40 It’s a Dragon (1/2)
The Dragon before Don laid as still as the dead. With its all-red scales, Don was beginning to suspect it was either dead or the beast was sleeping without noticing anything.
A thrumming came from the dragon's jaws and nostrils, and wisps of smoke, but its fires were low in slumber. Beneath him, under all its limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about the dragon on all sides stretching away across the unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things,
Gold items, gems and jewels, and many precious things.
However, the most attractive thing to Don among all the wealth was the golden spherical object near the Dragon.
This was the first time Don seeing a Dragon this close, in the Divine Continent there were many stories about the mysterious powerful Dragon race but none of them seen one in centuries yet a real mighty Dragon before him lay before him.
Don slowly but carefully stepped forward, at that moment the Dragon opened its eyes as Don halted his moments and stood there without moving.
The Dragon glared at Don, behind those eyes of dragonish glare, in a language carved before the age of ice, is the mind of the serpent king, the beast of the darkened cave. The wisps of hot smoke from the Dragon's nostrils reached Don as the Dragon slowly uncoiled its tail and stood up.
Don was wondering how dwarves could be hunted by humans with this mighty beast as their guardian, this dragon seemed like it could easily topple a three-story building in this world, it could easily kill a powerful mage with its pinky as far as Don concerned.
However, when the Dragon stood up Don was able to see its bones were visible to him like it was starved, behind those eyes of the Dragon was tiredness and exhaustion.
”Finally you are here the successor of Dhorfir Thunderbolt”
Hearing the Dragon speak Don was taken back by surprise and shock not because it could talk but the mightiness of the voice he just heard, Don had always imagined the Dragon's voice would be like a growl or something different from the human's but the voice he heard was a sweet feminine voice yet its echoed through the caves because of the power contained in the voice.
”do you know the Dragon King?” Don asked the Dragon as another wisp of hot smoke touched and passed through him.
”My ancestors know him and I have their memories, now tell me successor, why are you here?”
The dragon glanced down and asked him.
Don stared at the Dragon for a moment before he answers the Dragon.
”I am going to bring the dwarves their home, the land of the Dragon King”
Don said looking directly at the Dragon's eyes, he didn't show any fear or emotion on his face.
When the Dragon heard Don it shook his head and sent another wisp of hot smoke towards him,
”Don't lie to me successor, I can see the anger and pain within you behind the calm face of yours”
Don was startled to hear the Dragon,
”You don't do anything that doesn't get you closer to your revenge successor, you are here because you want the dwarves and their knowledge”
Don couldn't disagree with the Dragon because of first what the Dragon said was all true and second he could get crushed or burnt if he argued with the Dragon so he chose to tell the truth
”You are right I need the dwarves” Don paused for a moment and stared at the Dragon
”But you also knew they need me and I guess you are not well, are you?”
Don asked the dragon as the dragon sighed and looked at the golden spherical beside it.
The dragon seemed surprised at Don's question but after a few seconds it sighed and said
”I'm not successor I'm not, I don't have much longer”
Don could see the sadness on the Dragon's eyes, the Dragon looked at the exit of the cave like it wanted to go out one last time.