[ WP ] Write a story where a hero must save a dragon from a princess .

She could n't find anyone in the whole kingdom willing to slay him. The dragon was old and his fire long gone. He was believed to be the last one alive, warmly resting in his cave on the top of a mountain. 
 
 *Quiet Ember*, they called him, and he was loved. Depicted in most of the village's pottery, featured in the Royal Family's coat of arms. He was an easy hunt, and his golden bed a tempting loot. But she knew of something even more valuable within him. It was a secret passed from generations in her family: eat a dragon's heart and you'll gain its power. 
 
 That night she decided to do it herself. Her princess attire swapped for a guard's, armed with her father's legendary sword and drunk on greed, she went alone and climbed to the entrance of its den. 
 
 She found him asleept, curled up like a dying bonfire, surounded by half melted gold coins and dirty diamonds. She unsheated her weapon and pointed it to his ash coloured neck, but just before her strike ended him, an arrow pierced her chest. 
 
 She looked back only to see darkness and as she rushed to try once more with her last breath, it was taken away by a second arrow. 
 
 Briefly after that, *Quiet Ember* woke up and his scared wrinkled eyes looked for him. 
 
 It's all good my friend- the man said, placing his hands on the dragon's chest, breathing calmly and smiling peacefully. He recognized the princess underneath the costume and added her jewels to the treasure bed, keeping the sword to himself. 
 
 As the dragon went back to sleep, the man sat at the cave's entrance, looking at the village and the forest from above. A ranger's life is the loneliest, but the only one he knew, and he was n't going to let anyone hurt his best and only friend.
