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The dragon's name was Khullios, or Lightstrike to humans. In her day, she was the fiercest warrior-her spells some of the most powerful. She had flanked Huma's side. Her breath could burn of Ansalon (given a day or so). Her talons were death to a wyvern. Now, she wasn't fighting in glory against the Dark Queen. Instead, she was taking a long, well needed sleep.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Curled in a ball, dreaming of battle, laid a rather large gold dragon. Tas gasped. This wasn't what he had expected! He thought that it was an evil dragon! So caught up in his lust for adventure, he had forgotten completely to ask Gnumash what color the dragon was.
"Gnumash!" Tas hissed. The gnome stopped. Turning to glare at Tas, (he's good at that) Gnumash accidentally tripped over an object (bat guano. A reeeaaal big chunk) on the caves floor and went flying into Tas. The two Graygem Creatures lay sprawled on all fours onto the floor. This, however, was loud enough to wake the dragon from her slumber.
Lifting her lithe head from a pillow of shields (she preferred steel over gold), the Gold began to search the cave for any minions of Takhisis. Seeing instead a kender and a gnome, Lightstrike heaved a mighty sigh.
Now, if Tas and Gnumash had decided to leave the dragon in peace, Tas would visit Flint and Gnumash would have actually completed his Life Quest. But since they, didn't, we must mourn for the unfortunate gnome and kender. "By Reorx Beard!" Tas swore. "Gnumash, you could have slain a good dragon!"
Regaining the tatters of his dignity, Gnumash glared at the moron of a kender. "That wouldn't have made a difference you see, becausethenIcouldoffermyservicetotheDarkQueenandbecomeaminionof-"
Tas was now dreadfully confused. Scratching his prized topknot, "How would that make you a Solamnic Knight?"
Seeing how incredibly stupid the kender was, Gnumash chose to ignore the question. But, after realizing teaching a kender to be more like a gnome would be a blessing to all, Gnumash decided to give an answer to Tas. "WellyouseeIcanbeaspyfortheSolamnicKnightsandrisehighinthereranksandMt.Never mindwillbecomealegendnotthatitisn'talreadyand-"
Gnumash would have said more if the dragon hadn't suddenly beat her wings at such ferocity that both kender and gnome to crash headlong into the cavern wall (which amounted to a lot of brain damage).
Dizzily, they picked themselves. The nausea was intense. Retching many times-many times indeed-eventually they began to vomit. After around five minutes, the nausea subsided. Wiping their mouths with the unidentifiable objects on the cave's floor, gnome and kender began to wander the cave.
Gnumash attentively studied the cavern walls and made an impromptu comment of how the walls were "of dwarven make". Tas on the other hand took great interest of the dragon's treasure pile. Spying a goblet (which was of dwarven make), Tas immediately pocketed. "I'll just steal-wait! I mean borrow. NO! I'm STEALING IT!! I'M A THIEF!!! MWAHAHAHA!!!!!!!"
Seeing one of her goblets being pocketed by the kender, Lightstrike shoved a very bloody and dead kender-that had dared to try to find out what the inside of a dragon looked like-in front of Tas. This recovered Tas's kender traits. "I'm s-sorry y-you m-must ha-have d-d-dropped it." Brightening up suddenly (from the brain damage) Tas broke into uncontrollable jabbering.
"Do you know Fireflash? He's a bronze dragon by the way. I saved his life form Lord Soth! Do you want to hear it? No?" Looking into the dragon's irritated expression (and the fact that the dragon was scraping her claw against the cave's floor. Tas thought that it might be interesting to get ripped up to pieces-but there goes bye-bye to his adventures {And his brain started to work again.}), Tas gulped. "W-we're dr-dreadfully sorry f-for disturbing you a-and-"
"GRIFFON MEAT!!!!" Gnumash exclaimed suddenly. Apparently poor Gnumash had still not recovered (And, he finished a sentence _).
"What?!" asked Tas sharply.
