Dragon's Curse

The Cavern

I paced inside of my new cavern home.

I watched outside my cave, waiting for prey to come by. Aha! A unicorn with a horn that looked like a stick bent down and ate some grass. I tensed my shoulders and leapt at the beast. It reared in fear as I sunk my dagger, three rows of fangs into the beast. Its warm flesh was amazing. I ate it all, but after I regurgitated the head. I stuck the head, with all the flesh attached, on my wall. The glazed eyes watched me and would forever. Oh, my. I hope you weren't eating when you read that. Anyways, I watched the blood drip from the head. I dug a small hole for the blood to pool in and stuck my mouth in it to drink it whenever it filled. A twig snapped outside. I was startled to attention. Kill it....... I had to fight the creature within. No. I will not kill it. I tiptoed to the edge of my cave, trying to see what made the noise. It approached the cave. She was pretty from what I saw of her. The human ran to my cave, and I sank into the back of it in terror. She entered, fell to the floor, and started sobbing.

"Why can't I be normal? Why can't anybody like me and see past my differences?!" She cried, pouring out her feelings. They hit me like a tidal wave. She looked familiar. All I saw was her long, pretty hair, but I knew her. Was that...?

"Kalie?" I whispered. Her sobbing stopped abruptly, and she turned, trying to figure out where the sound came from. 

"Who's there!?" She cried out, some tears dripping from her face as she faced me. I saw why she was sobbing about her differences immediately. Her face was deformed. I remember her! She was kind of new, and she was picked on by Markov, like me, before I...well...you know. She looked into my huge satellite eyes and screamed.

"AHHHH!" She yelled, falling backwards and crawling away from me.

"It's ok!" I yelled back, trying to calm her. I came forward so she could only see my face.

"Who are you?"

"Kalie, it's ok!"

"How do you know my name?"

"Kalie, it's me!"

"Who?" Her tears were gone.

"Mitchel," I whispered.

"The missing kid?"

"Yes." 

"Can you come out so I can see you?"

"I would prefer not."

"I can't see you. It's so dark in this cave. Markov is dead, he can't pick on you anymore. Come on out." She tried to lull me out.

"They won't accept me now."

"Why?"

"I killed Markov." I said.

"That was you? The police said a giant creature ate him. Those two fools that are his buddies came into school saying that a giant black dragon ate him and flew away."

"Eh....well...." I stumbled on my words, for once since she arrived at a loss.

"So you ate him?"

"Uh...it's complicated...you should be leaving.....your parents are probably being worried sick about you...."

"I'm not leaving, and my parents were killed two months ago." She replied firmly. "Come out or I will pull out a flashlight." She threatened.

"I'm trying to hold the beast back....don't threaten me...." I muttered. I craved to kill her and hang her head like the kirin. 

"Hold on, why is there a Chinese unicorn's head on the wall?!"

"I killed it...." I really needed to kill again. To taste and bathe in the blood. No. I couldn't. Finally, when the beast inside gave up, I scooted forward a little bit. Then some more. Soon, she could see me completely. She screamed.

"You're a dragon! Help! Mitch got eaten by a dragon trying to protect me! Police! 911! Somebody, HELP!" She yelled. I rose my hands in surrender.

"Calm down, Kalie!" I tried to calm her, but she had none of it.

"No! You ate my friend Mitch!" She pulled something big out of her bag and threw it on me. Why does she carry a portable, self-growing net? I didn't know. She missed in her haste. Then she pulled out a magic rope. Are you kidding me? The net zoomed back in her bag as she hurled the rope at my back legs. I fell, back legs wrapped. I hit the ground with a loud CRASH! She tied my front legs with a normal rope, then tied my muzzle shut. I snarled. I wanted to kill her. So badly. I craved to...NO! I can't. I wanted to let the beast in to free myself and kill her for trying to chain the only dragon left on earth. But no. If I did, I would get killed when I tried to attack a village. I was bound. She watched me struggle as she raised a rock and put me to sleep.