BK 1: Chapter 42 Dragonkin

I select a sixty Gate Keepers from twenty Geoborn, five Hydrokin, five Aerkin, ten Manaborn, five Forceborn, five Floraborn and ten Starborn.

I empower each GateKeeper with a drop of Mystic, a spark of Arcanum and a drop of Primordial Matter.

Thus enhancing all their magical capabilities, and increasing the power of their elemental aspects.

Geoborn became harder and tougher.

Hyrdokin became colder and faster.

Aerkin became lighter yet denser.

Manaborns' mana became mystical mana, increasing the power of their magic drastically, the spark of Arcanum opening the way to a new path of power.

Eventually they will discover how to refine mana into Arc, but for now, the can only draw Arc from their Arcanum sparks.

Forceborn gained better control of gravity and magnetism.

Flora born grew healthier and stronger with nearly infinite stamina.

Starborns' fires grew hotter turning blue and white, their flames denser each starborn with the power of a dwarf star.

After placing each gatekeeper near their assigned World Gate, I told them to retrieve their Drop Orb from one of the stone pillars topped with Mystic Orbs.

For each drop orb, a single drop of mystic fell into the pillar, a hatch opening at the bottom of the pillar, with a stone orb containing a single drop of mystic within.

These orbs are capable of turn into tools, weapons and powerful guard dogs made of stone.

The task now completed I turn my gaze to Origin.

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A lone female dragon kin walked through a small village on the eastern edge of a western coastal Kingdom known as, The Conch Kingdom.

The Star River Styx shone down on the massive trees surround the village flanked by two hills.

The Village huts made of wood their people poor and uneducated.

This lone female dragon kin dressed in rags had just turned eighteen today, but nobody not even her celebrated.

Walking down the village path children threw rocks at her, and jeered, calling her an abomination or a monster.

The adults sneering in disgust.

A cold warm gust blew her black hair over her eyes and the bright clear skies began to form clouds then rain.

The children and adults fled inside from the pouring rain, but Kendra the dragonkin woman had nowhere to go.

No home to call her own, not after her mother was killed by supposed bandits, that everyone knew was really the town baker.

Raindrops pour down onto her horns that point forward around the sides of her head, raindrops flowing down her hair and over her pale skin and down her scaly forearms, to the tips of her sharp curved claws.

Flowing down her long thick black scaly tail, ending in an arrowhead shape, her feet covered in black scales going up her shins to her knees.

Her long-clawed feet dragging through the mud, her hair soaked over her emaciated frame, her large black leathery wings shake off the rain as they flap.

She begins to move her wings to cover her head but they fall back down, her spirit giving in as she wandered into the forest.

Kendra thinks, 'It's no use...'

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In another part of the Conch Kingdom a strapping healthy young male dragonkin of age 25, walks down a road in a middle-class fishing village on the coast.

His name is Carlos, originally from the Trones Kingdom.

Carlos walks into a shop, and up to the counter.

Merchant, "Carlos my boy, what brings you to my little shop!"

Carlos, "Bernard good to see you, I've come to buy some pearls.

You got any?"

Bernard the Merchant, "Pearls, pearls… ah! Yes, we do have some just got a shipment in from Pepe. How many you need?"

Carlos, "About twenty should be enough for a necklace?"

Bernard, "No no no, Carlos my friend, you need at least thirty. I tell you what I will give you discount on the house."

Carlos, "Really?"

Bernard, "Shelly do you hear this!! I tell Carlos I give Discount he say 'Really' as if I am not most honest merchant in Baybos."

A loud feminine shout comes from the back, "Just Take The Money!!!"

Bernard, "Just take the money she says, just take the money, as if I would go back on my word. Bah Women.

Carlos, I give you discount free of charge, I say 20% off pearls, deal?"

Carlos, "Of course! I would be happy to take the deal, Bernard.

That said how much for the pearls?"

Bernard, "For thirty pearls at twenty percent off… Hmmm..."

Another feminine shout comes from the back, "Its eight gold pieces Bernard!!!"

Bernard, "I knew that Shelly!

Eight gold pieces my friend, just eight."

Carlos takes out his coin pouch and takes out eight gold pieces placing them on the counter.

Carlos, "There you go."

Bernard, "Wonderful, wonderful, here are your pearls, my friend. Have a good day."

Carlos shouts back as he walks out the shop, "You too Bernard, you too."

Walking out the shop and down the road, Carlos is greeted by many people, friends and acquaintances alike.

Finally exiting town an Old Dragon lands in front of him.

Old Dragon, "You done, son?"

Carlos, "Ya just wanted to get some pearls for a pearl necklace as a gift for Elizabeth, it'll be our anniversary soon, you know how women are."

Old Dragon, "Not really..."

Flying up onto the Old Dragon's back Carlos and his dad the Old Dragon took off into the sky toward a dragonkin settlement on the northern continent.

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Arriving in a small clearing after a few hours walk Kendra looks up at the sky and begins to weep, but suddenly she sees an Old Dragon quickly flying toward her on the horizon.

In but a few seconds the Old Dragon lands In front of her.

Old Dragon "It is time child, time to make your choice will you stay among the humans?

Or will you come to live among our kind."

Kendra, "What, what do you mean who are you? Who am I to you?"

Old Dragon, "I am Edris, and I am your Father."

Kendra, "If you are my father what have you been doing all these years while I have suffered?!!"

Edris the Old Dragon, "As a dragonkin a mix between dragon and human, I am Not allowed to interfere until you are of an age where you can decide what life to live on your own.

Today you are of age.

There is a land to the north where not only dragons but dragonkin such as yourself live.

Dragonkin have built settlements and towns there protected by my kind directly.

As is afforded by you all being our descendants."

Kendra, "...Take me there. Please."

Edris, "Of course my daughter."

Weeping tears of relief Kendra got on Edris's back and he carried her northward to the land of dragons.