arriving at the feasting hall the group sat at the end of the air table the students had become accustomed to Draculas being at their table and few of them spoke to him on occasion “hey guys did you hear the whole school is getting a lesson on the history of dragon riders apparently it’s because a batch of new dragons have been born at our very school and the teachers think they may pick students as their riders” said a rather excited small boy with a scar down his face “yeah we got told by professor vlad after duelling, how are you enjoying your first year anyway Zane?” dracona asked “Yeah its good a few students found out that I’m a half vampire and that professor vlad is my father and they find it fun to bully me but everyone else seems ok about it dad said when he first started here people hung crosses on their beds and garlic least nobody has done that to me it is annoying when people actually believe those myths” Zane replied the rest of lunch the group of friend spent their time talking about dragons and how they all wanted to be chosen to be a dragon rider.
When lunch was over the whole school waited outside professor deltarods classroom even the first years where to be here for this lesson it seemed “hello everyone please come in and take a seat” professor deltarod said leading the students into his classroom it had somehow grown to the same size as the feasting hall since they were last in there “ now I know you all are wondering why I called this lesson and why all the teachers are here so I will now explain to you, we teachers are dragon riders each and every one of us have our own dragon and for the first time in nearly a century baby dragons where born to bonded dragons what this means is that there is a high chance that these baby dragons will bond with humans or vampires as well, however we believe that this has happened due to a change in the balance, 300 years ago when dragons first bonded with humans and vampires there were 2 dragons one emerald and one red they were to be the keepers of the eggs they had both bonded one with a vampire and one with a human for years they spent their time watching over the eggs of dragons and training the young making sure that when they were ready to bond that they knew how to judge a person but the vampire known as kronas grew tired of merely training the dragons to bond he yearned for power and his yearn for power grew so strong it corrupted his dragon as well one night whilst the human albus the first was on guard duty kronas snuck in and killed his brother in arms and stole many dragon eggs, for thirty years he ruled the lands with an iron fist forcing people to do his bidding using magic that is forbidden to even speak of raising the baby dragons and forcing them to bond with evil men that would bow to his will, then one day a dragons egg hatched and an emerald dragon was born it aged faster than most dragons and within 6 months it bonded with a young wizard the young wizards name was remus he trained with his dragon and learned the way of the warrior from the few free dragon riders that still lived 3 years after they bonded kronas hunted for remus and his emerald dragon they fought on these very grounds the battle lasted 3 days and 3 nights remus was badly wounded but refused to give up with his dying breath he drew the power from his dragon and used one of the un useable curse that night both kronas and remus died their dragons carried on fighting until both where dead, since then there has not been another emerald dragon until this year we believe that this new emerald dragon is the reincarnation of the original emerald dragon which would mean that there is also the reincarnation of the original red dragon somewhere out there, all of this is of course speculation but there are a few things to back it up there have been reports coming in of disappearances of dragons eggs and fully grown wild dragons bonding, at the end of the year we will hold a ceremony once the dragons are fully grown we will present you to them and see if any of you are chosen to be a rider yes even the first years will be presented so from now on your lesson schedules will consist of care for magical animals duelling weapons potions charming and transforming, that will be all thank you for coming please have the rest of the day to think of what you have been told today we do not expect you to go to lessons” professor deltarod finished his speech students where muttering to themselves some had not believed him other had hung on his every word.
"hey guys wait up," shouted draculas as he walked towards the group that had become his closest friends "hurry up then, its not our fault you are so slooow" abigail teased back at him, " you two really need to just get it out of your systems and admit you fancy eachother watching you teasing eachothers getting boring" dracona laughed stepping out of the way as draculas went to thump him on the arm. "How MAANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY IT WE DONT FANCY EACH OTHER" abigail shouted at dracona drawing the attention of nearby students causing jacinta to laugh even harder "yeah sure sis thats why u spend an hour getting ready every morning before breakfast "oh do you think draculas will like my hair up or down i cant decide"jacinta mocked between laughing, "hey you guys fancy going and hanging out down with our little dragon maybe it will help us get ahead with teaching him to fly and to hunt" dracona suggested seeing both draculas and abigail advancing towards jacinta. "Fine but anymore jokes about us fancying eachother and im going to hex you till your ears fall off" abigail replied in a half mocking tone.
the ground was covered in a thick blanket of snow as they walked down to the forest where the dragons where being kept as the four friends approched the enclousure where their dragon was kept they noticed that there where feathers on the ground inside the pen. "i wonder what poor bird wandered into his enclousure," jacinta said opening the gate "i dont have a clure but hes hunted his first live prey without our help surely that means hes ready to start his flying lessons." draculas laughed grabbing the baby dragons collar and leash off of the nail that it hung on. slowly the emerald dragon emerged from its house it had already grown another 18 inches from nose to tail and when it spread its wings the span was well over a meter "wow look how much he has grown since this morning i wonder if they have all grown this much or if it is just because this ones the reincarnation of the frst emerald dragon"draconas said excited pulling out his wand he muttered the words "levitus" and levitated a peice of steak about 15 meteres into the air waving it around to cath the dragons attention in the blink of an eye the dragon jumped and with a beat of its wings hurled itself into the air catching the peice of meat in its mouth and gliding back to the ground landing clumsily "oh my he is a clever one" proffesor gretch said walking out from behind the meat locker " very advanced for his age try taking the meat up to about 50 meteres lets see if he can gain altitude" doing as he was told dracona levitated another peice of steak this time taking it up to about 50 meteres and making it soar back and forth to cath the dragons attention as soon as the dragon noticed it the dragon jumped and beat its wings pushing the air as fast as it could slowly gaining hight untill it managed to get to the steak and catch it in its mouth this time the dragon did not land straight away but flew around for a while flying as high as it could then soaring down in a dive and pulling up up after a short time the dragon landed and walked back into its make shift house. "well i dare say give it a few months and that little dragon will be nearly as big as an adult dragon and mabe it will have picked its rider by then no doubt it will be one of you four he seems to like you" proffesor gretch said beaming with pride.
