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  "writing": " \n\nFire and Ice\nChapter IV - Dark Secret Revealed\n© Cederwyn Whitefurr\nJune 2003.\nAll Rights Reserved.\n\n Jessica rolled over and nuzzled the throat of Sir Kathis, who moaned and\ncaressed her slender jaw line, gazing into her eyes.  He shuddered as her\nsharp claw tips scratched his thickly haired chest, the sensation sending\nhis already jangled nerves to singing once again.\n\n \"Milady – I...about last night.\" He stammered, suddenly getting his wits and\nbearings.\n\n Jessica rose lithely from the bed, her cloven hooves clicking softly\nagainst the hard packed dirt, her naked, furred body showing bleeding\nscratches down her back as she stood, her hoof-paw's clasped before her, as\nshe stared out through the bedroom window, her back to him, ears folded flat\nagainst the back of her neck.  She seemed oblivious to the fact that she was\nas naked as the day she had been born, clothed only in her matted and\nbloodied pelt.  For some time she remained quiet, then spoke, her voice\nbarely a whisper.\n\n  \"Sir Kathis,\" She began, then paused and hung her head and sighed, before\nclearing her throat with a delicate cough.  \"Last night, you were like some\nwild, untamed beast.  You took me as your own, ravaged me in every way\npossible a man can take a woman, treated me no better than some common\nstreet-wench.\"\n\n Sir Kathis blinked and an uncontrollable shudder ran through him, his heart\nturning to stone in his chest, his blood to ice water.  He rolled out of bed\nand wrapped himself in the sticky sheet, then came over and laid his strong,\ncalloused hand on her shoulder, feeling the young Whitetail tremble at his\ntouch.\n\n \"I - I never meant.\" He stammered.\n\n \"You frightened me.\" Jessica admitted.\n\nSickened by what he must have done, yet bearing no recollection of it, he\ntried to find words to soothe the shivering, naked Doe who stood with her\nback to him.\n\n \"I.\" He croaked weakly.\n\n Without warning, Jessica twisted about and wrapped her hoof-paws about his\nneck and pulled him tight, her incredible warmth flooding over him as she\nnuzzled his throat and thickly maned chest.\n\n \"Do it again.\"  She murred.\n\n  He gasped and stumbled back from her, eyes wide in surprise and confusion.\nTripping over his discarded leggings and tunic, he fell with a heavy crash\ndown onto her bed.  Jessica was on him in an instant, kneeling over him and\npressing her surprisingly strong grip onto his shoulders. To Sir Kathis, it\nfelt as if a mountain was pinning him down, yet the actual weight of the Doe\n's hot, sweaty body against his was barely noticeable. Her eyes sparkled\nwith an intense longing that sent shivers through his body, even as she\npressed her hips down against him - and yet again, as if with a will of its\nown, his body responded to the Doe's wishes.\n\n*\n\n Hours later, they lay sprawled together, Sir Kathis' snores rumbling like a\nsleeping Dragon, and Jessica tenderly unfolded his arm for around her and\nslipped out of the bed.  Flicking a quick glance back at him, she moved like\na wisp across the bedroom and out into the main room.  With a startled yelp\nher hoof come down on the smooth hilt of his sword and it twisted beneath\nher, the loud crack of fracturing bones in her ankle ricocheting off the\nwalls.  Whimpering, Jessica hobbled over and sat down on a chair and\ngingerly probed her ankle, feeling the damage deep within it.  Her gaze was\ndrawn back to the sword that lay half-unsheathed on the floor, the brilliant\nblue glow of its icy flames transfixing her gaze.  Unable to help herself,\nshe carefully made her way towards it, drawn as a moth is drawn to a candle\nflame.\n\n Kneeling, she grasped the heavy sword in her paw - then her world came\ncrashing down around her ears.\n\n Pain! Such incredible agony seared like liquid fire up through her hoof-paw\nand tore its way along nerve, muscle and bone, as if her very arm had been\nplunged into a vat of magma.  As she drew breath to scream, her lungs turned\nto ash in her chest and her entire body was consumed by the unimaginable\nanguish that flooded her very being, almost feeling as if it would surely\nrend her very soul apart.  At last she did scream, a high-pitched, long, and\ndespairing wail - before her body crumpled to the ground and lay still..\n\n*\n\n  Sir Kathis gurgled and rolled over, then sat up as his hands met the damp\nstraw stuffed mattress, and a cold jolt of fear ran through him, as he leapt\nto his feet and hurriedly pulled on his leggings and tunic, then ran through\nout into the main room.  Here, he gasped in horror, seeing the twisted,\nstill form of Jessica lying sprawled on the floor, a thin rivulet of blood\noozing from her muzzle and forming a growing, sticky pool about her head and\nneck.\n\n \"Lady Jessica - no!\" Sir Kathis screamed in horror, as he dropped to his\nknees and picked up her limp form, clutching it against his chest.\n\n Jessica lay like a bag of bones covered in fur, her every muscle limp and\nunresponsive, her neck flopping backwards as if it were surely broken.\n\n \"Come on, please, don't do this to me not now.\" Sir Kathis wept, as he\ncradled her head against his chest.  \"Milady, please - come back to me..\"\n\n  He began to weep - something he had not done in over forty-five years,\nsince he was only a young child, and as his tears slid down his cheeks, long\nburied memories came back to haunt his tormented mind..\n\n*\n\n He had been a mere strip of a boy, barely six winters old, when he had\nwitnessed a pair of Dragon's descend down on his village and proceed to raze\nit to the ground.  They had been rampaging, unstoppable engines of\ndestruction, smashing apart the stone and thatch huts, squashing humans\nbeneath their iron-like hind talons, or worse, snatching them up in their\nclaws and devouring their screaming victims alive.  As a young child, he had\nstood rooted to the spot, as the two commanding reptiles wreaked a bloody\nswatch of violence through his village, the screams of the dying searing his\nears, as the tears ran down his cheeks unimpeded.  