Mint

Mint , Clan's Babysitter , Living Encylopedia and part of the Elder Council .


She is like a gentle , caring grandma to everyone in the current clan . Her tasks is supervising the hatchlings in the clan , take care of them like a grandma would do with their grand children when their parents go to work . She is very patient with the kids and eveyrone else , make her the perfect candidate for this job .

She did travel to all corner of Sornieth , visit countless clans and all different flight territory make her a living encylopedia . She loves to tell her old tales to eveyrone especially the hatchlings when they asks her to . She seems never run out of them and will keep finding new story to pass down to the next generation of young dragons . So in their turn they will also travel all around the world in their own adventure and return to this clan and tell their own stories to the next ones . And the cycle will continue forever , it's what she hopes her stories will inspire young dragons .


Act 1 . Meaning of life :


She got chased away from her birthed clan because they deemed her useless because of her old age for the clan well being . She wanders from another clan to another seeking for a forever home and a meaning of her life . "But who would want an old lady like me in their clan ? I'm too old to hunt to feed the clan or fight to protect the clan " , she thinks .

She has heards about a place call the trading post where dragons often gather to exchange their goods with each others and sometime looking for jobs in another clan . Not without hardship she finally manages to get to the trading post . It's bigger than she could ever imagine . So many dragons gather around , she feels a bit lost just by walk around the place .

Suddenly she heards a faint wailing somewhere nearby , just outside the trading post . She pushes through her way to the source of the weeping and found a tiny hatchling . She asks the kid :" why are you here alone ? Where are your parents ? "

The tiny head lift up to her and answer : " My parents are dead and my clan decided they don't need me anymore and bring me here tell me to find another clan to live with and then left". She then starts to weep louder and louder .

Mint curls up around the hatchling and speak softly : "Hush little one , everything will be fine , since we're the same I will be your family from now on , don't worry , eveyrthing will be fine " . She keeps repeat it even when she is unsure if everything will really be fine . She is old and can barely defend herself left alone both her and the kid but she can't leave a defendless kid around alone in the wildeness , it's madness .

The little hatchling stop crying little by little and her wailing and weeping turn to small sobbing sound until it finally stops . She then hears someone walk toward them . Not one but two . The steps close in closer and closer to her position . The sky starts to turns dark . She is worried . What if these newcomers are rogues or even slave traders ? She did witness slave traffic before . Countless innocent kids got kidnapped from their clan and sell to wealthy clans as slaves and force to work hard their entire life with worse conditions than a dragon's familiar .

She tells the hatchling : "Someone is comming hide behind me if I tell you to run , run as fast and as far as you can ." The kid shakes her head as hard as she cans : " No you're my only family I'm not living you " . Before she has time to reply , a voice echoes around the place : " Very impressive , now that's I call an inner talent " . Surrprised she turns toward the voice with all her teeth and claws out , look at menacing as possible in hope they will be scared .

"Slow down lady ! We mean you no harm . Neither to the kid". The voice spoke again .

Slowly but steadly 2 wild claw dragons emerges from the bushes nearby , one with dark skin and moon accent marks on his body , carry a big sword , his looks is quite glacial and soulless , the other one has lighter skin and a sun accent marks on his body with light flight apparels warp around him .

The sun dragon spoke to the first one : " See Isegard I told you she looks quited skilled . What do you think ? " It's the same voice who spoke to her before . The moon dragon just stare at them with his cold and dead eyes , after a long silence he finally speak : " If you say so " . Then he turns away . The sun dragon turns back to her and say : " Hello my name is Airyaros and this is Isegard , my best friend , he is always like that don't worry , he doesn't hate you or anything , he just have social issue ." His speak becomes whisper at the end trying to not let the moon draogn heard it .

With the little hatchling still hiding behind her , she stands up straight to appeard as big as possible in case the 2 strangers attack her . She snarls at them : " What do you two wants from us ?" . " Woah calm down there lady , we jsut happen to pass by and witness everything , how you manage to calm down a stranger crying child in mere few minutes impressed us . If I'm not wrong you 2 looking for a new clan and job right ? We can offer you both " . He smiled and try to look as friendly as possible .

