What if there was a human who had been sent into the world of Equestria, but not where the ponies live, but where the Dragon's rule? What if said human was a Dragon/Human Hybrid? Welcome, to Dragon's Prince!
Hey there! Names Cade and I was your typical 15 year teenage boy who is a bit of a nerd. I liked gaming, anime, reading, oh, and I'm a Brony. That's right, you heard me! I like "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic", and I'm proud of it! Anyway, I didn't have much of a good life like everyone else. I had to deal with crap from people just for looking different, or having a birthmark of a Dragon on my chest. But that's not all really, I could do things like no other and I was great at it. But of course, the universe likes to mess with me, and now I'm in the world of Equestria, only it isn't how I thought it was like from the show or stories I'd read online. No, it was different, very different. I'm in the Dragon Lands where, oddly enough, their anthro like those pics on the net, except it only applies to Dragons, Drakes, Griffins, Diamond Dogs and Minotaur's. Weird huh? Well it gets weirder, but you'll have to find out inside. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and scream my head off. Bye! In a mixture of 3rd and 1st person point of view. Inspired by Blackwing's "Griffin the Griffin", and "American Dragon Jake Long" along with a dream I've been having. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is the property of Faust, Hasbro and the Hub. American Dragon Jake Long is property of Jeff Goode. OC's are mine or are those who have asked to be put in this story. Cover art needed.
A lone teenage boy sits atop of a large three story building wearing white pants that are three sizes too large, a black shirt that clings tightly to him and a blue old trench coat that is torn up at the bottom that is nearly as long as he is yet is somehow tight onto his form as it stays open showing the design of a flame circling itself in white. This is Cade. He's just turned fifteen though it wasn't the magical experience one may think.
He lowers his chin to his knees as he pulls out a red IPod he had been given by his best friend Trevor, the only real gift he's gotten from anyone in his life besides his trench coat and clothes. He puts his earbuds in and flicks the IPod on and flicks through his song list that his friend Trevor had helped him set up during their lunch and free periods at their school. You see, it was the last day for them before summer started, but it was never the good time many would dream of.
No, Cade longed to be wanted, rather than seen as some sort of mistake or trash that the people at the orphanage he lives at treats him like. He just wanted to be around others that would accept him, and while he may have his best friend Trevor, he was still seen as a freak. Sure, he was a nerd and a Brony, but he wasn't normal. He could do things like no one else could and was chastised for it.
Life was most certainly not easy for him. But then again, when you have the universe out to get you when is it ever? He flicks to his favorite song "I Wish I Had An Angel, by Nightwish" as it brings him some peace from his harsh life. The cold night air wisps by like a thin sheet of cool air. He looks up at the moon as it is full and positioned high into the sky signalling his birthday had just begun, for it was midnight.
He sighs softly and watches as a shooting star passes by and he watches it with his ever different eyes. As the star moves closer to the moon he wishes that he could be someplace else and maybe even learn what it means to be loved.
I wish I could be somewhere else. Someplace far away from here where I won't be known, where I'll have a fresh start with others. Someplace where I can be truly happy. He thinks as the star just passes before the moon. It was nice thinking that wishing upon a star would actually help him with his problems. But he knew that it was only a fairy tale , just as his favorite creatures were nothing but myths and legends or part of fairy tales where reality doesn't exist.
He sighs softly, and looks back up at the moon to see a curious sight. Why it looked to be a light moving down at him. Wait a second, it actually was moving closer and closer to him. He gets to his feet and staggers backwards. He moves to get away, but his foot slips out from under him and he falls onto his face on the tiled roof. The light grows brighter as it gets closer to him and he feels a fear rip through his chest as he scrambles to get up, but pain shoots through his leg.
Looking down he see's that a broken piece of tile is embedded into the side of his left thigh. He sighs softly and rolls over onto his back so he can meet his end face to face. So this is how I die, huh? He thinks as the light grows closer and closer, and he notices that it looks like a ball of light that as it grows closer he feels peace moving through him.
He smiles softly as warmth washes over him, and then nothing as the ball of light collides with him and all he see's is white and nothingness.
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The smell of pine greets his senses and he opens his eyes to see massive pine trees that stand like towers of wood and green pine leaves. He sits up groggily as he has a high pitched ringing sound in his ears and he looks around. Where am I? What happened? He wonders as the scent of rain looms down on him like a dense fog. He remembers the events of last night and his eyes widen.
The ball of light! The wish! It worked, it really worked! He thinks excitedly before frowning slightly as he looks around. But why does everything look so cartoony and why am I in the woods? He wonders as he runs a hand through his long black hair. He stops and looks at his hand as his nails look to be longer as well as black and claw like. He blinks in surprise before pulling out his IPod and looking at himself in the reflective black screen.
I look like an anime character!? What the hell!? He thinks as he pulls the collar of his shirt down and see's that his birthmark looks more like a strange tattoo that anime characters would have whenever they'd have a symbol or birthmark of some sort. He blinks in surprise and then a new feeling surges into him as pain shoots through his body. He grips his head tightly and cries out in pain.
He feels his body growing larger as strange things burst from his back and moves down towards his tail bone just as something forms from his tailbone. His cries of pain soon echo out into roars of agony as he feels his entire body go ablaze as if he were being burned from the inside out. Forcing his eyes open he see's large purplish black claws instead of hands and he yelps in surprise and flails onto his back where he cries out in pain as he feels two new appendages being squashed beneath his weight.
He rolls over onto his stomach and pushes himself up using his new claws. Wh-What the hell happened to me!? What am I!? He thinks in a panic as he gets to his clawed feet that reminds him of strange bird feet with more toes and how their fan out. He looks forward and runs awkwardly as he feels a second knee joint bend and he stumbles forward slightly, but manages to regain his balance and keeps moving forward.
He notices how little sound his feet make as he thunders through the woods. He moves through a pair of tree's before flopping around into a grassy clearing with a lake nearby to where he is. He crawls towards the lake but finds it difficult as his claws sink into the earth like a hot knife through butter. He flops around in attempts at standing but only manages to hurt himself more and more.
He stops and breathes in through his nose and out through his oddly long mouth. Breathe, if I keep panicking it'll only keep getting worse. I just have to calm down. He tells himself and his heartbeat slowly comes to a slow as he becomes completely calm. Opening his eyes he smirks. Alright, now let's try this again. He thinks as he slowly gets to his strange feet feet and holds his arms out for extra balance.
"Okay, we got standing down, now let's try walking." He mumbles out loud to himself and lifts his right leg before putting his foot down to the grass. He smiles as he takes another step and another before he is quite literally doing baby steps towards the lake. "Alright, now let's see what the hell happened to me." He mutters out in annoyance as he then trips and drops to his knees in front of the lake.
Looking into the lake he stares wide eyed as he no longer looks human. His face was reptilian as he had a short snout or maw filled with razor sharp fang like teeth that reminded him of Alucard's teeth from "Hellsing Ultimate/OVA". His cloths and skin look to have melded together as they had turned into black scales and he wonders if they were brown or grey if the sun had been out. His hands had turned into long claws as his feet were like talons and as he examines them more he notices how they remind him of strange birds feet mixed with some sort of reptilian.
His neck had grown slightly but ultimately was not long nor that wide. He notices how he resembles an anthromorphic version of Spike if he had black/grey scales a red and green eyes along with strange blue crystalline horn that looked like Destoroyah's from his favorite movie of all time, "Godzilla vs. Destoroyah" along with sharper spines that were white like snow yet had inner spikes that were black as night along with looking like crystals.
Moving his hand to his underbelly scales which were white like strange crystals that felt harder than they looked as he looks onto his back to find no wings, just spines. Grabbing his tail he inspects it and finds that it has a crystal like claw of sorts at the tip making him wonder if he was a strange rip off of Space Godzilla and Spike fused together.
Getting to his feet he notices how thin he is let along that he doesn't have much muscle yet he can tell that if he wanted to he could tear through trees with ease or rip through steel. He feels around for the muscles in his tail he manages to get it to swish from side to side before he moves it in a stabbing motion. Let's see if these crystals can be broken He thinks to himself as he stabs his tail at a nearby boulder and watches in amazement as the crystal like claws stab into the rock and shatter it.
So my strength is above what I though, I barely did anything. Hm, I wonder if I can breath fire to? He wonders as he closes his eyes and thinks of fire. He feels something rise up into his chest as his back heats up along with his underbelly. Opening his eyes he breathes out, a puff of grey smoke. Lovely. Well that sucks, must be something to do with eating gems perhaps? Or maybe I just need to practice? He wonders as he places a clawed hand to his chin before a thought occurs to him. Wait, how can I change back? I know I was human before and then that pain struck. But that doesn't explain how I can turn back. He thinks.
