//------------------------------// // Chapter Eight: Tales of Dragon's Rest: Lifes greatest Mystery: Arc one // Story: Dragon's sorrow: Tales of Dragon's rest // by Megaskullmon //------------------------------// It was morning and it was time for me to get the children and families together early to tell them the next part of the story. I look at the photo on the counter near my bed. I don’t want to tell them the truth. Star Watcher leans on me kissing my cheek. “What’s wrong?” I let out an exasperated sigh. I point my hoof to the photo he looks at it. He sighs, nodding and looking down at me again. “You don’t want to show them the truth right? You want to keep them in bliss Glyph you and I know full well what happened since you told me everything after we got married. Just you can’t keep them in the dark. It may help the little ones learn lessons of how not to treat those around you.” How to treat those around you? I could teach it easily by telling them how bad the elders were back in the past. But I can’t force everything from the past on the children. We may need to learn from the past but we also need to learn in the future. “Alright, I am going to make something to eat and then head down to the tree and see who is there.” Slipping out of bed heading into the shower letting the water soak me. I head downstairs to finally get something to eat and an hour later head down to the tree. Everyone I saw last night is now here including the other elders. This time I brought the book with me and I set it on the stand opening it back up “Alright before I go on I am going to put the story in arcs since how I feel it would fit. There is going to be an arc called the Battle Creek war. Malla and the other founders lost themselves during this war. We have been at peace for so long and the outside world has gone silent then we know peace for once.” The same zebra filly lifts her hoof. “Go ahead and speak sweetie.” The little zebra filly stands up. “War from what my mommy told me is normal in the world. We can’t hide or forget what happened before and after. We need to let the world be the world and we just live in it. If we have the power to change the world then we should change it. But we can’t force change on the world, we need to let it go smoothly.” My mouth hangs open and I laugh softly. “Well put not everyone will agree with you little one. It’s not as easy as you think some want to change the world by force and it’s not going to be easy for everyone to stop it. It’s the way that we will need to follow. Now on with the story after Malla and her friends met the humans in the bunker he was kind enough to help them with things.” _______________ February 1st  It took a while to get our new home set up. We got food growing now we need other things. We need meat and eggs. So I decided we need to find a farm and gather cows and maybe a bull or two. Ted and Wanda went to find chicken farms. Now it has been a while a lot of the chicken farms might be dead. Unless they found a way to get out and get food. Savannah and I went alone into the country to find the cows and the bulls. We had to talk about how close we wanted to get to each other. Sooner or later Savannah will fall in love with another and we will need to expand our bloodlines. I will have to do the same if… I ever find a male dragon just thinking of doing that concerns me. “I don’t mind taking this further, Malla. Even when we find males of our species. It’s kind of strange that those we are with are what your friend Lyra said is a Diamond Dog, a Griffin, and a Minotaur.” I chuckle. “Yes..just I see why you wanted to go alone. I still see the drone Joe is leading us with. I think he found a farm. I don’t understand why he is willing to help us and why he is offering to use his trucks to help us. I wonder if those leaders they have in the bunker feel we need to help each other.” Savannah shrugs her shoulders. “It could be that I used to be part of the US army, who knows? We never know what the leadership of our government wants. Unless they have been stuck down there for so long they can no longer say no to help.” I shrug my shoulders as well. It's been ages since I have been in the countryside of Michigan. We are heading down deeper into the Battle Creek area and heading towards a bunch of farms. I am worried about what we will find on these farms. I turn the car following the drone as it turns into a driveway. I turn the car off and look at all the other cars around there. There are many around here and I am sure I could get a lot of gas from this area. I chuckle weakly looking at all the cars feeling my dragon side fully taking over. “Malla focus you can go on a robbing spree after we find the cows and bulls. Now I want you to talk to Joe and ask him why he is offering us help. This is the US Government. They normally never help their citizens, they normally expect something from them.” A deep sigh releases from my mouth along with smoke and steam. I watch Savannah walk away from the car heading into the field to find the Cows and bulls. I stand by the car looking around. It's a calm country day.  “Joe?” I turn to look at the drone which is just floating there. I sighed, shaking my head. I can just hear President Eden playing American music like from Fallout three. I can just hear him go oh the enclave will wise and all this bull. “Sorry, Malla, we are busy here trying to get in contact with other humans still around in the country. No luck for us since the system from the Battle Creek airport never got upgraded like they were going to. But of course, Kellogs stole all the money from the Airport like normal. Is there something you want?” Other humans are there more who know about this and it’s just the government? I groan softly, great, wonderful. It makes me happy to know I live in this country where the government refuses to tell me what is going on in the everyday community. Of course, knowing some people they would never listen anyway. Like how would you tell the world oh we are going to be vanishing for a bit and then show up back up as crazy insane-looking creatures? “What do you want from us, Joe?” Joe goes silent for a moment. “What do we want from you? I feel the best thing for us all is to work together. If we don’t we might not get this new world in a good direction or at least this area of the world. I doubt we could do every area in peace. I am sure it will fall apart sooner or later anyway. Not everyone is going to accept this chance, not even every human.” I nodded. “Yes, I can