Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Trinity and Brian



Wow, Trinity's breasts have really gotten full haven't they. Does anyone think that I should put a chapter in about her having breast implants? Oh and,(I changed Tragedy's name to Trinity. And I'm digressing a little before I get to part III. I hope this chapterdoesn't make me sound like a nerd!)
I suppose you may have been intrigued when you heard about Brian and wondered what Trinity was doing with a Dragon and how they had met: I don't mind telling you but in order to explain it sufficiently, I will have to go back in time give a little background.

NOW, Brian used to be part of a dragon singing quartet. If when you hear this, you are imagining something akin to a barbershop quartet, you couldn't be more wrong. First of all, there is nothing in the world like the singing of a dragon. The voice of a dragon is powerful and disturbing in a way that you simply couldn't understand unless you've heard it. Some would call it hallucinatory.

The dragon pipe, which almost always accompanies dragon singing, is the perfect accompaniment for a dragon. Dragon pipes are a wind instrument as the name suggests, which comes in 16 pieces which can all be put together in different combinations. Depending upon which mouthpiece and which chambers the dragon adds and how many, a completely different sound can be made. It is the most versatile instrument ever made and humans and others have tried to fashion their own but theirs don't have the same effect. The chambers are too small and they simply can't achieve the same resonance.

Now, the group could have been a huge success but they weren't together long because, I ashamed to say, they fought all the time like children. So they went their separate ways. John took over the family business of raising gourmet steer, oxen etc...bred specifically for the palates of discriminating dragons, as the advertisement said. Perry and Bart began experimenting with a new form of music in which the traditional and new music of all races were mixed. This music became become very famous, you may have heard of it. It is called Dragon fusion. One flew across the ocean and was never heard from again. As for Brian, he took a sabbatical to explore different religions and to dabble in the occult.

But tonight 4 of the 5 members were meeting by prior arrangement (they met once a year, somewhere or another) in a pub frequented by dragons. Due to the fact that Dragons need quite a bit of liquor because of their great sizes( though not as much as you would think, dragons become intoxicated easily!) not all pubs were able to acccomodate them. This pub happened to be near one of the Dragon's lairs, Johns, and kept liquor for him there as a courtesy. It ended up being very lucrative decision on their part, as he was a very good customer! As a matter of fact, the other dragons noticed that John had gotten quite a paunch since they had last seen him, though they were all too polite to mention it.

So there they were, reminiscing about the old days, all the time getting drunker and drunker, merrier and merrier. Having rather loud voices, they were overheard by people and others in the pub who were all drunk as well and they began boisterously encouraging them to perform a few songs. The dragons were reticent and bashful at first but finally agreed to sing just one song.

So while 3 of the dragons, Brian, Perry and Bart, began to sing a plaintive ballad, John flew home to get his dragonpipes. It was a beautiful summer evening with twilight about an hour away. They were feeling very sentimental and once they started, they couldn't stop, it was like old times and it turned into a concert that was spoken of for years!

After singing several ballads, accompanied by the dragonpipes which were assembled to make haunting and flute-like sound, the dragons rested and and prepared, then had another drink. John re-assembled the pipes to make a sound that was similar, though more melodic, to that which a foghorn makes. While John played the dragonpipes mournfully, the dragons began singing a sort of martial song. Now, one of the things that is so impressive about a dragon concert is that dragons sometimes fly in intricate patterns while they sing. Dragons are taught these complicated formations from the time that they are young, it is part of their culture and these four dragons were exceptionally good at it as they had a very strong telepathic link. Consider yourself very lucky indeed if you ever get to the opportunity to see dragons fly like this.

So, while John played deep, low, booming notes on his pipes the dragons rose in the air and began arcing gracefully back and forth, criss-crossing each other and crooning while they went. Then as the tempo of the song began to pick up, John began beating his tale against a barrel to provide rhythm and the dragons began to scream in loud agonized voices that seemed to stretch across the sky leaving ragged echoes. Their swooping became larger and grander and faster and then, one by one, they began diving straight down out of the sky into the crowd howling and blazing and wailing eerily and then pulling up at exactly the right moment before they crashed into the people who, as you might imagine, quickly sobered up.

Then the dragons flew off to a distance to let the crowd recover and hummed ominously while John reassembled the dragonpipes. When the crowd had grown hushed and expectant, John began playing his dragonpipes again, making an murky, warbling sound, similar to the sound made by whales underwater. The dragons answered with druidic-like chanting and swooning harmonies and began flying in closer, chanting all the while. This time the dragons flew around and around, always opposite each other so that their voices were coming from all sides. They began to scream with ragged emotion, their echoes seeming to wrap around the audience and enter into them.

They were singing as the sun went down and when it was dark they began streaking across the sky, their flames flying behind them. Dragons have a trick of being able to eat certain rocks which change the color of their flames, John had gotten some for them when he went to his cave, so they tore across the sky with Sapphire and and Emerald and Scarlet flames seeming to burst out of them while John's piping grew more and more frenzied. They were all magnificent, but none so sublime as Brian, for he had seen Trinity and had come undone. He had not only seen her but felt her because he seemed to have some sort of telepathic link to her which normally doesn't happen between human and dragon. And he was singing to her, and for her, he was inspired by her and hoping that she would understand.

When the last echo had faded, the audience paused for a moment and then went wild, yelling and screaming, stomping and throwing their hats in the air. Each and every one of them were to remember this to the end of their days as the most incredible thing that they had ever seen, but none of them were ever able to describe it.

Trinity had noticed Brian, he had stood out to her brilliantly. She was deeply moved by his songs and felt that she could fall in love with someone who sang like she felt if only he weren't a dragon. And when the concert ended, Brian hungrily caught her eye And Trinity moodily waited for him to free himself from the other dragons and the rest of the audience, not really knowing what she was waiting for. And then they began to talk and she knew. They talked all night until the sun came up, thus setting the pattern of their affair.

