*A hail storm hits with large hail stones the size of baseballs. The winds are HOT and the water is boiling. What is going ON around here!?*
Message from Chief Leon Kennedy to the Citizens of Kennedy City:
I realize that we have just come out of a war and are rebuilding, but a new problem has risen. For some reason the weather has become potentially dangerous to all of us. I want ALL of you to stay in your homes until further notice and I want all the cops to come to the KCPD immediately. We're going to figure out what's going on here.
Leon to Morgana, Christine, and Dracula:
I'm contacting you to see if any of you know why this strange weather phenomenon is occurring, if it's natural or if some other force is causing it, and if so, who would it be. If any of you know something about this, or know someone else that does, let me know.
Morgana and Dracula:
A fire breather. Leon, it's a fire breather. A dragon, it's flying this way. If the storm worsens that's all the closer it's getting. If it stops suddenly, it landed. This can't be good, but whatever you do, be nice to it. Well, if it's going to eat you right then and there, tell it where it can get a satisfying meal. The shield will be no use in stopping it. They're magical and know low level, effective spells.
Leon:
Thank you very much for the invaluable information you have given me, I will make it, as my duty as Defender of Kennedy City, to go to the Dragon and talk with him...I know I'm just a mortal with no real special powers like a true vampire or other immortal, but my mind is my greatest asset and I hope to use it effectively to protect us from the Dragon, and maybe even make peace with it. If, on the off chance I am attacked and/or killed by the Dragon, I want both of you to make sure everyone else is safe in the city by putting them underground in the "core"....damn, I don't want another war, nor more deaths, and personally, I'm sick of getting killed, I've died more times in recent times than Drake's been able to pull off on me. I'm going, wish me luck, and if there's anything else you want me to know, please speak, I will await your word, then go.
Chief Leon Kennedy to the Citizens of Kennedy City:
Dracula Dracule and Morgana McCobber have confirmed that there is a fire-breathing dragon above us and heading our way. I have asked the two for any advice before I myself go to confront the dragon. I will not attack it, I only wish for it to be a mission of peace, I want to know why it's around, perhaps for food, perhaps for other reasons, but in any case, I MUST talk to the dragon. As I told Dracula and Morgana, I know I'm not an immortal with special powers like a vampire or the dragon itself, but I must use what I DO have to communicate with the dragon. I am sorry to say this, but I must ask all of you to immediately vacate your homes and go to the "core" of the KCPD so that you will not be harmed. I will do everything in my power to secure your safety and well being.
Morgana and Dracula to Leon:
If I were you, I'd, just in case, bring an animal hide and even some gold and or jewels as a peace offering for the dragon. They get very smug and self confident when they are treated like that. Flatter it and it will make it easier to talk to. Oh, and if it looks like it's about to sneeze, dodge.
Leon:
Well, what am I supposed to do now, the weather's nice! I mean, I'd say that the dragon's gone, but do you think he's still around perhaps? If so, I will go to see him, let me know what you think.
Dracula and Morgana:
On the contrary, that means it landed. You have to go find it now.
Leon:
Well, so much for giving my hopes up. I'll go and see the dragon, and bring some "gifts" with me. I'll be careful. Thanks for all your help.
*Leon leaves his office at the KCPD and gets his "shopping list" and heads outside the city before he meets with the dragon. He drives a really big truck named the Ford Super Duty and drives it right into a jewelry store filled with gold jewelry, jewels, and diamonds. He kills everyone in sight in the store and takes out the security system with his powers by overloading the circuits. He then bags ALL the goods he finds, even the stuff in the safe and takes it to the truck and puts it all in the enclosed bed, or rear of the pick-up. Attached to the truck is a horse transporter. He then drives to a small nearby forest and takes out his shotgun and kills over 4000lbs of wildlife, none endangered, ranging from deer to buffalo. He painstakingly strips the hides off the carcasses and seals all the carcasses and puts them in the horse transporter again using powers to carry the heavy load. Mission complete for him, so he starts up the truck and drives back into Kennedy City and goes to where the dragon is and parks the truck. Leon gets out and speaks to the dragon.*
Leon:
Dragon, welcome to Kennedy City, whether you are looking for riches or food, I have both for you right here, priceless jewels and a mound of meat and hides for you. All of this is a peace offering to you, welcoming such a great species to the city. My name is Leon...and I just wanted to know why such a great being has bestowed his presence upon this city?
Dracula and Morgana telepathically to Leon:
Remember, if it looks like it's about to sneeze, dodge. Flatter it and feed it. Don't look threatening at all. You'll do alright if you heed advice.
Good luck.
