Secret in the cave

Zak had just sold the two rabbit he got from his trap, he was going to buy the few things his aunty would need to cook dinner for them before he goes to assist his uncle at his blacksmithing shop, even though his uncle's work was good, only few people patronize him. Zak knew why it was like that, all the best location had been taken by wealthy or influential blacksmith, leaving other poor places for blacksmiths like his father. Zak's dream had always to become a Dragon knight, it was a well known fact that anyone who became a member of the Dragon knight would have their family standing be elevated. Anyone who was a Dragon knight was known to have great power and ability to fight, they were the ones sent to fight the dark monsters called Arwynns, they are dark horrible creatures that came in different shapes and forms with different magical strength. Becoming the lowest of the Dragon knight was not a difficult thing for the influential people in Ezra, only the peasants like Zak and his family are not able to afford it, cause it involved hunting of magical beast which lurk around the forest, mountains around Ezra. The magical crystal gotten from the beast was what was used to become a Dragon knight, the stronger the beast, the stronger the power the Dragon knight would acquire, some Dragon knight who use low level beast with enough training and talent could rival those with higher beast crystals. No amount of talent or training could allow a low or high level crystal compete with a rare one, so those with the rare crystals were usually the king and his family with other important hierachy like the General of the Dragon knight, the King's guard, ministers and a few wealthy individuals. Another way of becoming a Dragon knight was by winning the annual competition to celebrate the king, which the king would award the three winners with the a high, medium and low crystals according to the positions of the winners. Zak had been preparing hard for the competition, every day after helping his father at the shop, he would go to the forest, where he knew magical beast or Arwynns could not get to, he would train with his bow, and an old rusty sword he had bought from a shop, he couldn't take any of his father's materials to make a sword for himself, cause his father didn't have much in his shop to spare for his little project, everything in his father was Forged to be sold for money or else they would be in debt or start borrowing to survive, so when Zak had seen the sword and inquired about the price, he had brought it because of how cheap it was. Now that he was through with the work at the shop, Zak began to head to the training, reason he was so confident of archiving at least the third position was because, non of the influential son's of the rich, or anyone who had acquire a magic crystal would bother to participate, so the fight would only be among the less privilege like him. Zak had already immersed himself in his training, he was already sweating, when he heard a sound as if someone was watching him and was now trying to retreat quietly. Zak could hear the sound, because of his years of hunting, quickly he pick the bow and arrows, with the rusty sword by his side in it scabered. Zak began to track the noise and follow it, till he reached a cave. The cave entrance was big, Zak was scared to enter but his thoughts kept pushing him to enter, Zak had just entered when a strong smell of blood entered his nose, soon he began to see traces of blood everywhere. Zak kept on going deeper into the cave, then he saw something he didn't expect to see, it was huge and white as a chalk. This was a white Dragon, an injured white Dragon.

The Dragon was severely injured and it's breathing was shallow, Zak didn't know if he should run or stay, he was scared to get close to the Dragon. The Dragon was watching Zak, as it breathed it's last breath and died, Zak didn't know if it was pretending to be dead, so he waited a very long time to be sure. After waiting for an hour. Zak summon enough courage to go near it, he used his sword stab at the Dragon, he was amazed to see it didn't move, so he striked harder, the second time and was surprised it didn't move still, even though he didn't have enough power like Dragon knights to be able to Pierce the Dragon scale, the force he was using was enough to make the Dragon react, unless it was truly dead, this gave Zak more confidence to move closer to it when he was already close enough for the Dragon to be able to easily kill him and yet it wasn't doing anything. Zak was sure it was dead, he was happy because it meant he could get the magic crystal of the Dragon, from his understanding of magical beast, Zak knew that Dragons were rare magical beast with rare magic crystal, what he didn't know was that Dragons were extremely rare magical beast, and only one person had been able to aquire a Dragon crystal in the history of Ezra. This person was Ezra himself the first ruler of the kingdom. When the kingdom was in great peril, on the brink of destruction by the Arwynns, a young Noble had heard of a tale about how men became powerful by taking magical beast crystals, so he set out to hunt the most strongest magical beast, the white Dragon, but he failed to find one, he was only able to acquire the crystal of a gold Dragon, Ezra became so powerful that he was able to repel the forces of the Arwynns alone, soon all of Ezra started adopting his method and began hunting magic crystal, they made him king and name the kingdom after him, since then his descendants had been ruling. Zak was now trying to get the crystal, but was not strong enough to pry the scale off.

It took him a long time before he could pry enough scale to be able to search the Dragon for the crystal, in the process, the sharp scale had injured his hand but the joy about what he was about to acquire made him neglect his pain and injury. Soon he fished out a white crystal. Zak was extremely over joyed as he watched the milky white crystal in his hand.