The Rising Dragon

Chapter 2

This morning I wake up with a new purpose, I want to find more about what I am. It is easy these days to sneak out of the house since nobody is home. I know I can't sit still until I find more information on this matter, if I shift again I want to at least know how to change back or how to control myself in that shape. If I accidentally hurt or kill someone innocent, I would not be able to forgive myself.

Interesting. I can't seem to find much information on this matter. Every book I read just seems fictional, none of them is about the heritage of dragons or what we can do. I don't know if I will ever find a book about it and that is understandable when dragons are supposed to be just fictional creatures.

I have never questioned what other creatures there are out there other than human. It has never been necessary to question anything since we have been learning since we were little that we are superior and that the fictional things we watch on tv are just fictional.

Maybe I can find a book about it in a bigger library than my local one, which has just a few selected books. My jacket and keys feel heavy in my hands today. The nervous feeling in my body is staying with me throughout the whole ride to the library. I don't know why I am so nervous, it's not like anything can surprise me too much now or I hope so. I want to think that I am ready to find out about my heritage, but there is a crippling feeling inside my stomach that is making me this way.

I arrive at the library. Inside a receptionist is sitting behind a desk. It doesn't look like there are a lot of people in the library, since the receptionist is just sitting behind the desk. I walk to the section about mythical creatures. Here there are both fictional and non-fictional books about dragons.

Sitting here trying to find a good book on the topic is hard. It would have been easier if there was someone to guide me through this. But I have no one other than a few relatives that do not want to acknowledge me. My parents died a few years back in a car accident. They died on impact, so there was no chance of even trying to save them. At least I can sleep at night knowing that they did not suffer too much. But I can't cry about this now, I have to find answers right now and not look into the past.

I start looking over all the options when my eye falls on one particular non-fictional book. I have a feeling that this book has the answers that I am looking for. I open the book and start to read. Dragons can of course fly which is not a hidden feature. Another feature is telepathic communication. But some dragons have powers that are not common. That can be like invisibility and time traveling.

The most common color of a dragon is black or brown. That is the color of a big percent of the dragon realm. The color gold is mentioned one time, but it is like the page for the color is ripped out. There is nothing written about it other than it is not common to have a color like that.

Who would do such a thing as ripping a page out of a book? It must have been an important page. Without that page, I can't find out more about my dragon form. Like why the color gold is ripped out when all the other colors are perfectly in the book. When reading I found out that the dragon realm has a kingdom. Maybe I can contact their adviser about the book and the color gold.

Maybe they were trying to lure me in and put me in a cage, like an animal or maybe they were trying to protect me from someone. But if they were trying to protect me, why would they not have kept an eye on me. Who says if I would even have found the right book about dragons when there is a medium selection of books related to dragons?

But why would anyone have any interest in me? All my life I have always been the worst at everything, like studying or sport, in sports I would always get picked last. Believe me, if they could fully ignore me at school they would, but some teachers force them to treat me nice, but that is rare. It will usually be the same teacher or if some teachers are absent there is a substitute in their place, and they tend to be the nicer ones.

I am even more conflicted now on what I should do, should I maybe risk my life or play it safe by keeping a distance from the palace. Even if I contact the palace who says that they even know more information about my dragon. It could be that they have lost the page in the paper a long time ago and then it would just be a waste of their time. What would the palace even look like in that kind of realm and what would the people be like?

His palms are sweaty. He is nervous about the situation of the kingdom. He keeps walking in circles to distract himself from the situation at hand. The new heir to the throne was supposed to arrive many years ago. But as if right now there has not arrived any heir. He is afraid that something maybe has happened to the queen. Never has a prophecy taken this long to fulfil, but this time it has already taken the prophecy 20 years to not even be fulfilled right now.

The Queen was supposed to fight in a Great War, but she was not there to aid the kingdom. Where the Queen is nobody knows. Even the seer could not see anything about the Queen. The only indication for a Queen was the prophecy many years ago. Some people have even started to question if the seer even saw a Queen, it could be that he had seen wrong or that he had mixed them somehow. It has never happened before but there always is a first time for everything in life. Some believe that maybe she doesn't even exist, maybe the kingdom has fallen to ashes and there is no saving grace left.