ROLEPLAY HQ - capturing-a-dragoness-redux

For many generations the mountain town of Eisenberg had been plagued by dragon attacks and yet the inhabitants remain resilient in the face of these constant attacks on the town despite the damage and deaths these beasts inflict upon the town itself. Yet on this particular day a blue dragoness, nine hundred year old dragoness was flying towards Eisenberg with the intention of total destruction of the town and it seemed she and her brethren were only doing this to destroy the town and drive them away from their mountain as humans had been seen as a threat to their existence. In the town square stood a circle of priests and priestesses who waited for the dragoness to fly over before chanting an incantation which caused the dragoness to transform into some humanoid girl. Causing her to fall from the sky where she landed in a wagon carrying hay. Once she had landed, the townsfolk emerged to drag her out and haul her into a cage where she would be kept as some sort of trophy and then dubbed Sylvaria by them as well.

@PhoggyΨυχη (Channel's up.)

To say that the day had been hectic would be an understatement. Calvin had not been allowed to leave the shop as they had several orders to fulfill, though his parents and siblings left off to watch and help with the capture of the dragon. He had huffed, but understood; in his quick time as an apprentice, Calvin had been lauded for his skills and shoemaking. As the sun set, he finished stacking everything and preparing the shoes to be picked up when his family returned. They all seemed to be in awe, if not a bit shellshocked and tired. He pressed for details, but they were hardly expert storytellers. So, once he was done, he decided to go see her for himself. The cage was off to the side of the church as a way of showing off the captive. They supposed she would be a reminder of the power of their goddess in that she could tame such a legendary beast. Calvin wasn't entirely sure about all of that; he just wanted to see a dragon! The cage itself was magical, though he was far from an expert in such matters. She did not appear to be asleep, so he walked up to the cage and sat in front of it. "Hi! I'm Calvin. You must be Sylvaria? Can I call you Sylvy? Oh, have you eaten yet? If you're going to be a guest here, we need to make sure that you're at least fed well." He said with a bright smile, simple as he was. @Deleted User

"I will destroy this wretched town before I feast on anything!" Sylvaria yelled at Calvin with rage and she had a look of burning hatred in her eyes as she looked up at him as well. "I MUST RETURN TO MY TRUE FORM AT ONCE!" She was raging and gripped the bars of her cage tightly as well. The girl looked to be at least nineteen years old in the form she was now. She had not been fed as no one had dared to approach her at all, not even the villagers, priests or priestesses that cast the spell on the dragoness as they feared she may attack them out of retribution for what had been done to her.

"You must be hangry," he said, standing up and nodded, not really frightened. "I'll be right back." He ran off into the distance, vanishing from sight. He reached his house once again and raided the cupboards and pantry before returning with some dried meats. "Sorry, I missed dinner, too. If I'd have known you were hungry, I would have made cooked something." He set some of the dried meats on a napkin and set it in the cage. Calvin took a bite of his own and sat down, "I think it's elk? I hope you like elk. Sorry again that it's tack. Next time, I'll bring you actual food. Pretty dumb that they haven't fed you yet. I mean, you're a living person or creature or whatever, so I'm sure you get hungry." @Deleted User

Without saying a word, Sylvaria took the dried meats and ate them as she glared at Calvin with a look of disdain as she was not going to thank a human. Once swallowing the food she had been eating she soon said. "Why did this happen to me?! This wretched hive will burn when the others arrive!" But she had a feeling the other dragons would mistake her for a human and then added. "Yet if they see me..they will mistake me for some puny human or was that the point?!" She did not like this one bit, being a human was something she could not bear whatsoever as she despised humans like all the dragons in the mountain did.

He tilted his head to the side, "looks like that hit the spot. You're welcome, by the way! Gotta remember your manners." He leaned back, resting on his hands. "Don't dragons have super smell or something? I'm sure they could smell you if you smell like a dragon! I mean, all I can smell is leather and polish because of my job, but I'm sure you smell like a good dragon!" "If there are going to be more of you guys, then we definitely need better accommodations for you. Maybe we should build you guys like a house or an inn," he brought one of his hands to his chin. "I don't really get why they have you in a cage, either. Wouldn't it be nicer to let you stay in a house or something?" @Deleted User

"Why should I give you humans the decency of good manners? You humans treat us dragons as vermin only fit for killing yet you intrude on our territory and hunt us down as if it is merely a game to you!" Sylvaria was not foing to be polite to Calvin or any human for that matter. "They would be dead if I could help it!" If she was in her real dragon form, everyone here would be dead already.

"I don't think you're vermin," he said nonchalantly as he took another bite of meat. "I think you're pretty cool!" He scooted forward and looked at her wide, gleaming eyes. "Is it true you can breathe fire? How big are your wings? What color are your scales? Oh!" He looked down at her bare feet. "What size are your feet? I should make you some shoes; it's not right that you don't at least have shoes. The ground here is kinda rough." @Deleted User

"I would of if this had not happen to me, they were blue and yellow." Human feet size was something Sylvaria knew nothing about as she knew nothing about human bodies apart from that they burned to a crisp or were outright incinerated when blasted with dragon's breath. She found this to be rather annoying and she added. "Shoes?" She looked up at him as Calvin too.

