Adeen is an ordinary fifteen year old, living in an ordinary town, with an ordinary family… At least that’s what everyone else thinks. She actually hides a big secret, one that proves that she is anything but ordinary. She is a Hybrid – a mix of a human and another creature. A Dragon Hybrid to be exact. Her secret’s been hidden for her whole life, and she’d hoped it’d stay that way.

But when she’s found out the government hunts her down until she is caught and taken away. Now living in a prison-like facility called the Sanctuary, she must figure out a way to escape without capture and make her way back to her home. But she doesn’t know why the government is capturing Hybrids, but not harming them. Is there something else out there she doesn’t know about?

Can her stubborn courage and magical abilities be enough to escape them, find out their secrets on Hybrids, find out what’s outside, and get home? Or will she doom everyone she loves on her risky quest?

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~Prologue~

A Blue Moon. It is a rare event, one where a second full moon appears in the same month. But that is all humans think of it; just another strange thing of the moon. But it is a totally different event to those who possess magical abilities. For us, a Blue Moon increases our power, whether it be permanent or temporary.

I’m getting ahead of myself, and you. Let me explain. A Blue Moon looks normal to you, but for those not born human, we see an ocean blue moon. It’s covered by a magical aura that was lost long ago. Shocking, huh? But it happens so rarely that no one knows that. So, essentially, it’s a hidden secret. Few know of it.

Oh yeah, another thing you should probably know; a Blue Moon connects the world of the living and the dead.

You see, long ago, there were two souls that had lost each other. It was at the time of war, when a great beast had begun to roam the earth, destroying everything of beauty. That was when they, the two souls, had come together to lock it away. Sadly, though, one on them was lost in the process, leaving the other without chance of a goodbye. The agony the first felt after losing her friend had set off a chain reaction, her grief breaking the boundaries of life and death and created the Blue Moon. Now, those two have an opportunity to meet again.

Far away lays a mountain that overlooks a distant city. Trees lay all around and a stone road lay on the mountain, creating a large spiral path downward or to the top. Near the middle of the hillside, about half way down, was a cave, emitting a strange blue glow that no one else could see. Inside the cave sat a large beast of crystal white scales. Her dull eyes stared into a small glowing crystal, as though she could see something no one else could. She soon averted her eyes from the stone and flexed her claws and wings.

She was a mysterious creature. She is one no one has ever believed to exist. She was something humans have believed was only a myth, just a story.

She was a dragon. A great and mighty beast of the balance of the world. A beast that could destroy cities with a single blow of her flaming breath or a beat of her giant wings. So why has she, a powerful creature of life and death, stayed hidden for these thousands of years? Well, she has been waiting. Waiting for the right moment. Waiting for the right person to come.

Moments later the dragon could hear the sound of wings flapping coming to a stop followed by feet hitting the stone ground. She turned toward the direction of the noise and waited for her visitor to move into her part of the caves. The echoing came closer and closer until color had turned the corner of the stone walls. The dragon could see the long red hair, her red wings, tail, claws, ears and brown horns of her friend and the white dress she wore the last time they met under the Blue Moon.

“Willow,” The dragon said in greetings.

She couldn’t tell, but the girl must have smiled. “Tatsu!” She said excitedly and ran up to the dragon, her tail dragging behind her. Tatsu lowered her head for Willow to hug. After a few moments she let go and said “I cannot believe it has been this long. The Blue Moons are getting further apart.”

Tatsu nodded. “My power is weakening.” She informed softly.

She could sense the worry coming off of her friend. They both knew that this would happen. Keeping the Blue Moon up has done horrible things to Tatsu’s lifespan, shortening it by half, maybe more. And if she were to die too soon, they would fail their mission. “How much longer can you keep this up?”

Tatsu looked back at her crystal before turning back to Willow. “I do not know. Perhaps another decade or so.” By then, she would be too weak to keep up her magic, and she could only wait for the cold claws of death to claim her.

“I see…” Willow started, “Have you found someone then?” she asked, hopeful.

Once again, Tatsu turned her blinding eyes to her crystal. “Perhaps…” she said quietly. Willow gasped with joy and relief. “But,” Tatsu said quickly, trying to keep her friend’s hopes from going too high, “She is not ready.”

“Not ready how?”

“She is only an infant, child. She must age before she can be of use to us.”

“Oh,” Willow said, disappointed. It hurt Tatsu to see – or, in her case, feel her friend so upset. But she didn’t want her to get her hopes up too high only to be knocked down.

Still, she had news that would be good for them. The only thing she had to worry about was it failing in the end… Tatsu sighed. Might as well give Willow a little bit of hope, right? “It will not be long until she is ready.”

“When? How long until then?” Willow asked, perking up a little, her voice bouncing off the walls.

So hopeful. So innocent. She only wished to protect this world, yet she is still only a child. Oh how Tatsu wished she could change into her human form and hug her friend and tell her to be patient. But she couldn’t, and all she could do was tell the truth. “Twelve years.”

One again, the child gasped with joy. “You can hold up until then, right?”

The dragon paused, then smiled and chuckled. “Of course, I will do my best.” Even if she was making a false promise, she was glad she could feel the joy coming off of the child. Willow began to run off, as the Blue Moon would not last much longer. But before she could leave, Tatsu called back, “Wait, Willow!” The girl stopped and turned around, “Find her and protect her. You will know which one; just keep her safe, alright?”

The girl nodded and ran out of the cave, using her dragon wings and flying off back into the starry night.