Crystal Dragons

CRYSTAL DRAGONS

SCIENTIFIC NAME- Dracos Elementum

DIET-CARNIVORE

HABITAT-Almost anywhere

APPEARANCE

These dragons can look almost completely different depending on what form they are in. However, there are some things that stay the same. They always have a four legged build, with large wings on their backs. They have skinny, pointed heads with single color eyes. And finally, every form has a slot in the chest where the crystal can be held. They can hold dark, water, ice, fire, plant, and air crystals.

Without a crystal, these dragons often look very sickly. They are about 6 feet tall and 20 feet long at this stage. Completely white with red eyes, and smaller wings than usual. They have no way of defending themselves other than with their claws and teeth, and the open slot is extremely sensitive. As it is linked to the heart, any damage to it all can be fatal.

Fire crystal dragons are one of the more powerful forms. The scales become hardened, and turn a fiery orange and red. Even the eyes are a gradient of fire colors. The wings become larger, and are lit on fire at the ends. Thicker horns form on the head, also lit on fire at the tops of them. They can release powerful bursts of fire from their mouths, and are more resistant to fire attacks.

Water crystal dragons stay around the same size, but the scales become more sleek, making it easier to swim. They also get bigger and stronger lungs, allowing them to stay underwater for hours at a time. The wings, while still capable of flight, are now much larger and rounded, and used as fins to propel themselves in the water. The scales turn a purple blue, and the eyes do the same. They can shoot high pressure water from their mouths.

Ice crystal dragons are very rare. They become much more bulky, The scales becoming light blues and whites. They are covered in ice, even the white eyes have an icy covering over them. The wings get much smaller but more armored, making flight difficult. They can turn water to ice in an instant, and shoot powerful blasts of ice from their mouths.

Plant crystal dragons again stay around the same size. The scales become softer, many different shades of green, and small plants will begin sprouting all over them. The wings will become larger, and lighter, making them fast flyers. The eyes have a flower pattern, and they can make plants grow wherever they step. They can use their thorned root-like tongues to shoot at prey, and impale them.

Air crystal dragons become much smaller, and keep the white colors. The eyes glow a bright blue. While the bodies get smaller, the wings get much bigger, and can even reach speeds of 50 mph, almost as fast as night dragons. They can use their wings to blow away opponents, or blast air out of their mouths that can reach tornado wind speeds.

Dark crystal dragons change the most. They stay the same size, but become completely black with white eyes. They lose their wing membranes entirely, but keep the wing bones and fingers. These bones become very sharp at the ends, almost like daggers, and they use these to rip apart opponents. They can grow their teeth out at will, and get about 2 feet long when fully extended. They can also spit a dark goo to blind enemies.

BEHAVIOR

While they change quite a bit, the behavior mostly stays the same. They travel in small packs of 2-4 members, and try to nest wherever they think is safest. The hatchlings are very small, and don’t have the slot yet to get crystals. Over time as they grow up, the slot will start to form. The adults will grind crystals down to fit. Once it gets too small they’ll keep replacing it until they are full grown.

They’ll hunt together in groups, similar to wolves. What they hunt depends on where they live, but they’ll go for anything smaller than them. Sometimes bigger if they feel like there’s enough of them to take it on.

Males will fight over females when they are in heat, but it never ends up with fatal injuries. The strongest male will be the only one allowed to mate with all the females that season. While other males are allowed to stay, most leave to go find a male they can beat and get access to females.

COMPETITION

Both air and dark dragons have never occurred naturally. The others each compete with other packs and dragons over food and territory. The crystal dragons are almost extinct in Draelvary, due to the lack of crystals to use, because humans have taken them and used up the limited supply of them. And because they have no power, they cannot hunt.

Fire crystal dragons often lose fight to actual fire dragons. While both are powerful, the fire dragons have more firepower and armor than they do.

Water crystal dragons can easily overpower water dragons. They cannot swim nearly as fast as they can, so they don’t bother hunting them. They will just steal their food.

Plant crystal dragons do try to hunt plant dragons. Most of the time they fail, they cannot get through the armor and get bitten, leading to the slow and agonizing death.

Ice crystal dragons don’t stand a chance against ice dragons. They are much smaller, and are often straight up eaten by ice dragons.

KNOWN CRYSTAL DRAGONS

-Fatik (edited)