Two Worlds Collide: Chapter 2
Chapter 2
Meeting
Max was the first one to wake up. His head still felt like was spinning. He closed his eyes and waited till the spinning stopped. He looked around and noticed the jeep had stopped. Then he noticed his master, Tucker, not moving, he head against the wheel. Max tried barking. When that didn't work, he tried nudging and licking, but nothing worked. He looked at his master again and saw red liquid slowly running down his cheek. Max froze, realizing his master is in serious trouble. He had to find help. Going to his side of the door, he opened it like he always had done and began sniffing around. He found a trial and began running, but not before looking back at his master.
It had been at least a half an hour when Max left his master in search for help, he began to worry. He walked through bushed till he found an opening. Looking around, familiarizing him with the trees and bushes in order to get back to his mater, like he had done for the past half hour. He suddenly saw two creatures he never saw before, but strangely, he felt he knew what they were and if they were friendly. Dragons! 'Don't know how I know them, but that doesn't matter. I need their help.' Max said to himself. Max ran up to the two dragons and barked to get their attention. Both dragons spun around to face Max. They both crouched low and growled, showing their teeth. Max just barked, turned around and looked back at them barking. One of them stopped growling and stood up. "Maybe it wants us to follow it?" the one said to the other.
The other stopped growling and stood up as well, "maybe, but what is it?"
The first one shook its' head, "I don't know, but let's see where it takes us. I'm getting bored doing nothing." So the two followed Max.
It was then when they reached the jeep, the two dragons stopped. Max continued and came to his masters door. Max pawed the door and barked, looking back at the dragons. Max began to wine, which made the dragons curious. They walked up to the door and looked inside. What they saw was another creature they have never seen. They figured the creature was in bad condition. Looking for a way in, they found a small handle. Trying every which way, and then pulled it, the door swung opened. Tucker still sat there with his head against the wheel. The first one turned to the other, "Ember, help me get it down." Ember nodded.
"Wow, its heavy," groaned Ember.
"No it isn't," replied the other.
"Then you carry it back to the temple Flame."
"Fine, I will."
Max watched as the two helped and carried his master on to the one's back. When they started walking, Max followed, watching intently in his master.
The four soon made it back to the temple, where a big green dragon stood watching them come closer. "Why are you two late? You know that Malefor's army might still be out there," boomed the dragon.
"We're sorry Terrador. We were going to come back when we found this creature who led us to this one," Flame pointed to Max then showed him Tucker.
Terrador's eyes widened. 'Human! Why is he here? We need to question him.' "Take him to the medical room. When he wakes, we'll question him."
They both nodded and walked in followed by Max. Terrador watched as Max walked past him into the temple. He had never seen such a creature. 'Oh, Volteer's going to have fun tonight.'
In the medical room, moles were swarming the human, fight to treating his wounds, then trying to figure out what he was. They tried moving Max out of the way, but got a growl and a nip from him. Soon the moles got their findings and filed out leaving the head nurse in the room. Five dragons came in to see the human as soon as the moles left. Two were the one that helped and carried Tucker, Flame and Ember. Ember had pink scales and yellow underbelly with a heart shaped necklace and a heart shaped tail blade. Flame was red with yellow underbelly scales. Both of their horns were yellow and were brought back at an angle. The one of the other three was Terrador. His green scales were beginning to dull with a lighter green underbelly with a patch of brown scales sticking out of his green scales at the joints. Many scares carved his body. The other two were just as big. One was blue with purple underbelly scales and had a proud expression. He had purple wing like scale at the joints. The other was yellow with dark blue underbelly scales and had a curious expression. He also had dark blue wing like scales on his joints. "This is extraordinary, absolutely amazing, astounding even to know a human has come to our realm. I must learn of how his race has evolved!"
"We will Volteer, but first we must question him on how he came here in the first place," Terrador said staring at Tucker.
"What's a human?" asked Ember.
The blue dragon looked down, "Humans are bipedal creatures that kill anything they don't understand." He said in a disgusted tone.
"Calm yourself Cyril. Not all humans were like that," Terrador looked at Cyril then back at Tucker.
"Were? What do you mean 'were'," asked Flame.
Terrador was about to answer, but a moan cut him off. "I'll explain later. Looks like the human is waking up."
Tucker opened his eyes only to receive blurry images. He opened and closed them till they were clear enough. He heard barking and looked to his right and found Max standing there as happy as can be. "Hey boy," he said rubbing Max's head. Tucker looked around, still not able to see anything clearly. "Where am I?" he said to no one in particular. "You're in the medical room," he heard someone say. "Who said that?" Tucker rubbed his eyes and blinked again. He looked up and saw five dragons standing across the room. "I did," said the green one.
They started to walk forward. Tucker began to freak out, fumbling for his pistol. "S-s-stay back!" Tucker yelled. "We're not going to hurt you," said the green one again. Tucker brought his pistol out and pointed it at the dragons. "I said stay back!" Tucker said as he pointed it at one then the other. The dragons stopped, afraid of what the human might do if they came any closer. Then they all saw Max walk between Tucker and the dragons and sat down. "Max! Get away from them!" yelled Tucker, but Max stayed. Max wined. Tucker looked at Max then back up to the dragons. "Why is Max protecting them? Why?' "Max! Come!" Still Max stayed put.
The dragons looked between Max and Tucker wondering what was going on. "As I said before, we will not hurt you."
Tucker was starting to question if he could trust them. He thought dragons were myths, but the stories he heard said that dragons were wise and trustworthy. "Do you swear on your ancestors that you won't harm me or Max?"
The three big dragons nodded, "Yes we swear," said the blue one.
Tucker lowered his pistol and put it away. "Who are you?"
"I am Terrador; this is Volteer on my left and Cyril on my right. We're Guardians of the dragon race. And these two are the ones who helped you, Flame and Ember."
"Thank you," Tucker said to the two young dragons as he got up and walked over to Max. "I apologize, but I was intimidated by your size and the fact you are dragons,"
"What do you mean?" Cyril asked.
"Well where I come from, dragons are a myth." He replied,
"Well, you can clearly see we are real," Cyril said sounding offended.
"You know very well why this human thought we were myths," said Terrador. "But before we go on, what is your name?"
"Pvt. John Tucker."
"So, you're in the military?"
"Yes, out world has been at war for years, with some rests in between."
"Wars!" both Cyril and Volteer said.
"I expected as much. Ever since we moved from your world-"
"Wait! From my world?"
"Yes, we began life on your world. We flourished along with humans, but soon man became dominant over the land and forced us out. We fought, but lost. We were forced out to find another world."
"I'm sorry for what my ancestors have done," replied Tucker after a moment of silence.
"What's past is past. We look toward the future."
"If I may, I would like to ask some questions about you?" asked Volteer.
Tucker nodded, "Ask away."
Hours past and soon Tucker was getting tired of answering question after question. Apparently 'some questions' were infinite questions. Volteer could go on forever. Terrador saw this, "Volteer, I think that's enough for one day. It's getting late; we all should head off to bed. Tucker, follow me, I'll show you to your room."
They all dispersed, going their separate ways. Volteer talking to Cyril about the things he learned and annoying Cyril to the point of freezing his lips shut. Soon the trio came to a spare room and walked in. "I'll leave you now. See you in the morning," said Terrador.
"Tucker only nodded, closed the door, walked to the cushions and collapsed down with Max by his side. With in minutes, they both fell asleep.