Fantasy
The Stolen Prophecy
There were not always been dragons in the valley. Or, more accurately, they were not always awake. One only had to look at the huge, crumbling holes torn in the valley walls to know that there had been hundreds in the course of human history. Technically it was incorrect to call the valley, a valley. It had not been created by any river or long melted glacier; it was a gouge cut into the earth when the first dragon, Northstar, had fallen from his constellation into the ground. It had taken about one hundred years for the meteoric flesh to sublimate and birth the first rocky giant, but since then, whenever a cluster had appeared, the occasion had always been regarded as portentous.
By Ruan Minear4 years ago in Fiction
The Tour of Dragonvale Falls
"There weren't always dragons in the valley. In fact," the old guide pulled off his rickety spectacles, huffed onto the glass, and rubbed them with a loose fold of his grey robe. "There, that's better," he muttered as he reinstated them on his long nose. "Now where was I?"
By Carl G. Lilley4 years ago in Fiction
The Misadventures of Lady Fortune
“There weren't always dragons in the Valley.” His deep, accented voice penetrates through Isabel Yaci’s thoughts like a shiv – sharp and swift enough to have her drop the very book that was titled ‘Dragon in the Valley’ to the ground.
By Oneika Williams4 years ago in Fiction
Do Not Open Under Any Circumstances
There weren’t always dragons in the valley. There weren’t always halflings who went on adventures, either. All that had changed quite recently. Kamdyn had no idea where the old book had come from, but she knew it was the source of her problems. Up until two days ago, everything had been perfectly fine.
By EJ Baumgardner4 years ago in Fiction
Serpent in the Ice
There were not always dragons in the valley. The chronicles told stories of conquests, full of the boasting of long-dead kings who had seen to it that any dragon entering the slopes about the river Hjallron, was grounded. Pushed back into the icy northlands, the huge creatures had been hunted aggressively, and it was the Rimebreaker kings who had taken this, the greatest valley for the dominion of men. For forty years that security had held.
By Ruan Minear4 years ago in Fiction
PRIMÆVAL
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley. In the days before eons were known, when time was green and yet to bloom, all lands were one on the face of the earth. When tribes of men began to master wild-like things, and to forge, they came. Great wyverns, ravenous in all their forms, moved through the waters of the deep, and in the midst of the fog of the wood. Whether they were shadows sent up from the sea or out of realms beyond the stars, who could tell? Yet when skies grew dark and storms appeared, men woke from their dwellings in terror to find the primæval jaws before them – open.
By Jonathan Blair4 years ago in Fiction
Dragons on the Brain
“There weren’t always dragons in the Valley,” complained an idle guard to his companion through the pouring rain. “Wasn’t too long ago that folks could raise their cattle in peace. We could bring out the fine china and silver spoons for Sunday dinner. Virgins could walk down the street without fear of being tossed in a cave to keep a fat lizard from burning down the town. Now we got good milking cows snatched up for midnight snacks without so much as a ‘don’t mind if I do’, you gotta keep the fineries buried in the backyard if you don’t want them to end up in some landfill the dragons call a hoard, and youths are practically jumping into bed observed by a notary just to certify they aren’t eligible for sacrifice. What kind of world are we coming to, eh?”
By William Alexander4 years ago in Fiction
The Shift
There weren't always dragons in the valley. The valley used to be home to the Kiweg Village. A young scientist named Yeilca worked alone in a hut on the outskirts of Kiweg. She was the first to discover the ability to harness the power within the land. She was terrified of the discovery that she referred to as The Shift, so she kept the discovery a secret and moved her lab to a cave located miles from Kiweg. For years Yeilca focused on controlling The Shift. She worked tirelessly inside the cave to avoid detection. She would only return to the village for supplies.
By Nicholas Hardy4 years ago in Fiction
The Valley
There weren’t always Dragons in the Valley. Vampires weren’t real, and ghosts were a figment of your imagination. At least that’s what the grown-ups in our small town would have us believe. Except I realized that those lies were the stories they told us to protect their secret. That secret? Dragons were real, and Vampires walked amongst us and ghosts, well, ghosts made all things go bump in the night.
By Kelly Maurica4 years ago in Fiction
