Chapter 1(Josephs PoV) Hes Here

I stared at the ceiling, as I knew that Julia was already asleep at this point. I had just been staring up for hours now, and it was nearly impossible for me to fall asleep now. I tried closing my eyes, but it did little to help me. There really was not much going on my mind, so I was not so sure what it was that was keeping me up.

Sure, I knew that the next few days were in fact going to be the roughest days of my life. Hell, I knew that the rest of my life was going to be rough. At some point I would get used to it however. Even if humanity, and I, some how managed to make it out of this war, I was never going to be the same.

I still had nightmares, as if I was the one that had seen the death of my mother, and it had not been my father. Maybe it was because me and my father shared the same blood, I often tended to forget that, as I had never gotten close to him.

Could you really blame me for it though? John might not have known what my father had been like before all of this had started going down, but the rest of us, besides the people that owned this house, we were all well aware of it.

He hated himself for it as well, at least he knew that he had made a mistake. It was not that it was his fault that my mother had died... They were going to find her, and kill her no matter what went down. It was the fact that he had wasted his whole life, and all of his time with her, over his drinking problem.

John knew that he had a drinking problem, and that was the reason that no one believed that he had not killed his wife. He did not know how much to the extent of what he was like. I felt sick as I remembered him coming home some nights, drunk as hell, and yelling at my mother and hitting her.

He never tried to kill her, and I knew that he would have never done that, even before I had found out that dragons had been in fact real. He loved her so much, though he never did treat her like he did. I knew that he did care for her so much though.

I turned my head over to Julia, as to my surprise, I saw that she had in fact, not been asleep, like I thought that she might have. I blinked a few times, just making sure that she had in fact been awake this whole time. I then nodded to her as well, as I saw her squint her eyes at me.

I looked at her, with a bit of a guilty look on my face. I knew that she did not like it when I was all lost in thought. She always told me that I spent too much time thinking, and not enough time living. I knew that she was right, and I lowered my head to the ground, at the same time as well.

I stared at the blanket that was below her, the same blanket that I was on as well. It was warm, and I knew that at a time like this, I was lucky to have a place like this to live. I knew that for most others in the world right now, they could not say the same.

The cities were all empty, besides maybe a few people that still risked being in them, that might be hiding in their houses, sometimes going out in the streets to scavenge up some food, rationing what little food they could get a hold of.

I closed my eyes, as it sickened me at the same time as well, knowing what the world had come to at this point. I closed my eyes, as just as I did that, I felt soft, but warm little fingers stroking down my chin, lifting my head up as well.

I opened my eyes, as I saw that it was Julia. Not that I thought that it might very well could be anyone else. Hell, even Zoe had leaned off of me, now that she saw that me and Julia were together. I knew that it had really hurt her, and at first I had thought that she only liked me because I had a small sort of power.

She actually seemed to be genuinely hurt by the fact that she saw that me and Julia were together, side by side every day. I shook my head, as I turned my eyes over to my lover, Julia, at the same time as well. I then began to speak to her, seeing that she looked as though she might be a bit hurt, and I was confused as to what it was that it could be.

"Are you alright Julia? You should be asleep at this point..." I said to her. She looked at me for just a few moments, as she went back to what it was, that she had been doing before, which had been squinting her eyes at me. I stared back in to them, not letting it phase me one bit.

John had told me to do that as well, at first I really had not liked him all that much, but now I saw that we had a lot in common in fact. Padre told me that he was a future version of me. At first I had thought of it as a joke, but now I wondered if he had been joking, or maybe he was dead serious.

I was not sure, Padre liked to joke around a lot. He said that it lit up the tone in the room. He said he did not like seeing people in pain all of the time. I knew he was right on that as well. I shook my head, as I heard Julia begin to speak to me, and I made sure to focus in on her voice.

"Joseph... It is hard for me to sleep with you rolling around the bed every few seconds..." She said to me. I looked at her for just a few moments once again, as I was quite a bit tired in fact, though it had been hard for me to fall asleep.

I stared at her for just a few moments longer, as I then took in what it was that she had said to me. I felt a bit bad fot her as well, as I had not realized that it had been my fault that she was having struggles sleeping as well. I just could not help myself.

It was so hard for me to sleep for some reason, though it was not really because I had my mind trapped in thoughts a lot of the time. I really did not want to fall asleep, and be in a dream where I was talking to a dragon.

I had met with those dragons about a month ago now, and they had not acted evil at all. It really did not have anything to do with that at all. It was because I knew that half of the time I fell to sleep, I was going to have a dream with dragons in it.

I really did not want to dream of them any more. I knew that I had to as well though, as the fate of the world depended on it. The red dragons were on our side in this, but unlike me, they did not have the special power that I had, where they could see the black dragons in there dreams.

I knew that I had to see them though, I only had dreamed of them a few times recently, and it really seemed like they had some sort of evil plan that they were conjuring up. One that was hard for me to find out about it as well, which made sense, because Plyma knew I saw him in my dreams.

