@randompersonp3483

1 year ago

As you wake up and notice you’re in the middle of a field, your anxiety ridden heart begins to panic. Confusion and distress sets in more as you start to wonder how you got here. However as you look around, you see the tree line that surrounds you from a distance, you stand and see a nearby trail, leading to what appears to be a small town. Taking deep breaths, you begin to calm down and follow the trail. The closer you get, the louder the sound of music gets and the busier you notice the town seems to be. You notice that everyone is dressed in a sort of renaissance fashion, your clothes resembling a slightly fancier version of them. People seem to stare at you in awe but to you it only causes discomfort. As you get to the square, you notice a group of three or four people standing on the other side playing an assortment of instruments. Looking around you see different stands with people selling different things and as you smell the air you’re engulfed by the aroma of different foods being cooked. Suddenly your stomach growls and as much as you’d like to buy something, your not sure how you’d pay and would prefer not to try to get anything. Instead you make your way to the band, smiling as you enjoyed their performance. As you sat on the ledge of the fountain that sits in the middle of the square, one of the preforms from the band stands and says something to their group. As they walk towards you, the music changes from its simple casual rhythm to something upbeat and fun. When you look back at the group, you see the musician standing a yard or so away from you, with their hand held out to you. ‘Care to dance?’ They asked with a slight smile. Staring, stunned for a second, you hesitantly take their hand. They pull you from the fountain out to a clearing in front of the band, their smile and slightly laughter as they watch you fumble with the movements, seems warm. Sowly the world seems to fade away as you get into rhythm with this person, the stress and anxiety melts away and for the first time in ever you seem to enjoy yourself as you do something so simple. Once you’ve snapped back to this new reality, you noticed that other people had joined you in the dance. You smiled and laughed as you danced with this stranger and eventually they pulled you from the crowd and to one of the stands selling food. ‘Hungry?’ They asked as they dug through their coin purse. You simply nodded and they handed a few coins to the person at the stand. The man handed them bowls filled with steaming stew, they handed one to you and watched as they tipped the bowl up to their mouth and ate it straight from the bowl. Not sure how else to eat it, copied as they did. As hot as the stew was, it was delicious and you couldn’t help but want to eat it faster. ‘Careful’ they said with a laugh. ‘So where are you from?’ They asked and you told them but they only looked as you, confused. You tried to explain to them but it was to no avail. They also asked how you got there but that, you couldn’t answer if you tried. As you finished the stew and handed them the bowl they began to walk back to their group and seeing as you had no idea what else to do, you followed them. They joined their band in music again and you simply sat and listened. They day stretched on and every now and then the band would take a break and talk to you. After coming to the conclusion that you had no idea where you were or what you were doing they told you that you could stay with them, to which you happily agreed. As the sunset, the band began to pack their instruments. Suddenly, from what little of a crowd was left, came a commotion, the group assured you it was nothing but as people gathered in an alleyway with torches, pitch forks and blades, you knew it was certainly not nothing. Quietly you slipped from the group and hurriedly made your way through the crowd. When you finally got to the front, where armed men with a heavy roped net cornered something at the other end of the blocked alleyway and though you couldn’t see what it was you could tell this was entirely unnecessary. You pushed passed the the men and you finally saw what all the commotion was about. A small figure sat curled in the far corner, growling at the mob. It held a human figure with the addition of, what you could guess were, red bat like wings, a long but short scaly tail, red scales along its arms and more than slight nubs on top of its head. You weren’t entirely sure what it was but you could tell it was young and even though it held an intimidating defensive pose, it was scared. No one stopped you as you walked closer to it but you didn’t get too close, once you were a good distance you sat down with your back faced towards the thing with your eyes closed. It’s growls seemed to stop and you could feel it brush up against you ever so slightly. Suddenly it’s full weight was in your lap as it curled up and buried its face into you, you softly wrapped your arms around it and picked it up. As heavy as it was, it was easy to carry out as the group of people stepped aside for you. The mob watched in awe as you walked back to the band. ‘Finally,’ said the one from earlier, ‘we’ve been waiting for- what is that?’ You glanced at the thing in your arms, that was now fast asleep and shrugged. One of the other members gasped as she saw the young thing, ‘it’s a baby dragon’ she said excitedly. ‘A dragon!’ You whispered in surprise. ‘You didn’t know what it was before you picked it up?’ They asked. ‘No’ you said ‘wait why does it look like a human then’ it’s likely a half blood’ said the girl ‘they’re the only ones that can look partially human, that and royal bloods but I doubt that one’s a royal.’ ‘Ah okay, well let’s get going.’ You said as you walked towards the band’s wagon. ‘We are not taking that with us’ said one of the members. ‘The hell we aren’t.’ You said with a laugh and got in the wagon. From then on, this group of people became your family and eventually what you knew of your old life, faded from your memories. Even against the group’s wishes you kept the baby half blood and they all grew to love it as they raised it together. Later as you traveled through the dragon territory, you learned that the dragon was the missing descendent of the late dragon queen, so it was indeed a royal blood👑

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