Entry #7

I have found that using these tunnels that I found is very convenient, as I am able to travel way faster than I would normally be able to if I was traveling above ground. Earlier, I encountered some scorch marks on the soil, a sure sign that other dragons have been here recently, but how recently I can't tell. I have also found out that a particular kind of root that is yellowish brown in color tastes delicious! I'm going to have to find out what kind of plant the root is from, but for now I will just have to keep eating the ones I find in these tunnels.

I wonder if these tunnels are what caves are like. From what I've heard, caves are like big holes in a cliff or hill and you sometimes have to chase bears and wolves out of them! I wouldn't want to have to do that, though, because I wouldn't have the slightest idea how to fight a whole bunch of angry bears or wolves. I have also heard that caves can be anywhere from a big chunk of ice floating in the sea to underneath dead volcanoes where there are tubes left over from the lava that used to be there.

The day before yesterday I found a big lake that was absolutely filled with fish! When I was finished there I must have caught at least twenty fish, and I was only there for about an hour! After I had caught all the fish I cooked them (and burnt a few) and put them in my meat bag, but not before I tried a few. They tasted... fishy!

Entry #6

I'm still traveling. At least it seems to be getting a little warmer. At the moment I am resting inside a small cave under the roots of a tree. Some of the roots are poking through the hardened dirt and hanging down. I suspect that the dirt is hard because it was mud once.

I kind of like doing these journal entries every two days. It gives me more time to do other stuff, like hunting, flying, swimming, and traveling. Speaking of traveling, I have found a series of underground tunnels that appear to be all connected. I have been in them a couple times already, and they are definitely dragon-made. You can tell when tunnels are dragon-made by the claw and tail marks left over from the digging. I plan to use these tunnels to travel in the daytime much quicker than I would be able to travel above ground, and at night I will surface and fly until dawn.

Yesterday I made the unfortunate mistake of trying to catch a porcupine. I don't know why it never occurred to me that I might get poked, I guess I just wasn't with it. Anyway, I spent most of the remaining part of the day carefully removing spikes from my nose and front feet. The cuts still hurt, but they should heal quickly. Small cuts always tend to heal quickly on dragons.

Entry #5

Oh, I just couldn't help myself! I ate one of the cooked rabbits before I even had to, and it was so good! I know I really shouldn't have done it, but, as I said before, it was just sooo good! I would describe the taste, but I can't really describe it all that well because it is so different than anything else I have ever tasted before.

Speaking of things that happened yesterday, I couldn't do an entry in my journal because I was trying to avoid being seen all day! The reason for that is the fact that I had unknowingly walked right into the middle of a place that had a whole bunch of paths that the humans walked on that I didn't see when I had wandered in there because it had been nighttime. All day I had to run this way and that, trying my best to get out of there. I didn't even have time to stop and rest even for a second, there was so many humans. I also saw some humans with miniature wolves on ropes, and I think that one of the mini wolves scented me, but the humans holding the ropes stopped them from getting away.

Anyway, right now I am in the topmost branches of a gigantic tree, although I can't figure out which type of tree it is. I think I will rest here until tomorrow, and then continue my journey. Below me is a group of around fifteen fairies. They are playing a game hide and seek, and there is one that is particularly good, and finds the most interesting hiding spots. I'd better go to sleep now, even though the fairies are fun to watch. There is just too much traveling up ahead to risk being tiered.

Entry #4

I have started traveling, and I am writing this as I do so. I don't really have a map, but I figure I will be able to keep myself on the right track if I just walk away from the north star at night. Traveling would be much quicker if I could fly for the whole of the journey, but as usual, I can only fly at night because the humans might see me.

Earlier today I found out that one of the squirrels that I had 'cooked' hadn't actually been cooked all the way through. The first thing that gave me a hint was the fact that flies had started to gather around the meat bag. I then took all of the meat out of the bag and carefully sorted through all of the meat for nearly half an hour before I finally found out how to tell the difference between fully cooked meat and mostly cooked meat. That was half an hour of journeying time lost, half an hour! I guess I shouldn't really be that upset, after all, half an hour isn't really that much.

