The Blood of The Dragon

Chapter 9

David was dragged through the empty academy’s halls by Flani.

“Where are you taking me?” asked David as Flani continued to drag him.

“The room you’ll be staying in while you are allowed to stay within the academy’s walls” said Flani.

Flani dragged David through the hallway, passing different rooms.

As they walked through the hall way David noticed strange symbols on the doors on some of the rooms they passed, some had a symbol of fire, some of earth, some of water and others of air.

“Why are they symbols on those doors?” asked David.

“Those doors lead to the rooms where the students of the academy stay, the ones with the fire symbol are for fire dragon warriors, water for water dragon warriors, and earth for earth dragon warriors. All the students in the academy are currently fast asleep, observing the curfew, all students of the academy are expected to fast asleep before the tenth hour at night” said Flani.

Flani then took him to one of the rooms that had an air symbol on it.

“This is where you’ll be staying” said Flani as she brought out the room keys and unlocked the room door.

They then went into the room.

The room was small, dark and empty, having only a small bed place by the corner of the window with the only source of light being the moonlight that came from the window.

“This is the only room left for wind dragon warriors” said Flani as she handed the key to the room to David.

“I suggest that you get settled in” said Flani before she left David alone in the small room.

David just sighed before going to the window.

Looking out the window David began to think about where he was, the Dragon Academy, from what Binaru told him it was meant to a school for the best of the best, meant only for exceptional Dragon Warriors.

As David’s mind filled up with thoughts about the Dragon Academy he began to wonder if he deserved to be there, after all he still believed he was an ordinary air dragon warrior.

David, still looking out the window saw the Temple of The Golden Dragon Warrior and as he looked at it, he felt something calling out to him from within the temple, like a force drawing him there.

David could not explain or describe it; all he knew was that he felt it.

David, after spending a while looking at the temple decided to ignore it, telling himself that it was just his mind playing tricks on him.

David then lied down on the bed and upon lying down realized that the bed was covered with dust so he used the power of the wind to blow all the dust away so he could sleep well.

As he slowly drifted away to sleep, he had dream.

In the dream, he heard the woman once more saying, “I’ll come back for you, I promise”.

But this time as the woman spoke David saw a small glimpse of her, it was enough for him to know who she was but David was able to see her neck and a golden locket which the wore on it.

The golden locket on the woman’s neck had the symbol on a dragon on it.

The locket then began to glow with a blinding golden light and then David woke up with the last thing he saw from the dream being the golden light that came from the locket.

David upon waking, lied on his bed for a few moments, thinking about the dream he had, wondering what it meant.

He thought about the woman, the golden locket on her neck and the Temple of The Golden Dragon Warrior wondering what kind of connection he must have had with all of them to dream about them all.

David tried his best to convince himself that it was just a dream but something him just wouldn’t allowing him to lie to himself as deep down he knew it wasn’t just a dream but he since he was unable to make sense of it, he thought it would be best if he ignored it while trying desperately to convince himself it was all just a meaningless dream.

David come out of his deep thought upon hearing a knock on the door.

He then realized that it was morning and that day was his first day as a student, be it unofficial, of the Dragon Academy.

David then got up and rushed straight to the door and then opened it.

Standing on the other side of the door was a girl about his age, where the uniform of the Dragon Academy which had the symbol of a wind dragon on it, girl was also holding another pair of the academy’s uniform on her hands.

“You’re David, right?” asked the girl.

“Yes” said David wondering how the girl knew who he was.

“Good, put this on and quickly” said the girl as she gave David the uniform she was carrying.

“Okay” said David a bit confused as he began to wonder who the girl was.

David then went in to his room to wear the uniform the girl gave him.

“Hurry up, we don’t have all day” said the girl who was busy waited outside for David while he put on the uniform.

David soon came out; neatly dressed wearing the uniform the girl gave him.

“Took you long enough” said Flora as David came out of his room.

“Alright then, now you’re dressed follow me” said the girl before she began to walk away from David.

David, not knowing what else to do followed the girl.

“Who are you?” asked David to girl, wanting to know who she was.

“My name is Flora, I’m one of the students of the Dragon Academy and the Head master assigned me to show you around,” said the girl.

“Oh, you’re a student here. What kind of dragon warrior are you?” asked David.

“Isn’t it obvious” said Flora as she pointed at the symbol on her uniform which looked like a wind dragon.

“Oh, a wind dragon, so, am I?” said David.

“No kidding, why do you think I gave you the academy uniform for air dragon warriors,” said Flora.

David then looked at the symbol on his own uniform and saw that it was the same one on Flora’s uniform.