I felt like they knew exactly where we were at right now, but at the same time as well, I knew that there was nothing that they could do about it. If worse came to worse, and the world did come to an end, this was the only safe place away from the dragons.

I did not even know the power that my uncle had, nor did I think that I could ever conjure up something as powerful as he had, to put a big spell on a place like this, that made it impossible for the dragons to see it, or to get in to this place.

It would not kill them if they did, but they would not see what we saw if they got in here. At least, that is what it was that Joseph had told me about the spell that he had made on the place. I shook my head, as I saw that Julia had her eyes squinted at me again.

I looked at her a bit confused, as I had been lost in thought, and I thought that maybe she had said something to me. I then realized that she had a few moments ago, but that had been before I had gotten myself lost in thought. I gulped to myself a bit.

I was not scared of her, but I felt a bit bad for her, that I had not been making her any sort of a priority in my life as of recently. That was only going to get worse as well, once I began to start with my training. She knew that too, and I could tell that it hurt her even more as well.

I then nodded to her, as I suddenly remembered as to what it was that she had just said to me, and it made me feel a slight bit worse at the same time too. I looked at her for just a few moments, as I then finally decided to speak back to her, after the long period of silence that had been in the room.

"I'm sorry... It is just hard for me to want to go to sleep. I know that any night I could see the dragons in my dream... I'm just... Im just tired of it." I said to her. She looked at me for a few moments, as this time she decided that she was going to be the one that was going to lower their head down to the ground.

I felt a bit bad for her as well, as for the fact that I had been keeping her up so late because I was the one that did not want to fall asleep. I am sure that she had a different view on that, and I could tell that she was tired, just by the look on her face as well.

I knew that she had not been just sitting around, doing nothing through all of this. She had been taking care of the crops around the land, especially since the cold season was already coming upon us as well. It was going to get quite a bit hectic, and I knew that for a fact.

I looked at her for just a few moments, as I saw that she finally decided that she was going to lift her head up at me, and begin to speak to me. I nodded for her to go ahead and do so as well, as she nodded back to me, as I listened to her begin to talk.

"I know it is... I know those dreams can get a bit scary as well. Just know that you have me by your side... If you have that, than just know that nothing bad will happen to you." She said to me. I looked at her for a few moments, as I then suddenly began to smile at her.

It felt a bit strange, being able to smile as well, as I had not smiled all that much in the last year and a half. It felt a lot better than having the same frown on my face, that I had nearly every day. I could say that for a fact, as I saw her smile back at me.

I then moved up close to her, and I gave her a quick little kiss on the lips. She always knew how to make me smile, even if she did not know the full extent of what it was that really had me down. Like for what she had just said to me for example.

For a while, the dragons had scared me a bit. I had managed to get used to them however, and when I had seen that they were not nearly as big as the dragons that I had read about in stories, they did not scare me nearly as much as I would have thought that maybe they would have.

I knew that they were still dangerous, they were stronger, and they were faster than a human was... Unless they were in the woods, that was at least. I had been told by John, that if you got in to a fight with a dragon, to find the nearest batch of trees, and to use that to my benefit.

I shook my head once again, as I knew that I should not have my thoughts on that at the moment, as Julia had just said something to me a few moments ago as well. I blinked a few times, to get my focus on that, and try to remember what it was that she had said to me.

This time she did not have her eyes squinted on me, like she usually tended to do. It seemed as if she understood me a bit more now, and she felt a bit bad for me. I closed my eyes, as I moved up closer towards her, and then I began to speak back to her.

"Thank you Julia... I love you so much, I want you too know that I would do any thing for you..." I said back to her. She looked at me for a few moments, as I saw another familiar smile go up on her face again. This time she decided that she was going to step up, and give me a kiss.

It made me feel so much better as well, as she was practically my everything now. All I had left at this point, was her, and my sister. I had to save them at all cost, they were my everything. I sat there for just a few moments, as we locked our eyes on each others.

She was the most beautiful thing that I had ever laid my eyes on. I felt bad for her as well, as I knew that her past had been much worse than mine had, that was as long as you did not count the last 2 years of being my past. She nodded to me, and I nodded back to her, as I listened to what it was that she had to say to me as well.

"I know you do Joseph... I love you as well... We will make it through all of this, and you will save the world." She said to me. I nodded to her, and then she kept on speaking, as I listened to what it was that she had to say to me. "You get some sleep now...

I looked at her for just a few moments, as it seemed a bit strange to me the way that she had worded that to me. I shook my head, as I had gotten the general jest of what it was that she had said to me, as it had warmed me up at the same time as well.

She turned her head away from me however, as it seemed that the last part of what she had said to me, had been more aimed towards the fact that she was trying to tell me that she was tired, and she needed to be the one that needed to get some sleep.