"GRIFFON MEAT FOR THE GIFT OF LIFE TREE DAY!!!!! WE MUST CELEBRATE!!!! It's a Dwarven custom." The gnome (or dwarf, for the matter) added softly. Gnumash had obviously gone insane.
"Listen Gnumash," Tas said, trying as hard as possible to sound like Tanis. "Why don't we just dance right out of here. There's obviously nothing you can do here. Why don'y you just-hey Gnumash! WHAT IN THE ABYSS ARE YOU DOING??!!!"
Ignoring the kender, the gnome/dwarf glared (he can still do that) at the kender. "BY REORX, I'M 'GONNA SLAY THIS DRAGON MMWWAHAHAHA!!!!!!" Before Tas could stop him, Gnumash (who was mentally gone) pulled the lever to the Miracle Explosive.
"DAMN YOU!!!!!" cried a very anguished Tasslehoff. He stopped from strangling the gnome/dwarf. Nothing happened. Tas gave a sigh of relief.
"Oh," Gnumash said, quite sad. "It must be broken. Shaking the device, Gnumash's eyes suddenly gleamed with a fevered madness. Flinging the device into the wall (which was less than a yard away from him), a spark lit the device. Hurriedly, Gnumash swallowed (swallowed, not licked) the Miracle Explosive.
The gnome-dwarf's face turned dangerously red. A 'boom' was followed by the gnome's blood and gore splattering Tas's topknot. Waves of heat flung Tas against the wall. The dragon cried out in pain. Blood dribbled into Tas's eye. The sickening smell of burning dragon flesh filled the cave (the Miracle Explosive was really impressive. Its first test blew up all of an unfortunate town and citizens).
Fire caught everything. The dying dragon's tail slammed into the cavern wall, causing a shower of boulders to come tumbling down upon Tas. The last thing Tas saw was the Gold's body a flaming torch, then everything went black (and a bit red).
====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ===== Now we all now that Tas lives. BUT WHO CARES??!! Flame me if you must. But I repeat ONLY if you must!
The dragon's name was Khullios, or Lightstrike to humans. In her day, she was the fiercest warrior-her spells some of the most powerful. She had flanked Huma's side. Her breath could burn of Ansalon (given a day or so). Her talons were death to a wyvern. Now, she wasn't fighting in glory against the Dark Queen. Instead, she was taking a long, well needed sleep.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Curled in a ball, dreaming of battle, laid a rather large gold dragon. Tas gasped. This wasn't what he had expected! He thought that it was an evil dragon! So caught up in his lust for adventure, he had forgotten completely to ask Gnumash what color the dragon was.
"Gnumash!" Tas hissed. The gnome stopped. Turning to glare at Tas, (he's good at that) Gnumash accidentally tripped over an object (bat guano. A reeeaaal big chunk) on the caves floor and went flying into Tas. The two Graygem Creatures lay sprawled on all fours onto the floor. This, however, was loud enough to wake the dragon from her slumber.
Lifting her lithe head from a pillow of shields (she preferred steel over gold), the Gold began to search the cave for any minions of Takhisis. Seeing instead a kender and a gnome, Lightstrike heaved a mighty sigh.
Now, if Tas and Gnumash had decided to leave the dragon in peace, Tas would visit Flint and Gnumash would have actually completed his Life Quest. But since they, didn't, we must mourn for the unfortunate gnome and kender. "By Reorx Beard!" Tas swore. "Gnumash, you could have slain a good dragon!"
Regaining the tatters of his dignity, Gnumash glared at the moron of a kender. "That wouldn't have made a difference you see, becausethenIcouldoffermyservicetotheDarkQueenandbecomeaminionof-"
Tas was now dreadfully confused. Scratching his prized topknot, "How would that make you a Solamnic Knight?"
