[Tyr Zalo Hawk]: 712.Ideas.NewDawnOfDragons

The modern-day city of London is generally accepted to be one of the most productive, bustling, and massive cities on the face of the planet.
Or at least, it was.
Until one day it suddenly vanished, along with every other major city on the planet. Capitols, bustling metropolitains, expansive suburbian developments all suddenly vanished into the air, their towering skyscrapers leaving little more than indents in the ground in their abscence (sp?). At the same time, the rest of the world was changing, altering itself back to a form that it liked, not the form that humans had given it.
Castles, falling into ruins, sprang back to life, their fallen bricks and moss covered wall reverting into gleaming white walls of alabastor, their glory and magnificence restored in ways that modern-day humans had only ever dreamed. Even in the Americas, new castles sprang from the ground in a flurry of crumbling dirt clods or icy mountain snowdrifts.
The people who could see any of it, the witnesses to this unprecendented change of everything their lives had held, were subject also to an impossible sight, the birth of a million dragons, simultaneously. From the craters of broken cities and the mirrorlike reflections of the new castle walls, dragons emerged in a flurry. Every sort, and type, every color, and age came flying forth in rainbows of unimaginable beauty as they spread themselves across the world.
And in one remote area of the world... in the largest desert on the planet, an icy, mile high castle rose from amidst it's wintery grave, black and harsh in even the bright of day. From it's entrance, gates already open in expectance, a towering dragon of the purest white, larger and mightier than any other now on the face of the earth, stepped into it's domain slowly. A gigantic, horribly crimson chain wrapped around it's body
Then, it raised it's head towards the sky, reaching up hundreds of feet before letting out an impossibly shrill cry into the air that was heard around the world by the relatively few remaining humans left to hear it.
It was the dawn of a new era... and it was 30 years ago...

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