Short story 3 _ The Road of the Dragon Dad
Four years into Sarafayido, the country was still in turmoil for statehood. Humanity is also busy rebuilding its homes and sweeping away the remnants of its demons. The dragons stayed away from the human area during the war and hid in the mountains, but they were also attacked by the crowd who also fled to the mountains to avoid disaster, and Zuihou had to relocate all the way to a place that was difficult for humans to reach. Dandeo, the father of Altaro Longampat, dug a deep hole in the rocks near the sea and hatched eggs in it.
Although it looks like a mammal, it is actually oviparous. Their eggshells are extremely hard, and the fragments were material for high-grade armor and weapons in ancient times. Now it's the Unified Acquisition of the Staff of Light, which is used to craft blades.
For the little dragon to come out of such an egg, it needs to rely on dragon fire to burn the eggshell softly. Dragon fire has the effect of softening the eggshell, and spitting dragon fire is the first thing that the little dragon learns. Earlier than flying and looking for Daddy Dragon. A month before hatching, they will slowly spit a small fire in the egg, gradually soften the eggshell, and open a way for themselves to be born. Daddy Dragon usually doesn't help, and traditionally, this is done by the little dragon himself.
Dandio is a strong, gentle and courageous dragon. It has a slender and graceful body with a tinge of green hair. There are many female dragons who are willing to help him give birth, so he has a lot of experience in parenting, and this time he hatches two eggs at a time.
That night, he took the dragon eggs to bask in the moonlight, sniffing the distant smell of gunpowder and blood wafting through the air, and estimating how far away the human commotion was. Basking in the moonlight, he hummed a song and brought the dragon eggs back into the shadows. It was almost a month before the hatching, and he was happy to see that one of the eggs was shining with a dragon fire glow that was shining and dimming. The little dragon began to spit fire.
The other dragon egg didn't move, but he wasn't in a hurry. Each egg does not grow at the same rate.
But a week later, the little dragon in the dragon egg still didn't spit fire. Dandio started to get nervous, and he leaned his cheek against the dragon egg, covering it with his ears, listening to the movement inside. He heard a steady heartbeat, the dragon egg was alive, but why didn't it spit fire? It was a little late. Dandio wondered if it was a deformed child, he had heard of a female crocodile hatching with a baby crocodile with a mouth glued together, and it had to be surgically split by humans to survive. He had also heard that the number of human deformities had increased in recent years, and that it seemed to be related to some of the actions taken by humans during wars. He was worried that the child would be affected.
So he sang the tune of looking for the midwife of the dragon clan and invited the other party to come to his house to see the egg. The midwife of the dragon family is a very special position, which is filled by the oldest dragons, and is responsible for selecting the younger dragons to pass on the knowledge of the dragon birth. The dragon that responded to Dandio's song was a super old dragon, so old that there were no hairs left, revealing pink skin. Even the dragon capital does not know how many years this dragon has lived. He is still very strong, but he is hairless and prone to cold, so he wears a windproof suit woven for him by humans. Otherwise, you won't be able to stand the cold air at high altitude when flying. The feathers on his wings are still there, and if they are gone, he will have to fly by magic.
On this day, he wore a high-necked (the collar covered the entire dragon's neck, and also covered the head and ears all the way) a winter suit, revealing only two eyes and wings. Half a tail and four soles. People who don't know will think that this is a dragon-type rag doll with a large inch.
He flew into Dandio's dragon's den, and Dandio took him to see the dragon eggs, chatting about what he had seen along the way.
"It seems like life is finally going to return to normal. But the damage caused during this period of time, I'm afraid it won't go away so quickly. The midwife said.
"I've heard that Da Lan Pain seems to be going to build a kingdom of his own?" said Dandeo.