They had so much in common! They liked the same books and the same music! They shared the same wicked sense of humor and sense of drama. They both liked to stay up all night, they both found danger romantic and safely dull. They each had a propensity for accidentally setting things on fire when they were mad and that had to be more than just a coincidence! And they could communicate at a level deeper than any words that can be spoken.

Their love was very bittersweet, as their relationship could never be consummated due to their size differences. Theirs became a courtly and satirical sort of love. She called him her troubadour and he called her little dark one. She wove him garlands of flowers to wear around his wrist, (it would have taken her too long to make one big enough for his head) and he brought her pretty trinkets and baubles.He wrote her poetry and she slept curled up inside the circle of his arms. She felt safe for the first time in her life.

And most of all, with him she could fly and after that she was never the same!

Hopefully, now that I'm done with this digression, I will have part III done soon.

11 comments:

Behind Blue Eyes said...

If anyone checked my blog and wondered why I shut it off, it's because I have worked on it at work and became paranoid that someone at work might be able to read it, so I hid it and opened a new one.

Before I closed it, there were a couple of comments, I will answer them now.

EOTR-I went out yesterday and bought the first book of the Earthsea Trilogy. I'm on the the third chapter, it's beautifully written! Have you ever read any of the Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey? I loved the first one, I never really got any further than that. Actually, it's funny that I'm writing something like this because I don't read a lot of fantasy. I don't think a lot of it is good, though when you do find a good one, it is usually great!

X-dell-I may leave Joy's name as Joy, though I've been thinking of Danika. Do you think that I should just leave them as Tragedy and Joy?

I've taken a lot of 'artistic liberties'with my dragons. And as for the flames, a dragon can flame when they want to and not flame when they don't want to. But it's funny that you mention the flames going backwards, I thought of that too and I can't really figure out how to solve it. If they are flying and flaming, then the flames would have to go backwards wouldn't they? Unless when they flamed, they kind of swooped along while they were doing it. In the Anne McCaffrey book that I was telling EOTR about, people actually ride the dragons while they are flaming and it never really occured to me that they would certainly be burned until I started writing my own. Maybe the dragons have some sort of scales and can't be burned, that would be the only real solution wouldn't it? But I still can't figure out how the people wouldn't be burned.

Carina-You got my e-mail right?

Anonymous said...

This is getting to be an epic tale. I take it these dragons aren't the kingdom-destroying, virgin-eating variety in this case? I guess Brian did stand up to Joy's husband. But he didn't heartlessly devour him, then proceed to slow-roast tragedy/trinity and joy.

Mel said...

*whew*

I was a tad worried--soooo glad you dropped a note so I could find you and continue the saga!

And I'm glad for gracious dragons, too!

Unknown said...

Glad you're back! And I'll be back to read all of this!

Enemy of the Republic said...

I am totally digging this. No, I've never read Anne McCaffrey even though she comes highly recommended. Have you read much of Miriam Zimmerman Bradley? I think you would like her Avalon series--no dragons, but if you like Arthurian myth, she is excellent.

carina said...

Diana - yes I did and glad to find you again and read the latest. Great description of the Dragon concert.
Maybe some dragon lovin' increases breast size. LOL.

Behind Blue Eyes said...

Trevor-The Dragonriders of Pern series really influenced my mental image of dragons. The dragons in that book are more 'warm and fuzzy' than the typical dragon and who great relationships with humans. Actually, in my story, the dragons own land and raise their own food! Pretty nifty, huh!

Hi Mel! I'm glad people noticed that I was missing. If no-one had, that would have completely destroyed my ego!

Hey Ricardo-Thanks for checking on me!

EOTR-I've heard so much about that series and I still haven't read it. It's on my list. I'm trading my old paperbacks right now at a paperback exchange. Maybe I'll see it there. They have lots of sci-fi. I hit on a nifty cheapo trick. I go to the Salvation army (two blocks from my house) I buy expensive paperbacks there for 1.99 or even .99cents and I take them to the book exchange. Today I bought 2 books for $3.00 total and I will trade them for $16.50 credit, so I actually earned $13.50.

Carina-Out of necessity their relationship is platonic. I'm actually not sure if that chapter fit into the rest of it very well. I kind of made the dragons a little undignified and dragons, nice or no, should at the very least be dignigied. But I had fun writing it at any rate.

Anonymous said...

a female protagonist, how feminist of you.

You know the valor and will displayed by females in movies and books is only fictional. And i'm only referring when it comes to any epic/medieval/supernatural violent narratives.

and no, don't giver her implants. Do however make her suit tighter, much much tighter. Let her demeanor be accounted by sexual explicit bravado.

=)

Behind Blue Eyes said...

Well Vinicio, I am not being feminist, though if I felt like it I would be. I am simply writing what I know, which does not include being a man. And as fantasy is fictional, I have no way to probe or disprove your theory.
Actually, I was on the net looking at websites concerning writing fantasy science fiction and one of them stated that using a fantasy as a way of championing feminism was....trite? But as you know (if you've actually read what I've written) Trinity isn't really given much of a choice but to become a loner and to find her own way.

skinnylittleblonde said...

LoL, I could hear the music and found myself wondering what it would be like to sleep curled up in the arms of a dragon.

X. Dell said...

I think you should go with your first instinct with respect to naming the characters. There's a wonderful irony in that Joy finds sadness, and Trinity finds a measure of happiness with a dragon. Then again, a change in name suggests a certain growth in the characters.

You can make any rules that you wish regarding when and how dragons breathe fire. It might be helpful to the reader to mention this early on, however. But that's for redrafting. For now, tell your story and let us enjoy it.