A Promise
_A Promise_ _ _ The tenth day of their training mission passed and the captain of the _Flameseeker_ had elected not to travel further south. Instead, the airship approached the valley of the folbats to within five miles, marked its location, and then...
Fire in the Air
_Fire in the Air_ A sea of green was all that Ray could see as he peered over Kalios's head. The young dragon rider sat silently between his blue dragon's gently beating wings and watched as a mass of brown feathers hovered in front of Kalios and...
Earthshine
_Earthshine_ _ _ I slammed my car's door shut and waltzed up into the apartment complex. It was barely afternoon, but my boss had let me off work early so I could prepare for a sudden business trip tomorrow morning. That pretty much meant I had to go...
Temeraire: In the Service of the Enemy
_Temeraire: In the Service of the Enemy_ _ _ Lien sneered as she saw the black Celestial approach her shaded pavilion. Her eerily red eyes glared at him as she shook her head in disapproval at his manner. "I will not have it," Temeraire said, "I...
Empty Space
_Empty Space_ Erin awoke in a tank full of luminescent blue liquid. The man, barely considered one at the age of nineteen, gasped in fear as he saw the bubbles flowing up his vision. He could not see through the foggy glass of the tank and grabbed...
The Demon of Phlegdis
_The Demon of Phlegdis_ \*\*\* "You can't possibly put _that_ in me," Kevin said. The dragonkin cleric was still tied upon the summoned pillar, bound with astral cords, and Onival, the wolf demon, stood near his tail and craned his back ominously...
The Wizard of Cairn
_The Wizard of Cairn_ The room was lit up by the runic circle that connected twelve of the wizards inside. Each one stared into the center with pure white eyes, their eyes rolled back; a sure sign of mind control from Magebane. The circle lit the...
The Cleric of Elshire
_The Cleric of Elshire_ A man cloaked in brown stood in the middle of the spell circle. He kneeled upon the ground with hands pressed firmly against the earth, and the runes in the circle around him hummed with power. The ground was shaking...
Dreams of the Moon
_Dreams of the Moon_ _ _ I shut the door behind me as I finally finished the day. I was tired, too tired to even take a shower before going to bed. Instead, I sauntered over to the bathroom like a zombie and looked at myself in the mirror. I looked...
Powerless
_Powerless_ _ _ Zack was sitting in the cockpit of his RV-styled spaceship. The grey scaled dragon was programming a new destination into the ship's computer while his best friend, Anthony, was fiddling around with an electronic encyclopedia of the...
Falling
_Falling_ _ _ Heavenly light pierced the brilliant white clouds from above me. Below, red, brown, and death waited. The air whipped past me as I fell. How did it come to this? One second I was with him, my dragon who had whisked me away from my...
Superiority Complex
_Superiority Complex_ _ _ "Mmm, that's good." "Gods, I wish I had a tongue like that." "You're perfect the way you are." Anthony licked up and down the spire of flesh presented to him, his tongue working its way all around the dragon's dark shaft....