His mother and father,\nwho worked as the village blacksmith's, stood before their son, wielding\nshimmering swords, as the two Dragon's whirled towards the impudent mortals,\nthen stopped and looked at each other.  Together, they each chose one of his\nparents, and as the terrified young boy watched, snatched them up and\ndevoured them.  It was a memory that had been burned into the boy's mind\never since, and it was this one act that had set him on his life's quest, to\nhunt down and destroy Dragons.\n\n One of the Dragon's looked down hungrily at the boy, who would not even\nhave been a snack for the slavering beast that towered above him, but the\nother, slightly smaller one, roared and sank it's jaws into the larger one's\nneck, just as it leapt towards the boy.  Within seconds, the two Dragon's\nwere involved in a violent, bloody battle, clawing, raking and biting at\neach other, their long canines gleaming as again and again they lashed out\nat each other.  Helplessly, the boy watched on, transfixed by the battle of\nthese two incredible beasts, but at last the larger one screamed and took\nwing, obviously beaten in the frantic battle.  Bloodied, weak and exhausted,\nthe smaller Dragon lay itself down and its great panting breath washed over\nthe boy with the smell of death and blood.  Resolute, the boy reached down\nand picked up his fathers fallen sword, and clutching it between his hands,\nmoved towards the exhausted reptile, his face not one of justified vengeance\nand hate, but one of pity and compassion.\n\n Before him, the Dragon only rolled its large, liquid mercury like eyes up\nat the boy, and as he raised the sword and held it in his straining hands\nbetween the Dragon's eyes, it merely groaned weakly and as he watched, two\nlarge tears squeezed their way from the corner of the Dragon's eyes, turning\nto fine crystal as they slid down the reptile's cheeks and plopping to the\nground.  It was this one moment, that made the boy pause, and he felt his\nrage sluice from him, and he dropped the sword and wrapped his arms over the\nDragon's snout and hugged as tightly as he could.  Surprise come over the\ngreat Dragon's expression, and it rolled its silvery eyes up and locked\ngazes with the boy and something flashed between them - bridging the gulf\nbetween mere mortal and the genius intellect of the Dragon. \n\n It was something neither understood, but both felt deeply moved by.  Slowly, the\nboy released the Dragon, who rose weakly and shook itself, the silvery\nscales glimmering, before it looked down at the boy and executed an\nintricate curtsey, bending its left foreleg out straight, the right coming\nto a kneeling position, as it stretched out its neck and lay its chin\nagainst the ground, the wings unfurling and sweeping back to brush against\nthe ground.\n\n Blinking, the boy bowed stiffly in reply, then stepped back as the Dragon\nreached out and took its crystallised tears in its claws, then squeezed them\nshut, before it closed its eyes.  A bright, almost pure white light\nencircled the Dragon's clenched claws, then it turned them over and the\nlight vanished, before the Dragon crouched and held out its claws to the\nboy, who looked on in awe as the two tears had been fused into perfect fist\nsized diamonds.  Nodding, the Dragon held them out, and the boy hesitantly\ntook them one at a time, then looked up in confusion at the Dragon, who only\nsmiled sadly, then unfurled its leathery wings and slowly began to beat\nthem - raising a stinging cloud of grit, dust and debris.  Hurriedly, the\nboy moved away and with a roar of wind, the Dragon leapt into the darkening\nsky and was soon swallowed up by the swirling storm clouds far above..\n\n*\n\n His salty tears spattered down onto Jessica's bloodied muzzle, then in\ndesperation, he pulled her limp, boneless neck up and pressed his lips to\nhers, breathing deeply into her lungs.  Again and again he did this, and\nfinally, with a choking gasp, Jessica stirred, then convulsed and began\ngagging.  Sir Kathis lowered her to the ground and rolled her onto her side,\nwatching as the stricken Doe bucked and retched, finally vomiting up blood\nand bile from deep within herself, before she gurgled and lapsed into\nunconsciousness.  Relief washed from him in waves, as he crouched and picked\nher limp form up in his strong arms, then carried her into the bedroom and\nlay her down on her bed, propping the mangy wolf skin pillow under her head\nand neck, before he left and returned with a bowl of water and a cloth.\nGingerly, he dabbed at the blood that spattered her muzzle and he stroked\nher cheek tenderly, before carefully taking her hoof-paw in his and\nsqueezing, as he continued to wash away the blood.\n\n*\n\n For three days and nights, Jessica lay in a near cataleptic state, her\nbreath barely felt and her heartbeat so low, that Sir Kathis surely felt she\nhad passed on to the next world.  It was late on the third night, the\ncottage blazing with bursts of light as the heavens outside roiled and\nclashed, the thunder booming like Titan's engaged in some mighty war, the\ntorrential rain pounding down from the seething, boiling heavens.  Sir\nKathis dozed quietly beside Jessica, then without warning, her catalepsy\nbroke and she began screaming and convulsing wildly, clawing at the air and\nshrieking incoherently.  Sir Kathis leapt from his chair beside her bed,\nthen pulled the shrieking Whitetail against him and held her tightly,\nstroking her ears.\n\n \"Milady, shhh you're alright.\" He whispered, trying to soothe her.\n\n \"What, who.\" Jessica squealed, then blinked and shuddered, going limp.\n\"What, what happened to me?\"\n\n \"I was hoping,\" Sir Kathis spoke soothingly. \"That you could tell me.\"\n\n Jessica gasped and shuddered, flicking her hoof-paw's across her eyes, then\nwhimpering as her injured hoof-paw's blazed with pain.  Sir Kathis gently\ntook her wrists in his hands and pulled away the bandaged hoof-paws, laying\nthem gingerly back on the Doe's stomach.