Thinking back to the pain he wonders what may of caused it and why it started in his mind before moving into his body. He places a hand to his chest where his birthmark was and notices that the scales look to be darker than the rest and begins to wonder if perhaps he is capable of changing back with a thought as he was thinking of a dragon when the pain started. Okay, this doesn't sound so hard, just think myself as a human, no problem. Now uh, let's do this. He thinks as he mentally braces himself for the pain.
His thinks of how he looked as a human with his clothes and everything and he feels everything new slowly and painfully sliding back into his body. He cries out in pain as his bones shorten and his face becoming human again. He feels strange heat around his body as if fire is burning his scales off of his human body and freeing him of his "prison" yet feels that he is being imprisoned in his skin as he trembles in pain.
He feels his horn shrinking into his skull, but then stops as his birthmark burns painfully so and he opens his eyes and looks back into the water. His horn was now a gem in his forehead as it reminded him of that diamond dot that Tsunade from "Naruto" had in the show and manga. Okay, that's pretty cool. He tells himself with a light smirk as he pulls out his IPod and blinks in surprise as the battery doesn't show up and the small device seemed to have grown and gained a speaker.
"I wonder what else changed." He says aloud as he flicks through his options he finds that it has apps and grows curious. He taps on one that looks like a map and it pulls up a large world map of multiple small masses of land as there are very few continents, if they were even called that here, soon realized that they didn't have any names. He finds that there is a purple dot which he assumes is him and how he is some sort of woodland area near a mountain like area with a large stone castle built in the side of a few mountains.
"Okay, this is pretty cool." He says with a grin before tapping the map and options menu pulls up again and he looks through all of the new options he had gained and found that many of them were survival tips that someone or something had uploaded onto his new IPod-XL, his idea, and flicked through his music to find it was expanded to a never ending number. "Oh, I like, I like a lot!" He chuckles out in an odd manner as he rubs his hands together before wondering if he could change parts of his body like that character Jake Long from that dragon show that used to play on the Disney Channel before it became trash.
"I just hope I don't have to say the words constantly..." He grumbles out as he holds his hands out before him. "Dragon Claws." He says calmly and in a flash of fire he couldn't think of the color at the moment, his claws returned and moves towards another boulder nearby and swings his right claws downward splitting it apart into five pieces. "Okay, this is awesome!" He exclaims with a goofy stupid smile on his lips before rain drops patter lightly against his opened claws and in the lake behind him.
"Oh come on!" He groans out as he looks around for a covered area and spots a cave nearby and weighs his options on something that might try to kill him before thunder booms and lightning flashes against the boulder next to him. "Oh the hell with it!" He growls out and sprints to the cave and just barely slides into it as lightning clashes against the spot he entered into the cave. "Okay, so I attract lightning to myself. Not a good thing." He mutters out darkly as he looks about the cave and growls in annoyance at how he can't light anything ablaze to make some sort of light before face palming and pulling his IPod-XL and flicks it on.
Looking about he finds that the cave is indeed empty, but that it goes on for a bit and would make for a good place to stay where he can get away from the harsh weathers to come, and the one that goes on now. He lays against a wall and puts his ear buds in and puts on "Moonlight Sonata, by Beethoven" to help him sleep. He closes his eyes and feels sleeps claws drag him from reality and into the dream filled lands.
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Opening his eyes Cade yawns and sits up while stretching his arms to wake them up more as they had partially fallen asleep on him. He runs a hand through his hair and walks outside and into a light mist or fog of sorts that lightly tingles his skin. The clouds are a dull gray and light sprinkle of rain washes over him but not in a storm like manner like it had been yesterday and last night.
His stomach growls and he places a hand onto his stomach and groans as the last time he had eaten was the day before while he was still at school and that damned orphanage. He hated it there, he always hated it there.
I need to find something to eat, but what? He wonders as he looks around before smacking his palm against his forehead and crystal. "Oh my god I'm stupid!" He exclaims as he turns to the lake. "The lake would obviously have fish and fresh water." He mumbles out while mentally scolding himself for his slow thinking. "Alright, now let's find out if my thought is correct." He grumbles out as he jogs across the soft squishy ground leaving his footprints in the dew covered grass as he moves through the light fog towards the lake.
Kneeling down at the waters edge he begins to wonder if there is more than just fish in it as it is a large looking lake and could be deep enough to house something else other than fish and possibly a few bugs of sorts. But how can I find that out with nothing? I mean I could stick my head into the water, but then something could end up chomping my head off. Hm, maybe if I tossed in a rock? He wonders while picking up a sizeable rock and flicking his wrist so it skirts the water.
He watches it closely as it bounces across before finally sinking into the reflective water and vanishes from his vision. Well that wasn't very helpful damn it! He growls in his mind as he huffs. Guess I'm stuck with using my head. Well, here goes nothing. He says to himself as he takes a large gulp of air and dunks his head into the freezing water. Blinking he looks through the water and notices how clear it is under the surface, and that there are hundreds of fish of various sizes.
Looking down, or up in this case, he looks into an abyss that just screams "Horror Movie" and freaks himself out by imagining that great white from the movie "Jaws" coming up at him from the deep. Pulling his head out of the water he gasps as cold as ice air rushes into his lungs like water as he runs a hand through his wet hair. "Well now I know there's fish, but that abyss makes me uneasy. I really hope I don't have to go down there at some point." He whines aloud like a child who had just been told that they had to eat they're veggies.
He looks to his hands and nods. Alright so if I were to make a sort of pond like Brian from "The Hatchet" did, then maybe I could catch some fish. He thinks to himself as he sighs softly. "If only life were like a...oh wait. It is." He deadpans and looks to his hands. "Dragon Claws." He says evenly and his hands morph into his claws and he stabs them into the edge of the lake making a smallish pond before taking some rocks and forms a small wall to allow fish in, but not out. "I just hope this works..." He mutters out and gets to his feet after his claws return to being hands.
Looking to the woods he wonders if he could make some sort of tools to help him with making a bed, maybe even find a rabbit. With that in mind he jogs over to the woods that surround the clearing and cave in search of food and then wonders what else could be in there that might be a danger to himself. The thought leaves his mind as he remembers that he can turn into a freaking dragon and gains a new found courage.
Walking through the trees silently he moves in a crouching position as to not alert any kind of prey or predator in the area near him. The bush behind him rustles slightly making him spin around and mutter out lowly, 'dragon claws...' and crouches down lower as to prep himself for a fight that may or may not present itself to him at the moment.
A doe walks from the rather tall bush and stares at him with wide eyes as a fawn steps from the bushes and looks at him strangely. He lowers his claws and sighs softly in relief before smiling lightly at the two mammals. 'just a doe and her fawn, nothing more.' He says softly from under his breath before holding a hand out. The fawn sniffs his hand as the doe watches on with curiosity evident in her large round eyes.
He gently brushes a finger against the fawns forehead gently. The fur feels amazingly soft against his pale skin as it moves it's head closer to his hand as if it were enjoying his touch. He smiles lightly and rubs her head gently between the ears before hearing a twig snap. The three of them freeze and a low growling meets their ears. He turns around slowly and see's a large wolf that looks to be the size of a Buck.
Oh shit! He thinks as he watches the wolf eye him and the two deer with a hungry gaze before it snarls and moves in closer to them. He narrows his eyes and brings his claws back through a thought instead of speaking and quite possibly getting the three of them killed and becoming food. The wolf snarls as it lunges at them and he swings his clawed fist to the side punching the wolf upside the head and into a tree.
It yelps as it collides with the tree before getting back up to it's large paws and snarls down at him. He growls back as he thinks of his dragon form and keeps his eyes open as a slight pinch of pain shoots through him. Strange flames circle around him and as he spreads his arms out he releases a low pitched roar in warning making the wolf "roar" back before lunging at him. He turns to the side and slams his tail into the wolfs side and into another tree before it jumps at him after recovering.
He holds an arm up and the canine bites down onto his forearm. He grits his fangs as the wolfs teeth manage to lightly pierce through his armor like scales. He swings his arm down to the side ripping his arm free while causing a few of it's teeth to fly out of it's jaws. With a pain filled howl the large wolf steps back from him before dashing to the side and moves to bite at his leg with a growl. He grunts in pain as the beasts fangs manage to sink into his upper thigh and pulls him to the ground as it presses it's claws to his chest.
He growls and stabs his claws into it's shoulder making it release him to yelp and he takes this time to use his tail to knock the wolf over to it's back. He struggles to his feet and as his oddly colored blood runs down his leg and onto the soft dirt. Looking at the corner of his eye he see's the doe and fawn moving away slowly as the fawn struggles to get away. Come on, get away damn it! He inwardly growls as he rolls to the side when the wolf lunges to bite at his throat.
