Maybe it was the uneasy way they made him feel when he had
    met them, Maybe it was the evil look in their eyes.  But Blue 
    Green Gem dreamed of those Goblin like creatures. A dream that
    would change his life forever

        He found himself trapped inside the mouth of a cave surrounded
    by a dozen or more of these creatures. They mocked him as they
    hurried by him. Each one passing tools to the others & each one
    poking him with the tools and laughing in his face. He looked to
    see what he was being restrained with only to find it was a thin
    rope bespeckled with rubies. Every time he tried to move the
    jewels would glow. When this happen another one of these
    creatures rushed towards him and poked him with a pick or
    smacked him with a shovel, all the time hissing in his face . A foul
    odor would rise to his nostrils making him gag. 
   
        He looked down into the tunnel and he could see they were
    working deep within the earth digging. All the while singing a dark
    ominous song that echoed through the walls of the caves . The
    sound of their black song grew stronger as they dug deeper and
    deeper.  He thought he would go mad listening to their eerie voices
    bellow this evil tune. He would try to struggle, to break free
    and run out of this dark pit. And again a poke, a smack, a hiss. 

        "Oh the stench" He thought he would pass out between the pain
    and the smell. 
   
        He let out a cry "Why are you doing this to me?"

        Another smack with a shovel as a creature leaned into his face
    licking it's lips and baring it's sharp twisted green teeth.

        "To You? This has nothing to do with you for you are nothing."
    And the creature hissed in his face. Spittle flying from it's mouth.

        Blue Green Gem caught another whiff and started to choke.

        "Then why do you hold me captive?" "I have done nothing to
    you." A tear running down his cheek.

        "You live! My Master is not pleased with that and for that you
    must die." The creature gnarled. 

        "But... But didn’t you wish to seek counsel of me?" He said
    remembering the words their leader spoke to him.

        "YOU ARROGANT LITTLE SLUG!!!!" The creature shouted.
    And the shovel landed hard this time across his face. The pain
    ripping though this young dragon. A dragon that never felt any
    pain but the pain of loneliness.

        "We take counsel from only one. A Great one. You mean
    nothing to us" And he raised the shovel to strike again.

        "Since I am but a slug why do you even bother with me?"  Blue
    Green Gem asked sheepishly. Hoping to find a way to get them to
    release him.

        "For you are in the way just like your precious MoonRose. And
    for that you both shall die. But you shall have the pleasure to see
    her perish first."  He hissed again.

        Anger built up deep inside Blue Green Gem and it dawned on
    him. He is a dragon just burn these foul creatures. Still choking
    from the stench of the creatures breath he tied to feel the heat in
    his belly rise. Only coughing out puffs of smoke. Panicked filled
    his whole being. The thought of them harming MoonRose. 

        More creatures rushed up to him now laughing and singing that
    song. Each one dancing around him smacking and poking him
    harder and harder to the beat of  their atrocious  song. The
    noxious fumes surrounded him as they sang louder and louder. He
    felt himself slipping away with each beat.

        Each time he tried to breath in to blast them they smacked him
   and hissed in his face. And that song... He tried to scream out.
   Getting weaker and weaker.  The laughing and the pain. The walls
   started getting closer. Everything was turning gray.

        He couldn’t stop himself from thinking of the lake by
   MoonRose’s castle. How he longed to be there. He tried to think of
   the songs they sang for him. But try as he would he could not stop
   their hellish song.

        He knew this was it for him. The gray was turning black. The
   pain was drifting away with him. Still that song stayed. Then as
   him felt the last of his consciousness fade he saw them dragging in
   MoonRose. Dancing around her. Singing and laughing. A Creature
   lifted up his pick and with a long arch came down upon her.

 
     "MOONROSE!!!!!" 


       The sound of his scream was still echoing in the valley when he
    found himself standing  staring straight at the moon. It was
    twilight and the moon was hanging brightly in the sky.

       He was only dreaming but his body was shaking and he was
    crying uncontrollably. 

       Wanting to get away from there as quickly as possible he almost
    forgot the map the mage gave to him. If it wasn’t for the
    brightness of the moon he would have left it behind. He shuttered
    at the thought of having to return to this place just to retrieve it.
    He snatched it up and flew off without a thought of looking back
    at that place.

       As he flew away the earth shifted.  A rock started to rise. Then
    a head popped out from the ground and then sank back in.

       "Well? What was it?" a voice said from below.
 
       "I didn’t see anything. You must be hearing things or you’re
    hitting the drink a little to hard."
      
        


To Be Continued

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