Hey, guys! This is my first story ever on , heck, my first story that I actually got up the courage to let other people see. I know it's just a drabble, but please let me know if you liked it! Maybe it'll help me overcome my fear of letting other people read stuff I write :)

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I was at the summit of the atmosphere, millions of bright, twinkling stars winking at me from their inky black backdrop. Threads of color wove and spun, shifting hue and shimmering in an eerily hypnotic wave of vibrant song.

Gazing into the ocean of darkness, my thoughts calmed and a deep sense of peace radiated from my heart to the very tips of my claws. I belonged here, in this serene joy akin to the apex of midnight.

Alas, my existence only partially originated from this endless expanse, that which some humans, being simple-minded creatures, called Death. With a regret so strong my entire being cried out against it, a primal yearning that longed to stay forever, I stilled my graceful wings. The strong beat ceased, and I plummeted back down to Earth.

For while I may be the progeny of Death, so too had I been spawned of Lightning, she of the Blinding Life, and her hold over my kind and I was too powerful to deny.

The stars faded into faint sparks, and the calm suffusing my body was broken by the fierce roar of the wind racing across my sable scales. I flashed through a storm cloud, watching in awe as a bolt of brilliant light arced beside me. It was a race to the unforgiving ground below. The lightning won as I snapped open my dark wings with powerful, precise movement, straining to halt my plummeting dive.

The lightning struck, splitting a formerly stately oak clean in half with an earsplitting crack as I glided effortlessly above the surviving treetops. Ignoring the driving rain running in rivulets down my scales, I landed gracefully before a human.

My human.

"Toothless!" He cried. "Let's get out of here, bud!" He began to run, fleeing the untamed forest to take shelter in the village a scant hundred yards away.

I followed with one last glance at the wild, storm tossed sky, my euphoria fading with the stars as I became once more a dragon instead of that which I was born to be – the unholy offspring of Lightning and Death itself (extremely dangerous, of course).