We both walked in his room, the room was not how I expected it to be. It was plain, simple. it did not looked like the room of a king. From this I understood that he was a really modest person.
"Can you explain why this all happened" he looked into my eyes as he said. His eyes were not fierce or pressuring, he just wanted to know.
"I don't know father, he just did as I said." I did not want to lie to him but this was necessary.
"What do you mean he did as you said?" he asked.
"I told him to apologise to my friends and he knelt, I'm also clueless about this" I had to lie.
"If you don't know then I shouldn't force you" he believed me so easily, I was still curious why he was so nice to me.
"Father" I called.
"Yes"
"Why are you so different, other people in your position won't give much importance to their blood" I asked.
"Ahh, I think it's time I told you everything now that you are strong enough to protect yourself" he said in a deep voice.
"Told me everything?" I was confused, I did not understand anything not even from this guy's memories.
"Yes, the fact that you don't remember your childhood is also because of this." he said in a sad voice.
Now that I think, I couldn't find even a bit of detail about this guy's memories regarding his younger days.
"This is going to take a long time, so make yourself comfortable" he said.
I sat beside him as I listened to this guy's past..
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I fell unconscious, but when I woke up I Suddenly I found myself in a different place. Flames raging as if a war was going on. Blood flowing like river, corpses formed a small mountain, and there layed an injured dragon. The dragon was humongous, 8-9 times larger than Griffin, I wondered who he was.
"This is your past" I heard Griffin's voice but couldn't see him. "I am using magic to share my memories, now you will see everything from my view" he said.
(Griffin Pov)
I was currently fighting against a monster stronger than me, he was still fine, but I was out of breath, cuts and wounds all over my body. Blood flowing freely. I was fighting in my original dragon form. When he was about to hit me with magic I heard a voice "Griffin!" the voice shouted as I felt a push on my shoulder. Before I could understand anything, I fell down as I watched the other dragon pushing me fall victim to the attack. He was My... Dad.
"Dad!!!!" I screamed as I pulled my body towards him. "Dad!!" I was terrified, scared and shocked. My father who was the Sky to me had fallen in the hands of my enemy. I always wanted to be strong as him, but today because to me... he sacrificed himself.
The enemy looked at me and started walking in my direction. I was so frightened that I couldn't move. "Do you want to live?" He asked. The voice that seemed normal to others was now like a demon's call.
"Y-yes" I was stuttering due to fear. I wanted to live, the life that my father had given me, I had to cherish it.
"Then do as I say" he said.
"Take this and keep it inside the circle" he gave me a strange stone, it was blood-red. I could feel something sinister from within it. It was, blood, soul and hate. It was a Blood stone. It was said that in order for a blood stone to be created, a dragon crystal had to be bathed in the blood of over one million living beings, and had to absorb it's soul. This thing was evil. More evil than one could imagine. I turned into my human form as I recieved the stone. My hands shaking with fear. I slowly walked towards the summoning circle and placed it in the middle. This was for summoning the evil dragon of chaos Valak. We were fighting to stop this summoning from happening. That's what father said.
I did not want to do this but I had too, otherwise he would kill me. I slowly walked into the circle and placed the stone in the middle. Nothing happened, I was relieved, but that lasted only for a while before I heard a shriek. All the other people expect me died, they turned into bloody mist. The mist took the shape of a dragon, but it was different. It had horns like a demon, I suddenly remembered something. It looks like Valak!. I was terrified. Soon the mist materialised into a dragon, it was Valak.
I did not know why I did not die. But I was grateful as well as scared. I looked at the ginormous dragon, it looked like it was injured, cuts all over its body and huge wounds. "Are you the one who summoned me?" Valak finally spoke. The voice did not have any emotion. "N-No" I replied while shivering with fear.
"That's good.." he said.
"What do you think about me? Am I evil?" he asked while looking towards me.
I did not know how to respond. "I-I don't know"
"Then, what has your civilization told you about me?"
"The D-dragon of Chaos, that's what they c-call you"
"Chaos huh.." he murmured.
I was surprised how such a high existence was holding a normal conversation with me.
"Do you want to hear a story?" he asked.
I nodded slightly.
"It was during the age when gods existed in large numbers. I was a Representative sent from the dragon race, I was supposed to meet up with Gods of other races that day to discuss about . It was during then when a large meteor appeared out of nowhere and destroyed existence. My race, friends, relatives, children and wife all of them were erased. I was saved due to the barrier set up by the joint effort of every race. Only 2 people from each race survived. Maybe others survived too, but we had no way of knowing. First we had to understand our situation. After living on for more than 100 years we found out the cause. It was so silly that I was angry at the reason itself." he said with clear anger visible in his eyes.
