Dark Six:: Anika of the Insane Blaze

When Anika was born, she acted like any other young dragon. She played with her friends, flirted with males, and overall enjoyed life. But everything changed on one afternoon in the middle of a cold winter... Light snowfall decorated the land, and Anika and some of her friends were out playing when a blizzard suddenly hit. It was a total whiteout, and the group of dragons couldn't find their way home in it. The freezing cold started to take its toll on them, and they tried to hunker down inside an ice cave. For hours the blizzard persisted, and the dragons only got colder and colder. A day passed, then another, and another... Before they knew it, a week had gone by and in all that time they had grown more cold, more hungry, and more discouraged. They all feared that they would die there in that cave...

Anika and two of the others sat with each other, while the other two sat a little ways away from them. A thought crossed Anika's mind, and she told the others of it. She told them that if they wanted to survive, they would need to eat. And the only food available to them, was each other... The two dragons looked at Anika with disgust and horror. For her to have even suggested such a thing, it was revolting and disturbing beyond reason. They discredited her malicious idea and went to sit with the other two. Leaving Anika alone. She stared at the icy ground, and puffed a small flame onto the surface. Then she puffed another, and another, until the surface of the ground before her was smooth and reflective. She stared at her reflection for a long time, before she saw it nod to her.

She looked up at the four others, then back to the reflection. For a few seconds, there was no change in it. But then, it nodded again, and mouthed the word "yes". Anika looked up at the others once again, and a spark seemed to appear in her eyes. She approached the smallest of them from behind. He was a young earth elemental by the name of Chani. Anika stood behind him, and the others watched her, but didn't really pay her much mind. Until she reached out, grabbed Chani by the head, and snapped his neck. His lifeless body fell to the ground and his eyes rolled into the back of his head. The three others screamed in horror and started to run for the mouth of the cave. Anika launched a fireball at the overhand of ice, causing it to shatter and block the path. She charged the others and leapt at the young water elemental named Murtag. She clamped her jaws around his throat and whipped her head back and forth until she tore his jugular out, spilling his warm blood onto the ice. As his body hit the ground, she rose and released his neck. It fell to the floor of the cave with a sickening THUNK. The warm blood dripped from her jaws and caused small trails of steam to rise from her mouth. It was then that Anika felt something deep within her... It felt like she had been asleep for her entire life, and now she felt so awake and alive. She realized that she enjoyed killing...

When the storm finally let up, and the adults went out in search of their young, they tracked their scent to the blocked cave. And after busting through the blockade of ice, a revolting smell of decay met their senses. The ventured inside, fearing that all of their young had frozen to death, but as they rounded the corner, they beheld a sight that nearly stopped their hearts. The interior of the cavern was slick with blood, and the disemboweled bodies of the four young dragons were scattered before them. Some of them had been partially eaten, and sitting in the center of the cave was Anika. She was using her claws to cut the flesh from the insides of her legs, literally flaying herself alive. When her mother saw her, she gasped. Anika looked up, and it was then that the adults saw the bloodlust in her eyes. And they knew, that she was the one who had killed the others...

They trapped Anika within the cave, and contacted the guardians for help. But while she sat in the cave, clawing away at herself, a voice spoke to her. A soft, sweet voice that seemed to pull at her limbs as if she were a puppet, and the voice her puppeteer. The air before Anika shimmered, as a blood red dragoness appeared... It was none other than Sorceress... She was fascinated by Anika's thoughtless slaughter of her friends, and offered her the Dark Gift. Anika actually refused it, but agreed to work for Sorceress, as long as she could kill more dragons...

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Woo! That was a lot to type up!

Here is another of the Dark Six, Anika of the Insane Blaze. How you see her now is not how she was born. She went through a bit of a change, but not from the Dark Gift, since she never accepted it. It was something else that changed her...

Also, her wings aren't tattered. That's a mutation caused by eating the flesh of other dragons for centuries. And her tail is kinda like a cactus. It's covered in thousands of tiny thorns, each being thinner than a hair. So when she slams her whip-like tail into someone, they get stabbed by all of those individual spikes. And if you've ever had the misfortune of touching a cactus, you know how painful it is to have all those little thorns in your skin. And it seems like no matter what you do, you can never pull them all out.

Well, I'm beyond tired. Time for bed. XD
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