PSL: Dragon Fails

[goldeneyeball]

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[stabbywheelfeet]

[Just give it time, you big noodle.]

[Sideswipe, however, flicks a wing at him, and keeps on nosing around for more coins.]

Nope. Too busy. Probably. I wasn't listening.

[goldeneyeball]

Well here's a lesson! You don't just walk in and start eating somebody else's--anything!

_{[Huff puff huff!]}

I'm hiding you from your parents and that's it!

[stabbywheelfeet]

I have to. You don't want me to get all dull and useless, do you? Because that's rude.

[Says the guy snacking on all JW's shiny treasure.]

You can't expect me to starve myself, just because I'm hiding.

[goldeneyeball]

I'm not shiny and I'm perfectly capable!

_{[Keep telling yourself that, James.]}

It's working for me.

[stabbywheelfeet]

... Sure. Sure you are. And that's why you live in a hole all by yourself.

[He flicks a small dagger at the other dragon, before digging a little deeper for more shiny things.]

[goldeneyeball]

_{[JW lets out a hiss as the dagger bouncs off his nose.]}

At least I don't live with Daaaaaddy.

[stabbywheelfeet]

[He pauses. Staring across the room at JW. Before pulling out a particularly large, shiny-looking gem. Something probably very valuable.]

[And just.]

[Crunching into it like an apple. Slowly. Deliberately.]

[So there.]

[goldeneyeball]

_{[JW's mile wide smirk shrinks in an instant and he uncoils himself, shooting across the gap between them, hands out.]}

HEY! I pulled that out of a human temple the day before it collapsed!

[stabbywheelfeet]

And now it has a bite out of it! So there!

[He's going to drop the half-eaten gem, though, and go leaping to the other side of the room, laughing. WOW isn't he an asshole?]

[goldeneyeball]

_{[JW lets out an indignant squawking sound that would be more at home coming from a big chicken that a dragon and bounds after him, kicking up coins and precious stones in his wake.]}

[stabbywheelfeet]

[Sideswipe, meanwhile, just keeps laughing his ass off, and bounding ahead of the noodle dragon. Once he even jumps onto JW's noodle coils to get away.]

[Oh, this is fun.]

[goldeneyeball]

<sub>[Sideswipe's talons coming down on his tail gets an even more impressive shout out of him and he darts his long neck forward to take a bite out of the silver dragon's tail.]

[His teeth bounce off with a loud CLANG sound and he bunches up with his claws clapped over his muzzle.]</sub>

MMMMPH!

[stabbywheelfeet]

Haha! See? Can't get me, noodle-boy!

[You need to work on your taunts, Sideswipe.]

[But. He's also not looking where he's going. And trips over a shield, stumbling near a wall -- head over tail.]

[goldeneyeball]

_{[JW lets out a triumphant bark of laughter when Sideswipe wipes out.]}

Serves you right! Ow ow ow...

_{[His tooth really hurts. And he has an awful feeling that it's going to keep hurting. He's going to need something for it. The long dragon squints at his guest as he ferret hobbles toward the entry tunnel.}

I have to go find some willow bark...when I get back, there better not be so much as coin missing.

[stabbywheelfeet]

H-hey! You can't just leave!

[As he scrabbles around, trying to face the other dragon. In order to be properly indignant. However...]

[One of those tunnels left narrow has taken a liking to his wing. And front leg. And refuses to let go.]

[goldeneyeball]

I'm only going to the base of the cliffs. There's a stream and where there's water there are willows.

_{[He notices Sideswipe's limbs are stuck and lifts a brow.]}

If I dig you out, will you behave? I'll only be gone an hour. This tooth is killing me.

[stabbywheelfeet]

That's your own fault! Not mine. You should have known better than to bite me.

[This sass is complete with tail lashing and growling. And more twisting to try and get himself unstuck.]

[goldeneyeball]

Stay still, you ass! You'll bring the whole mountain down on our heads!

_{[JW stomps over and starts digging at the tunnel with his dumb shovel-snout. Soon enough, he's widened it enough for Sideswipe to pull his wing free.]}

THERE! I'm going now! Just...take a nap! I'll bring you something from the river, just leave my hoard alone.

_{[Before Sideswipe could get up to anything else, JW slithered up the tunnel and out into the sun. He had a good idea where to find willow trees and a few fish for his own troubles. However, it would take two hours instead of the one he estimated.]}

[stabbywheelfeet]

Maybe if you didn't live inside a stupid mountain, it wouldn't happen!

[And he slides out, hissing and preening at his wing. Just in case. He can't allow it to be even a tiny bit dull, after all. It wouldn't be seemly.]

[He just snorts at the other dragon's retreating back. Having found a bit of wing that isn't nearly as smooth and perfect as the rest of him... there is clearly only one solution. And that solution is to remove every silver coin from the hoard.]

[By way of eating them.]

[Okay so maybe it's a bit vindictive.]

[goldeneyeball]

<sub>[While JW preferred gold to silver, he had no shortage of the stuff.]

[Eventually, the sound of the long lizard's claws on the tunnel walls could be heard. And a scrubbing noise. He's elected to bring an entire willow branch down into the den with him by dragging it in backwards.]</sub>

I saw some burned trees down by the river. Do these war dragons breathe fire?

[stabbywheelfeet]

Mmmhmm.

[It's a lot less active of an answer. And a little muffled. Which... is partially due to the fact the silver dragon has finished his little revenge feast, and has curled up in a now-empty portion of the lair.]

[Sorry, JW. good thing you like gold better. Your gold to silver ratio is now... way off.]

[goldeneyeball]

Then I think they might have come by here...dragons like me don't breathe fire.

<sub>[Once he's fully into the chamber he turns, presenting the branch like a proud dog fetching for its master. Look how good he is at taking care of himself! Look at this whole tree's worth of medicine!!!]

[Something is wrong.]

[James squints at the edges of the chamber where the level of his treasure used to be. Then he squints at Sideswipe. He squints harder and the willow branch creaks in his jaws.]</sub>

[stabbywheelfeet]

Mmmmaybe.

[He says as he lazily stretches a bit, before re-curling into a silver ball. A ball that clinks a little. And glints even more shiny in what little light filters in.]

[Any notion of danger has passed right over his head because he is sleeping the sleep of a dragon that just inhaled way too much metal. Whoops.]

[goldeneyeball]

_{[As dazzling as the silver dragon's scales are, their spell on JW has been broken for the time being. The next thing Sideswipe hears is the tell-tale SWISH of a branch being swung. JW lashes his head side to side, bringing the half-a-willow down on Sideswipe's head again and again.]}

Get out! Get out! Get out!

[stabbywheelfeet]

Wh--!

Hey!

[There's an awkward yelp. And startled scrabbling around. Scurrying from one part of the lair to another, hoping to get out of the way. It doesn't really work.]

[Also assisting in his terrible attempt at escape is the fact he's just been woken up from a fairly deep doze. He's completely disoriented. And, as a result...]

[As a result, that sure is a narrow, noodle-shaped tunnel he tries to dart through. Head, neck and shoulders. Only to stop right there. Despite the fact his claws keep frantically trying to shove him forward.]