Week Eight:Research Project

  Mikey smiled under the mask of his. No one knew why he started to wear this green cover but no one questioned it since he was audible. His mother was concerned but understood there were some struggles that he couldn’t muster to tell her yet. Ever since he had can been convicted he had not been taking the rehab classes all that well. He would come home after hanging out with his friend, the ones he had left, and then he’d go out with his other friends from America. She didn’t know how they came so quickly but it was none of her concern since they treated her son like a human being unlike some others.

  He wasn’t perfect at school. Classes were getting harder since he couldn’t speak up freely like he wanted. He was forced to sit at the table that was assigned. To the teachers, it made no difference to his social status. In some classes, he was lucky. In others, not so much.

  On all his test he had received an above average grade. When he asked for help from his two idols, Vile and Xeq, they tried but in the end there was not much that either could do. In America Xeq was in college while Vile was a senior in high school. If Mikey were an American student he’d be an eighth grade while Vile in twelfth.

  The urge to learn about his true self was high. He found a video about a movie called “Wyvern” but didn’t decided to watch it. He could watch PG-13 movies now. He was happy. However, not happy enough. From a video he watch he found out that Wyverns were of many cultures but the one in video was from Norway. He couldn't possibly leave to go there without  permission. Well…. He could but as a thirteen year old out on his own he’d be scared.

  “Tame your strongest fear.” Mikey remembered Vile saying. Vile said that he imagined Mikey be one for panic. That’s what the mask was for. It shimmered when he unconsciously slobbered poison. It absorbed it. His friends thought it was cool. He went with, “I felt like being different for a change” verses “I found out that I’m a Wyvern guys and this human body of mine can’t handle it on its own without the will of my own to sooth it.”

  His friends accepted that. They were all thirteen to fourteen year olds waiting for adventure. In London, the mall was his friends’ favorite place to hang. Mikey decided not to tell of his dragon story until he knew for sure that he could transform and retransform easily. These were his waking hours and he still wasn’t fully awake.

  When he glanced online for information about himself he couldn’t find much. In England he was a known mascot and a fantasy of a variety of video games but that wasn’t enough for him. He found that there were different spellings on his dragon. The spelling of Wyvern as W-Y-V-E-R-N wasn’t dated before the seventeenth century. He found that another spelling was W-Y-V-E-R and that changed in Middle England. In Old French he came across the spelling W-I-V-R-E. Another that he found was spelled W-I-V-E-R-N and lastly, the Latin version which was V-ī-P-E-R-A meaning viper.

  There wasn’t much that he could figure out about himself. According to online statuses, he was supposed to be able to use fire but have a poisonous bite. He, however, could only subconsciously drool his acid and cover it up with a mask made from his skin. He wanted to tell his mother but he didn’t know how she would take it.

  How were dragons even born? Was his mother one? Did Vile and Xeq’s parents have this trait? Vile was different from Xeq. Xeq was a fire based dragon but somehow changed and was now able to use this inner stream of light that he called a Hyper Beam. Mikey laughed the first time Xeq told him. The two brothers scheduled times with Mikey. However, there were some times where they would say that they’d be ‘at the mall’ or ‘at a friend’s house’ when really, they’d be with Mikey. It made him feel important. Although, it also made him wonder why the two bothers seemed so close but distant.

  Vile and Xeq both told Mikey secrets that they hadn’t told each other. He was an only child so he didn’t understand why there was any need to hide something from someone like a sibling. He understood that his parents didn’t have to know everything and the more time he spent over the sea and adventuring with the two the more he understood the meaning of secret.

  He hadn’t told his friends, he hadn’t told his mother, he didn’t even think twice about telling his father. There were individual secrets between him and Vile while there were other secrets between him and Xeq. Vile knew about Xeq’s hyper beam but what he didn’t know was that Xeq came without Vile one early morning and spoke to him in his bedroom. He warned him that he might not be able to see him in the next couple of days. Vile didn’t know that Mikey knew about the Hydra’s heart. However, Xeq didn’t know about the missing dream that Vile so longed for. He knew that he had a dream that played every other night. It wasn’t a nightmare. It was the same dream. It became a nightmare because he let it become a nightmare through stress. He didn’t know what happened to the dream. All he knew was that the dream vanished one day and on nights where he was supposed to have the dream he’d lie awake for hours.

  Mikey found a one hundred and sixteen year old vessel in Norway called the Wyvern. It was a well-known and historical boat. It participated in the 2013 Tail Ships Races and was alerted in an emergency at 5:21 a.m. There were ten people on board that July eleventh. They were found at 6:42 a.m and rescued by 8 a.m. The vessel sunk at 9:37a.m according to rumors.

  It was name Wyvern after the mythological dragon that was featured on Frederick Croft’s family shield. Mikey sighed as he read over the information. It was named after the dragon not before. Norway had to have something. Anything else! He needed to know more about himself and sadly, Vile and Xeq would do their best but even they didn’t understand the concept completely. They made it clear to each other not to tell Mikey. However, both brothers appeared admitted to their fault. Xeq, a nineteen year old junior in college and Vile an eighteen year old senior in high school. And now, there was Mikey, a thirteen year old Londoner, a Wyvern they knew. Together they would search and find but teither way Mikey knew that this new life of Dragons would slowly take flight. .