Gull Gulp
-----Chapter 1: Short Pier-----
When things happen in your life that you need to think about, you need a place to go where you can be alone with your thoughts. For Jim, there was a place on the coast where docks had been built for a small fishing area just out of town. He could sit on the wet sand above the soothing water in the shade of the piers and watch the boats come and go, heading out to sea or returning with their catch, great or small. The small mari
Gull Gulp
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A Guest of
MerinithBy DrakeZephyr
Siobhan stood before the small
leather pack in silence, moving to and fro from a lone shelf in her
room, gathering items and weighing each in her hand, staring at it
with demanding eyes as if the object could cry out its importance.
Rope, dried foods, a set of new daggers, spare clothes, her best
arrows and lastly, what she dwelled on the most, one of her brother’s
little carvings. It was of a dragon, of course… it was carved of
oak, really quite well done s
A Guest of Merinith
By: DrakeZephyr
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The western side of the Drachenpass,
despite holding a kingdom of its own, and having enough travel to
require the many routes past the dragon packed mountain range, was
yet far less explored than the eastern portion. While there humans
had spread to most places to some degree or another, whole tracts of
the western lands remained wild and untouched by humans. Or, at
least, while humans may have touched these regions, they tended to
stay only as long as it took the locals to digest them.
Humans
Greatest Fan of the Divers
By: DrakeZephyr
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It was undeniable, even by any
self-proclaimed leader of the merchant quarter in the brimming city
of Berin, the claim to fame of the place, and the true reason for its
success, was the creation of the divers. It was unique, and despite
some in far off places frowning at the tales, to all within Berin it
was a positive thing. The nature of the city had people coming and
going, being a hub of travel and trade, any who didn’t approve
tended to leave, so never did enough remain in the place to ch
Broken Pact of the Dragon Divers part 1
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Wake of the Golden Moon: for
dragon_lady
Eyes reflecting the vibrant sheen of
the moonlight, the couple darted through the thick brush just above
the vast beachfront, the many small branches of the thick, gnarly
bushes scraped along them as they went, but neither dwelled on that,
for on this eve such menial things were of no consequence to them, a
host of cuts could heal, but the activities of the night may never
happen again. For, high above, radiating over the sands and the pair,
was a golden
Wake of the Golden Moon
By: DrakeZephyr
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The almost sickly sweet scents of
pine wafted gently over a secluded little clearing. Tender chirpings
of courting birds as several spun in the skies, chasing. On the rocky
outcropping responsible for the break in the trees, resting against
the luxuriously heated stone, was the local lord of the woodland. The
ebony tinted dragon purred gently, sprawled on a sated belly, with
stones roasted to perfection by the midday sun. The dark scaled
dragon’s deep black scales absorbed the lowering sun, wi
Dancing Dragon Dreams
By: DrakeZephyr
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A soft wind blew through the thick
forest, along the path that led towards the small, secluded little
village hidden away from most of the world. The regular calls of the
birds were silent however; the locals knew what that meant. It was no
dark omen though, but a message of visitors to come, the birds had
uncanny knowledge, they recognised locals over newcomers. So, instead
of the gentle bird chirps, the morning hunters glanced to the road as
the soft, uneasy clinking of armour moved towards th
Vale
By: DrakeZephyr
Favorited: 10 years ago
The Drachenpass, in addition to
being the centre of dragonkind formed the barrier between the eastern
and western kingdoms. While the dreaded mountains were risky to pass
through at the best of times, they did make it decidedly easy to
control passage, none who tried to scale the mountains by any method
beyond the controlled ones ended up in a dragon’s belly. In a way,
the tensions between the kingdoms was down to an unwillingness to
send members of the royal families across the range as ambas
The Riskiest Form of Travel
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The light repeating chirp of a bird
up on the roof washed down into the little home on the edge of the
village. The occupants both liked a little bit of seclusion from the
rest of the villagers. The village truly didn’t know what to make
of the pair, though they all could see the two were close. They had
been living together long enough to slip below the radar of the local
gossips, the curiosity of how the lightly built and seemingly
unserious woman hunted so well, or why the man in the relati
A Raven's eye view
By: DrakeZephyr
Favorited: 11 years ago
The rays of the sun beat down with
intensity, tormenting the small form stumbling across the sinking
sand along the beachfront. On his weary mind, even the lapping of the
waves was torture, dehydration making his head ache, with each pained
pulse his every thought was torn from his mind, concentration was a
long gone dream.
The figure was a lone man, his
clothes soaked and in tatters, several small wounds seeping their
precious fluids to join the seawater in the ruined fabrics. His
bedraggled, s
A Dragon's Domain
By: DrakeZephyr
Favorited: 11 years ago
The tension on the air had reached
its peak, finally piercing the shielding woodland to batter the
cliffs where the dragons lived, every adult dragon nudged their
children deeper into the caves, standing at the entrance to their
homes, looking out with worry, each knowing something was coming,
knowing their nest was no longer safe, and each had only one concern
on their minds, to keep the young dragons safe, and to not force
those young dragons to see their parents killed in front of them, as
so
Serac Chapter 13
By: DrakeZephyr
Favorited: 11 years ago
The
sun was high on its arc, slowly dipping towards the edge of the world
as its last rays danced across a small café in the unknown town of
the Drachenpass. The building, like all construction in the town was
built for limited dragon access. Of course, dragons were limited in
the town area anyway, in fact only one dragon visited the café with
a degree of regularity. Yet somehow few people remembered his
presence, he had a way of just blending in. His body was a rich
earthy brown, the folds of
A Draconic Assassin
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“Welcome
ladies and gentlemen”
called out the announcer as he addressed the crowd
The
gathered people in the stands roared, as was custom the seven dragons
below roared in response. The stands were arranged in a semicircle;
along the flat edge was a high platform, on which nine people stood.
Seven were the performance, one the announcer, and the last was there
just in case something went wrong. One performer was lined up with a
dragon below, the dragons sat back on their haunches, looking up
The Dragon Divers
By: DrakeZephyr
Favorited: 12 years ago
The greatest enigma to the majority
of the peoples of the world was the Drachenpass range. All knew of
them, the domain of dragons was the nightmare of most, a curiosity to
some but infamous in either case.
The village through the lone path
was known of, if in no real detail, by all, but it was falsely
considered the only place where humans lived in those jagged toothed
mountains. Indeed a second place existed in the Drachenpass, though
it was rare for them to receive human visitors, and nobody
Retaining Order
By: DrakeZephyr
Favorited: 12 years ago