Message #154760

[Flash-әdge]

Here's a different story; I might actually continue this one in different contests though:

 PROLOGUE:

   Boom! The catapult launched a heavy boulder into the night air. A roaring blaze of inferno met it and it was disintegrated by a fiery, red dragon. Roar! The dragon soared over the city followed by four others of different sizes and colored scales. The red Scrymger dragon led the four others onto the battlements. It glanced around and saw its fellow dragons doing well. Satisfied, it flicked its tongue out and baked a knight in armor like bread might in the oven. It glanced around then flared up two holes below its nose. Using heat-seeking abilities from its inner body chamber, it located a dragon egg’s presence. With a loud roar it launched itself of the battlement and sent several men flying. The enraged dragon crashed through a roof and met the castle’s “king.â€� It wondered how such a puny creature could actually try to dominate the present world. Then, his eyes caught a shiny ruby red round object. The egg! It bared two rows of hard, shining teeth at the king and flew to retrieve the egg. Little did it know however, that knights were hiding in the shadows.
         With a bark, the king ordered an attack on the dragon. The red dragon reeled in pain. Many arrows had bounced of its rough scales but a particular sharp shooter had pierced the dragon's eye. The dragon flew at the man like a tempest and within seconds, the man was ripped to shreds. But, the dragon made an even graver mistake. For while he had attacked the man, the dragon had exposed its soft underbelly to a group of archers at the other side of the round chamber. The dragon roared in pain. Several lethal arrows pinned its underbelly and throat. With a long, blazing look at the egg, it launched forward to grab its precious treasure but was stopped by rows of pike men and even more arrows from the shadows. It gave out a long miserable cry in warning to the other dragons and flew out a painted window. The dragons followed their fiery, red leader and they all soon disappeared over the horizon with catapult boulders covered in sickly oil and roaring flames following them. The boulders flew through the skies and one of the stones hit a dragon. In screaming agony, the green dragon fell to the cold, black earth. The red dragon looked back at his fellow beasts and noticed that two others had fallen to the knights in the brawl as well. In its strange, alien mind it vowed that as long as it lived it would save the egg… her egg.