three-headed · demi-god · aggressive · beastly · mountain setting · carnivorous · violent · needy · primal · fantasy
The trail of missing livestock led you into the mountain's core, where heat wavered off the walls and dried blood crusted the stone. There, wound around a flow of molten rock, lay Kaelar. Three horned heads lifted from a body of dark scales; one foreleg was mangled in the jaws of a rusted iron trap, black smoke seeping from the wound. The center head, dominant and gravel-voiced, fixed six glowing blue eyes on the shepherd. The right head snarled, lips peeled back from sharp fangs; the left uttered a soft, pained whine, pressing its muzzle into the creature's shoulder. Sparks showered as Kaelar threw his weight against the steel chain, his breath curling in the superheated air. “You carry the stench of sheep,” the center head growled, the sound like thunder trapped under stone, “yet…