The Flames of Life

Chapter 1

Do I know you?

I wrote down the math problem and sigh as I complete it quickly. My name is Silver Flame, I have long, brown hair that reaches down to my waist that I usually tie in a ponytail when I go to school. I usually wear a blue t-shirt and jeans. The bell rings loudly and all of the students rush out of school, eager to get some free time as I trudge out of school. I start to walk home as I feel a hand grip my shoulder tightly. I whip around to see the new guy at school, his name was...

"Hi there, my name is Hunter..." He says awkwardly.

I reply uneasily, "H-Hi, I'm Silver..." He looks strangely familiar, like... A thought rushes into my head and it flows out as fast as it came in.

"Are you ok?" he asks, worried.

I reply, "I-I'm fine..."

I say bye, but we both walk the same way. "Your home is this way too?" he asks. "Yeah..." I reply. I reach my house and wave bye to him as I walk in. I sank down onto the floor and cry for hours on end. I finally got up and manage to force myself to make some food. I stomp upstairs and fell into bed. Sleep engulfs me in seconds. The next day, I didn't realize it was Saturday. I get up and hear the doorbell ringing. I open the door and see Hunter standing there. He says, "C-can I... come in?" I reply, "Sure, c'mon in." I offer him a seat as he grimaces, "You still don't know about it, do you?" I tilt my head as tears flood his eyes.

He looked at me sadly and says, "You still don't know about the two of us, do you...?" I replied, "What is it?" He says, "You don't remember from when we were young... You and I are related. Not until the Savages came. Our parents..." I stare at him. "Our parents.... they're dead."

I just look at him blankly as tears fall down onto the wooden floor. So there is one person, one person in this cruel world that feels the same pain that I do. I bury my head in my knees as I sob uncontrollably. The memories flow into my mind as I remember the monsters who killed my parents. They did horrible things... I couldn't even think about it without crying even more. The Savages... They tore at our house, the place we called home, took our precious belongings, burned it down..... and killed my parents... The huge swords and powerful guns they had... They were no match for my parents' small daggers. They drove the weapons into their chest... the blood flowing like a river. I don't resist as his arms wrap around me and I fall asleep soon after.

Hunter is still holding me as I wake up and realize that he is my only relative alive. "We can get revenge," he says, a twinkle in his eye. "How," I ask. He says, "One way. There is only one way that we can kill Savages. We have to get dragons." I reply, "Don't joke around. Tell me." He said bitterly, "I'm not lying. Want me to show you?" I follow him to The Cliffs, the place that nobody has dared went to. Most people disappeared when they entered. Soon, I forget about those rumors as I see two small eggs. He cares for the small eggs as one of them splits in half, the other soon after. One of the baby dragons growl cutely as I see his colors. They were black as the night with dark grey stripes streaking across his body. Another one of them yawned as I see her beautiful sapphire blue scales shining in the sunlight. Hunter says, "These are going to be our dragons. Their colors will be more brighter and beautiful when they grow, and trust me, dragons grow very fast. In a week, these are going to be half the size of us. It'll probably be only one month when they're big enough to ride. I think my dragon is a Dark Dragon, and yours is an Ice Dragon... Oh, excuse me, there are many types of dragons. For instance, mines is a Dark Dragon. Powers of the Night, Stars, and really anything to do with the dark. Yours can bend ice and water to form weapons or anything they want, so yours is an Ice Dragon." I tilt my head as he says, "Uh... You'll understand it sooner or later." He hands me a small piece of meat and my dragon hops up my arm to get it. She nibbles on it and squeaks a word."Silwer!" I translate it to my name, Silver, and both of us laugh. We carry the dragon to my house and I say, "Well, I guess you should be going now, Hunter." He replies, "Uh... I don't have a house..." I remark, "But yesterday you were walking the other way..." Hunter sighs, "I was faking it." I say, "Well... You could always stay here if you'd like. I have an extra room upstairs." I put my dragon in the backyard as it ran around playfully with Hunter's dragon. I show him the extra room and he feels the bed. We walk downstairs as I grab a small ball and throw it into the backyard. The dragons toy with it, but then my dragon became attracted to the water. She could turn it into ice and turn it back into water, and she could even bend it- Oh yeah, Hunter said my dragon could do that. I walk upstairs and fell asleep in minutes.