I tried desperately to gasp for air, but I could not.
My lungs were full of water.
Then I felt a heavy weight spread across my chest.
I wanted to open my eyes, but my eyelids were too heavy.
Am I going to die like this?
Because I was pulled into a lake by something?
That can't be true.
But I did not die.
The water in my lungs was pressed out all at once and I breathed a sigh of relief.
This time my eyes opened directly and I looked directly into Mineva's fire-colored eyes.
What I didn't understand was why she looked so shocked, or why she suddenly didn't seem like a big dragon anymore.
I tried to stand up, but only got down on all fours.
Until it finally hit me.
What in the world is going on!!!
I looked down at my body, and I was not standing on two legs, but on 4.
I was even able to look at my back, where two huge wings were folded together.
Amazed that I could move them, I spread them out completely.
Wow!
I walked on wobbly legs to the moon lake and looked into the clear water, where a white dragon looked back at me.
Was that me?!
Did I seriously turn into a dragon?
I just can't believe it!
Mineva couldn't believe it either, she stared at me without uttering a word.
"Kayla, what happened?!"
I sat down first, standing with four legs is really exhausting.
Mineva did the same.
"I don't exactly know what happened myself or why I am a dragon now.
I was just sitting by the moon lake looking at the reflection in the water, but it wasn't my reflection but the reflection of the white dragon I turned into.
I was confused and reached for the reflection with my hand, and as I reached deeper into the water, something pulled me into the water.
In the water it was like this White Dragon was circling me and pulling me into the deep, and then everything went black."
Mineva was still looking at me in shock.
Then a light seemed to flickerin her fire like eyes.
"That explains a lot, I should have guessed when you mentioned the Moon Lake." Confused, I frowned.
"What do you mean?"
She looked deep into my eyes now.
"Before we can turn into our human form, we have to swim as young dragons in the Moon Lake.
That is why this cave is sacred.
Everyone has an Inner Dragon, that is, every human being.
And to transform you also just had to swim in the Moon Lake, that's why you saw the reflection of your dragon.
But your dragon is very different."
Yep, that explained a lot.
But why was my dragon different?
"Mineva what do you mean?
That I'm different?
And another question, why didn't I see the dragon in the reflection until just now?"
"Very simple, with many it is so that they can not transform so easily, only when strong emotions occur.
The Moon Lake is also something we worship like a god, so it may be that it determines when you should transform." Okay, that answers my question, but again. "Why is my dragon different?"
Mineva looked away, and what!
She blushed?!
Then she giggled a little.
"You know how Lisa is a black dragon, that's because she's the only night dragon left. These dragons were living millions of years ago, but because they all died except for Lisa, we don't know why they disappeared.
And there was a certain species that also lived millions of years ago, these dragons were the moon dragons, they lived together with the night dragons.
To be honest, we don't even know if we other species existed at the time of the Night and Moon Dragons.
This means that you and Lisa are the only survivors of your kind."
What on earth?!
"So to clarify, millions of years ago there were Night and Moon dragons living together, and no one knows if the other dragons existed then, and I and Lisa are the last living specimens?"
Mineva nodded, then cleared her throat as if to say something else.
"And that means something like you and Lisa belong together."
My mouth dropped open.
Mineva turned her head away again and grew redder.
Now I knew why she was so shocked earlier when she realized what kind of dragon I was. But her little smile disappeared.
"I'm going to tell you something now because I trust you completely and firmly believe that you are on our side."
I nodded and perked up my ears.
"As I said, millions of years ago only Night and Moon dragons lived, but it is said that before these species died out new dragons were born, royal and powerful dragons, today we call them the sun dragons.
And these dragons did not want the night dragons to survive, why is not known.
But since the Moon Dragons were close friends with the Night Dragons, they would not allow it.
The Sun Dragons saw the Moon Dragons as gods, and didn't want to fight them at all, so they started secret attacks on the Night Dragons.
The Moon Dragons noticed this, but it was far too late, so they sacrificed their lives, hoping to save their friends.
Why they did this was because there was magic power in their hearts, only a few of them could use this power themselves, but most of them could not.
Unfortunately, it was already too late, so it came to the extinction of the ancient dragons.
And spies of ours suspect that the war of our kingdoms is also connected with it.
And you and Lisa, will be our own hope to prevent a mass killing."