Dragons are kinda terrible
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He lands on a planet that's all ice and has three suns, which is very pretty. Uninhabited, though, so it's not his next destination—his aura is still flaring. He follows it, crossing interplanetary distances in the blink of an eye, finds the next door's location in the middle of nowhere, and floats/walks through it.

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This one is less pretty.

The ground is dry, cracked, dusty.  It's flat for miles.  There are mountains in the distance, and in the opposite direction, something very far away, hard to see even with vampire eyes.  Something that might be a small, extremely lost forest, or perhaps a single improbably enormous plant.

There is a stench on the air - discernably blood, like animal's blood but worse, impossibly worse, perhaps the worst thing he's ever smelled as a vampire.

Something is approaching, flying toward him from the direction of the mountains.  Long-necked, with webbed, batlike wings.

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...is that a dragon? He peers at it.

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Well, it's dragon-shaped, certainly.  Two legs and two wings, great and black, with an almost doglike face.  Its torso looks furry, though.

It doesn't seem to have spotted him yet.

 

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Huh. Anything else around?

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Not much.  The closest other thing is whatever the giant horizon plant's deal is.

The dragon(?) is getting closer.  Sadde hears something - a rapid-fire rhythmic screeching, at the upper edge of his range, like echolocation.

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Innnteresting. He wonders if it's sapient. He stays put.

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It continues to approach.

After some time, the echolocation stops.

It starts to dive, and sweeps its head through the air like it's exhaling a line of fire.  There's a faint hum, and a wall of dust is blasted up from the ground in front of him.

The dragon lands, heavily, on the other side of the dust, and screeches.

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"...are you sapient at all?" he asks in what should be intelligible as a language if the dragon is in fact sapient.

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The dragon crawls forward through its wall of dust and does the head-sweep move again.  This time its ray-of-something passes over Sadde for a moment.

When it does, he hears, for a moment, the loudest sound he has ever heard in his life.

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Ow.

Okay, not sapient. Time to run for the next interesting thing.

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The dragon takes off after him.

He hears a burst of echolocation, and then a much more sustained blast of LOUD.

It keeps pace surprisingly well for something that is not a vampire.

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...he can run faster then.

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Once he starts speeding up, the dragon dives toward him, extending its neck, jaws agape.  It's big enough to swallow him whole and it looks ready to prove it.

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Okay so he can just stop and turn around in a fraction of a second and start running the opposite way. Thing that big's probably got a lot of inertia.

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It does.  It hits the ground and scrabbles a bit, gets itself turned around, and starts bounding after him.  Rapid pulses of echolocation, followed by more bursts of LOUD.

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Ugh.

Whatever.

He turns right around and runs towards the dragon at full speed, aiming for a collision.

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It startles a bit, and its head goes for a lunge, sideways and feral like an enormous wild dog.

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So he jumps, aiming to headbutt it.

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He manages to slam into its forehead.  It yowls and starts trying to shake him off.

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He doesn't particularly mind killing animals. How hard is it to break its neck?

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Well, he'd be hard pressed to get his arms more than a third of the way around it, if he managed to climb over its forehead.  This thing is huge.

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Yes and he's a vampire it's not like he needs to strangle it to break it. Does it have a spine he can punch or puncture?

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Spine: located.  This thing's skin feels tougher than a similarly-sized mundane mammal's probably would, though.  He may have trouble doing much damage with just one punch.

Once he's on its neck it starts raking at him, with claws on the end of its wings.

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He's a vampire with biokinesis, it should just quit already.

It won't, though, won't it.

Punch punch punch he makes himself physically stronger and more resistant punch.

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Crack.  Scream.

It rolls over and starts slamming its own head and neck into the ground, trying to crush Sadde between them.

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