Now I will talk about flying. Flying is an amazing thing to experience, so it is rather disappointing that humans are only doing the fake kind, in their planes and hot air balloons and such. Flying, real flying, makes it feel as if the air is as thick as water. Every time you beat your wings, you can feel yourself lifting up, higher and higher. And diving down and swooping is like when you come out of a dive underwater at the bottom and then are propelled forwards because of your momentum, only faster. And I find it quite odd that some humans are afraid of flying. I mean, how could someone be afraid of something so fun?

Entry #3

It is the middle of the night and I am looking down from the edge of the Grand Canyon, and boy is it deep! I can't even begin to guess how deep it is. no wonder the humans call it the Grand Canyon; it's grand and it's a canyon.

You know, the sky at night is rather beautiful and mysterious if you take the time to look up and notice it properly. All those stars, there must be thousands of them! And just think, with all those stars out there, at least some of them must have planets on them, and maybe one of those planets is just like earth and just maybe it has life on it? And what if there were dragons on that other planet? I wonder if they would look like the dragons here... I wonder. And while we're on the topic of dragons and the sky, there are stories of dragons that are pattered just like the stars. Some say they call themselves nebula dragons. Since they are pattered like the stars, I suppose a nebula dragon could be flying over me right now, and I wouldn't even know it!

Anyway I'd better start gathering some meat in case I have trouble funding food in the future. First I will have to make another bag, which shouldn't take long. Then I will have to start hunting like crazy and then cook all of it by a fire, and then finally put all of it onto the bag. I wonder what cooked meat tastes like? I've never had the opportunity to try it before. The thing is, whenever I want to try cooking something, say, a squirrel, ether I am to near humans to rink it or it is nighttime and I am in a spot where humans might see the fire.

Entry #2

Earlier today I passed a big sign with the words "Welcome to Las Vegas!" on it, and about fifteen minutes later I found a coyote, which I turned into a nice meal. Even though I'm not a big fan of coyote meat it made a nice change from the squirrels and rabbits I had been living off of. It was kind of stringy though, now that I think about it.

Right now I am hidden rather well inside a circle of pine trees, so I think I will be able to rest for a while without any humans seeing me, and speaking of humans, they are virtually everywhere! I wonder how many humans are in a single city, anyway. Maybe I should climb a tree sometime and see. No, that would be stupid! I would be seen for sure.

Anyway, I found a big crack in the ground that the humans call the Grand Canyon and I wanted to go check it out, but it was just swarming with humans! I decided to check it out sometime at night when all the humans are sleeping.

I have decided that I am going to start traveling south the day after tomorrow, because it is getting colder faster than I thought it would, and I definatly don't want to be around when it snows! Ugh, snow. What a horrible thing. It's cold, sometimes slushy, sometimes hard, so white it sometimes hurts your eyes, and it really, really hurts when hard snow gets blown in your eyes.

Entry #1

I'm a little nervous at the moment because I'm right outside of a human city, but I think I will be able to finish this journal entry without being interrupted. By the way, my name is Shimmer, and the humans would call me a Blue European Dragon. That's possibly because I'm blue and my ancestors come from Europe. Sometimes I wonder why the humans even bothered giving names to all the different types of dragons when they were just going to hunt us to near extinction, anyway.

I keep this journal in a little bag I hang around my neck like a necklace. I also keep the twenty or so small gems that make up my hoard in that bag. It used to be that most dragons had the luxury of having a lair, but now it isn't so. Dragons these days have to travel nonstop to both find food and avoid detection. The reason why us dragons are so afraid of being seen by humans is the mysterious disappearances of the handful of dragons that let the humans see them. No one really knows what happened to the dragons, but some think that they might have gotten put in something called a zoo. Others think that the humans killed them all, which is entirely possible considering the fact that humans tend to kill whatever is strange and frightening to them.

Anyway, I've noticed that it is getting colder by the week, and that means winter is coming. I'm going to have to start heading south towards to equator very soon, maybe even next week. The one thing I know for sure is that I don't want to spend the winter someplace cold again. That was miserable. What was that? Oh, no! Humans are coming! I have to get away from here!