\n\n \"I found you unconscious outside, in the main room.  It seemed that you'd\nstumbled over my sword, and.\"  Sir Kathis began, then his words trailed off\nas his eyes widened slowly.  \"My sword..\"\n\n Jessica's eyes widened as memory flooded back in on her, and she hurriedly\ngave a low, whimpering cry that brought Sir Kathis' attention back to her.\n\n \"Rest here my love.\" Sir Kathis spoke as he gently stroked her ears.  \"I\nneed to go check something.\"\n\n \"No!\" Jessica wailed, as she clung to him.  \"Please, I'm scared.\"\n\n Torn between his duty of care to the injured Whitetail and his niggling\ndoubts, he paused and stood trembling, then without another word, moved\npurposefully away from her and out into the main room, the door swinging\nclosed behind him.\n\n*\n\n Lying on her bed, Jessica stared at the closed wooden door, her expression\nturning dark and predatory, as her eyes turned to a brilliant incandescent\nsilvery glow, a low, menacing growl escaping her throat before she squeezed\nher hoof-paws tightly together and fought down the anger that blazed white\nhot within her, but only just managing to regain her composure..\n\n*\n\n Sir Kathis reeled, clutching the unsheathed sword as he stared at the\ncerulean blaze of the icy flames that wreathed his sword.\n\n \"No.\" He moaned in horror.  \"No, it's impossible.  I know what she is..\"\n\n As if in response, the sword burned colder in his grasp, its angry flames\nflickering and waving, almost as if it had a mind of its own.\n\n \"No damn you,\" Sir Kathis screamed.  \"I know who she is, she is the one who\nhas brought me such pleasure, such kindness and above all taught me what it\nis like to love someone!  I will not believe - \"\n\n He whirled about, as he heard Jessica's soft, pitiful sob, and she moved to\nthe fireplace, resting her paw's against the warm mantle, before she\nsniffled and took a pitch soaked torch from the woodpile and lit it in the\nfireplace.  Sir Kathis watched her in bewilderment, as she led him outside.\nHeld high above her head, the torch hissing and sputtering in the rain, and\nshe turned her muzzle towards the sky and at a single word from her, the\nrain turned to drizzle, the churning, boiling clouds breaking apart, to\nreveal the full moon, its silvery face blazing down, bathing the ground and\ncottage in its cool embrace.\n\n \"You say you love me - you called me your beloved,\" Jessica wept, her tears\nsliding down her cheeks.\n\n Sir Kathis stared, then knelt in the mud before her, placing his sword at\nher hooves, and noticing as Jessica flinched and took a step backwards, away\nfrom it.\n\n \"Milady, my heart, my soul, and my sword are yours - command me as you\nwill, and as the God's themselves are my witness, I pledge my life to you,\nand my hand in marriage, if you would have it.\"\n\n \"I.\" Jessica whimpered, then turned away, hanging her head.  \"Milord.as\nmuch as I would.it would be living a lie.  I am living a lie.and I must\nconfess my terrible secret to you.  Take the torch I bear, and I will reveal\nthat which I have hidden from you.\"\n\n Confused and uncertain, Sir Kathis did so, and then watched as Jessica\nmoved herself between the torch and the wall, standing side-on to him and\nthe sputtering torch he held.\n\n \"Raise the torch and cast my shadow on the wall - \" Jessica whimpered, as\nshe dropped her gaze to the cold, frosty ground.\n\nSir Kathis did so, slowly raising the torch, then his eyes widened as\nJessica's shadow rose with it, revealing not the form of the whitetail doe\nhe had come to love and take as his mate - but something from his darkest\nnightmares....\n\n Her shadow wavered and flickered, then solidified as the dark silhouette of\na dragon - its distinct head, powerful jaw-line, long - sharp canines and\nback-swept horns at the back of the head.\n\n \"No - \" Sir Kathis gasped, as his eyes widened in horror and the torch fell\nfrom his nerveless grasp. \"No - I know who you are...I know what you are!\"\n\n \"No my love - \" Jessica wept, bowing her head.  \"My shadow cannot lie, even\nif I can.and have.  I am not what you have taken in your arms, I am not the\none you have pledged your very life too.  I lied to you my beloved, and for\nthat, I offer no excuse, none I could offer would suffice.\"\n\n \"How - how could you....\" He gurgled, his face paling.\n\n Jessica had no answers for her mate...she only prayed for a quick, painless\ndeath.  It was the least she deserved for her selfish betrayal.  She\nwhimpered, then moved away from him, and knelt down onto the mud and her\nbody began to glow and writhe, as she screamed and dug her hoof-paws into\nthe dirt, her body stretching and running like wax, before the glow that\nenfolded her forced Sir Kathis to look away and cover his eyes with his\nhands.\n\n When he could see again, the Doe he had known and loved was gone, replaced\nwith the crouched form of a majestic silver dragon, her deep glacier blue\neyes gazing sadly at him, as she stretched and unfurled her wings, then\nfolded them over her back.\n\n \"You.I know who you are - \" Sir Kathis gasped, his eyes widening.\n\n \"Yes, I see the hate reflected in your eyes, it was I and my mate.that\ndestroyed your village, your people.your family.\"  Whispered the dragon, her\nhead bowed in grief.\n\n \"Give me one damn reason why I shouldn't run my sword through that black\nheart of yours!\" Sir Kathis snarled in sudden fury.\n\n \"I offer no excuse.for my crimes.  My only reason, was one driven purely by\nmy hate of you and your kind.for it was one of your kind, who stole\nsomething from me and my mate, something that could never be compensated\nfor.not now, and not ever.\"\n\n Sir Kathis paused, reeling as the dragon's words slowly burned away the\nhate within him.\n\n \"One of your kind - a Knight, stole from me and my mate, our only\noffspring.  For decades, had we bred, yet never had my beloved's seen taken\nwithin my body.and I feared I was barren.  Then, once, and only once, his\nseed did take, and grow within me - and I lay a single egg.  