Later on that morning, I couldn’t sleep because of the “Dark Prince” was on my mind. It was almost morning, but the sun hadn’t rose yet. The air was so cold as I woke up but it felt so good to breath in the clear air. As if life had been lifted up inside of me. I walk around to look for Zac, but he was nowhere to be found. He must be still guiding this place, as I contain to walk on.

Morning had finally a raise; the sun is almost in the sky. I can now finally able to see the view clear but I wasn’t aware of were I was going. I looked back and realized I must have been gone for a mile from the castle. I contained to walk on, until I ended up tripping over a rock, and tumbling down the hill, till I hit into a muddies ground.

“Yuck!”, I shouted, wiping the mud of my face. I slowly got up and shaking the mud off my hands, as I moan. “This is so not my day”, mumbling under my breath. So furiously as I tried to get out of the muddy ground but unfortunately the place seem to be cover mud and over growing grass. There seem to been no lights in this place but fill with darkness. I thinks this place is some kind of a swamp. I looked around to find a way out of this damp. This was going take me a while to get out of this place. I search and search until I came to reach a dry land.

There were a old cotton house right in front of me. “How on earth a cotton house end up in a swamp?” I said to myself, staring at I walk toward to the front door and opened it. I step inside and closed door behinds me. To my amazing surprised the house didn’t collapse on me. I was surprise how stable it was, as if nothing had change for the past thousand years.

The room was very dark but barely enough light to see in the room. There was an old armchair near the fireplace and nobody was sitting there. I walk towards the fireplace and knee down, rubbing my hands together at the fire. I was feeling cold. Until a wind blew the fire out. Light were appearing out of nowhere. I stared as the candles, as they were beginning to appear in each corner of the room. All of suddenly the fire came roar back to life. I fall backward, clawing away from the fire. I stare it in silence.

(Chuckle)

A voice had broke my silence. I turned and looked. There he was, a man before me, was sitting in his armchair, chuckling at me. He smile at me cheerfully, playing with his glass. I stood there looking at him, lost for words.

“Soir Soul. Have no fear of me. You are perfectly safe from harm.” Said the stranger. “And you expect me to believe you?” I told him rudely. “No, I don’t.” He spoke coldly. He put his glass down and got off his armchair and walk towards to me. I took a stepped backwards, away the from the stranger. “Who are you?” How did you get in here? And where did you appear from??” My voice was lost in silence. I could no longer speak but to continue stare at him quietly.

“.Time will only tell.” Said the stranger. “But yet, here you are stood in a dark corner... with fear.” I was so surprise how he knew of my fear. I stood there shaking. He came closer to me as he was down on his knee, facing me. I studied his eye and I could see the fire in his eye. My mother once told me about a fire reflecting in the human eye, how it shines and glows in the dark. This is what I was seeing. I was lost in his eye while he was touching me. He touched my cheek, as He glanced at me. I didn’t know what to do but to stare at him.

I was lost for words to say until he has spoke to me. “You are one hell of a spirited fighter I ever saw.” As He has lifted my chin up, looking into my eye deeply. With a sly smile across his face. He let go of my chin, brushed my fringe to aside.

Slowly He got up off the ground. He took my hand as I stood up against him, until I has tripped over. I fell right into his arms, as He has caught me. Our eyes met and lock in with each other sight.

“How embarrassing is this? I’m so humiliating now!” I mumbled it into my thought, while my eye was fixed into this stranger’s eyes. “ “I have never be more humiliated in my whole life until now!” “Oh God! He is still staring at me. What should I do?” Think, Soul? Think!” I was lost for thought and has no ideas of how am I going to escape from him. It was no use to me now. I am stuck and trapped with him.

While I was lost in my mind I felt him touching me. I didn’t realized He was stroking my face. His hand was so soft on my cheek. So soft and gently it was. I couldn’t believe his hand were so warm on my face. I felt him lending into me, whispering in my ear. What’s on your mind, Soul?” He ask me. I kind of blink when he has asked me that question. My mind was empty. I didn’t know how to answer his question but instead I stood and look at him and said “Why do you want to know?” I question him with his own question.

to be continues

Silver dragon Silver dragon Characteristics Alignment: Lawful Good or Chaotic Good (2nd Edition) Type : Dragon (Cold) Image : Wizards.com image Stats :Open Game License stats Publication history Source books Monster Manual 3.5 Mythological origins Dragon

* Maximum Height: 22 feet * Maximum Weight: 1,280,000 pounds * Maximum Wingspan: 150 feet * Breath weapon: Cone of Cold, Paralyzation Gas * Habitat: High Mountains (the colder the better) * Diet: Almost anything; love tasting new things * Preferred Treasure: Beautifully crafted jewellery or finely woven fabrics

Silver dragons are the second most powerful of the metallic dragons, and are true friends to all. The silver dragon enjoys the company of humans and elves so much that it will often take the form of a human or elf and live among them for the majority of its life. It should be noted that silvers, like all dragons, believe themselves the most superior creatures in the world. However, apart from the ability to fly, which they enjoy greatly, they tend to prefer the physical forms of humanoids for everyday life.

