Quote:I can't wait to see if she learns Super Martial Arts. ^_^
Lead facepalms. Crush sighs and shakes her head slightly. Friend prattles on and pantomimes beating down more minions, until Bro pounces her demanding ice cream or he'll tell their mom she got in a fight again.
Hmm. Names. We need names.
Crush - Gosai (Five colors) Miyou (point of view)
Friend - Kouga (Elegant) Tsuchi (sledgehammer)
Brat - Kouga (Elegant) Gaku (music)
Lead - Garyuno (Of the fanged dragons) Kennan (wise son)
...unless you can come up with a naming theme that'd include Miyou's name, which is the only one I'm attached to. I like the idea of having a theme for the names, but...
Anyway, an adolescent Fanged Dragon is about eighty, eighty-five percent the size of an adult, but has yet to master the art of coughing phosphorous-laden petroleum-product loogies over great distances and with pinpoint accuracy. They're about one, one and a half tons, which gives them a body the size of a smallish sedan and a mouth big enough to swallow a german shepherd whole. If you had to pick a real-world family of critters to relate them to, you'd say you were looking at a dinosaur. Their face is long and narrow, with forward-facing eyes and lots of recurved teeth - basically like a velociraptor, except for the rather ceratopsian bone frill protecting the neck. They don't actually have any horns, but there are bone spikes sticking out along the plane of the frill. The neck itself is fairly short but strong and quite flexible - perhaps a fifth of total length. The tail is also flexible, and is relatively thin - it's a control surface, not a swimming instrument like a crocodile's or a balance beam like a T-rex's - and makes up another two-fifths of overall length.
The legs (of which there are four) seem to partake equally of raptors and cats - that is, they're decently long, quite flexible, and very powerful, but have divided, fingerlike toes with talons on the tips rather than 'paws', and the wings go back to the dinosaur model, with the entire wing surface stretching from a single 'finger' rather than having several spread across it like the classical bat pattern. Those wings, BTW, are -huge-, with a total span somewhere between two and three -times- the total length from nose to tail - IOW, this critter flies through aerodynamics, not magic. Their flight patterns are, I think, basically eagle-like - soarers by choice, but quite capable of hauling themselves into the air under their own power if need be.
The big place they break from the dinsaurian pattern is in their scales, which are, well, rather fish-like - layered plates anchored to the skin at one end. The scales have sharp edges and come to a point at the outer end, with the ones running along the crest of the spine being -much- more prominent than the rest.
This is a critter that could quite happily hunt elephants. Good thing it's friendly, hey?
Ja, -n
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