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** Sam**

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We had set up camp for the night and I could see my brothers camp not to far in the distance but all I could see was smoke. I could hear my men laughing, but couldn't hear anything from my brothers group, we were just close enough to see the smoke from there fire.

It had been a rough past few weeks with the rainy season starting.

I had dinner and went to bed. I have no clue what time it was when one of my men on watch at the time ran in.

"Captain there's something going on there a lot of smoking coming from the direction their camp is in."

I just out of bed and looked up at the sky it was filled with flames and smoke. Fear shot through me as I grabbed my sword and horse and took off leaving my men behind. I heard all of them getting up and leaving shortly behind me.

The only thing running through my mind was are they ok and to just hold on, we would be there soon.

I promised her. Nothing can happen to you Corey I promised.

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** 12 years ago**

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I was standing at the bedside of Corey's mother. She was dying. The healer had said she was t going to make it through the night.

She grabbed my hand and spoke. "Sam, I brought you and your sister in to be a part of my family and have raised you both as my own. You must promise me that you will take care of my son. He will be the leader of our tribe one day and he will need someone he can trust to be at his side and have his back. I need you to promise me you will stand by him and have his back no matter what."

"I promise I will protect him and do whatever it takes to make sure he rules and I will never betray my brother." I said.

"Good, I feel better knowing I'm leaving him and his life in good hands. Be his sword and his shield, as long as you both live." She said, her voice faint almost like a ghastly whisper.

"I will, I promise I will."

She smiled at me and my father took me out of the room as him and Corey came in. They spent the entire night by her side. She died with her son and husband at her side and surrounded by love and prayers of her people.

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** present day**

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I made a promise. I won't break it. Just hold on a little longer Corey.

I rode as fast as my house would carry me. I had seen a shadow in the sky for only a few minutes but long enough to know, it was a dragon. I watched it blow fire from its mouth and although I was close enough to see the flames hit the ground or hear any screams. I could feel the heat that it's fire was letting off and I could hear it's cries of pain as it was clearly being attacked. Then it fell from the sky, the earth didn't shake and there was no aftershock sounds but it was gone. I arrived to wear it had taken place and the ground was still smoking as everything around was scorched. I saw Corey and Liz in the distance and a dragon on the ground. As I road closer and could see clearly Liz and Corey were fighting. There swords hit each other's in a battle that I didn't understand. I was within distance to make contact when Corey kick Liz to the ground and went to make the final blow.

I'm not sure what came over me, but I drew my sword and put it through Corey back.

I pulled it out and saw his dark red blood cover the ground as he fell. Liz stagger but rose as my men finally caught up. Then the dragon lifted its head and made a sound of pain but looked over at Liz. She dropped her weapon and was crying as she grabbed its snout. The dragon nudged her and lifted it claw to wipe away her tear.

Liz got up and backed away as the dragon lifted itself and dove off the edge of the cliff.

Liz said some words I didn't understand and sound like gibberish at the time. The water the dragon hit didn't splash up as I had expected it to, but the water deeper water seemed to glow. It was a beautiful site, as light came up from the depths of the ocean and floated into the sky joining the stars.

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** 20 years later**

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After that day we haven't seen or heard of any dragons. Maybe speculated that dragon was the last of its kind and had used it magic to appear human. It had fallen for Liz and used its power to save her and to try and save Corey. It's now recorded in our history books. That Corey turned to rage after realizing they had been betrayed and lied to and tried to kill the beast but his wounds were to great and Liz protected the dying dragon and in return he gave the rest of his life and magic to Liz and her bloodline. She began to teach others how to use magic all of which somewhere along the lines traced back to our mother's side and it is said he cursed our fathers side of the family as those who inherited his traits or his blood could only use shadow magic which took a toll on there bodies and caused them to lose there minds and die in there early 30s. Our father was the first to go after Corey. He went crazy and ended his own life. They says it's the dragons curse.

Then what me and Liz have is the dragons blessing. Magic, it has made it so we have started settling down in land and not migrating all of the time, Liz and I visit that site every few years and a little over 30 years has past since that day and the land is still score and nothing has been able to live there since. Liz told me the full story of what happened but nobody can ever know that we had dragons who died here and that we have there blood within us. I do know that Megan was the reason my sister had the chance to live and gave us access to unlocking our gifts to make today the world that it is. For that she is simply mentioned as the white dragon in our history books. The white dragon. Although we say it was Nick who was there and gave us this power in all of our books and depictions he is designed to look like how Liz described Megan's dragon form. That is how it's now written in our history and will be told for many generations to come.