Ocean (L1quid)

*(Not to be confused with* Ocean *of* The Dragon Prince*.)*

***Ocean*** is the first book of *Archai*, and is the *Dragon Prince* adaptation of *The Breaking Ocean*, the first book of L1quid's *Archai* series. It is in the perspective of Coral.

The book gains its name from the Archaian Ocean Primal in the original source (not *The Dragon Prince*'s Xadian Ocean Primal), which is associated with beginnings, depths, change, transformation, fluidity, purity, fury, appearances, and pressure.

In the series, it proceeds *Earth*.

## Synopsis

*Seven elements, one world.*

*Three heirs, one throne.*

*Three strangers, one goal.*

*Enter the world of Xadia...*

*Seven elements, one world...*

Thousands of years after Team Zym and the return of Aaravos, the continent of Xadia is at war once again.

A royal power vacuum has gripped the human and magical territories, and there is no hope in sight - until a mysterious, cryptic prophecy is delivered.

Coral is one of the elves chosen to fulfill the prophecy. Raised with two other elves and three dragons, all she knows about the war is from the literature she's read.

But when the war comes knocking on her door, everything will change.

## Guide to Magic

### Sun Magic

Source: the sun which the world orbits, which is a star

Symbol: three leaping flames in a circular pattern

Magical Creatures: Sun Dragons, Sunfire Elves

Associations: energy, teaching, truth, fury, warmth, honesty, intensity, charisma, leadership, optimism, revealing, guiding light

### Moon Magic

Source: the moon that orbits the world, specifically its lunar phases

Symbol: a circle pierced with beams of light

Magical Creatures: Moon Dragons, Moon Phoenixes, Moonshadow Elves

Associations: illusion, manipulation, love, death, charm, reflection, privacy, appearances, depth, duality, secrets

### Star Magic

Source: the planets, moons, and stars beyond the world

Symbol: a four-pointed star surrounded by an unclosed circle

Magical Creatures: Star Dragons, Startouch Elves, Unicorns

Associations: vision, truth, intelligence, otherworldly, reality-altering, timelessness, mystery, destiny, wishes

### Earth Magic

Source: the earth itself, including its flora and fauna

Symbol: three angular mountain peaks

Magical Creatures: Earth Dragons, Earthblood Elves, Tree Golems

Associations: strength, endurance, healing, stubbornness, growth, deep history, balance

### Sky Magic

Source: the world's sky, from it's storms to the movement of winds

Symbol: three streaks resembling wind currents

Magical Creatures: Cloudbirds, Sky Dragons, Skywing Elves

Associations: lightness, quickness, agility, cleverness, vision, potential, freedom, perspective, clarity of vision

### Ocean Magic

Source: the waters of the world, and how they all connect to the seas and oceans of the world

Symbol: swirling lines resembling a circular current

Magical Creatures: Bog Hyenas, Ocean Dragons, Tidebound Elves

Associations: flexibility, transformation, flow, surface-level vs depth, navigation, awareness

### Dark Magic

Source: the essence of magical creatures (old dark magic), naturally dark places and shadows of the world (new dark magic)

Symbol: stylized, swirling cobra (old dark magic), shadows (new dark magic)

Magical Creatures: humans (old dark magic); Dark Dragons, Darkshadow Elves (new dark magic)

Associations: evil, destruction, secrets, deceit, manipulation, death

## The Prophecy

See the Sun split, see the Earth quake.

See the Sky whip, see the Ocean break.

See the Moon’s bane, see the Stars watch.

And Darkness will reign.

## Epigraph

*O holoré lay thee low*

*Holoél dark in the Deep.*

*Down beneath the earth you go*

*Go holoré fast to sleep*

*Fast to sleep*

*Fast to sleep*

*Dark holoré in the Deep*

*Rise again holoré now*

*Spring abundant holoél*

*Render green the dying bough*

*Raise the rock where Yurgen fell*

- *Yurgen's Tune* (*The Wingfeather Saga*)

## Prologue

**22 A.Z.**

Her reflection ripples across the watery surface of the pool, as she grips the stony rim of it with her hands. She is a human, with two stubby horns poking out of her dark hair.

On her shoulder, a medium-sized creature that resembles a hybrid between a short, stubby, stocky dog and a chameleon rests in the hood of her jacket.

“Orp?” the creature says, looking into the pool as well.

She continues looking into her reflection, as if the Moon were staring back at her.

Perhaps this birdbath disguised as a magic mirror could help Lujayne understand what the visions that plagued her at night were.

They started in the last few months, but were now getting more powerful and more clearer as time went on.

