Subject: [original][intro v1.3] Dragon's Eye View (NOT Dragon-Half)
From: "Shadow Dancer" <Shadow.Dancer@geocities.com>
Date: 9/13/1997, 5:07 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com
CC: Magic Knight Kiyone <jdlowry@unity.ncsu.edu>, Daibidu@aol.com
Reply-to:
ShadowChan@cybergal.com

Here comes the intro again...with a few more changes...not just two 
paragraphs this time...<wink wink>

            Dragon's Eye View

    A spiral of light and darkness.  That's all I can call it,
this..."sleep" phenominon.  Occasionally I can see images of the
future and past in it, but mostly I see only light and darkness
spiralling around each other...a continuing mesh of what can be
and what was.
    I probably don't make any sense to you right now, but then,
I'd be very suprised if you could understand me.  To understand a
dragon is to understand the universe.  As far as I know, no-one
understands the universe, therefore, as far as I can tell, no-one
can understand me.
    My name is Cat-ni-Corrine-vas-Arg.  In standard human
language, Cat, daughter of Corrine and Arg.  The reason for my
father's name is because he died shortly after mother asked for
his name...she replaced what his name might have been with "Arg",
because that's the last thing he uttered in this lifetime.
    The reason for that being that mother ate him.
    That surprise you?  Well, since mother had cast a spell to
make herself look human for a time, (she wanted to see what it
was like for humans to have children) and had sex with father,
she thought it natural that humans did the same thing as
dragons...namely that the females take a big bite of the males,
or sometimes even eat the whole person, after their first time
for sex.  Unfortunately, mother took a bite just a tad too
big...saying that she changed back to dragon form and swallowed
him whole.
    Apparently, she didn't enjoy the tryst too much.
    Mother makes the stupidest puns at times...although this one
that she told me about that night is fairly good.  She said that
the tryst was a good "one knight stand-wich."  Needless to say,
when I finally figured it out, I was laughing for days.
    My father was what you might call an exotic.  Well, even that
might be a little too light.  My father looked like he was half
human, half cat.
    Now, this might mean nothing to you, but to me it means a
great deal...especially when I don't fit in with any particular
group when it comes to anything.  I look mostly like a human, if
you happen to ignore my ears and tail...both of which scream out
my feline heritage.
    While some things can surprise even me, nothing surprised me
more than the fact that I, unlike other dragons, look human most
of the time.
    With most of the time, I mean that once a month, when the new
moon rises, I shed my human disguise and fly the skies with my
bretheren, taking joy in the simple act of flying.
    The last time I shed my shell was three weeks ago.  Normally,
at this time, I go looking for another dragon to talk to, to
maybe fall in love with.  Unfortunately, I've had to live as a
normal human most of the time, for dragons usually take umbrage
to a human or even human looking dragon living in their midst.
But then, they get mad at each other when they pop in on each
other's territories.
    There are times that I envy the humans.
    That takes me to my current particular problem.  I happened
across a fellow half-dragon recently.  Now, to you this might
mean nothing, but to me, well, it means a lot.  Especially when
you add in the factor that the other half-dragon I found is
female.
    Now, among humans, a same-sex relationship is considered
sinful, whatever that means.  But among dragons, it's considered
normal...especially when you add in the fact that one of the two
dragons usually has the power to change their sex for one night
or so.  That one night being the night of the new moon, of
course.
    This leads into the problem itself.  One of the local humans
has taken to following me around at times, when I'm in his area,
and handing me flowers.
    Now my mixed heritage is apparent to anyone who really looks
at me...but this human that says he "loves" me seems not to see
all this...he follows me regardless of the way I look.  For some
reason, I think he's blind.  Oh, well ... that's his problem.
    Finally the whirling of "sleep" slows down and my
consciousness decides to assert itself.
    Awaken Cat, last princess of the silver-mountain clan.

*****

Okay, for those who rerally want to know, yes, I've started on 
chapter 1 already...but I won't be posting the entire story there, 
pending votes.  If you like the story so far, but feel like you can 
wait 'till it's published, go ahead...if you can't wait, e-mail me 
and I'll see whether you can pre-read for me.  If White Wolf or 
Tybalt asks me to stop posting the intros, I'll stop posting the 
story all together...I'm really only posting it here for comments.

Well, this should be the last posting..unless if I get about 50 or so 
people saying to continue posting here. (BTW, if you post your vote 
to the list, I'll ignore it completely.)  I hope you like it.

Shadow Dancer
Shadow-Chan
**************************************
Love is in the air, you just need to see it...
Cans't not see it?  You have to believe it...
Look out, it's after you... Only you can find it...
Love is in the air, I know, I've found it...
Maybe you can find yours, too.

(c)Shadow Dancer, June 27th, 1997