Thread: Dragon's Hoard

The young girl had barely escaped from the wolf chasing her, but once she made it to the camp it was easily chased off by the adventurers. Then eventually whether it took only a few minutes or until mere hours before sunrise, everyone settled down to catch a little bit of sleep. In the morning it was time to rouse whether rested or not. It was morning and time to get started. They would have to leave now if they wanted to reach that cave before dark. And even a small creature could become dangerous in the dark of night. Some of the group certainly had not got much sleep and would be groggy and off their game. But it shouldn't matter right? This would be easy. Find the thing chop off its head and head back to town for the reward. It was a long hard hike up the sheer cliff. Finally they got up to the cave. The cave was much much bigger than it looked like from below. There was a little landing above the steep climb up and then it was straight to the cave entrance. The cave was big enough to fit a ship inside. A wide straight hall went down into the mountain. It opened into a massive cavern. And instantly they should all realize this was no simple monster. The giant cavern was covered in gold coins. It was like a lake of gold. There had to be millions of them. Stopping to pick up just one anyone with any knowledge would instantly realize these coins were anchient. Some were thousands of years old but they were all still shiny bright and new like they had only been made yesterday. And they came from all over the world. Most of the coins were from countries none of them had ever heard of. In the sea of gold coins there were gems and diamonds of every shape and color. There was a ruby as big as a man's head. The fortune here had to be the greatest in the entire world. They could rule the whole kingdom for less than a tenth of this gold. Not only that, but there were six tunnels leading off. And every single one opened onto a chamber just like this and filled to the brim with gold. This main cave had passages that lead to dozens of others. He had used his magic to carve a city of tunnels and chambers out of the mountain. The dragon was smart. He hunted far and wide. If a ship carry gold disappeared here and a caravan of gems dissapeared there no one would suspect it was a dragon. He also didn't mind too much about the other dragons getting killed off. Because almost every time he went and got their treasure for himself. He had spies. Birds mostly. He gave them food and they told him about gold. The birds also told him about the band of would be slayers coming up his mountains. So he was ready for them and they had already lost. The dragon wasn't home and the caves were empty. But there was no sound. They were all silent. Then there was an angry roar. He was going to announce himself. The earth shook as he landed. He walked down his entrance to find the little creatures. He spread his wings and blocked out all the light from above. He was a gigantic creature even bigger than the dragons of legend. He was twenty feet tall at his shoulder. His whole body was sixty feet long. His long neck and tail doubled that. He was solid muscle. Thick cords rippled under his scales. Tight along his legs and bulging at his impressive pecs. Not to mention the flight muscles along his sides and back. Each of his legs was three feet thick, ended in a big strong paw tipped with fearsome claws. His tree sized tail lashed angrily behind him. He lowered his head to hang right over them. His massive head was as big as a person. His long fearsome fanged snout looked like it could swallow a horse hole. He was covered in thick red scales each like a shield and twice as strong. His back was blood red with thick bumpy plates like a mountain range. His sides were brighter red and shining smooth. His belly faded to more of an orange. And he was clearly a male because that orange continued all the way down to between his hind legs were a pair of testicles each four feet across hung in a scally sack. Just above the sack was a slit that hid his massive slick ink black cock. His eyes stared angrily at them. Two long sleek black horns grew from the back of his skull. He snorted at the people under him. His breath was red hot. Obviously some inner fire burned in him and he could let it out to roast them all. How dare you intrude on my home? You mortal creatures are such pests. I can't have a single decade of peace. He pointed with his tail to a pile of bones stacked up in one corner. The pile was filled with weapons and armor not valuable enough to be mixed in with the rest of his hoard. He obviously just burned the meat off those bones because they were too tangled in their old armor to be worth eating. He grumbled while thinking. I suppose it is time I do something about you creatures. I guess I must solve the problem once and for all or I will never get any peace. He looked over the people. I will start with you.