4 Heritage part 3

After Corentine was finished absorbing her heritage Mother looked at us "I will go and get more food for you do not leave this cave under any circumstances, I will teach you when I return."

With that Mother flew off leaving just my siblings and I in the cave alone. Having nothing else to do I decided to try and teach them the art of Draconic speech as it had come to me naturally. "Rawr (Corentine, Apollonia would you like for me to start to teach you how to converse as I am now?)" hearing me my sisters looked at each other then back at me and both nodded in unison. "Rawr- Growl (All you must do is use the sound your body naturally produces and imbue meaning into every part of it, you must give your vocalization meaning or it will just be noise with no purpose."

What followed was my sisters now trying their hardest to utter even a word in Draconic but where unable. Seeing that they were far from the level of mastery that I already possesed, I remarked "Rawr (If you cannot even master such a simple this as this what will you do when tasked with more difficult tasks such as the runes and magic circle for naming.)"

Having said my piece I returned to my alcove to sleep until mother returned with more food for us to consume.

I do not know how much time had passed but I awoke to the sound of Mothers wing beats in the distance. Knowing this meant that the intense hunger that now gripped my being would soon be gone I excitedly went to the center of the cave.

Corentine not having eaten anything substantial since hatching and only having consumed her shell seemed the most hungry out of the three of us. Initially I pitied her and considered letting her have some of my portion of the meal to come, but quickly revoked this thought understanding that it would only limit my own growth.

Mother landed at the cave entrance and made her way inside with what looked like a Giant Mammoth that had many tusks coming out of its face. I was initially surprised that Mother was able to fly with such a large beast in her jaws, but as I looked quizzically at her I could see the vestiges of many runic letters on her wings slowly disappearing. I immediately knew that she had used some sort of flight magic to propel herself through the sky despite having a beast half her size in her jaws.

Dropping the carcass in the center of the cave where our eggs once rested Mother stated "You must be quite hungry, it took some time to find a beast worthy of my children's needs."

"Eat your fill and once done I will educate you." Mother said after a pause knowing that any explanation given while her children where so hungry would be akin to have a conversation with one of the many stone pillars in the cave.

I quickly ran to the carcass without thinking and began to devour it, having gotten a head start on my two sibling once I got my fill before either of them were half was through their meal.

"Ensure that this carcass lasts longer than the last one I brought, I need to give it more time before I go hunting again or the humans may track my back here." Mother said while looking at us.

Hearing this my siblings decided to save what was left of the Mammoth, we had already eaten just shy of half of it so we needed to eat sparingly over the next few days.

"Come children I will finally enlighten you." Mother said while looking at her now satiated hatchlings. I made my way over to her and sat in-front of her large snout, now realizing it was the first time I had gotten so close to mother. She was massive, her wings spanning 80 whole meters, and with a body just under what looked to be 50 meters. Her mouth so large that it could swallow Corentine, Apollonia, and I whole and still have room to spare. Her scales the same sunset shade as Apollonia's, and holding up her massive frame where four legs thick as red wood trees. She had claws that dug into the caves floor when she walk due to the otherworldly sharpness they possessed.

When my other two siblings came and sat by my side Mother started "The Draconic heritage that I bestowed you upon my naming of each of you, is the culmination of our bloodlines entire history going as far back as when the creator first willed the first dragon into existence. As you grow you will slowly release more secrets that your heritage has to offer giving you more strength in the process. Remember that older members of our bloodline may have willing things out of the heritage at one point or another, so do not just idly wait for growth to gain strength. You must endeavor to think of new methods of mastery. As I said when you asked about the growth you received  when eating your dead sibling us dragons possess a extremely high magical potency, it is because of this fact that we have been hunted and enslaved to near extinction. Long ago dragons reigned supreme and all other sentient races worshiped us as their protectors. You see the very reason for our existence was to keep the realm of chaos at bay, but once the constant incurstions by the Dagarath the being that call that place home stopped some 3000 years ago. The humans, elves, and beast kin slowly forgot our importance, and eventually began to see us as overlords that must be cast aside."

"Even the with the long lives the elves possess at some living to be 400 years old all of the mortal races slowly passed off the Dagarath as nothing but a legend. But us of the dragon clan who are blessed with near immortality never forgot our purpose, the creator or as the humans now call him The Father gave us but one purpose. Protection of realm that we call home, Eringale.

"The creator upon willing us into existence gave us the command 'protect all which I have created, the humans who I blessed with adaptiblitly will need the most guidance, the elves who I blessed with a love of all nature and will seek to keep its balance, and the beast kin who are blessed with the strength of the creatures that dwell in this world. You are to lead them to prosperity and are not to use your power against them unless no other options are available to you.' and with that he disappeared from Eringale never to return.

"This prerogative given to us my the creator is the sole reason that after the Dagarath stopped their incursions we never retaliated against the races that we where tasked with protecting, unless in self defense. Causing our numbers to go from the thousands to what now is no more than a hundred. Even with our immense power granted to us by the creator, the coalition of humans, elves and beast kin singled out and have systematically killed the majority of the dragons for our bodies which grant great power to those who consume us and every other part can be used to forge weapons and armor of the most powerful caliber.

"As of now the elves and beast kin have stopped their crusade against us and formed their own countries on their own respective continents. Leaving the humans as the only race left that continues actively hunting our kind, the Dragon slayers they call themselves." Mother said while emitting a wave of blood lust so strong it left me reeling. Once she saw how her children were nearly about to pass out due to the shear pressure she was emitting she quickly pulled back in her formidable aura. "I am sorry my children but not long after laying the eggs that would come to produce you your father was cornered and overwhelmed by these dragon slayers, if not for that he would be here to assist me in raising you. Your father known as Vantor the Black was one of strongest dragons with the mark of destruction to every exist. It took a nearly one hundred thousand strong human host to bring him down, having been cornered in a vast canyon there was no escape one his wings where bound and the sky locked.

"Now that you understand the situation our race is in I will begin teaching you the art of rune creation, you will need to know how to create runes in order to create the magical circuits that make us dragons so formidable."