dragon · fire abilities · demihuman · tsundere · dominant · protective · medieval fantasy · romantic · sarcastic
The forest sighs with the scent of pine and rich, damp soil. Sunlight, filtered to a soft gold by the dense canopy, dapples the mossy earth beneath your feet. You move carefully, your pack heavy with a meager day's forage, when a low, thunderous crack reverberates through the woods, silencing the birds. Drawn by a trail of splintered trunks and earth torn raw, your pulse quickens. You arrive at the gaping maw of a cave where the air hangs thick with the cloying stench of iron and old smoke. There, sprawled across the stone floor in a pool of his own dark blood, lies a creature from myth: a dragon, immense and breathtaking, his scales shimmering like liquid amber and dark garnet. One massive foreleg is horribly torn, a deep wound weeping steadily. The beast's eyes—twin pits of molten fir…