Dragon Born by Travis Simmons

Author:Travis Simmons [Simmons, Travis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult Fantasy
Publisher: Wyrding Ways Press
Published: 2016-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

Millie looked to the cornflower sky. Dark clouds skirted the edge of the once great imperial city of Darubai. A storm was brewing. Electricity hummed through her body and it stirred her bushy black hair, tantalizing the wyvern soul inside. Her sage gown rustled around her bare feet. There was power in the storm. There was fate in the winds.

Millie shivered and closed her dark eyes. As she’d done many times before, she sought out the vision, the one so many wyvern youths were having these days. She remembered when the fever took her and the fire burned away her human side, leaving behind a half-breed. She’d become something other than human, alone in the desert with no help or aid. She’d thought she was cursed. In part, she’d been right—at least she thought until she made it to the imperial city of Darubai.

She became a wyvern. It was the day she’d met the wyvern soul within her—Josephine. The vision of the rainbow lady had come to her then, but not since, even when she sought it out. But what did she expect? She wasn’t a yellow wyvern who could see the future and call on visions.

Now, eighteen years later the whelps of wyvern parents were having the same visions almost nightly.

She suspected that’s why the wing commander of the blue unit had sent Josef Decker for her. Millie followed his leather-clad back through the streets of Darubai. In times before the dragons returned, the imperial city had been a thriving place. People streamed over the hard-packed roads conversing with one another, or buying wares along the streets.

That all changed when the dragon plague came. Millie had arrived in the city only days after the plague had started. Entire blocks of crying, terrified people had been quarantined. The quarantine hardly stopped the invasive disease from spreading. It worked fast, and the results were devastating. Considering her past as a midwife and the green wyvern soul she harbored, Millie had been given to the healers to help where she could. She’d already been through the illness and survived. But watching mothers and fathers, children and grandparents succumb to the dragon fever had nearly broken Millie.

It reminded her of home in Dulasan. She’d seen Sasha, a young girl from Dulasan, go through the fever and watched her turn to ash when she didn’t survive.

Many of the inhabitants of Darubai didn’t make it. They’d turned to ash and mingled in the air with the wind just as Sasha had. For weeks the streets were filled with crying and screaming, moaning and vomiting. It seemed months went by where the air was choked with so many ashes and Millie had tried not to think that the ashes were people. People she could have easily breathed in if it wasn’t for the scarf that covered the lower half of her face. The amount of people going through the fever raised the temperature within the stone walls of the imperial city to near scalding temperatures. Millie had to scale the face of the Northern Mountains just to get away from the heat and to cool her skin.

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