"Yea!" He kicked his feet up and showed off his handmade shoes. They were rather worse and made of striped leather, but they held up all the same. "They go on your feet and keep them from getting hot or cold or hurt. I make them. It's my job, I guess." He set his feet down and sighed, wiping his forehead. "I do it a lot, actually. Might be accurate to say that making shoes is kind of just my life at this point." @Deleted User

"My old feet could crush those stupid enough to stand in front of me." Sylvaria picked them up and put them on her feet curiously and once they were on she looked at them. "Is this all they do, human?" Wondering if this was the only purpose shoes ever had.

"Well, some people use them for fashion and to show off, but I don't really like making shoes like that. Some people can enchant them with magic, but I don't really know how to do that. So, I just make them to help protect feet and stuff." He shrugged his shoulders; he'd never really thought of the 'function' of shoes before. He just made them. @Deleted User

Sylvaria never had to wear shoes for clearly obvious reasons and now she gripped the bars of the cell that held her and she pulled on them as hard as she could as if trying to bend them but nothing came of it and they did not budge an inch. "Damn this cage and damn them cockroaches that did this to me!" She soon yelled angrily as she let go of the bars, knowing she would not be able to do a thing to them whatsoever.

"Sure, uh, I guess you can have those," he said under his breath with a sigh. "Uh, do you need a pillow or blanket or anything? It looks like you might get cold in there. Can't say I know why they have you caged, but it seems pretty mean, if you ask me. It also doesn't look super comfortable. Could stand to be a little more roomy and comfy. I'd let you stay at my place, if I could, but I don't know if the church would like that." @Deleted User

"I WANT RID OF THIS CAGE!" Sylvaria yelled as she rammed into the cage but that did nothing again. Apart from hurting her shoulder. "Ow...why did that hurt?" She did go at it hard and she soon rubbed her shoulder. "That should not hurt me...damn this church!" She clearly had a hatred of the church for doing this to her as well.

"Okay, I hear you, but, uh... there's not much I can do about the cage. I don't really know any magic and this-" he tapped the cage with his knuckle, "is definitely magic. I'm more of a hammer and nails kind of guy than a boom-casting-spells kind guy. So... I can help with things not magic cage related." @Deleted User

"I want them here and now so I can be free of this wretched cage once and for all." Sylvaria snarled behind grit teeth and yet wondered where the priests and prietesses all went off to afterwards. She remembered being dragged out of the cart and hauled across town before being thrown into this cage. "They shall pay for this, all of them!" As she spoke, one of the priests came onto the scene and said. "You shall not do a thing to us or this town no more, dragon." Approaching just a few more steps before coming to a stop.

"What did she do to us?" Calvin asked; he'd rarely ever spoken to a priest. They rarely engaged with the lower working class commoners of the town, especially those like Calvin who did not engage in the religion of the village. "Seems kind of mean to lock her in a cage." @Deleted User

“She and her kind had been attacked this town for many years now, what we did was an experiment and it has yet to conclude.” The priest explained and looked at Calvin and then Sylvaria yelled at the aforementioned priest. “I SHALL KILL YOU AND ALL THE VERMIN IN THIS TOWN!” She was furious at the priest and co for they had done to her and she added. “ONCE I AM IN MY TRUE FORM AGAIN, YOU WILL ALL BURN!”

He turned to the dragon girl and tilted his head to the side, "so, why do you guys attack our town?" Calvin felt like this whole thing could have been solved with a bit of conversation and creative problem-solving. "I don't think that's helping your case, uh, Ms. Dragon," he replied bashfully, rubbing the back of his neck. @Deleted User

"Because you are all intruders, you approach our mountain and you humans try to hunt us down and kill us as if it is mere sport to you!" They were attacking Eisenberg and other human towns, villages and cities to drive them out and she added. "Many dragons have fallen to you and many of you humans shall fall to us in turn!" As if it was like a war to them.

"That seems counterproductive. Why keep attacking each other?" He looked between the priestess and the Dragonness. "Sounds like a lot of unecessary fighting to me. No one wins if this kind of stuff keeps going, dontcha think?" He leaned back again and did his best to see their points of view, but... It didn't make sense. What did either side gain by fighting? It seemed like they were each only losing. @Deleted User

"What? The dragons attacked us first and if we don't fight them off they will burn down everything and kill us all!" The priest protested and he was sure of that as in the human perspective the dragons were just attacking on instinct and humans needed to defend themselves against these attacks. Then Sylvaria answered with. "LIAR, YOU HUNT US FOR SICK SPORT AND WE ONLY DEFEND OURSELVES AGAINST YOU!" Trying to point at the priest too.

"You're not helping, either," Calvin said to the priest. It didn't seem like either of them were going to listen to the other. He didn't know who was telling the truth and, honestly, he wasn't sure it even mattered at this point. "Why not just agree to... not attack each other? Make some sort of truce or magical promise? Do those exist?" @Deleted User

"Do you honestly think dragons can reason like human beings? Are you mad?" The priest asked and thought such a proposal was insanity at its core. "Next thing you know that you will tell us to invite dragons into our homes as if they were domestic pets!" He had a scornful look on his face too. "Why should we make a true between us and humans?! For an idiot human this priest is surprisingly right!" Sylvaria soon yelled as well.

