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Stones and Scales - Dragon AU

Requested: no, based off the weekly prompt of the Southside Discord.

Word count: about 3300

A/N: This prompt was actually last weeks but with moving into college and everything it got kept in my drafts and I didn’t finish it till last night.

To live in the world of Riverdale was something different. Many didn’t know the way the town worked so the only people who lived there were families who have been for generations. See the thing about Riverdale was that it was in the simplest terms, magical. No one could really pinpoint how the town began aside from the stone that sits under the town hall. It is the only piece of the town's history still left after decades of wars and battles between the two sides within the town. The north and southside never got along constant fights between the two their differences making up for a majority of the wars however in one way the sides of the towns were the same; dragons. Most people don’t believe they are real but in Riverdale, they are so much more than real. Dragons are part of every single person in the town.

When your young your stone finds you. In most young loves you grow to love the things your given but in Riverdale, it’s just a bit different. Everyone finds the things they love, the things that connect to them most. In the town of Riverdale everything you love is found by you or somehow brought to you; your stone, your name, your dragon, even your soulmate. You found your stone when you were two walking along a broken path in the depths of the southside. A crack in the road caused you to trip but it wasn’t a crack at all it was the stone sticking up from the ground. You picked up the stone and instantly felt a connection but you didn’t know exactly what. See Riverdale has a few “rules”, or some people like to say ways of living and learning. Parents teach their kids bare minimum, one thing they do teach is the different stones, gems, and crystals that exist. The citizens of Riverdale believe kids should learn as they grow meaning they should learn mostly on their own. Somehow you just understood what the stone meant, knew you could never let it go, you knew you were sugilite.

A few moments later you felt walking behind you only to turn around and spot what you knew to be a dragon. You knew that dragons found their owners, not the other way around. Most people did not get their dragons instantly, some waited weeks, months even years sometimes, but for you it was instant. You knew he was yours immediately, but even though he was yours there was a slight hesitation, I mean it was a dragon, a being that has abilities far beyond would you could ever imagine, and what you felt in that moment couldn’t be described, it was a connection like no other you knew he was yours. Your dragon came close to you grabbing onto your shirt and lifting you up. You pet him as he nuzzled his nose into your hand. He was beautiful. A royal shade of purple fading into black in some spots. His scales shined, not a sparkle, not a shimmer either. He looked mean but his eyes held a softness to you. The colors of his scales showed his stone was sugilite as well. Sugilite is a stone of many properties. It’s main is being its spiritual power to connect you closer to yourself. Another property of Sugilite is its healing powers. Sugilite is mainly known to cure headaches and other pains in the head. See what normal people know to just be a crystal or stone the people of Riverdale believe so much deeper. These stones heal and cure, but to their owners and in the power of the beholder they do so much more. See for you once you learn how to connect deeper to your stone you will actually be able to heal the head injuries of people other than yourself. You were able to heal head injuries such as migraines, concussions, even going as far as healing some small cuts and heal inflammation and pain from other injuries. Sugilite is one of the most powerful stones that is known. For many people, their dragons are equipped with different abilities but for the ones that share their powers, their abilities grow that much stronger when used together.

You hadn’t noticed that when you fell you scraped your leg. The only reason you noticed now was because you looked down and saw the gushing of blood down your leg. You didn’t have control of your abilities yet so there was nothing that you could do. You began to worry seeing as walking with that much blood would have caused you to get hurt more. Your dragon made a noise at you before bringing his paw to your leg and gliding it over. You instantly felt comfort and looked down to see it healed perfectly. This showed you that when you both use your powers together you will be able to heal individuals other than your own. Injuries far beyond the head.

Sweet Pea met his dragon a different way. He was running from the Ghoulies who live on the other side of the southside when he got cornered by many of them. He had nowhere to go. He had found his stones weeks prior a Spectrolite. His abilities learned quickly mainly because he knew them prior. See Sweet Pea was an early bloomer he connected to his powers at a young age and now with the stone, they were very much enhanced. Spectrolite is a stone with many abilities. It allows the beholder to speak and be able to communicate verbally and clearly. Spectrolite protects one's aura from the harm others can cause. It also is stone with powers focused on love, healing, and transformation. One of the very known healing properties of sugilite is it helps to reduce anxiety and panic. Spectrolite is also a stone that promotes the connection of psychic abilities. When Sweet pea was young he felt he was able to read people, connect with things they were feeling. After receiving his stone he began to have dreams about things that would happen to people. Sweet Pea’s mind used to run wild, it still does but his stone gives him a sense of belonging much like he found with the Serpents, it helps him have a sense of calm. Spectrolite helps reduce sensitivity to cold and helps to alleviate the symports and mains from menstrual cycles and PMS not that it matters to Sweet Pea but he always wanted to be helpful so he would always be the person his friend Toni would go to when she was feeling particularly bad. Spectrolites 's biggest to connection to Sweet pea though was the protection quality. Spectrolite is known as one of the most powerful protection minerals in their kingdom.

