Dragon Academy

The Beginning

It was a cool mid-autumn night. Children from all over the neighborhood were slowly heading home from the park. But there was, however, one boy who remained at his post perched on top of his house. He stared at the sunset through his scarred eyes. His pale white body shuddering as the brisk wind brushed against his chapped lips and ears. His jeans were torn (but not because of the new fashion) and his sleek long black hair blew across his face as the wind continued to blow. His fingernails looked as though they were knives and his teeth as though a predator’s.
"Jay! Jay! Where are you?" screeched the boy’s mother. Jay's mom was a tall pretty woman with skin that gave off a natural glow. She had thin eyebrows and a most divine figure. After hearing his mother's cry he hurriedly ran to the edge of his two story house and leaped onto the ground.
"Shit!" yelled Jay as the earth rushed up to meet him and fell over. Quickly he brushed himself off and straightened out his shirt so that nothing out of the ordinary was noticeable to his mother.
"You had me worried sick! Where were you?”, interrogated his mother as her arms flung around Jay.
"Donna, I mean mom, I was… with my friends." lied Jay.
It didn’t seem as though she believed him but she dropped the topic anyway. She opened the front door and both entered a warm and friendly house. Inside there was a boy older than Jay, but a bit more childish, laying in the lap of a "Senior Citizen".
"Grandma, grandma what are you doing here? How long are you staying? What did you bring me?" poured Jay.
"Well first of all I'm here to visit, second I'm staying as long as I want, and lastly I didn't bring you anything that I'll show you right now" answered his grandmother. Neil (Jay's elder brother) rolled off the couch as his grandma got up to embrace Jay.
"Hey!" screeched Neil as he hit the rugged carpet. After rubbing his sore backside he got up on his feet and headed for the dinner table.
"Mom? What's this?" inquired Jay.
"Fried chicken wrapped in black blood pudding" said his mother. Slowly but surely everyone began to nibble the chicken, except for Donna who took bites at regular intervals and Jay who hungrily devoured the chicken whole. After dinner was over Neil exchanged disgusted looks with Grandma Yasho, who was a vegan.
"So uh... granny… what did you bring us?" asked Neil.
"Okay, I'll tell you but if you utter a word about this to anyone I will make your life a living hell, actually how about this?” Yasho gave them both a look of approval and continued, “I want you to jump right in the middle of the road right when a firecracker called The Blade goes off. How 'bout that? Is that okay?” Slowly and entirely confused, the boys began to nod their heads. Noticing their confusion, Grandma Yasho tried to change the subject. "D'you two like to go bowling?"
“Yes! Bowling is so much fun! You get to eat pizza, and go in the arcade, and win prizes, and knock over pins!” shrieked Neil. "But best of all you get to throw big balls that just sli-.........". Neil stopped talking and looked at Jay's smirking face and began to retrace his thoughts about what he had just recently said. "Ewww, that last part didn't come out right". And all of them began to burst out laughing and rolling on the floor (except for Yasho who had just recently understood the joke)
With heavy bellies, and light joyous hearts, they headed upstairs for their beds. Turning his head slightly, Neil asked, “What do you think Granny meant when she said to jump onto the road when The Blade goes off”?
“I don’t know, but I think she wants us to jump onto the road when The Blade goes off”, replied Jay in mock voice.
“Strangely, I was able to figure out that much on my own, thanks though,” said Neil sarcastically, dropping the subject.
But, in Jay’s mind the thought of what jumping on the road could do for you continuously kept popping up, and he couldn’t block it out. “What could it be?”
After many hours of tossing and turning, his mind drifted away to another place. The sky was dark, and there was a boy sitting in a small ring of light under a street lamp. “Get away from me! What do you want?” shrieked the boy. Then as he and his attacker came into the light, a deafening scream from the left successfully woke Jay up. He turned, and saw his brother’s slim body curled into a ball, trembling.


The Armada

“Neil, Jay, come on down!” yelled their father.
“Hey dad, sorry we couldn’t see you come home, we were way too tired.”
Their father said it was alright and that he likes it better when they go to bed early anyway. Their father, Sonny, was a skyscraper of a man standing at six feet and eleven inches tall.
After a nice vegetarian breakfast they all went outside to play football, Jay’s favorite sport.
“That’s right,” screeched Jay triumphantly as he scored yet another touchdown. “You are gonna get rocked,” he said to his brother. That’s when it happened. Jay ran across the street trying to catch a long pass from his dad, but a speeding Armada going 50 mph in a residential area hit him. He went flying. His body gained nearly fifteen feet of altitude and soared for twenty feet and landed with a thud on the concrete. His family was in shock, it was as though they swallowed their hearts. Neil screamed bloody murder and ran up to see Jay. His body lay in one piece but not strongly. Four of his ribs kept his body together and purple blood crept onto the road.
“Jay we’ll get you to the hospital, don’t worry. This might sound bad but, if you don’t make it I just want you to know that I love you and I stole your iPod last winter,” said Neil. He watched as his father, mother, and brother fled to the hospital.
As they arrived to the hospital, they smelled of Jay’s blood and frantically searched for a doctor.
“We need a doctor,” Donna cried.
“I’m sorry mam but you will need to sign this form before your son can receive any medical attention. Sonny snapped.
“What the hell is this? If I was going to kill you,” Sonny bellowed, brandishing the knife he used to take glass out of Jay’s body, “would somebody have to fill out a form before they could stop me?!”
And with that the nurse admitted Jay into the ER where doctors examined his now fragile body and tried to save his life.
“This may sound common,” started the doctor as he walked out into the hall, “but I’m afraid we have good news and bad news. The good news is that your son will live-”
“But?”
“But…..his body is unlike anything we have ever seen. His blood has intricate white blood cells and platelets that keep any viruses from entering and that literally sealed his entire body shut after the incident. He will be taken by the government for further study.”
Then suddenly, they disappeared. The mother, the father, and the victim all evaporated from the building before the doctor could blink. He looked down and saw a cane penetrating his chest, he collapsed and the tiles were stained red.


Elucidations
It had felt as though his intestines had been put through the vacuums of space and that all the oxygen and blood ripped through his veins and out through his skin, although brevity was an important characteristic also. And, in the same instant it had happened, it was over. As Jay came to, he heard the banging of nails into wood and through the outer-layers of concrete. But when his blurry eyes focused, he saw that no one was using the hammer and that somehow the hammers were acting on their own, almost like……..magic.