Ming (Creepypasta)

A tragic sailor pursued by Dragons, Ming was the protagonist of the terrifying Creepypasta story 29th Dragon.

Ming was a normal Chinese sailor who was trading with other countries before his life took a horrible turn and he ended up becoming the prey of a creature he never dreamed really existed.

Out at sea, Ming and his crew were celebrating the climax of a successful venture, as they shared the stories of the money they'd made, the drinks they'd had, the fights they'd been in and the women they'd been with, and things were beginning to get better. However, the ship hit a vicious typhoon.

Every sailor tried to save the ship, but to no avail - two men were taken by the cruel sea and the doldrums hit the ship afterwards. Becalmed with no food, little water and no morale, the men began to get desperate. One man hanged himself to escape starvation, and the captain himself began to view his pistol.

During the night, a strange light was seen out at sea. Ming was on deck and he was curious about what the light was. He saw the light get bigger and grow as it came towards the vessel. The sailors began to get riotous with relief, because they thought it was a ship. However, it was something out of a nightmare.

A golden Dragon descended on the ship, and then it ravaged the entire place. Crew were slaughtered, eaten or incinerated, and the beast prowled from end to end of the ship. Ming barricaded himself in the locker and he survived. Only just though, because the Dragon stalked right by his room and narrowly missed him.

After several terrifying hours, the beast burned the ship and flew off into the night, leaving destruction behind it.

Ming came out of his hiding place and saw total devastation. He hurriedly picked up provisions and a charred pistol, and left the wrecked ship. He sailed off to the open waters in a row boat, and eventually made it back to China, the last survivor.

Later in his life, Ming was a regular at a seedy bar in Seattle, in the United States of America, and he had tattooed his entire body with beautiful black Dragon tattoos, twenty-eight for each story he had ever told. However, Ming had never revealed the twenty-ninth, nor did he ever want to. Ming lashed out at anyone who dared him to tell the story or revealed the tattoo.

One day though, Ming was persuaded by a cunning, rich man to tell him the story of the last tattoo, through loads of drink the man bought them. Ming told the horrifying story and began to break down, distraught, but then he said he knew what stalked him in the night outside the window - a Dragon.