Verdant Wrath


George was already regretting bringing his friend along. As much as he liked Chance, the man was not cut out for camping. They were walking for only a few minutes before Chance started complaining. The trail was too steep, the rocks were in his way, the trees were not green enough.
Not green enough?
George thought as they continued.

“Don’t worry chance, it’s only a

An Unlikely Protector





Echoing howls split the night. The thick jungle passed by in a blur. His heartbeat blasted in his ears. The pain in his back ached and his bare feet stung with the sticks and insects he trampled. Sweat beaded on his forehead, dripping into his eyes with a painful sting. He was nearly blind, but he really didn’t care. He just had to get away.

The sound of wind

The Queen’s Vigil





    

Kristal, queen anubis of the desert, was making her final rounds, checking on her kingdom. She walked through the barren wasteland, observing monuments long forgotten by others. Her eyes remained vigilant despite the advanced time of day pulling on her mind. The air cooled rapidly as day turned to twilight, the cloudless sky holdin

"This is ridiculous," Aleksander thinks to himself, "Overnight guard duty sucks." The scrawny 22-year-old sits there on the southern side of the small island where he's spent his entire life. On this island stands a settlement, one of the oldest in their archipelago, called

Hvildu

. It's been home to Aleks' clan for at least twenty generations, going back to some of the first Scandinavian explorers. The sailin

The Dragon Awakens



Serynthar arrived back home to his cave just after sunset on a warm summer’s evening. His belly swayed side to side as he padded in, the sounds of his gurgling stomach echoing off the walls. He’d just pilfered a couple of

huge heifers from a farm a few leagues away.



He’d swooped down and grabbed the two cows,

The Flock’s Defender


It was just before evening, the valley teemed with life. Birds sang from the trees, deer pranced through the fields of goldenrod and a flock of sheep minded their own business, grazing in an area fenced off from the rest. Then a roar shattered the peace, scattering the deer and silencing the birds. But the sheep didn’t seem to react much more than looking in the direction of the sound.

A dragon, s

               The black and white dragon flew silently over his domain, his eyes on the lookout for anything out of the ordinary. The sun was nearing the horizon as afternoon slowly gave way to a warm and peaceful evening. Ebon was just getting ready to call it for the night when a scent hit his nostrils, something new. He looked around to see where it was coming from, and he saw something that melted his heart. A family of c