The Hero of Flames was a dragon this whole time? Are the demons plotting their invasion again?
"Stop it..." Roy told the voices surrounding him, the ones that would never leave him be, even after escaping Lycia and keeping his heritage a secret.
He may be of royal descent, but he is no more than the beasts that want us and our children dead in their gullets! We should strike him down where he stands to keep him away from such a throne!
"I said stop it...!" He shouted now, clenching onto his head and covering his ears. He could feel the magic of the dragonstone in his tunic slowly surging through his veins, in preparation to use its power.
We should slaughter him right here and now. Even with royal blood, his birth is an evil against St. Elimine herself, and will continue to be one for as long as this monster lives.
"Cease this. NOW." Roy stated, his eyes growing cold and sharp, just like a metal sword stood before piercing its enemy. "Before... before..." A flash of light came from the dragonstone now, as his pale skin sprouted fiery red scales, claws as sharp as spears grew from his fingertips, and the largest of teeth resided within his mouth as a mighty roar bellowed from his throat.
"Before I freeze your entire homeland and devour you like the cowardly sheep that you are!!"Â
"AAH!" Roy screamed himself awake, lifting his head straight up. Several heavy pants came from the young man, practically swallowing the nighttime air as if he'd just resurfaced from the bottom of a lake.
He looked around to see his surroundings, witnessing only the large plain of grass he found within a forest that he could call a resting place for the night. No towns or villagers anywhere.
Roy let out a deep sigh, both of relief, and of exhaustion.
"That nightmare again..." Roy whispered to himself. It wasn't the first time that he had that accursed dream since escaping from Lycia, and a voice within his mind told him that it unfortunately wouldn't be the last. For the voices within that dream had haunted him for most of his life, even with such a small amount of people alive that know his secret. It didn't help that the more that Roy had seen of the world, the more truth that those words had carried...
Roy rested his head against the grass and soil again, wrapping his cape around himself as a blanket in the hopes that he would lull back to sleep again. He usually slept in his dragon form in areas as isolate as this forest, for it could tolerate the cold much better, but that was the last thing that Roy wanted to do right now.