Fantasy

Valley of Chains
There weren’t always dragons in the valley. This is what my mother told me. She whispered stories to me, when I was a young girl sitting beside her in the dark. Stories about a time long past, when our people didn’t cower in caves. When the shadows didn’t darken the rolling grass below, and we didn’t spend every waking moment craning our necks to watch the sky in fear.
By Z. Kozak4 years ago in Fiction
Dreamland
There weren’t always dragons in the valley. The old wives tale tells a story of a land free of dragons, free of war and free from poverty. The way my great grandpa described it was like a dream, thick green grass, wild flowers lining the horizon, golden sun warming the lands, hand built homes, a castle where all were welcome to visit with our royalty. Kids out singing and playing, farmers selling fresh products, people out for dusk walks and sunrises at the shore.
By JPWrites.24 years ago in Fiction
In Serpent Tongue
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley… and for a reason. How the poorest community in Ulisper city kept their skies clear was what the stranger in white was there to discover. For there just happened to be one that soared nonchalantly over the Valley.
By Jori T. Sheppard4 years ago in Fiction
The Dragon Thread
“There weren’t always dragons in the Valley,” Daelon muttered. He crouched low to the ground, deep in the cover of the underbrush. His face twisted, and his voice lowered, mocking. “There weren’t always dragons in the Valley.”
By Alyssa Cormier4 years ago in Fiction
The Santoku Chronicles
Mako There weren’t always dragons in the valley. Right now, San Fransisco was crawling with them. Not the type of dragons from a fairy tale.
By Saige Hada4 years ago in Fiction
The Last Ashes
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley. They came after the scorched, far-off corners of the world could no longer sustain them. The Denkai had heard rumors of them for hundreds of years, but they lived only in myths and served as the monsters of stories told to children to get them to behave.
By Kelsey Hodges4 years ago in Fiction
Trial by Fire
There weren't always dragons in the valley. Sweat was settling in my hair, my skin as I watched the beast sleep, it's snores causing the very ground to rumble, the water around me rippling in unease.
By Melanie Banman4 years ago in Fiction
Immortal
There weren't always dragons in the Valley. Before they came, the Valley was a little town called Maisteek. For decades, the entire continent of Ackrland was overrun by dragons invading and imprisoning humankind. Clutches of the beasts would grow their hordes of prisoners and riches from the lands they ravaged. They had little opposition. Even the strongest of mortals could do almost nothing to stop an entire clutch of dragons from taking whatever they wished.
By Jean Bruce4 years ago in Fiction
Awakening
There weren’t always dragons in the valley. At least, not any real dragons, and not for many, many years. But there were whispers beginning to spread of something stirring in the East…
By Andrew Stevens4 years ago in Fiction
The Silver Flame
"There weren't always dragons in the Valley." the older elf begins as worry lines crease his forehead. "The Valley once belonged to the Elves until the humans settled the other side and drove away nature's purity. They can not help it but their mundane methods are corrosive to nature's magic. When nature withdrew so did the Elves save for a few foolishly bent on encouraging them to leave. Beg them to leave even before they draw the attention of something far worse."
By Addison Martinez4 years ago in Fiction
MOTHER OF DRAGONS
There weren’t always dragons in the valley. Indeed It wasn’t long ago the Dragon was just a fiction crafted by the old world storytellers to inspire bravery and faith in the hearts of their children. To the adults of the new era, it was a far-fetched fable, borne of our wildest dreams. That dear old ideology would change forever and become the fable after a rogue asteroid unexpectedly made contact with Earth's atmosphere.
By Anthony Herrera4 years ago in Fiction
A War of a Million Souls
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley. However, there would be soon, as a king was dying, and the love of his life would soon know.
By Adam Mourad4 years ago in Fiction