He uses his tail as a club and uses it to bash the wolf upside the head, dazing it slightly before punching down onto it's wounded shoulder with his sharp knuckles that tear through the flesh like knives. He moves around to the wolfs side and opens his jaws as he bites down onto the nape of it's neck with his gem crushing teeth. It howls in pain and shakes him off while losing a chunk of itself to his great jaws.
Tastes weird. He thinks as he spits out the fur and flesh before shoulder bashing it away as he turns and runs after the Doe and her fawn. He picks the fawn up and keeps running at the doe follows after him as they race away from the wolf who somehow manages to chase after them. He see's his clearing and he rushes out to it where he slips on the soft mud and slides across the ground and into a large rock.
He shakes his head to clear it and looks up to see the wolf stalking up to them and snarls at him with hate filled eyes. Oh shit! He thinks in a hurry as he rolls tot he side as the wolf bites into the rock and he takes this time to stab his claws through it's fore leg at the elbow joint severing it from the body. It howls in pain and rage as it then bites down into his left shoulder making him grunt in pain and stab his claws into it's "armpits" and pushes it onto it's hind legs.
He looks at the lake and he groans loudly. "I fucking hate you universe! Let's do this!!!" He says pumping himself up and pushes the wolf back into the lake and swishes his tail like a snake or gator does to propel himself downward towards the abyss. The wolf releases a muffled growl as he pushes them down farther and father into the dark abyss. He feels his lungs burning and his head going into a haze as he watches the wolf stop it's struggling and becomes motionless.
He pulls his claws from it's body and looks up at the surface of the lake as sunlight gently touches it. He swishes his tail and propels himself upward towards the surface and as he gets closer and closer to it, he see's black dots blotting out his vision. He pushes his body harder and harder as he breaches the surface and gasps large gulps of air into his still burning lungs and coughs heavily.
He pants roughly as he floats to the shoreline and stares up at the clearing sky as sunlight breaches the clouds which part slightly. He smiles up at the sky and closes his eyes, enjoying the heat of the sunlight kissing his face gently. And so begins our story. The story, of Cade's Chronicles.
The air was brisk and full of air that chilled all to the bone. The woods outside the Dragon Dominion was filled with a never ending silence as the early morning light shines like beams from heaven down through the dense grey clouds and is slightly blocked by the dense fog that lines the woodland area. The air was fresh and clean with nary a problem as the animals sleep in their dens and nests.
The light shines across clearings and a very specific clearing is shined down upon as four blurs move towards it at various speeds. A lone figure dressed in a brown cloak moves through the woods with three large wolves on their tail as they weave through trees and dash for the clearing. They jump through the parted trees and roll across the soft ground and slide to a stop as they look around frantically.
One of the wolves tackles them and they let out a feminine cry out pain as the wolfs sharp teeth rip at their shoulder and manages to tear the cloak off of their forms revealing a dragoness with light blue scales, slender form yet has a very fine and what many would call a lucky bust. Her spines are shirt and sharp as her underbelly is light red almost pink in color. Her purple eyes stare at the large wolves snarling before her.
On her back are a pair of injure wings and on her forehead is a clear red horn that looks similar to a crystal of some sort. She shoulder rolls to the side dodging a swipe from the first wolf as the second jumps over her. Her spins and her underbelly glows light purple as she sucks in air through her mouth. She goes to breathe a plume of flames at the two wolves had the third not tackled her to the ground breaking her concentration and causing the fires inside her to die.
She slashes at the wolfs chest but it's large claws dig into her shoulders making her cry out in pain as her injured wings are being pressed down upon a sharp rock along with her shoulders being dug into by the beasts razor sharp claws. She moves her head to the side as it moves it's jaws down to bite at her head. She thrashes around and knees the wolf in the side and her sharp knee top stabs into it's flesh.
It howls in pain before digging it's claws in deeper into her shoulders making her cry out in pain again as her blood pools around her on the soft ground. She closes her eyes as the jaws of the wolf atop of her moves closer to her face. She waits for the end but it never comes, instead the sound of a yelp and the wolf and it's claws leave her space along with a gust of air.
She opens her eyes to see a strange looking monkey wearing odd looking clothing as it swings a large branch like a club and bashes the wolf that had been hurting her into a tree as it then does something she had never seen before.
It changed into a Dragon.
She watches as this strange male protect her as a strange voice and music echoes around her and him. What the Tartarus is this strange sound? She wonders as she watches the male fight the wolves.
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Cade 3rd Pov
Cade sat in his cave after catching a few rabbits and fish and skinned them to form bedding and even a grip for a stone sword he had been making. He had been in the Dragon Dominion for three long months and had been practicing with his transformations along with his abilities in both forms and learned many things.
For starters he could do magic through his horn similar to an Alicorn or Unicorn could but it work with his hand when in his human form along with being able to project his music into the outside world by using his magic which helped whenever he would get into fights or even go hunting to help pump himself up for whatever he needed to do and the animals can't hear them, though he assumes anything that is similar to him that has intelligence is capable of hearing the music and that would be both a cool thing and a bad thing.
He was sitting on his makeshift bed made up of animal skins, leaves, and pounded rock to make pillows of sorts as it was rather comfortable. As he sat on his bed he was using his claws to smooth out his stalactite sword which he found was much harder than natural rock as he could both feel and see the magic within it as there are strange gems that have their own natural magic that gets soaked up into the rock that he found to be useful, as well as delicious when their magic was effectively drained.
Oddly enough during his stay in the woodland area he had seen many species pass by including what he was to assume as his own and learned there were two types of Dragon instead of one, though he was unsure as to what he was as he didn't fit in any of the categories. The first ones are called Earth Dragons or Geo's as he had heard them pronounce the words together. The second are known as Air Dragons, or Aero's a they called them. He was surprised to know that all dragons could use magic and had crystalline horns, but not spines or bodies like he had.
It was confusing, but he understood what the words meant. He also learned how to breath fire, along with many other manners of flames and elements which really did confuse him. He found out how to breathe his flames when he had to fight against a Basilisk that was fifty feet long and was trying to eat him for whatever reason.
Anyways, he was smoothing the sword out when the sounds of snarls and cries of pain. He wondered if his ears were messing with him, until the second cry of pain met him and he picked up his club and rushed outside to help the female in danger. He saw something very wrong. An injured dragoness and three Saber Wolves, as he had chosen to name for them because you know how boring it gets to say wolf constantly and they had saber like fangs.
He runs towards the wolf as his coat flaps in the wind like a cape as his magic works to pump him up with some music. Might as well test his theory right? He decides on "Savior by Rise Against" for the moment and his magic pumps it out into the air. He swings his makeshift club into the side of the wolf knocking it off of her and he jumps into the air and slams it down onto it's head and making it's chin slam into the ground.
He spin kicks the wolfs head to the side and spins the club upwards knocking it into the side of a tree with a loud yelp. He looks down at his club and see's that it broke in half and splintered against the wolfs side from the last hit and he spins around and throws the handle of the club which spins and smacks the second wolf upside the head gaining the their attentions. He shoulder rolls to the right and gets to his feet.
He snaps his eyes open and changes into his dragon form where he punches the wolf across it's muzzle breaking out a few teeth along with chipping it's left fang. He feels the song shift to "Can't be Touched, by Roy Jones" as he flips around acrobatically between the wolves attempts at making him their prey. He jumps into the air and mimics how Sebastian flips around from "Black Butler" and throws the knives and forks, you know the ones.
As he flips through the air he breaths in deeply sucking in air particles and he notices the dragoness staring up at him with wide shock filled eyes and he inwardly cheers for catching a females attention for the first time in his pain filled life. He feels his underbelly and spines head up as his horn glows slightly as well and he breathes out fire like lightning down at the Saber Wolves and manages to take out one of them exploding them across the ground.
As he lands the two wolves rush him from both sides and he uses his magic to boost his speed and he blurs behind the second one while his claws glow light red as he uses the natural magic in his body to heat up his claws to extreme levels. He slashes to the side and rips a massive chunk of the wolfs side off of it's body and spins around using his tail as a club as it slams down onto it's exposed innards sending blood and flesh across the ground as his scales tear through it's body as if it were nothing but paper.
The wolf howls in pain before the first tackles it as he had moved faster than their minds could comprehend and they roll across the ground. The first wolf snarls and looks around for him as the second whimpers as it dies for when his tail sliced at it's exposed insides he managed to tear through it's bones and when the first wolf crashed into it completely snapped it's spine in half while digging it's claws into the wolfs throat.
He double-knee drops onto the second wolfs head killing it on impact as he had used his sharp knee tops to cleave the head into four pieces along with splattering it's brains across the grass and it's blood to splash across his scales. The first wolf snarls and lunges at him as he back claws it away, unfortunately it landed near the dragoness and went to bite at her throat. Oh no you fucking don't! He inwardly roars and tackles the wolf just before it could rip her throat out and punches it across the snout repeatedly while pumping his magic into his fists to make his knuckles gain crystal like spikes to help tear flesh from the beasts bones.
