Topic: Hunting grounds

Sinestra

Date: 2015-04-24 22:56 EST
Thunder rumbled, and lightning flashed overhead. So long it seemed that the beast had fed. So long since she'd feasted upon fresh sailor flesh. So long...that another hunt had come.

A small sloop was just headed into port, the crew racing to beat the storm overhead. So focused were they, that they never saw the ripples within the water.

They never saw the beast until it was too late. A scream pleading for help drowned out by another thunderclap.

The only clue left behind, the bloody deck of the vessel. One after another...until it seemed as if the vessel might have been abandoned. Her dark scaley hide gliding back through the waves to return to the cavern. the sea cave that she claimed as her own.

Another vessel...claimed for the sea.

Sinestra

Date: 2015-06-26 18:30 EST
It had been weeks since she'd destroyed a boat. Weeks since she'd feasted upon watchmens' flesh.

Patrols had stepped up, making hunting near impossible.

Something would have to be done...

Green eyes studied the scrying mirror within her hoard. The object showing the foot and boat patrols, still searching the waters. They'd not made it anywhere near her hidden cavern yet. But her hunger couldn't wait much longer.



Nightfall...Slipping from her cavern, the dark dragon slowly surfaced, acting as if just a piece of flotsam floating upon the waves. The patrols usually died down at dusk, but so did the boats coming in and out of the docks.

She'd have to seek prey elsewhere. Inland. A watchman's light started moving her way. the man growing closer. Something may have shown on the water..

Her eyes squinting against the light. Charlie stood there with a flashlight, gaping slack jawed at what he was seeing. There was the beast they had been looking for.

The man was just about to blow his whistle...when jaws snapped out of the lake, catching hold of the man's arm. A scream tore out from the watchman's throat as she thrashed about, dislocating the socket of his arm with a pop!. Another scream as the beast tugged him closer, dragging the man into the bay. Bubbles rising toward the surface waves. Waves...that would turn crimson red.