At first glance, the silver dragon appears very similar to the white dragon. The wings are more curved than a white's though, and the silver has two talons on its wings rather than the single talon of most dragons. The silver dragon also has a beautiful frill that begins at the top of its head and flows all the way down its neck and body to the tip of the tail. The frill is silver towards the body, fading to a purple hue at the edge. They have two long, smooth silver horns with black tips, pointing up and back from the head. They also have a pronounced sharp frill under the chin, which has the rough appearance of a goatee. They smell like rain.

Silver dragons lay their eggs in a bed of snow. A newhatched silver wyrmling has scales of a bluish gray, which change to silver over time. Silver wyrmlings are intelligent, kind, extremely curious, and adorable.

Unlike the gold or bronze dragon, the silver dragon does not usually go out of its way to bring justice on the world. Instead, it waits for others to ask them for help. They will attempt to right an injustice if they see one, but they have no inclination to intentionally seek evil out and destroy it. Silver dragons are more interested in protecting the humans or elves it has come to care for than in looking for evil. Like most metallic dragons, silvers do not enjoy combat, and are averse to killing. If forced to fight, however, they are as deadly as any other dragon.

A silver wyrmling’s scales are blue-gray with silver highlights. As the dragon approaches adulthood, its color gradually brightens until the individual scales are scarcely visible. the pupils of the oldest silver dragons resemble orbs of molten mercury

They are very intelligent, more so than most humans, extremely powerful, breathtakingly beautiful, and have lifespans which can stretch up to 4,200 years (as stated in draconomicon, the book of dragons).

The silver dragon is regal and statuesque, an unusual trait they offer is the love of human dining, and will use the ability of alternate form to take part in large feasts.

Silver dragons employ a breath weapon of extreme cold similar to that of white dragons. They also have a second breath weapon, a cone of paralyzing gas.

Society

Silver dragons are extremely rare and elusive, preferring to take the guise of kind and elderly humanoids or very attractive and young humanoids. They very much like to associate with elves and humans, not necessarily because they prefer their company over other races, but because they try to learn from the shorter lived humans.

Silver dragons' favored enemy are red dragons because these chromatic dragons are almost always evil and have a talent for destruction. Additionally, silvers and whites favor the same sort of terrain for lairs, which leads to territorial disputes on top of having attitudes and philosophies at odds with the others'.

Dragons may live for millennia, while humans only live a few decades. This vast difference in time leads to inherent psychological differences concerning time. Dragons tend to think things through for years at a time, using their razor-sharp intellects to hone a plan to perfection, solve incalculable puzzles, or other such things. Silver dragons, however, note that humans are able to accomplish much in their short life spans because of their ambitious drive for success. When a silver dragon can combine its own long-term perspective with a quick and ambitious attitude, the benefit is undeniable.

Ecology

Most silvers group together in "clans," a loose organization of dragons who choose to live together as a family. Clans take communal responsibility for protecting and raising their wyrmlings. A senior member of the clan may act as a leader, but no true leader actually exists. Silver dragons do not feel the need for a strict social structure, since they are most content to live as honestly as possible. However, many silver dragons leave their clans for long periods of time to live among nondragons. They tend to live for many years with the same group of humans or elves, having grown attached to them. As members of the family die, the silver dragon, grieved by the loss, often chooses to stay with the family, remaining a true and loyal friend and champion through many generations. If the dragon feels comfortable enough around these nondragons, it might even decide to reveal its true self.

Environment

Dragons in Legend and Folklore Greek heroes who are supposed to have slain dragons are Hercules, Apollo, and Perseus. Indeed, the World Book Encyclopedia (1973) says “every country had them in its mythology.” In Norse mythology, a Great Ash Tree, Yggdrasil, which was thought to support the whole universe, had three immense roots. One extended into the region of death. Niflheim and the dragon Nidhogg perpetually gnawed at the root of the tree. This precarious situation, which seems to place the whole universe at Nidhogg’s mercy, perhaps shows the conscious or subconscious deeply rooted fear of the proto-norse for dinosaurs, those terrible lizards. If the fearsome creatures were threatening the ancestors of the Norse peoples, one can easily see how such a myth could have developed.

