Tales from the Moon: Dragon Legends

Alexandra wakes up in a field of flowers with no idea how she had gotten there, to her surprise she did not feel weak, bad, or in pain, it was as if all her wounds had disappeared, she considered that this is how the land of the dead should feel or at least a nearby place where the spirits went after they died, thanks to what she had learned from Ssaull, she knew that humans believed in a kind of peaceful place where souls could rest in peace, maybe that was what she had talked about with the dragon. She stands up and looks around, observing every flower, every animal, and every detail of the trees, everything seemed beautiful with natural beauty, it was the perfect place to rest a lifetime, without worry, without war, without fear. It was perfect for her, she walks until she finds a pond of natural water which she approaches to have a drink and there she sees her reflection, she sees a girl without armor, without wounds, or burns; It was her and it seemed that she had nothing on, far from noticing the fact that she was naked, the image of her in her reflection had her captivated, she seemed happy, something that she would never achieve in life. A strong white flash blinded the girl and she began to hear several voices speaking in strange languages, something was happening with her peaceful land alarming her, all she did was run towards an unknown direction, she had no idea where she was going, but she was trying to get away voices and be safe from possible danger.

In a room where the human lay, a human doctor spoke with some people evaluating the condition of the human, the doctor told the man who rescued her and the others that he could stabilize the girl and that she was no longer at mortal risk, it was lucky or miracle that the scouting and searching group had found her, thanks to that group's quick decision-making and mobility, the girl could go on living if she had had a life to live in the first place. When they had taken her to the patient room, the first thing the human's doctors noticed were several wounds that the human had, some quite recently due to blood loss, and others were already healed, seventy-five percent of her skin had second and first degree burns and she had noticed bruising in some areas, whatever had happened to the girl, she had certainly been through hell. The doctor speaking with the people pointed out that his main concern was the mental health of the young girl, she did not look older than eighteen years old and with all those injuries he could affirm with total security that she suffered a lot in a prolonged way, who could know what it would go through her head and how it should feel.

For now, they allowed the girl to rest and wait for her to wake up and then see her emotional and mental health, the doctor who treated her was the one who would personally stay to monitor her and make sure that she did not have anything to do with her while she recovered. It lasted two days and two nights, some people visited the site to see how the girl was and the doctor stayed awake without sleeping a bit, something caught her attention that girl and he wanted to be the first to talk to her when she woke up, for which was not far from the girl's room. By the third night when the doctor was about to succumb to her sleep until the man heard how the girl was waking up and how little by little she was getting up from her.

"Where am I? Where is this? And the field of flowers?"

The human spoke in the language of dragons, this surprised the doctor and only increased his curiosity towards the girl. He cautiously approaches the human and speaks in a language that she does not understand, but the girl reacts more alarmed when she sees him. The doctor tries to calm her down and be able to see her vital signs, but as soon as he put his hand on her to evaluate her pulse, the girl knocks him down by twisting his arm against her back doing a lot of damage to the doctor, Alexandra notices that she was semi-naked with bandages and barely what looked like a long shirt, she gets angrier about it.

"What did they do to me? Where are my things? Answer or I'll break your arm" she demanded, putting pressure on the doctor's arm with him letting out a cry and not being able to understand what the human was saying.

Due to the noises and the scream, two armed men enter with a nurse and Alexandra takes what looked like a mini knife and places it around the doctor's neck, one of the men points his gun at Alexandra ready to execute her, but the second man stops him and he lowers his gun, tells his partner to do the same. Alexandra notices that but she still does not lower her guard, the second man begins to speak in different languages that the human had never heard, first I speak in French, Portuguese, Spanish and finally English; Alexandra responds in English with what little she learned from Ssaull causing the subject to calm down.

"Don't be afraid, we're not going to hurt you, tell me. Are you American?" they ask calmly.

"No, I don't even ..... I know what it is" she answers with a certain problem in the pronunciation of some words.

"But you speak English, you must be of American parents or who speak mostly in English. Listen, if it is not too much to ask, please let go of Dr. Hosch's arm, we cannot allow our only doctor to pass something to him, please" Alexandra sees to the man who was under her and looks back at the one who was in front of her "I understand that you feel nervous and afraid, but you can trust us, yes, we are human like you and we can help you"

That man in front of Alexandra showed a trustworthy face and being another human and not a dragon, there was certain security, even so, if she was going to trust someone, human or dragon, first she needed to be armed and feel safe with the relic, in that she realizes that she did not have the relic in hand.

