Name: Izu Evermore
Age: 1222 years, 2 months, 1 day
Year: 3778 BC
Height: 1.40 m
Appearance: 10 years old
It will be quick, and I will give a summary of the 100 years and what I did in this time.
Now, getting back to the eggs, one finally hatched, and out came a little dragon. It was female, so, remembering the name her mother had given her, I called her Tiamat, which the little one loved.
At first, it was quite a bit of a problem, as the flames were constantly setting the ship ablaze, and I had to put them out somehow. Fortunately, one of the first spells I learned from the book I took was a water spell. They were fairly easy to learn. Perhaps that is my element, I do not know.
Anyway, I had to teach her not to breathe fire inside the ship. As for food, I had enough well preserved animals for several years, but thanks to the dragon's voracious appetite, they only lasted a decade before she found a different way to survive.
This meant eating fish. Eating fish for decades left a bitter taste in my mouth, especially when it was raw.
Finally, one day something interesting happened. The dragon drank water and turned into a human, a five year old girl with long blue hair and eyes of the same color, who could easily resemble my little sister.
This shocked me, and her first words shocked me even more.
"Dad."
Literally, my brain stopped working.
I tried to get her to call me by another name, like Izu or big brother, but she was adamant about calling me dad, so I had no choice but to accept it.
That is how I got my first dragon daughter.
If I were to write a book about this, I would title it:
"How to Train Your Dragon Daughter!" Yes, it is a reference.
Tiamat was quite intelligent. In fact, she frightened me. The number of books she read was staggering. Being a dragon, she naturally knew every language, both written and spoken, though her attention span was short. She could not read a book for more than a minute without looking at or fiddling with precious metals. Seriously, she liked that kind of thing.
And well, that was a summary of what I did during the century in which the world was filled with water.
This brings us to the present day.
"Dad, so this is the world without water?" Tiamat asked as she held my hand.
We were both walking through the woods. As always, I was wearing my casual clothes: a black shawl and shorts.
Fabric had not been invented yet, which was a nuisance. I really wanted to make myself some nice clothes.
As for Tiamat, I made her a dress out of gray wolf fur in an elegant way, which made her look adorable.
"Yes, this is the world," I replied calmly.
"It is peaceful and beautiful."
"Yes, it is, and it will be even more so in a few thousand years. Now come, I will teach you how to hunt."
"Yeeeh!" Tiamat raised her little arms excitedly.
The reason I would teach her to hunt was for two reasons. The first is that a dragon gets stressed if she does not kill something, and the hunting instinct is in her soul.
The second reason was for her to gain strength and battle experience. There were supernatural beings and gods, and the daughter of a dragon from before the flood, whose magical power was absolutely great, was like a spotlight that attracts moths.
I needed to learn how to control it, and what better way to do that than with practice.
When she grew up, I would teach her to fight with different weapons and her magical power, though I was not sure how. I would think of something when that day came.
For now, the hunt.
We did not have to walk far, as Tiamat smelled something new to her.
"Dad, I smell deer," she reported.
"Where from?"
"That way." Tiamat pointed east.
"Okay, let us go," I said with a smile, starting to walk in that direction.
As we moved forward, Tiamat continued to ask questions, and I answered her doubts, thus enriching her knowledge.
After about ten minutes, in a clearing in the forest, we saw it: a deer near a group of other deer eating fruits and berries.
Tiamat's mouth watered at the sight of the deer. She could not wait to taste it.
"Listen, Auntie," I said, using her affectionate nickname.
"You have to hit it as hard as you can, and you have to be quick. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Dad." She struck a military pose.
"Okay, now attack."
As if it were a divine sign, Tiamat transformed into a dragon and pounced on a distracted deer, managing to bite its neck with her jaws.
After the sound of a branch breaking, the deer fell to the ground dead. The nearby deer ran away to avoid the predator.
Tiamat stopped biting the deer before looking at me and giving me a fanged grin. Her size was equal to that of a large horse in her dragon form, and she would only grow larger from there.
"How did I do, Dad?"
"Pretty good, Auntie, but you need to be quieter. Now get back to normal so we can go to camp and get everything ready," I said.
Tiamat nodded, returning to her human form.
"Okay, take those fruits and berries. Use this." I handed her a small leather bag.
Tiamat was happy to help her father. She looked at the berries and picked the shiniest and sweetest ones.
She took all the berries and fruits she could, filling the bag.
"Auntie, let us go," I said, after removing the animal's organs and leaving them for the scavengers.
"Yeah!"
That night, under the full moon and starry sky, I gazed at Tiamat asleep, using my legs as pillows. Her expression was happy and innocent. This brought me peace. After more than a thousand years of being alive, I finally had good company.
I looked at the campfire where part of the deer was still cooking.
Using a knife, I cut off a large piece of meat and began to eat it. Although the flavor was nonexistent, it was edible and much better than raw fish.
After eating, I decided to sleep under the starry sky.
The next day, I was walking with Tiamat.
"What will we do today, Dad?"
"Well, I will teach you how to identify water that is safe to drink and water that is not," I explained.
"What is the difference between the two?"
"Well, look." I stopped in front of a lake. The lake was a dark brown color and murky.
"If the water is this color, it means it is not safe to drink. If you do, believe me, you will feel sick. I have been there," I said, remembering the past when I could not tell the difference between safe and unsafe drinking water. Trusting in my own invincibility, I drank water that looked like that and had one of the worst stomach aches of my life.
"Dad, you were staring into space. Are you okay?"
"Yes, I just remembered something. Anyway, let us continue."
Guiding Tiamat in another direction, we reached another lake after about ten minutes.
It was a calm, crystal clear lake with a small waterfall.
"It is transparent."
"Yes. Taste the water and tell me how it tastes."
Tiamat bent down and tasted the water. She opened her eyes.
"It is sweet!"
"Yes. Drinking water is sweet, and it is good for hydration, unlike salt water, which dries out the body."
"Dry the body?"
"I will explain it to you when you are a little older."
"Okay."
"Well, now I will teach you how to swim," I said, jumping into the water fully clothed.
Tiamat became worried before she saw her father floating in the water. She did the same, jumping in and floating thanks to her natural dragon sense of balance.
"Okay, Auntie, now move your arms from the inside out and bring your feet together," I explained.
Tiamat did it with some speed, staying afloat without difficulty.
"Okay, now lean your body forward, lift your legs, and move your arms forward above the water to move ahead."
I gave a demonstration.
Auntie did the same, learning quite quickly. In just thirty minutes, she had learned to swim quite well.
We both played in the water for another hour before leaving.
"Okay, let us go back. We will get something to eat, and then I will show you how to track wild animals."
Emotion shone in Tiamat's eyes.
And I hoped it would always stay that way.