(Hi, everyone. This is my first time writing a novel. If you have any suggestions or ideas, feel free to advice me. But please be respectful.)
(Shiro and Kuro will refer to themselves using third person perspectives only when talking among themselves, in narration, or when acting cute. They will refer to themselves together by their name or using we and its related pronouns like us or our.)
Shiro POV
"Kuro, does Shiro look good in this dress?" Shiro asks the almost identical dragon girl next to her.
Hearing Shiro's question, Kuro turns to look at her.
What reflected in Kuro's eyes are a figure comparable to a masterpiece sculptured by god of art. The girl's pure white hairs flow down to her waist and her pure white smooth scaly dragon tail protruded out from under her simple white mini-dress. Her delicate, fair skin and exquisite features make her look extremely cute. Her fair, small feet sit comfortably on the marble floor. Her clear, gem-like golden eyes stare straight at the girl standing in front of her, eager to hear her answer.
(Side note from Shiro: Who exactly is she, you ask? Who else could she be but our cutest Shiro!)
Kuro looks identical to Shiro but with different hair color, scale color, and eyes color. She dress in mini-dress similar to Shiro but is black in color. Her hairs and scales are pure black, so black that they seem to absorb all the light landed on them, forming a contrast with her fair skins. Her eyes are dark red like the color of the blood. Her face are almost expressionless if not for an almost imperceptible gentle smile on her lips, the smile that belong only to Shiro.
(Side note from Shiro: feeling envy? To bad, Kuro only gives this smile to Shiro.)
As for our height... Ummm... We are about 1.3 meters tall now, but we will definitely grow taller in the future!
"Kuro thinks Shiro looks cute in anything she wears." Kuro replies in her flat, monotonous, and emotionless speaking style.
"Really?! Shiro thinks Kuro is also very cute too! Shiro believes that if we are not a god of wisdom, we definitely will be a god of cuteness!" Shiro smiles happily and says in her energetic tone. "Since we are ready, let's go! Shiro can't wait to go to the main material plane!" Shiro runs off with Kuro's hand in her.
(Side note from Shiro: If there is a cuteness score from 0 to 100, Shiro and Kuro will definitely score 100. And it not because we can only score 100, it is that the maximum score is 100. This is just how cute Shiro and Kuro really are. The term 'cuteness' should have been redefined after us.)
We have a secret that cannot be known to others. We actually share a single soul and our soul actually come from another world!
In our pervious life, we seems to be a human from a place called Blue Star. In that world, there are no gods or magic and the dragons are but myths. It is a world dominated by its sole intelligent species who called themselves, humans. They seems to be quite similar to humans we read about in the stories except humans on blue star don't use magic or divine arts, they used something they called 'science'.
The reason why we are here is because our previous life self fell into a space crack and drifted in the void for unknown period of time before entering this world and took over a dying dragon egg, allowing it to barely survive. That dragon egg is us.
Due to corrosive nature of the void, our soul is so damaged that many memories are missing and even those that are not missing are incomplete. Not even our previous life's name are remembered. The few things we remember are something called scientific method, the fact that we seems to be male in our previous life, and a few fragmented knowledges.
(Side note from Shiro: Actually, the fact that we were male in our previous life are just our guess based on fragmented memories. The Blue Star's humans seem to be undergoing something they called 'information overload' from what they called 'internet' which generate a lot of junk information. These junk information cause us a lot of trouble piecing together fragmented information. They also greatly affect the accuracy and reliability of the information we piece together. Since we have no way to test whether we are really male in our past life, we just left it as assumption.)
Under the influences of the damage of the soul and the authority of wisdom, our soul divided into two parts. The part of the soul that bear the pains of being corroded in the void, combining with destructive nature of wisdom authority and of dragon formed Kuro. While the part that are filled with curiosity about the world and yarning for its beauty, combining with positive nature of wisdom authority formed Shiro. This also reflect in our personalities.
Shiro are cheerful, energetic, and naturally optimistic. While Kuro are indifference or even cold toward anyone other than Shiro. Kuro is also very protective of Shiro and very gentle toward her.
Maybe it is because our soul is one or because of our authority or perhaps, because of both, our minds are connected. To put it simple, Shiro's thoughts and memory are completely open to Kuro and Kuro's are also completely open to Shiro. Our thoughts are transfer at the slightly faster speed than our normal thinking speed regardless of distance and without any delay. We can also decide the order of transfer. When we are in physical contact, our information transfer rate are increase exponentially with the area of contact. Of course, we still prefer to talk to each other even if we already know what other party is thinking before they even speak.
The place we are in now is call Dragon Valley. It is a place where the dragons collectively raise their young. It's located at the most core area of Dragon Domain. The security level of this place is second to none in the Dragon Domain. Word has it that if the Dragon Domain is to be destroyed, the Dragon Valley is definitely the last place to be destroyed. This shows just how much dragon race values their young.
