Tales from the Moon: Dragon Legends

In a small treehouse in a green forest full of peaceful and relaxing natural life, Rophttys was gazing up at the sky meditating on her encounter with Alexandra. It had been a long time since he met that curious girl who preferred to be with dragons than with other humans, she felt strange, there was something about Alexandra that reminded her of herself.

"Hello, little sister. Long time no see" Ssaull greets the dragon who was watching him from the top.

"Don't tell me like that, you know I'm still upset with you" she responded aggressively.

"Come on Rophttys" he approaches flying to the top, but the dragon keeps him at a distance with his tail ", you know I had no choice, if I didn't, you would be dead, everything I did was for you," he said with something of sadness the blue dragon.

The green dragon had an expression that combined sadness and fury against that dragon., she was still upset with him, Rophttys knew well that the dragon always had the best intentions with her, but even so, everything seemed quite unfair to her, if only they would have allowed choosing their destiny perhaps it would not suggest so much.

"Ah this, here" he hands his sister a manga "It's not much, but I was able to find the new chapter of your favorite manga. You don't know how much I had to suffer to get it hehe" she accepts the gift from her brother.

"Tell me. What do you need? Usually, you just leave the gifts and leave, if you're still here it's because you need me" she crosses her arm watching the dragon.

"Come on Ropttys, your older brother can't want to see you anymore and without ulterior motives" Ssaull tries to give a hug.

"Ssaully I know you, you only have the confidence to stay when you want something from me" he stops abruptly and ducks his ears.

"I need your help in a base that is between the broken kingdom of Rulliam and the path of the Berserker" Rophttys opens her eyes when she recognizes the place.

"Are you talking about New Hope?" she asks curiously. "What do you need from there?"

"Let's say an old friend of ours is there and I need to talk to her" Rophttys understood what he meant and both dragons left for Alexandra.

After the unpleasant moment in the cafeteria, Alexandra and Marcus arrive at the training area where several boys and girls were training in an obstacle course. Alexandra is excited to see that humans also spent their time training and becoming as strong as dragons, Marcus notices the look of joy from the girl and invites her to try the circuit.

"Hello Marcus and curious girl in armor" greets the instructor of the circuit "I see that you are interested in touring the circuit"

"Just her, I've had enough training with my father this morning" Marcus responds rejecting the idea.

"And you a little aspiring warrior?" he asks looking at Alexandra who understood that as an insult.

"[Marcus ask him for the best time]" she asks her friend.

"Lord Shin, which is the best, did he remember so far?"

"Oh, that's from Jhonas, his record is thirty minutes and twenty-three seconds" comments the instructor, and Marcus repeating it to Alexandra.

["Just that, pfff. Now I understand why they look at us as inferior creatures]" she looks at the instructor "I will!" she said defiantly.

"Ok, but don't you want to take off that armor? It looks too heavy to run." the man looks worried about the girl.

Alexandra ignores the instructor's concern and stands at the starting line waiting for the signal to start. The instructor gives her the signal and Alexandra runs with great speed, her agility was impressing every person who saw her run, she jumped without difficulty when she reached the rope, she climbed it with a lot of time to spare, many thought that the girl was not human because of how fast and agile she moved. The circuit did not seem to represent a great challenge for the young woman, when seeing her timer, the instructor realizes that her time was nineteen minutes and forty-three seconds.

"Time please," she asks, catching her breath.

"Ten ... nineteen minutes and forty-three seconds"

"That was amazing Alexandra and in that armor!" praises Marcus among other people.

["Damn I expected to have a time of fifteen minutes at least. Rotten scales, if it weren't for some injuries I would have finished sooner"]

"You can't be serious. How much is your brand?" Marcus translates the parts that Alexandra did not master of the language.

"Ten minutes and fifty seconds" responds by impressing everyone.

"It must be a joke, nobody has managed to cover a circuit like this in such a short time and we have athletic prodigies or combat veterans"

"It may be that it does not have difficult obstacles that can take time for sure," said one of the girls present, Alexandra only takes off her mask showing her face marked with the wounds of battles and experiences, everyone let out a sigh of astonishment.

"[Marcus please tell them that my training consisted of running, sword fighting, receiving boiling water blows, flares of fires and gusts of winds, I have been stabbed, beaten more times than I remember, they have made me carry heavyweights, I did not eat for a long time to endure the famine, I have been shot with arrows and I have had to fight against more than one warrior at the same time. All this while I was growing up] "

Marcus had not translated at the time, he was shocked by everything the girl had told him to translate, it was crazy everything that Alexandra had gone through, he questioned the morality of the human camp that he should have to reach a girl like that. Some of the boys who mastered the dragon language could understand the girl perfectly, this only left Marcus like the rest too surprised by the misfortune that Alexandra had to live. Marcus takes the girl's hand and takes her away from the gazes and words of all those who could not stop looking at her.

["How was your time here?"] He asked, looking worried about the girl.