She couldn't beleive what she heards . *This is too good to be true . Am I dreaming ? Is this a trap ? She got betrayed too much in her past she lost faith in other dragons minus the hatchlings since they're pure and only act with their instincts .* She talks to herself . Before she can answer them she hears a lot of noises aorund them . A lot of dragons are spying on them behind the bushes . * This is a trap after all ? She should have run away with the kid when she stills have chance . She was so naif* She thinks .

The sun dragon says :" Seem like we have some uninvited guests " . The moon dragon yells : " Protect the kid , they're comming" as he takes on an attack stance with his giant sword shine under the moonlight .

A mirror that look like the group leader comes out to meet them and says : " You have no where to run now ... handle us the kid , he will fetch a decent price in the black market " . Slave traders as she suspect . Mint curls up around the kid in a defensive stance . " Nobody touchs the kid without pass by my corpse first ! " She hissed at them hoping she would look menacing enough to make them waver .

The group laughs and the leader told her : " That will be a piece of cake mamie , too bad no one would find an use of someone of your age anymore or else we would let you live , the other 2 lads however still quite strong and young , we can just auciton them off to some wealthy clans as body guards or something ."

Surrisingly the sun and the moon dragons look perfectly calm . The sun one finally says : " Enough chit chat let's end this and stop wasting our time you mongrels ." The laughters stop the leader yells :" What did you say ? You will feel sorry when I'm done with you ." The group starts to attack them .

*Is this the end ? Am I going to die here ? Being an useless old hag like I am ?* Mint thinks . She tries to fight back the best she cans but there is too much of them . The 2 wild claws fight as hard as they can to push away the ones who are attacking her but they're only 3 . They're like 20 or more . We can't keep up against them .

Suddenly , some black smoke rise up around them and bind some of the attackers at the ground . A strange purple coatl flating in middle of them command the shadowy smoke to attack . A blood red colored wild claw fences off the enemy line with his red sword , his strength and speed is on pair of a demon . Arrows fly in different direction , shooted by another red and white wild claw . A huge purple and blue guardian wearing traditional merchant clothes with his mechandises still dangle around his body charges straight at the bad group and scatter them .

The slave traders group is defeated and run away , scatter in different directions . The weird group of dragons gather around them . Before she can thank them . The moon dragon stare at them and says : " Arca , Olberic , Acri , Alexander , you guys are late ! Where have you been ? "

" Hitting on girls , what else ? " The purple coatl frowns . " Me and Acri went for a drink together" The blood red color WC replies and the red and white colored WC nods . "I had some customers who want to buy my merchandises" . The giant guardian answers .

The sun wild claw shakes his head and says : " Seriously guys we could have getting ourselves kill there if you guys come like 1 sec later than that " . Then they burst out of laughters . all of them except Isegard .

This one turns to them and speaks : " Are you 2 alright ? I hope your wounds are not too serious . There is still a long way to go to reach our clan lair . " he glares at the kid . " What is your name kid ? " Still hiding behind her back , the kid replies : " I have no name sir , my parents died before I was born and my former clan didn't give me a name ."

After a long pause he talks to her again :" Then you shall be named Iraina . Is that fine for you ? Also welcome both to my clan . I'm the clan leader of this band of jokers here . I don't get how they can laugh that much and not dying from stomach pain ..." He sighs . " And before I forget , what is your name again ? " he looks at her this time and not the kid . " Oh sorry I never present myself , my name is Mint , a wanderer who looking for job . Are you serious when you say you want to hire me ? I'm quite old I can't do manual labor job efficently at all . " She tries to hide her embarassement when saying that .

He replies : " Don't worry about that we don't ask you to do physical jobs as all , all we need is a babysitter of some sort and you seem good at taking care of kids so you're hired " . Mint couldn't believe what she hears , she never feel this happy in her whole life . WIthout thinking she screams at isegard saying : " Yes sir I will do my best to not deceive you sir" . This stop the graoup from laughing and they start to turn to look at her . She turns hot red and only wish she can find a hole to hide herself in it . Isegard nods : " Good that's what I want to hear , now let's go back home . everyone is waitting for us ."

The group marchs towards their home with Mint and Iraina in the center of the group . Their lair is a well digged cave with giant tunnels that link caves to each others . They even bring water source in eahc individual caves for each dragon family . The group get warm welcomed from the dragons of the clan and get offered hot soup dinner filled with different type of food depend their diet . Mint asks for a bown full of jerky meat soup and starts to gobble everything down . So this is what being in a big family feel like and smile . She hopes this feeling will last forever .