"Do you want me to trust you? Well, first I want my things .... all my things, don't do anything stupid or can I ... as humans say ... get mad" she demands.

"Sure, no problem" she looks at her partner next to her and he begins to speak in another language to order the partner to bring the girl's things, this did not please Alexandra.

"Hey! Speak in the same lengei .... lenguosi ... len ... len"

"Language?" Alexandra agrees "Don't worry, I promise you there are no tricks, it's just that he speaks French and he wouldn't understand either of us" the first subject goes to look for the girl's things to give back to him.

"Ack .... if it is not too much to ask .... you are lonely on my arm, you can keep threatening me with the scalpel, but let go of my arm please ..... please" the doctor spoke in English so that the girl could understand him.

"Please let go of his arm, that's no way to thank the man who healed you and took care of you for two whole days without sleep" mentions the subject in front of the girl.

"You helped me?" Alexandra asks the doctor.

"Yeah ... yeah, and I don't want to sound like you owe me something, but really... I feel like you're going to break my bone if we continue ..... like this" Alexandra with her sense of honor, she lets go of him. doctor and moves away from him releasing him, when she stands up she begins to feel weak falling to the ground, but the doctor supports her so that she does not hurt herself.

"Chief Roy help me get her to bed"

They both take the girl to bed to rest so she doesn't have to try too hard.

"If it's not too much to ask. What is your name?" asks the doctor.

"Alexandra, that's my name" she replies.

"Well Alexandra, welcome to your new home where you will not have to suffer anymore, now she just rests and doesn't worry, when you wake up you will see your things next to the bed"

Alexandra closes her eyes falling asleep in front of the two subjects, the doctor evaluated the pulse of the girl and saw that it was normal, she had only fainted, the man who was carrying Alexandra's things enters the room with the nurse wearing the armor, the chain and a sword, the nurse scolds Chief Roy for giving dangerous things to such a young girl, but the man points out that if they want to win the girl's trust, it was necessary to return her things so that she would feel safe with They just had to wait for her to hand it over to them once she realized she didn't need it anymore. The doctor whose name was Russman was amazed that the girl spoke the language of dragons perfectly, he did not understand the language of the magical and murderous lizards, but Alexandra seemed to understand it well and mastered it as if she had spoken with that language all her life.

"What do you think Dr.Russman? It seems that the girl has been through a lot like you said, it almost seemed that she was willing to kill to survive" Roy gives the doctor a cup of coffee which he gratefully receives.

"I must say that she does have strength, wow she submitted me too easily and I couldn't do anything to avoid it, at first I thought that she would not reason like us and that she would kill me without any remorse, but when she found out that I saved her life, That seemed to bring out the rational side of her, you saw how she released me and walked away from me. " the doctor takes a sip of coffee.

"Even so, she seems quite conflictive, we have met conflictive people because of the fear and uncertainty they get from being trapped in this strange land far from their homes, but she is different, she is the first I see a human who wears armor and the weapons of the dragons. " He takes out of his pocket the broken Shairum amulet "In general, the dragons that we have eliminated and stolen their things, carried this type of amulets, I do not know what the hell they did with a human, but we must be aware of what we can learn and meet our new friend"

The night passed and Alexandra dreamed of her mother and dragon friends, a part of her wanted to return to them, she did not want to separate or give up those dragons that she trusted and loved, but much of her was afraid, she was afraid that the day tomorrow they too would like to hurt her, after what happened with her aunt Tizzy, her trust with the dragons felt fragile right now. Those nightmares were too stressful and terrifying for her that she ended up waking up desperately, there she sees the same nurse from the night before.

"What are you doing?" Alexandra asks when she sees the nurse touching her sword.

The nurse reacts by jumping with Alexandra's question, she only asks again, but the nurse seems not to understand much of what Alexandra was saying, this only frustrated her a lot, she did not think she was the only human who did not speak English, she asked why humans could not use only one language as dragons did if some kingdoms had certain variants or different expressions, but in essence, everything was the same, shortly after Dr. Russman enters the room with a young boy who could be at the age of Alexandra.

"Oh! Doctor Russman, Buenos días" greets the nurse to the doctor.

