Shakra

There were not always dragons in the valley.

But, the dragons are gathering in this valley today.

Blood-stained skirt flutters and the goddess Sura walks out carrying the baby.

Pirim, the cobalt blue dragon among the group of dragons, approaches Sura and puts his face close to her.

Sura holds the baby with one hand and pats Pirim's face with the other hand, saying, "It's a baby girl. Her name is Shakra."

"Shakra. Shakra."

Pirim calls the baby's name, and his voice is sharp and crackling echoes surround the valley.

Sura smiles at Pirim, then looks up at the sky and stumbles.

Pirim spreads his wings and wraps her.

Sura says, "Time to leave."

Prim's tears fall from his eyes to his chin.

Sura looks at the baby and says, "This child will be the light of the world. Pirim. Please love and protect the baby."

Then, Sura hands Pirim the baby, and he embraces the baby with his wings.

White flower petals are falling from the sky like snow.

Sura says, "It's time to go."

Pirim speaks in a sad and low voice, "Sura. I love you forever."

"I love you too."

Sura closes her eyes, and the falling flower petals swirl around and rise her into the sky.

Pirim sees her ascending to the sky and calls and cries out her name, "Sura."

The other dragons cry out together with Pirim's mourning. The baby Shakra is sleeping peacefully in Pirim's wings still.

Between the dragon and the goddess should not be loved, and gods rebuked their love. The god of the gods allowed the child to be born but took the immortal god's life. Sura lost her life. She falls and stays in a place with no night or day, no air, no sky, and ground. Sura has no breathing but cannot die because she is immortal. She imprisons between gods and humans, earth and heaven. She is in a state of neither living nor dead nor non-existent.

Pirim is looking at Sura ascending to the sky, then Pirim closes his eyes to the intense light shining through the disappearing petals.

After a while, Pirim opens his eyes, but he sees everything dark. He blinks his eyes several times, but he can't see anything.

"Waa, Waa." The baby begins to cry.

Pirim wants to make the baby comfortable, but he can't see anything and is nervous about hurting the baby.

He wants to make a sound and call the other dragons for help, but no voice comes out.

The god of gods punished Pirim. He can not make a voice and vision because the dragon loved the goddess.

The baby's cry gets louder and louder, and then the baby needs something.

The light orange-colored dragon Dali recently became a mother. She holds Shakra to breastfeed her. The baby stops crying.

Dali tells Pirim, "Shakra is fine."

Pirim nods in thanks several times to Dali.

The other dragons see Dali and Pirim saying goodbye, and they are flying to the valley where they live before the sun goes down.

Dali takes Shakra and her three baby dragons into the cave in Pirim's valley.

They will stay there until the little ones grow up

A month later, a grown Shakra walks out of the cave.

Mixing the transparent white skin of the mother goddess and the half cobalt color of her father dragon, She has an almost white, pale, bluish face and body and is six feet six inches tall. She has dark blue eyes, light paled pink lips, and cobalt-colored long hair that resembles her father's dragon fur.

As Shakra walks, she moves her shoulders, and the wings hidden in her hair are spread out, and she soars into the sky to fly.

The three baby dragons also are growing up, and they are coming out of the cave, spreading their wings, and flying to Shakra.

Dali sees them and tells them to be careful.

Shakra and grown dragons flutter around the valley with excitement.

Pirim cannot see but sense the sounds and smells.

Prim's face moves with Shakra, and he smiles as he listens to Shakra's laughter.

The flying Shakra gently descends to the ground, approaches Pirim, and sits in front of him. Pirim senses that the scent of Shakra is in front of him.

Pirim bends to the ground.

Shakra approaches and places her forehead on Pirim's forehead, and Pirim speaks.

"Shakra. My daughter. The beloved goddess Sura's beautiful and precious."

Dali says that they have to go now.

Dali and her grown baby dragons approach Pirim and Shakra.

Pirim turns his head toward the sound and says goodbye and thanks, Dali.

In the meantime, Dali did not return to her valley but raised Shakra and her baby dragons in Pirim's valley to take care of them. And, Pirim brought food to Dali to take care of her.

Dali also says to Pirim, "Thank you, Pirim. I was able to raise all the babies well from your support."

