Fire and Ice

Prologue

Prologue

AMBER!! AMBER~!”

Someone was calling my name, but I can’t seem to find the person calling out.

I was standing in an open field, but something was different about this place. There were two satellites. And to make things more odd were the floating islands. I’m dreaming, I told myself. I think I’ve been watching too many animes. Because this kind of scenery only appeared, and are described in fiction books. Surely I’m dreaming.

As I was digging my memories where I had read or seen this beautiful place, I saw a woman walk out of the woods and into the clearing. A few seconds later a dragon hovered above and then landed gracefully in front of the woman. As it landed on its feet however, my jaw dropped as the dragon was now a human man. The dragon-turned-man kissed the woman on the lips. I had concluded based on their actions that they where lovers. As I was shaking away the weirdness of the dream, the images shifted and I was now in a room, again with the couple.

The woman was in labor and another woman was helping her deliver her baby safely out to the world. When the baby, or should I say babies where finally out safely, a small burn on the twins’ hands appeared and a mark that looked like a curled up dragon was now visible on the twins’ right hands.

I looked a t my own right hand and saw that I had the same mark as the twins had. But the couple was not my parents, and I definitely have no twin brother. This is just a dream, I reminded myself again. The images started to shift again. This time the house was on fire and the woman was standing in the corner while trying to protect the twins from a hooded figure.

“Give me the girl and I will spare your life.” The hooded figure started.

I can feel my temper rising and anger filled me as the hooded man try to pry the babies away from the mother and slap her on the face. I didn’t know why, but I wanted to save the woman and the babies from the unknown man.

A door like portal suddenly appeared and the mother threw the babies inside as soon as the man stabbed her on the stomach.

“NO!!” I shouted even though I knew that this was only a dream. But soon I felt myself burn as fire escaped my body and grew bigger.

I opened my eyes and found myself staring at a white ceiling. I looked around to try and find out where I am and saw only white. White walls, white ceiling, white bed, and white pillow. I finally concluded that I must be in a hospital. But, why? I looked at my arm to find it wrapped in a bandage. A nurse entered to stop my train of thoughts and went to the foot of my bed and looked at a clipboard attached to my bed.

“How are you feeling?” the nurse started.

“I’m fine, I guess.” I replied. I can’t remember what happened and how I got here so I just asked her.

“Excuse me, but can you tell me what happened to me? I can’t remember anything and how I got these injuries” I motioned to my bandaged arm to show her.

I saw pity flash her eyes but that soon disappeared as she showed me a small smile. “Your house burned down a couple of days ago. You caught a minor burn on your arms but nothing to worry about.”

“Oh” I replied as panic surged through me as I thought about my family’s safety.

“What about my family? Are they okay? Where are they?” I asked her a little bit too fast.

“I think your mother will be here later. She’ll answer all your questions. You still need to take a rest, so I’ll leave you now.” She left with a sad smile on her as she looked at me.

I can’t get rid of the feeling that something must have happened and I was the cause of it. The images of the dream I just had flashed through my head like a movie on replay. I hope everyone’s alright, I thought to myself as sleep overtook me.