Zero's travels

The traveler blinks his golden eyes looking out across the fast desert landscape before turning back to the cave. It has taken him many months to finally pin point it actual location for this world is rather unstable and the entrance jumps from world to world. This is only to be expected from what is said to be the birth place of dragons. The wind shifts blowing the scent of mildew and old blood from the depth of the cave system. He should get going before he changes his mind. Zero squares his shoulders and pads into the cave. His striped start to glow a soft silver light just enough to see where he is going. The first few hundred feet of caves slopes down ward the walls unadorned and the floor broken from the continues strain of relocation. As he comes to a fork in the tunnels Zero looks to either wall. One is marked with a picture of a dragon curled around a nest of eggs the other is a crude outline of a dragon it looks unfinished. Zero chooses the hatchery tunnel. As he goes deeper and deeper in to the tunnels the walls become decorated with dragons and glyphs looking at a few he realizes they are names and titles of important elders. The tunnels opens up to a large cavern stone nests padded with fraying hides and trees lay around a hole in the center of the room. Looking down Zero see's the magma of the earth heating the room to an almost unbearable heat for him but it would be perfect to raise young hatchlings. He must look around quickly. There is not much here except dust and petrified egg shells he is about to leave when he looks across the floor on last time and sees a tattered book have buried in a pile of bone picking it up he dust it of to read the title. "My life with in the egg." The authors name is scratched out. Wiping sweat off his brow Zero decides to read it latter leaving the room to the cooler tunnels.
         Walking the tunnels Zero quickly discovers he is walking in circles no matter what path he picks it is as if the caves will not let him advance until he does something. As if in answers the book falls out of his pack. He sits down to read it.
"even though I am only five moons old I have a knowledge beyond my years. It has come to my a tension that I am special in some way. I feel it has come time to tell my story before I was born because I can clearly remember all that happened outside my egg when I was yet unborn. As you may know or maybe you don't as soon as a dragon egg is laid the dragon is ready to hatch in as little as an hour. Most of the time though they wait for some clue to when it is the best time to hatch. My imprisonment was longer then most and in that time I grew wisdom I did not even understand. The wisdom of patients something so simple yet few of my kind will master. I could not mover only think to my self and listen I heard the news of the death of my father, the greave of my mother as she cried curled around me. The long moons of the war that was fought as I was looked after by the nurse dragon. And yet I wanted to hatch yet I could not. I knew many thought I was a dead egg unquikened but my mother knew I was not she guarded me and loved me even though she did not know what king of dragon I would be. Then came an even darker time a sickness spread through our race reaching use here in our last strong hold. It was in this time many of the other eggs shattered due to weakened shells it was also in this time I felt the urge I had been waiting for so long. The urge to hatch. I will not bore you with the excitement I caused the egg that for so long was like stone know freeing the precious live with in it. I will tell you how ever I am even more special then I thought my scales are green not the green of a forest dragon but green of the darkest kind almost black I have no elemental powers only a strong will for magic. I am Maco the first magi dragon. And this is only the start of my live story..."
The rest of the book is too faded and shredded to read. Zero knows he has discovered something of great importance he also feels the cave network shift the opening of a new tunnel. Placing the book back into his pack Zero moves on. The next Room he comes to is filled with empty and broken selves large low tables sit to one side. Examining the room there is nothing here but a few tattered scrolls putting them in his pack Zero turns to the tables it is filled with the etching of the dragons races history each table is a section of years in millennia of the races evolutions. Zero takes the time to read and memories each slab so he can recreate the glyphs and the history when he leaves. He starts with the far left one the start of dragon race.
"In the beginning Dragons where no different from any other creature in the void before creation. When the world cam to be we where given life and leathery wings for flight and hard scales for protection. That is all we did not have our size or are abilities with fire lightning or magic. That came latter through years of evolution and different path of mutations due to our habits and home's this history of out race will only briefly hint on are great races secrets and origins...."
The rest of the table is destroyed Zero move to the next one.
"Fire was the most basic and first to come to our race back when we lived with humans it was said the great dragon only know as flame was called to help protect a kingdom near a volcano. The volcano erupted spreading fire on the kingdom. To placate the gods for even we believed in gods back then Flame throw her self into the volcanoes center to please them with a sacrifice. The eruption stopped and Flame was thought dead for three days on the morning of the fourth as the sun rose offer the volcano a form of fire red scales rose out of the volcano flames on its wings and in its breath. The kingdom was scared thinking it a demon they started to raise an army but the creature landed in the castle court yard it looked at the king and spoke in a familiar voice asking why was everyone afraid. The creature was Flame her body changed in the heart of the volcano to the world's first Fire dragon. From her and her off spring the fire type of our race multiplied. The sea bound water dragon is of a different type of story. No one is sure who was the first but it is said it came from a dragons love of the sea there wings became flippers and their claws and tails developed webbing to better swim their hard scales became that of a fish to tread water. And they were given the gift to purify all water and medical skills so that they could live in any body of water. There are of the most favored type of our race as they are calmer and willing to help."
There is more to the tablet but it is only of the different branching of water and fire based dragons. Lightning and storm to the ice dragon of the frozen north. Earth dragons cam from a dragon whose wings where lost in a battle he was forced to adapt to the earth and becoming skilled at channeling earth power growing protective rock on his back. Father branching leads to forest dragons and poisons blacks. It is also explained as dragons became more and more attuned to magic they started to live longer and grow larger. Zero moves to the next and last table.
"as it was said earlier we were born and lived with humans. We where their with the dinosaurs well before they first human evolved. Some of our bones are now being confused for dinosaur bones in their modern sciences. We where even hunted by the first humans as we were trying to recover from the great extinction of the meteor. They used odision spears and then our own claws against use this started the early feud between human and dragon. When they learned to plant we learned to care for plants as we both grew we sometimes depended on each other. We where creatures of wonder they wrote about us, drew pictures of us on their caves that know stump the modern science since we have left there world. We are only creatures of legend to them know they do not remember we helped them survive in there firsts century of life. Only their haltered for use in the mid evil times when we fought over recourses they for they're growing population, us only to survive it was only with the discovery of second earth we were able to live in piece in a world that lacks technology and a resource hungry populace. Few of use travel to earth to look at what they have become without our guidance and it is a sad state. Imagine the once great dragon know only a fairy tale to them so few of them believe in use or magic. We are now only save in second earth where we have lived well for some centuries so many of us do not even know of first earth or the humans there. I am the last of our race to live in this cave the birth place of dragons it is said that is not true. We where born on first earth this cave is only a strong hold we came to on our trip to second earth. I am very old and will soon pass into the void but I can still remember all things of past and presence of first earth and second earth, of science and magic. This will be the last history of our race I have hidden our most powerful scrolls and set a placed a guard to protect them from trespassers. I bid you travelers who enter to flee know and to not venture deeper."
Zero reads the last words with some though he must travel deeper to discover any other secrets that will be lost when this place collapses. Any guardian he will face will be worth the knowledge he expects to find in the rest of the net work. Looking over the tablets on last time to make sure he remember every glyph and picture Zero move on deeper in to the cave net work. Gold does not interest Zero only the knowledge few know exists and even fewer try to seek.