Chapter One

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Roses POV
*15 years ago*

I woke up to screaming and fighting from outside of my house. I got up out of my warm bed and quietly made my way to my door and peaked out into the hall; I didn't see anything so I hurriedly went to go to daddy's room. I barged in but to find him know where in sight. I'd figured he was downstairs or outside. I made my way to the stairs quickly but with caution. When I reached them I was about to head down when I heard voices. I stopped myself from going and saw that my dad was tied up to a chair and there were people around him. This one man was talking to daddy and it looked like he had a missing arm, he had long black braided hair, and he was holding a spear in his hand. To me he looked like the leader of the vikings.

"I will never tell you where she is." Daddy says bringing me back from staring at the man. "I'll keep her from you as long as I live." Daddy said glaring at the man.

"Well then I guess we'll just have to kill you and find her ourselves." The scary man said.

'Who are they talking about' I thought.

The scary man then lifted his spear and went to kill daddy with it. I stood up quickly and shouted for them to stop. The men turned towards me and the scary man pointed his spear at me.

"Get her."

As soon as he said that the other men ran towards me so I ran back to my room and shut the door and used a chair to block the door but I knew it wouldn't hold forever so I tried to think of a plan to escape. I looked at my window and then towards my sheets on my bed. I could hear the men banging in my door trying to get in. I quickly got my sheet and tired it to the end of my bed and brought the rest of it to the window. I threw it out the window and looked down. The sheet wasn't long enough to touch the ground but I knew I didn't have much time left. I looked back at the door and saw that it was being kicked down so I jumped out of the window and grabbed onto the sheets slowing my fall but not completely. When I reached the end of the sheet I wasn't slowed down enough so I lost my grip and landed on my arm. I got up slowly and checked my arm quickly and it looked red but other then that okay. I looked back up to the window and ran for the woods around my house ignoring the chaos going on around me. When I reached the woods I hid behind some trees and saw the men chasing me earlier looking out my window trying to find me. They went back inside and I lost sight of them. After a few minutes all the men including the scary one came outside. I tried to look for my dad amongst the men but I didn't see him.

He must still be inside the house, I thought.

The scary man looked like he was shouting at the men when he walked away with the men following. When I saw they were out of sight I waited a few more minutes before going back inside the house. What I saw inside though was not something a five year old should see. I saw my dad lying on the floor motionless with a pool of blood around him. I ran towards him crying and screaming. When I reached him I got on my knees and started to shake him.

"Daddy wake up. Please, this has to be a joke. You can't leave me daddy. Please wake up"

After a few minutes I gave up trying and leant my head on his chest crying. I don't know how long I was there for, it could of been a few minutes or maybe an hour or two. But after that time I stopped crying and just looked down at him before placing a kiss on his forehead. After that I got up and headed for the door, looking back at him one last time before going into the woods. I was walking for what felt like hours when I came across a cave with water inside. I made my way over to it and scooped some of the water into my hands and slowly drank it. Once I was finished I wiped my chin from where the water spilled out of my mouth and looked up to the sky and saw a shooting star.

Must be daddy watching above me, I thought.

Suddenly some branches snapped behind me which made me turn to the source of the noise; to find a dragon. I quickly stood up and grabbed a branch that was next to me on the ground and held it in front of me as if it were a weapon. The dragon looked to be a baby as it creeped its way towards me. I slowly lowered my branch not seeing a threat as I stared into its eyes and vice versa. The dragon stopped at a distance and started to sniff me. I dropped my branch and tried to bend down and get it and lost eye contact with the dragon. When I reached to grab the branch I looked back up and to my surprise the dragon was right in my face which made me scared and fall over backwards onto my but. The dragon didn't seemed phased and kept coming towards me as I tried to back up.

"Please don't hurt me." I said as if it could understand me.

I turned my head away and reached my hand out towards it so I don't see my last moments getting eaten by the dragon. But to my surprise I felt a scaly snout and looked back forward with wide eyes to see the dragons snout on my palm with its eyes shut. The dragon opened its eyes back up and I was staring into its big, purple, round eyes.

"Your not so bad, are you." I said tilting my head and watching it do the same.

I reached my hand out to go and pet the dragon, and when I scratched a bit under its chin it started to lick my hand and the dragon got a bit carried away and started to lick my face making me fall onto the ground on my back but with me laughing.

"Hey... stop, I'm going to be... covered with slobber." I said whilst trying to get the dragon to stop.

Eventually the dragon stopped and sat on its bottom, wagging its tail and with its tongue out, like a dog. I sat up and lent on my hands while I looked at the dragon.
"What should I name you?" I asked the dragon.

It just looked at me.

"Well first I need to know if your a girl or a boy! So stick your tongue out if your a girl and keep your tongue inside your mouth if your a boy." I said to the dragon. It looked at me for awhile but eventually stuck its tongue out meaning it's a girl.

"So your a girl." I said making the dragon bounce around before sitting back down where she was before. "Well now that we know your a girl we need to name you." I looked over the dragons scales and saw that she was a purple colour same with her eyes and that reminded me of a crystal I got from my dad but dropped in the ocean by accident. "How about Crystal?" I said to her.

She thought about it for awhile and started nodding her head looking at me with her tongue sticking out. I stood up and wiped my hands off on my pants and reached out to pet her and she leaned into my hand.

"How about we get away from this island girl?" She looked at me before purring into my hand so it took that as a yes. "Is it alright for me to climb on your back so we can fly away and try and find a home?" She nodded and I climbed on her back.

We took off and it only took me a few minuets to get the hang of it. We found an island that both of us liked and we stayed there. Every now and then we went out and saved dragons from hunters and they stayed on my island and saw me as their protector. I am now know as The Dragon Saviour by the hunters.

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