Fell Beast III: Fluffy's First Flight

A/N – this is a response to the OSA drabble challenge – ‘Seeing or experiencing something for the first time’. It is a companion piece to my two other highly canon-based fics entitled Fell Beast and Fell Beast II: Free Fluffy. Both can be found here on OSA. I actually had a load of really sensible, ordinary ideas for this challenge, but the way I decided was to open the ‘Complete Visual Companion’ at random and write about whatever was in the picture. And it was a fell beast. So…



Fluffy’s First Flight

The fell beast stretched out its wings, wobbling as its claws found purchase on the battlements of Morgul’s tower. Nine Nazgûl watched, eager to see their pet become a fine steed. After all, thought their Captain, the damn thing had to have some purpose other than creating mess. Great piles of mess.

The beast flapped its leathery wings a few times just to test the air. The wraiths would have held their breath, save they no longer breathed.

Then the beast pitched forward off the battlement and flew with all the grace of a butterfly…

…tied to a large rock.