*Leon finds the dragon in the park, as big as a Brontosaurus, hiding in the foliage, in a self built nest. It's red with a crimson/violet shimmer to its scales, blue eyes and huge wings. It's a full sized adult. She hisses at the intruder, but then cautiously takes to the flattery.*
Female Dragon to Leon:
Give me your food, leave the jewels where I can see them.
Leon to Dracula and Morgana, telepathically:
It's cool actually being able to talk to you like this, thanks to some help :) I got the goods for the dragon and I'm being as nice as possible, and I know what you mean about the sneezing, I feel like I'm in the movie Dragonheart or something, although I won't be expecting to hear Sean Connery's voice coming out of the dragon's mouth this time. Talk to you later.
Leon to the Dragon:
Very well.
*And with that Leon carefully takes off the top of the back of the truck, revealing the bags of jewels. One by one, Leon empties the contents of the bags in the dragon's sights. Leon then opens the horse transporter and pulls out the hides and lays them neatly near the jewel pile. Finally, he gets out all the meat and lays it all across from the jewels and animal hides, still in the dragon's sights.*
Leon:
There you are, the jewels and food in plain sight as you have requested. Is there anything else you wish?
Dracula and Morgana telepathically to Leon:
Well, get even frustrated and it'll know and get defensive, ok? Be very careful with pronunciation, grammar, attitude and the ay you say things. They're sensitive creatures that could easily mistake the way you say a word for an insult. Just by the way you say something. Smiling help.
*She immediately eats up the meat then twists her long tail around to use it to grab the other items and put it in the "front" of the nest. Yes, the tail has a formidable looking armor at the tip that when muscles are tightened, opens to have two pinching claws.*
Female Dragon:
Now you can go away and get me more food!!
*Just at the moment Leon turns to leave, he sees that she's laying eggs*
Leon telepathically to Dracula and Morgana:
Well, so far I've been very calm and easy going about the situation, far from frustrated or anything like that...I'm not crazy about having the dragon here, but whatever it takes to help it move along, in the nicest way possible, sometime....Anyway, I'll be careful with my wording as well, thanks.
Leon to the Dragon:
Very well, I will get you more food, I will return shortly.
*With that Leon gets in his truck and heads to the nearest forest. However, he's not too happy about the female dragon laying eggs...*
Leon telepathically to Dracula and Morgana:
Well, I've kept calm in my speech, but my mind is not at ease. The dragon is a female, she has a nest, and she's laying eggs! I'm sorry, but I don't feel comfortable about an adult dragon, let alone baby dragons, eating up the population, and if not us, I don't want them to touch John's animals! Now I gotta go out and feed her more food! Just wonderful, I'm being the butler to a dragon! I don't know how much longer I'm gonna be Mr. Nice Guy....I gotta go...
*In an hour's time, Leon returns to the dragon and once again delivers to her a mound of meat with the hides set aside.*
Leon:
There you are, more food for you. I hope you don't mind me asking this, but why have you chosen this place to lay your eggs?
Morgana and Dracula telepathically to Leon:
Yeah, and don't even try and sound nice just feel all round nice. Because if you act nice but think differently, it'll know! Well, this changes everything. I am talking in general about dragons, but being that it's female and laying eggs. I think she just wants YOU to get her more food so she won't have to leave the nest and leave the eggs open for attack. Sympathize with her. WITH her, not for her. You're a father too. Tell her that, ok?
Did you know that dragons can put off being fed, from the start of a full stomach, a good month? Tell her you know that and she might let off. If you get to know her well enough she'll stop acting like a dragon and act like a person. You'll know it when the time comes. Right now you're strangers and wary of each other. Sit with her, stay with her, watch out for her and she'll do the same. Make a bond with her. She will not go away like a cold, Leon. Her young, if hatched here will comeback to nest here, if female, ever time they need to. It's not annual and it's not always the case that they'll survive the dragon world and they might not get mates. Males can be very hostile and hot headed, judgmental and quick to jump to conclusions. Thank your stars it's a female here and not a male.
Female Dragon to Leon:
This place is devoid of danger. The plants give off good vibes of calm and soothing waves of good. I had to travel many moons to get here. No other dragon will dare follow and nest here, so have no worries.
*Lowers head from the dizzying full height it was at. Leon thinks it remarkable that she can hide her huge body under the tree line of the canopy. She takes a few more meat chunks and swallows them, leaving but two or three animals. The hides are put with the others, but her breast plate.*
Leon telepathically to Dracula and Morgana:
Thanks for telling me what you did, it actually changed my perception and thoughts about the dragon and the situation at hand, perhaps, if everything goes right, this won't be so bad...I would like to form a hopeful friendship one day with this female dragon and a bond of trust, ah heck, she's here, gonna have a family one day, and I've accepted just about every new family there is that's come in, or something like that. I think the Bushroot genes are kicking in. And I'll be sure to tell her what you told me to tell her in my own words, thanks.