We were\noverjoyed, and guarded our sole egg with every known enchantment and mundane\nward we could..\"\n\n With a pitiful sob, the Dragon squeezed its eyes closed and shook with pain\nthat Sir Kathis was incapable of imagining.\n\n \"We were over-confidant, and it was in this, that lay our downfall.\nSomehow, a lone knight found our one chink in our armour, and with the theft\nof our offspring, turned my mate and I too evil and destruction.  We only\nsought he who had stolen our offspring from us, but we hunted that vile\nthief high and low, yet never found him.  Our despair and rage grew and new\nno bounds, and we turned our hate towards all mankind, seeking to punish\nthem for that which they had brought down on us.  If only now, I knew what a\nterrible, terrible price I would be forced to pay for my hate of your\npeople..\"\n\n It's eyes opened again, and it stared deep into the stunned expression of\nSir Kathis.\n\n \"Yes - my brave, valorous knight - it was by your hand, that murdered my\nmate.twenty winters past.  I knew then and there, that you had come to seek\nyour vengeance for our crimes, and my mate paid his due with his life.\nOnce, you spared my life, and now - I ask, no, I beg, for you to find it in\nyour heart, to forgive me.\"\n\n Sir Kathis shook with feelings of rage and despair, both equally tearing at\nhis heart and mind, fighting to dominate and conquer his emotions, for good\nor for ill.\n\n \"I ask you this, brave Sir Knight.  Do you so crave my head?  Do you wish\nto bathe yourself in my blood? I offer you no resistance - I will not fight\nyou.  Take your sword, drive it into my scaled breast, and end my pain. I do\nnot deserve pity, or mercy - for my crimes, I should join my beloved in the\ndarkest depths of the hells.  I only ask of you this, did you truly mean it,\nwhen you said you loved me?\"\n\n \"I.I loved the Doe, not some cold hearted murderer!  Yes - I did mean what\nI said, but that was to the kind, gentle and loving Whitetail...not....you.\"  He\nsnarled, his body shaking.\n\n \"Look at me, brave Knight.  Look long and hard into my eyes, for she and I,\nare one and the same. I am the Whitetail you took into your arms, and\nloved the one you pledged your heart, soul and sword too.\"  Whispered the\nDragon quietly, staring intently into his eyes. \"Or do you so wish of my\nhead? If you do, then please, I beg of you, make my suffering end now.\nCleave my head from my neck, with one stroke.  I will not fight you my\n love.\"\n\n Laying herself prone before him, the Dragon stretched her head and neck out\nalong the mud at his feet, and then closed it's eyes.  Sir Kathis raised his\nsword, his tears streaking down his cheeks, as he took a two handed grip and\nmoved towards her, then stood astride her slender scaled neck, his sword\nheld ready, its icy flames dancing and flickering hungrily, fully expecting\nto slake it's thirst in the Dragons blood.   As Sir Kathis stood astride her\nneck, his arms began to shake, then his whole body.  With a snarl of anger,\nhe drove his sword down and there was a loud, braying shriek of reptilian\nterror and agony.\n\n\nTo Be Continued.\n",
  "writing_bbcode_parsed": "<span style='word-wrap: break-word;'> <br /><br />Fire and Ice<br />Chapter IV - Dark Secret Revealed<br />&copy; Cederwyn Whitefurr<br />June 2003.<br />All Rights Reserved.<br /><br />&nbsp;Jessica rolled over and nuzzled the throat of Sir Kathis, who moaned and<br />caressed her slender jaw line, gazing into her eyes.&nbsp;&nbsp;He shuddered as her<br />sharp claw tips scratched his thickly haired chest, the sensation sending<br />his already jangled nerves to singing once again.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;Milady &ndash; I...about last night.&quot; He stammered, suddenly getting his wits and<br />bearings.<br /><br />&nbsp;Jessica rose lithely from the bed, her cloven hooves clicking softly<br />against the hard packed dirt, her naked, furred body showing bleeding<br />scratches down her back as she stood, her hoof-paw&#039;s clasped before her, as<br />she stared out through the bedroom window, her back to him, ears folded flat<br />against the back of her neck.&nbsp;&nbsp;She seemed oblivious to the fact that she was<br />as naked as the day she had been born, clothed only in her matted and<br />bloodied pelt.&nbsp;&nbsp;For some time she remained quiet, then spoke, her voice<br />barely a whisper.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Sir Kathis,&quot; She began, then paused and hung her head and sighed, before<br />clearing her throat with a delicate cough.&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Last night, you were like some<br />wild, untamed beast.&nbsp;&nbsp;You took me as your own, ravaged me in every way<br />possible a man can take a woman, treated me no better than some common<br />street-wench.&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;Sir Kathis blinked and an uncontrollable shudder ran through him, his heart<br />turning to stone in his chest, his blood to ice water.&nbsp;&nbsp;He rolled out of bed<br />and wrapped himself in the sticky sheet, then came over and laid his strong,<br />calloused hand on her shoulder, feeling the young Whitetail tremble at his<br />touch.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;I - I never meant.&quot; He stammered.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;You frightened me.&quot; Jessica admitted.<br /><br />Sickened by what he must have done, yet bearing no recollection of it, he<br />tried to find words to soothe the shivering, naked Doe who stood with her<br />back to him.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;I.&quot; He croaked weakly.<br /><br />&nbsp;Without warning, Jessica twisted about and wrapped her hoof-paws about his<br />neck and pulled him tight, her incredible warmth flooding over him as she<br />nuzzled his throat and thickly maned chest.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;Do it again.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;She murred.