"Yes. No one helped them when they needed it most, and when they got through it, it was a matter of course. Nekukamina intended to remain the status quo ante and had no interest in Sarafaydo. 」
"In any case, I hope that human society will soon return to peace. The impact of their wars on the environment is simply too great. 」
"Yes. 」
The dragon eggs were placed in a small silver nest made of dragon hair, one of which flickered and the other did not move.
The midwife asked, "Is this the egg not responding?"
"Yes. 」
The midwife pulled the mask down with his paws, licked the dragon egg that would not shine, and put his nose on it and inhaled vigorously: "It tastes healthy, it doesn't look like it's sick. 」
Dandio asked urgently, "Then Weishenme still can't breathe fire?"
The midwife's front paws gestured, asking Dandio to calm down. He began to sing to the dragon eggs. He sings a very subtle tune in a very low voice. It seems to have a sound and as if there is not, and it even makes people feel that what they are hearing is auditory hallucinations.
A small voice came from the dragon egg: "Chirp-squeak!" and the midwife sang.
"The mouth is fine. The midwife said, "Otherwise, you won't be able to pronounce a sound." He overslept. 」
"Overslept?"
"A child who is still in an egg, when his body is gradually taking shape, his consciousness is playing in the dream realm. During this time, we see the beginning of heaven and earth, the other side of Shijie hidden. You don't remember, but you've seen it. He had so much fun in his dreams that he forgot that he was supposed to be born. 」
"What can I do?"
"Sing to him more and call him here. Wake him up quickly, or you'll miss his birthday. 」
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So for the next two weeks, in addition to sleeping, Dandio sang to the two dragon eggs one after another. As a result, the fire-spitting egg learned to sing complex tunes before the egg broke, often singing in chorus with Dandio. And the overslept egg is still overslept.
It wasn't until two days before the expected egg breaking day that Dandio finally saw a light in the darkness of the overslept dragon egg. He was relieved at first, but when he checked the egg again the next day, he found that the overslept egg was several times brighter than the other, like a magic bulb.
The next day, the night before the day of the egg breaking, he held the egg, always feeling that something was burning nearby, but there was nothing to burn.
On the day of egg breaking, the little dragon that had not overslept was successfully born through the eggshell. The midwife waited at the scene because he was worried, and Dandio asked him to choose a name for the little dragon. The midwife gave the dragon the name "Benzni", which means "beautiful singing".
As for the overslept egg, they estimated that it would take him about a week to soften the shell properly.
As Dandio was busy licking Benzni clean, a heavy smell of burnt water suddenly came. The oversleeping dragon egg, which had been placed next to it, had a small hole in its mouth that had been pierced, and the little dragon inside was struggling to squeeze its head out.
Dandio was shocked. Normal dragons are born pink, with wet fur sticking together, and only when they dry up will they become fluffy little things.
But now the little dragon that came out of it had a layer of black scum on its head. The smell of burnt came from the hole in the egg, and from the little dragon. The little dragon forced his head out of the hole, and then because the area of the burn was not large enough for the whole dragon to get out, it just got stuck in the neck. The hole wasn't even big enough for him to breathe properly, and the little dragon's tongue slowly spit out, making a gasp that made it difficult to breathe.
Dandio was so frightened that he left behind the tradition, and hurriedly lit a fire to help Xiaolong quickly soften and peel off the eggshell. The rescued little dragon was covered in black scum, Dandio licked it, it was all coke!
Xiaolong was too slow to start baking the eggshells, and in order to catch up, he spat in the eggs and burned all his hair.
Dandio and the midwife both thought of what to name the dragon and called it "Ampait", which means "to make the dragon anxious".
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Because the fetal hair was burned out, Ampaert was bare for a long time, and this incident was enough for him to win the unanimous evaluation of "this dragon is stupid" in the dragon clan. And when he grows up, he's still a strange dragon. The various abilities of the dragon clan, such as Long Wei, he is very weak. Only the ability to "hide" is extremely strong. This ability allows the dragon to merge with the environment, making it impossible to spot that there are dragons. It is an important ability to evade enemies.
