Book of Dragons

Screaming Death

  The Screaming Death, is a gigantic subspecies of the Whispering Death. The Screaming Death is said to only hatch once every 100 years. The Screaming Death posses a long snake-like body, a very large chomping mouth, many rows of teeth, small wing to body ratio, spiny frills along it's underbelly, red spikes on it's head, large bright red eyes, and an expandable spiny frill layers on neck. 

Unlike its cousin the Whispering Death, this dragon has no aversion to sunlight. In fact, young Screaming Deaths are attracted to bright light. Attraction to light wears off as the dragon grows older. A fully grown Screaming Death has a big enough appetite and power to chomp through an entire island which completely immerses it in water. Like the Whispering Death it can shoot the spines from its tail and can tunnel with ease through the ground. Something the Whispering Death does not have is a disorienting shriek. You can't really defeat the Screaming Death. It's too fast, too angry, too powerful. The best you can hope to do is find a way to lure it somewhere else. 

Screaming Deaths ALWAYS eventually return to their place of birth to nest. Despite the distances that may separate them, Screaming Deaths remain acutely aware of the well-being of their Whispering Death mothers. So if you want to stay on a Screaming Death's good side, don't insult its mother. 

The appearance of a Screaming Death egg is very similar to a Whispering Death egg because the Screaming Death is apparently 'just' a mutant Whispering Death. The only difference is that a Screaming Death egg is larger than a Whispering Death egg and is white with red spots.The Screaming Death appears to be a heavily mutated, albino Whispering Death. It is white in color, has large red eyes, a longer and a more massive body, and larger tail than an 'average' Whispering Death. It also has three rows of teeth, but they are aligned differently than those of the Whispering Death, set in a chin reminiscent of a Red Death. They have rows of frilly spines that line the edges of its unsegmented underbelly. Despite the Screaming Death's size, its wings are only the size of a Night Fury's. This is because it uses its excessively long tail as a sort of rotor. 

Titan Screaming Deaths are bigger, with more spines on their bodies. They have red stripes on their wings and backs. Their backs are gray. They have more teeth and a gray face. 

The Screaming Death shoots large, explosive balls of fire. These fireballs are unlike that of the Night Fury and similar to a mortar, but with a much higher rate of fire. When the Screaming Death is breathing fire, it releases excess fire from gaps in its frill, when any flammable gas is emitted in the inside of his mouth a similar phenomenon can be observed as a small explosion occurs. At least a dozen fireballs can be launched in rapid succession. This is reminiscent of a gun with a muzzle. Screaming Deaths can breath concentric rings of fire that match the round shape of their own mouths These are identical to the fire rings used by the Whispering Death. 

The Screaming Death is much faster than the average Whispering Death, to the point they can even catch up with an average flying Night Fury. The Screaming Death is extremely durable. It also has the toughest and strongest skin of all dragons, as an average-powered Night Fury Plasma Blast barely affected it, as well as Nadder spines and many other types of firepower. Though they have the toughest skin of nearly any dragon, the Scauldron's hot water blast can create enough heat to rip the scales off the Screaming Death. Although when they are smaller in size, it was proven that large heavy boulder can injure his wing to make him unable to fly. It also made him a vulnerable dragon as he needed his siblings to carry him away. 

The Screaming Death is intelligent enough to learn from its mistakes and adapt to enemy strategies. Seemingly, the dragon succeeded to overcome some of the weaknesses unique to the main species through mutation. The Screaming Death is attracted to bright and intense light, unlike the Whispering Death. Over the few years, he was shown to forget their allies. It is possible they don't recognize them from age, very protective of his home, or has a bad memory. 

The Screaming Death appears to have incredibly tough and strong scales. The scales appear to give it some resistance against attacks from dragons, for example, a Nadder's spine shot. Furthermore, Screaming Death scales is a good source of armor for dragons against Dragon Root arrows. Like a Whispering Death, training a Screaming Death is very hard, almost impossible, though it can be done. The best way to train one would be to gain the trust of its family and mother, which may help to train them, as the mother seems to have a reasonable amount of control over their Screaming Death son. However, as Screaming Deaths seem to have poor memory compared to Whispering Deaths, training them may be a problem if the mother is not present.