Whoops! I Unleashed Dragons on the World

There weren’t always dragons in the valley. My brothers had it all under control, that was how they earned their Godhood, that was how I lost my chance of becoming a god. Those monsters came and my brothers just - sort of - took them just like that and enslaved them. For good.

At least.

They thought for good.

I may or may not have… accidentally… released them from their prison and set Hellfire into Berna valley… with dragons. It had been hundreds of years, the dragons only came at the beginning, the people were starting to forget they existed in history. I’m just a little… clumsy. Okay, maybe very clumsy, it was a complete accident trust me! Either way, it happened and now my entire family is angry at… well… me. The little sister, the supposedly angelic little sister, the sister who… oh, nevermind, you get the point.

Long story short, I obviously needed to solve the problem and it had already been five years since those dragons landed on our planet (time works differently up here you know). I just hoped that the dragons would just stay in Berna Valley, but once they devour the people in Berna, off to another valley, off to destroy the entire world! Pretty terrible, I know. I don’t like to say I was banished, but I basically was, it was clear I needed to go solve the problem and my brothers insisted I went down there to fix it. Where was mom to back me up right? I didn’t even know all of my powers yet, let alone knew how to use the ones I already knew. How could I capture all of these dragons and bring them back to where they belonged?

So down I went, a demigod who didn’t even have muscles yet or the ability to conjure anything. Of course, I landed on the top of Berna Valleys largest mountain with nothing but myself and my robes. It was beautiful, lots of trees and wildlife, my brother Haru created this part, he was the botanist of the family. I couldn’t absorb too much of that though, I had a job to do. I had to get myself into the valley.

It seemed I was walking for hours before I could finally see the valley. So far, the dragons weren’t in sight, but that didn’t mean they weren’t around. The city of Berna filled most of the valley, and last I saw it (which was before the dragon chaos), it wasn’t completely surrounded by a massive stone wall! I guess humans adapted to the dragons, it made sense, but that wall wasn’t going to stop the dragons forever. There was some information I needed to gather, and the first thing I needed to know was what the humans were doing to save themselves from these monsters.

The way to the city wall was like walking face-down, the hill so steep I practically had to slide on my butt to get down it. I was nearly down, my slippers raw from the rocks rubbing on them, before I was relieved to find a flat mound of grass to step on. I took a step just as the mound of grass shifted and started to slide, a head popping out with a panicked face. I too slid on my butt, both of us coming down the rest of the hill rather too fast for comfort. I didn’t even have time to panic sliding towards the approaching stone wall before we both landed with a thud at the bottom just feet from it.

The grassy creature was sprawled on the ground, his eyes wide with a chest moving up and down faster than a flapping bird. This wasn’t a creature at all, this was a human boy. I stood up, brushing dirt off of my robes.

“What were you doing disguising yourself like that?” I asked, surely he didn’t do it for the intention of me stepping on it.

“I was hiding.” He growled, sitting up to reveal a curly mass of brown hair, “and now you ruined my one way of escape.”

I raised an eyebrow, “escape? From the dragons?”

“No, from the city. They’ve got patrols all over making sure nobody leaves.”

“Why?”

He looked at me with disbelief, but I was completely sincere. Why would they not allow anyone to leave? Perhaps escaping to another valley might have saved them from the dragons. He stood up and brushed the dirt off of his brown pants, his entire backside was covered in grass along with down his pants, he truly was a master of disguise. He looked up at me.

“It’s not safe.”

I looked around, the dragons weren’t around anywhere, but surely they would attack the city more than attack random people wandering the woods… maybe. Now that I think about it, it would probably make for an easy target.

“So they don’t want you getting gobbled up by the dragons?” I asked.

“Well, my people says that the gollum dragon wanders the woods and steals anyone who enters it… wait a minute, didn’t you come from the woods?”

I looked behind me and up where the woods were way up there, “yes?” I turned back to him, “should I have been eaten by a gollum dragon?”

His eyes were wide again, big wide dark eyes, “are you saying you survived the woods?”

“I wasn’t in it long.”

He held my shoulders, taking me by surprise, “so there is a chance I can enter those woods and leave this place forever?”

I held my hands out, “now don’t get me wrong, just because I made it doesn’t mean you will. Where’s your parents?”

In human years, I would say he would be between ten and fourteen… maybe. I never studied humans as much as my brothers did, but clearly this kid wasn’t old enough to be traveling by himself. Gaman was the one who came up with the idea to have humans in our world, he would be the expert. Either way, I would have to learn about the humans on my own, Gaman wasn’t here to say anything about them.

“Nothing you need to know about,” he said defensively, “all you need to know is I’m trying to get as far away from Berna City as I possibly-”

“Hey you, over there!”

Both of us froze, turning to the voice. Coming down a stairwell (I didn’t even notice the watchtower nearby earlier) were two soldiers in stiff brown uniforms. They held stern faces and were quickly approaching us, making me realise how little I was prepared for this.

“Great.” The boy grumbled, “so much for escape.”

“They’re just looking for you right?” I whispered back, keeping my eyes on the approaching soldiers.

“No,” he replied, “they would also just assume you tried to escape too.”

“But I never entered-”

“Doesn’t matter.”

They were in front of us, no running now. Perhaps this would be a way I could get in the city and gather information… or leave me in prison.

“You two, how did you get out?”

“I was actually coming from another-” I tried, but the boy squeezed my arm tight enough to keep the rest of what I wanted to say quiet.

