Username:
Remini
Name of Dragon:
Lobelia - Goes by Bel
Gender:
Female
Where did they get that name?:
There was a spark, a small gleaming flicker of light. That's all it took to destroy her whole world. The loving family she had, and the home she cherished.
No one believed her, of course. She couldn't speak, couldn't explain that it had happened at night as they slept, and by the time she awoke it was too late. What is fire to a hibernating dragon, after all. Her humans weren't so lucky. Of course, she was to blame, who else? Who would believe they hid a dragon from the time she was an abandoned wyrmling to a juvenile without a single person noticing?
No, she was a random beast that was found in the ruins of a house burned to a crisp by a single spark caused by lighting during a storm. It struck so hard and so fast, her humans didn't have time to escape. One was even huddled at her side, possibly trying to wake her. She loved her humans, oh so much. They were her pride and joy, her family.
And now they were gone and she was cast from the only home she ever knew. Her claws dug into the ashes, as the villagers flung pitchforks and torches at her. "Monster! Demon! Murderer!" They screamed, and she flinched from the most horrendous words she had ever heard a human utter.
She flickered her tail, horrified. She lept into the sky, a light blue aura surrounded her to keep her afloat. She was a monsterous light in the sky, a glimmering beast.
She stayed near her home, too sheltered to even know how to be a dragon. She stole cattle and sheep from the nearby farms, her humans used to buy them and breed them for her. She knew no other source of prey. She barely knew how to hunt, it took her months to get used to it. She was fearful of the humans and struck only at night, sometimes encountering young adult humans and teenagers who would shout in terror at her sight.
She wanted to leave but didn't know how or where to go, and the thought of encountering more dangerous dragons or humans clouded her reason with fear and despair.
Her original name was Serenity, affectionately dubbed so by her humans when she was young. Now she was the menace of the village, nicknamed Lobelia after a poisonous flower close to the village. When ingested the flower caused nausea and vomiting, and could fatally harm children. It was a decorative plant, it was used to dress up shops and gardens but everyone knew of it's danger. Glorious and beautiful, but deadly. Just like they thought she was.
The villagers would tell their children not to go out at night, or the dragon Lobelia would eat them or make them deathly ill. She was a myth, the embodiment of evil to those who she once lived amongst peacefully in hiding.
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