Flash Fiction Month 2016

Day 16: Deserted Castle (RaeStar)

"This was not quite what I pictured when you said 'romantic', Raven."
The castle was delapidated, a maze of crumbling stone hallways and long galleries. Towers rose to bite at the dusk sky, crenelations crooked and broken. Moss and lichen bloomed across the dark grey stones of the building, giving it an air of abandonment and neglect. The moat was a slimy residue at the bottom of a ring-shaped pit around the fortress. The drawbridge had rotted clean away, and the portcullis was so rusted it was fused in place, blocking the main entry.
The walls slumped, the towers leaned; the whole place seemed on the verge of collapse.
"I suppose our views on romance differ somewhat," Raven said with a shrug. She levitated, lifting into the air and leading the way over the battlements. Starfire followed, eyes darting about to see as much of the structure as possible. It wasn't much like the castles back on Tameran. The ancient buildings of Earth were significantly more ugly, and not half as colourful.
Raven alighted on the flat top of the tallest tower. Starfire landed beside her and walked to the edge, peering down between the cracked crenelations.
The muddy ground was a long way away.
"What is it you had planned for tonight, Raven?" she asked, turning back to face the cloaked girl.
Raven was right there, and suddenly her lips were on Starfire's, kissing her passionately. Starfire squeaked in happy surprise, but closed her eyes and leant into the kiss. Her hands found Raven's hood and pushed it down so she could tangle her fingers in the other girl's short lavender hair.
Raven slipped her arms around Starfire's waist, hands settling at her lower back, and pulled her closer.
"If this is what you plan to do all evening," Starfire mumbled against Raven's lips, panting slightly. "I have no objections."
"Figured as much," Raven replied with a sly smile. She ducked her head a little to kiss along Starfire's jawbone. The Tameranean sighed, hands moving to the fastening of Raven's cloak.
The castle shook.
The girls stumbled and fell back against the crenelations, which made dangerous scraping sounds and scattered stone dust on their feet.
"What was that?" Starfire asked, eyes wide and startled.
Raven was a little more composed. Annoyed, but composed.
"An earthquake maybe?"
The castle shuddered again, and this time they heard a sound beneath the tremors; something akin to a roar.
"Do earthquakes often roar?" Starfire asked, finding her feet again. Raven was clinging to her, having almost lost her own footing.
"Um, not to my experience..."
A tower on the other side of the castle began to quake. The stones shifted, shook loose, and fell to the courtyard below. The roaring grew louder as the tower shook itself apart, great clouds of stone dust and years of mold billowing into the air.
Raven and Starfire watched as the structure collapsed entirely, and from deep under the rubble, something rose.
Scarlet scales, fiery eyes, teeth of ivory and talons of onyx -
"Oh you've got to be kidding me," Raven muttered.
The dragon roared.