Briton Red Dragon

Briton Red Dragon is a species of hostile magic eating dragons. One of them, which only known as Ancient Dragon, serves as the main antagonist of the short film Little Witch Academia.
==Description==
These dragons are distinguished by their vivid red body, which seems hot enough to burst into flames at any moment. Even artistic depictions of this creature seem to radiate heat.
While these dragons' egg form is yet to be revealed until this point, Briton Red Dragons' hatchlings are shown much lizard-like with red and white coloration, along with glowing yellow eyes and a pair of underdeveloped wings. As they grow, however, the red of their scales gradually blackens with their underbelly becomes blood red, with their wings, dorsal spikes, claws, horns, and armor plating around the lower jaw further developing into more prominent shape until reaching adulthood.
==Abilities==
Briton Red Dragons have standard abilities possessed by stereotypical dragons such as flight, a long powerful tail, strong jaws, and fire breath. Their most dangerous quirk, however, is their ability to grow in accelerated rate and becoming stronger through absorbing magic from spells, potions, enchanted items, and exposure to magic energy. In fact, Briton Red Dragons feed on magic power in order to grow and even able to absorb magic from poisonous concoctions without suffering any ill-effects. In addition to this and considerable durability against physical punishments, they can sense the presence of magic energy in their vicinity within a wide radius.
As demonstrated by the Ancient Dragon, the growth rate of a Briton Red Dragon depends on the amount of magic power it absorbs. The more magic it consumes, the faster it grows. In fact, continuous exposure to magic in large amounts will cause them to grow into adulthood in a matter of minutes. This, of course, proved to be problematic for witches and wizards who attempted to stop their rampage, as they mostly rely on magic to do many things including combat. Fortunately, the amount of magic they can absorb still limited, as being overloaded with absorbed magic power will cause them to explode.
==Gallery==
Raw in-between frame of Akko tumbling on Ancient Dragon's neck LWA OVA.jpg|Raw in-between frame of Akko tumbling on Ancient Dragon's neck
Raw in-between frame of Akko hurled by Ancient Dragon by its tail LWA OVA.jpg|Raw in-between frame of Akko hurled by Ancient Dragon by its tail
Briton Red Dragon Card LWA CoT.png
Storyboard of scenes of Ancient Dragon growing larger from being bombarded by Luna Nova students' spells and Akko performing Shiny Arc against the same creature LWA OVA.jpg|Storyboard of scenes of Ancient Dragon growing larger from being bombarded by Luna Nova students' spells and Akko performing Shiny Arc against the same creature
9d92ebe0882aa7cbb91bf9ee38a3ad75.jpg|Concept art of an adult Ancient Dragon, a member of Briton Red Dragon
Briton Red Dragon Sub Design LWA.jpg
Briton Red Dragon 5th Form Heads Concept LWA.jpg
Briton Red Dragon 4th Form Concept LWA.jpg
Briton Red Dragon 3rd Form Concept LWA.jpg
Briton Red Dragon Growth Concept 1 LWA.jpg
Briton Red Dragon Juvenile Concept 2 LWA.jpg
Briton Red Dragon Juvenile Concept 1 LWA.jpg
Little Witch Academia (リトルウィッチアカデミア ) Staff Book illustration by Samurai Champloo, Steven Universe animator Takafumi Hori (堀剛史) @porigoshi.jpg|"Little Witch Academia (リトルウィッチアカデミア ) Staff Book illustration by Samurai Champloo, Steven Universe animator Takafumi Hori (堀剛史) @porigoshi"
Artwork of Atsuko Kagari and the Briton Red Dragon made by Takafumi Hori (堀剛史) @porigoshi that was posted on his Instagram for Animazement 2014 LWA.jpg|Artwork of Atsuko Kagari and the Briton Red Dragon made by Takafumi Hori (堀剛史) @porigoshi that was posted on his Instagram for Animazement 2014
A sketch of Ancient Dragon by Yoh Yoshinari on contents page of Yoshinari You Gashuu - Illustration Hen.jpg|A sketch of Ancient Dragon by Yoh Yoshinari on contents page of Yoshinari You Gashuu - Illustration Hen
Blue team unamused by the sight of the seemingly harmless little lizard released from its iron maiden-like prison LWA OVA.jpeg
Ancient Dragon's 2nd Form LWA OVA.jpeg
Diana looking on the already growing Ancient Dragon terrorizing her classmates at the New Moon Tower Hall LWA OVA.jpg
Ancient Dragon continues its chase on Akko and Lotte LWA OVA.jpeg
==See Also==
*Ancient Dragon, an individual member of this creature that appeared in the first short film of the series.
==Trivia==
*Design-wise, Briton Red Dragon's fully grown appearance resembles Chaos Dragon from iOS MMORPG Kingdom Conquest.
Category:Creatures and plants
Category:Dragon