The Dragonborn: Chapter 1

Josiah's POV
"Joe, you need to come here quick!" Caleb yelled.

"Okay, coming right up."

I was on the Princess Andromeda when we were called on our first quest. Kronos called us to his throne room.

"Lord Kronos, what do you ask of us?"

"Josiah Osborn, you and Caleb Zamora will go and appeal to the dragons. We need them on our side if we are to take

Olympus, so we have to have them with us or we are done for!"

"Yes Lord Kronos. We will get the dragons on our side."

"Begone, I must rest. That pest, Percy Jackson will attempt to attack this ship again next week. So I must gather troops

in order to siege Manhattan. And do not mess this up! I'm tired of you idiots botching up everything!"

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">I walked out of the throne room, and when I was out of sift of Kronos, <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">I screamed, "Yes!"

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"What?" Caleb asked.

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"We got our first quest! We need to go recruit the dragon colony over <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">in Arizona."

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"How are we gonna get over there?"

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"By pegasi you doofus. We go to Phoenix, recruit the dragons, then <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">ride the pegasi home. Easy as pie."

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Yeah, but why would Kronos give us a quest? He hates us!"

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Who knows? Anywho, we gotta go so we can come here sooner."

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Okay, let's go!"

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">We mounted the pegasi and flew out over the country. Everything seemed <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">stretched with our speed. In absolutely no

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">time at all, we landed <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">safely in Phoenix.

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Here we are. Phoenix, Arizona."

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Buildings stretched up high into the sky, and buses and metro trains <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">were everywhere, as well as cars. It was like a

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">smaller version of New <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">York City.

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Okay Caleb. Around here is a huge dragon colony somewhere. All we <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">need to do is find it."

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Yeah, but the dragons are probably not here. They live around the <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">mortals, not right next to them. We should go to the

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">suburbs." <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">We mounted the pegasi and flew over to the city of Sedona.

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"What the freakin' heck? These is the right spot, but here are no <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">signs of any dragons!"

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Hey Joe, maybe there are dragons in this tunnel."

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Caleb ran into the tunnel, but then a hydra head popped out.

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Holy crap! A hydra! Get out your staff Caleb!"

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"You said it!"

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Caleb ran out and pulled his staff out. I soon got my sword. The hydra <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">didn't attack us at first suprisingly. Instead, it <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">started ripping off <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">its own heads. In about thirty seconds, it ended up with twenty heads.

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Shoot it with a fire spell Caleb!" <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Five gigantic beams of red fire aimed at five hydra heads. At the same <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">time, bluish-purple fire missiles flew into the <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">remaining five heads <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">and exploded the heads off of their roots. Within seconds, the hydra <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">was ash.

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Whoa Caleb! Where'd you learn to do that?"

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"That wasn't me!"

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Then where the hell did that come from?!"

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Um... those came from yours truly."

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Caleb turned around quickly and looked horrified. I turned around and <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">was amazed by what stood there. Their heads looked like dragons, their <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">skin looked like dragon scales, and their hands and feet were dragon- <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">clawed. But their bodies were humanoid, and they wore metal armor like <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">demigods, and they had weapons of some type of metal that <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">wasn't <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">celestial bronze of imperial gold. It was titanium gray, and had a <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">sort of shine to it.

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Hello demigods. We are the dragonborn, loyal servants of the great <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">goddess Tiamat."

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Meanwhile, back on the Princess Andromeda...
<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Kronos was sitting on his throne, with a smile on his face. His <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">assistant, Ethan Nakamura, walked in the room.

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"My lord, why did you send them on a quest? They will obviously die <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">before they come back."

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"I know. They almost destroyed this ship once. If they die, no more <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">chance of them about to kill or annoy the rest of us."

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"But why? We are running out of demigods on our side."

<span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">"Those two have accidentally killed six demigods last month. Getting <span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">rid of them means more of us survive. Plus, they were extremely annoying."