The Dragon and The Prince

High on the mountains of the glorious land of China a Dragon lives. The beast sleeps in a cave full with treasures, eats the land's food, scares the inhabits of the many villages, sinks the foreigners' trade ships onto the deep sea, and no brave prince, virtuous knight or smart village boy can defeat the dragon. Many, many tried but all fail, and to the boredom of the Dragon people stop trying to kill him. They stop, since one hundred and forty years ago, after the favorite son of the emperor die trying to slay the beast.

Until today.

The beast yawns widely, and the quiet construction of the trap or weapon stops. In less than a week time, young warriors started working in something in front of the dragon's cage, hidden by the bamboo forest but not from the sensible hearing of the beast. The animal turns and goes to sleep, and he waits until the construction once again begins. Whispers barely audible are spoken, and the first one to speak, to the surprise of the dragon, is a girl.

"This is stupid!" She was fast shh by a coworker. She continues, but in an even lower voice. "This animal haven't fight anyone in more than one hundred years. How hard can be killing it? If you, oh strong warriors, are scare of the green lizard, then you can hide behind me. I will slay the beast."

The dragon was annoy, like he would die that easily just because someone says so, but impressed of the girl's bravery/stupidity. Soon, someone answers her, a foreigner -Portugal or Spain.

"Listen, Princess, I know you think everything on life is easy -and I don't blame you, everything had been easy for you- but killing a dragon isn't!"

'Oh, a princess' The beast enjoys the drama, so bore from the lack of companionship, and got ready for the girls' response but an other male-very young-voice answer.

"Oh, Ruduno don't hold it against her; after all, she is simple a girl."

"Raimundo! Ra-i-mun-do"

A light pair of feet moves to the edge of the bamboo wall, and a heavy pair of footsteps are soon next to the first person.

"That wouldn't be very smart, would be? Lady Kimiko." The voice was tick yet soft, but more importantly had let known to the beast that both were foreigners as well. Raimundo and his companion are too involve in the pronunciation of a name to even notice that Kimiko almost run to the cave of the dragon alone.

"I can show them, all of them. I'm strong, I..." The girl sound very determinant and sad, and what is a princess form Japan doing on the mountains of China.

"You cannot if you are dead" There is silence between those two, interrupted by Raimundo.

"Hey, from now on I'm Rai"

The construction continues.

The dragon feeds in their gossip. All want to kill the dragon, but all had different reasons. Clay the calm man with the strong voice wants to make his village stop living at the mercy of a beast. 'Noble, he will die for a noble cause' The dragon thinks without much care.

Rai wants to sell the dragon's scales and treasure. 'Let your own greed kill you.'

Omi, the youngest of all, want to had the tittle of Dragon warrior and prove his superior martial skills. 'Lets see.'

Kimiko Tohomiko needs to bring the dragon's head to prove her father that she is strong enough to take care of her people. 'oh, interesting.'

The beast smiles at the opponents he has.