The Fantasy Prologue

“There weren’t dragons in the valley," Abigale whispered to Jane and June in exclamation. We were here yesterday; there was no such thing creature in this place, Abigale continued to whisper to her two compatriots. Where is it from? We have only been hearing the story of the stormy relationship between our ancestors and the great dragon. I had never thought that I would ever come across the dragon in my life. What power does it entail, and what is its intention? Abigale continues to inquire from his friends about the dragon. This is terrifying; we must go and warn the villagers so that everybody can be informed of the new creature in our land. Abigale, Jane, and June steadily sneaked from the valley to avoid their presence becoming known by the dragon. They reached the village and informed the counselor of the mysterious creature they spotted in the forest.

A dragon? You mean you mean that you have seen a dragon? The villagers could not believe whatever word came from Abigale, Jane, and June. You know the punishment for lying and causing panic in public is punishable by two hundred years of imprisonment with hard labor, the counselor told them. To avoid creating panic in the whole nation and the entire planet of Obawa, the counselor decided to send a team of stealth spies to the valley to analyze if the word of Abigale was accurate. The finest spies in the village were called to the counselor's chamber and were instructed to go into the valley and investigate if, indeed, it is true that there is a dragon in the valley. As the four spies’ journey through the unforgiving terrains of the valley toward the heart of the valley, they could smell from a mile away that there is something unusual in the valley. Their entire body was dominated by fear which could be felt in their shivering voices and trembling hands. But in Odawa, planet responsibility is above all. They must continue their journey even with the impending fear of death. Steadily as they crawl into the mountain to avoid being noticed, they come across the footprints of an unusual being and become surer that there is a dragon in the valley. The four spies decided to decide into a group of two to increase their chances of uncovering the presence of a mysterious being. They did not know that not all of them would live to come back and report on the dragon to the village. When the first group arrived at the cave, which is the valley's heart, they found themselves in a direct encounter with the dragon. This was not to happen; as they stared at the dragon and the dragon stared back at them with fierce red eyes, they knew this was the end of their life. However, immediately the second group arrived at the scene, but it turned out they were the unlucky ones. When they arrived from the cave's rear, their movement terrified the dragon, which turned and threw a ball of dragon fire at them. The dragon continued to burn them, which gave the opportunity for the first group to escape. The groups arrived at the village and informed the counselor and the other villages that it was confirmed there was a dragon in the forest, and it had killed two of the spies.

The news created a cascade chain of panic that spread from the village to the entire nation and finally to the whole planet of Obawa. Obawa planet constituted three nations: the Igbir, Melusa, and Esapana. The country nation in which the dragon was spotted is Esapana, the Far East nation of the Obawa planet. This is the legendary nation of the Obawa planet and is considered the cradle of the Obawan race. According to the legend stories of Obawa, the sighting of a Dragon in Obawa occurs after every 1500 years, specifically in the holy nation of Esapana. But this sighting that took place is very mysterious as 1500 years have not yet come to pass since the last sighting. The main puzzling question among the people of Obawa is the dragon's intention and if it is the one that always comes after every 1500 years in Obawa. Is this dragon still the mortal enemy of the people of Obawa, or is this a different case in that they are panicking due to the fear of the experience that their ancestor accounts of the previous dragons’ encounter?

It is difficult for the people of Obawa to make an irrational and hasty decision regarding their approach to the unusual dragon presence on their land. No one who lived in the period of “death” can forget the adverse impact of irrational decisions and actions. It is not the first time that the Obawa people have faced a mysterious creature which questionable intentions for their homeland. On the first moon of the 1100 year, there was a mysterious snake with “infinite” length from the river Odawa in Melusa nation and starched around Obawa planet. This creature created massive fear in the people, and the people's primary reaction was to devise a mechanism to kill the snake. However, it turned out that the snake was sent by Apera, the god responsible for blessing the land and the people. The repercussion of killing the snake can only be simplified by the mass grave allocated to accommodate an eighth of the Obawa population who died because of starvation. Instead of the snake blessing, Obawa lands the resulting sequence of them killing the snake because it spits curse into their land, resulting in the worst form of drought and famine on Obawa.

