White Apples

Dragons usually avoid White Apples, because the apples are said to have a very strange effect. Griffins avoid White Apples as well, because of the same story that made the Elves avoid it. The story is very odd and passed down generation to generation as a warning. Back when the land of Vertasia was still new, and the first elves, dragons and griffins were settling down they came upon something very strange. The fruit looked like a small rabbit to the dragons, to the elves it looked like a vermiffion [Ver-Miff-Fion], a large guinea pig, and to the griffins it looked like a pear. The Dragons, elves, and griffins all fought to decide what it was. They traced it back to its origin, but to all their dismay it came from a tree. They all looked at the object that they thought was different things, but all they saw was a peculiar looking apple. The tree it had fallen from was long and slender, and white. Whiter than a blizzard. Even the leaves were white. The elf picked up an apple, and the dragon did so as well. The griffin was holding the apple they first found. They counted down from five, closed their eyes, and took a bite out of the apples. When they opened their eyes, they didn't see anything at first, then they started panicking. Everything was in white. When they got their sight back, they were all white. The griffins once beautifully golden-brown feathers were now all bleached white, even his beak was white. The dragon's scales were all white, and the elf's hair and skin were white as snow. The only color in all of them was their eyes. They searched desperately for a cure but found none. Finally, they tried eating more apples in hope that it would reverse the effect. But it only turned them whiter and whiter, until they were almost invisible against snow. They gave up, and all lived up in the highest cave in the highest mountains, too ashamed to go back to their tribes.