The Forgotten One

Ch 1: He was an Accident!

Welcome to the world of Gaia, it is a world divided into six continents, the central, the norther, the easter, the wester, the Southern and the Dark continent. Each continent is populated by humans and other races of creatures that are native to their own continent. Elves in the west, Dwarves in the east Giants in the north and a special race of half humans half animal isolated in the baren tundra of the southern Continent. Despite the differences in the regions one thing was certain, there exists an energy within every living creature known as mana. There are many theories of how this energy came to be but one thing was common. It was an energy that could be used to perform wonders and miracles. Masters of mana could move mountains and part seas. Our story takes place in the central continent. In the kingdom of Dualia.
The was a ruckus in the maids quarters. All the maids were rushing to see what was going on. In the room was a woman laid in bed with a swollen stomach. She was constantly grunting and moaning form the pain of her condition. It was clear that she was pregnant and about to deliver her child but she was resisting. "Lydia, you have to push!" A large woman with her hair tied up int a bun, arms as thick as trunks and a mole on her chin shouted at her from between her legs. "No... I can still hold him in. I can not... I can not give birth to him here... They will kill him." The woman said as she moaned between every sentence. She looked at the ceiling as she could not belief how careless she had been. She was about to bare a child of the king her a commoner. All she could do was keep taking deep breathes. "Lydia, he was due six months ago. Any more will kill you!" The woman shouted at her. Lydia cried as she could no longer keep her child safe from the world. Her body pushed the baby out against her will. As the baby came out, he was bathed in a magical light that filled the room. The child giggled instead of cried as the woman helping with the deliver wrapped him in cloth. She brought the child towards the mother and as the light from the baby touched the mother. It seemed to heal the mother and all those who were in the room just before it faded. Lydia found new strength as she wanted to hold her child. "What will you name him?" The woman asked Lydia with tears in his eyes. It was a cruel task to give a name to a child destined to die the day he would be born. "I had thought of this as I carried him. His name shall be Victor..." She wrapped the baby in a blanket which she had made with his name stitched into it. She had used up all the strength given to her as her vision became blur and she passes out. "What is all the commotion?" A man asked as he struggled to get into the room with all the maids crowding him. Once he reached Lydia and head maid Heidi he wished he had not walked in. He wished he would have minded his business but sadly as a knight who had server the king before. He was familiar with the rules. He saw the child in the shake hands of head maid Heidi. "What is the meaning of this?" The man asked as he tried to be stern and authoritative but he was trembling just as much as she was. The child reached out to him as if begging him to help save his life. "Please Garson. He is just a child, she is just a child. She did not know any better. She does not deserve to witness such a traumatising thing." Garson a knight captain of the knights that patrolled the palace could barely hide the look of conflict on his face. "You better than anyone know the rules Heidi." He said as he walked to the child and carried him out of her hands. Victor's curly hair, the brown eyes and skin just like his mother but the intelligence of his father shone behind the eyes. "Garson, we can save this child... We can change things for him..." Heidi begged him to reconsider his action. Garson took the child with a look of regret on his face.

Dawn broke over the horizon as the light streamed into the room that had so much commotion last night. The maid had assisted in clearing up any and all evidence of the pregnancy. Lydia woke up to the bright light and smell of incents. The memories of last night came rushing to her and she began desperately looking for her child. Heidi and Garson watched her with a solemn look on their faces as the had to delivered the news. The events of the night prior. "We tried to save your son. We had talked about what to do if this happened again because nobles are pigs." Heidi said with anger in her words. "We used some chicken blood as we tried to fake out the royal knights and did our best to hide him away in the outside of the estate." Heidi said with tears filled eyes and the words struggles to leave her throat. "The royal hounds noses were better than we could have thought. They found where we hid him, where we tried to hid him. The basket was torn to shreds and everything was covered in blood and... Your son, Victor, was no where to be found." Lydia cried and hugged the two of them. She thanked them for risking their lives to give her son a chance to live. She had hope that he was still alive because the blanket she made for him was not found. They were fired from their positions in the palace but if they could do it again, they would have.
Meanwhile as Heidi had attempted to hid Victor and save him from his horrible faith. The blood red eyes of a monstrous figure watched until she left. The monstrous figure then rose to tower over the tree tops as it approached the basked whose contents intrigued the creature. It opened the basket and looked in to find a child. Its snorted steaming out of its nose and unto the child to show its disappointment of not finding human food. Its lizard like eyes glared at Victor as it could sense a type of intelligence that should not have been in a child so young. Victor held out his hand to touch the snout of the beast. The creature polymorphed into a robbed human with silver hair and a woman's face. "Humans truly are strange. Most of them do not abandon their children at such a young age... while I have seen it happen before..." She tried to leave and feel indifferent about this human child but Victor had grabbed onto her robe. "That is platinum scaled robe!" She said turn and snapping at the child but he looked so cute she could not stay made at him. She was now getting curious what if she borrowed the child for a bit. For research, that was her excuse. "You will be my test subject! yes, I will call it the life cycle of a human..." The dragon frowned as Victor held on to her robe. She picked the child up with her tail and held him to up side down. The blanket fell out from around him revealing a naked baby. Victor clapped as he was having fun. She growled as she looked scanned the forest to find something similar to replace the baby with. A rabbit which was too curious and came out to look at what was going on. She let go of Victor and with blinding speed grabbed the rabbit and caught Victor before he touched the ground. She put the rabbit in the basket after paralysing it from the neck down. It looked just the way she found it except for the blanket with his name on it. "So Victor, you and I are about to enter the world of dragons and mystical creatures. Brace yourself, your life has just gotten a hundred time more interesting." The woman then wandered into the forest with baby Victor. "by the way, I am Paragon, the platinum dragon." She said with a skip to her step