“Oh, I see,” said David.

Flora who was get immensely annoyed by David’s question said, “please stop talking, there are a million and one thing I would rather be doing than having to babysit you so would please make this a little more bearable by not talking”.

David upon hearing what Flora said nodded his head nervously in agreement, fearing the Flora’s temper.

“Good” said Flora with a deadly glare in her eyes that made David fear her even more.

Flora and David roamed the academy halls with Flora leading the way, she led David through the hallway to the dining room where all the student of the Dragon Academy.

David, upon reaching there and seeing all the students eating felt his stomach growl and grumble out of hunger.

Flora smiled slightly upon hearing David’s hungry stomach.

“Your stomach sounds like you haven’t eaten in day,” said Flora.

“Yeah, it gets like that some time especially when I haven’t had breakfast” said David with a playful smile, feeling a little embarrassed about the way his stomach growled.

Flora upon hearing what David said about his stomach smiled a little, finding it amusing that if he ever skipped breakfast his stomach would growl and grumble like thunder.

“Come on, let’s get you something to eat,” said Flora.

Flora and David then got some food and sat down on one of the free tables in the room.

“So, David, where are you from” asked Flora while she and David ate their food.

“A small village called Dugrunal,” said David.

“Dugrunal, never heard of it,” said Flora.

“I’m not surprised, it’s pretty far from here,” said David.

“Alright then, so are the other dragon warriors in Dugrunal” asked Flora.

“I’m not really sure,” said David.

“What?” asked Flora shocked upon hearing what David said?

“I’m not really sure” said David once again.

“How can’t you be sure, it’s your home, shouldn’t you know something as simple as who are the people that lives there” asked Flora.

“I lived with a woman name Abari in Dugrunal and all the time I spent there I spent with her alone. I never really got to know much about the people that lived there,” said David.

“But didn’t you have neighbors, family members, anybody who came to visit” asked Flora.

“Nope, I mean people did come to visit but only when they were sick or badly hurt,” said David.

“What? Why would people come to visit you only when they were hurt?” asked Flora shocked to hear people only came to visit David only when they were hurt or sick.

“Because Abari is a healer she helped them all get better after they got hurt or sick. I never really got a chance to find out if the people there were dragon warriors or just normal people,” said David.

“I’ve met a lot of people in my life but you are by far the strangest person I’ve met ever David” said Flora upon hearing everything David said, still not sure how David could live in a village without knowing if the people living in that village were dragon warriors.

“Okay” said David not entirely sure whether to take what Flora said as a compliment or an insult.

“Hey Flora” said a girl as she approached the table where Flora and David were sitting on along with two other boys, one wearing a pair of black spectacles and the other had an angry and bitter expression on his face.

The girl wore a uniform similar to David’s and Flora’s except hers had the symbol of a water dragon instead of that of a wind dragon which meant she was a water dragon warrior; the boys wore uniforms as well except the angry looking one had the symbol of a red fire dragon on his as he was a fire dragon warrior and the one with the spectacles had an earth dragon symbol on his as he was an earth dragon warrior.

“Hey Flora, can we seat here” asked the girl with warm smile on her face.

“You two can but Mr. Hot Head can’t” said Flora while glaring at the angry looking boy who smiled with a sinister grin upon seeing Flora’s glare.

“Come Flora, don’t be like that. We are all friends aren’t we” said angry looking boy before attempting to seat down on table with Flora and David.

But Flora, using the power of wind, pushed him to the ground before seat down.

“Friendship isn’t exactly how I would define our relationship,” said Flora.

The boy with spectacle couldn’t help but laugh a little upon seeing the way Flora sent the other boy to the ground using the power the wind.

“Come Flora, don’t be like that” said the girl as she went to angry looking boy and helped him up.

“Fine, you all can seat but if he starts making trouble” said Flora filled with rage and anger, so much so that her eyes turned into white dragon eyes, scaring a little David a little.

“I’ll show him just how deadly the wind can be” said Flora with rage in her voice as she spoke.

The boy just smiled upon seeing the angry look her face before saying, “what’s the worse you can do, sent a gentle breeze my way”.

The boy’s words made Flora’s blood boil but just decide to ignore him for now knowing that if she was to fight him there in the dining room it would lead to her getting to trouble with the Head master, even though every fiber of her being wanted to teach the boy a lesson she couldn’t do anything to him.

The girl, the spectacle wearing boy and the angry looking boy then sat on the table alone aside David and Flora.

Soon they were served their food and began to eat.

“Who’s the he?” asked the angry looking boy pointing at David who heard remained silent since he, the girl and the spectacle wearing boy had arrived.

