My Entry for *GanashiAshaka's contest

Song - Beautiful Dawn
Lyrics - [link]
Video - [link]

Story - (Sorry if they seem out of character )

A-Ruio slithered quietly through the the dune grass that dotted the edge of the forest. It itched her scales terribly, and the sand was getting in between her fingers, but she sighed and continued on. Within a few seconds, the sight that the blue dragon had been waiting for appeared: the beach. The completely deserted, white sand beach that stretched on as far as the eye could see. From north to south, it was the perfect place to sit and watch the sunrise. Even though A-Ruio was
three hours early.
She didn't normally stalk off somewhere to be alone, but so many confusing thoughts were rushing through her head that she needed a break. However, within a few minutes of the peaceful silence - save for
the waves softly breaking on the shore - A-Ruio was asleep.
Her dream was muddled and confused, everything seemed blurry. She was swimming in a vast coral reef, and fish whirled around her in an endless stream of colours. But there was one shape that caught her eye; a black, serpentine shape slithering in the water. It was close enough to seem familiar, yet far enough away to stay anonymous. The fish around her swam faster and faster, until A-Ruio's feild of vision was nothing but flashing colours and fins.
"A-Ruio?" A voice called from somewhere. It was so quiet, so distant, but it called louder, and louder until...

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She woke up with a start to see a red and grey face looking down at her with concern. She breathed a sigh of relief, relizing it was her very good friends Mello - ironicly the subject of said confusing thoughts.
"You scared me!" A-Ruio said, flicking him on the nose with her finger.
"Ow!" Mello said holding his nose, but it was pretty obvious he was faking it. A-Ruio chuckled and swatted at his side, flipping him
over.
She was going to scold him again but at last the
sun broke over the horizon in a brilliant display of pink and gold. Mello tilted his head back, so that he was looking upside-down, his nose almost in the water. There was a moment of beautiful silence before...
"Looks funny this way!" he exclaimed, before looking back up at A-Ruio with a goofy grin on his face. She chuckled at his innocence, but for some reason her face felt hot. Something that had nothing to do with the sunlight, even though it was iluminating the whole beach with it's pink-ish glow. She thought she saw a tiny bit of pink one Mello's cheeks, but sadly dismissed it as a trick of the light.
They both looked back up at the sky just as the last few stars and the moon melted in with the dawn and disappeared.
"It's so beautiful!" A-Ruio breathed, but Mello didn't reply. He simply nodded. In his mind, there was something a much darker colour on the beach that still outshined the dawn in all it's glory.
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I decided to put them on a beach long before I even looked at the music video for this XD Oh well, a very happy coincidence indeed. The video itself is a bit odd though I really think the lyrics and the song fit the picture and mood.

A beautiful as it may be that Dawn took forever >.< I wanted to try something in my own style that I hadn't seen in any tutorial before and this is what I came up with. Pretty good don't you think? I got the water tectures from *redheadstock but I did all the colour and lighting and such.

Again I'm sorry if Mello and A-ruio seem out of character, and if I rambled a bit in that story. I was really in the mood for writing something with a lot of descriptions in it, don't ask why. It was going to be much much longer, but I decided to end with that whole outshining thing because I loved it too much :3

I had to upload a very small version of the image cause It was so big!

Lineart by
Colouring and background by Me
Water tecture from