A/N For my readers who were following this as an A&A story, I know this is the same chapter as before but I decided to move on to a different subject. I hope you decide to continue ttoread this story and as aways... I love reviews!

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Prologue

When the tales and legends we know now were actual truth, before humans feared what people today would call mythical beasts and creatures: Fairies, dwarves, elves, centaurs, merpeople, the Phoenix, unicorns, and the revered dragons.

Humans lived in platonic harmony with these great beasts and creatures; one species not interfering with another, but every so often, whether it be planned or happenstance, different species would collide.

Those instances were few and far between, the only thing that remained from those episodes were the stories, ones that would become today's greatest legends.

Humans and other species lived with their fellow kind, not any one kind wanting to stir up chaos in a peace time. Humans had reign over places habitual for them (this was long before the era of dispersion, humans needed not to turn uninhabitable places in habitual ones).

Because of the enormity of the list creatures, I cannot begin to say where said creatures lived but will leave that up to imagination.

The story I want to tell you is one that caused the decline of a great race. It is not one of legend. Many people today have tried to find a theory to explain the cause of the decline, all of them are but fantasy. My story, though it sound as such, is not one of man's conjured, whimsical thoughts but of pure truth, passed down with meticulous care, generation to generation. It surpasses some of the most greatest stories you'd have ever been told.

Listen, for never has one of your kind ever heard this story.

My story begins, as most stories do, with Once Upon a Time...

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The reason why I am writing this despite having other stories I still am writing is because I was looking at my pen name and had the sudden realization I hadn't written a story about dragons.

I have become very busy in life. I now have a job (again) but unlike the last one, this one is much more steady. I work most of the week though it's part time and I still have school and everything else I committed to. People still ask me to do things and though I want to do it, I cannot because of my busy schedule...

~ND~