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Moth and Spark Giveaway: "If you were a recently freed dragon, what's the first thing you'd do.
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Feb 10, 2014 07:07AM
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Follow bird migrations to get away from this brutal winter. Since I could hunt whatever I needed to eat, I could globe trot with the seasons.
Obviously I would do a dance medley blending the Macarena with Gangnam style.
I'd fly to the polar icecaps and melt them.
Roast whoever had captured me in the first place. And then eat them. (Roast captor would be delicious, right?)
I would search the world for anymore of my oppressed brother or sister Dragons so that I would no longer be just a pack of one. Then I'd be in a pack of two or three or however many dragons I could find and we'd do dragon stuff like burn villages and eat damsels and/or knights. Basically we would do whatever the hell we wanted and we'd be free. Oh, and I'd pee on a really fancy looking castle.
I would fly off into the sunset, following it to prolong the usually minutes long beauty into hours.
Wow! How can I, a dragon with no literary training, compete with all of the great submissions from this fantastically creative group? I'm unsure of my wing strength after so much time cooped up, unable to use them. So I can't fly far. I'll have to find a place rather close where I can stay while I build up my strength. A nice large abandoned building would do nicely -- a castle or maybe an old cathedral or church. Something with a rather large tower or steeple. . .
fly really really fast, to feel the wind through my scales.
I'd get, like, these awesome tats and these piercings I've wanted forever and dye my scales black as night and show everyone (mom!) it's not just some phase! It's the real me!
Head to Bimini and have an old friend for dinner.
I would punish my captors and destroy any enemies I had left. Then work on taking over the world or at least acquiring as much of the gold in it as I could.
After burning my captors to a crisp I would find the Jersey Devil, eat him and rule the Pine Barrens for rest of time.
I would watch "How to To Train Your Dragon" because I like the irony.
Raid Fort Knox to jumpstart my hoard and enslave a small batallion of scientists and force them to create an army of robots to guard it.
I would fly to the nearest desert where I would roll in the hot sand and warm every scale on my body. After basking in the sun has returned my heat I would go back and set my captors screaming in an inferno.
Hoard. I'd still hoard. I'd probably have a lot of deep-rooted issues to work out for a while. I was born from an egg, see. Not sure who my dad is, and mom was always hiss-hiss this and growl-snarl-burn that.Not a stable childhood, in other words, so I'd probably make bad choices.
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That sounds a bit Hobbesian, doesn't it? Sorry. I'm not implying that I'd be better off under the yoke of my masters or that freedom would be some tyrannous jungle existence. I'd be grateful, don't get me wrong. It just takes time to get used to anarchy. I'd have a rough start, I'm just saying.
But definitely not Hobbesian. "Locke for the win" should be on the scaly lips and forked tongue of every freed dragon, if you ask me.
Viva la revolution! But just... you know, after hoarding.
Start my hoard. Of books, of course.What, that pile upstairs? That's a collection, not a hoard. ;)
Definitely fly as high and far as I can...
Go to a pub and get something cool to drink
I'd fly to the moon and have a barbecue full of meat, booze, and Herbzz with the Bunny who resides there.
conquer the world... after all no one can stop a dragon nowadays!!!!! :P
I would check on my stash of pretties and then burn the SOB who trapped me in the first place.
Burn all of them burn the cities and the royals then steal all the gold and hide them in my mountainous cave and eat dwarfs till I pass out!
Start hoarding me some gold, Smaug-style.
I would sell my story rights and hoard all of the gold possible. Then I would kickstart my plans for world domination. Everyone who bought my book would be safe from the eventual slaughter.
Eat, wreak havok & find my tribe. Not necessarily in that order... :-)
1) Unleash the hellfire2) Eat
3) Find a lady dragon
Well, as I'm not that creative, and really have no clue what I would do, I decided to cheat and ask my bearded dragon, Pizza Steve(the kids named him...plus it turns out he's a girl, but we've decided not to tell him that).I was fully expecting he'd go for eating everything in sight, but it turns out he'd rather go dragonriding. Unfortunately his definition of dragonriding is him riding around on a human(arm is best, but chest will suffice).
Go on a press tour, because "holy crap dragons are real?".
I think I would go on a couple of talk shows. I would discuss how literature and media have given dragons such a bad rap, and how it's this negative portrayal of dragons that led to my imprisonment and general anti-dragon sympathies. I would argue that dragons are falsely painted as evil, murderous, virgin-eating, gold-hoarding beasts. For example, Smaug is one of the best known dragons (if not THE best known), and he is as evil as they come. I would also sue my captors (if that fails, then eating them is plan B). Lastly, I think I would sell the rights to my story and have it made into a book and/or movie.
Fly, stretch my wings! Try to get as high up as possible. After being captured and cramped I'm sure that would be my first priority. Then eating.. :)
Crack open a 747 like a Pringles can and eat everyone inside.
I would read Moth and Spark by Anne Leonardis
Probably go out in a blaze of glory during an aerial battle of unprecedented epic proportions with the entire RAF after I went on revenge induced rampage.
Fly to the top of Mount Everest and claim the highest peak in the world as my own. Use my fire to melt the ice and create an epic fortress where I'd surround myself with the world's treasures.
Start a large scale All-You-Can-Be-Eaten BBQ restaurant.
Look for someones washing out on the line and you know, do that thing.
I would fly to a remote island and claim it. Dragon Land!!!
