The First Dragon

Gia POV 

Time stood still …. When first I walked this Earth, so many moons ago, it was a desolate place.. My father just held this raging ball of fire in his hand, and next thing, there was a tiny rock of molten lava spinning in the universe. There was no light. There was nothing. The darkness enveloped me as I woke into the world… My silver eyes opened and I saw the towers of fire and brimstone. Back then, I did not even know what those were I chuckled to myself thinking about it. Fires of giant volcanoes raged nearby… And dark, thick, smoke.. a lot of it. Nothing else. The Earth was forming.. The molten lava was everywhere .. As I walked on it, I noticed again, even without fully understanding it, that there was nothing…Cracked mountains of fire, smoke and darkness.. I did not understand why Father would awaken me to this place, to this emptiness and despair, nor what I was supposed to do with this desolation.. Confused and unsure, I walked around, taking everything in. There was nothing but me and fires… Endless stream of fires, black, red and purple colors exploded all over me, as I walked and surveyed my new home…The volcanoes were rumbling,, lava spilling on the ground.. I walked around and as my senses were starting to form, I found it all whimsical.. The amber lights, the heat, the liquidity of fire…. I took it in my hand and loved the feel of its warmth, its movement, how it flickered in the dark and the desolation I was walking in… I looked at myself trying to decipher and understand my very own being.

The father certainly chose an interesting shell. I walked upright with extremities starting to form. At times I would have two, six.. It was amusing. I noticed that I could change my appearance. I could fly with my outstretched golden wings, and I could sense and feel everything. I was like a butterfly waking from the cocoon. Stretching my arms, however many I chose at the time I walked the lava and relished in its colors.. Then I heard his voice.. 

“Gia my child… you have woken”, a thundering voice said. 

I turned around to see where this voice, this sensation, this power which pulsated my whole being came from…And then I saw him.. My whole being leapt up in an inexplicable way… “FATHER!!!!!!!”

The feeling of belonging overpowered me. Something was drawing me to this voice, a power of such force I could not begin to explain. Next thing I saw was an iridescent blue light which pulsated the same energy I felt within me, only so much greater. The pull was so strong I tripped and fell straight down into lava I was just walking. I heard a sound. “Babies”, he says.. “Babies need to learn how to walk”, the voice retorted with a chuckle. I craved to touch him.. to smell him.to understand, yet I could not move.. I was down on my knees trying to use my wings to lift myself up, somehow, I knew what to do, and I tried. And nothing happened.

“My daughter” a voice said, without me understanding what that word was. And then something happened – I sensed something stronger then Father, something I could not identify at that time.. Now I know I felt love.. Pure, unabated love, just love… 

“Rise, daughter”, voice boomed. 

I stood up and looked at myself. I stood there on my two hind limbs My golden wings were outstretched as were my many hands. My skin was iridescent white and blue changing hues into ambers, chocolates, and gold… My hair was silver, and as I tried to fully discern the being in front of me, my eyes that locked onto an emerald sea of his. That is all I could see. The endless greenery of comfort, peace, and care in the color I have never been able to replicate since, much as I tried.  

His aura was all around me… I was sucked into a vortex of what my father’s power is.. And I did not even know how to speak. 

“Gia, my child”.. he said.. “Speak!!!”, the voice thundered again 

Sheepishly, not knowing what to do, somehow I formulated the thought.. “How do I speak?”

As on que, the whole place trembled at the weird sound. “hahahhahaha… hahhahahahaha

Daughter, you can speak. Open your mind connection or your mouth. Speak child”. 

I just stood there looking at the green eyes, lava bursting around me, everything exploding. Unsure what I should do, I stretched out one of my hands to touch him. I had this urge to to feel – an urge I did not even understand, yet here it was. 

I felt pulled and next thing I knew I flew somehow through space, and yet I did not move. However, I looked and turned around to find I am holding a hand of another being, just like me.. I knew it was him - my father…

I gulped and looked around…. The light was blinding me and my eyes took a moment to adjust…

“Take your time daughter”, he said.. My chest was burning and the pressure was painful. “Breathe child, breathe”, the voice was encouraging me. 

Somehow, I knew to simply exhale. And then inhale. The pressure was gone and I just stood there. “Breathe child, breathe.. In .. And .. Out.. In and Out” my father said.. I repeated that and my vision cleared…. “Continue he said”.. “Continue what?”, I was confused. ”Breathe child, it is called breathing”. 

So, I did.. Once I followed his instructions, my vision cleared. What I originally saw as emerald eyes started forming into a shape. The landscape around us formed too and I noticed it was very different from my world. Different colors where everywhere. There were clear skies. The similar color of my father’s eyes was seen everywhere in things that grew around. There were sounds and some liquid looking substance of different color I could not understand….. It was very different… I was confused. “What, what is this, where am I??”, I asked looking around, my eyes taking it all in.  

The green eyes looked at me softly and extended a hand. “This is your birth home child… Look around. I will teach you” his booming voice said.

I touched his hand and the electricity buzzed through me. The power radiating from my Father’s hand opened my eyes, my senses and stirred something within me I could not explain. There was that sounds again, I could not understand emanating from him.. “hahhhahahahahahahahah” I heard again. 

“Are you awake, fully awake daughter?”. Every feeling, every fear, every desire, every emotion he created came at me with force of thousands suns.. The sheer force dropped me to my knees. It was too much. A warm red liquid started dripping from my eyes, my mouth, my wings. I stood frozen except the liquid dropping and I could not move… Before long I was sitting in the pool of red liquid without ability to move.

“Rise child”, the voice said again. 

I could not move… Rise, I said Gia.. I still was glued to the ground… “Gia…. Rise… look at me!”. All I could muster is too look at his green orbs… “Rise Gia, blood of my blood”. 

And with that, the red liquid stopped dropping…It retracted back into me as I felt a surge of power and flew up the air and came back down only to growl and spit fire at the green eyes…. 

That sound again… “hahahhaahhahahahahahahahah… I am very pleased” green eyes said…”You are my first born, Gia, Mother of Earth’s Creation”. 

The green eyes looked at me engulfed in fire I breathed, yet it did not hurt him… Everything stayed the same.. When I landed by his feet, I felt his hand cup my face and he said; “Go and create your world… Your first children will be dragons”  And with that, I found myself back on the sea of lava and molten Earth.