It bashes it's head against his chest and moves to bite at his left upper arm only to have his fist crash down into the top of it's head dazing it. He growls and grabs it's jaws and attempts to King Kong it's ass but it thrashes and knocks him back a few feet. He howls loudly and rushes at him before moving to swipe at his stomach. He jumps onto it's shoulder and stomps it's head against the ground kicking up dirt and grass as he stabs his tail through it's hind legs and pulls back cutting them half-way off from it's body.
It snaps at him and he grabs both of it's jaws with his claws and pulls it down so it lays on it's side and he breaths in deeply as blue particles are sucked into his mouth as his spines, underbelly and horn glow bright blue and he breathes out white hot flames down the wolfs throat completely destroying it's insides and detaches it's head from the burning body. He releases an earth shattering roar as he drops the head into a puddle as it had been raining before hand.
As he comes down from his high he turns to the dragoness who stares at him with wide eyes and he rushes over to her side and kneels down beside her. "Are you okay?" He asks while looking her over for two reasons; one so he can make sure she's okay and two because the dude hadn't seen a female in forever, come on, you know you would be checking her out if you had been in his position.
"How...How did you do that?" The dragoness asks. He raises a brow ridge.
"How did I do what? Kick ass and take names, or change into a dragon?" He asks knowingly. Oh yeah, he wasn't stupid, he had an eye on her the entire time on the off chance she planned on knocking him out and selling him on some sort of black market. You know, the crazy shit.
"Both?" She asks with a confused tone and a look that said "What-The-Fuck?" was clear as day on her face. He nods his head lightly and runs a hand over his head and looks over to the cave and then back to her.
"Okay, but first let's get you bandaged up, now from these wounds it'll take a while to heal from them. The claw marks will heal quickly, but those wings look to be badly damaged. A few months sounds about right for how long it'll take for them to heal." He tells her as he lifts her up with ease in a bridal style position. He notices her cheeks gaining a red tint to them signaling a blush. God she looks amazing! Ugh, I need to get out more, or is it the other way around? He wonders to himself as he thinks of many stupid thoughts.
"I can walk you know!" She huffs out. He nods.
"I suppose that's true, well, alright." He says placing her onto her normal looking feet. And I'm the only one that has strange dinosaur bird feet! Fan-fucking-tastic! What next? Am I going to find out that she's actually a princess? Pff, yeah right! He thinks to himself as he leads her to the cave and motions for her to take his bed as he gets to his knees and rummages through his healing items he had collected and tested on animals who he would find injured. Man if Twilight or Fluttershy or even Zecora could see me now, well they'd probably freak. Well shit. Now where the hell is that- aha! He thinks as he picks up a hollowed out ruby containing a strange clear blue liquid.
"Okay this stuff will heal your shoulders pretty quickly, but it'll hurt. It also might even do the same for those wings of yours, but it'll hurt much, much worse." He tells her as he changes into his human form and dips his hand into the large ruby getting the gel like liquid out. turning around he notices the large size difference between the two of them. "Huh, so that's what it feels like to be looked down upon by something that could kill you. Cool." He says aloud as if she weren't a dragoness at thirteen feet in height with amazing curves he and many other human men would see in their dreams.
"What are you?" She asks as she sits down onto the makeshift bed and watches him with a close eye. Must not be too trusting of males, huh? He gently places the paste onto her shoulders and watches as her wounds begin to close instantly. She grunts with a slightly pained expression on her face before the wounds pass. "Nothing we have in our legends or even world resembles you." She says.
He grins widely at her as he gains a giddy feeling in his stomach like when you get excited and just can't think of any way to express it. "That's because I'm not really from here. This world I mean. I come from a place called Earth, though I'm curious as to what this world is called." He says completely skipping over the fact that he watched a cartoon about the ponies and that there was only ever a few showings of Dragons and they were generally greedy and mean.
"The ponies call it Equis, though we called it something before them, but the records are far too old to truly translate them now- Wait why am I telling you anything!?" She growls out and he jumps back while grabbing his stalactite sword which was finished and ignites his left hand with red, orange and yellow lightning like fire that crackles up his whole left arm before it changes into his Dragon Arm.
"Cool it, I'm just curious about what this place is called. I mean you no harm unless you plan on killing me and using my skin for some strange item." He says. Okay, so he went a little crazy, but wouldn't you from being out in the wilderness with just yourself? She raises her claws up in defense.
"Easy there crazy, I may be wounded but I can still rip you apart!" She warns with a growl. He flicks the sword backwards similar to how Star Killer would wield his Light Saber's as his claws glow softly.
"Same to you, well, without the wounded part. But I really don't want to have to fight against a lovely female. Just not my style to kill women." He says not really making sense to her as she narrows her eyes at him as if she were weighing her options before lowering her claws and he changes his arm back to normal while stabbing his sword into the ground sending large sparks into the air. He holds up the gem with a smile. "Want me to fix your wings up?" He asks cheerily as if nothing had happened stumping her and causing her to give him the oddest look she could imagine let alone muster.
"What is wrong with you?" She asks. He raises a brow as his smile turns into a confused grin.
"What do yah mean?" He asks with a confused chuckle while cocking his head to the side.
"What I mean is you save me, threaten me after I threaten you while calling me a "lovely female" before simply ignoring any of it happened all in a manner of seconds! What the Tartarus is wrong with you!?" She growls out in annoyance while scrapping her claws against the ground. He shrugs.
"I'm weird. Now do you want me to heal your wings or not?" He deadpans and she stares at him blankly.
"You know what, fine. Heal my wings so I can get the fuck out of here." She growls out. He nods lightly before holding up a finger. She grows confused.
"The only condition is that it will hurt like hell." He says to her making her roll her eyes and snort in annoyance and he shrugs with an impassive look on his face. "Alright, but I warned you." He tells her before moving behind her and putting the past like liquid onto her injured wings before looking at the gem and sighing. "Man why does helping other mean I have to get rid of a good thing? Oh well." He says to himself aloud as he pushes down onto the center of he back making her fall onto her stomach while her wings fan out and spread.
"W-What the Tartarus are you doing!?" She stutters out in surprise and anger as a blush covers her cheeks as he gently runs his fingers against her wings membranes.
"Just looking at your wings and finding the spots most damaged. There's a lot, so this may take some time." He tells her as he tips the gem over dumping the entire paste/gel like liquid across her whole back. He watches her shudder and wonders if her back and wings are sensitive spots. He then grins widely and thinks Oh I fucking love my luck right now! with a gleam in his eyes as she looks up at him oddly.
"Why are you grinning like that?" She asks with worry in her voice. He wipes the look off his face thinking that he might have ruined his chances at making a friend. Or possibly impressing her, which then begs the question of why he is trying to in the first place.
"Sorry, I get like that when I learn something new that interests me." He says being truthful, he did find her reactions and wings interesting, let alone her as slightly interesting. She blinks with a ridge raised.
"I interest you?" She asks. He nods and she deadpans. "Your a pervert." She states. He gives her a flat look and raises a brow while folding his arms across his chest.
"You know I could just leave you like this and let you deal with healing your damaged wings and cut up back." He states with a huff. How rude! And here he was just trying to help her get better, but of course in everything, the laws of the universe calls for females to call helpful males perverts, it's slightly true but still! She huffs softly and lays her chin onto the backs of her claws.
"Fine, just get it done quickly." She orders. He raises a ridge with a slight mocking smirk.
"What's the magic word~?" He says with a sing song voice. She growls at him and he holds his hands up while giving her a sheepish grin and chuckle. "Okay, no need to kill me!" He says as he then spreads the healing liquid across her back and wings as gently as he can. Hm, why do her scales feel so soft, yet they can cut through rock? Maybe scales are like quills on a porcupine or even the fur of a cat when they feel threatened in some way? He wonders while taking his hands away and walks back over to his medical workshop and places the now empty hollowed out gem with the other full gems.
"Now you may-" He is cut off by screams of pure agony and pain as he turns to look at her with a worried expression before gaining an intrigued look as her torn damaged wings and clawed back heal or seal back up as new tissue forms that would have taken months to regain. "I am sorry if it causes so much pain, I am currently trying to make a "potion" that doesn't cause pain, but when it has to do with cells and tissue regrowth that comes naturally to Dragon's, it will be excruciatingly painful nonetheless." He says with an apologetic look as he brings her a clear gem filled with blue liquid.
