Drakon: Book 1

Chapter 1

My name is Drakon, I was 11 years old, I was a very different boy. I didn't really have any parents, I've been an orphan all my life. I've been made fun of by a lot of the kids in my church, a lot of them called me weird and an alien because of my name. I lived in a small room in the church it was kind of ragged with the wallpaper torn in places, stains on the walls. Even the floor had some cracks in the wood, but it was better than nothing I guess. At least the nuns that took care of us orphans gave us new beds so we had something nice and cozy to sleep on at least. It was December 16th, 1991. I got woken up by one of the orphans, "Hey, Drakon. You want to fit into this orphanage right? Well follow me, there are some buds of mine outside waiting for you." I couldn't recognize his face, but I recognized his voice. It was Malakai, one of the leaders of the orphans. He wasn't much older than me, he was probably 14 ½ years old. I said with a cautious tone "Umm, ok. Are you sure that the nuns will let us go?". Malakai responded with, "Oh yeah they said it'd be ok, come on pal". I agreed with him and got out of bed and followed him outside. We walked downstairs through the church quietly, we opened up the door quietly as it creaked every now and then. I was the last one out of the church and I made sure we were all out before I closed the door. Me and Malakai meet up with the other kids, Ivan, Andy, Adam, and Rob. Malakai stood behind me and pushed me into the star that was made on the ground by all the other orphan's blood. I was so paralyzed by all the blood, I just stood still while they formed an upside down star. Once they started chanting the blood started to glow and go inside my skin. I fell on the ground screaming as they chanted louder, my skin started to get more buff and my bones started to break to form new ones. My whole body started to fall apart, soon I became a blob, then I started getting bigger and bigger. I started growing wings and growing dark gray scales as they grew darker they became black. I was so overwhelmed by all this that I passed out. I woke up and I was a dragon with long black scales, I had long wings and a very strong spiky head. I also had a fire in my stomach that almost felt normal. I got up and looked at myself and found this both amazing, but scary. I look around and I don't see any of the kids here, I wonder where they went. I looked through the windows and saw nothing, I saw not even the nuns inside. It was time to start a journey to find the nuns and the kids who did this to him.