The Forging Dragon [Book 1]

⚔️ Prologue ⚔️

The very Fabric of reality bended, as if waves in an ocean, as the air tore apart like a cloth, at the DragonSpine mountains. An orange ring formed out of nowhere, and tore the fabrics of two dimensions - connecting them with an unstable but  a massive portal. The orange boundaries of the non uniform shape of the border continuously wiggled around and expanded more and more.

Inside the portal was a cloaked man, with a baby in his left hand, and a giant golden key in his right hand. He sprinted through the portal seamlessly, letting all the dragons follow him. His lower face was covered by a rusty black mask, that seemed to be connected to his brown cloak, that looked like it was brought straight out of the medieval era - with knives, folded yellowish papers, and some short copper tubes held up in containers on the cloak that looked almost like a medieval war hoodie.

The man shoved the giant golden key in his left underarm, which was carrying the baby too. He threw himself on three limbs and started sprinting like a lame cheetah.

The giant portal was still open and dragons didn't stop coming through. The dragon hoard was a chaos. Some in their human form, running after Shez on their legs, to get the baby and the key he stole. Some dragons flying across the sky - some fascinated by the human world, and some going straight for Shez. 

Many Dragons got distracted by various things as they entered the portal, but many of them were still after the man with the baby - Shez. He ran as fast as he could and as far as possible. 

Eventually, a dragon landed in front of him. He quickly jumped to his two limbs and brought himself to a halt, with his feet slipping on the soil. Shez looked back at the portal. The dragons were still coming through. At last, a bulky dragon in his human form, that looked like a caveman entered the portal and the dragons stopped coming through - as if he was their leader.

Shez quickly closed the portal, but the caveman managed to enter just in time. The closing of the portal didn't take as much time as it did in opening it. It closed in matter of milliseconds, as if in the blink of an eye. It disappeared as if it was never there in the first place, leaving no marks or signs of it on the ground. 

Shez continued to run, He knew he had messed up by letting that caveman - Tyghall inside the portal. He came to a distance from the dragons, and had very little time before the dragons caught up to him. He again came to a sudden halt and thrusted his right palm on the ground.

"Etān rakta-pipāsān prāṇān phasayatu Hanumate" He muttered In Sanskrit.

A beam of orange light escaped from beneath his palm, and as he took his palm off the ground- that beam of light formed a beacon and slowly turned bluish white. The beam of the magic beacon went up high in the sky. Shez couldn't waste any more time. He quickly jumped back on his three limbs and continued to sprint.

The beacon stopped going up after it reached a certain height, and started expanding horizontally from that point. Shez reached the foot of a mountain, and again came to a halt. He realized that many dragons were scared away from the beacon and flew beyond the mountain range. The beacon was now forming a forcefield around the entire mountain range but it was slow. So slow that more than half of the dragons escaped the forcefield before it was even formed.

He now joined both of his palms and muttered "Jaṭāyuḥ - pakṣāḥ" In Sanskrit. His cloak already had giant two slits on his back. Wings popped out of exactly where the slits were, as if the slits were made just for the wings. 

These wings that popped out of Shez's back weren't ordinary dragon wings. These were wings of a giant eagle. He slowly flapped the wings and lifted himself off the ground. He pulled the key out of his left underarm and adjusted his grip on the baby he was holding.

He quickly flew out of the forcefield's radius to avoid getting trapped himself.

He landed outside and watched as the forcefield finally closed and trapped all the dragons inside it of eternity. He knew that the only way to get past the forcefield was a dead Senior Inferno Dragon's blood. He didn't want the senior inferno Dragon Tyghall to come in but he was sure they'll be trapped because Tyghall wouldn't sacrifice himself.

He let out a sigh of relief as he glanced at the baby. "Now I've gotta find a home for you, Daunt" he told the baby, who was crying in terror. The baby's face was also covered in blood. Shez never had experience with babies so he didn't know how to calm him down. All he could do was tolerate as the baby screamed out of his lungs.