A half dragon's horde

The town of Rosehaven was a fairly quaint halfling village that had a large amount of wheat farms. 3 miles away lies a large volcano that a half dragon tyrannosaurus rex calls it's lair. For around thirty years the Scarlet Menace was a local tyrant. Wandering and stealing the spoils of bandits and merchant caravans. Forming a massive horde within their lair it became a local legend of the spoils within. 

One day a young mother had fallen ill, their young daughter was desperate to find a method to buy the medicine needed to save their mother. Managing to steal only enough in the lair to buy a medicine they hoped the Scarlet Menace wouldn't know. Unfortunately, he did.

The volcano erupted with the enraged roar of the half dragon. Screams of rage and unbridled fury came out like thunder. Enraged at someone even so much as touching their lair the Scarlet Menace turned on Rosehaven, striking it periodically as just a form of malice. The town could never form anyway to actually stop them, their only solution was to pray for someone to be able to thwart this monster.

One day a group of wandering heros all arrived within the town and heard of the plight this people faced. Martivir the lizardfolk, Timmy the halfling, Elijah the human, and a werebear by the name of Bjorn aggreed to work together. The warriors climbed the volcano, Elijah had to cling onto Bjorn's back during the long climb, during the march they faced perils of the flowing lava and magma oozes that striked trying to subsume them for sustenance. Until finally they reached the top.

The band of hero's made it into the Scarlet Menace's lair. Expecting the monster to already be waiting within. Until they turned around to see the Scarlet Menace entering the lair with a freshly killed horse. Roaring out with rage magma drakes sleeping within the pools of lava stirred awake.

Within seconds a violent battle ensued Martivir nearly falling at the jaws of the Scarlet Menace until the druid Timmy froze the Scarlet Menace with a triumphant blast. However it was not all victory as a magma drake dragged her back into the pit of lava. Ending her tale but letting her live on as a hero to the people of Rosehaven.

When the heros returned telling of their triumph cheers came out. The people no longer afraid of the Scarlet Menace's tyrannical rage and able to rebuild finally. It is unknown what happened to the lair's horde within. Some say that Elijah laid claim as he was the only one that had actual use for gold and helped fund chruches. Other sources say an even worse menace took the horde for themselves, and that the Scarlet Menace was meerly a barncat guarding the vassal of an even worse monster but nobody truly knows.