"Here, drink this and the pain will dull to simple jolts. Don't look at me like that, I tested it to make sure it doesn't cause any bad side affects that would be deadly or dangerous. The only real side affect is drowsiness that help puts you to sleep to get through the pain." He tells her long winded while rolling his eyes from her glare. She moves to grab the gem from him, but he pulls it back and pours a very little amount into a stone bowl shaped like a sake cup and hands it to her. "Here, only a little amount. Too much and you may end up in a coma." He warns and she gulps the amount down before shivering and he places a sang bag-pillow under her chin.
Her eyes close and he sits back against a wall of the entrance with his sword in his hands and on his lap looking out into the clearing and watches to make sure nothing else had followed her, you can never be too cautious when dealing with large animals that can kill you.
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Dragoness 3rd Pov
Opening her eyes she feels a strange soft item underneath her cheek and she lifts her head to see a strange circular pillow filled with...sand? What in the world is sand doing in animal fur? And why was it so damned comfortable!? She runs a claw over her face as she tries to get the drowsiness out of her system and wonders how and why she was in a cave.
The events of the day before come crashing down on her as she sits up and knocks off a strange fur blanket that had been placed over her. That male! That thing!! Where is it!? What did it do to me!? Wonders in a panic as she looks down at herself and runs her claws across her sculpted body. She sighs inwardly knowing that she wasn't touched before wondering why she wasn't. Normally males like to touch females inappropriately in their sleep. Is this thing different? No! It's trying to lure me into a false sense of security. Though it did heal me. She tries to figure out which side of her internal battle she is best suited for until the sound of a fire popping brings her back to reality.
Looking to her right she see's the creature that had not only saved her life and healed her, but was also a dragon species she had never seen or even heard of before. Just what the Tartarus was he? He? She was allowing to call this thing a gender? She huffs softly. He did save me let alone healed me and kept me safe. I guess he deserves to be known as a "he", whatever he is. She thinks to herself as she watches him sleep. She notices a pained expression plays on his features as he bares his teeth and grits him while his arms that had been wrapped around himself tighten and his head to bow as if he were trying to not get hurt by something being swung or falling onto him.
What is up with him? She wonders before he grows deathly still and she see's tears slide down his cheeks which are tinted blue from the cold as he was far away from her and the fire. Did he...Did he make this fire for me to keep me warm AND give me those blankets? And he's nowhere near me, jeez he's strange! She thinks to herself as she watches him curl up into a tight ball and his shoulders shudder as he fights the cold, or so she believes.
While watching him she notices the claw markings around him and his bloodied fingers as if he were scratching at something. She gets to her feet and lightly moves towards him to see just what is wrong with her "savior" aside from him being absolutely fucking insane. As she grows closer she hears him muttering in his sleep. "No...Not a monster...! Leave me alone! ....stop...." His voice grows weak as if it were going raw from him using it for what she assumes is the whole night.
What the Tartarus is he muttering about? Who needs to leave him alone? Stop what and what's not a monster? She asks herself as she ponders waking him up. She feels a hand gently touch her right claw and she looks down at him to see him having his arm outstretched and lightly having his hand atop her claw. She feels his skin is colder than ice, yet holds a strange heat to it that intrigues her slightly. The soft texture of skin is far different than scales as it was a simple smooth surface, as scales were smooth and rigid all at once.
Her tail swishes knocking a few rocks tumble around and his eyes snap open and he flicks his wrist as his sword flies into his hand and he slides around her holding the blade in that strange backwards manner he had done before as magic flows around the blade and his hand turns into claws. She blinks in surprise at his speed as he had move quickly enough to look like a blur of light. "Get back!" He growls out as he holds his claws to her as if telling her to stay as he creeps towards the entrance of the cave and peaks outside.
"Uh, what are you doing?" She asks. He spins around and gives her an annoyed look.
"Do you know how much you freaked me the hell out!? I thought they came back!!" He hisses out. She grows curious.
"Who?" She asks. Who would have been out here besides them?
"A bunch of Drakes came by talking about smelling a "babe of a Dragoness" and I was worried they'd come here!" He tells her with a sigh. She stares at him with a dumbfounded look.
"Why would you have cared?" She asks. He gives her a soft look.
"Because your nice, when your not threatening to kill me, and besides, no way in hell would I allow a bunch of punks to pick on a female. Shameless bastards!" He snarls out in a rage at the end as he stabs his sword into the ground and walking over to her. She notices how short he is as he only comes up to just above her belly, along with how thin he is as if had been born as a toothpick.
He looks up at her though he takes a few steps back and she raises a ridge. "What are you doing?" She asks out of curiosity as her animosity towards him had been toned down a bit as her pain and tiredness had made her slightly cranky. And let's be honest, who in Equis isn't cranky as they are being chased by large wolves with an injured back and wings and then gets their shoulders run through by claws? You know you'd be pissed off if it were you!
"I'm trying to see if your shoulders are healed, but uh, I'm rather short." He says and she raises a ridge.
"Then do that changing thing you did yesterday and a few seconds ago." She says as if he were slow. He huffs lightly making her wonder if he was going to say something sarcastic or infuriatingly annoying.
"Because I don't honestly feel it a smart idea to burn all of the things I've worked so hard on." He says in an annoyed tone that makes her feel slightly offended. But thinking it over, it did make sense. He becomes surrounded by flames that did burn the grass to ask, it wouldn't hurt her per say, but it would most definitely destroy all of the potions and items that litter the cave. It was then she noticed that the whole cave was filled with shelves, cubicles and even had a "storage room" as she can smell fresh meats behind the large frozen round rock that serves as a door.
"I guess that makes sense. But why not just ask me to kneel?" She asks him with a curious tone. He blushes lightly and looks away.
"No, that'd be rude of me, and you'd probably think that I'd be a pervert again." He huffs out. She nods her head. Yep, that's exactly what she would think and say before possibly gutting him, if she even could do so. "Besides, you probably want to leave anyways, so I might as well just make this quick for yah." He says with a solemn tone underlying a fake sheepish smile as his eyes make strange eye smiles in the shapes of "U"s.
She nods and sits down onto the bed she had been laying in and bends down slightly. He looks at her strangely with his head cocked. "I can't really use my wings right now anyways." She lies. Might as well find out more about her "savior" other than the fact he is a strange being that can turn into an interesting looking male. He nods while she see's happiness in his different colored eyes. His eyes are so weird. One's green and the others crimson. What's up with that? She wonders.
"Well, alright. So what exactly is your name? I never caught it." He asks and she looks at him strangely.
"I never got yours either you know." She deadpans. He flushes and rubs the back of his head lightly while giving her a sheepish chuckle.
"Eheheh, I guess that's true. Well, my names Cade." He says while holding out a hand. She blinks. Just "Cade"? Weird. She then grabs his hand with a claw and shakes it lightly while gently gripping it.
"My name is Lilith." She tells him and he flashes her a grin. It turns infectious as he grins back at him. "So, what are you exactly?" She asks remembering that he never really told her anything he promised he would. He chuckles lightly.
"I'm not even sure myself. I was a human, but I wasn't. And now I'm just something. Call me whatever you like, I don't really care." He tells her with a sheepish shrug.
"Then, how about "hoo-mon?" She asks. He shakes his head.
"No, no, no! It's pronounced, Hue-Man. Human!" He says cheerfully. She raises a ridge.
"I said that, didn't I?" She asks. He stops and raises a finger before growing silent and bowing his head. She smirks and chuckles mockingly making him give her a mock glare.
"Oh shove it!" He says.
"Uh, where? And what?" She asks not really knowing what that meant. He face...hands? He face hands repeatedly while groaning in what sounded like regret.
"Right, you don't know what that means, of course not..." He mutters out as he scolds himself. She giggles lightly at his antics making him stop and his cheeks to flush brightly. She looks at him strangely.
"What's the matter now?" She asks him wondering what keeps making him flush in such a way. He looks away and huffs softly.
"I haven't heard a female giggle before that wasn't in a cruel way, so please forgive me if I find it cute or interesting!" He groans out in embarrassment. She stares at him oddly.
"What do you mean? Didn't any of hoo-mans from where your from laugh or mess with you before?" She asks growing curious about what he meant along with his mutterings and crying in his sleep. Maybe I should bring that up later on. She tells herself so she doesn't offend or anger the one who looks capable of mopping the ground with her. He gives her a pained sigh and look as he looks down at his hands.
"No. I was treated badly. Listen, can we not talk about this right now?" He asks with a desperate tone in his voice as if he were being reminded of never ending pain. She nods her head and he gives her a thankful smile. "Thanks, now let's see how much damage those Drakes caused." He huffs out in annoyance as he pulls his sword from the ground and places it onto his right shoulder while he leads her out of the cave and into the outside world with sunlight bathing down upon the world.
Maybe this might be fun. She thinks to herself as she follows after the hoo-man who looks back at her with an interested look before spinning his blade around as if prepping himself for a fight that could happen at any moment.
