A gathering of various humans jostled impatiently at an unusual location.
The group of 50 or so were gathered at the Marker, or otherwise known as Stone Henge with more seeming to just fly on in.

Surrounding the stones a barrier of magic had been formed, repelling any humans by giving them a sudden urge to be elsewhere.

A red headed woman with elaborate curly hair spotted a male of slender yet strong build; tall with a slicked back hair style that gleamed almost like onyx in the sunshine.
“Bahumut, there you are,” she called over to him, weaving her way through the crowd towards him before they embraced.

“Ruby, it has been so long since I last saw you,” he said in a deep baritone voice before holding her tight to his chest. “How long has it been, about 300 years?”

“Something like that you big lug,” she laughed as she held tight back to him.

“I see you have become familiar with the humans, you sound a lot like them,” he said in a humourless tone but his lips twitched in a smirk.

“It’s hard not to when you have to live among them so often. You had it easy mountain man, having a place to call home near Tibet,” with that she biffed him playfully on the arm.

“Heh that I did my flaming heart, but I missed you in my surveillance over there. But oh have I missed been able to get around on a whim.”

She opened her mouth to make a response when a beam of light emitted from the centre of the stones.
The whole group hushed and went quiet before a figure that seemed human stepped forward from the light, but its presence seemed to encompass the entire planet, making the world seem like a pebble before this magnificent figure.

Its whole form seemed to shift and change with each movement, with every different angle and the colours of its hair and skin seemed to change respectively, making it hard to tell if it was a man or woman.

The whole crowd seemed to bow in the presence of the figure as he/she/it swept those impossibly bright eyes over the crowd.
“I see everyone is here and accounted for,” it didn’t so much as talk but sang in a vice both male and feminine at once. “I know a meeting has long been overdue, and I apologise my dear servants for having kept you waiting for so long. I am saddened that this little collection is all we have left...some have lost their way, doomed to become that which we created and others have fallen victim to their frail shells. I wanted to give these people a chance, after all they are like our children.” A murmur rippled through the assembly, some of agreement some merely grumbling.

Once the noise had died down, the mysterious figure continued. “But alas...after all our guidance and hints throughout the ages they have proven to be too volatile, too temperamental to help.

But it has not all been a loss, I have finished constructing our new planet and there we will correct our mistakes. Our children will be of animal and human, a breed tempered by instincts.”

A loud cheer went up from the crowd before the space around them all rippled.
To the casual observer they would have seemed to have just winked from existence but in actuality they had crossed into a plane of space where there would be no damage.

The elegant figures form wavered before transforming. Its head and neck was bird like, its eyes like green jewels and its body had a humanish-titan like appearance about it.
“Now come” it’s voice rang out, giant white wings erupted from its back.

A cheer rose up and the crowd glowed before standing in their place a crowd of dragons stood. Impossibly large and in various designs with some furry, some feather and others scaly.

As one they all too wing and shot off into space, following in the wake of their masters wings.
“Ohhh, it feels heavenly to stretch my wings once more,” Ruby moaned from the back in the form of a blazing red dragoness before Bahumut, now a striking onyx dragon with diamond hard scales, nuzzled her neck from above.

“Yes, and this time things will be different. We won’t have to hide from our creations, I’m sure of it that this time the promised land will be the real thing, once we are done.”