He searched high and low trying to look for his dragon in the places he felt drawn to. Again though dragons found you it was not the other way around. Sweet Pea was not a patient man so the harder he looked the more he felt like he was never going to get a dragon and he began to be okay with that. Sweet pea didn’t have a normal life. His father died when he was young and his mother was a drug addict. He strayed far away from the ghoulies that his mother was apart of and instead joined the gang known as the Serpents. Sweet Pea never knew family and love until he met his best friend Fangs. Aside from Fangs no one ever loved or supported Sweet pea, so not having his dragon was much like the same feeling to him. He thought he was a goner. No one knew he was visiting his mother's grave on ghoulie territory it was the first time he felt like doing it in years but he had to something was drawing him to it. He couldn't tell anyone or they would have prevented him from going and he couldn’t have that. After his visit he started getting chased that is when he was cornered. He had nowhere to run so he began to fight. But fighting only lasted so long before he was cut with a blade. Cut so deep his leg couldn’t even try to run. But he heard it; the flapping of the wings the roar from the sky his dragon fought off two of the other ghoulies dragons before coming to him and flying him out of the situation. See in a fight in the realm of Riverdale people fight people and dragons fight dragons, usually whichever dragon wins leads to two dragons match-winning as well. Without a dragon you are not protected and if your dragon gets hurt it is very rare you will get out at all, let alone alive. But Sweet Pea was saved and he met his dragon. A dragon with the same abilities as him. See when in scary situations Sweet pea gets anxious like anyone does but when in pain his anxiety heightened his dragon brought him a sense of safety and calmness instantly. He felt the protection radiating off of him. His dragon was a beautiful dark blue and black with hints of golden brown on certain spots of the scales. Sweet Pea soon learned the dragon was a she, and she could be described as matte with no shine at all.

The situation of your meeting was much the same. Years after meeting your dragons, after learning the abilities you now held you met. You were walking along the southside something you did often. Riverdale had been getting antsy lately the northside wanting to take over all of the Southside. But they never dared try but a Northsider named Archibald was getting ideas and he decided to tag a few buildings on the southside. Your turf, your home, and you were not having it. So you pulled him by his collar throwing a few punches while he threw them back. You lived on the southside you knew how to dodge. Northsiders had no morals they would throw punches at everyone and anyone and that is what Archibald was doing. Your dragon began fighting him, but you never would have allowed him to if you knew that Archibald's was hiding up in the sky on a rooftop. See dragons don’t fight and will not if only humans are fighting. But as soon as your dragon went after Archibald all bets were off. Your dragon was taken off guard and got flung into a nearby building as Archibald came up to you with a knife knocking you to the ground, making a cut on your abdomen and his arm to your throat. You didn’t care about yourself getting hurt all you cared about was the cries coming from Sugi your dragon. All you wanted was to protect him but you couldn’t. If anything Archibald's dragon was going to kill Sugi and you couldn’t get away from him no matter how hard you tried.

On the other hand, Sweet pea was working on his bike while playing fetch with Spector. Luckily with the strength his stone brought him he could throw the ball pretty far or it wouldn’t have been much fun for his dragon. He was working when he was hoisted into the air with no warning and thrown on Spectors back by the dragon himself. Sweet Pea and Spector had rules; the number one rule being for Spector to not drag Pea anywhere before Pea knows about it and he never broke the rule after the conversation, that was until now. Spector heard the cries of her mate. Knew that in that instant she needed to go save her soulmate. See dragons had abilities far beyond humans. If their soulmate was in pain they instantly could hear and track where they were even if they had not met yet whereas humans could only do this after they met their soulmates.

You kept fighting to no avail until you hear a loud squeal and the landing of a Dragon. You looked to your right to see a man running up to you and you figured it was one of his friends until he was kicked off of you by the mystery man. As you were on the ground Spector began fighting the other dragons to get him off of Sugi and you were laid on the ground your breath gone from the amount of force Archibald had on you. Soon enough you saw the dragon fling Archibald’s off of Sugi and be thrown into a building. He regained his strength enough to fly to Archibald and save him from the man before flying away in retreat. If his dragon had not flown in and brought him away you felt and knew Archibald would have been dead. But it didn’t matter to you, you were in a panic mode even after he was knocked off of you. Your body curled up fear enveloping you, shaking hyperventilating all of it in the worst moment was happening and it was and there was nothing you could do cause your mind was running away from you. Until you felt a hand on your shoulder. You looked up to see the man.

