Kingdom Of The Lost

Chapter 7

I wake. my eyes meet the small blue stars that seemed to dance on the rocky ceiling above me. I am floating on water, my hands and legs out so I will float. I blink to get the rest of the water out of my eyes and stand in the waist length, shallow water. shivering I look around, then start having a coughing fit, of trying to get the rest of the water out of my lungs. I didn't drown? that's great. I don't know where I am, what time it is, nor where I am supposed to go to get out of this strangely beautiful cave with odd blue rocks that looked like stars at the top.

as soon I stand, my eyes focus on a glow in the water. my heart starts pumping. is there something else alive and in the water? I panic, but I cant tear my eyes from the strange odd light coming from the middle of the room. the tug in my gut starts up again, and is pulling me towards the glow. I wade through the waist deep water towards the bright light, and stand about a meter away.

a strange pedestal emerges from the ground, water spilling from a strange egg that was on the pedestal. the strange blue glow came from a pure black egg, a blue aura surrounded it. the pedestal was covered in silver and some carving of familiar carvings ive seen before. the dragon carvings. but the weirdest part was that it had the name Alexa, scribbled across the front. I shiver. im Alexa... or am I Alo? im confused.

but then my mind clicked. the egg. the egg made this strange gut feeling and was puling me towards it. I self- consciously out stretches my hands to grab the egg that was no bigger that my hand. as soon as I touch it, blue swirls, like the ones on the stones when I touched that stone that led to this slide, started swirling, coming from my touch and engulfing the now, slightly trembling egg.

"shh," I say unsurely. the egg seemed out of place. I didn't know what else to do, this is what my mother did when I was scared.

I awkwardly pet the egg. "It's alright," I say slightly embarrassed that I was talking to an egg, "don't be afraid."

the egg stopped trembling at once at the sound of my voice. instead, warm ripples course throughout it and onto my hands.

i stare at the egg, not noticing that the pedestal has emerged in the water again. suddenly, i hear cracking noises as a large crack forms on the middle of the egg.

the blue aura that the egg had, slowl danced onto my hands and the egg cracked a little more. Everytime the egg cracked, the aura climbed up my arms, and forearms, then shoulders. i non hesitantly started talking to the egg once more.

"don't be afraid to open up, little one, its alright, i wont hurt you," i coo in a soft voice.

the egg cracks in diiferent areas as pieces of the egg start to come off and sink into the water. the aura climbed onto my chest, and got closer and closer to my heart. Pieces of the egg fall carelessly into the strangely illuminated water, and after all the pieces fall and all is left is one large curved piece of the bottom, a small blue dragon is staring curiously at me. As the egg is done breaking, the aura swirls around me, illuminating something in my arm where it was burned earlier, and somethings heavy on the bottom of the burning sensation, and something heavy at the top of my head.

My jaw almost drops as I star back into those large and wide eyes, their gold colour absolutely placing me into a trance.

'Hello, Alexa,' a small and squeaky voice says in my head, and I almost drop the dragon.

'Hey! Watch it! I'm newly hatched! Please take care of me' the voice was back and the tiny dragon flapped its wings trying to stay in my hands, it's tiny cat like claws sink into my skin and I let out a yelp, pulling my hands back from the dragon, making it fall into the water, my hands bleeding.

'Help! Alexa! I can't swim!' I hear the small voice at the back of my mind.

'Alexa! I'm drowning! Help me!'