Dawn

 

 

Keko ran fast avoiding the huge streams of flames falling from the sky that consumed the mindless creatures cloaking the road. They were everywhere, bathing the streets and houses with their fiery breath: dragons.

I looked at them, and all around me I heard the screams of thousands of people being consumed by the fiery flames.

What was it that had driven the dragons into this frenzy of burning everything in sight? They used to be such peaceful creatures, but now . . . this. . . Why? What had happened to turn these magnificent beasts into something... something so horrible? Keko had to put all this out of her mind, she needed to find someplace safe then maybe she could piece it all together.

 It didn't occur to her that there was nowhere left to go; everything was a huge pile of smoking ash and dead bodies. All she could do was run and hope for the best.

She needed to find a place of peaceful refuge, a place to think things out and figure out what to do after everything calmed down, if everything calmed down.

  Finally she saw it, not much more than a hole in the ground, but too small for the dragons, and almost completely hidden from sight. She took one step forward but stopped short when her path was darkened by a gliding shadow.

 She quickly looked up and saw a dragon, the biggest one she had ever seen, blocking her path. Frightened she stood mesmerized as she watched the giant beast start to run towards her.

The creature's monstrous form loomed closer, muscles bulging and mouth twisting into a greedy grimace. Keko knew it was hopeless to run, but the infinite dread waiting for her was unbearable.

She tried to stand her ground, but her body was trembling to badly to look fierce. Then all of a sudden, another dragon attacked the one in front of her, which afforded her a way to escape. She ran.

Running as fast as possible, she ducked into the shady woods. But she didn't stop running until she knew she was safe, hidden among the thick underbrush of the trees. What now she asked herself? 

She had never seen such a strange occurrence.  Such things were unheard of…a dragon fighting another dragon? What if all the dragons were now going to fight? Would her world be safe or would it be a place of darkness, a living hell.

Keko’s eyes drooped; she was too weary to think about that for now; she sank down to the thick floor of the woods and leaned against a tree, breathing heavily.

She quickly fell into a deep sleep and dreamt of her peaceful childhood, which seemed so long ago.

She heard laughter, the faintest traces of a memory . . . It was her sister, who’d died many years ago after the 1st storm on their island.  Keko was swept away by the hands of time allowing her mind to stray toward more peaceful thoughts.

. . . "Keko!" She heard her sister's voice. "Keko, look! I see mother!”

Keko woke up with a shudder. She could see her sister standing in front of her, it seemed so real that she almost reached out, but the illusion faded with her waking mind. She looked around and for the moment she was safe, but she knew it wouldn't last long. She it as an opportunity to get some more sleep.

A loud roar rang throughout the forest. It woke Keko from a sea of memories only to find a crowd of elves standing before along with her sister younger sister Lilly, whose skin was covered in pale white, molting scales.

"Am I dreaming, Oh God I pray this is only a dream."

But somehow Keko know this wasn't a dream, it was real, but how?

"You're dead!" She shouted in horror, flashing her gaze between all who surrounded her.

“I’m not dead sister, I’m undead, and like these elves I also have power.” Lilly voice was indifferent.

“What kind of powers,”  Keko asked fearful?

“I have the power to control the red dragons, like the one that saved you.”

“The red dragon,” Keko asked? “But he killed the green one that was going to kill me, isn’t he evil, aren’t all dragons evil?”

 “No,” Lily replied. “I summoned the red dragon to save you.”

Lily smiled, baring a single row of red teeth, all on one side of her mouth. "The dragons are only as evil as the one who calls them."

And with that Lily drove her sword, already dripping with blood, stabbing it into her sister's stomach. Keko awoke from her nightmare with a bloodcurdling scream as tears pouring from her eyes.  What had her dream meant, she pondered?

Was Lily really alive, or undead, and who controlled the green dragons if Lily controlled the red ones?

What had happened? Keko didn’t want to know, but what she feared is what would happen next?

 

 Deep in her sister's eyes, she had also seen desperation or had it been a mirage?

As more roars filled the night air, Lily held out her hand to Keko and said,

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Tag der Veröffentlichung: 16.03.2014

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