"Hello? Hello??" called the slightly battered knight, to the inky black depths of the cave. Only the echoes returned "hello hello hello," fainter each time. The knight, our valiant hero looked slightly worn. In his battered helm and not so shining plate mail. The sword he wore at his side had the look of long familiar use, Its long straight scabbard was wrapped with a faded blue cloth, the cross guard dented and dull with spots of the original bright sheen showing through, the ends were fashioned into twin dragon heads. The hilt was wrapped with solid leather and stained with sweat. Cautiously the knight ventured in. Sticking to the edges of the cave, which was about 50 ft. across and nearly 30 up. Large stalagtights hung threateningly from the ceiling, and huge round stalagmights reared up from the ground. Unseen to the knight one of the shadows towards the back of the cave was stirring. As the knight crept ever closer to the rear of the cave he noticed a very strange odor. A slightly musty scent tinged with decay and if possible for a scent death. On noticing this, the knight paused and started to search the shadows even more thoroughly. Suddenly one of the shadows at the back detached itself from the wall where it had been hiding and hurtled towards the knight. Luckily for the knight he had been looking in that direction and had just time to hurtle out of the way of 3 tons of spiked fiery death. The dragon whose way he had just hurtled out of was a Hebridean Black. 30 ft. long, black and very fast this was the terror of the local towns, and the knight's quest. Along the spine of the dragon ran razor sharp ridges that ended in an arrow shaped spike at end of the dragon's tail. Bat like wings were folded tight to the body at present and the huge glowing purple eyes cast shadows of their own in the cave. As the knight threw himself behind a stalagtight the dragon jetted a stream of liquid fire after him. The rock that the knight had been standing on was reduced to a puddle of brightly glowing ooze. Quickly running back around the stalagtights between the 2 of them the knight threw himself at the left back leg of the dragon. Hoping to hamstring the beast. The dragon seeing the knight coming jerked its back end around and lashed its tail through the air where the knight had just flown; Several stalagtights were demolished when the razor sharp tail hit them. Coming up under the belly of the dragon the knight managed to score a long shallow hit along the underbelly of the dragon. As the black acidic blood of the dragon began to flow it let out an earsplitting roar and snapped its head after the fleeing knight. Unfortunately for the dragon the roar had shaken free a couple of stalagtights one of which came down on its head, temporarily stunning it. Taking advantage of this the knight rushed in to stab the dragon in the chest. His enchanted sword was buried nearly to the hilt before he was forced to jump back as the dragon's head smashed down to crush him. Nearly loosing his sword the knight fled to behind a very large stalagmight while waiting for the dragon to stop thrashing and demolishing stalagtights and stalagmights in it's agony. When the dragon had started to hunt for him again the knight threw a handy rock across the cave, and after the dragon had turned to blast what it thought was the knight; the knight rushed in to deliver a killing stroke. Leaping high up onto the dragon's neck the knight brought his sword down in a mighty stroke that nearly severed the neck. Running outside to avoid the dragons death throws and grab a bit of fresh air the knight hurtled over the stalagmights in his path and fled the dragon's horrible crashing.