Call to Adventure, A D&D White Dragon SI Fanfic

Hit the Ground Flying

The world of Faerun, a forgotten realm lost to time. A land whose wonders and riches the likes of which one could only dream. It is a land of epic fantasy where tales and stories were conjured up by brilliant and adventurous minds with nothing but pen and paper. Such tales echoed throughout the ages, becoming legends that become staples in fictional worlds.

Indeed, it was a place that one could only dream of becoming part of, a place where one could be everything and anything could happen yet. It was just mere fantasy… until I found myself whisking away my comfortable life.

What adventure awaits me on the other side? Was I born a peasant? A noble perhaps? Maybe even one of the many magical races of which called this land their home? As much as I wished not to, I found myself born to a far more brutal fate. My adventure began not with much fanfare but with whimper as I cowered inside my egg.

I laid low, eyes wide opened as I stared through small gaps in the fragile shell that protected me. There outside stood a great beast, a dragon whose scale was as white as snow and whose dagger filled mouth dripped with flesh blood. I could only watch as the dragon, my mother, loomed over an egg as a white dragon hatchling pushed itself out before it struck, chomping down without mercy.

I could only screw my eyes shut so much and pressed my clawed yet feeble hands against my ears as I tried to drown out the terrible crunch I heard outside. Where was I? Why was I inside this egg? Had I become a hatchling as well? These thoughts swirled around inside my head as I forced my eyes open.

As the earth shook and the dragon loomed over my neighbor, one thought came to my mind; I need to get out, I need to run away. With all the strength my feeble body could muster, I push myself up before bursting through the thin shell separating me from the world outside.. I was free and luck would have it, so too would my neighbor.

Blood sprayed across my body as mother chomped down on them. I cried in terror, a high pitch squeal to my own ears, as I scrambled out, breaking through the shell as I leapt out of the nest and down to the icy ground. Clawed feets found purchase on the packed snowy floor. As I scampered to the only source of light in this dark cave, I found myself inside that of a dark frozen cave and Mother was in hot pursuit.

With my tail tucked between my legs, I felt Mother chomp down behind me, her cold breath spurring me onwards as I made my escape. I felt my blood run cold as she roared, demanding that I come back to her but I kept going, knowing that every second I stayed in the cave I found myself in would bring me closer to my doom.

Dodge!

Stop!

Duck!

My blood screamed at me, forcing my body to move on its own as I danced around Mother’s terrible bite. My tiny heart hammered away inside my chest, terror gripping my heart as her pillar-like legs slammed down beside me and shook the very earth. Ice and snow kicked up and rained around me with each bite that came close to ending my short and terrible life so far. I did not stop, daring not to think what could happen if I did so as I ran towards the light.

Maybe it was luck, maybe it was sheer chance alone but as with one final leap, I cleared through the caves entrance and beheld a mountain range overlooking a fertile and verdant evergreen forest below. Far beyond that, I could see a great with towering castles and rolling fields covered in snow. So far up was I in the sky, I swore I could see the very coast itself. I found my breath taken away as I glided, my wings stretching instinctively, while my eyes took sight of my surroundings.

Beautiful

That train of thought wouldn’t last long as a great roar echoed behind me before I felt cold. My body screamed, or maybe it was my own voice crying out, as a deep chill slammed into me like a great big punch. Buffeted by this ice chill, I spun out of control as Iced formed over my wing, weighing me down until I couldn’t hold myself aloft any longer.

No! No! No! I screamed as I fell down, tumbling through the cold unforgiving sky as I fell to my doom. Entirely at the mercy of the wind, I was tossed around, careening uncontrollably as my limbs refused to move, far too cold and encased in ice to even do so.

This couldn’t be the end! I escaped my own mothers maw only to fall to my death. But as I saw the fast approaching ground below me with the tops of every green jutting out like spikes, I felt a sense of ease, like nothing truly mattered as I approached the end. It was almost funny really, to have myself reborn but ending up with a monster of a mother, escaping her maw until she decided to freeze me as one last act of spite.I was given hope only for it to be taken away at the very end like some grand cosmic joke.

As I hit the tree tops, slamming through the branches, I was introduced to pain. My light body struck the branches hard, breaking through them despite my weight. My bones creaked as my world devolved to that of green and brown, interspaced with branches slamming up to my stomach and driving the breath of me.

It felt almost like an eternity before I landed atop a cushion of deep snow, breaking my fall as I came to a stop. I groaned, my body a pile of sad bruised flesh and aching bones, unable to push myself. I felt pain… yet deep in my guts, I knew that it was good for it meant, I survived, I lived!

Despite the miraculous escape, I was still in a world of pain. I could already feel my frayed consciousness drifting, overwhelmed by my aching body. As the minutes passed, I felt the adrenaline in my veins waning, my slipping as I grew groggy.

The thick blanket of snow felt like a thick blanket around me, lulling me to sleep. I could barely fight my leaden eyes as they slow shut close but should I even fight it? Buried deep beneath meters of snow, I felt at ease, like I knew that no one would find my now diminutive form. Maybe… Maybe I could sleep. Thus I closed my eyes and I knew no more.