Mark's Shadow

Mark's Shadow is a Legend of Dragon side-story. It tells the story of how Mark (the villain from Legend of Nina)

## Author info

### Created by

Legend-series

became evil.

## Comic plot

A dragon named Kuda was running across the forest, carrying prey in his mouth. He soon arrived to a cave hidden behind a pine tree and went inside of it. Inside he took the prey to a dragoness named Tanya, resting with a purple egg. Kuda asks Tanya how she was feeling and she replied that she was feeling just fine. Kuda told her he was worried for her and Tanya rose up to walk to him and cuddle him. While they cuddled, the purple egg started wiggling and Tanya and Kuda moved to the next to see the egg hatch. The egg hatched and Kuda and Tanya looked proudly at the newly hatched dragon. But when the hatchling opened his eyes, they gasped in horror. The baby had snake-eyes. Kuda snarled and was about to hit the baby, but Tanya stopped him. She didn't want to see him die, so Kuda told her that he will take him somewhere else to kill him. Kuda flew to the burned lands and dropped the hatchling on the ground. Kuda turned around and flew off, leaving the hatchling alone in the burned lands. After realizing he was alone, the hatchling started crying. While, a black scaled dragoness named Anna was looking for food and heard the crying. She ran to see where it was coming from and found the hatchling. She smiled at baby and picked it up, wanting to take him home. 16 year's later, the hatchling now teenager named Mark was watching the forest on the other side of the burned lands. Anna called him and he walked back to the den, they lived in and asked her why they didn't live in the forest. Anna decided it was time to tell Mark the truth and she told him about how she lived in the forest once with her husband and two son's. She had gone hunting and when she came back, two dragons had attacked her family for the territory and killed them. Anna had attacked them and the dragon kingdom guards had exiled her to the burned lands. She explained that she named Mark after her husband, who was also named Mark. Mark was confused and asked did she loose her son's and how can he be there and Anna told him that she found him as a baby sixteen years ago, abandoned. Later that day, Mark was watching to the horizon again. Now that he knew that Anna wasn't his mother, he wondered who his parent's are and why they abandoned him in the first place. He decided to go find out himself and flew off to the forest. He searched the whole day and decided to continue the next day. In the morning, Mark woke up to see a green-scaled dragoness smiling at his face and he screamed spooked. She asked what he was doing there and Mark told her he was looking for his parents and asked who the dragoness is. She told him her name is Raya and mark introduced himself as well. Someone called for Raya and she had to leave, but she turned around and asked Mark to come with her and meet her dad and Mark agreed. They arrived to the dragon temple and at the door, Raya noticed that the door was locked and Raya called her father to open the door. After the door opened, they went inside and met Raya's father, Trey. Trey asked Raya where she had been and saw Mark. Snarling, he pulled Raya behind him and was going to attack Mark, but Raya stopped him by grapping his leg. Trey pulled his leg free and Raya rolled on his back. Trey attacked Mark and pressed his paw on his throat. Mark tried to wiggle free and Raya tried to pull her father off him, but Trey didn't move. A pale-blue-scaled dragon came in to see what was going on and Raya asked him to help Mark. Adrian pulled Trey off Mark and Raya ran to him, asking if he was okay. Mark coughed and told her he was fine. Trey was angry at Adrian for stopping him killing that snake-eyes. Adrian told him that all he sees is a youngling and a purple dragon. Trey didn't like it and Adrian reminded him not to judge others without knowing them first and walked to Mark and Raya. Mark was wary of Adrian but Raya told him he was okay. Adrian asked Mark his name and he told it. Later, mark followed Adrian and Raya to meet two other dragon's. A red-scaled dragon named Kian and a yellow-scaled dragon named Vladan. Mark told them about how he is looking for his family. Adrian told him that he could stay in the temple and they'll help him find them. Trey and Kian didn't like the idea, but Vladan welcomed Mark to the temple. Mark decided to stay and later he was sitting outside with Raya. He was wondering if he will ever find his family and Raya told him that she was sure he will and pressed herself against him and Mark liked it. Trey called Raya and she rolled her eyes. Raya walked back inside, but asked Mark if he was coming. mark said that he'll be right there. He watched the night sky and just when he was about to leave, he heard voices and decided to find out where they came from. He saw a family of dragons walking in the forest. Mark didn't know how, but the blue-scaled dragoness sounded familiar and decided to take a closer look. The little blue-scaled hatchling was tired and asked if they were already there and his mother turned to him and said they we're almost there and saw Mark. Scared, she called Shanti to her. Shanti turned around and he and Mark stared at eachother for a moment. Tanya called Shanti again and suddenly Mark felt someone push him to the ground. He saw a dark-blue-scaled dragon snarling at him. Kuda was confused to see Mark and asked how he had survived in the burned lands as an infant. Mark realized that this was his family. Mark called Kuda his father and Kuda growled at him. Shanti asked him was Mark his brother and Mark stepped closer to them. Kuda snarled at him and told him to stay away. Tanya told Kuda and Shanti to run before mark attacked them and that made Mark confused. he didn't know why she had said that. He would never attack them. Shanti and Tanya ran into the forest. Kuda turned at Mark and threaten him before following his family, leaving Mark alone. Mark stayed there all night, wondering why his father had called him monster and in the morning Raya was looking for him and found him soon. She noticed that he was sad and asked what had happened and did he found his family. mark told her he didn't want to find them anymore. Raya was surprised and asked him why.  