Legend of a Creature

The Day I Was Born

I only remember glimpses of that day, but I do know two things, one, it was the day the great race was announced, 500 years ahead of when it would be, and two, there was a horrible tornado, conjured up by the Airclan, when they were mad at us for a loss in a battle, that prophesied I would be great. The dragon race is the biggest thing in history, well to us anyways. Each clan of dragons has a leader, or Elder Dragon. They have this event only on one condition, when the current Elder dragon has lived for 10.000 years. Once a dragon has lived for 15.000 years, he dies, unless he falls from battle in his younger years. So they hold these events to select and Elder in Training, as we call it. To become one, you must be in between the ages of 300 and 700 years old, so they get enough training, must have trained one ‘in training’ at the least, and must be dedicated to their clan. So in other words you must be the Elder of the clan you were born in, not another. This year is the year of the Greater Great Race, when all five groups compete, when all the Elder Dragons are the same age. This happens once every 1,000,000 years.

There are five clans, fire, water, air, earth and dark. My friend Dafrio is in Darkclan. The clans live in peace most of the time, but occasionally there is a feud over something, and that becomes a battle.

I guess I should introduce myself.  I am Firis, a fire dragon. I am 500 years old and I am mostly yellow and orange with some red scales mixed in; a true fire dragon. Vixen, my mother is the Elder Dragon of our clan, and my father is just a normal dragon and he is very lucky. Not every dragon is the Elder’s mate.

The clans live, well, I guess on clouds in the sky. But there are trees for the Earthclan, streams, rivers, and a small sea for the Waterclan, open plains for the Airclan, the Fireclan are near the sun, where it is the warmest, and Darkclan live as far from the sun as possible. It’s like the world but above it. Great Island is below us. Our world is a secret. No one knows about us, and we intend to keep it that way.