Shadows lay thick beneath the flowers; in an instant, flying clouds brought rain.
From Heaven-Leaning Cliff, she gazed out over the vast sea. At the cliff's summit, a slender girl sat by the edge, her delicate brows tightly furrowed. The breeze brushed her face, blowing strands of hair across her pretty features, while the long white cloth ribbon binding her hair fluttered behind her.
The forest on the far side of the mountain stream was withering and dying. Leaves drifted down, flowers wilted.
There were always those unwilling to behave themselves, causing disasters they could not control without regard for the consequences. They had made so many corpses that ought to have rotted crawl and scurry everywhere. Once things spun out of control, they thought only of driving them elsewhere and tossing the calamity away. Did they not know this was a flood dragon's territory?
Birds and beasts were still fleeing. Even swarms of insects blotted out the sky like dark clouds passing overhead.
"Though my territory isn't small, not an inch of it is spare!"
She shook her head, rose to her feet at the cliff's edge, and untied the thin cloth ribbon binding her hair...
White scales surfaced across her face as she transformed into her true form! Enormous claws crushed the rock beneath them! Her long body coiled atop Mountain Peak, and she opened her savage maw toward the distance in a furious roar! In her true form, she unleashed her greatest innate talent, changing the course of the earth veins!
"Roar~!!"
A gale swept across the land and scattered the clouds. Waves rose through the forest sea, trees bent and branches snapped. A sudden frenzy of wind and rain shook the woods!
With a light kick of her four claws, she soared into the sky and