Chapter 3 : Birthday
Now I am eighteen years old. Today is actualy my birthday. Psidon promissed me a great gift, I'm very curious.
When I train I like to go deeper into the woods. There the air is clean and it smells like grass and the birds sing. Sometimes they stop singing and watch me train. But today it was different. They weren't singing at all, not even when I arrived. This is extremly strange. I took my sword out and I waited. I heard a noise coming from behind the bushes. I walked slowly towards it. I stepped carefully so that the thing that was hiding there wouldn't sense me. "It might be just a rabbit." I thought to myself. If that was the case, then I'd have something nice for lunch. I was now next to the bushes. I held my sword with one hand and with the other I moved the bushes away so that I could see what was in there. It was an egg. I started laughing cause it was ridiculous. I got so allarmed about an egg. I have to work on my skills. But the egg moved, and that's when I noticed it's size. It was too big for a normal chicken egg, or even for a goos egg. It was ivory and it was beautiful. I have to take it with me and show it to Psidon.
When I got to the house, the old man was sitting peacefully in his chair outside the house. He was enjoying the sun. I ran to him and showed him what I found. He looked surprised, and he never looks surprised. Something was definately off. He told me to sit down and listen carefully.
"This is a dragon egg." he said. "It was drawn by youre powers. You know, when the Dragon Slayers were living peacefully amongst people , they each had a dragon. The dragons usually stayed in a cave in the mountains, so no one would know they were there. Of course, the dragons went out, but only at night and they met with their masters. The Dragon Slayers can speak with the dragons and they form a bond greater than anything. But one day, the Dragon Slayers were sloppy and they got discovered by a young man, Dardan. He told them he wanted to be like them, and that if they made him one of them he wouldn't tell a soul about what he had just seen. But the Dragon Slayers had to tell him the truth: that he could never be one of them because you have to be born with it, you can't just get it. He didn't understand. He told the whole town and everybody believed him. The news spread fast. People got scared and started killing the dragons and the Dragon Slayers. That's why there are so few of them left. You are lucky you have a dragon because a dragon egg appears once ten years and there aren't enaugh for all the Dragon Slayers out there. There's one more thing you should know: the man that revealed the Dragon Slayers , Dardan , is now the ruler of these lands and if he gets word about a Dragon Slayer he kill's him, or in your case, her without any hesitation. That's why your parents had to give you away."
"But I thought I was a Dragon Slayer. So how come I get to have a dragon and form a bond with it?!"
"Dragon Slayers aren't people who kill the dragons, but people who protect them. The Slayer part is for the dragon's enemies. Guard this egg and love it with all your heart, cause this is a beautiful gift that you have to honor."
"Speaking of gifts, what did you want to give me for my birthday?"
Psidon let out a smirk and went inside. When he got out, he was carring my gift. It was another sword. It was just as beautiul, but at the same time fierce, as the last one he gave me. They were actualy the same,only this one had different marks on it.
"I guess I have to start lurning how to whiel them both at the same time." I laughed and so did Psidon. Now all I had to do was figure out what to do with the egg.
