There were two smaller males amongst that group of elders and one
older and bigger female Scandinavian firedrake.
And the firedrake thought she knew who this Ty was.Which if
she was correct,meant the human would behave in a certain way in the next few minutes.
The old girl hadn't been too impressed with the choices of the two
old geezers and she'd been even less impressed with the endless
crowds of servile docile and totally without energy humans she'd had to turn into
sorry excuses of dragonkind.
So when the latest feeble minded excuse of a servile human
stumbled before her eyes the firedrake decided to do something about
it.A thousand year old memory had been sparked somewhere
in that reptilian brain of hers.
She reared back her neck and filled her firecrop till it swelled
and glowed red hot.
Had Ty just stood there she would have ashed him on the spot.
Likewise if he had run away from her she would easily have been able
to flamebreath to a range greater then he could run before she Got Him.
Instead he dashed toward his Doom,screaming some silly
human scream at her in defiance,expecting her to flame away.
Instead the female firedrake,who was a bit bony in old age
leapt forward,grabbed the human in her huge forepaws and breathed
a swollen firecrops worth of fire down Ty's throat.
And she held him firmly with a crocadillian-demon smile that
betrayed no true emotion on the firedrakes part
and made sure the load of fire stayed flickering and churning away
inside her quarry.
Ty didn't like what he was feeling in his insides.Basically though
he looked human on the outside on the inside he was
transforming into the innards of a female firedrake.
And though his captors scaly eyelids were shut at the moment
Ty knew she knew.
As he gazed at that monster her eyelids slowly rose up
revealing the glowing slitted eyes of a firedrake.
But then for a second or three she revealed to him the eyes she'd once
had ,the gigantic blue eyes of a human boy,Ty's eyes but bigger.
Then the aged firedrake that had once been a young human boy
continued his transformation.
She flung him into the air in front and above her and threw a spiralling funnel of her fire to enclose the human and hide his transformation from the others,dragon and worthless humans alike.
The fire collapsed in on itself and vanished
but where there should have been the cindered corpse of Ty or
perhaps a new female firedrake there was nothing.
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One thousand years into the past,somewheres over Friesenland,old
Norway
It was a dark and moonless night when suddenly
there was a burst of thunder above the Town and the new female
firedrake that had once been Ty materialized and ......