Ampaert can hide so much that even Daddy Dragon can't find him. Often when it was time to eat, Dandio searched the entire dragon's nest up and down several times, thinking that he had run outside, only to find that he had already been in place and started.
This silly little guy has slowly grown up to the age of leaving the nest.
The coming-of-age ceremony of the male dragon takes place at high altitude. There was no air there to conduct sound, so nothing could be heard except for the special song of the dragons.
The dragon that is about to leave the nest sings to Shijie there. After the song is finished, the dragon head will ask them what they want to do in the future. It's not part of the off-nest ritual, it's just that Shijie is changing faster and faster, and the dragon head wants to know what the young dragon thinks.
"I want to travel around Shijie and gain knowledge. In the future, I will become the guardian of the Magic Book House. Benzeni said. The Magic Book House he was talking about was an ancient library that had been guarded by dragons for a long time, and it was full of enchanted books. The librarians there are all knowledgeable dragons.
When it was Ampaert's turn, his eyes lit up and he said, "I want to get a mage's license!"
The dragon-headed Menlett asked him, "Weishenme?"
Ampaert's eyes glowed intensely: "Because, yes, take, apprentice, brother!"
According to astronomers on the ground, there were two more purple stars in the sky that night, and they disappeared after only a few seconds.
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Ampaert is a dragon who loves family life. In addition to having an older brother, Ampaert also has a sister who has not completely left home at home, and has lived in a lively environment since childhood. He adores his dragon father so much. The brothers and sisters all know that when they can't find Ampaert, they just go to Dandio's back hair.
When he was very young, one cold afternoon, after Ampaert and Benzni had finished eating the wild vegetables prepared by Dandeo, two small dragons, less than a meter long, burrowed under Dandio's wings to keep warm. The dragon sister Wendy pointed at Ampat's hind legs that were not well hidden and were still exposed, and said, "This little thing hides its head and does not hide its feet, and it will be a strange dragon in the future. 」
When Ampaert heard this, he got under the wings of the dragon father with his short legs, turned around and stuck his head out, and said, "I want to be a dragon like Pout." 」
Dandio listened, and was too shy to keep silent.
Wendier daxiao said, "It's impossible! With you, a hairless vulture dragon, you won't be willing to give birth to a child until you are seven hundred years old!"
Ampaert's young mind was devastated. He, like all boys with sisters at home, grew up disillusioned with the females of his own race. It's not easy to build a family like the Dandio family!
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After the two brothers became humans, human life has slowly returned to normal. Dandio takes them to the human city to get acquainted with these intelligent creatures that have a great influence on Shijie.
When Dandio took on a human form, he was a tall, thin man with short dark green hair and slender eyebrows. He walked down the street with two dragon sons who had turned into human children.
These days, human beings are celebrating their major festivals, and the streets are full of people taking the special holiday pocket money given by their parents to buy gifts for their children.
Ampaert grabbed Dandio's sleeve and said, "Dad, Dad, there are so many children!"
Dandio smiled and replied, "Hmm. 」
"Is this a nursery for humans? are all human children here?" asked Ampatt. There are not many dragon children, and there are more human children on this street alone than all the children of the dragon clan at this time.
"It's just an ordinary human city. 」
A couple walked past them in a two-seater doll carriage with two babies in it, and three older children walked on their own.
Ampaert looked at it and asked, "But, Weishenme, their parents have so many children?"
Before Dandeo could reply, Benzini said, "They were born of themselves. Humans can have more than a dozen children in a hundred years. 」
"Suspicious?"
Benzni adds to what he says in the book: "Humans can have one in a year. Born in a row. 」
"That, that," said Annepath, "can we give us one or two?"
Dandio held back a smile and replied, "Yes. Because there are too many human beings, sometimes they can't take care of them, so you can help if you want to. 」
So, with the idea that he could adopt a human child in the future, the little dragon Ampaert grew up slowly.
