Editing Periodic Table of Dragons/Stories (section)

==A Story of Radiance and Lead==

When I was but a young boy living in the outer settlements I witnessed the meeting of titans in an elegant, yet brutal, display of nature.

I had been wandering in the outskirts, not quite young enough to be missed, but not old enough to be justified, when I began to hear the distant sounds of thunder.

Paying it no mind, as there were storm clouds on the horizon, I continued about my imaginary slaying of beasts and nightmares.

Upon making a killing thrust with my sword, in actuality a stick, into the heart of a bandit; I spotted movement on the nearby hill.

I stood frozen, for approaching me was one of the many beasts I had pantomimed slaying, a dragon! It was large, by account of my age and size anyway, about the size of two horses thick, and maybe three long. 

I did not think to move, did not think to hide, for the dragon was moving erratically, slowly, as I would soon find out, it was wounded. As it drew nearer another shape crested the same hill, one accompanied by slow pondering thunder and ground shaking steps.

This dragon was massive, at least two dwelling tall, and three broad! It came plodding along, seemingly out for a walk, following the first dragon. Looking back at the first dragon my muscles locked with true fear as it was no more than75 meters away and coming closer, till it dropped to the ground, sprawled and heaving for breath no more than 50 meters away!

I could feel a flickering heat wash over me, varying in intensity, later in life I was informed of my luck and fortune, for the dragon was Radiant, and had it not been walked into exhaustion, I would be dead or horridly diseased from its radiance.

As the smaller lay there heaving and gasping for breath, the behemoth drew near, still plodding along in it's slow measured step. As it came upon the felled serpent, the feeling of heat washed away as the giant simply crushed its neck and began to feast.

I was informed that part of my luck that day was the behemoth's species, that of a Lead Dragon, the only known consistent predator of Radiant Dragons, as they seem to simply absorb, even subdue, their prey's radiance.

It took less than ten minutes for the Lead dragon to finish devouring the corpse, the entirety of it. After its meal, it looked down at me, and I'll swear by this walking stick, shrugged, turned about, and kept up that same plodding cadence that it had used to hunt it's prey.

Fin.

What? You want to know about this walking stick? Well yes, I've had it since I was a young boy, killed many beasts and bandits with it as a lad.