Of Dogs and Dragons Chapter I: The Return of the Dragon.
AUTHOR NOTE: This story came to my mind upon hearing Santana's Collaboration with Chad Kroeger Into the night…then it hit me square on the chest and mind, with some modifications, that song tells the tale of the seventeen battles held by Poncho and Lady Tessaiga of the Western Lands… you see, there when a "woman" liked a "man" who showed not affection towards her, she could "earn him" by defeating him in battle.
The wind soared dangerously in the forest nearing Lord Inu Taissho's Castle in the western lands… He hated that, sure, he was an air based guy, but too much wind managed to really annoy him to the point of hatred… but that was not the point… according to his calculations he had returned but a week later of his last departing, luckily his employer was reasonable enough to not to take him away in the middle of a battle, so he guessed he would be in time to "drink and be merry" after the unification of the lands under the wise leadership of Lord Inu Taissho…
As he reached up for the castle the form of the one that was spoken before could be seen… retaining his 7 1/2' a greenish mass of scales walked to the front gates, his scaly dragon head had three horns in the upper part, one in the center and the other at each side of it, almost in a triceratops-like fashion, this was uncovered when the hood of her cape fell away by an stray gust of wind. He wore an armor that was basically a warring one, composed by a shiny green chest plate, shiny green shoulder pads with trimmings in white and red in the borders and white arm guards with green and red trimmings in the edges of it, which had an fin like blade in the middle of it, going from the wrist to the elbow… a white short like piece of armor with green and red trimmings running in it's ends and bigger trims running all across the legs in both sides of them, the short hoisted at the right side a small hammer, and in the lower back of the one could be seen the hilt of a sword, and it's carrying staff on the left side, finally, it had metallic red knee guards, that reached up to the foot, leaving his feet's fingers uncovered, finally, he arrived to the gates, after replacing the hood of the robe covering his whole body, only to find a couple of inu youkai guards, who promptly blocked the way before saying…
"Halt! Who are you and what do you seek in the Castle of the Lord of the Western Lands…?"
Yet the "stranger" refused to answer the guards, and literally pushed them backwards, ignoring the spears that they were pointing at him… this upset them, and, giving a small jump backwards, pushed forward, aiming their weapons at the chest, which was countered by the mysterious stranger by swatting them away of his person as he moved his right hand, palm facing the shoulder as he shouted…
Shin Ryu no Ryugeki Ken!
And a mighty gust of wind pushed back the guards, forcing them to crash on the castle walls, then, moving towards the inside of the castle he threw them a piece of parchment with the following inscription…
ロルッドドラゴン ロドリゲス アルフォンソ
(Lord Dragon Rodriguez Alfonso)
and the soldiers read the parchment, and looked at Lord Dragon , who just looked at them before opening the front door, entering the castle, as he moved to the main hall, half hoping, half knowing he was going to find Lord Inu Taissho and his court there…
Well, There you have it, the first part of this brand new adventure of Poncho, anyways on the next chapter we'll see how the main protagonists first met, as a shadow of darkness grows over the couple… Don't forget to read and Review…
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