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However, when he was approaching the age of seventeen, a news broke his heart in the newspaper.
The human parliament passed a law not to allow dragons to adopt human children in the future!
That day he cried and wet Dandio's back hair.
Dandio said to him earnestly, "O Ampaert, although it is the duty of a dragon to raise children, I have never seen a dragon so obsessed with this matter as you. I'm sure you'll have children of your own. 」
Although Dandeo meant that one day a female dragon would be willing to give birth to a child for Ampaert, but Ampaert himself took this phrase in a different direction.
In a collection of human stories that he had collected in order to one day adopt a human child that he could read to his children, he found a story: a human was taken in by a dragon who could do magic, became the dragon's apprentice, and under the dragon's guidance he perfected his magic skills, and Zuihou became an archmage.
He found that as long as he was a master and a "father", he could have a human "son"!
In Ampait's time, the Staff of Light established a state institution and institutionalized the cultivation of the next generation of mages. If you want to accept disciples, you need to have a mage license, which is why Anpaite made such a declaration at the coming-of-age ceremony.
The dragon-headed Menlett was so surprised that he had to say, "Just try it. 」
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By the time Ampett left the nest, human society had settled down. Ampai chose a wilderness to build his dragon's nest. Because it is a land that can be settled by humans, many years later, the surrounding area has become a city.
He built his nest and happily collected a large number of mage university admission brochures and studied them at home. When Benzny visited his home, he saw that Ampaert was completely focused on how to prepare for the entrance exam, and couldn't help but point out a question for him: "How can you register if you don't have an ID card?"
"What is an ID card?"
After Benzeni explained, Ampaert was depressed for a whole day, and then she cheered up.
He won't give up!
He began to tour the principals and examiners of the various mage universities. Sometimes he becomes a human and asks "My friend wants to go to school, but he doesn't have an ID card, what should I do?" Sometimes he asks directly in the form of a dragon, "I also want to learn spells, how can I get into school?" Sometimes it is a roundabout battle, first going to the roof of a certain principal's grandmother's house where he has been suffering from insomnia for a long time and singing a song for three days to let the old man sleep well, and then saying to the principal himself who came to the house, "People have a wish, can you help?"
He worked hard in many ways like this for many years, and the news that "Youlong wants to go to Mage University" spread. The public does not object to this. And the Staff of Light began to study the matter in earnest.
The Dragons supported Ampaert for another reason. In recent years, the channels of magic education have become more and more concentrated in human-run schools. The system has the most haode educational resources. What can be said is that in the following era, the mages in the system will become the mainstream. For the sake of the future dragon sons and grandsons, the dragon head Meng Rett also hopes that the dragon clan can legally enroll in school. He tactfully let the human mage know that if the human mage refused to be accommodating in this trivial matter, the dragon clan would probably not be so willing to provide human beings with spell materials that only dragons can produce. Due to institutionalization, spell education is expanding, and a stable source of spell materials is needed more than before.
Most of the decent mages have a good relationship with the dragon clan and are optimistic. And those who are more indifferent also hope that the reciprocal model between humans and dragons can be sustained now. The Ethero will not allow the hunting or enslavement of the Ethero Dragons in order to obtain materials.
After all kinds of twists and turns, the Staff of Light finally opened the way for non-human beings to enter the mage university.
But there is also the issue of tuition fees. Antpet was unable to apply for a student loan or a scholarship. These things are for human use. The dragon family lives a life where they don't have to deal with money, and they usually barter, where does he have to pay for his tuition?
As a result, Daddy Long stepped forward. Although Antpay has been away from home for many years, he still comes out to support him just like he did when he asked Anne to learn to fly. Dandio was the first to shave the hair off his belly and sell it to humans to make sweaters in exchange for his first tuition fee. There is no softer and warmer hair in the world than the fur on the belly of a dragon. The sweater made from dragon belly hair is the top-notch.