I let out a bit of a quiet sigh, as I just looked back up at the ceiling for just a few moments. I knew that she was right, with all that she had just said to me as well. I really needed to get some sleep, as I in fact then realized how tired I had been.

I closed my eyes, as I moved up close to Julia, and then I let our skin touch up to each others. It warmed me up a bit, as it had been so cold in the room, and then I finally managed to get myself into a deep set of sleep.

I blinked a few times, as I woke up, and I looked around to see what it was that was around me. I sighed to myself at the same time as well, as I noticed that I had not woken up in my bed, like I would have on any sort of normal morning for me.

Instead, I realized that I was right up beside a cave. I knew instantly what was going on, as I knew that I was about to see some dragons. I looked around at my surroundings, as I had made a mental note in my last few dreams, that I should try to find out where it was that I might be at.

I noticed that this looked nothing like the red dragon camp, nor did it look like the familiar black dragon camp either. I looked into the cave that was in front of me, as I squinted my eyes at the same time as well, trying to focus in on the cave.

I blinked a few times, as I gave up after a few moments as well, as I noticed that there seemed to be nothing in the cave that I was outside of, in fact. I turned my head around, trying to see why I was here, and where any sort of dragon might possibly be at.

I then fell at the same time as well, as the fall seemed to hurt at the same time too. I thought that maybe I had fallen out of the bed that I had been sleeping in with Julia, but as I lifted my head up, I noticed that I was still in the same spot that I had been before.

I looked around a bit surprised, as I wondered what it was that had made me fall in the first place. I then realized what it was to my surprise in fact. This was no normal sort of dream at all, maybe this was just like those normal dreams that I used to have.

I noticed that I could walk around, and move my arms and my legs. At the same time however, I knew that it was still not a normal dream at all in fact. In a normal dream, like the dreams that I had when I was much younger, those dreams seemed to make very little sense at all.

I had a full grasp as to what it was that was going on around me at the exact moment however. I shook my head, as I closed my eyes, trying to figure out what it was that was going on. Just as I closed my eyes however, I heard a familiar voice, from not too far away from me.

I opened my eyes, and I blinked a few times, trying to figure out where it had come from. I heard another familiar voice begin to speak back to the 1st dragon that had just spoken. I then realized as to where it was that they were at.

They were a bit deeper into the woods, and they were not anywhere near the normal camp site that they usually liked to stay at. They must be having some sort of private meeting. Though I really did not want to see any more dragons, I knew that this could be something that could be very important, and something that I might have to tell John about as well.

I remembered that I could walk as well, unlike the other dreams that I could hear, and I could see dragons in. I began to walk over to where it was that I had heard the dragons speaking from as well, as I knew that it in fact had been dragons too, just based off of their strange voices that they had.

I then got up closer to them, as I then spotted one familiar dragon. Luckily, it was the dragon that could not see me as well, which was Joergen. The conversation would have ended right away, if it would have been Plyma that had their face pointed right at me.

I then realized who the other dragon that he had been with as well, as it had in fact been Plyma. Plyma looked at Joergen for just a few moments, as he had a bit of a strange, but calm and cool voice, as he was speaking to Joergen, I listened to what it was that he had to say to him as well.

"Make sure that Yikla is being followed, but not too closely, each time that she leaves the camp... Do not tell any others about it though... She has friends here." He said to Joergen. I squinted my eyes, as I was a bit confused as to what it was that he had been talking about. I had heard the name Yikla brought up in several conversations before.

The strange thing about it was, it was not just the black dragons that had spoken her name either. I had heard Yikla, Jangra, and Himla bring her name up, though Himla brought it up on the more rare occasion, and he seemed angry when he said her name as well.

Was Yikla, dare I say, a spy? If so, and if she was a black dragon as well, it made sense as to why Himla was angry when he brought up her name. I then remembered what Jangra had told me as well, about the black dragon he had fallen in love with, and then betrayed their whole tribe.

They must be talking about that dragon then, surely right? If that was the case, and she had been a spy that had betrayed them, than why did it seem like the black dragons were hesitant to trust her as well? Maybe she was playing with both of them.

I shook my head at the same time as well, as I focused my eyes over on Joergen. I could see that he had his eyes squinted at Plyma, not because he was trying to test his power, like he used to try to do, which I knew for a fact, which had been the reason that my father had been alive.

It seemed as if he more was not too sure about all of this just yet. It seemed like both the red dragons, and the black dragons were both using her, and hell, for all I know, she might have no idea about any of it. Joergen then began to speak, and I listened to what it was that he had to say.

"The red dragons do not trust her either though, what if they find out-" He had begun to start saying back to Plyma. Plyma suddenly stopped him in his place, as he had begun to speak back to Plyma. He looked at Plyma, quite a bit confused for just a few moments.

I was a bit confused as well at the same time too. I then saw that Plyma was beginning to look all around him at the same time, and I hid myself behind a tree, so that I would not be spotted. Plyma then turned his head back to Joergen, as he then began to speak to him.

"Hush... I think hes here..."