*I’m the only Moonshadow Elf known that can see the future, and it’s not as strong or clear as a Startouch Elf’s usual foresight.*

*What a joke, just like Dad.*

“Brb!” Sneezles blurbs, rubbing up against Lujayne’s cheek.

He was clearly checking if she was still alive.

Lujayne scratched the side of his head, not even taking her eyes off the pool.

The Mirror of Stars was one of the rarest Star artifacts known to Xadia; it gave Startouch Elves the power to show non-Star creatures what their visions were without using telepathy.

Usually, it needed to be in the presence of Stars to work. But because it was down here, in the old, stony, abandoned study of the Katolis castle that belonged to an wicked man known as “Viren”, it didn’t work. It never did.

The story was that when Mom, Dad, and Uncle Ez was on their quest to defeat Aaravos, who was alternatively also known by others as “The-Legend-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named”, they came across a group of Skywing Elves known as “Celestial Elves” who protected such powerful artifacts such as this, the Corona of the Heavens, and the Nova Blade at the Starscraper.

After Aaravos was defeated by Dad using the Nova Blade, the Mirror was taken down here and only Uncle Ez and his family knew about it, nobody else did.

But it was her only option.

Lujayne put one of her hands into the water and took a deep breath.

“*Videte Futurum*” she said.

Nothing happened.

Another heartbeat.

Another.

And another.

And another.

Nothing.

But then…

Images began rippling from her hand onto the pool’s surface like a colorful inky dance until the clearest, most perfect picture formed.
It was Azymondias, the Dragon Prince, Mom and Dad’s old winged beast of a friend, and he was standing on a mountain near the Border.

The Border was the only thing that divided Western Xadia from Eastern Xadia, dividing humans from nature. It was a monument to the horrific deeds done by Ziard and other humans, who hunted Xadia’s magical creatures to fuel their spells - and their greed.

The Zym in this image was a far cry from what her family knew him as.

He was larger, stronger; his horns were much longer and they faded from pale blue to a darker shade at the tips. He resembled Avizandum, his father, more than Zubeia, his mother. A thick, fluffy white mane ran down his neck.

Lujayne had seen glimpses of this vision before, but they had increased in intensity over the past few weeks, telling her that this was going to happen soon. But as she watched the image move, she noticed that his small turquoise eyes had turned into slits and were staring at something that she had not seen before - humans.

Humans were on the other side of the Border and there were creatures next to them, bound and restrained in chains.

Elves, dragons, Banthers, Cuddlemonkeys. All of Xadia’s creatures.

In the lava that flowed and churned through the Border, Lujayne could see something moving through it. Something scaly.

Lava Drakes, she knew from her visions. These Sun Dragons could resist the scorching heat of magma, swim in magma with ease, and fire lava from their mouths.

As the image suddenly turned into a rainbow whirlpool, Lujayne had a horrifying thought of what she just saw.

The Judgement of the Half-Moon was going to repeat itself, and this time it would be known as “Thunder’s Judgement”.

The image whirled and whirled before unfolding into a golden city.

A rebuilt Lux Aurea, she knew.

And there was screaming from the palace. “The King is dead! The King is dead!” someone yelled as pain pulsed through her head.

Lujayne drew her hand from the pool quickly, and Sneezles squeaked in surprise. She clutched her head and keeled over to the floor, the pain growing stronger and stronger.

“ORP!” Sneezles yelped and scrambled out of Lujayne’s hood.

“No… Sneezles…”, she weakly started, but it was too late.

The pain filled her head and her Glow Toad was running off for help.

Words that were not hers began to fill her mouth, as if they were taking over her.

“*See…*” she hoarsely started. “*See…*”

“Lujayne!” she heard someone call.

She recognized the voice. It was Harrow, her cousin and next in line for Katolis’ throne. He was also named after her step-grandfather, his paternal grandfather.

He was younger than her, but that didn’t stop him from being like her half-uncle and father in spirit.

“Orp!” Sneezles squeaked, and Lujayne could faintly see him running towards her.

“Lujayne!” he cried, and grabbed her shoulders.

The words kept coming back into her mouth.

“*See… See the Sun…*”

“Lujayne?” Harrow whimpered, as he helped her up. He was a black shadow in her field of vision, as her vision turned white and was filled with the images of war, despair, and false hopes that she had seen in the past months.

Then everything spilled out of her.

"See the Sun split, see the Earth quake.

See the Sky whip, see the Ocean break.

See the Moon’s bane, see the Stars watch.

And Darkness will reign."

As she finished the last line, she staggered forward and gripped Harrow’s shoulders.

“Gah!” he exclaimed, as her field of vision went back to normal and she stared at his brown face.

He looked just as shocked as she was.