Flora ignored the boy’s, pretending not hear it which infuriated him.

“I asked a question, who’s he” said the boy once again but Flora still refused to reply.

The boy finally decided to stop asking Flora and then focused his attention on David.

“What’s your name kid?” asked Steven.

“Kid, but you don’t look that old. How old are you? You look like you’re about my age” said David which enrages the boy.

“I didn’t ask of an age?” said the boy.

“But you called me kid implying that your older but you don’t look older or are you one of those people that look younger than their actual age,” said David.

David’s reply to the boy’s question made everyone seated on the table laugh, even Flora who had shown only one emotion since she and David met (anger) laughed as well.

“Do you have any brains in that head of yours,” said the angry boy.

“What kind of question is that, of course I have a brain don’t you have one as well” said David, making everyone in the table laugh once again.

The boy was not filled so much rage that his entire boy began to turn red and heat up.

“What’s that smell? Wait you’re burning up. I can you help cool down” said David upon realizing that the boy was heating upon, he then grabbed a cup of water and poured it on the boy’s face.

The heat from the boy’s body turned the water in to steam immediately it reached it body causing him to look at David with a look of pure rage and anger in his eyes.

The boy looked like he wanted to kill David.

“Why you…” the boy got up to attack David but was stopped by Flora saying, “do that and you’ll get in to trouble and considering your past history of violence your punishment would probably be expulsion from the academy. Now imagine what would happen if your parents heard that you got expelled from the academy”.

The boy upon hearing what Flora said decided to leave him alone.

“I just lost my appetite” said the boy, glaring at David before leaving.

David then sighed out of relief as the boy left, scared that the boy would have done something if Flora did intervene.

“That wasn’t very smart you know,” said Flora.

David upon hearing what Flora said smiled before saying, “yeah I know but I figured if I annoyed him enough, he would leave, I didn’t think he would go as far as fight me”.

“Lucky for you Flora saved you, Steven is one of the most dangerous students in the academy. Everyone who has ever crossed him ended up in the academy infirmary, he has been in more fights than anyone other student in the academy and each of those fight ended with him beating the person that had dared to fight half to death” said the boy with spectacle.

David upon hearing what the boy with spectacles said felt his heart beat faster with fear, feeling more grateful to Flora for saving him from the boy.

“Thank you so much Flora, if it wasn’t for you, I would have been as good as dead,” said David.

“No worries, besides seeing the look on Steven’s face before he left was priceless” said Flora with a smile on his face.

“Flora, don’t be mean, his still my twin brother you know,” said the girl.

“What? That guy is your brother” said David shocked to hear that girl that seemed so kind and sweet had such an angry, bitter and troublesome brother.

“Yes, he is and he isn’t such bad guy, he can be a little nice sometimes,” said the girl.

“Steven being nice, that’s like saying fire doesn’t burn” said Flora before she and the boy with black spectacles began to laugh.

David though, refused to laugh along with Flora and the spectacle wearing boy, focusing only the girl who bowed her head with sadness as Flora and the spectacle wearing by laughed at the idea of her brother being nice.

David upon seeing the sad look on her face felt bad and wanted nothing more than to make her smile.

“Hey, I’m sorry for what I did to your brother” said David to the girl.

“Why are you saying sorry, technically you didn’t do anything wrong apart from pouring water on him,” said the girl.

“Yeah, I guess I didn’t, did I” said David with a playful smile causing the girl to smile slightly.

“You’re funny,” said the girl.

“Well, my aim was to make you smile after all” said David which caused the girl to giggles a little.

“What’s your name” asked the girl.

“David, yours?” asked David.

“Susan” said the girl.

“That’s a really nice name, I was expecting some that like Marin, Watan” said David jokingly.

“You’re the one to talk, David isn’t exactly the name of an air dragon warrior, why weren’t you call windy or Airno” asked Susan playfully.

“Don’t know, I would have loved having a name like Airno though” said David jokingly causing Susan to giggle once again.

David upon seeing Susan giggle could help but smile.

Susan didn’t seem to be as angry or bitter about anything, she was kind with a warm heart, something David couldn’t help but admire about her.

Soon the sound a loud bell echoed through entire academy, then one by one the students finished their meals and left, and before David could or say anything, Susan was gone, leaving and then disappearing within the crowd of students that were leaving.

David thought about looking for in the crowd but was stop from doing so by Flora grabbing hold of his hand and dragging him out of the dining room.

As David left with Flora, he couldn’t help but feel sad and hoped that he would be opportune to see Susan once again within the walls of the academy.