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Cade's 3rd Pov
He steps out onto the soft earth and wet grass and out of his cave with Lilith following after him. Lilith. He always found that name oddly beautiful for some strange reason. The same goes for many other names, but Lilith was at the very top for some odd reason. He inwardly shrugs as he looks back at her with interest and watches her hips sway from side to side and her tail swish about before looking forward and spinning his blade around loosening his wrist joint on the off chance something comes by.
Why must all females have that hypnotic hip sway damn it? He wonders as he looks at the blood stained grass and notices that the wolves bodies were taken. He stops and crouches down and touches a few tracks before looking around wondering if the Drakes were planning something. Man this bites. My first real companion in over, well ever really. But still, man this sucks balls!! He mentally roars before spinning around and looking back at Lilith who gives him a confused look.
"What's wrong?" she asks. He scans the area quickly before looking up at her.
"The bodies have been taken and the Drakes moved through here. They might still be here." He tells her as he looks over to the trees and narrows his eyes.
"Or maybe they left? Seriously, if they were Drakes they wouldn't be able to hurt me whatsoever." She says with pride while puffing out her large chest.
"Oh really?" Says a male voice from the side of them. He turns and gains an even look similar to Ciel's whenever something he doesn't like comes into his view.
"Fuck." He deadpans as he stares at a large looking brutish Drake with large wings and spines moving down his back. His scales are bright red as his spines are a darker shade of red as his amber eyes stare down at him. The Drake grins down darkly at him as he holds his blade tightly within his hands as his knuckles turn white. The Drake was the same Drake from the show that Fluttershy had told off and Rainbow Dash had kicked in the jaw in the episode "Dragon Shy".
He groans and looks to Lilith and goes to say something, but is stopped as he see's her staring up at the Drake with hate filled eyes as she backs away from him. He starts to wonder just what had happened between the two, until she spoke. "You!" She growls out in anger. The Drake smirks darkly reminding him of some sort of super villain or something similar.
"Me." The Drake says as he takes a step toward them as he reaches for a large metal sword that has a skull on the guard as the blade is shaped like a large axe and curved sword mixed together. "You are worth a lot, and I tend to finish my jobs." He says before whistling and Saber Wolves rush out around him only they wear armor with saw-blade spikes lining the pieces. "Your coming with me, and I'm getting paid you miserable female." The Drake snarls out.
"Bounty Hunter, huh?" Cade asks while pointing his stalactite sword out to the side blocking the Drake's path towards Lilith with a light smirk playing on his lips. "Those are always fun to watch, but not when they go after my friends." He says with a serious look in his eyes as a fake smirk stays on his lips. The Drake chuckles lightly with a deep rumble before it looks down at him with a look that could kill.
"Seem you want to protect this trash, ape? Hah! For what reason? Hm? Friendship? How pathetic! Only puny ponies do the friendship bullshit. Now step aside or I'll use your skull as a buckle for my blade." The Drake growls out as he points his large axe-blade at him while barely raising his claw or arm. Cade's smirk vanishes and he holds his blade up at the Drake with a death glare as wind brushes past them making his coat flap in the wind like a cape.
"You know, I never did catch your name, Drake." He growls out as he pumps his magic through his body preparing for the inevitable fight. The Drake smirk toothily.
"Dovaak." The Drake says as he snaps his claws together along with another whistle and two Saber Wolves rush at him and Lilith from both sides and he swings down and to the side as he blurs to the first wolf and slices it across it's right eye as he throws his blade into the other wolfs skull killing it. As he lands onto the first wolfs back he changes his right hand into his Dragon Claws and stabs his hand into the spot between the armor pieces severing it's neck.
"Cool name, not cool using your mutts to do your work though." He says calmly as he rips his claws from the dead wolfs neck splattering it's blood everywhere. He turns and looks to Dovaak as he throws his claw out as it changes back into a hand and the sword flies into it and he gives it a few test swings. "Now let's see what you got." He says before dashing forward and stabbing forward as his chest.
Dovaak's blade blocks his and he is knocked back against the ground and skids in front of Lilith who simply stares. "Do you know who you protect, ape?" Dovaak asks as he steps closer to him with his wolves circling them. "You protect a charge that I must return, or I don't get paid. They never said anything about her being injured or not, and thanks to you she looks healed." He growls out as he stands over them both gripping his axe-blade tightly within his claws. "And now I have to damage her again. But at least I can hear her screams of pain again." Dovaak chuckles out darkly and he raises his sword up while the blade points down at his chest. "Die." He snarls as he stabs downward.
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Lilith 1st Pov
I don't believe it. First I'm taken from my home by a bunch of Drakes who think that they can get some sort of money from the Dragon I call "father" and then I manage to break free only to be hunted down by Dovaak the Hunter! Fucking Dovaak! I get attacked and treated terribly and manage to escape again but have three of his stupid mutts chasing me.
Then I manage to find this clearing and I get even more injured, so what happens next? Some sort of ape, a hoo-man I believe the race is called from what he said, defends me before turning into a Dragon I've never seen before! Talk about crazy right? Well you wouldn't be too far off there. I thought I was going crazy when watching this ape, Dragon thing squares off against three of Dovaak's wolves and manages to kill them in pretty bloody ways, and doesn't even bat an eyelid at what had happened as he helps me into his cave.
Now, I know what you must be thinking, "Why is she talking about some sort of male who protects her with that unbelievable tone". Well that's because I STILL can't believe it happened! I mean how would you feel if out of no where you saw some sort of creature never before seen turn into something else you haven't seen!? It's unbelievable! Impossible even!
But it happened, and I'm grateful, though he was a bit of a weirdo who used strange music, yes we have music! Let alone how he talks, it's just too weird at how chill he is, I mean most males generally throw themselves at me and my friends along with my sisters in hopes of even getting to speak to us, but this male doesn't seem to mind. I mean he healed me and even let me sleep in his bed while keeping me warm, and sat as far away from me as he could and suffered through the cold and even watched over me when those Drakes, who I assume were those stupid fuckers that stole me away from my home in the first place, and even was protective over me when I knocked a few rocks over.
Now he calls me his friend? Just what goes through this guys mind!? What the Tartarus is he even? He says to call him a "hoo-man" or something like that, I'm not really sure because at the moment Dovaak just got here and now the two are fighting, oh, and I forgot to mention that his name is "Cade". What kind of name is that anyways? Maybe it's an alien thing? Yeah! That's what he is, an alien. But I can't really call him thought, I mean I could, but it doesn't sound quite right.
But whatever. I watch as Cade kills two more of Dovaak's wolves, only they were his "pack" as they wore protective armor, and completely bypasses their armor like nothing was there! The guy is insane! I mean come on! Not even I could do that so quickly and just by flipping through the air. It was like a scene out of those novels that the Griffins and Minotaur's make about how the "knight" is some sort of badass hero!
I stare at him with wide eyes unable to move from the shock of it all as he slides across the grass from Dovaak's back handed swing with the flat side of his blade. He stands over Cade with his blade pointed at his chest and says "Die." with the most disturbing grin I had seen on my life. I manage to regain my sense's as the blade inches closer and closer to Cade's chest, but as I move to help him, flames and strange lightning erupt and Dovaak is thrown back from the blast and his wolves armor is heated up to the point where they whine and yelp as they move to get into the lake and put out the light red and yellow flames that had been raging on their armors.
I stare with unbelieving eyes as a strange tune echoes around the area. It sorta sounds like those drums and other musical items that we get from time to time whenever "father" goes to our allies homes in the Griffin Dominion and Minotaur Isle's. I blink as the tune is rather catchy and up beat as I feel strange pulses move through my body. The music is so enchanting and seems to energize me more and more and I move to my right for some reason, it was as if I were being told to move and my body did as it were told while I just watched, but as I do so one of Dovaak's wolves moves past me in an attempt to bite me and I breath a torrent of icy blue flames that freezes over the cracking armor pieces.
I spin to the side and use my tail to destroy the armor and I begin to wonder if perhaps that was his plan, but it couldn't have been. He isn't that good of a strategist, right? Well, I don't really know the guy all that well, so maybe he is, but if that's true, then it'd be smart to just be his friend. I mean he already said I was, so why not right? Maybe I could even get him to help me get back home!
The wolf snarls at me and lunges while snapping it's jaws and I roll to the side while opening my left wing and use it's sharp edges to slice through it's side. As it skids across the ground kicking up dirt and grass I stab my sharp pointed tail through it's left hind leg and my scales tear through it's flesh like it were made of parchment instead of thick flesh and fur that can stop normal arrows or iron swords.
