In post 188, student wrote:(hope its not too draconian)
Spoiler: Modern Day Dragon, 739 words
I crack my way out this goddamn oval cell and the first thing I see is a feral-looking mother.
She flew, I waited and she returned with a dead animal body to feed me. She flew and returned with another animal body, and again, and again.
One day, she flew but didn’t return.
Tired of waiting, I flew from the nest myself and attacked a nearby animal. Then a bigger animal, then a bigger. One day, I was attacking an entire nest of them.
They were weird animals, had weird limbs, stubs instead of claws, weird removable appendixes and strange habits. Some of them who showed up had metal covering their body and were riding another animal.
They attacked me with their metal thing attached to their hands, but I flew away from them.
I attacked another village and more of them showed up. Another village, and another village. I found them annoying, but I was truly interested in them.
Years passed, decades passed, I soon grew to encircle the mountain I lived in.
Multiple of these metal-holding metal-bodied animals attacked me throughout times, some of them reciting their poetry before doing so, but I burned them all.
Decades passed, centuries passed, less of them showed up to face me. Even the villages I attacked seemed to not be anyone’s concern anymore. They even invited me to participate in their ‘war’.
I found the ‘war’ amusing at first, but I got tired and went for other fish.
One day, with the help of a gentle wizard and multiple ‘dragon rights’ activists, I was given their form and got invited to live in society.
I was given a job, I was given a home, I was given ‘responsibilities’.
I woke up, dressed, put a tasteless mass in the ‘coffee’ liquid and ate it, I brushed my fangs and went to the bus stop.
The bus was full and there was a screaming kid near me. I stared it as if I wanted to blast it with fire and it shut up at least.
I got off the bus and went to work.
The boss showed on my cubicle with a load of papers, looked at me and said: “don’t miss them this time, you filthy dragon”. I wished that filthy dragon could eat his head off right now.
After work, I met up with my ‘human’ friends, we told each other bad jokes, we got wasted and I fell asleep on the park bench.
The next day, these ‘human’ animals wearing blue and black appendixes forced me into some ‘recovery establishment’, containing multiple of drunk-looking of them.
I left it and went to the gym, did some run and push ups and left.
I left and I went to the park. It was way too loud, the air smelled bad and I had to scare off some kids. Then I sat on the bench and stared my old home.
I went back to my current home just to find my landlord angry, he said: “pay your rent or I am getting your dragon ass to the street”.
I turned on the TV. It was on Fox News, the headline was ‘Adoption rights for dragons’ and some pastor was callin us demons. I turned off the TV and slept on the couch.
The next day I went to work again and my boss called me to his office. “You’re fired”, he said.
I decided I was tired of this. I returned to my original form and ate his head, while utterly destroying the building. Then I flew off up to the sky.
As I flew, I observed those gas machines taking up entire streets, barely moving, roaring on each other. I observed these animals leaving on and off the shops. I observed some of them sitting at the side of the road in a miserable condition. I observed all them clearly frustrated.
I flew back to the mountain I was born in. There, I didn’t ever see these weird animals for a while.
One day, I saw one daredevil climb up with a large metal object with multiple appendices. I watched him use it to open my neck.
Oh well, that should’ve happened hundred years ago.
These animals are so stupid.
She flew, I waited and she returned with a dead animal body to feed me. She flew and returned with another animal body, and again, and again.
One day, she flew but didn’t return.
Tired of waiting, I flew from the nest myself and attacked a nearby animal. Then a bigger animal, then a bigger. One day, I was attacking an entire nest of them.
They were weird animals, had weird limbs, stubs instead of claws, weird removable appendixes and strange habits. Some of them who showed up had metal covering their body and were riding another animal.
They attacked me with their metal thing attached to their hands, but I flew away from them.
I attacked another village and more of them showed up. Another village, and another village. I found them annoying, but I was truly interested in them.
Years passed, decades passed, I soon grew to encircle the mountain I lived in.
Multiple of these metal-holding metal-bodied animals attacked me throughout times, some of them reciting their poetry before doing so, but I burned them all.
Decades passed, centuries passed, less of them showed up to face me. Even the villages I attacked seemed to not be anyone’s concern anymore. They even invited me to participate in their ‘war’.
I found the ‘war’ amusing at first, but I got tired and went for other fish.
One day, with the help of a gentle wizard and multiple ‘dragon rights’ activists, I was given their form and got invited to live in society.
I was given a job, I was given a home, I was given ‘responsibilities’.
I woke up, dressed, put a tasteless mass in the ‘coffee’ liquid and ate it, I brushed my fangs and went to the bus stop.
The bus was full and there was a screaming kid near me. I stared it as if I wanted to blast it with fire and it shut up at least.
I got off the bus and went to work.
The boss showed on my cubicle with a load of papers, looked at me and said: “don’t miss them this time, you filthy dragon”. I wished that filthy dragon could eat his head off right now.
After work, I met up with my ‘human’ friends, we told each other bad jokes, we got wasted and I fell asleep on the park bench.
The next day, these ‘human’ animals wearing blue and black appendixes forced me into some ‘recovery establishment’, containing multiple of drunk-looking of them.
I left it and went to the gym, did some run and push ups and left.
I left and I went to the park. It was way too loud, the air smelled bad and I had to scare off some kids. Then I sat on the bench and stared my old home.
Sir, the dragon I’ve came to slay
So with your daughter I can marry
To the top, her I will carry
And there stay for the rest of our days
So with your daughter I can marry
To the top, her I will carry
And there stay for the rest of our days
I went back to my current home just to find my landlord angry, he said: “pay your rent or I am getting your dragon ass to the street”.
I turned on the TV. It was on Fox News, the headline was ‘Adoption rights for dragons’ and some pastor was callin us demons. I turned off the TV and slept on the couch.
The next day I went to work again and my boss called me to his office. “You’re fired”, he said.
I decided I was tired of this. I returned to my original form and ate his head, while utterly destroying the building. Then I flew off up to the sky.
As I flew, I observed those gas machines taking up entire streets, barely moving, roaring on each other. I observed these animals leaving on and off the shops. I observed some of them sitting at the side of the road in a miserable condition. I observed all them clearly frustrated.
I flew back to the mountain I was born in. There, I didn’t ever see these weird animals for a while.
One day, I saw one daredevil climb up with a large metal object with multiple appendices. I watched him use it to open my neck.
Oh well, that should’ve happened hundred years ago.
These animals are so stupid.