The Elemental Dragon
Dulwich College Beijing, Reiko Ng ZiTong, Fiction: Group 2
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any traveling minstrels and bards have sung and told many great stories, but this is
a different story from others, yet as same as others. This is where tales and stories of
hardship, despair, a life full of obstacles and of happiness, harmony and magic came
from. I am talking about how the Gobi desert was made, the story of the legendary
elemental dragon, the most famous of them all.
Long ago, when there was peace and harmony, when mythical creatures roamed the earth, there
were dragons, and the one type of dragons that kept the harmony between the dragons were the
elemental dragons. But with harmony, evil and chaos must also follow, or there will be no balance.
Originally a loyal light dragon, Umbera eventually became twisted with jealously and hatred from
the popularity of the elemental dragons, and the results were that he became obsessed with power to
overthrow the elemental dragons and become ruler of all the dragons, no, everything!
Every single being that was created will be under his thrall. His corrupted mind leaped with
glee when he thought of this. At this moment, when he became corrupted, his pearl colored scales,
which had been dimming the last few days, discolored to black with shades of dark purple. His
eyes were overflowing with dark, forbidden magic. His evil laugh, echoing, could send shivers
down anybody’s spine. This was when the first dark creature, a creature of chaos, a creature
that threatened to topple the balance of harmony and chaos, a creature who was about to change
everything, was made out of spite, jealously and anger, the elements of evil.
Umbera started his quest of chaos, making innocent creatures dark, killing anything that
opposed him, that is, until the elemental dragons heard about the trail of bloodshed that followed
him. They immediately sent out to confront Umbera, and there was a fight between Umbera,
the creatures under his will and the elemental dragons, which felt like eternity. But at last, the
dragons faced the horrifying truth, they had to give up their life force in order to get rid of
Umbera forever and free the corrupted creatures. Umbera frantically tried to stop them with dark
magic, but it was too late, as the dragons finished their spell and immediately disintegrated to
dust, Umbera wailed in agony as his body dissolved into shadowy vapour and was sucked into
the ground, and the corrupted creatures regained their consciousness and went back to their
respective homes. The dragons were happy that the evil plaguing the land had finally been
vanquished, but they had lost the elemental dragons when the entire population had gone to
confront Umbera, or at least they thought, until they found a baby elemental dragon, a hatchling,
with his dying mother, wailing in the white snow...
“Sleeping in class again?” Aefaria snapped into consciousness as the class hooted with
laughter at him as Teacher Fern, a nature dragon, eyed him suspiciously.
“You better not do that under my watch again, hatchling.’ The class stopped laughing, but
there were still a few sniggers.
“Now, what happened when the elemental dragons unleashed their power on Umbera?’ When
there was no answer, she sighed. “ You of all dragons should know. The elemental dragons lost
their lives, but Umbera was defeated.’ What did she mean by that? You of all dragons should know?
“Class over.” Teacher Fern exclaimed firmly.
“I have something important to tell you, Aefaria.” His mother Gobi, a Pure Earth dragon
