Dragon's night

Heritage

Michael is taken a few paces back by all of this. He looks at Jamie “Why have you never told me this? Her reply, “You know I’m obsessed with this stuff. Our whole lives you called me crazy.” She throws her hands up “It’s supposed to be a secret, in fact, it’s the most well-kept secret that everyone knows.”

Michael, curios, asks “What do you mean? Nobody believes in fairytales after childhood.” Jamie jesters to the room “But everyone knows them. The hunters make movies, and such to keep them in the worlds mind. So that when they make a claim, like in the news today, nobody cares.”

Michael asks, feeling strange “Then why tell me now? I’ve known you for years.” She looks down with a disheartened look on her face “Because now they will be after you and I wanted to see if you had any way to protect yourself.” Michael shuffles “Why wouldn’t I just get a gun.”

The comment makes Jamie smile “Because the meat they eat from the dragon makes them immortal. They sell everything else, but they keep the meat and since they just killed one there all stocked up.” Michael paces and thinks “Well won’t they run out of dragons?”

She shakes her head “No, every time they kill one a new one has to rise. It keeps the balance of things.” Michael sits in a chair that is next to the door and drops his head “Then how do we stop them?” Jamie picks his head up “You, their only weakness is magic or magic infused items.”

Michael shuffles his hands “How can I help and why would you even want to?” Jamie grabs his hands “If I’m right, every part of you is magic. Also, it’s my dads’ mission to destroy all of them. Me and my mom are just one in a long line.”

“I find them amazing and they don’t need us messing with them. I’ve been trying to find a way to stop them for a long time. I figure I can trap them in a reality that is just off from ours.” Micheal, confused by the whole thing asks, “How can you do it now?” Jamie looks at his hands “If you are some part dragon all I need is your blood. It’s the missing ingredient. But we need to know first.”

Michael looks at all the things around him and looks back at her “I’ll have to think about it. You just told me that magic creatures are real and now you want me to help get rid of them.” Jamie walks by him “Then let’s get you out of here.”

They walk out of the mansion and Michael heads down the path home. As he’s going, he sees what he believes to be the hunters returning home. They pull up with a semi-truck. Its load is covered but Michael can guess what it is.

He keeps moving and once he comes to the road leading to the mine, he notices that the whole road is closed. Not only that the town seems empty. There are no people playing outside, in the road, and he doesnt even hear any TVs. He listens, noticing, he can’t hear the birds or bugs. He starts to get creeped out and rushes home.