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Saturday, December 6, 2014

Today's #flashfiction #ADifferentKindOfDragon

“I'm afraid of small spaces.”
Harry Houdini* #quote


       Today I watched some martian wrestling. Pretty flashy stuff, but I couldn't really get into it. I'm not sure how much me not being able to understand what they were saying affected my enjoyment of the show. Anyway onto the flash fiction!



A Different Kind Of Dragon

        Some dragons burnt kingdoms to the ground. The breed that invaded the Kingdom of Ioland froze them. Fire didn't come from the beasts mouths, but rather an intense frost. A spring would become an unnatural winter as they turned everything to ice. They ate their food cold and moved on to the next land, content with letting wherever they went recover on its own.
         The dew on the grass froze when the dragons breathed, even when they didn't want to use their lungs offensively. The people of the land could see where the dragons had been. When they saw that the dragons passed their homes it seemed at first the dragons spared them, but the dragons merely put off eating them while they walked to their destination. The dragons of the ice breathing breed couldn't fly, with their wings evolving for the sole purpose of heating their bodies to compensate for their cold breath. The flock of dragons invading the Kingdom of Ioland headed towards the king's castle. Over the years of hunting humans they knew to attack that place first and kill the soldiers to make sure the rest of their feeding went uninterrupted.
      When they arrived at the castle the king stood at the gates. A strange thing for them, as they usually found the king holed up deep in the castle. They enjoyed finding the king and taking all the shiny trinkets on his body.
       The king pointed at the frost dragons, “Dispose of these invaders my loyal steeds!” At that moment a massive group of the natural predator of the frost dragon, the fire breathing dragon, appeared from the stables behind the castle and promptly took care of the threat to the kingdom.

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