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The Story of My Life part 3

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It has been two weeks since I left home. I just reached a city in Washington. I was surviving on the animals I hunted on in forests. I would sell the furs to taxidermists for a pretty penny. I would go into my human form to buy supplies and things I needed to repair my bow and my arrows. Some of my arrows had broken because of the many hierarchy dragons trying to Gryphon-nap me. I kept managing to beat them off with my control over darkness, which had gotten better.

In the time that I was in Washington, I had noticed two different missing person stories. One of them had a picture of me in my human form and the other was Jeff Hunyor, that story surprised me. Investigators thought our two disappearances were connected somehow. They could not be more wrong.

I walked into an alley in the city and shifted into my gryphon form. I then flew off using my shadow powers to conceal myself. My goal was to get to Alaska as quickly as possible.

As I was flying over a city near the Alaska-Canada border, a black dragon was following just out of range for it to light me up. I went into a dive because I knew I could get enough distance between him and me. I got to the outskirts of the city and decided to hide so I pulled out of the dive and hid in some bushes behind a house. I saw the dragon fly overhead searching, that dragon seemed familiar to me. Most of the dragons that had tried to capture me had used their fire when they were in range. Then it hit me that was my father.

I hid in those bushes thinking to the night until I saw movement from inside the house. Therefore, I set my bow and the quivers of arrows in a hole in a tree nearby. My presence had not gone unnoticed, so I dived back into the bushes becoming almost invisible.

I saw three humans step outside the house. A man who appeared in his 30’s holding a shotgun. The other two were what I guessed his wife and son. His wife looked to be around the same age as her husband and their son looked to be about ten. “Is anyone out there?” the man shouted. I stated to shake nervously because I knew if he fired, I would be dead. “Honey look at the bushes their moving and there’s no wind.” The man’s wife said.

I knew I would not be able to stay hidden for long. The man started walking towards where I was hiding. I slowly crept backwards but stepped on a twig. The man raised his gun towards my head that was concealed. I figured I no longer had a choice so I stepped out of the bushes with my head down. The family just gasped because I was again another impossible creature like Jeff and his family was.

The man backed up and gripped his gun tighter. “What are you?” he managed to croak. I could tell he was nervous. Therefore, I answered his question by writing the name of my species in the ground. The man was surprised that I could write but even more surprised that is was in English and not some other language.

During all of this, the little boy was trying to come up to me but his mom held him back. I walked over to the boy and laid down beside him rubbing my head on his side. He laughed then started petting me as I started purring. I could feel how uneasy the parents were about me being this close to their son.

The boy then started to say ‘can we keep him? Can we keep him?’ to which his mother replied, “I don’t know son. We don’t even know what he eats”. I started to write in the ground again for minute or two. My message said, “Don’t worry about it I can get food myself”. The mother sighed and said to the little boy only if your father says it is all right. I looked at the father as he looked at me and nodded. I visibly relaxed and the father noticed this and whispered in my ear “if you ever hurt either one of them I will end you”.

So I spent the next couple of days with the family they even went to get me a collar but I would not wear one. It was a nice couple day but that changed when my father saw me playing with the little boy in their backyard. He landed and looked at me. The boy hid behind me as I had expected. I had my head lowered and pushed the boy back to the house when his parents came out. They could not believe that a dragon was in their backyard.

“What are you doing here, dragon?” the father asked.

“I’m here to get my son.” My dad answered.

“Your son isn’t here.”

“Yes he is. He’s right there.” He said as he pointed at me.

“Is this true?” the man asked me. In reply, I simply nodded.

“Come on son time to go home.” Dad said

I did not answer him I took off and use my power over shadows to keep dad’s shadow immobilized for about a minute then released him. However, by then I was long gone. I soon realized that my bow and my quivers were still in the tree back at that family’s house. The usefulness of control over darkness and shadows is uncanny because due to that, I pulled my bow and the quivers through a portal made out of the stuff.

I landed in Anchorage on top of a Sam’s club. The building itself looked like it had taken a considerable amount of damage along with its parking lot. I remember seeing this building on the news along with Jeff having been returned to his family.

While I was on that building, there was an unusual feeling in the air. I remember from what my mom used to teach me this feeling came from magic. Just then out of nowhere a man in a wizard’s robe, who’s name I later learned to be Azmoth, appeared. I jumped what felt like out of my skin.

“You do the same thing the crown prince does.” Azmoth said with a laugh.

“Who are you and why are you here? If you don’t mind me asking.” I asked him with a small hint of anger in my voice.

“Calm yourself young one. My name is Azmoth and I’m here for you.”

“Why did you come for me?” I asked even more curious.

“Because you’re not supposed to be here. You should know that all gryphons are not to be in this area for now.”

“I’m sorry but I haven’t heard of anything of the sort. However, if I need to go with you than I will. Oh by any chance do you know what actually happened to Jeff Hunyor.”

“I assume you know of the hierarchy.” I nodded at his question.

“Well the hierarchy abducted him. They tried to get him to join them along with his family.” He answered my question.

“Damn hierarchy. They’re the reason I’m not comfortable around dragons, not even my own father.” I cursed.

“Wait your father is a dragon and not a gryphon.” Azmoth asked rather curiously.

“Yes he was a human with dragon blood from an ancestor long ago when he met my mother. Who is a gryphon that learned how to hide herself as a human. The hierarchy turned my dad into a dragon but my brother, my little sister and I were born before then. We just a few weeks ago really met our father. We were happy until I learned what my powers were.” I paused just long enough for him to say something.

“That’s interesting and you’re unsure about telling me what your powers are. Darkness and shadows aren’t anything to be ashamed of if you use them for good and not evil.” He tried to comfort my nervousness.

“Well, it’s a disgrace to gryphons because the last gryphon to have these powers nearly enslaved my race. Now because of that it is a custom if a gryphon has those powers they are to die. That’s why I’m neither going home nor staying with another gryphon unless I can find a mate.” I finished and looked away.

“Now I understand why gryphons with those specific powers are so rare. You are outcasts within your own kind. Why don’t we talk more at the castle and with the king and the queen.” He said and opened a portal.

“All right I’ll go but can you send my parents a message saying that I’m fine?” I asked. “I will do that. Now let’s get to the castle.” In addition to that, we walked through the portal into the castle.
here's part 3 of this series
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it's good, can't wait to see what happens next.