“I am so sorry I tried reaching you through a connection but it didn’t work I’m sorry it took me so long to get over here to calm you down your safe now. I’m Sweet Pea”

“I’m…” You both looked over after hearing the noise of your dragons, and you watched their scales change. Your purple and black horse changed to her skains of her tail having some brown and the scales of her body also adding blue. And you watched Sweet Pea’s golden brown, blue and black dragon have scales of purple across her head and tail as well as shiny black scales added to her body along with some purple as well. So you finished your sentence instantly knowing the connection you had. “I’m Y/N and that is Sugi, I uh. I guess we are soulmates”

“I guess so. But I need to know first are you okay I don’t know why I can’t read you it’s like my abilities are not working or something” You placed your hand upon his cheek.

“Hey, hey it’s not your fault Sugi and I’s stone is Sugilite, it blocks out psychic abilities”

“I thought I was broken”

“Haha, I’d never let you be broken. By the way, what is your dragon’s name”

“Her name is Spectro, our stone is Spectrolite”

“I’ve never met another person to name their dragon after their stone”

“Well, we share our stone as well, figured it represented her as much as it does me. Well since ya know we are not in a fight with Archibald anymore wanna walk to the park? I like being out in nature it’s comforting in a way. There's a tree down by fox forest”

“Off of the bridge and up the stone path covered by the eucalyptus?”

“How did you know?”

“It’s my path I take with Spectro when we watch the sunset, how do you know about it?”

“Sugi and I watch the sunrise sometimes or we watch the sunset once in a while as well”

“That’s crazy”

“Yeah, I guess it is just kinda meant to be huh” you took his hand as he reached out to you and began walking up the pathway with him. You noticed him limping. So you pulled him to a stop.

“Uhm Sweet Pea, did Archibald hurt you?”

“Oh my leg, no I got it cut into a few years ago, Spectro actually saved me” You both looked up to see your dragons walking snuggled up and following close behind.

“I can fix it”

“Huh? I’ve been to so many healers and it’s just a lost cause honestly not a big deal”

“C’ mere look at me okay?” You whistled for Sugi and he came up behind you pressing his chest to your back. A connection making your powers stronger than ever. You thought about it so hard wanting nothing more than your soulmate to be healed and you felt it. Felt the pain leaving his body like you did for so many others. “Walk Sweet Pea”. He did just that, walking without a limp. The smile on his face told you all.

“It’s the first time I can walk normally in two years Y/N how did you?”

“Sugi has the same stone the healing powers are 2x stronger with us working together and touching. I can heal many things. I have healed concussions, fixed broken bones, even helped alleviate chronic pain and inflammation. But I never healed something like that only fresh wounds didn’t know it was possible”

“That is incredible” He held your face in his palm as he looked at you, he leaned in brushing his lips against your own, and you felt your anxieties and pains melt away, you felt a connection with someone like never before, felt like you were loved and wanted all within seconds. It was an odd feeling. Feeling love and want like that for someone you just meant, but it all felt right. I guess when you meet your soulmate it all just makes sense. When your eyes opened you jumped back seeing Sweet Pea’s hair turn from brown to black and purple. He looked at you wide-eyed. “Uh…”

“What is happening?”

“I guess something they don’t tell you about soulmates?”

“I guess so, sorry about your hair?”

“What do you mean my hair!”

“What is it my hair!”

“Yeah, babe your hair is blue, black and a bit brown, what color is mine!”

“Oh my god, it’s purple and black”

“This is insane”

“I’m sorry I…”

“Why are you apologizing?”

“Guess I’m used to it. Also, not many guys would want purple”

“I don’t mind it, represents you. I like that”

“You do?”

“Mhm, do you like yours?”

“I always wanted colored hair, parents would never let me”

“Oh, I’m sorry, you never have to apologize to me ever okay”

“okay”

What you both didn’t know was that only soulmates with the deepest connections would have their hair colors change. Soulmates that were so interconnected upon first meeting that the first kiss would change them dramatically. Sweet Pea and you were so interconnected. It is why your abilities worked so well, it is why you could heal a bone that many healers could not. It is why you felt an instant safety and calmness around him more so than his stone and abilities could ever provide you. It is why you felt comfortable and safe at first touch. It usually took time for things like this, but in your case it was instantaneous. Not many people had the hair as their soulmates stone for that reason. Some people never got their hair to change. You were meant to be, you always have been meant to be.

You had anxiety massive panic that your ……. Sweet pea helped with that his touch an instant calm not because of the soulmate aspect but because of his stone you could tell your dragon felt the same with his. You were the one person sweet pea couldn’t read and that frustrated him to no end. But he knew your powers were important and strong. Sugilite doesn’t allow him to read you because it protects you from psychic powers almost a shield of sorts. It frustrated him because he couldn’t communicate with you through his powers. He couldn’t fight while talking to you in secret you felt the frustration growing. You began helping him by projecting your powers to him. Your powers of healing. Everytime he got slashed or bruise he healed instantly. People who didn’t have a soulmate didn’t know this because no one does until they feel it, but You and Sweet pea knew instantly. You used your abilities and heightened each other. He saved you but you protected him

In a world where you felt you would never find a soulmate, you found yours.

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