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;He gasped and stumbled back from her, eyes wide in surprise and confusion.<br />Tripping over his discarded leggings and tunic, he fell with a heavy crash<br />down onto her bed.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jessica was on him in an instant, kneeling over him and<br />pressing her surprisingly strong grip onto his shoulders. To Sir Kathis, it<br />felt as if a mountain was pinning him down, yet the actual weight of the Doe<br />&#039;s hot, sweaty body against his was barely noticeable. Her eyes sparkled<br />with an intense longing that sent shivers through his body, even as she<br />pressed her hips down against him - and yet again, as if with a will of its<br />own, his body responded to the Doe&#039;s wishes.<br /><br />*<br /><br />&nbsp;Hours later, they lay sprawled together, Sir Kathis&#039; snores rumbling like a<br />sleeping Dragon, and Jessica tenderly unfolded his arm for around her and<br />slipped out of the bed.&nbsp;&nbsp;Flicking a quick glance back at him, she moved like<br />a wisp across the bedroom and out into the main room.&nbsp;&nbsp;With a startled yelp<br />her hoof come down on the smooth hilt of his sword and it twisted beneath<br />her, the loud crack of fracturing bones in her ankle ricocheting off the<br />walls.&nbsp;&nbsp;Whimpering, Jessica hobbled over and sat down on a chair and<br />gingerly probed her ankle, feeling the damage deep within it.&nbsp;&nbsp;Her gaze was<br />drawn back to the sword that lay half-unsheathed on the floor, the brilliant<br />blue glow of its icy flames transfixing her gaze.&nbsp;&nbsp;Unable to help herself,<br />she carefully made her way towards it, drawn as a moth is drawn to a candle<br />flame.<br /><br />&nbsp;Kneeling, she grasped the heavy sword in her paw - then her world came<br />crashing down around her ears.<br /><br />&nbsp;Pain! Such incredible agony seared like liquid fire up through her hoof-paw<br />and tore its way along nerve, muscle and bone, as if her very arm had been<br />plunged into a vat of magma.&nbsp;&nbsp;As she drew breath to scream, her lungs turned<br />to ash in her chest and her entire body was consumed by the unimaginable<br />anguish that flooded her very being, almost feeling as if it would surely<br />rend her very soul apart.&nbsp;&nbsp;At last she did scream, a high-pitched, long, and<br />despairing wail - before her body crumpled to the ground and lay still..<br /><br />*<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;Sir Kathis gurgled and rolled over, then sat up as his hands met the damp<br />straw stuffed mattress, and a cold jolt of fear ran through him, as he leapt<br />to his feet and hurriedly pulled on his leggings and tunic, then ran through<br />out into the main room.&nbsp;&nbsp;Here, he gasped in horror, seeing the twisted,<br />still form of Jessica lying sprawled on the floor, a thin rivulet of blood<br />oozing from her muzzle and forming a growing, sticky pool about her head and<br />neck.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;Lady Jessica - no!&quot; Sir Kathis screamed in horror, as he dropped to his<br />knees and picked up her limp form, clutching it against his chest.<br /><br />&nbsp;Jessica lay like a bag of bones covered in fur, her every muscle limp and<br />unresponsive, her neck flopping backwards as if it were surely broken.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;Come on, please, don&#039;t do this to me not now.&quot; Sir Kathis wept, as he<br />cradled her head against his chest.&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Milady, please - come back to me..&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;He began to weep - something he had not done in over forty-five years,<br />since he was only a young child, and as his tears slid down his cheeks, long<br />buried memories came back to haunt his tormented mind..<br /><br />*<br /><br />&nbsp;He had been a mere strip of a boy, barely six winters old, when he had<br />witnessed a pair of Dragon&#039;s descend down on his village and proceed to raze<br />it to the ground.&nbsp;&nbsp;They had been rampaging, unstoppable engines of<br />destruction, smashing apart the stone and thatch huts, squashing humans<br />beneath their iron-like hind talons, or worse, snatching them up in their<br />claws and devouring their screaming victims alive.&nbsp;&nbsp;As a young child, he had<br />stood rooted to the spot, as the two commanding reptiles wreaked a bloody<br />swatch of violence through his village, the screams of the dying searing his<br />ears, as the tears ran down his cheeks unimpeded.&nbsp;&nbsp;His mother and father,<br />who worked as the village blacksmith&#039;s, stood before their son, wielding<br />shimmering swords, as the two Dragon&#039;s whirled towards the impudent mortals,<br />then stopped and looked at each other.&nbsp;&nbsp;Together, they each chose one of his<br />parents, and as the terrified young boy watched, snatched them up and<br />devoured them.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was a memory that had been burned into the boy&#039;s mind<br />ever since, and it was this one act that had set him on his life&#039;s quest, to<br />hunt down and destroy Dragons.<br /><br />&nbsp;One of the Dragon&#039;s looked down hungrily at the boy, who would not even<br />have been a snack for the slavering beast that towered above him, but the<br />other, slightly smaller one, roared and sank it&#039;s jaws into the larger one&#039;s<br />neck, just as it leapt towards the boy.&nbsp;&nbsp;Within seconds, the two Dragon&#039;s<br />were involved in a violent, bloody battle, clawing, raking and biting at<br />each other, their long canines gleaming as again and again they lashed out<br />at each other.&nbsp;&nbsp;Helplessly, the boy watched on, transfixed by the battle of<br />these two incredible beasts, but at last the larger one screamed and took<br />wing, obviously beaten in the frantic battle.