Raiden

Raiden
Lightning Ambassador
Theme

Powerful || Arrogant || Comical-looking

Something about the dragon standing before you is… put nicely, ridiculous. You always found ridgeback dragons to be somewhat comical, and this one seems perhaps all the more odd-looking; his snout appears abnormally long beneath the crooked placement of his electrician’s crown, and his bright green spines protrude from his spine at all angles. Yet there is a charged current of strength in the air about him that you cannot deny.

The storm has brewed over the land for weeks Lightning crawls through the black clouds like crooked spider’s webs, and the thunder echoes ominously through the air. Like all of the others you doubt the claim of this single strange ridgeback that he can harness the storm’s energy, but you would rather see him fail than lose hope at all.

The dragon introduces himself to the gathering crowd. “My name is Raiden,” he says. When the crown begins to slip down his snout, you try not to snicker. “I may not look like much,” he says, “but I hold the power of the storm inside of me!”

A single bolt of lightning strikes Raiden. An aura of neon blue lightning crackles about him. The air becomes impossibly hot, beads of sweat gathering on your temple. Raiden is lost in the blinding lightning, and you hear nothing but the roaring of the thunder in the air.

It seems like an eternity before the chaos subsides. When it does, the first thing you notice are the soft grey hues of the once blackened storm clouds. A light drizzle rains down from above. Raiden stands where he was before, strands of lightning still dancing among his scales.

His crown still sits crookedly on his head. Your bemused smile is gone; you can only look at the ridgeback with awe.

Story by @rapunzels