The Last Dragon Rider

Chapter 15

Scarlet's POV

My Grandma's eyes fluttered open. Waves of relief washed over me, to see my grandma alive and well meant so much to me. I couldn't lose her too, not like my father who gave into fear and turned his back against me. As for my mother, I'm not sure how she felt about me, so to have someone I can trust felt amazing.

"Scarlet?" My Grandma asks me. I nod."Did you do it did you save the others?"

All of the happiness I once felt was now gone and sadness took over. The other sick dragon riders were dead, and nothing could be done.

"I'm so sorry grandma." I say pausing for a moment to catch my breath and to blink back tears for the other dragon riders." I failed, I found it- I found the cure but there was only enough for one person."

I put my head in my hands.

"You could only save one person?" My grandmother says. I simply nod, and start to cry. My grandmother pulls me into a hug. It wasn't fair, it really wasn't. The way we live, the way we are treated every day you have to put up a fight. Sooner or later you'll get tired of fighting and there will be nothing left. I've learned that the life of a dragon rider will never end well, not as long as the society knows we're still breathing. I believe Aaron would leave us alone but I can't say the same for everyone else.

"Why did you save me?" my Grandmother begins.

" By the time I got back, the others... they were gone. You are the only family I left, I am not losing you too," I say wiping the tears from my face.

"What are we going to do now?" My grandmother asks me.

"I don't know."

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I loaded the last bag onto Embers back. Ember was all patched up and was doing much better. Every other dragon had recovered and was in flying condition. I looked around at the empty cave I once lived in. The other riders who weren't sick were on dragons ready to fly. We had buried the dead placing stones to mark them. I didn't personally know a lot of the dead, I'd only had a single conversation with Karen. I wish there something more I could have done.

We needed to get away from the society nothing good was in the future for us if we stayed. I had called all the dragons in the area to come to the cove. Soon hundreds of dragon had arrived. Once every last dragon had arrived we took off.

The setting sun made the sky a soft orange and pink color. The air was cool and the moon was beginning to rise along with the stars. The beautiful sky reminded me that there was still good in the world I needed to find it. Even in the dark, there are cracks that let the light in.

I didn't know where we were going. Somewhere where people didn't know about dragons and dragon riders if such a place existed. Where ever we were going I hoped that there we could find happiness. Things would never be the same that was for sure. Life wasn't going to be easy but I had everything I would ever want, Lexi, other riders, and dragons.

The uncertainty made me scared. I am leaving the place I grew up in the only place I have ever known. I might never see my parents again, I might never see a normal life again. But this is for the best, it's the best for everyone. Just think no more fighting, no more death.

Hundreds of dragons followed me and Ember at the front, all hoping to find the same thing, peace. As we soared off, I didn't look back.