&nbsp;&nbsp;Bloodied, weak and exhausted,<br />the smaller Dragon lay itself down and its great panting breath washed over<br />the boy with the smell of death and blood.&nbsp;&nbsp;Resolute, the boy reached down<br />and picked up his fathers fallen sword, and clutching it between his hands,<br />moved towards the exhausted reptile, his face not one of justified vengeance<br />and hate, but one of pity and compassion.<br /><br />&nbsp;Before him, the Dragon only rolled its large, liquid mercury like eyes up<br />at the boy, and as he raised the sword and held it in his straining hands<br />between the Dragon&#039;s eyes, it merely groaned weakly and as he watched, two<br />large tears squeezed their way from the corner of the Dragon&#039;s eyes, turning<br />to fine crystal as they slid down the reptile&#039;s cheeks and plopping to the<br />ground.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was this one moment, that made the boy pause, and he felt his<br />rage sluice from him, and he dropped the sword and wrapped his arms over the<br />Dragon&#039;s snout and hugged as tightly as he could.&nbsp;&nbsp;Surprise come over the<br />great Dragon&#039;s expression, and it rolled its silvery eyes up and locked<br />gazes with the boy and something flashed between them - bridging the gulf<br />between mere mortal and the genius intellect of the Dragon. <br /><br />&nbsp;It was something neither understood, but both felt deeply moved by.&nbsp;&nbsp;Slowly, the<br />boy released the Dragon, who rose weakly and shook itself, the silvery<br />scales glimmering, before it looked down at the boy and executed an<br />intricate curtsey, bending its left foreleg out straight, the right coming<br />to a kneeling position, as it stretched out its neck and lay its chin<br />against the ground, the wings unfurling and sweeping back to brush against<br />the ground.<br /><br />&nbsp;Blinking, the boy bowed stiffly in reply, then stepped back as the Dragon<br />reached out and took its crystallised tears in its claws, then squeezed them<br />shut, before it closed its eyes.&nbsp;&nbsp;A bright, almost pure white light<br />encircled the Dragon&#039;s clenched claws, then it turned them over and the<br />light vanished, before the Dragon crouched and held out its claws to the<br />boy, who looked on in awe as the two tears had been fused into perfect fist<br />sized diamonds.&nbsp;&nbsp;Nodding, the Dragon held them out, and the boy hesitantly<br />took them one at a time, then looked up in confusion at the Dragon, who only<br />smiled sadly, then unfurled its leathery wings and slowly began to beat<br />them - raising a stinging cloud of grit, dust and debris.&nbsp;&nbsp;Hurriedly, the<br />boy moved away and with a roar of wind, the Dragon leapt into the darkening<br />sky and was soon swallowed up by the swirling storm clouds far above..<br /><br />*<br /><br />&nbsp;His salty tears spattered down onto Jessica&#039;s bloodied muzzle, then in<br />desperation, he pulled her limp, boneless neck up and pressed his lips to<br />hers, breathing deeply into her lungs.&nbsp;&nbsp;Again and again he did this, and<br />finally, with a choking gasp, Jessica stirred, then convulsed and began<br />gagging.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sir Kathis lowered her to the ground and rolled her onto her side,<br />watching as the stricken Doe bucked and retched, finally vomiting up blood<br />and bile from deep within herself, before she gurgled and lapsed into<br />unconsciousness.&nbsp;&nbsp;Relief washed from him in waves, as he crouched and picked<br />her limp form up in his strong arms, then carried her into the bedroom and<br />lay her down on her bed, propping the mangy wolf skin pillow under her head<br />and neck, before he left and returned with a bowl of water and a cloth.<br />Gingerly, he dabbed at the blood that spattered her muzzle and he stroked<br />her cheek tenderly, before carefully taking her hoof-paw in his and<br />squeezing, as he continued to wash away the blood.<br /><br />*<br /><br />&nbsp;For three days and nights, Jessica lay in a near cataleptic state, her<br />breath barely felt and her heartbeat so low, that Sir Kathis surely felt she<br />had passed on to the next world.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was late on the third night, the<br />cottage blazing with bursts of light as the heavens outside roiled and<br />clashed, the thunder booming like Titan&#039;s engaged in some mighty war, the<br />torrential rain pounding down from the seething, boiling heavens.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sir<br />Kathis dozed quietly beside Jessica, then without warning, her catalepsy<br />broke and she began screaming and convulsing wildly, clawing at the air and<br />shrieking incoherently.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sir Kathis leapt from his chair beside her bed,<br />then pulled the shrieking Whitetail against him and held her tightly,<br />stroking her ears.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;Milady, shhh you&#039;re alright.&quot; He whispered, trying to soothe her.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;What, who.&quot; Jessica squealed, then blinked and shuddered, going limp.<br />&quot;What, what happened to me?&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;I was hoping,&quot; Sir Kathis spoke soothingly. &quot;That you could tell me.&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;Jessica gasped and shuddered, flicking her hoof-paw&#039;s across her eyes, then<br />whimpering as her injured hoof-paw&#039;s blazed with pain.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sir Kathis gently<br />took her wrists in his hands and pulled away the bandaged hoof-paws, laying<br />them gingerly back on the Doe&#039;s stomach.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;I found you unconscious outside, in the main room.&nbsp;&nbsp;It seemed that you&#039;d<br />stumbled over my sword, and.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sir Kathis began, then his words trailed off<br />as his eyes widened slowly.