Wizard Howl

Prologue

The dragon was nearly invisible in the darkness of moonless sky. The silver scales speckled throughout the underside of its wings made it nearly invisible as it soared far above the earth. 

A city flew by, far below, full of twinkling golden lights and factories that polluted the air. The dragon coughed a small puff of dangerous blue flame as the repulsive scent of the smoke filled its lungs, but then the dirty air was left far behind it as it flew swiftly towards its target.

It flew on through the night as clouds blanketed the silver stars that hung far above. A forest-covered mountain range grew larger in the distance and the dragon banked east towards one of the valleys. It was above the mountains when it suddenly stopped, tucked in its wings, and dove.

The wind rushed passed the dragon as it spiraled towards a small crack that grew larger and larger until the dragon could see a massive ravine. It suddenly opened its wings and floated lightly to touch the ground, stopping its fall a mere few meters from death. 

The ravine was full of tunnels and caves that held nothing but darkness inside them. The dragon slithered towards a dark opening in the dead stone and vanished inside the shadows. It breathed a small puff of flame, just enough to light the corridor ahead of it and stalked forward.

Its flight had not been as stealthy as it had thought. A strange creature silently whipped towards the burst of light as it touched down to the bottom of the ravine, every wingbeat, every step, completely silent. 

The dragon continued to slip down the corridor towards a small cavern. A quiet light pulsed from within it. The light came from a dragon egg nestled in a small nest of dried grass. It was pearly white with liver veins chasing one another across the pure surface. The veins pulsed with welcoming silver light that illuminated the dragon's blue and purple scales. A creak behind the dragon startled it, and too late, it saw the creature. The dragon looked at the egg and it disappeared in a flash of white light. The nest burst into blue flames and shriveled into black ash.

By the end of the following battle between the dragon of night and creature of darkness, the fate of the world had been shaken. A missing egg, a creature on the prowl were the only factors to determine the future. 

Only one thing was certain.

The dragon was dead.