Seeing how incredibly stupid the kender was, Gnumash chose to ignore the question. But, after realizing teaching a kender to be more like a gnome would be a blessing to all, Gnumash decided to give an answer to Tas. "WellyouseeIcanbeaspyfortheSolamnicKnightsandrisehighinthereranksandMt.Never mindwillbecomealegendnotthatitisn'talreadyand-"
Gnumash would have said more if the dragon hadn't suddenly beat her wings at such ferocity that both kender and gnome to crash headlong into the cavern wall (which amounted to a lot of brain damage).
Dizzily, they picked themselves. The nausea was intense. Retching many times-many times indeed-eventually they began to vomit. After around five minutes, the nausea subsided. Wiping their mouths with the unidentifiable objects on the cave's floor, gnome and kender began to wander the cave.
Gnumash attentively studied the cavern walls and made an impromptu comment of how the walls were "of dwarven make". Tas on the other hand took great interest of the dragon's treasure pile. Spying a goblet (which was of dwarven make), Tas immediately pocketed. "I'll just steal-wait! I mean borrow. NO! I'm STEALING IT!! I'M A THIEF!!! MWAHAHAHA!!!!!!!"
Seeing one of her goblets being pocketed by the kender, Lightstrike shoved a very bloody and dead kender-that had dared to try to find out what the inside of a dragon looked like-in front of Tas. This recovered Tas's kender traits. "I'm s-sorry y-you m-must ha-have d-d-dropped it." Brightening up suddenly (from the brain damage) Tas broke into uncontrollable jabbering.
"Do you know Fireflash? He's a bronze dragon by the way. I saved his life form Lord Soth! Do you want to hear it? No?" Looking into the dragon's irritated expression (and the fact that the dragon was scraping her claw against the cave's floor. Tas thought that it might be interesting to get ripped up to pieces-but there goes bye-bye to his adventures {And his brain started to work again.}), Tas gulped. "W-we're dr-dreadfully sorry f-for disturbing you a-and-"
"GRIFFON MEAT!!!!" Gnumash exclaimed suddenly. Apparently poor Gnumash had still not recovered (And, he finished a sentence _).
"What?!" asked Tas sharply.
"GRIFFON MEAT FOR THE GIFT OF LIFE TREE DAY!!!!! WE MUST CELEBRATE!!!! It's a Dwarven custom." The gnome (or dwarf, for the matter) added softly. Gnumash had obviously gone insane.
"Listen Gnumash," Tas said, trying as hard as possible to sound like Tanis. "Why don't we just dance right out of here. There's obviously nothing you can do here. Why don'y you just-hey Gnumash! WHAT IN THE ABYSS ARE YOU DOING??!!!"
Ignoring the kender, the gnome/dwarf glared (he can still do that) at the kender. "BY REORX, I'M 'GONNA SLAY THIS DRAGON MMWWAHAHAHA!!!!!!" Before Tas could stop him, Gnumash (who was mentally gone) pulled the lever to the Miracle Explosive.
"DAMN YOU!!!!!" cried a very anguished Tasslehoff. He stopped from strangling the gnome/dwarf. Nothing happened. Tas gave a sigh of relief.
"Oh," Gnumash said, quite sad. "It must be broken. Shaking the device, Gnumash's eyes suddenly gleamed with a fevered madness. Flinging the device into the wall (which was less than a yard away from him), a spark lit the device. Hurriedly, Gnumash swallowed (swallowed, not licked) the Miracle Explosive.
The gnome-dwarf's face turned dangerously red. A 'boom' was followed by the gnome's blood and gore splattering Tas's topknot. Waves of heat flung Tas against the wall. The dragon cried out in pain. Blood dribbled into Tas's eye. The sickening smell of burning dragon flesh filled the cave (the Miracle Explosive was really impressive. Its first test blew up all of an unfortunate town and citizens).
Fire caught everything. The dying dragon's tail slammed into the cavern wall, causing a shower of boulders to come tumbling down upon Tas. The last thing Tas saw was the Gold's body a flaming torch, then everything went black (and a bit red).
====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ===== Now we all now that Tas lives. BUT WHO CARES??!! Flame me if you must. But I repeat ONLY if you must!