At the call of Dandio, other male dragons followed up and sold the hair for money to Ampait. In this way, he entered the school by the love of his kindred. When he went to pay the bill in human form with a stack of bills, he almost burst into tears at the thought of his kindred's bare pink bellies (which were as severe as human baldness, and could not be favored by a female dragon until the hair grew back).
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As a dragon, Ampat's natural ability is not strong, except for causing the professor to answer questions in class, and never clicking on his "hidden", other abilities make people wonder if he has it. However, it is precisely because of his lack of natural ability that he is not affected by innate habits, and looks at magic from a human point of view, and casts spells in a human way.
As a human mage, he is quite good. Professors praised him – though it was never clear what his attendance was.
As he neared graduation, the state decided to open all universities to non-human beings. This development has to do with the impeccable performance of Annepet. He made it impossible to deny that dragons could learn from humans. At the same time, the "Warcraft Conservation Law" was passed, which had a great impact on future generations. With Dalan Pain and Neku Kamina also following suit, the fate of the monsters in the Altaro region is very different from that of other places.
Although Ampaert himself did not think about it and never aimed at it, he was actually an important promoter of the close integration of the dragon clan and human society after the founding of the country.
Before he struggled to squeeze into the mage university, the dragons didn't care what their legal status in human society was, and no dragons thought to care. Most humans think that the passage of the Warcraft Conservation Law is the work of the dragon-headed Menlett and the head of the Administration Department of the Demon Court. Few people realize that the original trigger for all this was Annepait.
Because of Ampaert, the dragons thought of learning from humans to run newspapers, learn from humans to go to court, and even learn from humans to march and protest.
Ampaert also became the first dragon to have a passport (because he was going to represent the school in a neighboring country). He can enter a foreign country through customs in human form. The little dragons that followed him all followed in his footsteps.
The news of his mage's admission to college once occupied the front pages of the newspaper, and later, it was nothing new to be a classmate of Long in college. At most, readers like "My peculiar dragon classmate" appear in the newspaper supplement.
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After passing many tests, Ampaert finally got his graduation certificate and mage license. He has come to the step he has been waiting for for a long time and is ready to accept apprentices!
His first disciple's name was Ha'an. This man loves to eat and talk, and often talks while eating. Has curly red hair. Strong and not like a mage. He has a good memory and has a good hand and feet, but he consumes a lot of food.
The second is to think about it. Skinny. But he's about the same height as Haan. It often makes a daxiao sound. Black hair is cut extremely short. Only do what you like, and do everything else.
The third is Longda Moya.
On the day that Longda Moya arrives at the Dragon's Lair, Ampaert goes to the gate to greet him. What he saw was a boy of about nineteen years old with many white spots in his hair and black eyes like deep pools. His eyes are actually dark blue, but when you look at them, you think they're black. Or rather, his eyes are black in the senses. He wasn't particularly tall, but he wasn't particularly thin, but he felt thin.
Longdamoya stood in the warm summer sun, but the light seemed to have nothing to do with him. He smiled as if he had been dug out of a dusty warehouse and seemed to have not been used in a long time. The smile was muffled by the muscles of his face that could not respond to the command, and only the corners of his mouth were raised. Even when he laughs, there is still darkness in his eyes. But it seemed to be his heartfelt smile.
Ampaert smiled and said, "You are welcome to join our family. 」
Then came Hu Lifu, a young boy who was good enough to correct Ampaert.
Yasmon, who is not interested in his homework, but likes the sense of accomplishment of casting a successful spell. You can use sound and light effects to stimulate him to work hard.
Yiye is often in a trance, and it's best not to let him take care of the fire. Elemental spells are poor, and spells that are particularly ambiguous in their mode of action are quick to learn. Feeding him a candy in the afternoon has a refreshing effect.
Ampaert has a big family, and he's content.
He didn't know yet that in a few years, he would lose everything again.
Lose every child.