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| Alone
in Celtic myth, alone in the twilight age of heroes, alone in the
fabled
world of sorcery, romance and high adventure, is LONG-GRIN, the saga of
the Red-backed, Scaly, Black-
bellied, Tusked, Bat-winged Dragon whose image today adorns the flag of Wales. |
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| PART I: THE COURTSHIP OF PRINCESS GWEN |
| THE ADVENTURE BEGINS |
| Princess Gwen comes of age, and being the only heir to the throne, her kingly father invites all the champions from the Three Kingdoms to gather to compete for her hand. His intentions are good. She'll need a champion to vouchsafe her crown, but the adolescent princess finds her sudden transformation from beloved daughter to tournament prize both bewildering and demeaning. Common girls, with nothing to offer but themselves, may marry for love, but she, no matter how clever or beautiful, will be wed to the brawniest brute in the land! In a word, she's miserable. She only wishes there was some way to escape her fate . . . and we all know we should be careful what we wish for . . . |
| The first night of the great gathering, Princess Gwen is abducted by Akimera, an aged evil sorcer, who, for reasons too unspeakable for words, plans to make her his own! Awakening alone in the tower cell of an ancient ruins, marriage to a brawny brute seems less odious -- especially when she discovers her cell is guarded by the sorcerer's accomplice, a huge and fearsome dragon -- or so it appears. |
| Our clever princess soon discovers that the dragon, Long-Grin by name, for all his ferocious appearance, is no ordinary dragon. Reared in captivity by Akimera, it has little knowledge of the world and still less of how dragons are expected to behave. And it can talk, which leads Gwen to the inescapable conclusion that Long-Grin is not a dragon at all, but some poor creature placed under enchantment by his evil master. What's more, she convinces Long-Grin and the two pledge to help each other to escape! |
| But whatever they may believe, Long-Grin is a dragon. Worse still, Nial, a handsome, brave young warrior, is already hot on Long-Grin's trail, determined to slay him! Only Merlin knows how to defeat the sorcerer and save the princess, the warrior and the dragon from grisly ends, but he needs the dragon's help -- and Long-Grin stubbornly refuses to turn against his master! |
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magic, romance and fantastic adventures for many years to come!) |
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Site launched March 2001 ~ Updated 11 June 2008
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- 2008 Travis Edward Pike
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