Creatures Caves

This isn't an apirl fools.

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Edit: I've finished the first chapter. But right now I'll just release the name and "proluge" until someone else posts.

The Lythian Chronicles
By KC11
Book One: Light and Darkness

Prologue
Once, at the beginning of time, the dragons of the sun and moon walked among the gardens of earth for many years. However, man came and began to destroy the gardens. The dragons managed to save a few of the gardens, hiding them from the eyes of most men, only letting a fair few settle in the lands. Lythia is one of those gardens.

Lythia is one garden which holds many humans. All the humans have had all access to outside technologies cut off. Their most complicated vehicle is something that looks like a three wheeled bicycle. Their most complicated heating device is a bundle of logs. On and on like that.

In Lythia, as well as in most other gardens, there are animals, both known in our world and unknown. Everything, from rats to dragons, exists in Lythia.
These books illustrate the greatest turning points of Lythia. The greatest epic story of Lythia. And it all began with the misstep of one ordinary man…

Edit: Seeing as no one has bothered to post, I will post the first chapter:

Chapter One
The Dragon of Light

“Where am I?”
A man was lying on the floor of a hall. He had slightly long black hair, with slight flecks of gray in it. He was rather tall, and carried only a sword as his weapon. His name was Medek.
Medek got up from the cold floor and looked about. He was in a hall lit only by the torches on the wall. At the end of the hall was a wooden door with rusty hinges. He looked down the other side of the hall to see nothing but blackness.
He shook his head.
“How did I get here?” he wondered.
He tried to remember what had happened. He remembered that he had been hunting in the forest for Elkie. Then he had found one and chased it. It had gone off the path, so he followed it. Then he lost track of it.
He then remembered something else. He had been trying to find the path again when he suddenly felt a hard blow to his head. He had just seen a human shaped shadow bending over him before he lost conscience.
None of this made sense to him. He assumed he had been kidnapped. But why? What would anyone want with him, a simple hunter? He scratched his head thinking.
Then there was the fact that he was not in an apparent prison. He was simply in a hallway, sitting there.
“Perhaps they dropped me.” He thought, although he also thought that unlikely.
He waited for a while, then decided to try and see what was on the other side of the wooden door.
Slowly he walked to the door. Slowly again he opened the door. As he did so, he drew out his sword, ready for anything that was behind the door.
When the door was open wide enough, he quietly slipped inside.
The room was filled with cages, all stacked up against the walls of the chamber. There were also sticks, whips, and weapons of the like. Medek looked in the middle of the room.
Right in the middle of the room was an enormous cage. It almost reached the ceiling in height, and it was wide enough to hold a rather large elephant. And inside the cage lay…

“A dragon!” he thought.
There lay a dragon, asleep. It was a she, for she had rather short horns on her head. She also seemed to be at the point between teen and adult, judging by her size and proportions. She had blue purple scales, with lightning blot markings on both sides of her, and the most brilliant sun marking on the top of her head.
“The Sign of the Sun!” whispered Medek. “She is a major light dragon! From the look of her scale colors and markings, she must be a lightning dragon!”
At once, the great dragon began to twitch, then slowly woke up. Medek dashed behind a desk to hide, just in case the dragon got frightened and hit him with fire, or worse, a bolt of lightning.
The dragon rose up, shook her head, and looked around with blue eyes. Medek gasped. A dragon with blue eyes was extremely rare.
She looked right at the corner where Medek hid, and said “I know you are there. There is no good in hiding. I heard you’re thoughts when you were trying to decide to go in.”
Medek came out, looked around, then asked “Heard my thoughts? You can read minds?”
The dragon rolled her eyes, then said “Of course. You humans are so dim witted sometimes. I am a dragon, meaning I can read minds.”

“Not all dragons can read minds.” Said Medek, a little annoyed.
“Maybe, but most can.”
The dragon stretched as much as the cage would allow. Then she fixed her blue eyes back on Medek.
Medek was a little discomforted by the piercing eyes, so he cleared his throat and asked “Great dragon, could you please tell me what your name may be?”
The dragon sat upright, and looked at the human. Then she said “You may call me Safire.”
“Er, right, Safire.” Said Medek, scratching his neck. “You seem to have been kidnapped and are now trapped in that cage.”
“Took you long enough to figure that one out.” Commented Safire.
“And there seems to be no way I can get you out.” Continued Medek.
“Actually…” but Safire didn’t get to finish. For right then the door creaked open.
Medek leapt behind the desk and hid there, watching what was going on.
A man walked in, his black boots clunking against the hard floor. Medek looked up to see that the man also wore a black cloak. Medek’s eyes followed a rod that the man carried.
There seemed to be nothing special about the rod. It was black and long, like most rods. But Medek sensed something else. The thing had magical power. Dark magical power.
As Medek watched, the man lifted the rod up to the cage.
“Hey, lizard. Where’s your little green one?”
“I have told all of you men, I have no idea where he is.” Said Safire, coldly.
“You liar.” And with a swift, sudden motion, the man whipped the rod and beat Safire cruelly on her head. She screamed in agony. Medek understood why. The rod was filled with dark magic. Dark magic and the dark was the greatest weakness of light dragons. If left in the dark to long or hit with dark magic, they would weaken, then die.
The man laughed a cruel laugh, then when the hitting was done, he left.
Medek slowly came out of his hiding place.
“Are you alright?” he asked.
Safire didn’t say anything at first, then said “No.”
Medek sighed. He then said “As I said before, there is nothing I can do for you. So I guess you’re stuck here.”
“Actually, there are some keys on that table over there.” Said Safire, gesturing over to a table nearby. “I believe they are supposed to open this cage.”
Medek looked over at the table. Sure enough, there were a few large keys on that very table. Slowly he crept over there, all the while looking around, checking to make sure no one came.
It was then that he heard a pounding on the roof. Medek froze where he was. The pounding increased, and some splinters fell to the floor.
Safire looked up to see that the roof was slowly beginning to cave in. She was a little worried. She thought that if the roof did cave in, it would fall on both of them. It would certainly kill the human, and perhaps cause her some injury. And what was trying to get in?
The pounding noise continued to increase in frequency and volume. Medek began to look for something to duck under. The desk again saved his life.
Just as he ducked beneath the desk, the roof had had enough, and a shower of splinters, wood, and the like came down with a huge crash.
Medek and Safire shielded their eyes against the blinding dust as it came down. They slowly peaked through their hands to see just what happened.
The shadow of a dragon came through the light and dust. As the dust cleared, the dragon came forward, right to the center of the room.
When the dust was completely gone, they were all amazed. They could tell the dragon was female right away. She had dark scales, purple-black. She had jet black wings, and dark purple eyes. Horns sprung up all over her. She was a bit larger than Safire, but just a bit.
“Hello.” She said “I am Viara.”