The music ends and I feel the extra energy just flow into my core and I feel my own power and magic grow slightly. I guess that's why Cade always had that music playing when he fought those wolves, it added extra strength to ones core both physically and magically. But that sounds crazy right? Well, who the Tartarus cares? Magic can and does do the weirdest and craziest of things, and I think that's how he got here.
I jump back from the wolf as it moves to bite at me again, only for a stone sword to shoot through it's neck severing it's head and music to reach my ears. I feel a familiar tingle of energy and power rush through my body again, and I spin around through the air. My tail bashes against another wolfs cracking armor and it shatters with ease, and I dive down while breathing out my icy blue fire that coats it's fur with frost. ` I grab it's lower jaw as it move upward to snap at me and rip it right off of it's head making it gurgle out whines and gurgling whines of pain before I crush it's head with my right foot. Turning around I see Cade transformer into his Dragon Form, and for some reason I find it rather hot. No, I wasn't falling for him! Sicko's! I found it hot because he and Dovaak were throwing each other around while spewing flames against each others hard toned chests and bellies.
I shake my head to clear it of those wrong thoughts. I'm in the middle of kicking ass, not looking for a mate dammit! I roll to the side as Cade throws Dovaak over his shoulder and jumps into the air and delivers a kick to his chest as he had gone to swipe at me as he moved to his feet. The fucker!
"Back off!" Cade growls out as he grabs Dovaak by his throat and drags him through the dirt and into the lake where he stomps down onto his head with his weird feet. Dovaak grabs Cade's ankle and pulls him under and holds his hands into the water. I spread my wings and rocket at Dovaak and kick him in the back of the head knocking him forward into the water as his wolves rush after me. Great, now I'll smell like wet dog!
As Dovaak stands up in the water he growls at me and breaths out red hot flames. I move to the side and use a wing to block the flames like a shield, fire proof, duh! A wolf tackles me to the side through the flames and I hold it's jaws apart as it inches closer to my face.
"Get- ugh- off of me!" I growl out and twist it's head to the side while snapping it to the left. The sound of bone snapping reaches my ears and I move the body off of me and look up as a large shadow looms over me like some sort of fucking tower. I turn around and look up to see Dovaak standing over me with strange cuffs made of black steel and he gives me a disturbing grin as he kicks me across the water.
Coughing, I move up onto my claws and knees and place a claw to my left side because damn that kick hurt like Tartarus! I mean seriously, what the fuck!
"Your coming with me." Dovaak rumbles out as he grabs my by my throat and lifts me up into the air as he strangles the life outta me. I look over to see Cade's motionless body floating in the water and grow sad. Guess he wasn't able to beat Dovaak and help me after all. I then see one of Cade's eyes open slightly and he winks to me as if saying "I got this". How the fucking Tartarus does this guy do this shit!? "Let's go." Dovaak growls out before Cade bursts from the water and roars loudly while new music plays through the air and I feel energy crackle around and inside me as Dovaak throws me to the side crying out in pain as the claw he held me with becomes frozen.
Did I just become a living ice Dragon? How the fuck was this even possible!?
"What did you do!?" Dovaak roars at Cade as he swings his large sword to the side in an attempt at cleaving him in two. Cade only smirks as his spines, horn and underbelly begin to glow and electricity crackling sounds echo from him as he summons his stone sword into his claws. Lightning and flames circle the blade of the stone blade as Cade roars loudly and swings upwards to the side parrying Dovaak's blade along with cleaving it in two before swinging his blade to the side sending out a wall of fire and lightning that sends Dovaak and the rest of his wolves flying backwards along with destroying the grass and turning the ground into stone.
I stare at him with wide eyes as Dovaak backwards away from him with wide eyes as his wolves are ash and their armor is melted down before it circles Cade through the air and the sun stands behind him along with the great mountain giving him a strange, eerie look that make me think of some great warrior. Oh my divine now that sounds like a great mate to have! Ugh, why does everything with Cade have to be so damn weird?
"W-What are you?" Dovaak stutters out with wide eyes. Cade spins his blade through the air making a wave of flames and lightning follow the blade before dissipating. He smirks down at the "Great Hunter" and smirks lightly.
"The names Cade, and I'm a Human. That's all you get to know." He says as he then plunges his sword through Dovaak's chest ending the hunter as his body burns from the inside out and his ashes are swept away by a soft breeze and the black steel that had once been Dovaak's wolves armor, melds to Cade's sword giving it a metal coating similar to how builders would do to rock foundations to give them more strength. He turns to me and smiles lightly. "That wasn't so hard." He says as he turns back into his human form and staggers forward as he drops his sword which stabs into the ground and wiggles slightly.
I move forward and catch him with my claws gently as he pants lightly and blood drips from his side and forehead. Oh no, this is so not good! I pick him up gently with a claw and pull his sword from the ground and rush back into his cave and lay him onto his bed while pulling at his cloths. Why does he even wear these things? Oh well, maybe hoo-mans have sensitive skin or something weak like that.
I place the heavy coat and strange cloth underneath it with a white flame on the front of it to the side as I look down at him. He has a cut moving across his chest and down to his right side, it isn't very deep, but if it wasn't covered by something soon it could become infected and even kill him. I look around and see some strange white bandages that looked to be from a caravan top or something similar cut neatly.
I wrap the bandages around his chest, sides and back while cutting a smaller strand and wrap it around his forehead underneath the fur that hangs down over his forehead and eyes to keep his small cut covered before sighing softly. Jeez is this what it's like having to be worried about some one else? What a fucking drag, but, it can't be helped I suppose. Looking outside the sun slowly begins to set over the mountains and trees making me wonder just how cold it got in here at night. Looking around I find that there is quite a bit of firewood that looks neatly cut stacked up in a corner of the cave and I see a spit nearby where the bed is and lace some pieces of wood into it.
I click my claws together making sparks fly out onto the wood, but it doesn't really burn and I wonder just how in the world he managed to make such a large fire. I look around some more before finding what looks to be dried leaves. Perfect. Clicking my claws together again after placing the leaves underneath the wood and around it along the top as well, hey you can never be too cautious am I right? The fire starts and I sighs softly and lowly before checking up on Cade to find him turning slightly blue from the chilled air. I bring the fur blankets up and lay them onto his form and I notice a large difference in his color as when the back of my claw brushes against his cheek I feel him grow instantly warm.
What the fuck is up with this guy? It's like all manners of logic don't even apply to him! Seriously, I bet the ponies would have lost their minds far before we do, though I wonder if they are still being ruled over by that Som- something guy. Awe well. I sit next to Cade in front of the fire and poke it with a stick. Something grabs my tail and I quickly turn around to see Cade holding it close to his chest between his arms while laying his cheek against it's scales lightly. Okay, now that's just too close for comfort! I swish my tail out of his arms and grumble to myself.
"Jeez he's weird, cuddling my tail while he's asleep? Only hatch-lings do that." I grumble out. I then stop and wonder if hoo-mans age differently than Dragons. I mean he look to be my age when he transformers, but maybe that's because of some sort of species aging thing or something? Hey, I don't fucking know alright! I've never had to deal with hoo-mans before now okay? So lay off!
"Stop...please..." I hear Cade mumble out softly. I turn and look down at him to see his face scrunched up in a pained expression as his body jolts and shakes every few seconds as if he is being hit by something or some one. "Not monster..." He mumbles as he hugs himself tightly like one would as if they were trying to convince themselves of something from what they had been told or heard and were trying to forget about it. I place a claw onto his shoulder gently and he flinches and cries out "NO!!" surprising me. He thrashes about as if he were being tormented by unseen demons or beings.
I narrow my eyes and remember him telling me about how he "didn't grow up well" and how he basically begged me to change the subject as if he were afraid of it. What the Tartarus could traumatize him so much to make him have these Night Terror's? "Stop! Please!" He cries out as he thrashes about and moves his hands up into the air as if trying to block something from hitting him. Okay, I've seen fucking enough. I grab him by the shoulders and shake him lightly. His eyes snap open with a panicked look to them as they dart around.
"Hey, calm down!" I growl out. I guess that did the trick, because he quickly calmed down and looked up at me with wide eyes before looking to the side as if he were ashamed of himself and moves away from me. The bandages fall from his body and I notice that his healing capability when in his Dragon Form works when in his human form as well. I guess that's kinda cool? "Hey what's up?" I growl out as he places a hand over that strange marking on his chest and grabs his thin cloth that was beneath his coat with his left hand and pulls it on. with a haunted look in his eyes as he silently sits away from me.
"Why are you over there in the dark and cold when you could be over here?" I ask. I mean seriously? Who the fuck purposely sits in the cold darkness? No one! That's who! He closes his eyes and gives a pained sigh and moves back into the light and slightly near the fire. "Okay, this shit has got to stop. Now I want to know what has you so freaked out right now!" I demand. He flinches from my yelling and I growl lowly as I place a claw to my face. Wow I must look so comforting being his "friend" and all that shit. "Hey, I'm, er, sorry. Okay? I'm sorry for yelling at you, I'm just worried is all alright?" I say with a soft voice as I try to bring him out of whatever the fuck kinda funk he is in.