"I mean, she's not a dragon right now; she looks pretty human to me. Seems pretty inhumane to keep a human in a cage. Pretty sure the goddess wouldn't like that," Calvin replied, his nonchalant tone contrasting with the priests'. "I mean, what's your plan here? To just... Keep this human-looking-dragon in a cage? It seems kinda dumb." He turned back to Sylvaria, "it kinda sounds like you guys like fighting and killing each other, then. And you're both prideful enough to let others die so you can feel good about yourselves. Glad I'm not a priest; I wouldn't be okay with war for the sake of pride." @Deleted User

“THIS IS NOT ABOUT PRIDE, THIS IS ABOUT OUR EXISTENCE AND FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHT TO EXIST!” Sylvaria yelled at Calvin and the priest jumped in surprise as she heard her yell at him. “The plan is to do this to all of them, that way the mountain can be cleared out peacefully and no deaths.” He soon explained to the shoemaker.

"I mean, that definitely sounds like there are going to be deaths. I doubt the dragons will just... let you do that. So, some of you are probably going to die and maybe even some dragons. It doesn't sound very peaceful..." He stroked his chin. "Have you guys just... talked to each other and come up with some kind of compromise or truce?" Calvin was a bit exhausted with this; they were going back and forth and not hearing each other. "It sounds like the both of you have the same issues with wanting to exist, but you don't want to exist with the other person." @Deleted User

“And we won’t, unless humans want to be driven into extinction!” Sylvaria yelled angrily at Calvin and at the priest in sheer rage as she glared at the pair of them. The priest said nothing in response as he looked at the girl and then at him too.

"Won't what?" Calvin tilted his head to the side. "Won't exist together? Why not?" He stood up and looked at both of them. "This is kind of pointless. You guys don't want to exist together and you're okay with fighting until one side dies." He shook his head in disappointment. "Kind of expected more from priests and dragons. Both of you are kind of savage and short-sighted." @Deleted User

"No dragon will allow what happened to me to happen to them, not without burning down an entire village, town or city!" Sylvaria exclaimed and she added. "We cannot exist together!" So as long as humans try to drive dragons out of their dwellings, nothing like that will happen. "The dragon is right, nothing can stop this and humanity must survive." The priest soon answered.

"But why don't humans just stop trying to hunt dragons and drive them from their homes and dragons stop attacking humans? If it's causing so much trouble, then it would make sense to just... both stop." Calvin ran his hand through his hair, "honestly, if the goddess is as stubborn and foolish as her followers, I'm glad I don't follow her." He looked back down at the Dragonness, "It sounds like the both of you started a war that brought the rest of us folk into it and now you've given them reason to come and attack us. It took all of you to catch one dragon; what happens when a bunch come here?" @Deleted User

"Dragons can't stop, it's nature for them and we have to defend ourselves from them, why can't I make this clear to you?!" The priest asked and he soon added. "Are we foolish from trying to defend ourselves?!" He looked incensed by this. "They will burn this wretched town to the ground with everyone here and sadly they will mistake me for these humans...." Sylvaria knew the rest would mistake her for another human being.

"You're foolish for continuing a war that will just get us all killed," Calvin crossed his arms and frowned. "Both of you are. If mutual destruction is something you guys are keen on, then go right ahead, but leave the rest of us out of this. We want nothing to do with this way between the two of you. You're both clearly able to talk it through, but you just choose not to." This was incredibly idiotic for him; it was like two children quarreling about who was right and who was wrong all the while careening towards a cliff. "I hope that you both can see where this leads before it's too late, or the blood of your people— both humans and dragons—will be on your hands." @Deleted User

“Then what does that make you?! You clearly look human like the rest of us and dragons are incapable of reason and human rationality!” It was like that to the priest and the humans having to fight against the dragons defensively. Sylvaria was still in the cage and she looked infuriated too.

"Dragons don't seem incapable of reason and human rationality, at least she doesn't. Unless you're saying she's wrong, which would make me right— since she's agreeing with you. So which is it? Are they incapable of human reasoning? Cause if so, you are too, then." He wasn't smug or cocky; he was frustrated. The church liked to pretend this was all about protection, but he could see through that. "Last time it was the elves, then before that, the faeries. Both wars that we lost and lost people too. I'm beginning to think this isn't about protection... I'm beginning to think you all are provoking these races for some reason." @Deleted User

"We are not trying to provoke them, they are attacking us and we have to defend ourselves against them. If we don't, we go extinct and it's not just us that know it. The king knows it and so does everyone!" The priest exclaimed and then said. "Why can't I know make yo...." He was interrupted with the sound of the cage falling over. Sylvaria had managed to make it fall down as she tried to push on it. "AAAGH, DAMN THIS CAGE!" She soon yelled as she was lying on her back.

Calvin rolled his eyes as the Dragonness fell over. "Why do you even care?" He asked the priest as Calvin moved to fix the cage. "Why does it matter if I get what you're saying or not. You'll send us off to war either way. Brothers, friends, we'll all die because you guys would rather fight than try to come up with a compromise or solution." Calvin dusted off his hands as he set the cage back upright. "My words aren't going to stop your crusade." @Deleted User

"Human, why should we make peace with those trying to kill us?!" Sylvaria asked and looked at Calvin dead in the eye as she waited for his answer. Just wanting to be let out of the cage too. "The king will give his word that we fight." The priest soon stated too.

