The Black Dragon

Chap 1

Close to midnight in Downtown Seattle. A silent figure prowls on the roofs, searching for something.

"My master won't be pleased if I return empty handed," she muttered, for she was a Huntsgirl, one of the few to survive under the rule of the Huntsmaster. "If I don't get something tonight, he will surely kill me."

"And, is that such a bad thing?" taunted a mysterious voice behind her. Huntsgirl whirled around and squinted to see who had eavesdropped on her. However, whoever had taunted her remained hidden in the shadows.

"Show your self, coward!" she cried.

"Coward am I?" the voice continued, "Then what does that make you?"

A slithering presence slowly emerged from the darkness, but not enough that Huntsgirl would immediately identify the creature for what it was.

"What…what do you mean?" she asked, trembling; for the creature looked terrifying in the darkness. Indeed, that darkness only looked like a cloak around it. However, no other details could describe the presence that scared the Huntsgirl so.

"I mean, doing the Huntsmaster's work for him, always complying to his demands, and never, ever defying his word, not even with a complaint," it spat, sounding as though it hated even saying this to her.

"You say this like you've experienced this for yourself," Huntsgirl asked. "How can that be? The Huntsclan never…"

"…Never allows magical creatures to join it. Duh," The Huntsgirl cocked her head at that. What creature used human slang? Unless… "But, then, I have my ways. Now, why don't you be a good little girl and hand me that UGH!"

Huntsgirl finally put the pieces together and decided that the creature who was taunting her had to be a dragon (who else could it be?) and that it would make a great present for the Huntsmaster after all her failings.

"That staff of yours is useless against me, you know," the "creature" continued.

"We'll see about that," Huntsgirl jeered, "after we shed some light on you."

With her last bit of courage, Huntsgirl pushed the creature into the lightened area she was in and gave a sharp gasp.