On A Global Scale
I awoke to the peaceful sound of chirping birds. My eyes slowly slid open and I stared at the ceiling for a few moments. It took me that long to realize that the room was fully lit by the ten-o'clock sun. My heart skipped a beat at the realization, but...
Marked Scales
Jarzyl led Atlas to her bedroom. "Hey, hey, check this out. I want to show you something." Scampering over to her desk, the dragon fledgling snatched up a small cardboard box and showed it to her friend. Atlas peered into the box. Inside was something...
Bow and Scale
A story I wrote for Kon, because i like him. ========== The archer crouched behind the bush, waiting for his prey to arrive. His leather boots and leather garments worn loose on the warm summer day. The Dragon had terrorised several villages and...
Slaughter (Kreet 1)
**The Long and Exciting Life of Kreet the Kobold** **Chapter 1: Slaughter** They found 5 gold pieces, and one of them said he had leveled up. That was the sum total of what the Adventurers had managed to gain by slaughtering Kreet's entire family....
Spots & Scales
A small leopard sits on her favorite tree stump, deep in the forest that surrounds her neighborhood. From head to toe this girl is a leopard. Fine yellow and brown spotted fur covers her thin, hourglass body. Her blue eyes pull you into a bright world...
Weights and Scales
Akuro is copyrighted to his player, and is used with permission. * * * A mechanical chime sounded from the alarm clock, announcing a new hour. Nico looked up from his textbook, sighing as it displayed eleven P.M. "Five more minutes." he...
Full-Scaled
It's commonly said that when you party with kobolds, you'll wake naked and penniless. I'm sure that's meant to be racial slander alluding to their tendency for theft, but really I'd never seen the downside to the saying. It always seemed to...
Scaled Up
Hours passed as I threaded my way through the verdant underbrush, and the short, low swings of my machete made the going easier. A few green stains marred the white fur on my front and darkened patches of the rust-colored fur almost everywhere else....
Envy misplacement
It was the millionth time I'd been to a gym, the second time to this one in particular. It was a gym notorious for it's gay clients, and I guess I like it for that. I liked the idea that while I was lifting weights, there was another guy eying my...
Of Skin and Scale
# I: Of Skin and Scale _“When you dreams are shattered and lay on the ground with no semblance of their former self, you can do two things and two things only: leave them be, forget them and focus on something else that is still whole,...
Scale Magic!
Jess breathed an audible sigh of relief when he finally heard the sounds of running water above the sluggish, insectoid rainforest din. Carving his way through the especially thick mat of vegetation that enclosed the river on all sides, he finally...
In Bondage, Scaled
The world was hazy at first; diving in and out of focus. Everything from tip to tail felt tingly and numb at the same time. A few thoughts fluttered about in his head; the wine, the bar, the smiles exchanged. Slowly, as things began to settle, he...