The
Earth Dragon
In the beginning, there was the great Earth Dragon Omar. It
was called an Earth Dragon because it was half flesh and half
earth, and had reached the size of a small moon. But this dragon
was getting old, and so new life sparked within its womb. The
embryo grew like a voracious cancer, soon becoming too big and too
vigorous for its host to handle.
Omar
cracked open like a broken egg when the baby tore its way out of
its bowels. The infant dragon was a being of pure flesh, and it
flew around, greedily devouring the earthy remains of its parent.
When it had consumed enough rock to stiffen its body it nestled
comfortably among the twinkling stars.
This
was how the Earth Dragon Caldor came into existence. It drifted
for ages in the dead of space, gulping down any stray asteroids
that passed its way, accumulating more and more mass, until it had
digested a sufficient amount of stone to develop a thick skin of
earth to protect its fleshy interior. The dragon eventually
settled into a stable orbit around the nearby sun named Ara,
revolving silently at the fringes of its gravitational pull.
Thus
it lay dormant for centuries, engulfed in a dreamless sleep, until
it was awakened by an astounding meteor shower. The rocks pelted
onto its skin and raised great clouds of dust into the atmosphere.
Among the meteorites was a magnificent piece of multi-colored
crystal. It collided at the very midpoint of the beast’s back
and broke into ten distinct chunks that fell in a circle miles
wide around the central piece.
The crystals embedded themselves deep into the
Earth Dragon’s skin, and it moaned in pain as fresh blood gushed
from the wounds, pouring into the impact craters and forming a
huge lake. However, the blood of an Earth Dragon was not thick and
red, but in fact purest water. It fertilized the ground and
allowed lush forests to sprout outside of the crystals’ borders.