Fear No More

Chapter Fourteen

On the plateau, besides myself, where two entities. One I could recognise. One I expected to see. However the second entity, albeit now fully visible, was something that I did not expect to behold.

The one I recognised, was the large orange dragon that I could turn into. The dragon that was my other self. The second part to my essence. Its bright red eyes watching my every move. It was smaller than I expected, but its magnificence was still overwhelming. My dragon standing to the right of the plateau, and the second entity on the left.

What I saw was a pitch black box with thick golden chains wrapped around it. The box was over twenty meters tall and twenty meters wide. The chains as think as a grown mans thigh. Whatever was in that box was not something that willingly went in.

"Don't focus too much on that box, boy." My dragon said with a voice like growl. Its words sufficiently clear for my understanding. "He is not someone you want to offend." The dragon added as it waddled up to me. Raising his head as if to show his superiority. The pride of dragon's was truly a magnificent sight to behold.

"Are you...?" I asked as I let my question trail off.

"Yes I am." The dragon said as he lowered his head until his snout was mere inches from my body. Taking a deep sniff as if trying to enforce my scent within his memories. Although, the true reason why he sniffed me was not something I understood nor even knew.

After the dragon seemed satisfied he lifted his head once more and lowered his body laying against the stone below. His body now blocking the black box from my view. Whether he did that on purpose or not was not going to be made known to me anytime soon.

"Why do you deny yourself who you are?" The dragon asked seemingly annoyed at this subject at hand.

"What do you mean?" I asked him not knowing what he was speaking of.

"Why do you refused to let your nature be known? Why do you hide yourself in secret?" The dragon let out a loud growl deep within his chest. The questions themselves seemingly angering him. "Why are hiding our race?" He added as he looked down upon me with an air of disgust.

"Because if I don't, I will be hunted." I began as I took a step back slightly afraid of the dragon before me. "Our entire race is dead, with me as the last. I need to hide and reform our race. Our lineage." I continued as if trying, begging him to understand why I am doing the things I am.

"Peh." The dragon scoffed as his waved his head, not believing my words. "You are the last of our kind. Our prince. Yet you hide in fear. Shameful!" The dragon almost shouted with smoke beginning to leak from its snout.

"I do what I must!" I retorted as I stood my ground, my fear leaving my body in that instant. I wasn't sure how things could turn out within this space, but at this moment I didn't care. I was not about to be insulted from something that is mine.

"Then be a dragon!" The dragon shouted as flames burst from its snout shooting over me. However, the flames where unable to pass the black flames. As it shot upwards, quickly devouring the orange flames of the dragon. 

The dragon, unfazed by the black flames, seemed to calm down over the course of a few seconds. "However, I know what you are going through. Being who you are is not an easy thing." The dragon said in a softer tone that showed his sincerity. "However, you must trust the words of those close to you. Both your mate and the one within you."

"My mate?" I asked not understanding the term. Although it sounded familiar, I could not connect the term to its meaning.

"Yes." The dragon said as his gaze found mine once more. "Regardless, you have many things you need to learn." He added as if I was supposed to be grateful of this bit of information.