"Well, if you guys are both not killing each other, then wouldn't that mean that no one does? Like, if both of you stop trying to kill each other, then, I mean, wouldn't that be the best outcome for everyone?" He looked at them both incredulously. Were they idiots? He knew he was a simple tradesman, but he figured that this made the most sense. If they were afraid of the other killing them, then an agreement to not kill each other would solve the problem. He'd heard of other kingdoms avoiding war by doing similar things, so what made this different? @Deleted User

Dragons would go after any human and Sylvaria was no different. "All of humanity shall fall before us, once I return to my true form all shall burn." There was a menacing grin on her face as she could imagine the destruction she would cause in revenge for what had been done. The priest looked worried and he answered. "Just look at that evil grin...can you not see the desire for destruction in its eyes?!"

"So you're okay with your people dying, then," Calvin asked Sylvaria, point-blank.

“We are stronger than any pathetic human or any other being in the world, no one will escape our wrath and there will be nothing but embers once I am in my true form.” Sylvaria yearned to be in her true form again and the priest soon fled in fear.

"Unless you die here with the rest of us," Calvin shrugged, turning back to her. "You said it yourself: you look like a human like the rest of us. Soooo seems like you're just as screwed as I am." @Deleted User

Sylvaria was not happy to hear that from Calvin whatsoever and she snarled at his back. “It’s why I wanted to be in my true form again!” That was all she wanted.

"Well, it sounds like that won't happen unless we can avoid getting attacked. I could try to let you out, but I'd need some kind of guarantee that the village would be safe if I do." He eyed her carefully, watching her reaction to her words. @Deleted User

"I..I can't be stuck like this...I don't want to be killed by them!" Sylvaria didn't want to hear this at all and she looked very worried about it. Knowing her kind would mistake her for a human and she would surely be killed by them. Knowing full well what happens when dragons attack human settlements.

"Sounds to me like you've got a choice, then," he said, sitting back down in front of the cage. "I can figure out how to let you out, but you can't harm the people of the village." He thought for a moment before adding: "well, have at it with the priests at the church. They just make life more difficult here." @Deleted User

"Break this cage open and take me away from this wretched city before I change my mind." Sylvaria ordered and was determined to get out of the cage once and for all. Sincerely wanting to return to her true form again. "That priest is to burn with the rest." Yet she would have to escape and soon.

"That wasn't a promise," Calvin said, narrowing his gaze. "I need you to give me your word, or whatever dragons do, to make a promise or a pact or a covenant." He began to look over the cage. Sure, it was magic, but knowing the priests, they definitely wouldn't care much about actual make. He intuited a good way of opening it before looking back at her, "yea, I can let you out." @Deleted User

"Why should I promise? In this pathetic form I cannot breathe fire or fly so wretched humans are safe." Sylvaria didn't need to make promises as it was guaranteed that she would not be able to hurt anyone how she was right now. She was now waiting on Calvin to open the cage door for her so she could get out.

"So, you're saying that you won't promise to help or protect us? Then why should I let you out? What is it for me?" He asked, tilting his head. @Deleted User

“Why should I help or protect humans?” Sylvaria retorted and didn’t ask Calvin’s question at all. “Why?” She soon added once more.

(Off to bed now.)

(Back.)

"So, you don't care about getting let out? I'm trying to make a deal with you here. I let you out, you don't hurt the people of this village sans the church. If you don't promise that, then I have no reason to let you out." He shook his head and sighed; she was pretty dull for a dragon. Either way, he'd made his side of the deal clear. @Deleted User

"I do want to get out and you know I can't hurt anyone in this pathetic form and if you insist...I promise but I am not here to protect any human." Sylvaria was ready to go out once she had promised but she did not want to protect people. "Can you can let me out now?" She soon asked.

He stuck out his hand, "shake on it." He didn't know dragon customs, but he wanted some assurance. He was taking a big gamble here. The last thing he wanted was to unleash her on the entire village. He didn't really care about the church, though. @Deleted User

Sylvaria could not do anything to cause great harm or widescale destruction upon Eisenberg whatsoever. "Shake on what?" She did not know what Calvin meant whatsoever and looked puzzled. "What do you mean?" She soon asked.

He withdrew his hand, "ah, it's an expression. Not really sure why. I'll be right back." He stood up and dashed off to his workshop, retrieving a few of his tools. He returned quickly and took out some awls and pliers and went to work on the cage. Structurally, it was a mess; the church was relying far more on magic than actual construction. Finally, he took out his hammer and hit it in a few places before the cage fell apart, breaking down with ease. "There." @Deleted User

Sylvaria soon stepped out of the cage and she looked back at it. "Wreched thing." She was wondering what to do now as she had no idea on where to even goo. "I can't fly anywhere now." That was how she often travelled, by flying in the sky and over all sorts of things too.

"Well, uh... how did you intend on getting out of here?" He asked, packing his tools back up. "Do you even know how to get back to your home? Wherever it is." @Deleted User

"In the mountains and I can't get there like this...." Sylvaria could not climb up the mountain to reach where the dragons dwelled, if she were to make it up there somehow the others would mistake her for a human and attack on sight. "Can't you see?...They will just attack me on sight!"