According to what we know, Dragon Domain is one of the four sub-main plane attached to the main material plane. In this world, there is a main plane and countless planes attached to it. These attached planes are collectively known as sub-planes. They are called secret realm (if they are born naturally or are artificially created by non-gods) and the kingdom of god or divine kingdom (if they are created by a god).
A sub-main plane refers to a plane which is comparable to main plane but cannot exist independently of a main plane. Other sub-main planes are Underworld, Subspace, and the "Shell". Underworld is a place where most souls in the main plane go to after death. It is a place that break down souls and recycle them. Subspace is an imaginary space that overlap with main material plane. It is foundation of most space magic and reality bending magic. The "Shell" is a layer between outer dimensional barrier and inner dimensional barrier of the main material plane. These barriers envelopes the main material plane in the same manner as outer and inner membranes of an egg.
Dragon Domain is a plane belong only to us, dragons. Only pure blood dragons are able to enter it. Like Dragon Domain, other sub-planes also have their own entry conditions and exit conditions. If these condition are not met, the only way to enter and leave the sub-planes is to force the way in or out of it.
Sub-planes also have their own set of laws. Sub-planes of fire element, for example, have a suppressive effect on non-fire-related powers especially water-related powers and an amplification effect on fire-related powers. This also is why sub-planes are considered to be a foundation of a force.
Therefore, the fact that Dragon Domain is a sub-main plane shows just how huge the foundation of our dragon race is.
Our Dragon Domain are construct of countless secret realms and divine kingdoms joining together into a single plane. In it, the amplification effect to the pure blood dragons are so huge that it allow us to unconditionally improve our realm by a realm without any side effect. In it, however, a non-pure blood dragons will be suppress by a realm. This means that in Dragon Domain, a pure blood dragon are capable of fighting a being of two realms higher than them.
An adult pure blood dragons are comparable to beings in demigod realm. The realm below demigod are called mortal realm. Demigod realm and higher are collectively called divine realm. The realm higher than demigod realm is low rank god realm. Then, medium rank god realm and high rank god realm respectively. Finally, the highest realm is called main god realm.
These informations are what we pieces together from what the books say. It should be quite reliability after all, we, dragons, are already powerful enough. There seems to be no need to further exaggerated our deeds.
"Here we are! Hi, Aunt Phyllis!" Shiro waves excitedly with one of her hand while her other hand hold Kuro's hand. Kuro only respectfully nod at aunt Phyllis.
Aunt Phyllis is a dragon god of life. Dragon Valley is once her divine kingdom. She is the one who is in charge of raising young dragons. She is very gentle most of the time. As long as we don't do something exaggerated like doing something that may be life-threatening or intentionally causing trouble repeatedly even after she warn us numerous times, she will patiently and gently reasons with us. Everyone here loves her. Although calling everyone, there are actually only about 5 dragon cubs here including Shiro and Kuro.
Word has it that in the distant past, there never been a period that the number of dragon cubs here are lower than a hundred. If this rumor is true, does that means something that happen in the past caused our numbers to decline and even to this day, still not recover? We didn't ask Aunt Phyllis this question though. She is said to be one of the eldest dragons that are still alive today. She has been raising generations after generations of dragons. It can be said that almost all existing dragons today are raise by her. So if there is something in the past that cause large number of dragons to die, she must be very sad because of it. We don't want her to recall it so decided not to ask her. We believe we can find out the truth ourselves. We are dragon god of wisdom after all!
Speak of which, there are a rumor about aunt Phyllis we heard from an adult dragon some time ago. Rumor has it that aunt Phyllis was once in the main god realm but she use some kind of divine art to grant some blessings to an entire dragon race as a whole, her realm fall to high rank god realm as a price of this divine art. We don't know how true this rumor is, but if it is true, we believe this event must happen after that event that cause our number to significantly decrease. After all, falling into high rank god realm and being completely unable to advance to main god realm again don't seems like a small matter.
If we assume that our hypothesis is correct, we believe that the blessings aunt Phyllis granted to our dragon race should be our ability to reproduce regardless of gender. As for how to do it, we don't know either. We have not reach the age to learn about that kind of stuff yet. We are only 50 years old this year. We still have 50 years to wait for our bodies to mature enough. We only learn about this ability from a few sentences in the books.
But this isn't what important right now! Now, we should focus on going to the main material realm!
"Aunt Phyllis, let's go! I can't wait!" Shiro jumps up and down excitedly while Kuro remain expressionless as always. When Shiro jumps, she also drag Kuro's hand that she is holding up and down with her.
"Alright, calm down, Shiro. If you can't concentrate, it will not be easy to construct your own divine kingdom... But no need to be too nervous, I will guide you two every step of the way through building it." Aunt Phyllis's tone is as gentle as usual. She also gives Shiro and Kuro a headpat each! She is right! Shiro has to calm down.