(Book 1) Legends of the new world: The snow empress and the horned king

Chapter one: the elegant ice dragon

Within the elders recess, elder dragons and some other monsters flourished, mostly due to the supposed emperor of elder dragons, xenojivva, mysteriously disappearing after being defeated by a measly hunter. The role was shortly filled in by a strange dragon who claimed to be "the black dragon", much to few monsters dismay. But while most elder dragons ran rampant and competed for dominance in the name of their new leader, one elder dragon in particular simply refused to take part in these activities. This elder dragon was one of the very few female elder dragons to ever exist, two others being kulve taroth and lunastra. This elder dragon went by the name of "Velkhana". Velkhana was a young adolescent who almost nobody seemed to notice her existence. But, Velkhana didn't mind to much. After all the strange looks she had gotten from most of the elder dragons who knew she existed, including the black dragon, she decided that socializing with others would not be the best course of action right now. Velkhana usually sat alone in a nest she had made for herself, trying to think of someone, anyone who feared or respected her as an elder dragon, and not some mangy runt. "Besides, who wouldn't want to be with me, I'm the most elegant one in this place.", Velkhana murmured to herself. However, the sensation of rest started to cloud Velkhanas thoughts, resulting in her laying down completely, and her eyes closing.

After for what seemed like an eternity, Velkhanas eyes snapped open to the sound of a Teostra roaring in anger. Although teostra was one of the many elder dragons who harassed her, she still felt the urge to investigate. As she spread her wings and flew to the teostras location, she quietly crept behin a corner and seemed to notice that the teostra was fighting some horrid abomination on an elder dragon. The monster had spikes growing from everywhere on his body. He had two giant horns that resembled a bulls horns. And he was very, very angry. As Velkhana watched the ongoing turf war, she watched as the monster effortlessly throw the teostra to the ground and slam its left front arm-like leg into the teostras skull, popping one of its eyes from its socket. The teostra shrieked in agony, before it suddenly started gagging. With its remaining eye, the teostra saw that the monster had torn out its throat. It slumped to the ground, dead. Then to Velkhanas horror, the monster swallowed the hunk of meat that was the teostras throat, and began feasting upon its corpse. Velkhana felt as if she was going to regurgitate from the sheer horror of this monsters methods of hunting. Unfortunately for her, she happened to knock over a large rock that crashed to the ground, alerting the monster. Getting a better look at the monster, Velkhana recognized the beast as one of the most feared elder Dragons of all time, the elder eater himself, nergigante. Nergigante let out a bloodcurdling roar and launched himself at Velkhana, who yelped and began to run as fast as her legs could carry her. Velkhana soon spread her wings and launched herself into the sky, using the clouds for cover. Nergigante looked around, trying to pick up her scent. Velkhana didn't waste any time fleeing the elders recess. She flew in the opposite direction of the elders recess for some time until she started to feel cold air blow against her body. "Is that....a tundra?" Velkhana asked herself. And to her joy, it was indeed a tundra, known by most hunters as the hoarfrost reach. With a sigh of relief, she landed gracefully onto the snow-covered ground. "If I am going to survive, I need to find a new place to call home. Hopefully there aren't any other elder dragons here", Velkhana murmured to herself. After inspecting the land that stood before her, she began to wade through the snow, in search of a new location to build her nest.

Nergigante was still trying to find Velkhanas scent when he finally picked it up. Following her scent for what seemed like hours, he felt cold air brush against his body. He knew he was entering the hoarfrost reach. "If she thinks that I'll freeze to death following her, she will be sadly mistaken", nergigante said to himself, chuckling. And with that, he landed within the snow-covered ground, letting out a loud and vicious roar to let his prey know, that she hadn't escaped from him, and that he would find her and kill her. Now most hunters would think that nergigante was wasting his time trying to hunt Velkhana. These hunters are sadly mistaken. Nergigante had a reason to be feared, he was the eater of elder dragons, and his prey would NEVER manage to escape from nergigante. He would make sure of it.