The Fire Of Earth

Chapter 1

Gawain roars. "Where is he?" he thought. He moved into a sitting position and his green scales glinted in the afternoon sun. His violet eyes searched the clouds.

His long, thin head twisted almost 180 degrees to each side on his long, snake-like neck! His long reptilian body had four legs, two straight front legs and two hunched back legs! His claws, three front toes and one back, retracted and extended again.

His long tail with the triangle tip swished back and forth. He lifted his majestic green wings and flapped them a couple times.

His ears, covered in scales, twisted around, listening for anything. His nose, at the end of his snout, sniffed, smelling for any familiar scent. His black forked tongue flicked in and out of his mouth, full of sharp, long, white fangs!

He roared again and shot a jet of flame at the ground. He looked to the sky in time to see a figure break through the clouds. The new dragon landed in front of Gawain. This is Gracken , another of the council. Another of the last twelve dragons in the world!

Gracken looked like Gawain but he had blue scales and a shorter snout and spikes along his back. His neck arched proudly and his face always held a serious or frowning face during council meetings.

Gracken sat down with Gawain with a serious face. Gawain began speaking dragon-tongue to the older dragon. "Finally! You have arrived!" he said in the ancient dragon language! "Yes." said Gracken. "It is good to see you Gawain. Now, why is it you summoned me?"

Gawain sighed.

"G'rain is missing!"

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Gracken jumped up in surprise! "G'rain? Are you serious?" he asked, almost shouting. "Yes....." Gawain said quietly, almost sadly. Gawain laid down and set his head on his paws. Gracken sat down again, shocked! "That can't be!" he said. "G'rain is strong and an excellent traveller! He can't just go missing!" He didn't want to believe it! He didn't know what to think. He was very confused.

He laid down as well and asked Gawain the question that could change his life. "What happened?" Gracken asked Gawain. Gawain sighed, and said "Kidnapped!"

Gracken stood and said "Let's go get him!" He then took off to the sky's to try and find G'rain! Gracken was determined to find G'rain.

Because G'rain was Gawain's brother!

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Somewhere in a cave on the other side of the world, another dragon flew in with a heavy sack below him. The strange dragon dropped the sack and landed beside it.

The stranger peeked inside the sack. The dragon, G'rain as he was called, was still sound asleep. The stranger closed the drawstring and went to the mouth of the cave. "Grr-hrr-arr-rarr" he said in dragon-tongue.

A boulder rolled across in front of the mouth, closing off the cave from the rest of the world. It was them, that the dragon in the sack stirred!

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G'rain woke up in a dark, damp sack, cold and hungry. The sack was closed so he pushed his paw through the opening and opened the drawstring.

He was greeted by a humid, dark cave. The walls and ceiling were rounded and the floor was completely flat and smooth except for a few small rocks laying around and that boulder.....

Wait. Boulder?

G'rain turned back and walked towards the giant rock sticking out of the ground.

The boulder was shaped into a throne that a dragon about his size could fit in. All the corners were squared.

On the arms of the chair were squiggly lines running the length. He felt that they represented some sort of spell but he couldn't quite put his claw on it.