&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;My sword..&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;Jessica&#039;s eyes widened as memory flooded back in on her, and she hurriedly<br />gave a low, whimpering cry that brought Sir Kathis&#039; attention back to her.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;Rest here my love.&quot; Sir Kathis spoke as he gently stroked her ears.&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;I<br />need to go check something.&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;No!&quot; Jessica wailed, as she clung to him.&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Please, I&#039;m scared.&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;Torn between his duty of care to the injured Whitetail and his niggling<br />doubts, he paused and stood trembling, then without another word, moved<br />purposefully away from her and out into the main room, the door swinging<br />closed behind him.<br /><br />*<br /><br />&nbsp;Lying on her bed, Jessica stared at the closed wooden door, her expression<br />turning dark and predatory, as her eyes turned to a brilliant incandescent<br />silvery glow, a low, menacing growl escaping her throat before she squeezed<br />her hoof-paws tightly together and fought down the anger that blazed white<br />hot within her, but only just managing to regain her composure..<br /><br />*<br /><br />&nbsp;Sir Kathis reeled, clutching the unsheathed sword as he stared at the<br />cerulean blaze of the icy flames that wreathed his sword.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;No.&quot; He moaned in horror.&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;No, it&#039;s impossible.&nbsp;&nbsp;I know what she is..&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;As if in response, the sword burned colder in his grasp, its angry flames<br />flickering and waving, almost as if it had a mind of its own.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;No damn you,&quot; Sir Kathis screamed.&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;I know who she is, she is the one who<br />has brought me such pleasure, such kindness and above all taught me what it<br />is like to love someone!&nbsp;&nbsp;I will not believe - &quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;He whirled about, as he heard Jessica&#039;s soft, pitiful sob, and she moved to<br />the fireplace, resting her paw&#039;s against the warm mantle, before she<br />sniffled and took a pitch soaked torch from the woodpile and lit it in the<br />fireplace.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sir Kathis watched her in bewilderment, as she led him outside.<br />Held high above her head, the torch hissing and sputtering in the rain, and<br />she turned her muzzle towards the sky and at a single word from her, the<br />rain turned to drizzle, the churning, boiling clouds breaking apart, to<br />reveal the full moon, its silvery face blazing down, bathing the ground and<br />cottage in its cool embrace.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;You say you love me - you called me your beloved,&quot; Jessica wept, her tears<br />sliding down her cheeks.<br /><br />&nbsp;Sir Kathis stared, then knelt in the mud before her, placing his sword at<br />her hooves, and noticing as Jessica flinched and took a step backwards, away<br />from it.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;Milady, my heart, my soul, and my sword are yours - command me as you<br />will, and as the God&#039;s themselves are my witness, I pledge my life to you,<br />and my hand in marriage, if you would have it.&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;I.&quot; Jessica whimpered, then turned away, hanging her head.&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Milord.as<br />much as I would.it would be living a lie.&nbsp;&nbsp;I am living a lie.and I must<br />confess my terrible secret to you.&nbsp;&nbsp;Take the torch I bear, and I will reveal<br />that which I have hidden from you.&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;Confused and uncertain, Sir Kathis did so, and then watched as Jessica<br />moved herself between the torch and the wall, standing side-on to him and<br />the sputtering torch he held.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;Raise the torch and cast my shadow on the wall - &quot; Jessica whimpered, as<br />she dropped her gaze to the cold, frosty ground.<br /><br />Sir Kathis did so, slowly raising the torch, then his eyes widened as<br />Jessica&#039;s shadow rose with it, revealing not the form of the whitetail doe<br />he had come to love and take as his mate - but something from his darkest<br />nightmares....<br /><br />&nbsp;Her shadow wavered and flickered, then solidified as the dark silhouette of<br />a dragon - its distinct head, powerful jaw-line, long - sharp canines and<br />back-swept horns at the back of the head.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;No - &quot; Sir Kathis gasped, as his eyes widened in horror and the torch fell<br />from his nerveless grasp. &quot;No - I know who you are...I know what you are!&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;No my love - &quot; Jessica wept, bowing her head.&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;My shadow cannot lie, even<br />if I can.and have.&nbsp;&nbsp;I am not what you have taken in your arms, I am not the<br />one you have pledged your very life too.&nbsp;&nbsp;I lied to you my beloved, and for<br />that, I offer no excuse, none I could offer would suffice.&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;How - how could you....&quot; He gurgled, his face paling.<br /><br />&nbsp;Jessica had no answers for her mate...she only prayed for a quick, painless<br />death.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was the least she deserved for her selfish betrayal.