Now whilst you dreamed the next month away in some draconic
never-never land filled with overflowing treasure,cattle guts and
burning human villages,the other green beast had been puzzling over in his sleep about the origins of the gems in the cave and all those
human remains.
So when he woke up three days earlier than you he took a look at the
bones and stuff lying around.He picked up your flattened human head
and noted the maelstrom of powerful transformational dragon energies
that now throbbed within that rapidly decaying human head.Thats what that red flash from the other human skull had been,bottled up dragon
magic.
He then went to retrieve the ancient human skull that had done you
in and noted there was now a shiny pretty thing inside the yellowing
skull.
Using his talons he pried apart the thin skull bone to reveal
the big red ruby gemstone the grinning human skull revealed
to him.
The greedy dragon grinned right back at the skull as he
made the connection.
The human got zapped by a tainted human head or skull,turned
into dragons themselves and one of the byproducts of the magical
transformation equation was a gemstone.
He looked at the pile of gemstones off to one side of the cave
and was amazed as he did the math on how many times the process
must have repeated itself over countless centuries.
The green beasts problem had been the fact humans had become a
increasing nuisance for him and other dragons.
Well turning humans into dragons in a organized manner would solve
that problem.
However the critter knew the current process was a bit too
gruesome to be used as it was.
Now if only that transformational magic throbbing in that newly
arrived human head you'd so recently vacated could be transfered
to something less sinster humans would rush to pick up.