“Don’t lie to us, we’ll need to report this.” The man said before he turned to look at the boy, “Richin Cartreuse, I see you’ve been at it again. Your grandma better understand that if you tried escaping again, you may be facing a life sentence in prison.”

“But I’m only thirteen.”

“It doesn’t matter,” the other soldier said, “it’s against the law.”

Against the law. Surely prison was where I was going to be! Could I escape it with what I have? I felt my body pulse in panic, I couldn’t be a prisoner, not right now! Before I knew it, though, I was sitting at the table with another man in a stiff brown uniform, extra tags on his sleeves. Perhaps signifying a higher authority? He had a pen and paper in front of him, his eyes narrowed as he stared at me. I gulped.

“I came from the forest, I promise.”

“And what were you doing in the forest?”

“I’ve been travelling, “ I tried, I didn’t want to twist the truth, but it wasn’t the time to convince a human that I was a demigod quite yet - and that I landed from the skies.

He scribbled a few things down, but it seemed his eyes were still trying to keep on me. He put the pen down, “okay, you’ve been traveling. Why?”

I lifted my chin, I had to show confidence, I had to prove to him why I was here, “I came to help.”

The man’s shoulders loosened, a bushy eyebrow raising in complete confusion, “help?”

I smiled, “yes, I was sent to come help the people of Berna Valley.”

He leaned back in his chair, folding his arms. He was a large man, not as large as some of my brothers, but large for a human.

“Who sent you?”

“My brothers.”

“Brothers?”

“Yes.”

“What’s your name?”

“Silvina.”

“Silvina what?”

“Just Silvina.”

I could tell he wasn’t liking my brief responses, but I hadn’t quite come up with an idea on if the brothers belonged to another famous household - or if I should just outright tell them they were gods. No. Definetely not. He would laugh at the fact that I was the sister to six gods, that I was a god. Well… almost a god.

“Or Silvi.” I said after a long moment of silence, nothing else seemed to want to come out of my brain.

He leaned further into my face, his eyes narrowing.

“Let’s be frank here, you are sitting here telling me that you’ve been traveling and that your brothers sent you? Obviously you came from somewhere, we have no record of you, but surely being sent by brothers is not a convincing story to me.”

I held my shoulders to my ears. I wasn’t very good at this confrontation thing, with my brothers I was a little better, but even then it seemed I had a timid side. Where was my confidence? I was sent to save the people from these dragons and I can’t even confront a military officer!

“If I told you, you wouldn’t believe me.” I said honestly, keeping my voice neutral.

He leaned back again, folding his arms, “try me.”

I took a deep breath, it was now or never, if he wouldn’t believe me, than at least I was honest about it.

“Well, when the dragons were sent down to your valley I was sent to help you. My brothers are the gods of this world and I’m their sister that is trying to earn her godhood by helping rid of these dragons from this planet. We understand that you’ve gone through a lot and we wanted to help by putting them back in prison so you don’t have to deal with them any more. So I arrived this morning to come and help, I just need to know where to start.”

I triple tongued the entire thing, the words just spilling out of my mouth without complete control. Did he catch all that I said? Who knows. His face still held a sternness in it, but I could see a glint of bewilderment in his eyes. He took a moment to absorb what I said, clearing his throat and staring down at his arms for several minutes. Finally he looked back up at me. I had a half-moment thought he would believe the reason for coming, but I could see he surely hadn’t taken it.

“It seems we have quite the storytelling in our hands.” He said, but it didn’t feel much like a compliment, “you said you came to help, but you don’t have the looks or the attire to prove to me that you could defeat these dragons for us.”

I shook my head, I really didn’t make a plan about how I was going to do it and now I was facing someone who was giving me the ultimate reality check, “no, I’m not, I wasn’t given a lot when I arrived but I’m willing to learn. I want to know how to fight and see how you humans have managed to fight these dragons.”

“It’s difficult for me to believe that you would be a fighter.”

I looked down at my robes, at my skinny arms. Where was the large demigod look I was supposed to have? I was as tiny as a human girl!

“Well, perhaps right now I don’t, but I can work to that point.”

The man heaved a sigh, standing up, “that’s a lot of work that my men aren’t willing to do. We have the muscle, we have the resources, if your brothers wanted to send someone to help us, perhaps they should have sent themselves instead of the little sister. If you want to help, the governor is in need of another cook in his kitchen, you can go there and help in the kitchens while we go fight the dragons.”

I stood up as well. Kitchens? Food? I was fed by other cooks in the kitchens, I didn’t even know how to make a pancake! I wanted to snap at him, but as he gathered his things, I knew I couldn’t convince him any more of fighting off these dragons.

“Sir, please-”

He was already approaching the door, but he stopped and looked at me, “it’s General, ma’am. General Hent. You can inform your brothers that if they want to help, they need to send someone more eligible. Now go be useful, the Governors home is just past this office, it’s a manor you won’t miss. Good day.”

I wanted to scream at him, but he had already left. They never handcuffed me, but maybe that was because I looked like I couldn’t hurt a fly. Perhaps I couldn’t. I could barely stand against a human. I bit my lip, this wasn’t going to happen. I couldn’t save the dragons by cooking food to the governor! What other choice did I have though? I was practically useless.

Perhaps I needed to ask for help, surely my brothers wouldn’t abandon me this much! I marched out of the room, some soldiers walking down the grey hall. I couldn’t do this alone, but these soldiers wouldn’t be able to do anything if their General Hent is forbidding them from helping. I just hoped that my brothers would be able to help me in some way, even if they gave me some words of advice.

That is... if I knew how to contact them.