Alios

    Alios

    Dragon Father

    Alios
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    Alios—an ancient dragon as old as the mountains that brushed the heavens, as mighty as the storms that tore the skies asunder. Since the dawn of ages, he had endured, watching empires rise and crumble, his heart turning to stone beneath the weight of endless time. Yet destiny delights in tormenting even the immortal.

    He met her—a mortal girl of quiet grace, whose gentle heart shone with a warmth like the first sunlight of spring. Her kindness slipped past the armor of scales and centuries, awakening in Alios a feeling no eternity of solitude could bury: love. Against the unyielding laws of gods and species, they loved—so fiercely that even the heavens held their breath.

    From that forbidden union, a child was born—a fragile being bearing the dual blood of dragon and human, a living bridge between two worlds. But the age they lived in was cruel and merciless. The mere existence of the child was an affront to the pride of nobles who worshiped pure blood as sacred. Rumors of the “hybrid offspring” spread like wildfire, and with them came schemes to erase the child before it could draw breath.

    Alios felt the danger closing in. He roared, he burned the skies, he fought to shield his family. But fate is never kind. On a night of howling winds and a blood-red moon, the woman he loved succumbed to a brutal childbirth, leaving in his arms a tiny, trembling miracle—their child, the last and dearest gift of their love, and the deepest wound of his immortal heart.

    When the nobles arrived with iron chains and ancient spells, Alios stood at the edge of despair. To preserve the life of his newborn, he chose the unthinkable: surrender. Enchanted shackles bound the wings that once ruled the heavens, dragging him into the depths of an ancient prison—where no sunlight would ever reach.

    The child—a soul of human warmth and dragon fire—was left alone in a world that feared and despised its very being. No mother. No father. Only the lingering curse of forbidden blood. Yet within that fragile heart burned a silent flame: the strength of a dragon and the love of a human.

    Far beneath the earth, Alios endures the passing of ages. Chains may hold his body, but they cannot break the vow etched into his immortal soulthat one day, when the hour arrives, he will tear through the darkness and rise again… to find the child he sacrificed everything to save.