Topic: A new beginning

Typhoon

Date: 2014-12-06 23:42 EST
Mother's usually had the best of intentions. Though sometimes...nature played it's course.

The dark dragoness had labored most of the night. Unwittingly chosing a sandy nesting site by a swelling stream. Winds howled over head as she pushed herself out of the depression, leaving just three spotted eggs.

Pulling herself onto a shelf nearby, wings soon unfurling to shield her brood to be.

As she rested, the storms still came, and along with it the rising stream, which soon had crept out of it's banks, and continued to grow.

The once trickling stream a raging wall of water. The mother had no time. Her eggs soon being carried downstream, and two disappearing beneath the muddy waters. She fought to find them, struggling in the murky waters, though panic had already set in. Nostrils flaring as she was trying to breath within the roiling, churning waters. Her own body carried away.

A family, destroyed within a night.

Come morning, the sun rose, shining upon the land. The remnants of the nest and all within gone.

Further downstream, caught up on a forked branch, lay the last remaining egg. The fallen piece of driftwood helping to keep the speckled sphere in place. The current soon sweeping, and washing the shell ashore.