This is just a series of drabbles to exercise my fingers. It is not very creative, but, I'll add on to it if you review. I promise.

Thoughts of darkness shot through my mind. Rage, fire, wrath. I bellowed a challenge, announcing my arrival to the town.

They cowered in fear, as they rightfully should. But one man did not. He drew his bow string back and an arrow, a black arrow, shot towards me. It moved faster than I could, and a sharp pain blossomed in my side, where no scales grew.

My wings gave way, and I, Smaug the Great, Smaug the Eater of Flesh and Destroyer of Kingdoms, I spiraled downward, into the embrace of the cold, and unforgiving, lake. Memories flashed through my mind, filling my mind, distracting me from my pain and imminent death.

I was a young dragon, just out of my egg. My mother flew above me, and she carefully watched me for any signs of faltering. I showed none.

Finally satisfied, she spoke. "Good, you are ready for this."

The memory faded away, replaced quickly with another.

Her corpse was on the ground. It was filled with arrows, spears, and it showed the thrusts of swords. I screamed my fury, beginning my downfall into evil.

Oh, are you suprised? I was not always evil. No, not always.

I was once innocent, as innocent as a baby. Perhaps even more so. But, my mother's gruesome and pointless death changed me. It changed me into what you see know.

My memories leaped to another event, far into my past, but still hundreds of years after my mother was murdered.

There was a female dragon, trying to get me to love her. At this point in time, I was still filled with hate and rage, unable to allow love into my anguished soul. She continued attempting to woo me. It got quite annoying, and I tried to tell her. She did not leave, so I drove her off with tooth, claw and loathing.

I did not kill her. My sense of honor would not allow me to. Oh yes, now I imagine what you are thinking. You think that I am not able to have honor. That I am too evil. But, like I've said, I have not always been this evil. I have not.