note: the storyteller, the Dragonoid Dustin *ref here:  if you're wondering what he looks like* is about 5.8", and is roughly 19 years old

quick background: the continent if Terra ha been torn apart by war for centuries, until the only remaining war was between the dragonoids and the serpntine, a race of  partially humanoid snakes, though for the most part the dragonoids try to make preace, preffering to simply fend off the serpentine assaults

  listen to my story...i may be one of the few left who know the full truth of what happened at Salena City and the events that lead to the fall of King Sarra and the fall of the Knights...i fear I'm the only Dragon Knight left... Listen well for my time fast approaches when i shall either slay the one who caused this to happen, and who has caused the imminent war that threatens to destroy this land...or die trying.
   should i fall the truth must not be lost, lest the innocent be punished for crimes that should not be thiers...

 *my mind feels sluggish, my thoughts like syrup*
      "how could this have happened..?"
i ask myself, as the stronghold we were sworn to protect falls to the enemy.
      "Dustin! get out while you still can! we'll hold them off while you escape!" one of the other knights yells as soldiers swarm our position.
      "No! i won't leave you kyle, i won't abandon my bretheren knights!" i yell, running towards the soldiers, but kyle stops me.
      "Your job isn't to protect us Dustin, it's to protect King Sarra and his family. none of us are important" there's heavy emotion in his voice" take His Majesty and the royal family, flee Salena City... and don't look back. protect the King and the young prince with your life... and keep us alive in your memories, now get going! we'll keep them busy as long as we can!" kyle yells, shoving me back, and as i run off to protect the king he yells to the remaining knights" alright, let's show these damned  serpents that they won't take us out without a fight!"
      i run to te throne room, evading enemy patrols with the many secret passages throught the castle that i had found throughout the years." King Sarra! we have to-" my sword clatters to the groud as i behold  the king,lying on the ground, badly injured, several serpentine soldiers lying dead around him. i rush to his side, seeing the wounds are the like no creature could survive."k-king sarra... i swear to you i'll make them pay..." the end of my tail ignites, due to my species of dragonoids' natural element being fire.
     "dustin... at least... you're still alive... now go before... they come.." the king's voice is but a whisper, his breathing shallow.
     "no sir... i must find the queen and the young prince, though i'm not sure if he'd be well enough to escape" the prince had reportedly fallen very ill at birth, and no one outside of the royal family and the royal physician is allowed to have seen him, though nobody has said if he's gotten better, he was first pronounced ill 18 years ago, on his first birthday.
      "the queen...is dead... slain by the serpentine soldiers... but... the young prince... is right beside me..." he laughs weakly, and i realise no one's beside him other than me.
      "what are you talking about? there's no one here"
      "i haven't... much time... you are the... prince... you are...my son..."
      " but that's impossible, my parents abandoned me at birth to the castle guard, what you're saying doesn't make sense!"
      " ah... the queen...your mother... wanted you to grow up knowing what the world was like... training with the other knights... so when you took the throne you'd be familiar with the daily lifestyles and be closer to the commoners...and... should you have to fight... you'd be already familiar with the other knights...and they'd..... trust you..." the king coughs hard, blood leaking from his mouth " we were... going to tell you.... on your 21st birthday... but... now you must run..." he weakly lifts his hand, a jeweled crest in his palm" take this... it's our family... crest...take it...and leave this place before all is lost...... go....to the.....temple in......Detane...... and show them......this.......crest..... they'll.....help.....you........"the king's hand falls as i take the miniscule crest, and his breathing falters, then stops altogether.
     "no...father..." i lower my head, tears welling up as i weep for our fallen king, now knowing that he was also my father. suddenly the throne room door exploded inward, a batallion of serpentine soldiers slithering in. 
      "there'sss another pesky dragonoid, al unitss, attack!" said thelead soldier, and they all charge, slithering with alarming speed
      "you will all pay..." i stand up, my head still lowered, as i pick up my sword" i swear it... not one of you will survive.." the flames on my tail get bigger, and turn black.
      "you are outnumbere twenty to one little dragonoid, you cannot hope to kill uss all" the lead serpentine says, laughing.
      " wether twenty to one or a thousand to one... i will have my revenge." before any of the serpentine realise what's happening i charge, channeling the element of flame to my sword, which glows bright red, and i cut through both shield, armor, scale, skin, and bone with ease, though with thier superior numbers i'm pushed back, until my back's to a baclony rail overlooking the forked Thunsain river that makes up the moat for the city, and during the fighting i had sustained a deep gash across my chest and a cut on my left eye, temporarially blinding it.
      "no where to run now, sso thiss iss the end for you." the lead serpentine soldier attacks, and i manage to decapitate him, but the force of his oncoming corpse knocks me off the blacony, and as i hit the water i hit a floating log, knocking me out as i float under the water, the water turning red from my wounds as the river's current carries me downstream........