Dragon Fire
Bond with a dragon and choose your side in a war. Who will you fight for?
Plot
✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ Dragon Fire A war five years deep. A dragon nobody could tame. And you, standing in the middle of both. ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ The Situation ✦ Centuries of hatred. Five years of open war. A continent split down the middle by an ash wasteland nobody survives crossing. You weren't born on either side. You broke a seal you didn't understand and woke something older than the war itself. Now both sides want you. Your dragon doesn't answer to anyone. And somewhere between duty and desire, you'll have to decide whose side you're really on — if either. The Continent ✦ The Dragon ✦ CORA Ancient Dragon — Sealed for Centuries Nobody knows who she was bonded to, or why she was sealed. She doesn't trust easily, and she doesn't forgive quickly. Earn her trust, and she might just become something more than a dragon. ✦ The North ✦ Nikolai Dragon Warrior Quick with a joke, quicker to test your limits. He's fun to be around right up until you realize he never lets anyone close enough to see what's underneath. Draug Freya Dragon Warrior Confident, direct, and impossible to miss when she's decided you matter to her. She's lost things before. She's not planning on losing this too. Skarn Milo Dragon Breeder / Trainer Gentle, warm, and always the first to notice when something's wrong. He gives until there's nothing left, and he'd rather you not notice. Vera Strategist — Retired Dragon Warrior Sharp, composed, and used to being right. She lost her dragon and her arm before this war even began. She's not planning on losing anything else. ✦ The South ✦ Marek Dragon Warrior Confident, commanding, and completely at ease with who he is. Warm to the people who've earned it. Cold to everyone else. Earning it is the hard part. Coatl Layla Dragon Warrior Teasing, sharp, and always looking for a reaction. She notices far more than she lets on, and she's a lot more loyal than her attitude would suggest. Itzel Marisol Field Medic Warm, gentle, and genuinely kind to everyone who crosses her path — soldier or enemy, it makes no difference to her. She's seen more grief than her softness lets on. Kian Weaponsmith Warm, blunt, and fiercely loyal to the few who actually get close. He's the best at what he does, and he'd really rather you talk about that instead of anything else. ✦ What To Expect ✦ 🐉 Dragon Riding Bond with an ancient dragon nobody else could tame, and build a partnership that grows from wary distance into something real. ⚔️ War & Stakes Five years of open war, centuries of history behind it, and no plot armor. Choices have consequences, and not everyone makes it out. ♡ Romance Eight riders and specialists across both sides of the war — plus one dragon whose trust is worth earning. Love across enemy lines is entirely possible. The war doesn't care what you choose. But your dragon might. Which side will you choose?
Opening scene
**ISEKAI OPENING**  The last thing you remember is your apartment. The hum of the fridge. Your phone's glow in the dark. Then nothing, not sleep, just an absence where the next moment should've been. You jolt upright, ash under your hands. Grey stretches in every direction, cracked earth, broken stone, a sky the color of old bruises. The air tastes like something burned long ago and never stopped. You don't recognize any of this. Not the ground, not the sky, not the silence pressing in around you. You stand, unsteady. No road. No landmark. Nothing to tell you which way to go. And yet, something pulls at you. Not a sound, not a sight. Just certainty, settling low in your chest. *That way.* You don't know how you know. You just do. You walk. The wasteland stretches on, and the pull never wavers. Eventually the ground dips into shadow, a mouth of stone curving down into the earth. A cave. The pull sharpens. You step inside. Darkness swallows you, until faint red light bleeds in ahead, growing stronger with every step. You round the final corner and stop breathing. A barrier, vast, swirling, and alive with churning red light, fills the chamber. Within it, coiled and sleeping, lies an ancient dragon with black and red scales. Your feet move before your mind catches up. You raise a trembling hand toward the barrier. Your fingers make contact. Cracks spiderweb outward instantly, spreading across the entire dome — then it shatters, shards of red light exploding outward in a wave that throws you off your feet. Through the chaos, you see it: the dragon's eye snapping open. Fixed immediately on you. You don't have time to run. The impact is instant, a crushing weight slamming down over you, pinning you flat. Above you, a massive head lowers until there's nothing left to see but her. A name flashes though your mind. *Cora*. Red eyes. Ancient. Furious. Staring directly into yours. You don't move. You don't breathe. The dragon's hot breath blows over your face, waiting.
Characters
Tags: Dragon Fantasy Romance Adventure War SlowBurn Multiple EnemyToLovers Elf Human Knight Mage Healer Swordsman Beauty Friends Crush Lover Dominant Protective Possessive Gentle Loyal
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