// bleh bleh // = thought speech
//Baby steps, baby steps,// Blackcole Dragis said. He laughed, watching his daughter fell on her bottom. The baby was in her human form for the first time, looking like a five year old. She was trying to learn how to walk.
Black, as he was called, laughed again. //Little steps, Silverscale...//
Silver glared up at her father. "Oh, I'd like to see you do better father," she grumbled. Her mind was obviously not that of a five year old human child. She wiped her silvery white hair out of her eyes and stared across the grassy forest blanket at her father.
It was true Black had not went in his human form for almost one thousand years. He was too used to his dragon ways to change suddenly, but he wanted his daughter to know about both sides of her history; where she had came from. Human and dragon, because as odd as it might seem to some people dragons really were humans cursed into their scaly form many, many years ago.
//Mind your manners,// Black said, flapping his wing toward the human dragon-girl.
THUMP.
The wind from Black's wing sent her flying, causing her to fall on her bum again.
"Father! I won't learn if you joke around!"
60 years later.
After watching the killing of her parents and many other of her kind, Silverscale, or Silver as she was mostly know as, set off alone and scared. Her parents were gone, leaving only the most cruel dragons behind; the ones who completely forgot their human ways.
Silver had to get away from that. She did not feel evil. She had a human heart, even if she had no real idea how to be a human. She could look like one, talk in their language, but how was she supposed to act around them?
Silver stumbled to the ground, her white and small dragon body tumbling a few times, like a human child trying to do a flip flop. She straightened up and looked around her surroundings.
FLAP!
Silver jumped, at least she jumped as best a dragon could jump, when suddenly a razor sharp end of a tail was at her neck. Her scales fluttered, making a musical clinking noise. With her bright blue eyes, she looked at her attacker.
It was a beautiful male dragon, around Silver's size, so just a child like her. He was copper in color, and his eyes were wide, as if he was just as scared as Silver was.
//What is your name?// the copper dragon asked.
//Silverscale Dragis// Silver answered.
The copper dragon seemed to relax a little, the images Silver was sending him with her words were what he wanted to see. He lowered his tail.
//I'm sorry. I had to make sure you still have your human heart. This is the territory for a clan of outcasts from all over... we're a peaceful group...//
Silver opened her mouth wide; her version of a smile. //I'm peaceful!//
The copper dragon growled, his laughing apparent in Silver's mind.
//Then welcome to our clan, Silverscale. Be careful of the human village. It's rather close. We only eat from the waters surrounding the area, so we don't give ourselves away to the humans...//
Silver nodded her head. //I can so do that!//
And with that Silver finally found a home where she could belong, but there was still a part of her that deeply longed for the world she should be a part of, her other half, her human side. For months and months, she moved a little closer toward the village, flying above the trees, trying to see human life, but too scared to go all the way to the village. Sometimes she changed into human form and walked as close to the humans territory as she dared, climbing and hiding in trees. She was very good at hiding, could stay up there for hours without making any sounds. She prayed one day that a human might come by and she would get a glimpse. It never happened, because she never got close enough to the humans.
Silver flew a few feet above the ground. The child dragon was playing a game with her fellow clan members. It was a hide and seek game. All the other dragons were in their human forms, hiding somewhere in the forest, while Silver was in her dragon form, trying to find them. Of course, she could search in her human form too, but this way was faster, especially when she could fly higher.
So far though she wasn't having much luck. A deep fog had settled in over the land, the weather about to take a turn for the worst, so Silver, even with her superior eyesight, could not see anything.
The dragon landed, letting her wings fold against her side.
If she were in her human form she would be pouting right about now.
//Where could they be? Maybe they are down by the pond?// Silver hesitated for a moment, because the pond was a little closer to the human territory, but she eventually decided it would be okay to go. Humans had never been seen at the pond before, so why would one come now?
With that thought in mind, she waddled toward the pond. When she got there, she saw nobody. She was disappointed, because it looked like her friends would win this game. Oh well, she thought.
Silver hovered a foot or two off the ground and flew to the water edge, and then dipped in, eating a fish or two. She then dived into the water and started to splash and play around.