Dragon Child: The Journey Begins

Chapter 2

A lifeless body lay at the top of a lonely hill.  A cold wind blew......Eh? What's that? Oh, yeah, the body is me.

My magic training is off to great start! I am actually able to use all the attributes, just like my mother! Isn't this great? Well, though I say great, I certainly don't feel it right now!

Here I am, lying on the top of this hill, unable to move a muscle.  Why, you ask? My demon-dragon mother! I am convinced she is trying to kill me!

Let me tell you! This magic training, at first I was very hopefull for it! And then, I found out how horrible it truly was to have too many attributes to train in.  Sigh.  Let's go back a few hours.

My mother was smiling down at me in a slightly evil looking way. Although I generously tried to shrug it off as just my overactive imagination,  I found to my horror that she truly was smiling evilly at me.  I shudder at the memory of it.

"We will start with earth." Ah, why am I so obedient? I should have ran when I had the chance!

"Ok!" I replied so innocently too.  If only I could have gone back and warned myself of the danger! But I was too drunk on the happiness of being able to use magic, and couldn't see what was about to happen.

"Stay here for a moment." With that, she flew away. This was really my chance! Why didn't I run away?!

She returned after a short time. Although it was plenty of time for me to run......Ahem.  She was carrying a giant rock, one bigger than me certainly.  It was actually even bigger than my mother! How in the world was she doing that? Where did she even find it?

With a giant thud that shook me off my feet, she dropped the rock on the top of the hill.  I stood up weakly and blankly stared at the rock.

"Well?" She chuckled at me.

"Well?" I replied. What did she want me to do with that? I mean, it's a giant ROCK! What does one do with a giant rock anyway?

"Lift it." She looked serious.  But, of course she couldn't possibly be serious. I mean, that rock was HUGE! It's even bigger than she is!

"Well? What's taking you so long? Lift it!" Wah! She's definitely serious! How does she expect me to lift that thing?!

"How do you expect me to lift that thing?!" Ah, I said it out loud again! Well, but seriously!

"This is magic training.  So, lift it with magic, of coarse." She says that so easily!

Well, fine! I will give it my best!  I tried to feel that tickling sensation again. Feel, feel, ah! There it is! The tickling became more intense. I want to scratch! Before, it was just my hand that tickled, now it's my whole body! I resisted the urge, though.

Hmmm. Although I can feel the tickling that I must assume is magic, I'm not sure what to do now.  Hmm, maybe I'll just stare at the rock. With that thought in mind, it somehow became a staring contest between me and Rocky. Who's Rocky, you ask?  Obviously it's the giant rock!

Well, I'm pretty sure that the rock is winning.  Nothing is happening, except me starting to sweat!  Ah!  Wait a second! What was that feeling just now?!

"They're changing color." My mother suddenly spouted nonsense to me.  Ah! I lost the feeling.  Irritated, I looked at her.

"What's changing color?" Hmm, well I was also slightly curious what made her speak out such randomness when I almost had the feeling I needed. Well, the feeling I assumed I needed. After all, nothing happened yet.

"Your eyes." Eh? What was that?

"My eyes?" This is a mystery.  My eyes are a crystal clear color. Meaning, they don't really have any color to them at all!  I'm not sure if this is normal among humans, but my mother always thought they were special. Well, she is my mother, after all.  She has to think I'm special. It's sort of a mom rule, or something.