Dragon watcher

I had recently turned sixteen years old about a week ago or so, my mother was already telling me that there were a lot of jobs I could do now. She was even telling me a lot of the jobs when I was around twelve years old.

I wasn't planning on getting a job anytime soon though, I don't even think anyone would want to hire me. It would probably just be a waste of time to apply for one.

Though, somehow, about three days ago I got something in the mail. "What's so strange about that?" You may ask, well it was apparently a job offer. I haven't told my mother about it yet, I'm probably not going to do the job anyway.

What I had found was a letter which read, "Dear Scarlett, we've been looking into teenagers your age for the past couple of weeks to see who would best fit our job, we believe you are the perfect one. After the recent and sudden passing of the previous watcher, we would love for you to be the new Dragon watcher."

Even though my mother probably wouldn't find this out, or at least for a while, I already have a feeling about what she would tell me. "Honey, you should go get the job! it would be the perfect job, and after all, you've always loved Dragons."

I knew she would be right about that or anything she'd say though, ever since I was around five years old, little me had always adored dragons.

It was the middle of the night though, and basically, everything was closed. I'd have to wait until sometime in the morning to go to the place, and that's exactly what I'll do now. Huh, that was a quick change in mind.

"Scarlett, breakfast is ready!"

It seems like my mother had made pancakes and scrambled eggs, my favorite type of food! well anyway, once I finish eating and all that, I should probably tell her that I'm gonna take the job.

Once I got downstairs into the kitchen, she was already at the table and eating some toast, she never liked any of that other stuff but only made it for me. "Dig in kiddo!" she told me with a smile.

That's exactly what I did after reaching the kitchen and the breakfast table, and believe it or not, I managed to eat everything in about ten seconds total. This wasn't the first time this happened, though my mother stared at me with a total look of shock and surprise.

"My my...um...I'm guessing you're really hungry again, right kiddo?"

"Yep, I have a big day ahead of me."

She ate the rest of the toast that was on her plate before asking me, "Big day? well, what are you going to do today Scarlett?"

I put a finger up as I then quickly rush upstairs and then come back down to her with the job offer. "Read this Mom, I think you'll enjoy it." I handed her the paper.

I had begun to clean up the table while she was reading it when she then suddenly squealed like a school girl seeing a spider or something. "Do you like it?"

"Like it? Honey this is so exciting! when are you going to go there?"

"I'm actually going to go right now, Mom."

The rest of the time at the house was a bit of a blur, I think mother wanted to pick my clothes out for the job though, just this once. It was kind of funny.

I finally reached the large dull building about fifteen minutes later, I could see a woman in purple waiting for me. "Um, hello there...I am Scarlett, its nice to meet you."

The woman smiled as she held out her hand and then said, "I'm Eve, its nice to meet you as well Scarlett, I knew you would come for the job."

"Um Eve, are you supposed to interview me or something for the job?"

"No you got it all wrong dear, you just had to show up now you don't have to have an interview or anything like that, you already got the job."

I was going to tell her something else, though before I could she gave me some keys and then drove off in her car. I'm guessing that the keys are for the building.

I unlocked the door to the building with the key she gave me, so I guess I was right about that part. The building seemed extremely big and tall with many rooms, though I could already see where they wanted me to be.

The door to where I had to be was at the end of a very long hallway, it almost looked like something you'd see in a horror movie. speaking of horror movies, why do almost all of them have these?

I swear, if something manages to escape then it'll really turn out to be like a horror movie. Though anyway, the key she gave me could unlock that door as well, was it for everything there?

In the room I entered, it didn't really like a room in a building at all, it almost looked like a type of forest or something. I'm not entirely sure how to describe it, though I was easily able to find something like a nest.

I looked into the nest, a tad bit confused, there was only one dragon in there (at least that's what another letter told me) and it was a male. The nest was incredibly small...it looked like it would have a baby or something.

Though that was exactly what was in the nest, a small red and gold dragon, it seemed to be asleep. I thought they had said that the dragon was full-grown, though that doesn't matter that much, it's still adorable.

What did matter was the type of dragon he was, there weren't that many of these ones anymore. They were endangered, people in the past kept thinking they were already extinct, I believe six times or something.

The little dragon then suddenly yawned and spread its wings, it turned to look at me almost like a curious little puppy. I carefully picked him up, which he actually seemed to enjoy.

He climbed up onto my head and lay there, I had to be really careful though, I didn't want something happening to the little one. "Don't worry, I'll keep you safe..."