Featherin chapter 1
A taste of a home brewed universe i been cooking up since i was a wee child and has been a huge part of my writing and creative journey thoughout my younger years i would love to share the wonders i have come up with with all off you depending on how poeple take my storys and weather poeple actually wanna see more i would love to share whole heartily
Prolog and explanation of the story and universe
Welcome to Featherin a story what takes place on earth but a lot of my stories do not take place on earth but all stories i write take place in the same multiverse i have designed and made up if anyone would like me to post or write any other stories i made for this universe please let me know i have many different species and creatures i been wanting to write about and did some old test stories on my old deviantart account i love to share my lovely multiverse and the many stories in it with anyone who shows interest i don't know where i would finally end up posting this story but wherever it ends up i would be happy if people showed support and help me feel my ideas are worth keeping interest in.
Todays story takes place during the holy roman empire days of earth and will involve a lot of things that are in europe at this time in this universe including another human species that will be revealed later and the Featherin species of dragon a large dragon species that have 3 subspecies world wide the one we will be focusing on in this story is the northern blue Featherin but there will be some references and maybe a cameo of possibly the gray skinned Featherin of asia africa and Australia and south america and the northern red Featherin of Europe and Siberia the blue Featherins are found in asia north america and Europe.into modern day sadly only the gray skinned and blue Featherins survive the reds were brought to extinction along with many other dragon species of earth by humanity. In this story i plan on also teaching some biological facts about Featherin biology and habits and culture as well as show you how the two featherin species that made it to modern day could have survived. So please enjoy Featherin the tail of a man and a dragon. Also I might release one chapter at a time or all at once depending on how the website will let me do so and on how I am feeling because I know I won't be able to write all this in one go since i plan on making it a long story with themes of romance, love and adventure and discovery.
Chapter 1
A young man was exploring his family's field it was the height of summer in the holy roman empire the farm was close to the alps the large mountains range was able to be seen just south of the family's farm and was a great way to tell what direction you were going this young man's name was Charles young charales was a only 15 years old he was taking a break from the labor his family was making him do since he needed one the labor on the fields around this time was hard on him. Charales was exploring the edge of the forest that rode up to the mountain closest to the farm as he was looking for mushrooms for dinner tonight when he heard a loud booming rawr like sound and a loud crash this scared him but his curiosity got the better of him and he soon entered the tree line.
I can believe I am doing this wandering into a forest to follow a strange sound that just so happened to pique my curiosity. Are you kidding me? I must be stupid or have a death wish. Soon Charles stops and looks down seeing a huge gash in the ground as if something large fell from the sky at a angle and cashed into it and skidded away following the gash he saw the frees splintered and broken were the large object entries the tree line examining the broken limbs of the tree he also found snapped off arrows. Charals looked the other way, curiosity really getting the better of him now as he followed the huge ditch left in the dirt soon he came across the crash sight.
Charles wanted to turn around and run or maybe walk away quietly hoping he was not spotted as fear struck him to his cores from what he just saw cursing that he knew coming into the woods after the loud sounds was a bad idea. Ahead of him in the clearing covered in arrows and blood pooling under it in the ditch was a dragon a bright blue feathered dragon with smooth skin in the areas that were not feathered and alot of cuts and arrows sticking out from its frame the large beast was limp and charales realized it was dead whoever shot at it managed to kill it its wings were torn to shreds by what looked like arrow fire. Soon Charles saw something wrapped in its front paws in its paws was a egg and well under them was what was left of many other eggs worth looking to be at least 10 shattered eggs and one intect the large dragon was flying with eggs in its large grasping front legs charales feeling stupid walked closer and wrapped his hands around the egg unsure what came over him and picked it up it was very heavy about as heavy as a 6 your old child and was not to far off in the size range as one as well.
What in the hell am i even doing or thinking i can't take care of a dragon egg what would my family think what would the people in the kingdom think this was the most hated thing in all of mankind created by the devil to harass the children of god or at least that's what our pastor says about them. By the time charales got though these thoughts he realized he carried the egg all the way back to his family's property outside of the forest. Ahhh fuck it Charles said very curious on what a baby dragon would even look like and he suck the egg though the family's fields and to the barn were his family kept the animals to help with the plowing of the fieldsand climbed the ladder into the hay storage area and placed the egg in the hay gentily cleaning off the dirt charales smiled before standing up and leaving. Soon charales arrived at his house. It was a small shack that was one room with 2 beds, one that was his parents and one that was his. At the other end of the shack he saw his mother cooking up a stew. His mother huffed at him disappointingly. Where have you been Charles? We have been calling your name for awhile now to get inside. I am sorry mother. I was searching for mushrooms to help you for dinner tonight. I am sorry I did not come sooner. She sighed, that's fine Charles but dinner is now ready to sit down. Your father should be back inside any minute now soon his father did arrive. He sweated clean though his clothes and was completely wet but as he always told Charles it was worth it. Soon they sat down as a family to eat together and before long they headed to bed to prepare for the day tomorrow.