“What. Was. That?” he asked as she gained her bearings.

She wet her throat before speaking.

“A culmination of visions”, she rasped. “Over the past three months.”

“Over the past…” Harrow started, but Lujayne cut him off.

“Where is Uncle Ez?”

He tilted his head at her, and gave her a look.

“Father? You didn't pay attention? He went on his trip to the Border to-”

“Warn him”, she growled, her voice back to normal and hard in tone. His grey eyes went wide.

“Warn him of Thunder’s Judgment and the division of Xadia once more.”

## Part One: Dark in the Deep

### Chapter 1

Deep blow Xadia, in its caves, two elves are sparring. They are Coral, a Tidebound Elf, and Kestrel, a Skywing Elf.

*More coming soon...*

## Changes from Original Novel

* In the original novel, the prologue sets up the prophecy in a similar vein to how *Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy (2012)* set up The Dragonet Prophecy. In the adaptation, the prologue sets up the prophecy via the "next generation" of Team Zym (the children of Callum, Rayla, Ezran, Zym, etc.).
	+ The prologue in the adaptation was inspired by the ending of *Wings of Fire: Moon Rising (2014)*, wherein Moonwatcher delivers The Jade Mountain Prophecy to her friends.

## Trivia

* The original novel's title, *The Breaking Ocean*, was derived from the Archaian Ocean Primal.
	+ The original title of the original novel was *Ocean*. It was changed to avoid being confused with *The Dragon Prince: Ocean*.
* The "Guide to Magic" seen is a modified version of the one seen in *Archai*, adapted for the *Dragon Prince*'s world.
* *Ocean* was originally the second book in the series because a major Ocean-connected character first appeared in the original version of the book and thematic reasons. It was later changed to be the first book due to elemental associations and plot elements in the overall series.
* The epigraph (*Yurgen's Tune* from *The Wingfeather Saga*) was added into the fanfiction as L1quid wanted to have it in the actual book, but ultimately scrapped it for copyright reasons. (This would be if the book was published, as they are an independent author.) When L1quid first heard the song, they thought that it specifically referred to the series' Sea Dragons. Upon further investigation, they found that the in-world song refers to Yurgen, the king of the dragons', desperate dig for the Ancient Stones to heal his son from Ouster Will; this digging formed an island and sunk the dragon's old kingdom, forcing them to become sea dragons.
	+ As it relates to the actual book (and its adaptation), the song can be taken at face value as a reference to the Ocean, but can also refer to how people "dug" so deep to figure out the prophecy and/or to make the prophecy come true their way that it killed them.
* The plot of the original novel (and the adaptation) was inspired by the plot of *Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy (2012)*.
	+ Some aspects of the original novel (and its adaptation) were inspired by L1quid's old and unfinished *Wings of Fire* fanfictions. The one that this one takes the most from is *The Other Dragonets*, which asked the question "*What if the SandWing sisters had their own Dragonets of Destiny?*".
* The title of the novel's first act ("Dark in the Deep") is a reference to the lyrics of "*Yurgen's Tune*" from *The Wingfeather Saga* (which was the epigraph), but also referenced how the six chosen members were raised underground, far from prying eyes. The title of the second act ("Blood Coral") was inspired by the Blood Corals of *The Dragon Prince*, but also referenced how Coral and her friends were captives in the second act. The title of the novel's third act ("Breaking the Surface") was the original name for the third act of *Shifting Storms*, the *Wings of Fire* adaptation of *Turning Tides*, the first book in L1quid's series *These Alien Dragons*, before it was changed.
	+ The original name of *Shifting Storm'*s third act name was present in the original *Alien Dragons* novel until it was changed to its current name, "The Restless Sea".

## Notes

On 07/28/2023, L1quid will type the summaries of *Ocean*'s rough chapters before uploading the final adaptation.

On 10/06/2023, L1quid decided to put a hold on *Archai* (and its *Wings of Fire* adaptation) to focus on *These Alien Dragons* (and its *Wings of Fire* adaptation). (They are currently working on book 2 of the series and some side stories that will explore more of the series world.) They will work on the series from time to time, if they have writer's block.

## Gallery

The Ocean Primal poster from *The Dragon Prince*.
## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 L1quid's notes and outlines for *Archai*
2. ↑ L1quid's old *Wings of Fire* fanfictions
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 L1quid's notes and outlines for *These Alien Dragons*

## External Links

* *Archai: The Breaking Ocean* - L1quid's Wattpad page
* Named *Archai* characters, unnamed *Archai* characters - *The Dragon Prince* fanon wiki
* *Polycarpa: Wings of Sea* - *Wings of Fire* fanon wiki