tell you that very easily. I barely trusted the change myself. I would have lost myself if it wasn’t for Lyra. I would have never gone on my journey or survived it and found Chris and Starla..” I go silent... “Joe.. are you worried about the newborn babies which will come back without anyone there to take care of them?” Joe goes silent again. “Yes I couldn’t tell my wife what was going on and she went into labor before the event happened while she was in the ambulance heading to the hospital and now I have no idea when she will show back up and if she ever will. I can’t help those families broken and lost.” A frown forms across my dragon face looking towards Savannah who returns and she chuckles. “Well thankfully the cows are still alive, just the poor girls haven’t been milked for a long time. The bulls I don’t know if we can trust them in the same area as the cows. I will call ahead and ask the others to start building what they can to keep the cows and bulls in.” I nod watching Savannah leave. “You love her don’t you?” I turn my eyes toward the floating drone. “Yes, I do. I wish I could do more for her but I can’t. With how this world is we will need to expand our lives and those after us to keep the world going. We can’t just wait for whatever this pony world is wanting to do what they did. I don’t care what their princess of the Night says. We can’t depend on them. We are on our own now and it’s time to accept it.” Joe chuckles softly “I am reminded of the greatest net series ever.. Red Vs Blue.” I laugh weakly. “You ever wonder why we're here?” Joe chuckles “It's one of life's great mysteries, isn't it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there a God watching everything?” I laugh softly “I am going to do what a dragon does and steal everything. Please go help Savannah. I will also look around to see if anyone else has returned. If they haven’t I will leave what I can for them to get everything set up.” I wave at them heading to the truck to get two jerry cans and a hose. I go on a stealing spree of fuel to fill the cans up. Amazingly, I am doing this all over again. I look up at the old house. It’s such a lovely white house. I fill up the cans and break into the garage after I am done looking around and seeing so many tools. I look over to the side, seeing many suitcases and bags I can use. I open them up by putting the tools and other objects into the suitcases. I put the suitcases down only able to take a few things and as I go through the garage I see this person used to be a coal worker. I lift an old mining pick looking at it and it could be used for something. I set it with the other stuff and then head into the house. I break the lock and when I open the door a nasty smell hits my nose. I cough and head inside and look around seeing a dead one. It's been here for a while. I cough loudly looking around for a blanket before this gets worse. I find a large blanket in the room and I wrap the dog in the blanket carrying it outside and getting further out and burning it. I groan, shaking my head. “Soo the dragon finally found something that beat her hmm?” I turn seeing Savannah blushing gently “Um yeah did you talk to the others and Joe?” Savannah nods. “Yes, now big girl you may go back in and take whatever you feel will work for us. Don’t and I mean don’t just suddenly steal dresses and worthless items find stuff that will help us. I will be looking through everything you take got it?” I nod and a few hours later I found a few things guns and ammo we can use just in case nature gets crazy or we need it to help find others who return they end up in an area full of nasty animals and I take a deep breath sighing and put all the stuff in and I look back at the home. The sun is going down and it will be a long drive back home. “I got everything I could.” Savannah looks it all over and she notices the jewelry I have I smirk “Well, I had to get something for you.” Savannah rolls her eyes. “Malla I love you and you don’t need to prove it by giving me gifts. I am not a gal who likes gifts.  I just want you to be yourself which means be dumb and silly. Now Joe the cows all set?” The drone hovers beside us silent for a moment. Looking towards the way to the cows then back to the two of us. “Yes everything is ready and there should be enough room for them in your pens to make sure Malla doesn't spook any of them. I doubt they will handle a dragon very well.” I snort. “I will make sure she is my girlfriend after all I will make sure she never does anything out of line.” My cheeks burn brightly at those words and we get everything into the car while the drone joe controls heads back home. I look to Savannah. “Did you mean the word, Love and Girlfriend?” Savannah smirks. “Big girl you need to learn something about me I don’t sugarcoat how I feel you need to relax and let things go smoothly even if we find another of the other sex you will still be mine and that will never change. But we need to make sure we can live through this new life.” I get into the driver's side and Savannah gets into the other side. I look back at the house as we drive off. I look back at what I found. The one living in that house is a former coal farmer and one who has been through so many medals for things he has done. When he returns he will see what life is like now and be able to live. I left him a note telling him more are around if he returns and that I am sorry for his dog. I hope I can move on and when I get out of the driveway all I can do is drive home and think of the world and how it is now. Are you in the right for wanting to make this world a better place? I remember asking this question to Lyra once: are we in the right for wanting to make this world better? I don’t know myself. I look over to Savannah.  “Savannah, I got a question for you.” She turns her head to look at me. “Do you feel we are in the right to make this world a better place after what happened here?” Savannah shrugs her shoulders. “I don’t know I don’t question things like this. I am just a former ground pounder just leading me to a battle and if the battle is there I will fight. I don’t look at the world as it was, I look at it as it is now. We do what we can even if blood must spill.” I sighed, shaking my head. I figured she would bring the ground pounder up. But she is correct. We must think of the now and hope we can make this world more peaceful than it was. That is all we can do to make the world better for those who will return and those who will be born in this new age.