Snowy sat cross-legged, his eyes closed as he delved deep into his mind essence. His meditation was a delicate dance of concentration, a relentless search for flaws within his fractured mana nexus. Cracks marred the flow of his energy, like spiderwebs across the glass, but something kept pulling him away from his focus. Flickering visions of battlefields invaded his mind—a war-torn land where heavily armored warriors clashed against a relentless tide of darkness. Above the chaos, a figure stood, commanding the respect of all who fought.
"The Eternal Sentinel," whispered Snowy, as the vision faded in and out. Who was this figure? Perhaps a legend, a beacon of strength amidst the chaos. Snowy's instincts told him that this figure could hold answers, perhaps even the key to stopping the looming threat of the Shadow Dragon. Yet, deep down, he couldn't shake the strange familiarity with the warrior, a feeling he couldn't quite place.
Before he could ponder further, reality snapped back as his mother's voice echoed through the house. Someone was here to see him—a girl. Snowy's heart sank as he immediately recognized who it was: Emily. But something felt off; how did she know where he lived? Snowy pushed the thought aside and went to greet her.
Emily stood near the entrance, her face strained with urgency. Without waiting for Snowy to speak, she blurted out, "Arcane Nexus Academy was attacked last night. Students were injured—some didn't make it. You need to come back, Snowy." The gravity of her words hung heavy in the air. Snowy's mother, hearing the news, instantly refused, insisting that Snowy stay home, safe with his family. But Emily's desperation was palpable, and after a moment of pleading with his mother, Snowy was reluctantly allowed to leave. He didn't even pause to pack his things, sprinting toward the academy with Emily close behind.
The academy was unrecognizable. Where once towering buildings stood proud, now lay ruins, scorched and shattered. As Snowy and Emily entered, a wave of dread washed over him. He remembered—Ignis, the Pyrothraxis dragon, was still at home, but reminded himself that, ignis already was revealed to his parents so worries aside. For now, the academy was his focus.
While searching through the wreckage, Snowy's eyes caught a glimmer: a scale, dark as the void, absorbing every ray of light around it. He felt a chill crawl up his spine—it was an Abyssal scale. A piece of the Shadow Dragon. Realization hit like a punch: the dragon had already infiltrated their world, hiding in plain sight, biding its time. But why hadn't it unleashed its full power? What was it waiting for?
Snowy rushed back to Emily, gripping her shoulders tightly. "Emily, you need to leave this city, now. Take your family, Draken, and Kael, and get out as fast as you can." His voice quivered with urgency, but Emily hesitated, confusion clouding her face. "Snowy, what's going on? Why do we need to leave?"
He pulled the Abyssal scale from his pocket. "This belongs to a dragon, that came from the shadow realmits intensions are not bright , good and It's here, Emily. Our world is in danger. Remember our final test to get into Arcane Nexus? That first realm, where everything was twisted? That dragon got there and killed off the dragon colonies that has the essence, even though you might not understand what I am saying but please.
"You need to go."
Emily gave a reluctant nod, still processing the information, she obeyed, dialing Kael as she sprinted away. Snowy pulled out his phone to call Draken, but was interrupted by a series of frantic calls and messages from Miya. He knew she called him a lot but as he saw one message his heart sank.
The scene shifted back to his home. Miya, sitting quietly on the couch, had answered a knock at the door, expecting Snowy. Instead, she was met by a hooded figure, cloaked in a sinister aura that seeped into the room like poison. He asked if Snowy lived there, and Miya nodded, suspicion gnawing at her instincts.
The hooded man, no longer just a stranger, was the Shadow Dragon, now cloaked in the guise of a young, dark-haired boy. His smile, hidden yet palpable, was a cruel mockery of humanity. In a desperate attempt to protect Miya,
The scene shifts to where Snowy's parents rushed Miya into a hidden spot within the house so that, shadow human (shadow dragon in his human form) don't get her they ran off to distract that hooded man telling her to stay quiet as they bravely were able to distract the intruder.
Snowy, unaware of the chaos unfolding, ran faster than ever, his mind clouded with dread.
Imagining what could be going on, now that he knows, the shadow dragon is already here, his mind was racing with possibilities.
When he finally reached home, the scene was a nightmare: neighbors scrambling to extinguish the flames that devoured his house. Without a second thought, Snowy plunged into the inferno, desperately searching for his family. Minutes later, firefighters managed to quench the fire's hunger,
An fire fighter came in, as the neighbours explain that snowy had went in the burning building before the firefighters came, but one thought that, snowy must be dead by now, and went in with the intensions of picking up the dead bodies but in one of the rooms, revealed Snowy inside, cradling the charred bodies of his parents.
His cheeks were burned yet His face was expressionless, tears streaming silently down his cheeks.
It wasn't that he didn't feel grief—perhaps it was that he had felt it too many times before. A soul battered by countless lives, thousands of deaths, and endless farewells, now stood hollow, struggling to grasp the weight of yet another loss. Snowy, holding the lifeless forms of his parents, was caught between the fire and the ashes of his emotions, while Miya remained missing, somewhere out in the dark.