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Sam's past. Chapter 1.

I was a short blonde haired, 18 years old boy called Sam Payne. I lived in a farm with my parents not far from the big city, I didn't have any sister or brothers. My life was like any other boy's life in that world, I had friends and a pet dog called Fang which was a year old lab and I had few hobbies. Playing with computer, fishing and hunting. I liked to be alone most of the time, but I didn't know why and it felt like there was nobody in this world who would be like me. But my life in this normal world ended one day.

It was nice Sunday morning when I woke early at 6 am, then dressed my clothes on, taking my 12 gauge shotgun and Fang with me. I walked to my usual hunting place which was a big rock near the ditch and started looking for something to shoot, birds mostly but rabbit would do the same, then I thought that this day would be like the others, hunting then playing with my computer or watching tv in my room, call my friends and talk about something to make time go away, but how wrong I was.

Then I saw this big bird flying in the sky and coming straight at me, "Finally something to shoot." I chuckled, but then I saw that this bird was becoming larger when it was coming at me and this wasn't any bird it was a "Fucking dragon, what the fuck they aren't suppose to be in existence." I said jumping in the dried ditch in front of me. I have read stories from dragons and furs from my fiend but I laughed at them and then saying that they didn't exist and you are nuts to read this kind of shit, but now I know how wrong I was about dragons.

I emptied my shotgun and then filled it with more effective shotgun shells, then I heard this huge thud next to me, obviously the dragon had landed. "Fuck I'm not going to be afraid of some stupid dragon." I thought and reloaded my shotgun making a dull click come from it.

"Come out human I know you are here, I'm not going to kill you." The dragon said in calm voice,

"Shit it knows that I am here, better face it or it might get angry." I thought and stood up from the ditch in font of the dragon, it was slightly taller than I was and I was a little over 6' 2" tall and it had light blue scales and standing on all fours. "So what dragon like you, want form dude like me." I asked trying to keep my voice calm and taking a good grip of my shotgun which was on my shoulder, ready to shoot if the dragon chances its mind.

"I want to know how you are able to see me." It asked in a male voice, obviously it is a male.

"I don't know tell me." I answered trying to keep my legs still, which wanted to run far away from the dragon.

"We are protected by a spell, which makes us invisible from human eyes." He answered,

"What you are telling me that I'm not human, are you?" I asked,

"I don't know, tell me." He said,

"I don't know, I have always lived with my parents so I don't remember anything that makes me not human." I said,

"Ok, but there is bad news for you." He said,

"What are you going to kill me now." I asked in angry tone because something that doesn't exist came to me telling me that I'm not human.

"No but if you don't come with me then I have to kill you." He said,

"Why can't I stay here, I'll promise that I won't tell anybody." I said,

"No, we can't take that kind of risk, if some body who has seen the real dragons tells it to somebody else he will be able to see us." He said,

"Fine I'll go with you." I said, "I was hoping for some kind of action in my life anyway." I thought.

"Climb on my back." He said kneeling on the ground, I tossed my shotgun in the ditch and climbed on his back. Then he chanted something making me glow white light for a few seconds and then he rose in the air. "What did you do to me." I asked when we were flying.

"I made the same spell to you which makes us invisible from human eyes." He said,

"No, why did you do that, I would like to watch peoples when they see me sitting on the air and flying." I laughed making him laugh too.

"You are a funny man, by the way my name is Earl." He said,

"And I am Sam, nice to meet you." I said. "So where are we going?" I asked,

"To the Dragon University." He answered,

"Why," I asked,

"I have to ask for help from the elders of the Dragon University because I don't know how do deal with things like this." He said,

"You mean that I can see through your spell." I asked,

"Yes, no human has ever seen through our spell." He answered,

"But what about those stories of dragons." I asked,

"There was a time when we lived in peace with humans, but they feared our magic skills so they tried to kill us, then we decided to make that invisible spell so that humans don't find us and even forget that we ever existed. Maybe some old writings have been found and they're how the stories about dragon were started, so humans haven't seen us in a few thousand years and you are the first who has seen a dragon." He said,

"What do you think happened so that I was able to see you." I asked,

"I don't know, maybe the spell is old and weakening." He answered.