"So what was your plan after you got out?" He couldn't help but find her lack of preparation and forethought a bit silly. It seemed both her and the priests were only interested in what was in front of their faces. More than that, they seemed like the kind of beings to cut off the nose to spite the face. @Deleted User

"I have not thought of it, return to my true form and stay away from that wretched priest." Sylvaria wanted to run away before the priest came back and notice she was now gone and out of the cage. "Let's go, come on, I don't want that fool to see us." She soon stated and glared at Calvin as she wanted to flee.

"Way, 'let's'?" He tilted his head to the side. "And go where? I don't really know what you have in mind or what your plan is. I mean, you're looking to head back to the mountain? I'm not really a mountain guide..." He rubbed the back of his neck and sighed. @Deleted User

"I cannot go back to the mountain like this." Sylvaria didn't want to return to the mountain as she was now and she soon added. "They would attack me on sight of they saw me like this." Hence why she refused to go back to the mountain in the form she was in now.

"So, where do you plan on going?" He asked, a bit shocked that she hadn't thought this far ahead. "I mean, this obviously isn't a good place to be considering the priests kind of hate you." @Deleted User

"I'm honestly not surprised." Sylvaria was no fan of them either or anyone in Eisenberg for that matter too. "Not the mountains, we could go to the nearby forests." Which were some miles away, south for that matter and she soon added. "They can't chase us there." Deep down she could not believe she had to tolerate being with a human too.

"But where do I come in here? You keep saying 'we' and 'us'. I thought I was just freeing you and you were going to fly away and tell your friends not to kill us all," Calvin replied, shocked and confused at her current track in her mind. @Deleted User

"I don't have wings anymore and I am not going to tell them that." Sylvaria raised her eyebrow at this logic Calvin was proposing to her. She didn't have dragon wings in this form and ergo could not fly away at all. She was just thinking realistically and she had not changed back whatsoever.

"Okay, but still. You keep saying 'us.'" He crossed his arms and looked at her. "You want me to go with you?" @Deleted User

"We are together after all and I have no idea where to go." Not on foot anyway as Sylvaria didn't do too much walking. Everywhere she went was the same to her.

"Well, I didn't exactly plan on leaving my village since my whole life is here. Why would I leave?" He was still confused; why was she so keen on them leaving together? @Deleted User

"So you don't know what lies beyond Eisenberg?" Sylvaria did but wondered if Calvin did. "Or are you suggesting I stay here?" Being that going to the mountains on foot would take a while.

"If you're asking if I've ever left the town, technically no. I've just been to the forest outside of the town, but that's it." He shrugged his shoulders and looked back to his house. "I don't really know what would be the best for you. Stay here, go, it's up to you." @Deleted User

"I cannot return to the mountain like this whatsoever." So Sylvaria's mind was made up just by that conclusion alone, that she was unable to fly without the use of dragon wings in order for her to even reach the mountain in the first place. "As I have said before." She didn't need or want to say it again.

"Okay..." He paused, "then do you want to come stay with me? I mean, we'd haveto hide you from the church until we could figure out your transforming thing, but you could stay in my shop. It won't be super comfortable, though..." @Deleted User

"I have no other choice, so yes." Sylvaria didn't like it but she literally had no where else to go to ever since being turned into what she is now. She also had a feeling that the rest of Eisenberg would not be happy with it if she were to be discovered wandering free on the streets. "Then take me to your home?" She soon asked Calvin and waited for him to head out so she could follow him there.

"We can also see about getting you a change of clothes. Maybe that would help hide you a bit better. I'll walk you to the shop and let you rest; I have an idea on how to make sure they don't go snooping around the town..." He nodded and looked back at the cage. Calvin led her to his modest shop and let her in. "Stay here, I'll be right bac." He grabbed a few more tools and left back to the cage. He bent it and shredded it as much as he could to make it look like she had broken out. Faux-claw marks and scorch marks from fires where he could. About an hour or so later, he returned to the shop. "Okay, hopefully that helps." @Deleted User

Sylvaria had no concept of money and currency, being as a dragon she had no need or understanding of money in general. Ready to go when Calvin was too. "I see."

"So, what's the plan now? I think I can hide you for a few days," he said with a sigh. In the light, he was abl to get a good look at her. H noted some markings - cuff marks where she had been bound and dragged to the cage. He stepped off to the side and got some aloe, "here, we should put this on those. It'll help your wounds heal better." @Deleted User

Sylvaria took the aloe and looked at it before rubbing it on the aforementioned wounds before answering. "But where can we hide, at your dwelling?" She soon questioned him as she was ready to follow. Soon she was on the move like he was as well.

"At my shop," he said, leading her in. It was a rather quaint cabin with three rooms. There was a the main shop with shoes and the like displayed around. In the back was an off-room with a bedroom and bathroom. Finally, there was the third room for storage. "You can take the bedroom. I usually stay in there if I need to work super late and don't want to walk back home." @Deleted User

Sylvaria immediately felt trapped, more than ever as she had never really had experience with being inside a building with rooms this small and she soon found herself breathing heavily. "Why is it so small in here?" A look of discomfort was on her face too.

