Legend of a Creature

About the Clans

There are stages in a clan, and as you grow, you become higher and more important. They are newborn, in training, full dragon, or tender. If you chose to be a full dragon, you can become a senior dragon, or you win the race when it comes around and become an Elder in training, then the Elder themselves.

A newborn is when you have hatched from an egg. You are a newborn until you reach the age of 100 years. It is not as long as it seems. During that time, you observe the older dragons, and decide what you want to be, a tender, or full dragon. An ‘in training’ is trained by the instructor to learn everything about all the clans, how to fight and to hunt, and learn their loyalties. Once an ‘in training’ reaches the age of 200 or 250, they become a full dragon. A full dragon fights and hunts for the clan. A full dragon will eventually have an ‘in training’ to teach, and then they are called, instructors. It is an honour to train an ‘in training’. A tender can only have one ‘in training’ in a lifetime, unless one dies, or switches roles. They are the healers of the clan. They cure you if you are sick, and heal your wounds if injured in battle and stuff like that.

The Waterclan eat fish, air clan eat mice, and birds, Earthclan eat only berries and plants, Darkclan eat just about anything, and we, the Fireclan eat deer that stray across our territory and other things like that (how all of our prey got in the sky we have no idea but we believe our ancestors, the angelic dragons put them here for us. Either way, we are thankful).

 Full dragons then become senior dragons, if they are old enough, experienced enough, and have a close relation to the Elder. I am a full dragon, and have trained one in training, named Bluewing, my fathers’ brothers’ daughter, who just turned 200.

 Tomorrow, the clans will announce whom they’re sending in for the race. I hope I’m chosen.

The Elder Dragon gathers with the senior dragons and they discuss who would be most likely to succeed. The senior dragons are the oldest, most experienced dragons in the clan besides the Elder his/herself. They are her friends as well as advisers, and they are too old to become Elder Dragons ‘in training’. Each clan chooses 5 dragons to compete, and they order them from the one they really want to compete to the least but only 3 get to compete. Then at the Meeting, where the clans get together and are allowed to develop friendships, the Elders say the name of the dragon they wish to compete, in that order, and they have the choice of accepting or declining.  It sounds like a complicated process, but its not. My mother speaks of it all the time. Now all I have to do is wait.