Leon to Dragon:
You are fortunate to come here at the time you have chosen, whether it be on purpose or by chance, we were struck with war and half of us almost wiped out, but we survived. This is a place of peace, and the only ones who attack us are the ones who hate peace and happiness. But trust me on this, that I have spent many years making sure that everyone in this city, no matter who they are, have the good life they deserve and safety as well, much like with the several children I have now. I'm sure you can manage well, but I feel a real responsibility to help take care of you, your future "children", and everything else in between, and I am willing to do that out of the kindness of my heart. Satisfaction for me doesn't come with receiving money or having possessions, but helping others be safe and happy, that has been my goal since the beginning. You have come to the right place and I will see to it that you are well taken care of :) If you don't mind, I wish to camp beside you, so to speak, I'll set up my tent right where I'm standing (about 45 feet away from the dragon, so as not to invade personal space). I do wish to know about you in time, I realize that right now you don't know much about me other than my vow to protect and help you in any way I can. I think talking would put both our minds at ease :) And, one more thing, I do not know how much dragons eat, but please, for your sake, don't eat too much, I'm sure you want to be nice and healthy when your babies come around, I've been down that road twice, so to speak.
*Leon pitches his tent and gets everything set up in it. Leon comes out and speaks one more time as the last stars come out on the clear night.*
Leon to Dragon:
Goodnight dragon, I will see you in the morning, rest well and may it give you strength for tomorrow.
*Leon goes into his tent, into his air bed, covers himself with blankets and shuts his eyes and thinks to himself that the last time he ever went camping was when he was nine with his parents, "It's a good feeling," he thinks, and slowly drifts off to sleep.*
Dracula and Morgana telepathically to Leon:
Sure. Be that good cheerful way around her and that'll make her feel good too. It's contagious!
Female Dragon:
Thank you for wishing to "help" me. I'm Kis. You are? This might be one of my last broods, I am getting up in age.
*Waits for him to set up camp then says*
Female Dragon:
"Yes, you rest too. You're the only person I know that can carry the load of three oxen."
*Curls up and sleeps. Next morning bright and early, an eye appears at the tent flap, filling up the entrance, looking in. Red scales of armor protect it above and below. She blinks her blue cat-like eye.*
Kis:
"Wake up. It's morning. We have so much to discuss"
*She pokes her long snout in and ever so gently, nudges Leon, like a playful dog*
*Leon feels the soft bump of Kis's snout upon his side and wakes up, a little startled at first glance but then calms down and pulls away his blankets.*
Leon:
"Good morning Kis, a very nice name by the way :) *yawns* I need some coffee, helps ME stay awake :)
*Leon makes coffee in his portable coffee maker, powered by Leon's own electricity with one good zap. He has the feeling of Kis seeing that one little sight in interest. Coffee done, so he unscrews the cup/top of the device and pours some for himself.*
Leon:
Well, let me start off by telling you who I am. My full name is Leon Scott Kennedy-Bushroot, Chief Executive Officer of the Kennedy City Police Department and Advisor to the President. You can just call me Leon though, that's what everyone else calls me, they just automatically associate my name with the things I do. I was born and raised in a calm suburb of New York City, and taken care of by my real parents until I was in my early teens, when they were killed in an auto-accident, and since then I graduated high school and became a police officer at the Raccoon City Police Department, not knowing what I was getting myself into. There was a much greater problem in that city at the time, a biological company created a deadly virus with the ability to mutate any living thing, human or animal, into a zombie-like creature. Slowly, over a two year period, my determination and help from new friends, we eliminated the threat of the virus to us, however, it took the lives of the entire population beforehand. After that incident, the national government disavowed any knowledge of Raccoon City and so, we basically took it over for our own needs and desires. Over 20 years later, Raccoon City has been transformed into Kennedy City, for which I was President of for 17 years. Don't ask me to do the math, I don't think we really care what year it is anymore, we just enjoy being here :) I am married to a woman named Lara, a very wonderful woman who saved my life and loved me ever since :) Since our marriage we have had two wonderful children, Luke and Leia, and I have adopted, adopted a human from the former horrors of Raccoon City named Sherry, a son of mine from a different dimension named Zidane, a vampire disowned by his own father named Brant, and a still-good angel that fell from the heavens named Mikael. I don't know if some of the things I have said thus far make sense, if it doesn't please tell me and I'll clear it up for you. I realize it's possible that you and I are from two very different worlds. Oh yeah, you said I'm the only person you "know that can carry the load of three oxen." Well, if I didn't have plant powers that wouldn't be possible. See, even trees are many