"Because it's a shop. It's not a house. I couldn't bring you home; my parents would find out pretty easily and then call the church and we'd have to deal with them again. This isn't permanent, either, right? Our goal-your goal is to get out of this form and get back to your people?" He leaned against the wall and crossed his arms, leaning back. He let out a soft exhale and moved to rub his forehead. He had acted a bit too impulsively. Now he was having to hide a dragon in his shop.

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"It should not be permanent, one of you has to reverse this and why should dragons not attack this place?" Sylvaria would and she would attack without any form of mercy or remorse if she was in her true form. "I can imagine this place burning as I fly over."

"One of us? I don't know how to break whatever curse they have on you. I let you free and you promised not to harm the villagers - only the church. Unless dragons are as fickle with their promises as the church is..." He let the insult hang as he rolled his eyes. Prideful and petty. That explained both the church and the dragons. It was terribly annoying. @Deleted User

"Dragons are not one for honouring human promises." Sylvaria didn't do that and she was not a fan of humans at all. "Do you think we can distinguish who is who?" She soon asked Calvin with a grin. (edited)

"You are not very bright, are you?" He raised an eyebrow. "The way I see it, if you want my help, you'll have to agree to my terms. I'm the one hiding you. I know where you are. If you're just going to threaten me, then what's to say I'm not just going to throw you back to the church?" @Deleted User

"Who said I threatened you?" Sylvaria asked and she added. "We dragons cannot distinguish humans from each other but you seem very unique." Not like the others and she added. "I am not going back there."

"You said you were not going to honor the promise you made to not harm us," he shrugged his shoulders. "That sounds a lot like a threat. Along with your, uh, less-than-settling grin. You're going to have to understand why I don't really trust you." @Deleted User

"This town is too close to the mountain, maybe you should of built it further away." The mountain was the home of the dragons and she added. "And you humans still wish to encroach on our territories." On the defensive were the dragons and some offenses being made too. (edited)

"You keep saying 'you,'" he rolled his eyes. "-as if I or my family chose to live here. This village has been here for two hundred years. My family has only been here for fifty or sixty years." Calvin felt like he was talking to a brick wall. "We just want to live here in peace. We don't care about expanding territory or anything like that. We're trying to make a living." @Deleted User

"When I say you, it's universal." As to round up all humanity into one word and she added. "Too long, we have been in those mountains for longer than that." Then she said. "The rest of humanity seems to care and not want us around." Hence the dragon attacks.

(Off to bed now.)

(Back again.)

"Well, they probably don't want you around because you, you know, kill them. It sounds like a viscous cycle that you guys don't really care about ending," he replied with a shrug. "I don't know what you're expecting from me; I'm a human who isn't quite behind the idea of you killing the people I love and care about." @Deleted User

"And humans have killed the dragons I care about." Bretherin slain by human hand who Sylvaria always tried to avenge as much as she could. "Am I to say that I love you humans and for me to be thankful for what has happened to me?" She asked sarcastically as she had no love for the situation she was in now whatsoever. "Because it's clearly what you expect, yes?" (edited)

"It's not. You're pretty dull, huh?" He responded rather bluntly. "I'm just wanting all of this fighting and bloodshed to stop because it doesn't help anyone. Like I've said a thousand times, it would make much more sense to stop the fighting and killing." She couldn't see past her face, it seemed. This whole cycle wasn't want to stop unless the violence ended and that was probably not going to happen any time soon. @Deleted User

"I'm not going to stop it and neither is anyone else." Sylvaria didn't want it to end and she knew all humans were out to destroy the dragons. "Not just this so called church is out for us, every human it seems." And this would go on as everyone was willing to fight on.

"Well, am I out to get you?" He replied flatly. @Deleted User

"As in kill me?" Sylvaria glared straight into Gavin's eyes as she saw that as a threat. "Once I have my real form, all shall pay for what has happened!" That she was very much sure about and was willing to see it through. If she was to find a way to return to her said true form that was.

He shook his head, "yea, okay." He walked over to the door of the shop and held it open. "If you're so intent on that, then go ahead. Have at it. I'm not going to keep you here if you're just going to kill me afterwards." @Deleted User

Sylvaria looked around and was at a loss of what to do and she asked. "You really want me to?" She didn't even know where to even go first or what to do first either.

"If you're going to wreck the place right now, I'd rather you leave my shop and home out of it." He held the door open yet. Still, she would most likely be found and contained by the church yet again. At this point, it wasn't his problem. She didn't seem to be willing to cooperate, so maybe she was better served as a prisoner.

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Sylvaria had no way to destroy the church on her own and she soon replied. "How can I do that?" She still had the tail of a dragon but she was not sure if she could breathe fire still. "If I still could breathe fire that is." She soon stated.

"I don't really care." He crossed his arms. "If you're going to act like this, I don't want you here. I don't want someone here who is just going to be obstinant and violent and rude. So, I don't care what you end up doing." @Deleted User

Sylvaria walked out and was easily seen which caused people to panic. Shouting and screaming as they ran for their lives. The town was soon in an uproar over it too.

Calvin shrugged as she ran around, more so just making noise and causing an uproar. The church seemed quick to respond, though, meeting her with the full force of their magic. @Deleted User (edited)

"YOU SWINE, LET GO OF ME!" Sylvaria screamed and everyone wondered how she even managed to get out of the cage. Struggling but the magic proved to be too much to hold her own against. "GYAAAAHH!" She soon yelled.

