Short Stories

What If Dragons are Older Than We Think

A long time ago a young girl named Emma dreamed of meeting a dragon but she lived in a time where they were said to only live for 2,500 years then they die out. But this isn't the start of our story. Our story starts with Emma as a small girl wandering around a forest.

"I wonder where all the animals are?" Emma asked to no one imparticular. As she continued to walk she started to hear flapping above and around her. The flapping stopped at her left and she ran to the sound. As she ran she came to a clearing and in the clearing was a black and purple dragon.

"Hello, there child! What might your name be?" asked the dragon in a soothing voice.

"Emma" answered the girl.

"Well Emma I'm Ace the Mountain Dragon," said the dragon. Ace and Emma become close but after sometimes Emma realized Ace looked older than at least 3,000 years but she told herself that's impossible because dragons only live to be 2,500 years.

"Ace how old are you?" asked Emma.

"I'm at 5,000 years little one" answered Ace as the rain outside of the cave poured down.

Drip, Drop, Drip Drop.

For a while, there was a silence as Emma processed what Ace had said. She couldn't believe it. Dragons were way older than humans though.

Drip, Drip, Drip, Drop.

"Ace? I think my kinds knowledge of you is wrong" said Emma. The dragon looked at the girl as she stared off into the rain outside.

"Well would you like to show them the truth?" asked Ace. Emma's head picked up at the sound of that.

"How would we do that?" asked the girl as she looked at Ace with excitement. Ace studied the girl's face before answering.

"Well first off how old does your kind think we are?" asked Ace.

"They think you guys get to 2,500 years then die-off" Emma replied looking outside of the cave.

"Well we could show them the difference between a 2,500-year-old dragon to a 5,000-year-old dragon?" asked the dragon.

"Okay let's do it!" yelled Emma jumping to her feet. Ace laughed as Emma danced around the cave that night. The next day they went down to the river to find the river dragon.

"Erik? Erik are you here? It's Ace. I have a question for you?" said Ace as she landed on the ground with Emma on her back. To answer Ace's call the water in the river started moving. And out with a splash came a blue and green dragon. He nudges Emma with his nose and Emma giggled.

"You called Ace?" asked the dragon. Ace nodded and explained everything to Erik, "Sure I'll help! Anything for this little one!"

they then spent the rest of the day talking about their plan. Once the day came to an end they had settled on a plan and the next day they'd put it into action.

Early the next morning Erik and Ace were high in the sky with little Emma riding on Ace's back. They landed in the center of a nearby town. Everyone stared at the two dragons while Emma got off of Ace.

"People of Lively Town! Our thinking of a dragon's age is wrong! These two dragons would like to show you the difference of a 2500-year-old dragon to a much older dragon!" yelled Emma as people gathered around.

"You got our attention now start talking!" yelled someone from the crowd. Emma nodded at the two dragons to start talking.

"I Ace dragon of the mountains am well over 2500-years-old compared to what you humans think. I am 5000-years-old and raised Emma for a little over seven years now!" said Ace before Erik took over.

"I Erik dragon of the river a 2500-year-old and am what you humans think is a dragon's max-age!" said Erik as everyone looked at the three in shock. Everyone began to ask questions and the three answered with open minds to each one.

Years later little Emma isn't so little anymore. She's now pushing 56 and is standing in front of Ace and Erik.

"I'm going to miss you guys," said Emma.

"Well miss you too but living in a human village at your age is necessary," said Ace. The three said goodbyes and off flew the two dragons.