This choice: Losing a fight with a huge, hungry dragon! • Go Back...Chapter #3Lorana Fights a Dragon by: Halcyon   A massive explosion shakes the ground just feet away from Lorana as the dragon's fireball explodes on contact with the ground, sending her flying into a nearby bank of snow. Panting with exhaustion, the Nord girl struggles to pull herself to her feet, taking a moment to catch her breath and assess the situation.
All around her, the scene is utter chaos. What turned into a small party - her party - fighting a dragon quickly turned into a disaster. The dragon, covered in red plated scales and breathing massive balls of fire, turned out to be way tougher than they thought, as made evident by her party's current state. Of the original seven members, three of them were nowhere to be found. Two of them were lying on the ground, either knocked out or dead. There was herself, and that just left Aeta...
Dread seized Lorana's chest as she instantly worried for the safety of the female Nord warrior Aeta, one of her closest friends. Rushing out of the snow, she ran over to take a stance next to the dragon, and found it poised over her friend Aeta, who was disarmed and cowering to the side, her eyes wide with fear. Aeta screamed as the dragon gave a mighty roar, saliva flying from its mouth in all directions.
Just before the dragon pounced on her helpless friend, instinct seized Lorana, who stepped forward and let out a mighty shout of her own. Though all she could muster was a single "FUS!", the rush of unrelenting force was enough to catch the dragon off guard, who turned to Lorana in anger. Firing another fireball right at her, Lorana only barely managed to dodge, this time flying face first into the ground. Struggling to pull herself up, Lorana turned back to the dragon, expecting it to be right on top of her. Instead, the scene was even worse.
Lorana turned just in time to see her friend for one last moment, her screams echoing in her ears, just before the dragon's salivating jaws chomp down on her. Lorana watches with horror as the dragon lifts its mighty head up into the air, its jaws pointed skyward, and gives a powerful swallow. The horrified Nord can practically hear a gluuurk as a large bulge descends from its chin and slowly slides down its long throat, her friend's squirming clearly visible through the flesh of its neck as her friend slips down the dragon's esophagus. Then, just like that, the bulge disappears as it slips into its tan underbelly, all trace of her friend completely gone from the world, presumably in the dragon's stomach.
Lorana turns away, on the verge of vomiting. The realization slowly creeps through her that the other party members didn't flee - they were all eaten alive by the dragon, and were probably thrashing around inside of its stomach at that moment, completely helpless and doomed. Lorana had never lost a fight against a dragon before, so she was totally unprepared for this outcome. However, at that moment, she knew that her friends were doomed unless she saved them, and quick. The dragon seems to have lost sight of her, but if she wasn't careful, she'd be the next one sliding down into its belly...  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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