The Egyptians wrote of the dragon Apophis, enemy of the sun god Re. The Babylonians recorded their belief in the monster Tiamat. The Norse people wrote of Lindwurm, guardian of the treasure of Rheingold, who was killed by the hero Siegfried. The Chinese wrote of dragons in their ancient book, I Ching, associating the creatures with power, fertility, and well being. They also used dragons in early art, ancient pottery, folk pageantry and dances as a motif. The Aztecs’ plumed serpent may have represented a hybrid in their thought between a dragon and another creature. The pottery of ancient Nazca culture of Peru shows a cannibal monster much like a dragon.

In British Columbia, Lake Sashwap is believed to be home to the dragon Ta Zam-a, and Lake Cowichan to Tshingquaw. In Ontario, Lake Meminisha is the reputed home of a fish-like serpent feared by the Cree Indians. Angoub is the legendary Huron dragon, Hiachuckaluck the dragon believed in by the Chinooks of British Columbia.

Dragons are so widely accepted a part of Irish folklore that Robert Lloyd Praeger, naturalist, says they are “an accepted part of Irish zoology.” Dr. P.W. Joyce, historian, in his book on Irish place-names, says, “legends of aquatic monsters are very ancient among the Irish people” and shows that many Irish place names resulted from a belief in these dragons.

Dragon Interpretations Many theories have been set forth proposing to explain the virtually universal belief in dragons among ancient peoples. Some have seen dragons as a product of the human imagination, resulting from fear of the unknown. It has been pointed out that as late as 1600 A.D., maps were decorated about the borders of unknown regions with drawings of dragon-like monsters. Yet it is hard to imagine how such widely separated people groups all imagined virtually the same thing, if that imagined entity had no basis in reality or in their experience.

In my undergraduate study of literature, one frequent interpretation of archetypes in literature was that people had a universal need to believe in these things, that the human subconscious understood at some deep level the same set of symbols, perhaps gained through their common (supposed) evolutionary ancestry. The most frequent modern interpretation given to myths and archetypes is that they are subconsciously symbolic. One wonders, however, why it is only humankind that has left this constant, ancient record of dealings with dragons, and how such a memory could have lived through millions of years of evolution and changes into entirely different kinds of animals.

For these reasons, even many secular authors have come almost, but not quite, to the conclusion that early people encountered dinosaurs, and passed down the memory of these encounters in tales of dragons. Peter Costello, who researched Lake Monster legends and alleged sightings in considerable depth, wrote, “...as we go through the early accounts of Irish lake monsters we shall find that there is often only a superficial covering of fancy...real animals are clearly behind some of the stories.”

The World Book Encyclopedia (1973) notes “the dragons of legend are strangely like actual creatures that have lived in the past. They are much like the giant reptiles which inhabited the earth long before man is supposed to have appeared on earth.”

The writer’s use of the phrase “is supposed to have appeared” shows that he recognized the problem. Man was not supposed to have appeared until much later, but it surely seems that man did in fact see dinosaurs, drawing pictures and writing about what he saw. How could he have written about something that lay buried deep within the earth, having died out millions of years earlier?

Peter Costello presents the same problem. “The plesiosaur theory,” he writes, “which appeared early o n, still has many supporters....but again the difficulties, whether it could have survived for sixty million years undetected...are very great.”

Daniel Cohen, author of The Greatest Monsters in the World, also says that there is a “sensational possibility” that the dragon legend originated with the dinosaurs, observing that:

no creatures that ever lived looked more like dragons than dinosaurs...there is a problem with this theory. The problem is time. As far as we know, all the dinosaurs died out over 70 million years ago. That long ago, there were no people on earth. So who could remember the dinosaurs?

Cohen says that “some early discoverers of dinosaur bones called them ‘dragon bones’.” But apparently because the time and evolutionary development problems are so great in the minds of those who have accepted this model of origins, Cohen boldly asserts that “scientists today no longer identify dinosaurs with dragons.”

The obvious conclusion is that except for their devotion to evolutionary theory, identification of dinosaurs with dragons would be the logical interpretation of the evidence.

