fly a bit more due to them not stopping. When we finally caught up to them I felt the blood leave my face and the only emotion I felt was fear. Kinkajou was right, there were hundreds of people there but they weren't the things I feared the most , it was what they traveled with. I only recognized two tanks from pictures I had seen of the prototypes the IS-7 and Object 269, the rest I wasn't familiar with. I also recognized the Shilka spaa vehicles and bmp-1s there seemed to be some that looked like btrs and bmps probably more recent versions. But the flag was what really scared me, the flag looked similar to the Soviet flag but instead of the hammer and sickle and star there was a sword aimed down with stars surrounding it in the middle of the flag(these guys are not the Soviet union they just use the same equipment). I started seeing some of the soldiers pointing up at us and I saw the Shilka take aim. “Guys let's get going” I said shakily. “While there are so many of them but they are all down there and are up here they can't reach us.” Sunny said. “That's not true Sunny” I said. Right as she opened her mouth I heard several loud bangs. The shilkas had fired warning shots. “What was that?” Sunny asked. “Our sign to get out of here.” I said. When we finally got back to Jade Mountain I grabbed my binoculars and flashlight and went to the top of the mountain. Once there I used my night vision binoculars to scan the sky praying for something american. Eventually I spotted a helicopter bearing the American flag. I had never seen one like that but it was heading in my direction so I took out my flashlight and started using it to speak in Morse code. “American helicopter?” I asked. It seemed to stop, probably wondering if I was the enemy. “US 101st Airborne, teleported to this world during the Vietnam war at Firebase Raptor my name is Alex Sharpe, I have been here for 2 years.” I replied. It hovered then tilted so I was facing its side. I could make out a side door opening then someone responded with a colored light. “Helo extract will arrive tomorrow morning at the mountain entrance, be there or we will leave you behind.” Then the helicopter left. After that I went back to the mountain and went to sleep.

End of Chapter 1