"So thats why you have to ask for help from those old dudes." I said,

"Yes." He answered and we arrived at the big mountain, it's amazing how fast dragons can fly, with air plane the trip would have lasted ten hours or more, but when riding on the back of a dragon we were there in a few minutes. There was this big castle on top of the mountain, it was huge, bigger than every castle that I have seen in movies and there was lots of dragons flying in and out from the castle.

"Wow this is a big place." I said,

"Yes it is, we built it with magic." Earl answered and we landed in front of big gate. I jumped off his back, "Follow me." Earl said and went into the castle, me not far after him.

"So where are these guys that you are looking for?" I asked when we were walking in the hallway and every dragon which we passed looked at me like they have never seen a human before.

"Few floors up, but remember not to dude elders they probably don't like that they are called with that name." Earl said,

"Ok but what is that." I said stopping in front of door which was open and it was some kind of class about ten small dragon sitting around one old dragon which was holding black rose in his hand,

"That is our magic master Artemis, he is teaching young dragons how to use magic." He said continuing to walk forward but I stayed listening to what Artemis was saying,

"First you have to focus on the object, then focus on your magic and let it flow from your fingers to the target and the last thing is to remember to turn this black rose into flames." Artemis said to the little dragons around him, the young dragons started to laugh when the rose turned into flames, then into ice and then it turned into butterflies. "Ok who did it." Artemis asked and all dragons were pointing at the door where I was standing, when I saw Artemis looking at me, I smiled and ran after Earl.

"Ok that was weird." I said when I was walking next to Earl,

"What was weird?" He asked,

"Aww nothing." I answered,

"Now here is our training hall, where Zathras is teaching fighting skills to other dragons." Earl said pointing to the hall next to him where many dragon were fighting with swords, sticks and something what I didn't recognise. We were just going to leave when I heard somebody to shout "Watch out.", I turned a round and a strange reflex came from my hand and I grabbed a huge broad sword with my hands not far from hitting my face and ending my life in that place.

"Sorry about that." Said a young red dragon who came in front of me and took the sword with him and then went back to the training hall, I looked at Zathras and saw her looking at me, I smiled back to him and run after Earl who didn't even notice what was happening to me.

"Did you see that?" I asked,

"See what." He asked looking at me,

"Nothing." I answered and walked next to him.

"Ok here we are and remember not to dude anybody in here." Earl said opening the big door in front of him.

"Earl, nice to meet you, and who is this human with you." Said a white dragon who was standing in the middle of grey dragon which was Artemis and the other was a red dragon which was Zathras,

"This is Sam, I brought him here because he can see us through the magic." Earl said,

"Interesting, I see that the spell is working fine so the fault isn't there." Artemis said,

"And I think that he isn't human." Zathras said,

"Then can anybody tell me what the fuck I am, if I'm not human." I thought and watched the white dragon who was looking at me,

"That is a thing that you must find by yourself." The white dragon said,

"What, he can read mind, why didn't you warn me." I whispered at Earl,

"I forgot to mention it." He answered, "So what should we do with him Chris." Earl asked looking at the white dragon.

"I can teach him magic." Artemis said looking at the Chris,

"And I can teach him fighting skills." Zathras said looking at Chris,

"So it means that you can stay here with us." The white dragon said smiling,

"Ok, but where will I live while I am here?" I asked,

"Earl, if you don't mind." Chris said looking at Earl,

"Yes, he can live in my lair." Earl answered,

"So be it, but remember to be back here at tomorrow at 10 o'clock." Chris said looking at me,

"Yes, I will." I answered and followed Earl out from the room, when we were walking back to the castle gate there was this ringing noise in the hall and my pocket started to vibrate, then I took my mobile phone and answered it.