"Buenos días señorita, muchas gracias por cuidar a la paciente, ya puedes descansar que yo me hare cargo ahora" the nurse smiles and leaves the room without problem.

"She doesn't speak English like the rest?" Alexandra asks the doctor.

"No dear, the lovely Miss. Laura does not speak English, she is a friendly Mexican who speaks Spanish, French and Italian. You will understand the rules of the language here" answers the doctor with joy and more encouragement in his voice. "By the way, miss, I introduce you to Marcus, this boy is one of the few humans in this camp that speaks dragon like you, so it will be easier for you to talk to others while you adapt and learn other languages," says the man to the young man who just says hi.

"Learn other languages? Why would I do that?" her reaction was expected by the doctor.

"This kind young man will bring you up to date as they walk around and get to know the place"

Note: Everything that is closed with '[ ]', means that the characters speak in dragon in the presence of those who do not speak it.

"[You speak the language of dragons]" Alexandra asked the boy.

"[Yes, I speak the language of dragons very well]" he replied smiling as he looked at her. "[Well when you're ready we'll go out]"

Alexandra took off her hospital clothes in front of the doctor and the boy to which they both stopped the girl pointing out the bathroom as the most appropriate place to change clothes, she just obeys without a problem.

After changing in the bathroom, both boys take a tour of the shelter considered the home of humans, Alexandra noticed several people of various colors, races and there were men and women of different sizes and ages. A feeling of joy invaded her heart at being able to meet more of her own and not feel alone in the world anymore.

"[It is incredible truth, as you can see, in this place many humans are living peacefully and without fear of dragons, instead, we thrive and grow despite our circumstances]" Marcus says with a cheerful voice.

"[I have to admit that when I saw the illustrations from New York, they looked very different from here]" says Alexandra as she noticed how many people looked at her and the children pointed at her, she did not understand those reactions of the people.

Marcus stops short and looks concerned at the girl whom she seemed to understand that she had said something strange to him.

"[Did you say, New York?]"

"[Yes, New York. It's what one of the signs here says]" Alexandra points to a sign that didn't say, New York, it was New Hope.

"[They are similar, but they are not the same]" he mentions correcting the human.

"[I know I don't speak much English, but I know how to read and recognize things when I see them]" Alexandra responds not wanting to accept her mistake, but the young man smiles kindly.

"New York, [is not the same as] New Hope, [they have the same first word, but the second word is different, with different meanings]" Alexandra felt embarrassed by her failure, it was evident that she needed to practice her English more Marcus, looking at the girl's downcast eyes, the young man decides to cheer her up with a rose.

"[Why are you giving me a flower?]" Alexandra asks the boy who stares at the girl strangely.

"[Usually this makes girls happy, they tend to accept it and smell it]"

"[Why or for what? Is it a healing plant or does it help you activate your senses better? What would be the purpose of giving a flower to someone just to smell it?] She asked with a look that denoted that she did not understand.

"[You know that it doesn't matter]" the young man throws the rose aside "[And tell me, Alexandra. Where do you come from?]" He asks as he invited Alexandra to eat in a small dining room to have a more comfortable conversation.

"[That's easy, I am from Shairum, it is a beach kingdom that loves the coasts and fishing. It is close to small towns and is a neighbor of the kingdom of Kurxiam, it is also the main allied kingdom of the kingdom of Morkhex, therefore, it is about of the five best kingdoms for all dragons who seek wonderful and good lives] "as he said all this, Marcus was left speechless at what the girl had said.

"[I think you did not understand me, I mean, what country do you belong to, from what they told me, you are not American, but you half speak the language. Maybe the people who taught you the language expected to be rescued by the Americans, Anyway. I speak English, Spanish, and a little French, and I am American, I am from the United States, more specifically I come from the city of high stakes and high stakes, Las Vegas] "says Marcus with a proud tone of his hometown. origin, but Alexandra seems not to be comfortable with the subject and he notices it "[Do not be ashamed if you come from a poor or rich country, you are going to learn that here we support each other and we are in solidarity with our colleagues, so tell me what country are you Alexandra] "asked the boy again with kindness.

Alexandra lets out a sigh with a certain melancholy, she could not answer that question, she did not know from which country she or hers was her parents since the girl could remember, she was always from Shairum.