Charles woke up early and got out of the house and went to the barn before anyone else woke up soon coming across the dragon egg the bright blue egg looking safe he reached out and felt it it was cold but gave off a slight bit of heat he was worried about it being to cold since he knew chicken eggs did not hatch if they got to cold so he decided to wait up here with it holding it against his body for warmth it was still dark so charles felt like napping with the egg beside him to help the egg stay warm tell morning. The next morning charles awake to something wiggling against his chest he woke up and looked at the egg and saw it jolt to the side as if something inside just rapidly moved what he thought was impressive since the eggs that broke at the crash sight were still yoke what ment this egg was growing fast. As he looked at it he smiled and placed it back down doing the chores in the barn so no one else would have to making it so no one could discover his new dragon egg.
120 days later Charles has been really taking care of the egg making sure it was warm and keeping it safe from being discovered though he had a few close calls. Though today as charles is cleaning the upper level of the barn near the egg he hears a small crack sound looking around curious his eyes soon fall on the egg as he now sees a crack in the shell getting worried he rushes over but then another cracking sound as a small paw burst out of the egg the small blue dragon paw twitching and grasping at the air as if trying to find levrage to help get out of the egg. Charales stares in show he knew once day it was going to hatch but he was not prepared right now he felt like he was not ready to even witness this or make sure the little one was safe. Soon another crack as another leg burst through the shell followed by another then another then. Charles walked up to the egg and started picking at the shell trying to help the little one get out. Soon the egg fell apart from all the cracks and the small dragon pup landed on the ground with a small squeak looking up at Charles with confusion. Before standing up and slowly backing away sniffing the air as if testing to see if it felt safe backing up to the barn window. The dragon pup was about 5 feet long from snoot to the tip of its tail. Its feathered wings closed over its body, looked wet and matted down from the fluids in the egg and charles reached out his hand the dragon pup sniffed his hand and chirped as Charles took off his shirt and started trying to dry the pup off making it chirp more unsure what was going on its long tail and neck swinging around but the pup was not biting more like it was wagging its tail and looking around. Charles later in the night after dinner snuck up some jerky from the cabinets in his home to the dragon pup and started to feed it the dragon purring and squeakily happily as it muched away the little dragon looked very cute and he could not understand how something like this could turn into the hellspawn the preachers spoke of. Charales sat with the pup on his lap and started petting it again. I will call you Blue Blue the Dragon dont worry little one. I will take good care of you.
One week went by with Charles taking care of the pup it managed to grow during that time by a extra foot in length squeaking and chirping like a baby bird of some kind its four stubby legs and two large wings were pretty cute at the size it was but as Charles was playing with the pup something unexpected happened his father came up to the hay storage and lets just say freaking out was the not even close to how he reacted. Charles father grabbed the pitch fork and started swinging at it i tried to get in his way and tell him to stop to not hurt it but he would not listen pushing me out of the way i did not see what happened but i heard a yelp i looked over and saw blood and out the window i saw my dragon friend springing along the field faster then i knew it could even move on its four legs with a large gash along its belly. After the incident i was sent to the church for a many different cures for demon corruption our church said there was i was just lucky our church was not as harsh as some others about coming into contact with so called demonic entity's most churches would have had me executed for even being around a dragon ours did a lot of weird rituals to get rid of any demon influence in me and would not even let me leave the church for days until i show how convinced them i was not under the demonic curses i went home sunday after the church service that day but people gave me some distance afraid i pass on a demonic spirit to them still even with the pastors insistence i was cured of demon influence.
That was 4 years ago charles was 19 now as he was now working as a apprentice for a blacksmith in the local village and had his own small shack just east of his parents property he felt like everything was going well like he was blessed by god with how good his life has been going late in the night charles woke up parched and climbed down the ladder that lead to his sleeping area to go to his pantry where he had a keg of mead he bought a while back as it went to pour a glass he saw something blue pass by his window making him stop a shiver running down his spine he looked around to all the windows to see if he could see it again but once he got to the window under his sleeping quarters he saw something else two large blue glowing eyes staring right at him from the window under his sleeping quarters and the sound of what sounded like a low rumbling.