He took a deep breath as he said. "The reason for the destruction was due to an argument between two dieties. Usually dieties mind thier own business and don't interfere with each other but this was a fight between two powerful beings, beings that were so powerful that even gods had to bow. I inwardly promised that when I get strong enough I would take my revenge. I knew I couldn't fight against a deity on equal terms but I had to try otherwise I couldn't live with the regret. As time passed we met more and more survivors. One of them was my son, I was so happy that he had survived, my son was too young at the moment everything had happened. How had he survived, his teacher was my friend. I had transferred my son's protection over him. He had used all of his life force to create a barrier just enough to protect him. I was sad over my friend's death but I couldn't do anything, the most I could do was to thank him. Soon I heard about the location of the deity, I was now stronger than before due to abundance of mana in air. it was due to lesser people absorbing mana. I could not fatally injure the deity but I could leave some marks. I knew this fight was going to be hard so I used a spell to protect my son inside a crystal. I took him with me to the battle. it was due to love that I took him with me. The crystal couldn't be destroyed by even dieties so I was not worried. I knew nobody could keep him safer than me. I asked the deity why did he not care about us, even if we were lower beings, being the higher and intelligent existence they should not indiscriminately kill beings. the deity said just one thing 'I am a human' as he came towards me while charging his attack. I battled with him for more than a month before I could finally feel that I would die if I continued, so I chose to run. To save my son's life, because I was too weak. I successfully ran away but he wounded me severely. The battle between us destroyed many planets but did not take any life. The Alliance of God's treated me as a traitor and I was exiled. I continued to live on with my son inside the crystal, inside it one did not grow, it's as if time stopped. So he was just 1000 years old. For an immortal it was just the childhood. I was ashamed that I ran away, but happy that he was safe. The other gods then split up the remaining world's between each other, Vumir was given to the other candidate that came with me. So he named me as the dragon of Chaos. " He smiled bitterly as his eyes shined like the night sky.
He slowly took out a Blue crystal the size of a house from his Dragonheart. A Dragonheart was a dragon's most precious thing. The Dragonheart couldn't be destroyed until the owner of the body was killed. So it was the safest place to store a thing. But one could only store one thing inside it. The thing, if taked out for too long would kill the dragon. Dragon's usually stored their heritage inside it. That they would pass on to their offsprings. I was surprised at his actions.
"I can see determination and kindness in your eyes, just like me back then. I know that this is a right decision so please listen to my final wish. Please take care of him" he said as he passed me the child dragon inside the crystal, he looked innocent, cut off from worldly pain. He looked like an angel, untainted by the corruption. It was his son. "I know that you are overwhelmed but please listen to this old geezers final request, please don't let other gods know of his existence please let him be happy and lead a peaceful life." He smiled like a normal person, he was not the dragon of Chaos, he looked like a warm old father seeing his son for the last time. He looked just like my father. "I swear that I will take care of your son, Nobody shall hurt him. I will bear all the pain he had too. I will make sure to fulfill your wish" I said resolutely.
"I'm relieved" he said as he fell to the cold ground, never to wake up again.
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I finally came back from Griffin's memories. I was overwhelmed by the events. Griffin was not my father.
"It was due to respect that I treated you with so much love, you are the son of a God. You stand above me, I have no right to be your father" he knelt.
Seeing him kneel, I felt pain. Even though I was not his son, he had raised me like one.
"Please get up father, you don't have to kneel. You raised me up I can't see you kneel. You are my father"
He stood up and silently walked towards me, hugged me and sobbed. "This is the happiest day of my life!" he cried.
"Dad" I said as I hugged him back, it felt warm.. I felt something for the first time in 30000 years familial love.
After that, the rest of the time passed as he talked about how I was raised up and brought back to the kingdom.
To be honest, It was too much knowledge, without the buffs I couldn't digest so much knowledge. Tired, I walked into my room as I jumped onto my bed. However I couldn't fall asleep, so I decided to talk a bit with Stella.
"Could you sing me a lullaby Stella" I asked.
[Darling, you are being such a kid. well, not that I mind.. okay then I'll sing you to sleep now]
She started singing, as I heard her angelic voice I slipped into the dream realm. I was too tired so I fell into a deep sleep.
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