Only two years after the publication of Greatest Monsters, however, Carl Sagan, a renowned astronomer and popularizer of the atheistic evolutionary interpretation of science, published The Dragons of Eden, which in spite of the time and evolutionary development problems asks, “Could there have been man-like creatures who actually encountered Tyrannosaurus Rex?” Sagan asserts, “One way or another, there were dragons in Eden.” Outspokenly an evolutionist, Sagan’s book is subtitled, “Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence.” He does not, of course, view Eden in the classical Christian or Biblical sense of the word. By “Eden,” he means an emerging humanity’s dawning awareness of their existence. And he doesn’t say human beings encountered Rex, but “man-like creatures.” But this is still quite a step in the thinking of those tied to their evolutionary time scale.

Dragons in the Bible For the Bible-believing creationist, of course, no time or evolutionary problems exist, and the facts of ancient literature and prehistoric art square very nicely with the scriptural account. According to Genesis 1:21-23, water animals were created on the fifth day; according to Genesis 1:24-25, land animals, as well as man and woman, were created on the sixth day. Thus, according to the Bible all animals were created at approximately the same time. There were no long ages when man was not present and when dinosaurs ruled the earth. The Authorized Version utilizes the word “dragon” sixteen times, all in the Old Testament, rendering two Hebrew words which mean “sea or land monster.”

But perhaps even more graphic are some Biblical references which use other names for the creatures but which clearly describe dinosaurs. In Job 40:15ff, for example, Behemoth is described: “Is strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly” (40:’16). Behemoth was a huge creature, and reading of it, one schooled in early literature can scarcely help but think of Fafnir, the dragon of early Danish fame. Behemoth, we read, moved his tail like a cedar. A tail as huge and powerful as a cedar tree? What animal can that possibly describe but a dinosaur? “His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron” we read (40:18), perhaps recalling Sigurd, trembling because of the strength of the dragon Fafnir. When the author of Job writes “he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him,” can the writer mean that only God is normally able to bring about the death of such a powerful creature? Again, I mentally envision Sigurd hiding in the pit, waiting for just the right moment to strike at one of the few places the dragon was vulnerable. Behemoth is a water creature, for “he lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens...the willows of the brook compass him about” (40:22). This creature has a huge thirst, for “he drinketh up a river” (40:23). What animal other than a dinosaur can be described like this?

In the next chapter of Job, we read of another great creature, Leviathan. As with Behemoth, the record tells of God describing these creatures, and implies that Job was familiar with them. God is reminding Job of the great difficulty in catching a creature like Leviathan. God had created Leviathan, for He declares, “whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine” (41:11). Leviathan has terrible teeth and scales or a strong, protective covering, typical of many dinosaurs. Do you see Sigurd trembling before Fafnir when you read, “When he (Leviathan) raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid” (41:25)? Job is usually considered to be one of the oldest of the Bible books, possibly written when ice covered large parts of Europe and North America shortly after the Great Flood. Many Bible scholars feel that some dinosaurs may have survived the Flood, being water creatures, but that due to severe climactic changes, they died out within a few generations after the Flood. If these small-brained creatures were experiencing hardships to which they were unaccustomed and ill-adapted, one can easily understand why a tradition of monstrous, fearsome dragons is recorded in virtually all early western cultures, which would have developed during or shortly following the time of Job.

The Bible presents this time in history as a time of dispersion (Gen 10,11). People groups were moving out away from Ararat, where their fathers had landed after the Flood, out away from Babel, where they had congregated. They were venturing into the new lands that were to become their homes. The whole earth was unknown to them. At the same time, great climatic changes may have caused the dinosaurs to have been uncharacteristically hostile.

It is true that eastern traditions have not viewed the dragon as fearsome and evil, as have western cultures. We can only speculate as to the reason, but it is possible that the eastward migrating people groups simply did not have the gruesome encounters that their western contemporaries must have experienced. If so, these eastern peoples may have told their children stories of dinosaurs as they were handed down from before the Flood, when life was ideally adapted to their existence, food was plentiful, and perhaps animals and humans did not kill one another for food (Gen. 9:3).

CONCLUSION I propose that early humanity did encounter dragons, or dinosaurs. This means that humanity did not evolve millions of years after the dinosaurs became extinct, but that the two co-existed. Each piece of evidence by itself may perhaps be explained away, as those who accept evolutionary concepts are prone to do. But the evolutionary model of history which separates humanity and dinosaurs by millions of years leaves too many unanswered questions. How could a people draw pictures of dinosaurs on ancient cave walls, if none were around to serve as models? How is it that so many ancient cultures wrote about dinosaurs (dragons), if they were unknown to early humanity? How do the early literary accounts of dragons end up being so realistic, down to the smallest details?