If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.

-Ilona Andrews

It was a story whispered in the village around hearths when the embers were dim and the winter storms rolled through the valleys and the wind screamed and chilled the bones to their marrow. A story only told by those brave and foolhardy enough to murmur it in the heat of the harvest as grain was gathered for empty bellies, or under the cover of the groves that young children hid in for play. It was a story to scare children, and to always remind them to be good or else the Blue Dragon's curse would befall them.

The story went like many other stories did. It was a tale of brothers.

In the Age of Legends the first Blue Dragon was created from the younger son of the Clan Head, who heard the voice of the God calling him to his mission. For what purpose and why was forgotten and eroded from the collective memory throughout the time span of a thousand years, but what was agreed upon was that the first Blue Dragon received the blood of the Dragon God and was given a great and terrible power. This power was that his eyes had the ability to cut down enemies, to turn them into stone with a single glance, and with this power full armies fell before his blade and might. However when the Blue Dragon returned, he made the village promise to never speak of his powers and in return he would protect them. The first Blue Dragon made them partake in his blood as the price to this agreement, and so the village became burdened with the curse, though they did not know it yet.

The elder brother was murderous with jealousy. He had been the chosen son groomed for assuming leadership of the clan his whole life, and certainly he had deserved to hear the voice of the Blue Dragon God over his younger brother. For years the elder brother nursed his hatred, until one day he no longer could take the burning of his hatred and in the middle of the night the elder brother stabbed the Blue Dragon in his sleep. He was of course caught without little ado, and the clan's elders gathered around the Blue Dragon in time to hear his dying words. His dying words were not kind, but instead promising his betrayer and brother as well as those kin who shared their blood that a great revenge would be inflicted upon him and the village because of his unrighteous death.

The village was petrified, for the Blue Dragon was the avatar of a God of War after all. He had soaked the battlefields of the material world with blood in a time when war was prevalent in the Kouka Kingdom and a Divine King took his place on the throne among warring clans. Certainly the punishment would be severe and terrible indeed. But nothing happened in the immediate days following the death, or at least that is what they assumed.

That was until the elder brother's wife bore her first and last child into the world. A child she died giving birth to upon the birthing bed, born with the Blue Dragon eyes.

It was then that the village believed that the Dragon's Eyes were a great curse from the wronged Dragon God to punish the village and remind all those who shared in its sin of the grudge of the dead dragon.

Though how long can a story so terrifying remain? Eventually, just as like the purpose of the Blue Dragon and its red-haired King, this story too was forgotten and lost in the sea of time. A thousand years is a long time, and human hearts are fickle after all. Even though the story didn't remain, the fear and the unforgotten grudge did, and so the village stayed in secret and contained that divine punishment within its borders. And so the Village of the Blue Dragon remained this way for a thousand years, but eventually it changed, just like all things changed.

That story went like many other stories did, but always started in the same way. It was a tale of two brothers.

I'm going back to my roots with this one. So it's been like a super long time since I've done any writing for an anime, and I'm absolutely obsessed with Akayona. I have other stories in the HG fandom to attend to, but I really couldn't resist putting this up when I got the plot bunny for it. Like I've binged all the episodes and read all the manga and spoilers.

In any case...

This chapter acts as the prologue and the actual story will be about six chapters long (maybe more), leading into spoilers but nothing too heavy, and mostly just short one shots with a general theme and plot. I hope you all enjoy this and the other chapter I put up today! To let me know you care, please leave a fav/alert/review. And until next time~OMGitsgreen