Chapter 1: Legend of the Five Headed Dragon and the Platinum Dragon
(Author's note : Enjoy this Extra Chapter's world building and Lore implications!)
(This IS NOT the first chapter, but rather an extra chapter that readers can read at any time in the story.)
[Kyrielle's POV]
Hello. I am Kyrielle Buffet, who was transferred to another world after I died back on my old world. My memories are left intact, and I was reborn as the opposite gender, a girl.
Today is the weekend, and it's time for my weekly bed time story, told to me by my one and only mom.
"Mama! Tell me a story!"
"Alright Kyrie. This story is a favorite of many kids, and to be honest it's mama's favorite as well. "
Mom cleared her throat with a cough.
"Now, I will begin. "
"Yay!"
"Once upon a time, during the ages of unknown past, and long before the age of Magic, there exists a dragonic deity, a dragon goddess with five heads, which called itself Tiamat.
It's a sentient and intelligent, but normal dragon that chooses not to intefere with mortals like humans. No one would match the dragon deity, as it's the strongest creature of the land, and humans know no magic at the time, so no one could even hope to defeat it. Standing at almost a hill's size, not even the giants of the Bostnia continent could match her.
However, one day it met it's rival, the Platinum Dragon which calls itself Bahamut.
It came straight from the underworld, from a place that mortals called 'Hell'. A portal opened on the Bostnia continent to the west, releasing a wave of demons in it's wake, and the Platinum Dragon among them. The demons, bringing magic alongside their invasion, completely overthrew the continent that was inhabited by giants.
And not just that, the demons pushed further into the central continent, driving beast men, humans, dwarves, elves and other creatures to the brink of extinction.
The humans was completely devastated by the new offensive ways used by the Demons, which is called magic. The human's arrows lacked the fire power of a spell, a sword is not strong enough to cut through the thick magic armor of the demons, and the humans are weaker physically when compared to them. They were completely outclassed by the demons.
In an effort to persevere, the mortals investigated and researched on Magic, finding out the truth about it. They found out that the reason mortals here lacked the ability to use magic, or rather spells, is because they didn't have the fuel for it, which is called 'Mana', an invisible and almost omnipotent source of energy that leaked to this world.
A good news was that alongside the demons, Mana has started to pour out from the portal to Hell as well, and now humans have acquired to ability to use magic themselves, although rather poorly because it is still a new invention, and humans are still inferior to demons.
As such, the mortals seeked help from the dragon goddess they know of. As payment, they offered this newfound knowledge to Tiamat, and after being convinced by the mortals to join their fight, she went on to push the demons from the central continent back to the Bostnia continent using this newfound power. Dragons like Tiamat was somehow able to absorb a large amount of Mana into it's body, and breathe out elements of this world like it's air.
The white head breathe lightning, the black head breathe forth dark but condensed energy, the red head breathed forth a beam of concentrated heat, the blue head breathed forth highly pressurized water and the green head breathed forth highly corrosive liquid similar to the water head.
When the dragon tried to enter the western continent, she met her rival, the Platinum Dragon. Together, they fought for days. And they only came to a stalemate when the former leader of the demons begged Bahamut to stop fighting because their battle has already caused great damage to the continent.
Razing rain forests into a desert from their magic attacks, tearing out canyons from their crash landings, and creating a volcano from one of their strongest spells.... it was doomsday for anyone that lived on the Bostnia continent.
After calming down and properly witnessing what damages they did, the dragons agreed to come to a truce so that no such damages will ever happen again.
After their fight, the war between the mortals and the demons ended, and the two dragon met each other again, not as rivals, but as equals. The two dragons has finally found their equals and became friends, and later lovers after centuries of nurturing. Their relationship would last hundreds of years, out of the conflict between the demons and the humans.
However, around two thousand years ago, during the second descend of the 12 Gods, came along with them 19 individuals which claims that they are from another world.
These 19 individuals, each with tremendous power, had tried to overtake the world. First they took over countries of the humans, then with the insignia of kings and emperors, they called for Tiamat to visit their country. They had tricked Tiamat to leave Bahamut's side, so that they can eliminate them both without fighting the two of them at once.
And when Tiamat returned from her visit to the countries, she found her lover dead. But his death did not go in vain, as he had taken down 9 of the other worlders with him as well, making Tiamat capable of surviving these other worlders.
Enraged and without even understanding that the assailants were from another world, and neither understanding the reason for them to attack her lover, the Dragon Goddess swore vengeance on the human race.
The dragon took flight, and razed multiple cities to the ground starting from the west. However, once she found herself near the center of the continent, there she was ambushed by the very same other worlders that had killed her lover.
After a hard fight, she killed each of the other worlders, but taking serious damage in the process. Not knowing that she had already killed the ones who caused her suffering, she continued her rampage until an unknown hero slayed her in her weakened form. It was said that the hero was a demon, and a mage of unknown origin.
Many theorized that the unknown hero is Baal, the former Supreme Demon King himself, and the Magic Pioneer for almost all of known history. But that is another story for another time.
After the death of the dragon goddess, the hero severed the dragon's 5 heads to prevent her from resurrecting.
Out of the five dragon heads severed that day, four of them were casted to each sides of the central continent, with the final head to the continent at the east.
Thus born 4 evil dragons on the centrla continent and a dragon saint to the continent on the east. With their weakened power, the 4 evil dragons still haboured anger and hatred for mortals, while the saint dragon helps out mortals.
During the Great Demonic War, 2 of the evil dragons were killed by the saint dragon when they tried to reenact their revenge. Following the prophecies of the twelve gods who states that during a time of need, an individual with the power of one of the two dead dragon would come and match their rival.
One with scales of red and a body full of flame, the other with scales as dark as the night and a gaze that shakes the very soul.
So told this story to multiple decendants of this world. In the unknown future, perhaps an individual with one of the dragon's power could indeed be born. However, such predicament would never be known for now... "
I clapped my hands to mother's story.
"Alright then, it's time for you to go to bed Kyrielle. Like dad said, goblins will kidnap you and eat you if you don't!"
"Eek!"
(Extra chapter end)