"Hey dude where are you, I tried to contact you many times but you didn't answer." Said a male voice on my phone,

"Sorry Mark, I've been busy, I have to go now I'll call you later bye." I said shutting my phone and putting it back in my pocket,

"What was that thing." Earl asked looking at me,

"Oh its a mobile phone, which we humans use when we have to talk with a friend or somebody who isn't around." I answered,
"That's amazing what else it can do?" Earl asked,

"I can take pictures with it." I said,

"Amazing, but you have to show me that later now we have to go to my lair." He said and I climbed on his back,

"So what do you have planned to do tonight?" I asked trying to keep my mind clear and to from asking any stupid questions.

"Nothing special just reading some books." he answered, just as we arrived at his lair.

"Wow, you have spent some time on your lair decoration." I said in amusement when we arrived inside his living room, there was big pile of pillows and a few huge book shelfs filled with different books.

"This is nothing compared to my bedroom and bathroom." Earl said smiling and walked deeper into the lair, then we arrived at his bathroom. There was this huge hot spring and a small waterfall which brought the water to the hot spring, "I use that waterfall to shower." He said and continued walking to his bed room.

"Wow, this is better than my room." I said when I saw his bedroom full of pillows and different kinds of personal stuff on the walls.

"Ok you can sleep over there." Earl said throwing some pillows in the other corner of his bedroom, "Now I will take a bath, make yourself at home." He said walking back to the bathroom. I took of my coat leaving only my black tank which has this cool text on the back side of it saying "Bite Me". And then I went back to the living room, walking in front of the book shelves taking a random book from it.

Then I sat on the pillow pile and started to read the book. It was in a strange language that I didn't understand, "Fuck how you are suppose to read this". I said hoping that it would be written in English, then the text chanced into our language in front of my eyes. "Magic." I chuckled and started to read. Then Earl walked into the room sitting next to me,

"What are you reading, oh that is my family magic book." He said looking at book which I was holding,

"Why didn't these words chance like the others." I said pointing word which were written in our alphabets but didn't look like any of words what I know.

"Just say it and it will work." He said,

"Herotic Calamus Tibur ur pheless." I said, then there was this "Puff." Sound and there was this mirror in front of me. I was surprised and looked at Earl who was as surprised as I was.

"I didn't know that you can do magic." He said when I rose up and put the book back in the book shelf,

"Better not read it until I learn more about this magic." I said and looked back at Earl which was looking at the mirror then saying something to make it disappear.

"Can you do any other cool magic tricks." I asked,

"Yes, a few." He said saying something weird and there was ten small fire balls flying in the air then they came around me and started spinning. "Nice eh." He chuckled, then happened something what he didn't expect to happen. All fire balls suddenly hit me at same time making my tank top burn into ashes,

"Fuck that was my best tank." I said when I opened my eyes,

"Did I do that." He said pointing at my back,

"Oh you mean that huge dragon tattoo on my back, no." I said,

"But where did you get it, its cool." He said touching my back with his finger and looking at it closely,

"I was drunk and lost a bet with my pall so he decided to make tattoo to my back." I answered and watched as Earl jumped to his pillow pile.

"You humans are weird people did you know that." He said laughing throwing pillows at me, which hit my face made me grin evilly.

"How old are you." I asked taking the same pillow and throwing it back straight at his muzzle making him groan when it hit.

"587 years." He answered,

"And still acting like a child." I answered,

"We dragons live for 4000 years and I am at the same age as you are in your age." He said,

"Oh I see." I said yawning little, "I'll have to take a little nap, because I woke up early in the morning." I said laying on the pillows.

"Ok sleep now but I'll have to go see my friend so before I leave I'll show you something." He said and looked at me, "Doross ur Ticiluss." He said. Suddenly I felt like something was tickling me every where making me laugh like crazy for a few seconds then laying on the pillows and looking angrily at Earl,

"I will get you for this." I said and tried to sleep, hearing Earl laughing and walking out from the cave.

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