I'm not a dragon

[plasmid]

You peasants now are loose

Emerging from the lake

I wait for thee upon my roost

An ever-patient drake

Alarm! Revile with dread

For I have have taken flight

As beaming down from overhead

At break of dawn I strike

With thund'rous noise I came

And frightened beasts away

My widened maw spewed forth the flame

Upon such disarray

Now plow the fields of blight

The maidens, snatched away

Shall not be rescued by a knight

Not one will come to slay

For witchcraft brought me hence

To leave you with this bane

A curse for humans' great offense

The sin of being vain

[Guest]

beat me by seconds.....I think the emerging from a lake is emerging from a bath

Edited November 9, 2010 by verymoody

[fabpig]

beat me by seconds.....I think the emerging from a lake is emerging from a bath

Yeah.....think I prefer your explanation. Nice one.

[Wilson]

beat me by seconds.....I think the emerging from a lake is emerging from a bath

Or maybe primordial soup.

The Sun?

[tiger_lily111]

a virus, but can't think of the disease I'm trying to associate with the riddle at the moment.

Maybe later if it isn't solved.

[Guest]

spigot or perhaps a torch

[plasmid]

Interesting that this one was solved by two people who aren't from the old crew that's used to my riddles. But you guys surely helped with guesses that were very near the mark. Hopefully a re-read of the riddle with the answer in mind will make the clues both large and subtle become obvious and the fit seem natural. Well done to all three of you, including JLayden for one of the best alternate answers I've seen.

hairdryer

[Guest]

wow, never would have thought that. Nice one plasmid!

EDIT: PS, i go by LJ on here

Edited November 10, 2010 by LJayden