In the forest there is a large clearing in which no trees grow. Fire from the sky burned the trees, the vines. We dragons live here in solitude. Today the earth shook violently. Ooma, Miko, Gombu and I, Cambor, didn’t know where to go. The earth shook again. There, thumping, pounding its eight legs, was the biggest, greatest dragon in the world. It’s body glistened with thousands of shiny silver scales, each bigger than those on the fish in the blue water beyond the clearing. Jaws opened and a forked tongue, much longer than my entire body, rolled out, touched Gombu and he disappeared. If I dared, I could stand up comfortably, extend my long neck, go inside its huge nostrils. Instead, I took a chance, spread my webbed wings, fluttered them a bit and could step back. Sudden hot flames shot out of the dragon’s gigantic jaws but went out before they reached Ooma, Miko and me.
Green, green eyes that changed to yellow, looked at me now and then.They watched me closely and frightened me. Ooma and I hissed but the dragon paid no attention. One eye held steady on Ooma, the other on me. The dragon raised its two front legs while the middle two hung loose. All of its weight was then on his hind legs and thick scaly tail. That’s where I saw a huge round thing that had no scales. Steam curled out of it.
The middle legs were lowered and the dragon took one step forward. That put him behind me. I waited to be devoured. Instead he climbed on me, hurt me. Noises came from my neck that I never made before. He got off and went to Ooma. She bellowed, roared, tried to get away but couldn’t. Again the monster dragon raised its itself until I was sure it would touch the sky. When he came down, he hunched over Ooma one more time, then me. Thumping and pounding, in a few steps he left the clearing.It took many suns, many moons for Ooma and me to have four beautiful baby dragons with silver scales and green eyes. We both would welcome the biggest dragon in the world if he ever returned. He had better before our dragons get bigger than he is.
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