He had an inkling that this would have happened. She would most likely be caged... again. At this point, he did not care. She was proving to be static in her thinking and less-than-willing to cooperate. He had hoped she would have opened up and been willing to work with him, but, well, that didn't seem to be the case. @Deleted User

Sylvaria was soon publically put on display so that eyes would be on her at all times during the day, even during the night when guards would be on their night patrols in town and she would still be feared. Like all the dragons in the mountain too.

Once again, she was back in a cage. Eventually, Calvin came to visit her - to check on her. "Wow, color me surprised. Your plan did not work. What's plan B?" @Deleted User

"They want me dead." Sylvaria was sure of it and she was huddled up in the cage. Looking rather beaten up as some tried to assault her in retaliation for what the dragons had done. To other cities, towns and other villages that was.

"Well, yes." He nodded, looking back at the village. "Dragons have killed a lot of our people. Nowhere is really safe from you. I'd kinda hoped you would have figured that out by now - that no one wins in this war, but you seem content on destruction and killing." Calvin ran his hand through his hair. "You guys see us like ants. We can only hop to fight back. We have no hope of surviving a dragon attack, but you'd sooner see us die than try to find a way to coexist." @Deleted User

"Because we can fly and you can't...but I feel crushed by this body and I feel like I am being held down..." Sylvaria sounded upset, the first time in a while she felt this way and she soon hid her face in her hands. Then curled up on the cage floor too.

"So... that gives you a reason to treat us like that?" It was like talking to a child; her way of thinking was incredibly immature and short-sighted. "I can't help you if you're going to insist on killing people. I won't. I'm not going to let you out just so you can hurt the people I care about." @Deleted User

"And yet you hurt my own." Using that language again and there were people who were still looking around. Yet they were only few in number than before.

"There you go saying 'you'. Everyone that has attacked you in the past has long since either died thanks to the dragons or old age. For all their faults, the church has been on the defense for decades. The rest of us are just trying to live our lives." He put his hands on his hips and narrowed his gaze at her. "You can choose to hate us and keep up this stupid war, but that's on you." @Deleted User

"And what of your king? Hm? Does he want us gone?" Sylvaria knew of this place's king but never met him before. "He surely sounds like one who wants us dead too." That was still on her mind too.

"We don't have a king," he shrugged. "We haven't had a king for at least a hundred years. We're just some village on the outskirts." Calvin paused for a moment, "most of us worship no king or God. Hell, the church is only here to defend us from dragons and orcs and all of that." @Deleted User

"Why did it decide to build this place near our mountain?!" Sylvaria yelled and she added. "As for orcs, they can burn in our wrath too!" They even fought against orcs too.

"I don't fucking know!" He finally yelled out, exasperated with her. "They're all fucking dead! They've been dead for a century! I don't know why they decided to build a fucking city by a mountain of genocidal dragons! I'm sure the rest of us would have preferred they didn't!" @Deleted User

“They should of known better, hubris at its finest.” Sylvaria saw it as a sheer exercise of hubris, building a city so close to where dragons resided. Almost surprised Eisenberg lasted for so long.

"Says the one in a cage." He paused and gave her a knowing look. "Again." @Deleted User

Sylvaria angrily grit her teeth and gripped the bars of her cell as she looked angry. “Damn them…” She soon snarled.

"Well," Calvin replied, shrugging his shoulders. "Guess you're stuck there now. Not much I can do." Of course, he could free her again. He did not, however, want to do that. He had hoped to be able to talk with her and come to an understanding, but she was too... ignorant? short-sighted? to see the big picture. @Deleted User

There was no bigger picture it seemed to Sylvaria and she was trying to think what did Calvin know about dragons that she didn't and what right he had to try and broker peace between humans and dragons alike. She soon angrily glared at him as she gripped the bars of the aforementioned cage they had placed her in.

He rolled his eyes at her fervor. "Hope you have fun in there, I guess. I've got to get to work for the day." He turned and began to leave. @Deleted User

And everyone else had business of their own to attend to, the guards only giving her the odd pieces of food and she was left alone by the others in Eisenberg as they didn't want to approach her out of fear. Fear that they may be attacked by her despite said dragon girl being in a cage.

A few days went by, Sylvaria was still caged and everyone was still going about their day until the very worst was to happen. A dragon was flying towards Eisenberg and looked to be poised to attack the city itself, which it did and breathed a steady burst of fire at everyone below along with buildings too. Causing terrified people to try and flee from the dragon as much as they could.

