The Dragon's Fragile Bride: His to Possess
He screamed, clawing at my black scales, his fingernails snapping into bloody stumps.
I leaned my colossal, scaled head down until my glowing gold slit-eyes filled his entire vision. The scorching furnace of my breath melted the dagger in his grip into useless liquid slag.
"Tell your Emperor," my voice scraped out, vibrating with dual layers of monstrous dragon bass and murderous fury, "that whatever steps into my house becomes ash."
I opened my jaws and unleashed pure black dragon fire.
The dark golden inferno consumed him in less than a heartbeat. There was no struggle; the intense heat dissolved his flesh, clothes, and bones into nothing. Within two seconds, only a pile of glowing gray so