this is part of chapter 1
The dragon opened her eyes, the dawn had come again as it
did for as long as she could remember. She was older than any other dragon that
she knew of. The weight of that fact made her feel even older than she was.
She yearned for the reckoning, the time when all draga knew their end was near
and was granted the peaceful passing of death. Why, she wondered, did her time
not come? Life was boring now, the thrill of burning cities to the ground was
gone, Gold and jewels held no sparkle anymore, besides, she had lairs with
mountains of gold and gems all over the world there was really no point
anymore. Her reputation now was one that none dared oppose, man finally figured
out that if they left her alone, she would do the same.
She got up and stalked across the melted gold and diamond
laced floor of the cavern toward the underground lake and her other treasures
lay. As she walked she thought about the lives of men and how stupid they all
were. Over the years she still had no idea how they too had survived all this
time. They killed each other, women, children, and everything around them they
tended to destroy. Oh sure it would be peaceful, for a hundred years or so but
then it would start all over again. Stupid stinking humans, she thought, how I
hate them all.
The lake was cold as ice but she liked it that way, which is
why she chose this cavern in the first place, Draga are abnormally hot animals
and this lake was a cool solace. She stood in the middle and plopped right down
without waiting like she normally did, Steam instantly rose from the water from
the heat of her body and fogged the cavern in its entirety finding every nook
and cranny while beading back to water to cool the entire cave. She rolled on
her back and stretched out her long neck feeling the cool waters soothe her old
tired body. As she laid there she noticed that the piles of melted gold were a
little high for her and later she would melt them down to her liking after she
finished her soaking.
Upon further inspection, she noticed something odd, sitting
there on the edge of the pool was a piece of unmelted gold. Curious, she rolled
her tail up past her head and pulled the piece free for closer inspection. It
was very odd that it hadn't melted with the rest of the gold. She brought it up
close and noticed it was a statue of one of those wretched human women, with
her head held high and her arms outstretched and legs close together. What are
those things on her front for, she wondered, big growths stuck out on the front
of the statue's chest. "Disgusting." she thought, and
tossed the statue away with the flick of her tail. As it flew through the air
she blasted it with some flame expecting it to splat and meld with the rest of
the floor, Surprisingly she heard a distinct "TINK" sound. She got up
and inspected the place where it should have landed and found it there standing
erect and unscathed. She looked down at it as it seemed to look up at her
defiant. Impossible! She thought, and gave it a full force blast from deep down
in her lungs, Dragon fire was hot, hotter than anything else known to man or
dragon, it could melt marble or granite even diamonds, so when she blew her
fire, huge mounds of molten gold and magma flew in every direction splaying the
walls and ceiling and splashed up against her scaly body with a force that
shuddered the huge cavern. When she finally stopped, the hole she had left was
immense, her floor ruined beyond repair and she was infuriated to find the
little statue still looking up at her in defiance but changed from arms
outspread to arms folded in the middle with legs slightly apart in a stance
that implied "Is that all you got?"
