text: You decide it is more important to save your family and your Village. You look at the sun again to determine which way is north, it is nearly up but you can still tell which way to go. You trudge on another 8 or so miles the sun is bright and is beating down on you, you keep your head lowered to shield your face. For the first time in your life you are thankful for your clothing, it is beige and
  not black or another color, for another color would attract to much sunlight. You glance up and then stumble backward looming above you is a great mountain. The summit extends into the great beyond. Going up and up and up until it pierces the clouds like a subtle knife. This is the greatest most beautiful peak you have ever seen. Yet at the same time it is the most treacherous and daring pinnacle in the world. There is no way you are going to get up there on your own. The moutain is several miles. And the Elder Dragon's cave is all the way at the top. And besides you could meet an unsuspecting dragon in one of the cave mouths. Or get roasted from fire or from an explosion of light (these things were coming from the cave mouths). So there lies the question, how the heck are you going to get up there. And then something astonishing happens. Clouds swirl around the tip of the great looming peak. And then lightning strikes but inches from you, thankfully you have rubber soles, then a creature descends from the heavens, not a dragon. Yet still something immensely powerful. It swoops down to the ground and then oddly it speaks.
  
  "I have herd of your journey, and I the great sphinx am here to help you accomplish it. Climb aboard my back and I shall fly you to the Elder Dragon if you wish. If not I must return home or take you to another dragon.''
  
  > To the dragon second in command
  "No it s not yet time to speak to the Elder Dragon. But perhaps if I speak to second in command I will understand more. And the only weapon I will need is my own voice." You reply to the sphinx in a firm voice.
  
  "Ok then climb to my back and I shall fly you to the second in command." The sphinx says this in a sure voice, as if he is aware of everything. Because of his firm wording you do not question him at all. It takes no time at all to fly up several miles, for the sphinx's great wings beat hard and force a great deal of air beneath him propelling us up in a fierce motion. You reach the cave of ciena, (which you find out that is second in commands name).
  
  "I shall wait here for as long as you are in the cave, I will not desert you." Says the sphinx.
  
  "Thank you, much appreciated." You reply and then without a glance back you walk into utter darkness. You walk in sheer darkness for what seems like eternity, and when you look back the entrance is but a the size of a door where it used to span miles across. Then you approach a torch and you hear the faint whispers of a soothing, yet eerie voice. No doubt a dragon. After another hour or so, you come upon an entrance with great wooden doors. You open it ever so slightly and see a red-orange dragon, But her color seems black-brown in the dim light. The beast seems to be morning the loss of what, a loved one. No the dragon grasps a picture of, a human. You can tell this meeting will go well, especially since the dragon is fon of humans. You leave the door slightly open and then stand back and nock. The sound echoes through the halls, and the weeping stops and the door creaks open some more.
  
  "Who's their?" echoes the great dragon voice.
  
  "I wish you no harm I am only here to foresee a truce for my people, about all the burning and the fire, I would like to know why your people are burning mine?" Your voice sounds like a squeak through the great halls of the cavern.
  
  "Well" echoes the great voice "you have come at just the right time. My people are ruthless, but I am not I wish to see this fighting stop. And I have come up with a solution to this great ordeal. If a human were to live amongst my kin perhaps the dragon will see that humans are in no way treacherous."
  
  > stay with the dragon
  "If this is what I have to do than I shall do it, I am volunteering to stay with your kin to keep both of our lands out of danger. And so our homes do not wage war on each other.'' You stand helpless and tiny against the dragon.
  
  The dragon almost leapt out of her skin at these words. "I shall send news to the Elder Dragon at once. This is a glorious day and shall go down in history!" And with that the dragon sped off leaving you alone. After only a half hour the dragon walks leisurely into the room and with a glance around the room he finds your eyes and says something with glee in his eyes. '' You are permitted to stay my friend and will now learn and train with the dragons. The kingdom is already buzzing with excitement at the thought of a human in our society. And throughout the next few months you learned the way the dragons did everything. The way the dragons ate the way they flied the way to everything they did. You never saw you village again, but the burning stopped and your village continued to prosper. And every once and a while you got news of your family and friends, they were doing well and growing old in happiness. As for you, you were the token that kept the boundaries of war intact. So for many centuries to come there would never be war. And when there was another like you would come and follow in your foot steps.