| For whatever the reason, the tattoos of dragons, | | | | the dragon, and Draco orders the knight to kill |
| the fierce protectors of treasure, tend to be | | | | him. |
| some of the more beautifully colored and | | | | Perhaps, after watching that movie, I've come to |
| inventive tattoo designs that one can get. My | | | | realize that honor tends to play an important role |
| stepfather seemed to find great interest in the | | | | in dragons of all kinds. After all, if one protects a |
| dragon lore. His tattoo of a dragon became an | | | | treasure with their own lives, isn't that an honor? |
| armband style - extending from under his armpit | | | | Let us not forget the famous fire breathing, |
| with little area between the head and the tail of | | | | walking lizard-like dragon - Godzilla. How many |
| the creature. Up close, one can decipher the | | | | times did he rise out of the water to save the |
| elegant design, but, far away, the tattoo simply | | | | lives of the city folk? (Which I never truly |
| looks tribal in nature. | | | | understood, since Godzilla usually took out most |
| Cinema has brought a lot more tattoo lovers into | | | | of the town, in an effort to "save" its people.) |
| the realm of the dragon. Many of these cinema | | | | Several other films tend to utilize the opposite |
| events have utilized dragons as fire-breathing | | | | roles - that of a dragon of destruction and ill |
| protectors of treasures. The movie, Dragonheart, | | | | intent. In both the science fictions series Stargate |
| revo9lves around a medieval time of dragons, | | | | SG-1 and Special Unit 2, a dragon is killed after it |
| knightly creeds, and evil kings. In order to secure | | | | wreaked havoc on the series characters, and |
| a place in a dragon heaven, a dragon saves the | | | | kept them from finding the treasure that the |
| life of a prince, who was raised by the knightly | | | | dragons guarded. |
| code of honor. The young man grows up, | | | | One of the cutest dragons can be seen in the |
| becomes king, and turns his back on the knight | | | | Shrek Trilogy. Not only does the dragon leave a |
| creed he swore to. Becoming a tyrant like his | | | | smile on the faces of children and adults alike, but |
| father, villagers gather, with the dragon at their | | | | the offspring of donkey and dragon puts in a few |
| side, to take down the king. | | | | laughs and endears the characters to you. No |
| As one would expect, there is always a twist. | | | | matter which way one wishes to believe a |
| The dragon is the last of its kind, and must be | | | | dragon's true intent is, the best way to bring it to |
| killed in order to kill the king. (Draco, the dragon, | | | | life on a personal scale is to get you a tattoo. The |
| gave the prince half of his heart, and, with it, the | | | | choice of how you wish to let others see a |
| dragon's strength to withstand death.) The knight | | | | dragon is up to how you want it carved upon |
| who raised the king has become a great friend to | | | | your skin. How real is that? |