The TRIBE Chronicles : Forgotten Memories (Completed)

00 - Legend of The Dragon and The Sorceress

There was a story that the elders used to tell, about how human's civilization was almost destroyed by a giant dragon.

Long ago, on that time, the civilization had grown so fast and wide; technologies started to take place in each human's life, causing pollutions and destructions everywhere. Wars were happening and people were killing each other. Hunger and poverty were everywhere. It eventually withered the nature.

Wanting to restore the mother earth, the nature revolted.

One day, a strong earthquake happened, awakening everyone from their slumber. Lands cracked; seas parted. A dragon arose from the earth. They said that its body was brown like the soil but its skin was as strong as the iron; its movement was flowing like the water but as swift as the wind. And its breath was furious as the fire. As it soared in the sky, it brought destruction and death on its path. This dragon was unstoppable.

But some warriors came forward. Wanting to save humanity, they stood against the Dragon. The fight was hard and long. Casualties had fallen on both the warriors and the innocents. Yet the Dragon stood strong and powerful; still undefeated.

One day, there was a young woman coming; kind and beautiful by nature yet concealed and mysterious. Within her, she possessed an art of sorcery that no one among the warriors had ever seen. None of the warriors knew where she came from or who she really was. Some told rumors that she was actually a descendant of a heavenly creature, while some were not even care about her past.

In the beginning, she walked the path of a healer, using her power to heal the wounds and mending the broken faith of the innocents. Until the day she saw the innocents fallen. She then knew that she couldn't keep still.

When the Dragon arose again and threatened the innocents, the young woman came forward, volunteering herself to face the Dragon. She then unleashed her power and pushed it to the limit that she had never reached before. And by the help of some brave warriors, she managed to force the Dragon back to its slumber.

Sacrificing herself, she sealed the Dragon in the depth.

Hence, humanity survived and started to rebuild their new civilizations on top of their once grand cities.

And the sorceress...

At the end of the battle, her cold body was laid on the top of the Dragon's tomb. Seeing it, her comrades decided to bury her with proper ceremony, to respect her and to honor her sacrifice.

But on the day when they came to the tomb, they found that her body had vanished without a trace. Only a plant with a single white flower stood on where she laid once.

Some said that they saw the sorceress awaken and walked away; some said that they saw her body vanished into thin air. But no one knew what had actually happened.

And hundreds of years had passed ever since.