STLFD - Chapter 8

The Dream

That night Scar dreamed. It was not like the normal dreams he always has but somehow... different. He was sitting in a field with another dragon. It was not a normal dragon but it was an extremely old one. It was black with a blue under belly that reminded Scar of a bruise. He had horns that grew forward and he was huge. The dragon had red claws, orange horns, and a yellow spiky tail spade. His intelligent eyes were a golden brown and his spines were also golden. "Come to me, Scar" The dragon walked slowly towards him but in a friendly way. "H-h-how do you know my name?" Scar back up a step and stared at the huge dragon in fear.

"I am the Spirit Dragon Cyberus.  I come here to guide you on your quest, not harm you." Cyberus took another step forward and sat. "Come dear dragon I must tell you what I am doing here in your dreams and why." Scar slowly walked forward, stopped 3 horn-lengths from him, and sat. "As I said I am Cyberus the Spirit Dragon. I am a special dragon chosen to guide you through your quest and teach you a few things along the way." Scar shifted uncomfortably on the soft dirt. "Like what? I know the way of my kind all ready." Cyberus eyed Scar with an unreadable expression. "You do not know all. Being the last Fire Dragon on this planet gives you many abilities other cannot wield. Just like fire burning water. But you are the dry wood on the water allowing the fire to burn on. It is time to let you see the abilities you may wield." Cyberus spread his wings and closed his eyes. At that moment Scar felt magical waves flow through him and lift him off the ground. The old dragon was lifting too. All of a sudden the ground fell from beneath them and only a few islands of floating land remained. "Scar it is now time to learn your true nature!" Cyberus opened his eyes and they seemed to glow with a pale golden radius.

Scar noticed an island had lifted up to his feet and he touched down on it. Cyberus seemed to be controlling the whole strange thing. "I expect you know how to breath fire am I right?" Scar watched as the old dragon landed on his own island. "Yes" Scar looked over the edge of his own island only to see blackness below. He became dizzy and withdrew his head.

"Think of ground and the soil beneath your feet. Notice its strength, notice its hardness. Now believe you can create earth and use it as projectile to attack your enemies." The Fire Dragon looked up, confused. Cyberus gave Scar an angry look, so he did what he was told. Scar believed he was one with the ground. That he was a solid rock. "Now release that earth energy through your jaws!" Scar opened his eyes and mouth and shot a large earth spike from within. "Well done! Well done, young dragon!! Now rise to your back legs and believe you are one he masters the earth. The rocky hardness is all yours to control. Now release that built up power through you! All at once!!" Scar felt himself rise off the ground. Felt the great power within him, and then released it. Using his mind he brought forth a huge boulder from the ground and shot it at a small island. He opened his eyes just in time to watch it get blown to bits. He slowly fell to the ground again and onto his forepaws. "Nicely done. I think I taught you enough for now. Until next time, young dragon. Until next time....." Cyberus slowly faded as his dream also faded away.




Scar awoke to find everyone staring at him in fright. He sat up and looked at them, puzzled. "What? What are you looking at?" Siria looked as if she could jump ten horn-lengths in the air at any sudden movements. "You were twisting, turning and mumbling to yourself in your sleep." She finally said. Scar looked from Ben to Sarah to Siria. "Mumbling? Like what?" Ben and Sarah seemed to calm down after Scar was awake and okay. "You were saying things like `who are you` and `like what...` but you trailed off. Are you okay?" Ben looked up at Scar and breathed a sigh of relief as he nodded. "Did you have a bad dream or something?" Scar looked down at Ben and Sarah and sighed. "I just had a dream where I was a hatchling again and I was being chased by crocodiles when a lone dragon picked me up and brought me home." Siria could tell he was lying but she didn't say anything.