Post by Milla on Sept 26, 2009 2:51:27 GMT 10
Title: This is how the story unfolds
Rating (and warnings): PG
Word count: 441
Summary: The tale of the slaying of the terrible dragon and the rescue of a beautiful maiden.
Notes: An idea I just had. And it seems like a really long sentence...Perhaps I should have done this as multiple entries. Or as one proper story. I honestly hope someone gets what events and who I'm referring to as it's 2:43AM now. (Haven't written fic for years)
This is how the story begins-in the middle;
the band of knights press their advantage, the immortal's wings broken it thrashes wildly on the ground-no longer a mage of the air but creature in pain who knows that it's end has come; dodging the beast's flailing claws the noble knights leader reaches the dragon head and readies himself to drive his steel through it's skull-
in the Dragonlands far from the mortal realm a dragon coloured like pearl pauses and tenses; the link she has felt in her mind for over a millennia has disappeared like it was never there-alien emotions of dread begin to fill her-
the dragon's death knell had been ear-piercingly loud; long, keening and unearthly that the world was still wavering before the knights' eyes but the deed was done, the immortal would not threaten their kingdom again-suddenly, noise in the shadows-the knights whirled around to face this new threat-and were confronted by a scared, shivering maiden, naked as the day she was born; she stared at them with wide eyes then collapsed-at this they ran to her and (being chivalrous knights) covered her with their cloaks and carried her away from the bloody battlefield (the dragon's corpse rapidly turns to ash)
the pearl coloured dragon lets all know her loss as she keens in grief, soon the keening turns into the howls of a mother's rage-she vows that the mortals will pay a thousandfold for the blood of her son;
celebrations and adulations greet the band of dragon-slaying knights as they return heroes to their kingdom; the young maiden with them is seems uninjured but she claims to have little memory of anything before she was rescued-some feel this is a blessing for she must experienced terrible things in the dragon's clutches; because she has no known relatives she given a job as servant on the commanding knight's fief (there was no prince or princess available for the requisite courtship)
and so a story of the slaying of a dragon and the rescue of a fair maiden is finished but the lives of it's cast of players continues
the band of knights lived and died as the knights they were;
the dragon became a wicked beast in the tales told afterwards; one which delighted in kidnapping and devouring young women;
the dragon mother continued to nurse her feeling of hurt and rage throughout the centuries-
the fair maiden lived the rest of her life; proving herself to be capable if a little strange (she never did talk of her life before coming to the fief);
many centuries later in village near the fief (which has changed ruling families several times) a small redheaded boy with interesting eyes begged his dadda to let him join the Shang.
Rating (and warnings): PG
Word count: 441
Summary: The tale of the slaying of the terrible dragon and the rescue of a beautiful maiden.
Notes: An idea I just had. And it seems like a really long sentence...Perhaps I should have done this as multiple entries. Or as one proper story. I honestly hope someone gets what events and who I'm referring to as it's 2:43AM now. (Haven't written fic for years)
This is how the story begins-in the middle;
the band of knights press their advantage, the immortal's wings broken it thrashes wildly on the ground-no longer a mage of the air but creature in pain who knows that it's end has come; dodging the beast's flailing claws the noble knights leader reaches the dragon head and readies himself to drive his steel through it's skull-
in the Dragonlands far from the mortal realm a dragon coloured like pearl pauses and tenses; the link she has felt in her mind for over a millennia has disappeared like it was never there-alien emotions of dread begin to fill her-
the dragon's death knell had been ear-piercingly loud; long, keening and unearthly that the world was still wavering before the knights' eyes but the deed was done, the immortal would not threaten their kingdom again-suddenly, noise in the shadows-the knights whirled around to face this new threat-and were confronted by a scared, shivering maiden, naked as the day she was born; she stared at them with wide eyes then collapsed-at this they ran to her and (being chivalrous knights) covered her with their cloaks and carried her away from the bloody battlefield (the dragon's corpse rapidly turns to ash)
the pearl coloured dragon lets all know her loss as she keens in grief, soon the keening turns into the howls of a mother's rage-she vows that the mortals will pay a thousandfold for the blood of her son;
celebrations and adulations greet the band of dragon-slaying knights as they return heroes to their kingdom; the young maiden with them is seems uninjured but she claims to have little memory of anything before she was rescued-some feel this is a blessing for she must experienced terrible things in the dragon's clutches; because she has no known relatives she given a job as servant on the commanding knight's fief (there was no prince or princess available for the requisite courtship)
and so a story of the slaying of a dragon and the rescue of a fair maiden is finished but the lives of it's cast of players continues
the band of knights lived and died as the knights they were;
the dragon became a wicked beast in the tales told afterwards; one which delighted in kidnapping and devouring young women;
the dragon mother continued to nurse her feeling of hurt and rage throughout the centuries-
the fair maiden lived the rest of her life; proving herself to be capable if a little strange (she never did talk of her life before coming to the fief);
many centuries later in village near the fief (which has changed ruling families several times) a small redheaded boy with interesting eyes begged his dadda to let him join the Shang.