But dragons have always been a mortal enemy for the people of Obawa; the thin line between what to do and what not to do became a significant political and social debate in Obawa. The three nations, Igbir, Melusa, and Esapana in Obawa, were monarchical. Even though everybody is Obawa could trace tenor ancestry to common ancestors. Nationalism, religious conflicts, and competition for resources have driven a wedge between them. Three hundred years before this dragon was spotted in Esapana valley, the three nations were involved in a bloody war that strained their brotherhood. But now, they are in a conundrum as they are facing a potential common enemy. It became difficult for the governorship of the three nations to reach an amicable solution. They could not imagine working as one team because of their experience with each other after the war erupted.

The only person who could provide a proper direction for the three nations was the greet seer of Obawa. The three nations sought the guidance of the Obawa seer for them to know the intention of the dragon and the way to deal with the situation. When the representatives of the three nations arrived at the Wakan Mountain where the Obawan seeker resided, the Seer asked them why they had taken long to come for wisdom to save the Obawa planet. The Seer welcomed them and asked them to seek any knowledge they wanted from him. The first question that they wanted to know was the intention of the dragon and if it was in the gods' and spirits' way for them to devise techniques to kill the dragon. The Seer informed them that the future will remember this dragon as the greatest demon that has ever terrorized Obawa planet. The dragon is on a revenger mission for the glory of the planet of dragons. The pallet of dragons is located in the same galaxy as the Obawa planet, but they revolve around a different star. According to the Seer, the dragon was transported to Obawa through a hibernation pod, and it is waiting for the light signal from its star-planet to start its mission. In the past, dragons were encountered in the Obawa; the Obawa people's ancestors managed to kill these dragons to protect their freedom. The past dragons came to Obawa to demand the Obawan people submit to the dragon rule and give up mall their independence in the hand of the Dragonlord on the planet of dragons. But this time, the dragon has not come for negotiation or submission but to use its power and strength to eradicate all people of Obawa planet. In order to defeat the dragon, the seer suggested that the three nations have to bury their enmity and work as a unit or at least establish frenemy interaction that would give them room to work n toward the common purpose. Thus this was one of the information that the representative of the three nations had to carry to the people. Before the seer disclosed that the dragon came from the planet of dragons, there were various rumors surrounding the origin place of the dragon. One rumor is that the dragon that emerged before its time was a product of sorcery and witchery. This belief led to the prosecution of hundreds of Obawan people affiliated with sorcery and witchery. But this prosecution had to end and be people-focused, and the Obawa people dealt with their common enemy.

The seer gave the directive to the three representatives on how to combat the dragon, which had already started to terrorism the nearby villages in Esapana nation. The rate at which the dragon was killing people was unprecedented, and thus, combating the dragon became an emergent issue for the three nations. One directive for combating the dragon is that Obawa and the three nations should mobilize the greatest warriors who fought against each during the bloody war between the three nations. During this time, the worriers of the three nations will fight as one toward the common enemy. But the most impotent directive that tenser gave to the three representatives includes the instruction to ensure that the first person who saw the dragon should be on the frontline in the fight against the dragon.

In Obawan culture, women were forbidden to serve in the military. The first person to see the dragon was Abigale unmarried woman from Esapana. This instruction was thus culturally problematic for the three-nation, which could not allow women to participate in military activity alone leading on the front line. As the three nations continued to debate how it was unethical for Abigale to be on the frontline, the dragon continued to conquer more villages in Esapana.

The leadership of the three nations decided to send their warriors to combat the dragon in Esapana without including Abigale. But this decision was against Obawa seer instruction, and it cost the three nations many of their best military warriors. On the first day of the war, Obawa lost more than half of the sent warriors, and there was no chance of winning at this rate. When the three representatives went back to seek the advice from the seer, he informed them that they had forsaken the instruction that would have won them the war. He repeated that it is vital for the person who saw it first to be part of the war to defeat the dragon. This information was passed back to the generals of three nations who had to submit to this condition and included Abigale in the war.

On the second day of the war, Abigale was on the frontline of the warriors. As they approach the dragon cave, she suggested that the best way to deal with the dragon is to identify its primary food and poison it. This was a great idea that no one anticipated; everybody was concerned with using physical strength. Thus she sneaked into the cave and identified the remains of Oak. This was the Achilles heel of the dragon; the next day, they poisoned all the Oak plants and advised people not to touch them. The following day the cave was quiet from the dragon noise, the poison had worked, and the plant of Obawa returned to safety.