["Well at first it was happy and calm, then it was hard when I was eight years old where it started my training and mock fights and it became much worse when I reached fifteen when I started to be a warrior looking for a place among guilds with dragons and finally it only got more disastrous when I had to kill my aunt and all the dragons started hunting me] "

"[Where were the other people in your camp or group?]" He asked the girl, although he already imagined the answer that they were all dead and that Alexandra would somehow be saved thanks to the sacrifice of those people.

"[I never met another human, well it was until I got here.]" She smiles when she sees him "[You are the first humans I have had the opportunity to meet in my seventeen years of lives haha]"

"[Alexandra. How did you survive so many years?]" Alexandra looks at Marcus before answering the question, the girl remembers how she had managed to live a good life at the beginning with the few dragons who had accepted and supported her.

"[Not all dragons are bad. Some are good and as I told you before, an oceanic dragon raised me as her daughter, she was the only mother I had and before arriving here, she fought and did everything to protect me] "He responds sadly at not being able to see the female of the oceanic race that was his mother.

"[If you told me that before, but I find it hard to believe that a dragon not only protected you but raised and cared for you for seventeen years]" he responds in amazement.

"[I don't blame you for seeing it that way, maybe I would think the same way as you if I hadn't met the good dragons that I hold dear in my memory and heart.]"

Marcus looks with some disgust at Alexandra's comment, dragons were cruel, ruthless, bloodthirsty creatures and they were not good at all like humans, they killed and tortured the human species just because for them, humans were inferior creatures that did not deserve to live for being weak and pathetic beings from the perspective of those creatures with scales full of pride and superiority. He could not conceive the idea of a dragon developing a maternal instinct for a human and even if he did develop a maternal instinct that lasted a long time, he could only imagine that he wanted to experiment or play until he got bored of one, all because he had lost to their mother because of the dragons who held them captive on a farm where they raised them as pigs and then cooked them, for that they were the only thing humans served for dragons.

"[I suppose you lost someone dear to the fault of a dragon. Sorry, I think it's a sensitive issue]" she gives him some space by taking a few steps away from him, he only hides his pain with a carefree and gentle smile.

"[It was four years ago, we lived on a horrible farm in a city called Morkhex being their livestock and food. Until one day some skeletal dragons caused a kind of chaos and the few who were not cooked were able to escape, we were able to take advantage of everything that commotion to flee from there my father and me along with several families, it hurts that my mother will never see her again] "he said with a pain in his voice that he had difficulty hiding with his smile.

Alexandra looks at Marcus in horror, all this time there were humans in Morkhex whom she could have met, made friends, and had a human family, but the dragons just wanted to fill their stomachs with them, she couldn't look kindly at most of them. dragons for those behaviors, she wanted to believe in the few kind-hearted dragons she knew, but most cruel dragons made it difficult.

A guy in a military suit was walking in the direction of Alexandra and Marcus, that man tells the boy that they should bring Alexandra to an area where two dragons were looking for her, this was unexpected for them because she thought that the humans of New York they hated dragons and didn't think they were capable of interacting with them. Marcus answered that some of the people have some confidence in some dragons because according to their stories and experiences, those dragons were good as well as Alexandra did and therefore they are more open to communicating with some, even so, to Despite these trusts, no dragon knew the location of their camp, none except a green dragon of the female skeletal race and with a strange tousled and curly hair, Alexandra recognizes that the dragon that Marcus described was Rophttys, to which she runs excited where the dragon was, Marcus went to accompany her out of curiosity.

Alexandra and Marcus with the soldier leave the camp, this made Alexandra nervous until a scientist explains that this was a standard procedure to keep the dragons far enough from the heart of the camps, in the middle of the road Alexandra sees several guard posts and areas controlled to repel any threat from outside, she realized that Camp New York was bigger than she thought. It was a beast lizard ride that lasted between forty minutes to an hour showing that they wanted the dragons away from the main camp. While they were walking along the way, the scientist showed interest in Alexandra, it was the first time that Rophttys showed interest in a human being and a very specific one, between words by words, Alexandra discovered that Ssaull was accompanying her, this news made her rejoice, This was a strange reaction that everyone who accompanied the girl did not stop looking at her with some oddity, she notices it, but does not say anything, with her training she knew that this was a sign that she should act with caution so as not to be in danger.

"[Alexandra !!]" they both yelled happily when they saw Alexandra.

"[Ssaull and Rophttys, by mother Desthy what a joy to see them]" she runs to hug them and they only respond with a hug too, this was certainly something strange and uncomfortable for those who saw the scene, Marcus felt like hitting them both dragons, but he remained in control.

"Thank you very much gentlemen, we appreciate your kindness,"

Ssaull expressed gratefully speaking in English so that they would understand him, those present look attentively at the dragon speaking one of the human languages with great ease in its pronunciation.

Rophttys, Ssaull, and Alexandra along with the humans went to a small tent to be able to talk more comfortably and find out the true intentions of the two dragons, Alexandra was just curious and happy to see some old friends, despite all that It had happened to her recently in Shairum, she still had affection and trust in those dragons that have saved her life and in the case of Rophttys in someone who could understand her.