&nbsp;&nbsp;She<br />whimpered, then moved away from him, and knelt down onto the mud and her<br />body began to glow and writhe, as she screamed and dug her hoof-paws into<br />the dirt, her body stretching and running like wax, before the glow that<br />enfolded her forced Sir Kathis to look away and cover his eyes with his<br />hands.<br /><br />&nbsp;When he could see again, the Doe he had known and loved was gone, replaced<br />with the crouched form of a majestic silver dragon, her deep glacier blue<br />eyes gazing sadly at him, as she stretched and unfurled her wings, then<br />folded them over her back.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;You.I know who you are - &quot; Sir Kathis gasped, his eyes widening.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;Yes, I see the hate reflected in your eyes, it was I and my mate.that<br />destroyed your village, your people.your family.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;Whispered the dragon, her<br />head bowed in grief.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;Give me one damn reason why I shouldn&#039;t run my sword through that black<br />heart of yours!&quot; Sir Kathis snarled in sudden fury.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;I offer no excuse.for my crimes.&nbsp;&nbsp;My only reason, was one driven purely by<br />my hate of you and your kind.for it was one of your kind, who stole<br />something from me and my mate, something that could never be compensated<br />for.not now, and not ever.&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;Sir Kathis paused, reeling as the dragon&#039;s words slowly burned away the<br />hate within him.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;One of your kind - a Knight, stole from me and my mate, our only<br />offspring.&nbsp;&nbsp;For decades, had we bred, yet never had my beloved&#039;s seen taken<br />within my body.and I feared I was barren.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then, once, and only once, his<br />seed did take, and grow within me - and I lay a single egg.&nbsp;&nbsp;We were<br />overjoyed, and guarded our sole egg with every known enchantment and mundane<br />ward we could..&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;With a pitiful sob, the Dragon squeezed its eyes closed and shook with pain<br />that Sir Kathis was incapable of imagining.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;We were over-confidant, and it was in this, that lay our downfall.<br />Somehow, a lone knight found our one chink in our armour, and with the theft<br />of our offspring, turned my mate and I too evil and destruction.&nbsp;&nbsp;We only<br />sought he who had stolen our offspring from us, but we hunted that vile<br />thief high and low, yet never found him.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our despair and rage grew and new<br />no bounds, and we turned our hate towards all mankind, seeking to punish<br />them for that which they had brought down on us.&nbsp;&nbsp;If only now, I knew what a<br />terrible, terrible price I would be forced to pay for my hate of your<br />people..&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;It&#039;s eyes opened again, and it stared deep into the stunned expression of<br />Sir Kathis.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;Yes - my brave, valorous knight - it was by your hand, that murdered my<br />mate.twenty winters past.&nbsp;&nbsp;I knew then and there, that you had come to seek<br />your vengeance for our crimes, and my mate paid his due with his life.<br />Once, you spared my life, and now - I ask, no, I beg, for you to find it in<br />your heart, to forgive me.&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;Sir Kathis shook with feelings of rage and despair, both equally tearing at<br />his heart and mind, fighting to dominate and conquer his emotions, for good<br />or for ill.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;I ask you this, brave Sir Knight.&nbsp;&nbsp;Do you so crave my head?&nbsp;&nbsp;Do you wish<br />to bathe yourself in my blood? I offer you no resistance - I will not fight<br />you.&nbsp;&nbsp;Take your sword, drive it into my scaled breast, and end my pain. I do<br />not deserve pity, or mercy - for my crimes, I should join my beloved in the<br />darkest depths of the hells.&nbsp;&nbsp;I only ask of you this, did you truly mean it,<br />when you said you loved me?&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;I.I loved the Doe, not some cold hearted murderer!&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes - I did mean what<br />I said, but that was to the kind, gentle and loving Whitetail...not....you.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;He<br />snarled, his body shaking.<br /><br />&nbsp;&quot;Look at me, brave Knight.&nbsp;&nbsp;Look long and hard into my eyes, for she and I,<br />are one and the same. I am the Whitetail you took into your arms, and<br />loved the one you pledged your heart, soul and sword too.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;Whispered the<br />Dragon quietly, staring intently into his eyes. &quot;Or do you so wish of my<br />head? If you do, then please, I beg of you, make my suffering end now.<br />Cleave my head from my neck, with one stroke.&nbsp;&nbsp;I will not fight you my<br />&nbsp;love.&quot;<br /><br />&nbsp;Laying herself prone before him, the Dragon stretched her head and neck out<br />along the mud at his feet, and then closed it&#039;s eyes.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sir Kathis raised his<br />sword, his tears streaking down his cheeks, as he took a two handed grip and<br />moved towards her, then stood astride her slender scaled neck, his sword<br />held ready, its icy flames dancing and flickering hungrily, fully expecting<br />to slake it&#039;s thirst in the Dragons blood.&nbsp;&nbsp; As Sir Kathis stood astride her<br />neck, his arms began to shake, then his whole body.&nbsp;&nbsp;With a snarl of anger,<br />he drove his sword down and there was a loud, braying shriek of reptilian<br />terror and agony.<br /><br /><br />To Be Continued.<br /></span>",
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