Spider and Olm ran to the edge of the village, where Spider stopped. There was about 50 ft of field before the forest started in front of them, but Spider could tell it hadn't gone into the forest.
"Where is it?" Olm asked.
"Close, very close. I can smell it." Spider said with a sniff.
Spider walked into the field a bit, shouting:
"I know yer here! Show yer self! I have a score ter settle with yer!"
There was an awkward silence and Spider tensed, ready to access his dragon powers at a moments notice.
Then he heard the sound of a wingflap and an excited screech. Something landed in front of him, only 5 ft away. Then it just 'appeared' out of thin air....
To Spider it looked like some sort of dragon. It was about 21 ft long, wingspan looked about 45 ft. Dark green skin with dark blue stripes, blue-green spines on its back and yellow eyes. It's wings were the only thing supporting its weight on the ground and it was roughly 9 ft in height. On its snout were hints of face tentacles, but those were only indentations with three claws at the tip of its snout.
It wasn't looking at him threateningly; instead it was cocking its head to one side as if looking at him curiously.
Two realisations hit Spider at once:
He remembered Dragadon telling him that dragons recongized their kin when they saw them, so this thing had dragon in it.
The other was shocking...the more he looked at it...the more he saw simularities between himself and this thing: the dark green skin, the arrangement of the spines, the eyes, the remeants of the face tentacles.
Spider backed up a bit as it dawned on him...this thing didn't just had simularities to him...it particality WAS him.
"Myron..." Spider said, mainly to himself but loud enough for Olm to hear, "Yer never did completely rediscover the formula my father used did yer? Instead, yer used my DNA as a guide ter create this one. Obviously...yer put more dragon in..."
[ August 18, 2001: Message edited by: Dragadon ]
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