The Tale of Drew
Let me telling you the tale of the Drew, the first human to tried to bring peace to humans and creatures.
It all started around the age of the black plague and the tyranny of kings and queens. The magic era is what we ,“monsters”, called it, the time when we began to discover crystals within the earth that aid our magic and powers inside of us. This allowed us to move from the separate planes of existence all of us lived in to move towards building on Earth’s soil. We began to build castle just like the humans did, set up territories, hunt, anything they did we soon silently followed in example. However, this suddenly halted when there was an attack on a small village filled with vampires, many houses were burnt to the ground, innocent mothers had their kids taken away, many men were stabbed with a wooden spike, all because a horrible rumor stated that they had to drink human blood. Even with their pleads of “We never bit one human! Only animals! We only drink the blood of animals we raise!”,the attackers then said they were stealing their livestock and it was a punishable crime with death. Our king at the time,????, demanded the king of England to bring justice for this crime on his people, which the king cried “People? Those beast you call people are a threat to my people’s lives, I can’t risk trusting a being that doesn’t reflect God's image, let alone when their king is a four-legged human eater who burns down our villages and homes.” Our hope of peace was burnt out, our trust in the humans disappeared just as our territories did each day. Anyone who wasn’t human was running off their lands, killed on sight, or enslaved until death took pity on them. This filled ???? with rage, disgust, and heartache knowing his people were being slaughtered like animals. On top of his throne surrounded by crystals, he declared war on the humans, saying any human who got the way of their destiny of finding a new home was then destined to a painful death.
This action leads to thousands upon thousands of humans and monsters killed in the name of “justice” on both sides, the war was only worsening when the humans turned the elves against us, using our own magic. Who can blame them, given the declining population and possible extinction of her race, queen ???? did not have much of a choice. Our numbers were falling, we had no choice but to retreat back into our plane, abandoning all of those who weren’t dragons to their doom.
Centuries later, the humans want to bring us back on Earth. Of course at first, all of us scoffed at the idea. Believing it had to be a joke or maybe they wanted the crystals from us. Then we-I- meet her, Drew Klingensmith, she managed to break in into our king’s home and demand to be her when her last letter was ignored. She was a representative of humanity or at least the most qualified by her words, she wanted to form peace among humans and “creatures” as she referred to us. I thought she was insane and I wasn’t completely wrong. Strong Willed, ill-tempered, and stubborn, those traits surprisingly worked in her favor. Scolding our king for being a coward, getting after the elf queen for her refusal to help her cause, and arm wrestling the werewolf captain to gain her trust. Drew did all sorts of crazy and desperate actions in order to build her team and prove her cause wasn’t hopeless. This team would be called “New Hope”. One member from each species to represent them to the public on Earth, I was, somehow, one of them. I’ll admit, I was cocky for being picked as I was one of the few first picked. As well completely acted confident around my team, but when I was around Drew, I was reminded how I could easily be sent back home if I acted out of line. All she needed to do was look in my direction and I would know I was done. I would become the same old loser dragon if I were to return home, so you can say she had my tail wrapped around her finger. To be frank with you, she had everyone wrapped around her finger. As much she was truly helping us be reintroduced to humanity, Drew did not hesitate to remind her that she would and can take us down if we so dared argue with her choices. Thank god most of them were smart. Most… Most…
I still remember that day.
The day she told us we would find the “stone beast”. A weapon created back in the war that, powered by 6 souls, form one like mind that had the power of a god. Drew wanted to find it in order to use its powers to create another plane, a heaven for humans and creatures, seeing how the political climate at the time was very anti-creature and was about to become violent. Of course, the rest of the 6 of us tried to convince her this would be a horrible idea as this would put all of us at risk of being a target for those who didn’t agree with us, giving them a reason to kill us. Yet, nothing worked, even when I reminded her about her husband at home, how he would be devastated if she didn’t come back alive. Even then she didn’t listen.
That's when the team fell apart, one by one, everyone left, calling her completely mad for trying this idea and to stop chasing a fairy tale, until it was only I and Drew. Why did I stay by her side still? Even when it put a target on my back? Easy answer, only because I promised her husband, Gabriel, that I would protect her.
That all ended when we were ambushed. We were attacked as we were walking back from Earth to the dragon plane, I made the mistake of arguing with her about how I needed to leave the duo as I had a wife at home, and she made the mistake of scolding me for putting my family in danger. We were distracted for too long to notice we were being followed. It was a blur, I can barely recall much of the fight beside yelling from Drew and blood being spilled on the ground, but I can recall as clear as day those golden and yellow scaled coated in blood, I know who killed Drew. It wasn’t me
It was never me.
Ophiel-Owen- killed her in cold blood and left me to take the fall. His dad watched us fight and saw me slowly lost conscious as Owen hesitant to kill Drew, seeing me bleeding with a deep cut down my face. I knew he never wanted to kill her, his father, Igor, did not like the idea of reintroducing dragon to human believing they would use us like weapons and tools, but he failed to see the irony of using his own child in his plans to murder a mother.
I regret not being able to protect her, I regret showing up to Gabriel’s door to tell him his wife is dead, I regret having to tell my wife I was exiled from my homeland, and I regret having let down everyone who looked up to me.
But I don’t regret nearly killing God when I had the chance, I still feel his scales under my claws, I’ll be able to recognize the bastard a mile away, and when I do. I’ll be ready
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The New Hope- Created during the 80’s The New Hope (NH), also known as The Global Humane and Creatures New Hope, was an humanitarian and creaturarian organization that provides emergency assistance and representation of different species among the creatures in order achieve equal rights and treatment. Formed by Drew Klingensmith during 1983, she lead the rising pro-creature movement allowing rights such as voting act of 1988 and protection of creatures (1990). The Group was disbanded after the disappearance of Drew during 1991 and guilt fell on the former member, Barchiel “Boris”, causing tensions between dragons and humans.