times stronger than the average male human, so my father, Reggie, who is also part plant through an experiment, made it possible to successfully integrate plant cells with human cells. In addition to the plant powers which give me superior strength to my human self, I am part something else, that which I do not know. The truth is Kis, that I myself, even though born here, was somehow pre-created by someone in the future, and that person had me brought here for reasons I will never fully know. Perhaps...I am the first kind of super human they created to try to defend themselves from a superior cyborg race, and they sent me here because they could not win that battle, so perhaps sent me here to prevent that from happening. It makes sense, I was going to be destroyed by cyborgs by the very company that destroyed Raccoon City for destroying something of theirs. Perhaps they were the beginning phase in the company's master plan to take over the world in 150 years time. Anyway, due to my creation, I have the ability to grow three times in height and much greater in strength and become a standing lion, blue fur and brown hair. I'm thinking I also have the ability to adapt to make myself better for survival through war and environment. Gee, I feel like I've told you my whole life story in a nut shell, so to speak. :) You know, you are quite beautiful for a dragon, much more so than I've been told in tales, I especially like your eyes, they're like looking into a clear blue ocean :) For a creature of your magnitude and power, you are quite nice in my opinion :) But please, do go on about yourself, I am fascinated to know more about you :)
*Blushes, not a color, merely tilts her head as if blushing at the comment about her beauty.*
Kis:
Well, that is true. There are dragons that are ugly to dragon standards as well as people standards. I only wish I could keep my beauty as well as the Eldest Dragon, long since past onto the stars. And it seems like your life is pretty full there. Mine is consisting of hatching to a mother and a father who were called out to battle rival neighbors and lost. My brothers and sisters and I scattered so as not to be killed when the rivals came to take over the household; a cave in the mountains. But that is because I am a fire dragon. There are water dragons, and steamer dragons as well. Well, I grew, first living on water bugs in the deep caverns below the mountain where no adults could come and kill me. I do not know where my siblings are. But we might know each other on sight. So, then I grew too large for the water caves, I moved out onto the forest landscape, eating small game and then going on to larger game, keeping to the ground. I as careful avoiding the eyes of adults. But one day what as to be my future, life long mate found me and picked me up, thinking I was food. He realized I was a dragon and took me to his roost where he taught me to fly and breathe fire. I would go with him, growing close to him, to find food and we would return to our roost and defend it against other territorial rivals. Then I as of age I had my first litter with him and raised five beautiful dragonlets, whom are grown and have great grandchildren of their own. As well as my other four litters. This will be my sixth and probably final litter of my life. I am a good mother, strong and protective of my young, my mate and my den. Other dragons have said that not too many dragons grow to my size. Must have been those bugs I ate, hmm? My mate is a dark, brilliant blue with dark green eyes and violet blue wings and spines. His shimmer is black and violet. I hope you two meet one day. Wow, our mating rituals are all too similar. Dragons become acquainted with attractive, prosperous opposites and the "engagement" involves dancing and flying, proving ho magnificent the mate really is. Then he gives his perspective mate a crystal which he himself has to pick with care. No flaws, and the size has to be just right to be an "engagement" stone. That happens in the spring. Perspective mates get to know one another till fall, when their "marriage" takes place with yet an even bigger crystal. And through these months, a mate may turn the other down at any time; if the crystal is unsatisfactory or if he reveals his true colors. The male may also break the engagement at any time is the female reveals her true colors by taking back he crystal for later use on another female. Fall is mating season where the winds, temperature, and humidity are just right. After that, they are mated for life. An older male will not seek young females if he has a mate nor even HAD a mate, if she died.
But the weather can foul up the dragon order. if conditions in the fall are not right for mating, then the pair ill wait till it is next year. Unfortunately, I've heard in stories The Decade of Death. This was a time period here the weather was horrible for mating ten years in a row. Some tried anyway because they waited longer than that. As consequence, they never conceived or the eggs were all rotten. That is why this is only my sixth brood. I am nearing 400 years of age. Mating is crucial to the Balance. *shrug*
Perhaps I could call Kturu to come to meet you. He's only away protecting the roost. I like it here much better. There is more food. Those greedy $^%$ eat everything in sight even when they're not hungry. They are fat and lazy and make other dragons take territory that is too expansive for their on good.
*Snorts smoke, looking back to here she came from*
Kis: Pardon me, but it�s just so unfair.