A/N: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge at the Pokemon Fanfiction Challenges Forum, K23 – complete 50,000 words of a fic during NaNo. So this is also my NaNo fic – but I changed the idea around day four/five so it hasn't made much of a headway right yet. I'm hoping it will; I haven't finished a NaNo yet, but third time's the charm maybe? Lol.
Anyway, enjoy. First actual chapter will be longer; this was just too perfect as a prologue for me to use as a full length chapter. Enjoy!
The Beast Wakes From Slumber
Prologue
He sensed the lullingly sweet lullaby had stopped.
It was just a hair breath's pause, but it was enough. He opened one eye, and when the music watched over him again and tried to pull him down, he resisted. The open eye helped: with each second it sucked in a little more of the world he had awoken to. It kept him from falling into the depths of slumber again. It awoke him – and with him awoke his rage.
He struggled to his feet and roared, for a moment drowning out the song. Let the wretched melody continue. He would kill it. And the world.
But then the roar dulled and the lullaby washed over it, clinging to his scales and dragging him down again. He roared again, but it was weaker than the first and the spell broke for only a fraction this time.
But it couldn't pull his opened eye closed. He closed it himself, deciding he could wait. Wait until the song broke again, or the strength sapped from him after eons of slumber returned.
Whether the world ended that day or the next did not matter to him. So long as it came to an end.