Dark Hidden Future

Lightning crackles through the sky and rain pours down my sleek black scales. I look up to the sky. Why does it have to end like this? Why did I make such a stupid decision? I ask myself the same question over and over in my head. Thunder blasts through my eardrums and I take to the sky. My leathery wings snap into action. Most dragons in my, well my former clan, would have found flying in a storm extremely dangerous. Not me. It was one of my talents. As a result lightning couldn’t harm me. I smiled to myself remembering the expression on my alphas face when I brought lightning’s full wrath down on one of his enemies during a battle, but that was when I was first discovering my talents. When everybody liked me and wasn’t afraid of me. I have one other talent. The classic. Fire of course.

I think back to why my alpha banished me from the clan. And why I had been banished.  I was so mad, blinded by fury. I remember the energy that seared though my body and the heat that ran up my throat. How my bright yellow eyes had glowed, then the sickening smell of burning flesh. I know why I did it, but I shouldn’t have. Jamarda, one of the male dragons had been following me for about two weeks. He had claimed that he had loved me, but I didn’t love him! I didn’t even know him that well. Then when I was out hunting for the clan, he followed me. Stalked me like prey. He kept whispering my name. Angelica, Angelica. Ice crystals had started forming at my feet holding me to the ground twining between my toes and crawling up my legs. Then Jamarda the ice dragon, had slithered out from the trees, smiling and slowly walking toward me. He had said, ill freeze my little queen if I have to, keep her frozen so I can have her all to myself. He walked around me tracing my face with his claw. Standing back and looking at me like a piece of meat. That’s about the point I felt the burning sensation in my throat, and energy pulsing through my veins. I couldn’t help it. Like I said I was blinded by fury. It happened so quickly. Now I remember even more clearly. His panicked screams, flesh melting off his face. I beat my wings harder raging through the storm. Large silver scales dropping on the ground one by one off his long graceful burning neck. His pleads for me to stop. The electrical current blistering at my fingertips and jolting out of me into his body. The deep gurgling sound he made. The horrible silence that followed. And then the heavy thud of his body hitting the ground.

Thunder booming snaps me out of my trance, and I whisper to myself. I am a murderer. The cursed words feel wrong on my lips. Why did I do it? I know why. Because he meant the words he spoke. I knew he would have killed me to be able to keep me. But why? Its unnatural for one of us to have more than one talent… but I don’t get why he would have killed to have me.

. I swoop down to land. Great. I don’t even know where I am. At least it’s a nice little valley. Clouds melt away and revile the moon. Light reflects off my scales making me look like I’m glowing. I sigh and curl up in a bed of moss. Im lost, have no friends, im banished from my clan, and I don’t have anywhere to go. Can things get any worse? I close my eyes to get some sleep. Who knows what horror lie ahead in my dreams tonight?

I wake early in the morning feeling horrible. My nightly dream? Replaying Jamardas death over and over. I blink and shake my head. Now what? Now where do I go? I ask myself. How am I going to survive? I know how to hunt, but this… this is different. Rain drops slowly descend from leaf to leaf until a droplet jumps onto my scaly, rigid nose. Get with it! I say out loud. I growl and tear my claws down a tree. I hammer the bark with my fist until a steady stream of scarlet blood trickles down my fingers. The truth sinks in. I have to find someone who will help me. Someone who doesn’t know the wrong I have done. In other words, someone very far away.  

To soon be continued