"Hello there." A calm voice coos into your ear. Your eyes, feeling as if they had been dropped by an anchor, had fluttered opened slowly. A slender serpent's shining yellow orbs are staring at you contently, and a warm - almost - smile is given to you. You rise slowly, but a stinging sensation rings throughout your body, and you hiss through your clenched teeth.
"Oh, dear," The dragon wraps and slithers inches away from your torso. Her muzzle softly nudges your hand, which is clenching your side with a strong grip. Softly, you release it, and she inspects the wound carefully.
"Seems like you're in a bit of a problem, yeah?" With your nod she takes off, her wings beating in feet from the lush green grass. "Stay here, will you? I'll go get some bandages.", and with that, she takes off, a gust of harsh wind exploding onto your body, moving you backwards as you shield your face.
The odd creature arrives not long after she had left with long white bandages held in her mouth. She approaches you slowly, the gauze following behind her long swirly tail.
"Stay still." Gradually weaving the plaster around your torso, she smiles sweetly at her success. You had smiled at her, too.
"So, where are you from?" She asks, plopping herself behind you with her long tail resting on your legs and her small skull on the other side. She waits patiently, but there is no answer.
"Not a talker, huh? That's alright, I won't judge." The sun is setting calming, the sky full of pink and orange. It makes an arrangement of colors, reflecting perfectly with the large sun's yellow color. Small, smoky clouds scatter the atmosphere, spreading out from each other.
"Do you have a home?", you shrug. You can't remember much of anything, really.
"Well," A genuine toothy smile is given towards your way, two rows are small white teeth not-so-menacingly showing. "You could stay with us, if you'd like."
"Yes," You say softly. "I'd like that." She brings her head onto your lap, her eyes shutting slowly. Her large wings are hovering over you protectively as the soothing sounds of insects buzzing and singing fill the area, your eyes, slowly but surely, shutting, too.
After meeting the red slithery serpent, which you learned her name was Celosia, you had hoisted yourself onto her scaley back as she took off. You soared through the foggy, yet beautiful air. You smile widely as the wind pushes through your air and presses on to your body. Soon enough, the fog clears slowly, revealing a calming lush clearing. Its grass is a pale green mixed with oranges and browns. Yet, a way forward, the grass was bright and green. She flap her wings as she lowers her body, hovering inches from the ground. Autumn leaves whirl around you, hearing her small feet connect. She gracefully flicks her tail as you hop off her back. The leaves crunch below you and you inspect the are. A flowing stream of clean blue water is rolling to your left, its soft waves letting out a pleasing sound of peace. Immensely tall trees surround the seemingly magical garden, their fat trunks riddened with blue and white mushrooms, which seemed to curl around the tree like a staircase. Their branches droop down with an assortment of colored leaves connected, ranging from reds to many other colors, even purples. Bulb shaped lanturns, scattered near each tree, give off a dim golden light, lighting the area. A rustic cobble bridge is arching over the stream as a, very tiny, sailboat crosses under, swirling around from the soft gusts of wind. The air is a very sweet scent, a mixture of flowers and vanilla smelling candles.
"Welcome to our home." A gently pitched chime rings behind the glistening dragon friend. "Please, follow me. I'd like to introduce you to some friends of mine." You nod and smile, resting your hand on the snake-like's back as to not get lost in the twisty forest. She strolls over the bridge slowly. It seems as if it could collapse any moment, yet it never does. In fact, it stays perfectly in place, despite its debris of rocks, which are alligned beneath the platform.
"We should be arriving shortly." She mumurs faintly, almost inaudible.
"Excuse me?" You ask, tilting your head. You pass an old, fallen stone statue as she replies.
"Oh, just a friend's home." Celosia nods, closing her eyes and taking in the fresh warm air. "She's called Nebula. She's the one that keeps the group all nice and organized." You nod.