Fireproofing was easy. While Calvin knew very little about magic, he knew what materials could be used to mitigate damage to the buildings. As long as many of them remained in doors, they would be fine. Of course, people were foolish and tried to flee, so some of them unfortunately perished in the flames. Sylvaria was still yet in her cage, human as she was. Calvin had become slightly hardened thanks to her and the church. His carefree attitude had shifted to something more serious and tired. @Deleted User

Sylvaria knew she could easily be mistaken for a human by them as the dragons burned down everything below them and set ablaze anyone without a second thought. She tried to wriggle the bars but they were stiff and the flames only drew nearer. Looking rather panicked too as she struggled as much as she could as well. "It can't be like this!" She soon exclaimed and all she wanted was to be one of her fellow dragons again. (edited)

From the back, a large arrow flew into one of the dragons, downing it. It seemed the church had set up ballistas. If things continued this way, it would definitely be a bloody battle. The benefit that Sylvaria had was that she was near the church, one of the most fortified and protected places in the town. @Deleted User

Sylvaria knew the dragons would be after the church too, indiscriminate in who they attacked and they were without remorse or mercy in who they burned to a crisp. The dragon girl was right, this was the dragon's territory and humanity had no business being there. The mountains were the dragon's domain and mankind had no right to be there. (edited)

How in the hell had he made this work? Somehow, he'd escaped with a few of the others - and Sylvaria. They had made it to the wooded valley where they old village used to be. Now, it was ruined cobblestone. Still, it would be enough for now. Like it or not, they were no longer in the mountains. Calvin's family had the benefit of him knowing about this beforehand and him insisting on them leaving weeks in advance. The others were not so lucky. Many believed the church would protect them. How wrong they were. Calvin had covered up Sylvaria in a cloak so that her appearance would not cause any disturbance amongst the refugees. The two of them huddled in separate corners of a ruined building, the roof cracked, letting the light and cold air in. Thunder cracked in the distance - rain would be here soon. "I hope you're happy." @Deleted User

Sylvaria wished she was one of the dragons and she soon added. "No, I am still stuck like this and I should of been up there with them." With the other dragons in her real form as that was what would of made her truly happy. "And this forest is something I have flown over numerous times before." She knew these areas well, flying over them on numerous occasions and she added. "And humans took that all away from me."

"So, what...? We're even now? Your people killed my friends, their families, innocents— you drove us from the mountains and left us in pain." He crossed his arms, his anger evident. He was no longer willing to tolerate her or her attitude. "I hope you never regain your dragon form. I hope you are cursed to remain as human as those of us you hate." @Deleted User

"And you have killed our elders, elder dragons slain and the mountains are our territory..not yours!" Sylvaria retorted as Calvin's words struck a cord somewhere inside of her and it stung like a potent hornet's sting. Gritting her teeth as she could feel it, the rage and anguish those words brought to her and she added. "YOU HUMANS STRUCK US FIRST, YOU PUSHED US ONTO THE MOUNTAINS AND WE HAVE NO WHERE TO GO!" Over the years, humanity had pushed dragons back and the only place they had were the mountains.

(Off to bed now.)

"There's that 'you' again!' He snapped back. "We haven't done anything. Whatever beef you had with out ancestors has nothing to do with us. Same with the church, which is now completely gone. We've had nothing to do with this stupid conflict except now that most of the people I knew and loved are dead." He pressed himself further into the corner and pressed himself against the wall. "I should have left you to die." @Deleted User

"Humans have killed the elders that we respected, they brought knowledge of the world and they killed them as if they were nothing more than an annoyance to be slain!" Sylvaria exclaimed and she would of been well aged, around nine hundred years old. "Every human seems to have this generational committment to drive us into extinction and none of them will succeed!" She often put all humans into the same box as she was sure there would be humans who would do the same in kind.

(Sleeping now.)

"What about me?" He asked, turning to her with a resigned despondency. "Do I seem to have a commitment to driving you into extinction? Did I have that commitment when I dragged you out of the rubble to escape with me?" @Deleted User

“I don’t know what your motives are but every other human has tried to kill us every time they saw us!” Sylvaria had been attacked in the past by humans too just like any other dragon.

"So, instead of thinking for yourself or listening to reason or your experience in me saving you countless times, you'd prefer to think that I have been trying to kill you?" He scoffed at the idea, obviously offended by it. "You know what? If you're so intent on killing humans or believing that they're all evil, then why are you still here with me? You're not bound by a cage anymore. You can leave." @Deleted User

"Where do I even go without you humans not seeing me as your own?" Sylvaria would know that she would not be accepted back among the dragons, they would not see a dragon but a human who they would kill on sight immediately. Despite all she has said to Calvin, she had no where else to turn to and she added. "I am stuck in this pathetic human body that can't even fly, humans have made her feel as vulnerable as they were.

"That sounds more like a 'you' problem rather than an 'us' problem. Especially since you seem to hate me. I wouldn't want to get in your way, after all," he jeered sarcastically. "You don't want to be around me and I'm increasingly learning that I don't want to be around you." @Deleted User

"You know I won't be accepted among other humans, I do not even know how to act like them and I would be rejected among them as I would the dragons." Sylvaria could not return to the mountains like this whatsoever. She had no idea about human behaviours and customs as she was more used to terrorising humans. Along with other races too in this world if there were other races to find and terrorise as much as the humans.

"Yea, and you're wanting me to care now? After you treating me like shit the entire time and lambasting me? I've tried caring about you. I've tried being nice. Where has that gotten me? Here." He glared back at her, more sad than angry. He had nothing left. He wasn't even sure if his family even made it to safety. "Find yourself a vilalge or town somewhere where they don't know you. You'll be fine there." @Deleted User

Sylvaria had done a lot of flying over villages, towns and cities and most of them were places she attacked. She soon walked off and didn't know where any of them were on foot as searching for them was hard to do when walking. It was far more easier to find these places from the air rather than walking around trying to find these places on her own and immediately she was lost without anyone to ask for directions whatsoever and without food or water as well. (edited)

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