A/N: Welcome back! Today we discuss my favorite dragon: the dreaded Shadow Dragon! These guys are so wicked awesome! Enjoy. Oh, and just so you know, the sizes of the dragons range from nano, miniature, small, medium, large, and max. Nano would be like a Vorpent, miniature would be a Terrible Terror, small would be a Night Fury, medium would be a Mood Dragon, large would be a Monstrous Nightmare or Seashade, and max would be a Seadragonous Giganticus Maximus. Hope that clears things up. And if y'all don't know about the Shadow World, don't worry about it. I'll clear things up in future stories.

Qille's OC Dragon Manual

Shadow Dragon

Looks:

The Shadow Dragon is a medium sized dragon. They have long, thin bodies that are indistinguishable most of the time because they're usually surrounded by a black shadowy mist that chills you to your very soul! Their wings aren't attached to their front paws. Due to the relatively small size of their wings, they aren't good fliers, but they can travel through and stand on Shadows, so there's really no need for them to fly using their wings. They have red eyes and long, thin black horns. Their eyes glow in the dark. They have a medium length neck and spines running all down their back. Their talons are about a foot long and so hard that they can pierce a three-inch thick metal shield with ease.

Attitude:

Dangerous, mean, and deadly. These beasties have a very dark (no pun intended) personality. However, they can be loyal to someone if the feel like it. They've been known to make friends with dragons that share the same dark evilness. They're loyal to their friends and deadly to their enemies. They're also dangerously intelligent. That's what makes them one of the most dangerous dragons in existence.

Domain:

These dragons live in the Shadows. They hatch in the Shadow World and when they die, they're sent back to the Shadow World to be reincarnated as a different Shadow dragon. If they chose not to come back, then they become a pure Shadow.

Fire:

Shadow dragons have BLACK fire! What makes their fire black is the darkness that they're made of. The black fire, when blown over any other flame, will immediately extinguish the other flame. The black fire will replace it. This fire casts more Shadows, making it even more dangerous. Their fire will burn you, but it'll also engulf and suffocate you!

Fighting Style:

Buckle up. These monsters are fierce! If they're sent to kill someone, then they'll kill that person first, and then anyone else who got in their way. They use their foot-long talons to rip you to shreds. What makes these dragons so hard to kill is that they're elusive. Unless they have to become solid, they'll spent most of their time as an apparition, so that they can be seen but not touched. However, they have to become solid to breathe fire and pin someone to the floor or rip someone to shreds.

Another frightening issue about this dragon is that they can become and control the Shadows. They can travel through the Shadows and almost instantly appear wherever there are Shadows. That's how they make it to their victims so fast. They can even turn into a Shadow and go through their victim, immediately chilling their soul and knocking them out. They can also control the Shadows with their mind. For example, they can surround their victim in a solid Shadow, trapping them. Inside a Shadow, there is no oxygen, and it's freezing cold.

These dragons are next to impossible to kill, but someone has done it before, once. However, he hasn't told me, the writer of the Manual, how he did it. That part will just have to remain a mystery. The only proof he has that he did survive a Shadow attack are his scars, the damage done to his home, and the Shadow dragon talon dagger that he carries around.

Scarcity:

These beasties are incredibly rare! They're more rare than Night Furies! Rumor has it that there can only be three Shadow dragons in the entire world at a single time. But that's just a myth. For all we know, they could be more abundant than Terrors, but reports of their attacks could be rare because there's no one left alive to report it!

Longevity:

Although we don't quite know for sure, these dragons have the longest life span in existence. That's because they eat their victims after they've killed them. For fifteen minutes after clinical death, a victim's life is still technically there. The Shadow dragons can steal that life from their victims, but to do that, they eat them, which is very gross and cannibalistic and just down right nasty.

Spawns:

Shadow dragons have no biological parents. Their eggs are created at the bottom of the deepest darkest trench under the Shadow Sea in the Shadow World. They don't hatch until an existing Shadow dragon dies or retires to the Shadow World. The second a Shadow dragon opens his or her eyes after hatching, their instincts take over and they swim to the very surface of the Sea. There they sit, their paws hovering an inch from the surface, until the perfect time when the water is so still that they can see the Mortal world. That's when they plunge through the water and emerge in the Mortal world. From there, they let their instincts take over and do whatever they have to to survive.

Poison:

These dragons are actually very poisonous! However, their poison is the only poison that isn't independent. Their poison will immediately die if the Shadow dragon dies. However, their poison will remain in the body of the victim, dormant until its creator returns to life and reactivates it. However, no one knows what this poison does, because most victims die before the poison can even kick in. And if anyone DOES survive a Shadow attack and manages to get themselves poisoned, then they'll have died of natural causes long before the original Shadow dragon has a chance to reform.

Domestication and Training:

Don't even try. Just run. However, rumor has it that a Shadow dragon has been tamed in the past. A young girl was on a boat and was right there when the baby Shadow dragon burst through. The girl was said to have kept and trained it. But no one knows for sure.

Summary:

These dragons are the things that go bump in the night. They've killed people by just being there! They're incredibly dangerous, and you should run for your life if you ever see one. And all you macho Vikings out there who think they can take one down... don't. If you wanna take one down, you've gotta do it with brains, not muscles.

Shadow dragons are very rare and hard to kill. They're the things that nightmares are made of. Don't ever anger one, and don't ever threaten them, because, even if they're on the other side of the globe, they can still hear you. They can find you anywhere they go. Because, after all, how do you hide from a Shadow?

A/N: Don't you just love evil badass dragon?If you wanna read about the Shadow World, then you'll have to wait until a future story of mine, Land of the Dead, is posted. If you wanna read about how deadly Shadow dragons can be in action, check out a fic of mine called Dead by Dawn. Wow, I've got two stories that have the word 'dead' in the title.

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