Mark replied shouting that they are monsters and Raya stared at him in horror. mark realized that he had yelled at her and apologies to her. Raya says it was okay and asks him to tell her everything and Mark does. Raya is shocked of what Mark's father had said and tells Mark that she thinks he is the kindest, bravest dragon she knows and she doesn't care that he's a snake-eyes. Mark blushes and tells Raya he loves her and Raya replied him the same. Mark and Raya stayed out there all morning. Mark felt like he had found a new family in the temple with Raya. 4 years later, Mark and Raya we're playing outside the temple, while Trey watched them. He was sure Mark had Raya under some sort of spell, but he didn't know what. Adrian came in and asked him if he was still watching them and Trey nodded. Adrian suggested that Trey get's to know Mark and Trey decided to do just that. Meanwhile, Raya had caught up to Mark and was laying on top of him now. Raya rested her head on Mark's belly and he rubbed her back with a paw. Suddenly, Raya saw her father coming and lifted herself off Mark. Trey asks to speak with Mark and Raya is unsure of it. Trey convinced Raya that he wasn't going to hurt Mark and She left them alone to talk. Trey invited Mark to walk with him and he did. They walked for a long time and then, Trey stopped and asked Mark what he had done to his daughter. Mark didn't understand what Trey was talking about and Trey attacked him, saying that the only way to free Raya was to kill Mark. They fought eachother and Mark pushed him away asking what was his problem. Trey growled that Mark had taken his daughter's soul and Mark yowls at him, saying that he is crazy. They're quarrel is cut short when Vladan came to tell Trey that the king was here. He saw them and ask what was going on and Trey replied nothing and left. Mark met Raya who told him that she had always wanted to meet King Red and they went inside the temple. King Red was speaking with the guardians and saw Mark and Raya. Adrian introduced Mark and Raya to King Red. Mark asked him what snake-eyes are and Trey explained what snake-eyes are. Everyone turned to look at him and Mark got angry. King Red stopped the arguing and said he didn't see anything bad about Mark. Trey promised to treat Mark better for Raya's sake. King Red spoke with the guardians for a while before leaving. Three month's later, Mark had asked Raya to meet him at the forest, the place where they met. Raya was confused why he had asked her to come there. Mark told her that he loved her and wanted to spend his whole life with her and asked her to marry him. Raya accepted happily. Trey had been listening to them and felt like he had lost his daughter completely. Mark and Raya went to tell the good news to the guardians. Shocked, Kian ran to tell Trey, but he already knew it. Kian asked what he was going to do about it and Trey told him that he will think of something. Trey returned to the temple with Kian and to everyone's surprise, congratulated Raya and Mark. Raya was happy that her father had finally accepted Mark, but Trey was still wary of Mark. Time went by fast and Mark and Raya got married. One day, Raya asked Mark to meet her in the balcony. Raya told him that she was pregnant and Mark was surprised. Suddenly, Trey came out of nowhere and yowled at them. Raya and Mark stared at him, but Trey didn't say anything, just shaking. Raya went closer to him, but Trey backed away and ran off. Raya was upset for her father's reaction and Mark tried to cheer her up by saying that Trey is an idiot. Raya get's mad at Mark and he apologies. Raya smiles at him, saying that she can't stay mad at him. Three month's later, Mark returned to the temple after being out hunting and saw Adrian running towards him. Adrian told him that Raya had layed her egg. Surprised, Mark dropped his prey and ran inside the temple, followed by Adrian. Inside the temple hatchery, Mark found Raya resting with a small green egg. Raya tells Mark the egg is a girl and Vladan explained how they can tell the gender of the hatchling by the egg's temperature. Mark layed down next to the nest and the guardians left them alone. Trey and Kian spoke about the egg. Trey had planned to get rid of the egg, since he believed the hatchling was a snake-eyes as well. Trey decided to wait for the right moment. Days later, Trey went to the hatchery and convinced them to have a date. Raya was worried to leave her egg, but Trey told them that he can watch the egg and Mark and Raya can just go watch the sunset at the balcony. Finally, Raya accepted the offer and she and Mark left the nursery. Raya was sure the egg would be safe with her grandpa. Hearing this made Trey sad, but he was doing it for Raya and she will understand someday and prepared to smash the egg. Meanwhile, at the balcony Mark and Raya watched how the sky was filled with rainclouds. Suddenly, Raya felt something was wrong and Together, she and Mark ran back to the nursery. Mark got there first and saw Trey with a small green-scaled dragoness hatchling under his paw. Mark asked him shocked what he was doing and Trey replied that he was gonna make sure the small snake-eyes will never see the light of day. Mark attacked Trey and he threw Mark so hard, he went through the wall. Trey went after the baby, but then someone came in his way and he bit it instead. Shocked, Trey realized it was Raya and she was laying motionless on the floor. Mark saw this and got angry at Trey and attacked him in blind rage. He bit on to Trey's neck and felt him go limp and dropped him on the ground, before walking to Raya's body. He saw the little dragoness crying and pulled her closer to him and licked her head, calming her down. Mark decided to name her Flare, which had been Raya's favorite name for a female. Mark realized why Trey had attacked Flare and asked Flare to open her eyes. He saw that Flare's eyes we're red like his, but they we're normal. Mark heard Trey's voice behind him and Mark snarled at him. Trey blamed Mark for Raya's fate, but Mark reminded that he didn't kill Raya, but Trey did. Suddenly, Kian, Vladan and Adrian came in the nursery to see what was going on. Kian saw Raya and asked what was wrong with her and Trey says she is dead. Kian first thought

, Mark had killed her, but Trey corrected him, saying that he is the one who killed her. After hearing this, Adrian stepped forward and informed Trey that because he had taken a life, he was no longer a guardian and had to leave the temple. Mark didn't like it, but Adrian convinced him by saying Trey would be more hurt by letting him live with the quilt of knowing he had killed his daughter. After Trey had left, Mark lifted Flare up and started to leave. Adrian asked where he was going and Mark replied that he didn't trust them anymore and leaves. Adrian had seen hatred in Mark's eyes and was worried for him and his daughter's future.