A clouded sky brooded overhead, the sun breaking through only occasionally.  The distant rumble, however, was not thunder, but marching feet.  Two armies were drawing up in ordered ranks, the feet of the infantry and the hooves of the cavalry tramping the ground in a thunderous rhythm.<br/><br/>Damien strode back and forth, his tail lashing, his wings folding and unfolding with nervous energy.  One hand rested on the hilt of the sword he bore, and his taloned fingers clenched it hard enough to dig claws into his own scaled skin.  The sound of marching armies was distant from here, though he could see the whole of the battlefield spread out before him.  He paused in his pacing and let out a derisive snort as he regarded the feeble, ground-bound creatures there.  The dark elves had power enough, else he would not be serving their cause, but the pitiful beings facing them were nothing.  He flared his wings and snorted again, wanting noting more than to launch himself into the air and rain down fire and terror on the enemy.  He could fell half the opposing army himself, he was sure of it.<br/><br/>But he had his orders.  He was to wait until he was needed.  There might come some moment when the black-armored ranks below weakened, and he would set wing and drive back the enemy while his allies recovered.  So he paced, waiting for the moment, the order, when he could show his power.<br/><br/>A flare of fire caught his eye.  One of his fellow dragon kin?  No.  It had come from the enemy's side, a spell cast by one of their mages.  He heard distant screams as the dark-armored shapes the flame fell on burned and fell.<br/><br/>A sudden rush of fear knotted Damien's stomach.  If there were mages there, what other spells might they have? Perhaps he could not fell half the opposing army. Perhaps their mages would bring him down.  He snapped his wings open and closed with a snarl and resumed his pacing, forcing the thought aside.  Fear was a weakness he refused to indulge.   When the order came no one, not human nor elf, not mage nor elemental, would stop him!  He was Dragon Kin, they were nothing compared to him.