The crimson light filled the sky with the sun's presence, which poured over the green leafed treetops of the forest. The canopy of the forest bled from the sun's light, as it descended past the horizon and allowing night to take its place. No light touched the forest's floor since it was, as some would call it, cursed from the great evil that lived there.
These were rumors told by the local inhabitants; no one knew if there was an evil that lived there. "All who travel through the forest become trapped in the darkness that dwells on the ground and are consumed by the evil." was what most travelers would hear if they were to encounter a local.
She'd been traveling for days and hadn't a bite to eat since she left the place she once called home. The smell in the air finally gave her a reason to stop flying. The dragon then glided down to a cliff on the side of a mountain she flying over. The winds rushing around the spiked rocks on the side of the cliff carried with it came the scent of food, deer.
Shifting her weight with her long tail then back winging, the dragon slowed down her descent and landed soundlessly on the cliff's edge. The large wings furled on either side of her muscled body then she lowered her long neck and croutched down on her four feet to make sure no one below the cliff could see her.
She careened her neck over the edge of the cliff as she looked for the prey. The drop down the brown stoned cliff was a good forty feet to where she smelt the deer. At the base of the cliff more rocks were piled up, a little further from the base she could see the deer. Three deer had stopped for the night. A buck was grazing on grass; he seemed to be guarding something. The dragon knew what it was when she noticed a fawn and a doe were resting under the tall the trees near the cursed forest's edge. The dragon thought they looked so peaceful lying there. She quickly shifted her thoughts to getting something to eat.
Slowly she took a step along the edge of the cliff, pacing herself so she wouldn't make any unnecessary noises, trying to find the right spot where she could jump. She examined the buck then decided on taking the fawn and mother for her meal. Both were still lying under the same tree.
She walked to the edge of the cliff and crouched, her green under scales nearly touching the ground, on her feet as she leaned over the edge making sure to point her body at the two deer. Her long green tail swayed gently behind her powerful hind legs as she readied for the pounce. The dragon's eyes, which had a true color of blue, glowed red from the sun's dimming light. She then unfurled her wings slightly.
Within seconds she was on the ground in front of the two deer. But before the dragon could strike at the deer the buck had charged at her muzzle, apparently trying to hit her maw or eyes, but the buck's antlers spanned at impact with the green sallies on the dragon. She then lunged at the stunned buck and bite into its throat with her razor shape teeth, crushing its spine and killing it.
The dragon then dropped the buck from her maw and turned to look for the other deer, she found none. The fawn had sprang onto its feet and galloped away with its mother when the buck had charged at the dragon. Noticing this, the dragon knew that the buck had given its life to save doe and the fawn.
You died with honor, the dragoness thought to herself before eating the kill.
4-01-2004
Draco
Any problems, comments, or questions click Contact and drop me a note.
|