A/N: Happy Week Late Easter everyone :) I'm really getting fast at writing these things aren't I? Anyways the next few chapters will mostly be focused around Bahamut. Bahamut is actually a name from mythology, it means "King of Dragons" I know it's a pretty weird name but whatever. The end of this chapter is pretty sad :P
I was in my kitchen at 5:06 in the morning looking for something to feed a tiny dragon. Honestly how much weirder can this get?! So far Bahamut has turned down peanut butter, apples, bread, pepporoni, cheese and yogurt. He told me he'd like to eat pork but I don't exactly have a pig sitting around ready to butcher. I grab some ham out of the meat drawer in my fridge and hope that's enough. I walk up to my room and almost scream.
"Yes little human boy I am a dragon" Bahamut says
"W-w-wow" Emile says "Julie why didn't you tell me you had a pet dragon"
"I err..I don't" I say "Your dreaming, this is a dream, go back to bed and you'll wake up"
Emile looks at me "I'm not an idiot"
"Yeah, which is why your mind told me to tell you" I say shrugging "So you don't look like an idiot"
Bahamut tilts his head to the side "Do you have ham"
"Yes" I reply "Now Emile go back to bed and you'll wake up"
Emile yawns "That makes sense, bye dream Julie"
"Bahamut you can't talk to my family" I hiss
"Why not?" Bahamut asks "Your brother is really nice, now give me some ham"
I hand the dragon the ham, he quickly eats it snorting like a pig as he does.
"If your a baby how do you know so much?" I ask "Like what ham is"
"I just took it from you" Bahamut replies with a shrug "I chose you as my person and that means we're best friends forever"
"A dragon is my BFF...Cool" I say grinning
"But I could only have hatched if you felt strong emotion" Bahamut replies "Love, Joy, anything, sadly enough your emotion just happened to be pain" the dragon looks down
"Can we not talk about that?" I ask, those words make me realize I'm talking to a dragon, a mythical reptile, a mythical flying reptile
"Sorry" Bahamut replies "This is good ham, can I have more?"
"Later, I don't want to risk you running into Emile again" I reply
"I like Emile" Bahamut says again
"Too bad" I reply "Emile will bring you into school for show and tell if he knows your real, you'll be taken by scientists or something and they'll do tests on you and you'll have to sleep in a tiny cold cage or you'll get disected"
"Okay fine no Emile" Bahamut says sadly
Bahamut was a horror to hide, he tried to talk to my Mom when I wouldn’t speak with her, even after I told him about what would happen if Emile sees him he tried talking to Emile and he wanted to eat all my ham every other hour. It was annoying but it was a good distraction from what happened yesterday.
“Julie can I please go outside?” Bahamut asks
“Not now” I reply “Remember scientists”
Bahamut cocked his head “What if I’m careful?”
"I don't think you have a careful" I reply rolling my eyes
"I can be careful" counters Bahamut
"I've been your 'best friend' for nearly 6 hours and all I've seen is insane recklessness that will get you into some serious trouble later" I reply
Bahamut pouts like a baby, which he technically is “Well at least I know when I have powers” he crosses his arms
“What?” I ask
“Focus all your energy into your hand” Bahamut says smugly
I do as he says, today can’t get much weirder anyways.
I was wrong. A blue light sort of like the light on Bahamut’s egg was shining out of my hand, my room suddenly got very cold.
“Oh my god what the heck?!” I exclaim
Bahamut gives me a smug expression “HA!”
"Wh-What the heck is that!?" I exclaim
"Your powers" Bahamut replies I can tell he's trying to sound mystical
I laugh “That’s awesome”
Bahamut nods “Duh, everything is awesome when you have a dragon”
That night I went to bed happy. Too bad it didn’t stay that way for long.
I was 8 years old and terrified. I was at the mall with my parents and brothers but I couldn’t find any of them anywhere. I remembered this memory, it was the first time I’d ever gotten scared. But this time no nice ladies came to help me. I was completely and utterly alone.
“Mommy! Daddy!” I sob
Nobody comes to my rescue.
I see Bahamut standing on one of the clothes racks motioning for me to come over to him, I grin, happy someone is going to help me, but the second I get over there Bahamut grows 50x his original size.
“YOU’RE A DISAPPOINTMENT!” Bahamut shouts, his every word feels like an earthquake “YOU THINK YOU DESERVE A DRAGON!?”
Bahamut fades and he’s replaced by Jerome.
“Julie I just want to be enemies” he says “I don’t like you as a person or a friend, get lost”
Suddenly I’m falling, down, down, down. I feel hot tears running down my face because I know I’m never going to stop falling. I’m going to be falling forever.
I wake up sweating and crying. Bahamut is asleep inside my pillow case.
It was just a dream I told myself
A little voice deep in my head reminds me how real it felt. Angry at my weakness over everything I run downstairs. To the living room. To do something I should have done a while ago. I take a picture, a picture I had always loved because it showed my entire family on it. I hold it high above my head and send it crashing to the ground. It’s funny. It cracks in all the right directions my family has split. Dad was cracked away from mom, Emile and I. All my brothers were cracked in their own separate cracks except Emile of course.
And my chest. Right where my heart should be was cracked in half.
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