The creature's entire being was gripped by an unfamiliar paralyzing sensation, fear. Its once confident sneer had crumbled into a look of sheer terror as the clawed hand tightened its grip. The earth continued to quake around it, the walls of its hidden sanctuary crumbling and revealing just how vulnerable it truly was.
For the first time in countless centuries the creature felt its life in immediate danger. The cold, unyielding talons that now held it prisoner emanated a power it had only ever heard of in ancient, fearful whispers.
The creature's eyes now flickered with a desperate realization. Memories of immense beings with scales as black as the void, beings whose wrath could tear worlds apart.
"Dragons."