"[I don't know, since I was a baby I was raised in Shairum by a dragon who was my mother, I don't know if my country was rich or poor, I'm not even sure if I was born in a human country in the first place]" she replied with a sincerity that the boy could notice and he understood better why Alexandra had that armor, those wounds and her command of the dragon language.

"[I'm sorry, I didn't know, I didn't think you would spend a lot of time with the dragons]" Marcus apologizes for having insisted on the question.

"[Don't worry, it wasn't that bad, at least I had fun training and learning with them]" she replies with a smile.

"Hey, you two!" They both turn to see the people who had spoken to them, this turned out to be a fairly muscular blond boy who approached them annoyed "What are they doing talking like those scaly monsters? And why does your friend dress to look like one?" the blond spoke.

"Hey Robert please don't bother, she's not very good at speaking our languages and the only way to talk to her is with the language of the dragons" Marcus answers coldly.

"So she is useless for our fight, if your little friend prefers to talk and dress like the enemy, then she is a traitor and we don't want her with us," said Robert, throwing Alexandra's food on the ground.

Although the girl wouldn't understand most of her words, she was able to recognize two words in particular 'Traitor' and 'Enemy', she didn't seem to mind that the guy threw food at her.

"What's your problem, Robert !?" Marcus rises from the table to confront the bully "Are you going to treat those who speak Dragonica with hatred and contempt just because they were forced to forget their language to learn those of their slavers and family assassins?" Marcus seemed annoyed with Robert for his indifferent attitude towards the dragons' victims.

Robert gives him a strong blow to the stomach taking the air out of Marcus and shortly after he pushes him to the ground, Alexandra seeing her new friend suffer because of the blond guy she gets angry looking angrily at the subject.

"If you're going to live here, you better start talking like us and looking like us. Take off your helmet and behave like a human!" I demand the subject as if he were the girl's boss.

She gets up from the table and obeys by removing her helmet, Robert and some of his friends are shocked to see the girl's burned, cut, and scarred face. Alexandra without allowing him to do or say something gives him a strong blow to the face causing him to spit out some teeth and lose consciousness, without saying anything takes her helmet and helps to lift her friend from the ground to take him away from the site to continue talking quietly in a more peaceful place.

On the outskirts of Shairum, Magarai was secretly meeting with Ssaull to ask her for an important favor, she could not trust anyone but that dragon, the irony was a cursed one and the oceanic dragon hated her with all her being, but if anyone could finding Alexandra and keeping her safe until they reunited was him.

"Thanks for coming Ssaull, I know this will be weird and you have every right to refuse if you decide to do so, but I need your help", she said with difficulty in her voice.

"Hey, not every day Magarai herself hires me for a secret and super important mission, but I assure you that this will not come cheap at all," he said with his usual smug smile.

"I will pay everything you want and more to see my daughter with me again" when he said that, Ssaull's eyes widened and he did not say any annoying comment "No matter what you want, I swear to you that I will pay it even if it takes the rest of my life, I just want you to locate Alexandra's whereabouts and bring her to the land of Rush, there we will start a new life far from everyone "each word only increased the curiosity and astonishment of the blue dragon.

"Magarai, you ..."

"I implore you Ssaull, find and protect before the next full moon, I know that I never treated you well and that I always told you that I would kill you, but now I am in front of you, placing all my faith and hope that you find and keep it safe, please I beg you "the dragon began to cry in front of him.

That Magarai released that weakness in front of him meant that she was truly desperate and how little Magarai cared what he thought when he saw her so vulnerable. The truth is that he did not blame her, when he heard the news of Alexandra and the search for her and her execution, he felt that history was repeating itself. With some tact, the dragon wipes the tears of his old rival and is a bit of an enemy.

"Don't cry, that's not proper for the strongest and most terrifying dragon in the world. I promise to look for Alexandra regardless of the difficulty or the risks and as a special offer, today this job will be free, but next time you ask me for something, I may not be so generous to you "he said encouragingly the dragon with a smile.

So Ssaull using the tracking spell locates the human and instructs his horses to take him to the location of the human, with the paths and shortcuts that Ssaull knew would arrive long before the full moon arrived. The time was not much, but it was nothing that the skeletal dragon could not handle, Magarai watches the dragon leave as she held a small amulet that her daughter had once made for her in the past, despite her loyalty to the kingdom. Her heart had achieved something more important than the honor of a Greater Dragon, which was to care for and love her daughter.