And Then The Dragons Arrived...

Let's try this. Give me the opening line of a book (any book) but add "and then the dragons arrived."


It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen... And then the dragons arrived.

(1984 by George Orwell)

 

The story so far: in the beginning, the universe was created ... and then the dragons arrived ...

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)

 

In the beginning God created heaven, and earth...and then the dragons arrived.

(The Bible, Douay-Rheims version)

 

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun... and then the dragons arrived.

From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

 

Duke Russel is not guilty of the unspeakable crimes for which he was convicted; nonetheless, he is scheduled to be executed for them in one hour and forty-five minutes....And then the dragons arrived.

 

Captain First Rank Marko Ramius of the Soviet Navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the Northern Fleet submarine base at Polyarnyy. And then the dragons arrived.

 

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. And then the dragons arrived.

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson

 

I washed the dishes, then the dragons arrived...

 

It was a pleasure to burn.
It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. And then, the dragons arrived...

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

 

"Once upon a time, there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself. And then the dragons arrived... "

"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

It all seemed so real that I could hardly imagine that it had ever occurred before; and yet each episode came, not as a fresh step in the logic of things, but as something expected. And then, the dragons arrived...

"The Jewel of Seven Stars", Bram Stoker

 

We are at rest five miles behind the front. Yesterday we were relieved, and now our bellies are full of beef and haricot beans. We are satisfied and at peace.

And then the dragons arrived.

 

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. And then the dragons arrived."
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen