A/N: This is my second attempt at a series. I hope this one will go better than the first. Feel free to message me asking any questions you may have about the series. I do have an idea where I want it to go in the future but I don’t know how long it is gonna take to get there. Please note that this part and the next three chapters or so will be the OC reflecting on her life, after that it will be current.
Disclaimer: I unfortunately do not own any of the Characters besides Adara.
Warnings: None yet I don’t think but there will be in future chapters.
Pairings: None yet but there will be in the future. (Cough *Hiccup* Cough)
Summary: You have found a dragon new to your people. After being banished from your homeland you meet the Riders of Berk. What happens when you find out that not only is your dragon rare, She’s one of the last of her kind?
Quite A Nightmare.
Why. Why me was all I could think as I wondered... What did I do to deserve having my life thrown on it's head? To deserve being banished from all I had ever known? I was the daughter of the Chief, The fiercest Warrior of our tribe, Pride of the Darinoi People, Future Chief of our people… but all that changed the day I found Her.
I guess I should start from the beginning right?
My name is Adara, It means Fire in the language of my people but that’s what I named myself. My name used to be something else but you’ll see why I changed it I always was destined to be the Chief of our Tribe, that was my birthright. But me being the overachieving idiot I am, I decided to try and be our greatest warrior also. I was always good with the sword, came with the territory of being my father's daughter. So instead of going with what came easy I would train with everything I wasn’t good at until I was. To the point that the rest of the warriors stopped training with me when I proved to be too much for their easily bruised male egos. So I guess the Gods decided to reward my hard work with something even harder. They gave me Nightmare.
My Night Fury.
The dragons weren’t a new thing. There weren’t many that didn’t have one. The type varied between the species… you had your Du-nocks they were the ones with two necks. Usually tamed by two heroes. Then there were the Breakers. They had thick skin like the rocks they ate. Most families had one. They helped with the hard-work and were essentially large dogs. Guarding the village when the warriors were away hunting. Another one was the Sticker with their spines and deadly accuracy. They were rarer among the warriors of the Tribes. A tribe with a Sticker had a right to be proud. Though they were not the greatest among the warriors. If you were truly brave you got the one dragon everyone feared, only the best of the best had them. We called them. The Inferno. Able to catch themselves on fire and fly into battle they were only gifted to the greatest among us, my dad was one of the few who had one. So yeah… I had a legacy to live up to.
There were two ways to get a dragon. One was you found them when they were an adult. Or it could be the way that proved that the Gods chose them for you… you found them as an egg. That was how I got Nightmare. I was on my final Discovery Quest. It had been three days living off the land and surviving alone by my wits when I saw it. A large, smooth, oblong egg, it was a multitude of grays like a stone and hidden by brush. My first thought was “what is that? I have never seen it’s equal. Such a smooth stone...” I soon realized it was not a stone. Stones did not radiate heat like a furnace like this did. When I realized it was a dragon egg my hair stood on end. The only one in our village to find an egg was my father and his had been an Inferno that he had named Blazing Night. I had never seen an egg like this before. I guess in the back of my head I was worried about it, the fact that it wasn’t a breed I knew. But in my joy induced haze I did not consider the fact that my father might not approve of my Dragon. I was already bonded. I had heard of the overwhelming urge to protect your dragon but I never thought it would be like this. I knew in that moment that even if what came out was the ugliest thing in all of Hibernia I would love it. That if needed I would die for it.
Per our tradition if you found an egg you stayed with it. You waited with it until it hatched instead of moving it. So I immediately started making a shelter for sleeping in. I knew there was water in the area and food would be easy as I had dried beef and berries with me and I knew how to hunt so I could catch my own food. I knew I would have to so my dragon had fresh meat to eat as they would be very hungry shortly after they hatched. I knew it might be day before it hatched maybe even weeks and that when it did it would explode as was the way of the dragon. I per the ritual was expected to stay up until the egg hatched and keep watch, As proof that I could take care of the life I was entrusted with. So I found a spot with good visibility as well as close to the egg itself so i could bathe in it’s warmth. I set my sword across my knees and prepared for a long night.
I also knew I might have to deal with the eggs mother coming back. But the vegetation surrounding the egg was well grown and untraveled. I knew that meant the mother had either abandoned the egg or had been killed. I hoped the earlier because the death of a dragon was abhorrent to me. They were such majestic creatures and the thought of someone killing one even by accident made my blood boil. I had always bonded well enough with the dragons in the village sometimes even bonding with wild ones. But I had to wait until this last Quest to gain my dragon. It was the way it was done. I accepted it and had trained hard for this day so I would be ready to claim my birthright and lead our village when my father was gone. It was my hope that the Gods would give me an Inferno as they did my father so he would be proud of me. but deep inside I knew that was not for me… I knew that having an Inferno was not destined for me. It made me wonder what kind of dragon this was.
As I sat there deep in thought, paying attention to the shadows and the way they danced. I started to wonder what my life would be like after the egg had hatched… what would change, and what would stay the same? I knew that training my dragon would take time and patience, and for that I was prepared. But what made me think was how will the perception of me change? I was already sure that this was no breed we knew, so that begged the question… What was it? The certainty that this was something new sent chills up my spine. Looking back now I envy my young naivety, I never knew thought that something as trivial as the breed of my dragon would change my future so drastically.
As day bleed into night I began to wonder how long this would take. I was prepared to stay however long it took but I didn’t know how long I could stay awake as I was already feeling the need to sleep. Just as I was starting to be mesmerized by the shadows and the way they danced as if to a song I couldn’t hear I began to realize that the sun was set. Where was the light coming from then? It was then that it hit me. I dove behind the nearest tree and glanced around at the egg. Yellow lines the made it look as if lava was flowing around the inside of the egg danced with light, the contrast between the grey of the egg and the lines of yellow was beautiful and mesmerizing. Just as I was about to venture out from behind the tree, the egg exploded. I felt a searing pain on my face as I jumped behind the tree, I reached up afraid that I might feel blood. My fears were unfounded as it seemed the egg had simultaneously cut and cauterized the skin, I feared there might be scar.
After I had finished my self-examination I looked at the spot where the egg had been, in it’s place was a very confused looking baby dragon. It’s scales were a deep green almost like ivy though ivy wasn’t as dark, with eyes shaped like almonds, though it’s eyes… god it’s eyes. They were the brightest blue I had ever seen, like the waters of Lough Neagh. I crept forward slowly while maintaining eye contact with the dragon. It moved forward keeping it’s eyes on you, the curiosity beaming from them. Just as your hand was about to make contact with it’s face you turned away leaving your hand there. If the dragon trusted you it would move forward and make contact itself.
Your heart leapt into your chest when you felt the warmth from the dragon's scales on your hand, you turned back to see those bright blue eyes looking straight at you. The dragon moved forward slowly along the ground reminding you of a cat in the way it moved. It’s nose moved closer to yours slowly sniffing you. You discreetly looked to see the gender, it was a girl. You looked at her and felt a warmth in your chest that you could only describe as protective, you knew in that moment that you would do whatever it took to protect her. She moved even closer staring into your eyes. You wondered what was going through her mind as she stared at you. It felt like she was seeing into your very soul, you hoped she liked what she saw.
It seemed that she did as she promptly liked your nose. You giggled at that. It seemed she took that as a sign of consent to climb all over you, finally finding her place to perch on your shoulder. You looked at her there and with the light coming through the trees you couldn’t help thinking, “With a dragon such as this beside me nothing will stand in my way.”
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