Fire in the Darkness

[insanerandomness]

Twenty-six more attacks in just this month. They've been increasing." A massive green dragon to the left declared to the room.

"That's all they ever do is increase! Killing them is so difficult that only our best can do it. And then there is a vastly increased chance our best will be killed. Whats happening is we're slowly being picked off, all of us, one by one." An ice dragon towards the center cried in dismay, "It won't be long now before their forces attack us directly, either by siege or out and out battle on field. We would be crushed. Remember the great wars the library tells us of? This could be ten times worse! There would be no way to defend against them!"

"Your speaking as if a General directs them Dante." A water dragoness off to the side shoots back, "We don't if someone does direct them. And if someone directs them, then we don't know whom. It could be any of them. How do you propose we find him or her and get rid of them if they even exist?"

"I say we send in someone among their ranks. Someone whom has knowledge on how to kill them." Dante replied.

"A difficult proposal at the very best of times. We don't know where their main concentration of population is, either in settlement or in mind. There's no way to infiltrate their ranks, or attack them directly unless we do know." The female replied back.

"And there is an even greater risk." A fire dragon spoke up then, "No single dragon could infiltrate their establishments, be them real or corporeal, unless they were one of them." There was a ringing silence after that.

"Voluntarily become a Shadowseeker?" The shadow counselor whispered off to the side, his quiet voice ringing through the dead silent chamber, "Such an Idea has never been proposed before."

"Proposed! It's unthinkable!" Said the Light Counselor, on his exact opposite, "Nothing like this has ever been suggested before!"

There was more ringing silence.

"We're running out of options." the water dragoness said to the quiet room, "We need to act at some point."

Even more silence, then finally, the fire dragon got to his feet then, "We should send for the guardians then. It's not a matter of morals. It's a matter of necessity. The guardians should know, and they should be the ones to find candidates. Send for lady Cayman!"

[GINGER!]

Calhoun

The black dragon was hesitating in front of the Draconian Temple. He'd come here with a mission: die. Yes, he was here to die. After 116 years of his god-forsaken life, he was ready to die. He knew plenty of dragons that would want to kill him - every dragon, actually. But he had to be sure that they wouldn't just knock him out and keep him into a coma or something like that. While several options and thought passed his mind, the Shadowseeker gazed around. His surroundings seemed too bright, too vivid for his oversensitive eyes. With a sigh he quietly pushed one of the golden doors open and just as quietly, he walked through the empty halls. He wondered where all the dragons were. Had they gone into hiding again? He vaguely recalled all dragons running around about 100 years ago or so. But he wasn't completely sure, because the memory was mainly blurred. Then he heard a sentence that immediately occupied his concentration.


"Voluntarily become a Shadowseeker?" he heard a dragon say. Well, spit out, really. His interest was caught and he walked to the door that lead him closer to the voices. There was a murmur of words that he couldn't make out, and he leaned in closer, carefully leaning his weight against the thick door. "We're running out of options." he heard a dragoness say. The other words, he couldn't make out either. When he heard someone ask for Lady Cayman, whoever that might be, he decided that it was time to leave. If they would find out that there was a Shadowseeker, let alone a Newblood, in the Temple they would-

Craaack! with a long cracking sound, the door shoved open slowly, revealing the 116 year old Shadowseeker, standing on the threshold. Eh... he thought, while he gulped. This wasn't what he'd had in mind. He'd planned to go hunting around here, to shock the dragons, so they'd have to kill him. But now that they were in need of a Shadowseeker, they might force him to work for them. "Oops." he muttered, sounding a little ashamed. Now he was just going to be a pion in a pointless and endless war of destruction.

[insanerandomness]

Cayman HAD been headed to wards the Wild Forest, to hunt for food. She HAD heard the signals, calling her to the audience chamber at the center. And she HAD seen the rogue Shadowseeker...

"Well well well, what have we got here?" Cayman said under her breath, following from a great distance, watching from her perch atop the mountains surrounding the Draconia temple, "No lone Shadowseeker walks into Draconia's temple without a trap or proposal in mind. Not unless they're suicidal."

Taking to the sky and gliding silently on thermals, the female wound her way through the trees till she reached the massive front gates of the temple, which had been left ajar. The inner chambers were a straight shot form the door, so she could see the male a great distance down the hall. Diving to wards one of the side rooms, she approached the audience chamber in a roundabout fashion, approaching from the side.

As she got closer to her enemy, whom was blissfully unaware of her, currently intent on eavesdropping, the door to the chamber burst open, and the Newblood dropped back in surprise.

"Oops." Two guard dragons inside the hall advanced on him, teeth barred.

"Some one grab him!" one of the elders shouted from inside the hall...

[GINGER!]

Calhoun

Not even one of his kind could sink as deeply as he was now. He nervously glanced around, looking at the guardian dragons. Obviously he was in trouble, big trouble. "Some one grab him!" he heard one dragon shout, and he cringed. His surprisingly clear blue eyes darted through the hallway, trying to see an escape-route. He could leap over the guardian dragoness that was nearing on him, or he could simply break a window on his way out. He would survive that, as well as the high fall that would follow on the window-breaking. But he decided against it. He still could remember why he'd come here, so why not use this to his advantage? "Wow wow wow... Wait!" he yelled, hoping that would cause them to freeze. "I overheard what you were saying and I have a proposition." he said with glimmering eyes.

[insanerandomness]

The guards continue to advance on the lone dragon, extending claws and baring teeth.

"STOP!" Cayman declared in a commanding voice. The duet turned in surprise and looked at her. Walking into view of the doorway, she addressed the hall at large.

"If an enemy approaches us with something to say, we should here it. It may give us a shred of information we could use. Let the Shadow speak." the elders remained quiet. Cayman stared down the two guards, "Stand aside..."

The dragons glared but retreated too their posts, keeping their eyes on the dark dragon.

Cayman addressed the strange newcomer, "You may speak as you wish. I doubt they'll judge you anymore than they already have."

[GINGER!]

Ooc: I think we can better pause this thread. I'm not sure if I still want to role-play on here, or just do the admin things. I hope you don't mind! :)