Shakra looks at Dali and reaches out her hand, saying, "Thank you, Dali."

Dali spreads her wings and hugs Shakra.

Dali's child dragons hug Shakra too.

Shakra says to them, "My beloved siblings, Boh, Buna, and Caleb. Thank you so much. I love you all."

A triplets dragon is rubbing their face at Shakra.

Dali spreads her wings wide to the sides. Boh, Buna, and Caleb also spread their wings and prepare to leave.

They are hovering over the heads of Pirim and Shakra several times and are flying to the western sky.

Shakra is looking up at the sky until they are out of sight.

The blue sky turned into a dyed pink and purple sunset where they flew,

After hearing Shakra's long and deep breath, Pirim spreads his wings and wraps her shoulders.

Shakra says, "I'm okay.

But Pirim hears her silent crying in loneliness.

The valley where Pirim and Shakra reside has stillness and solitude.

There are only sounds of nature

Dragons cannot leave the valley ordained by the gods. The six dragons must live scattered across the six valleys. But once a year, when the moon shines the brightest, the dragons meet in turns in their respective valleys. Sura had lots of curiosity about people's world and dragons. So, she sometimes visited the human's village, but the dragon was not easily seen because the dragons should live in hiding in the valleys set by the god's commandment.

Humans and dragons lived together a long time ago. One day, the half red and half dark dragons, who learned the taste of human blood, began to eat people. And dragons of other colors also came to know the taste of human blood, and numerous people died of their appetite for the dragon's power and force. The gods covered the world with ice to bury human corpses and freeze dragons to kill them. Hundreds of years passed, the earth melted, new creatures grew on the grounds, and people re-created the world. The god of gods ordered the newly born dragons to live far away from people so that they could not taste human blood and scattered them to prevent the union of the dragons. Only the gods knew the valley, and the dragon's valley is always covered with fog, and people cannot find it.

That day, Sura went to the human's place and walked through the forest, saw the moon shining brightly in the night sky through the dense forest, and heard the sounds of dragons. Sura walked along with the sound till she reached Pirim's valley. Pirim was surprised to see the goddess. But he became interested in her because she was kind, gentle, and beautiful. Sura wondered about seeing a dragon for the first time, but unlike what she had imagined and heard, dragon Pirim was kind, gentle, and funny. She wanted to have more time with him. Not knowing how much time had passed, they had a good time and fell in love. But their love ended tragically with death and punishment. However, they got a precious daughter named Shakra.

One day, after a year of spending time together with Pirim and Shakra, the day when the moon shines brightly once a month has returned.

Dragons are gathering in Pirim's valley.

Dali passed away recently.

The fate of the father dragon will die right after the baby dragon is born. And the mother dragon will die a year after giving birth. The god of the gods made this rule to limit the number of dragons.

But now, there are seven dragons because the dragon parents passed away, but triplets dragons were born.

Today, the seven dragons are gathering to beg the god of gods to allow seven dragons to live together and not make it six because being seven to six means that one of them dies.

The moonlight shines brighter, and the gods walk in the moonlight and come down to the grounds.

All dragons bow down.

Shakra is rather fear of gods that look like her, so she hides behind Pirim.

Their conversation begins. The low sounds of gods and dragons echo are full of the valley.

Shakra is leaving that place quietly to go to a nearby lake for a while.

She is walking and walking in thought for a moment.

Suddenly, she stops thinking, looks around, and notices that she is in a forest, which she does not know.

Shakra begins to be afraid of an unfamiliar place and continues walking along the forest path, and tries to return to Pirim's valley.

She sees faint light from afar and thinks it is a fire lit by dragons.

She runs towards the light and reaches the end of the forest road—the lights below the ground twinkle like stars.

She wonders where that place is and flies down to the land.

Shakra sees new things.

These look like small caves but are more elaborate than natural caves.

Two young people are standing. They see Shakra and ask her.

"What are you looking for?"

Shakra hears them speaking and notices that she is in a human village.

Shakra stands silently, and the two young people come closer to her and say again.

"Are you okay?"

"We live in this house."

"Are you lost?"

"Do you need help?"

Shakra hears the two of them talking and turns.

She feels like her head is spinning and falls to the ground.