"I...It's okay. I might as well talk." He sighs out softly as he gets to his feet and pulls his coat on, a soft breeze moves by and causes it to flow in it like a specter does in a way, whatever that even is. What? It was a word Cade used when mumbling the first time I heard it. "It's not easy to talk about, but, I guess you deserve to know about me, whether you see me as a friend or not." He says with a shallow voice. Awe man, now I feel bad, fucking guilt!
"I don't mind being your friend, though your probably had many of those from where your from." I say. He shakes his head sadly and holds up one of those soft claws making me blink. "One what?" I stop and think for a second, and I stare at him with surprise. "Seriously?! Only ONE friend!? How is that even possible!?" I exclaim. Seriously, how is that even possible!?
"My best friend Trevor, but even then, he was slightly scared of me. But we were great friends and he was there for me, even when I would getting the hell kicked outta me by the bullies at the orphanage." He says softly while rubbing his right side lightly while looking into the fire as his eyes seem to dull lightly. Orphanage? That does explain a bit.
"And why were you being beaten up?" I ask. He looks up to me with haunted eyes that holds pain no hatch-ling deserves, not even those worthless Drake's.
"Because of my birthmark and what I could do." He tells me as he looks down at the fire once more. "I don't know why I have what I have, nor do I know why I was placed in that damn place. But what I do know, is that I wasn't wanted. I was hated. Always hated by everyone except Trevor." He tells me and I raise my left eye ridge. Wow, seriously? That has got to suck.
"Really?" I ask and he nods his head. "No way, not everyone could have hated you." I state and to my surprise, he nodded and placed a hand over his left eye, which was the red one, as if it was missing.
"I was. The teachers, the students, the adults, the people, the very beings I called Humans hated me, except for one, and yet he would look at me in fear whenever I'd defend him. Whenever I did anything that pertained to what I could do really." He says with a sad tone as he looks deeply into the fire as if remembering something.
"Really? That doesn't sound like much of a "best friend" then. If you ask me, it sounds more like someone who is a pansy." I say as an odd anger builds up within my chest. How dare this Trevor fear Cade for being different! How dare those humans treat him poorly for not being like them. I stop and wonder why I even care if Cade was hurt in the past or not. Is this part of being friends with a human? Or something else?
"I wish I could agree, but he has been there for me ever since, and on my last day on Earth, my home world, he gave me this." He says as he pulls out a strange rectangular thing. He taps the blackness on the front and blue light beams upwards and shines onto the ceiling of the cave causing me to stare at that spot and then the item and back.
"What is it?" I ask as I try to touch the light, but it moves away and I narrow my eyes at it and move to catch it again, but he stops me with a chuckle. I glare at him as he falls over onto his side laughing loudly. "What's so damned funny!?" I hiss out in anger as my cheeks heat up and I feel a strange heat in my chest. Okay this is weird, maybe this is an affect from that potion he had me drink yesterday.
"You reminded me of something. Anyways, you know those songs that would play that energized us?" He asks. I stare at him with wide eyes. How did he know I was being energized? He grins lightly at me that causes my cheeks to heat up more. "I let the natural magic flow into you thanks to this little device, I can even choose who get's energized and who can hear it, though it was originally a theory, but I tested it and only you and I could hear it when we were fighting Dovaak. Whenever I change it basically becomes a part of me like my clothing, though even without either of them I still become a wingless freak of a Dragon." He mutters the last part out and I feel the urge to slap him.
"You are not a freak!" I growl out surprising not only him, but also myself. Did I really just say that outloud? My cheeks burn and my chest heats up at the center. What the Tartarus was happening to me!?
"Your just saying that. I am a freak, and besides, why would it matter to you?" He asks almost defensively at the last part making me growl lowly. Ugh, what's with these stupid emotions!? I run the body, not them! I get into his face and growl lowly making his eyes widen and crawl backward away as I stalk to him like those Griffins do when they move after a mate or prey.
"It matters because I'm your friend!" I yell out into his face. He stops cold in his chest and I slide forward and fall atop of him. I feel two soft things pressing up against the tip of my muzzle, or lips you could say? I open my eyes and then widen them as I stare down at a wide eyed Cade. Oh my divine's I'm kissing HIM! I move away from him and he sits up and we stare at each other with blushes on our faces.
"I...er..." He stutters out as his whole face turns bright ruby red and I roll my eyes.
"Oh get over it will yah? It's just a simple kiss, besides it was an accident!" I exclaim while trying my hardest to not stutter or blush even more than I already was. He nods and looks away.
"I guess it was, I mean it was my first, but I guess-" I stop him right there with a claw to his lips. I stare at him with unbelieving eyes.
"Seriously? That was your first kiss ever?" I ask. He gives me a slight glare and pulls my claws from my lips.
"Everyone hated me, remember? No females found me as interesting or attractive?" He asks with a raised....brow? I think that's what it's called. I blink before slamming a claw to my forehead understand that I essentially stole a good thing from him he had never experienced from someone who was interested.
"Oh my, I'm so sorry." I tell him and he shrugs it off as if it wasn't anything. Wow, now I feel like punching him across his small face! The jerk!
"It's fine. I know it wasn't intentional, but it was nice. A bit odd because of the height different, but still nice nonetheless." He says with a smile smile as he places a few of those fingers up to his lips and softly touches them. I feel the urge to smile, but fight it down as it wasn't the right time for smiling. I look back at the strange device and he clears his head with a shake, I think. "Oh, right. Anyways, this thing holds that music and my magic and the natural magic sorta pumps it out into the air, but I can choose who gets the energy, and I decided to give it to you considering we're friends and all." He says with a charming smile. Charming? Ugh, these thoughts are so damn annoying, but oddly nice. I should ask mother about them when I get back, if I get back.
"Hey uh, can I ask you a question?" I ask with a slightly nervous tone. What if he didn't want to help me return home? I mean he looks different from Dragons like this and even as a Dragon he looks super different. What if he doesn't want to travel back home with me? He raises a brow up at me and a small smile playing on his lips. "I was, uh, wondering if you could help me get back home." I ask. He looks at me strangely before placing a hand onto his chin and looks up as if mimicking something from his home world. Aliens are weird.
"Sure!" He says with a smile as he claps his hands together. I blink. Did he just say "yes"?
"Seriously? Y-You'll help me?" I ask in disbelief. He nods his head with a grin and gets to his feet and stretches his small limbs.
"Why not? I mean I've only ever seen male Dragon's pass on by, and even then they were kind to other races, aside from that Drake who lost his shit and blew up a mountain. But why not?" He says with a grin as I stare at him with wide eyes. I squeal happily and wrap my arms around him and jump up and down in a circle in happiness.
"Oh thank you! Thank you! You have no idea how much this means to me!" I exclaim and do the unthinkable. I kiss him, again. Oh divine's why must you make my life so confusing? "I-I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to...you know." I stutter out as I put him down onto his feet and he stumbles around with a strange grin on his face.
"N-Not a problem. I don't mind them." He says with a dreamy tone as if he were in a hypnotic state. I groan lightly and face claw and shake my head from side to side. Why me? Why did I have to kiss him let alone make him act like a fucking drunk!?
"Right, now when do we go?" I ask. He grows quickly serious making me wonder if he was even in that daze like state and wave a hand through the air. I see strange purple ripples move outward around his hand move about the air as if he had just lightly touched a pond of some sort and a bright white light blinds me for a few seconds before the spots leave my vision and he holds multiple crystals each having different colors or a mixture of colors. The crystals slide into strange loops on his pants, yes I know what pants are you pervs!, and he slides the sword onto his back.
The diamond on his forehead ceases to glow faintly and he smirks to me. "Cool, huh?" He asks me making me nod my head lightly. "Can all Dragons do magic like that? And do they have powers like that?" He asks me. I shake my head. That was magic and his natural abilities? Are you kidding me!? What next is he going to reveal to me, the ability to fucking fly?!
"Uh, no. No Dragon has that kind of magic or abilities you showed me. In fact nothing I know of can do anything like that. Guess it's part of the mystery of finding out what you are, though I think father and the elders might know what you are." I tell him. I see his eyes light up and his lips form into a smile that charms me slightly before pushing those gross thoughts out of my mind. "Right, anyways when do we go? Also when do we eat?" I ask. He nods and pulls the pinkish red gem from his pant loop and breaks two tiny pieces off and places the gem back onto his pants and tosses the pieces into the fire.
I stare with wide eyes as the pieces of the gem grow into two large steaks. "Does this work?" He asks me. I nod with my mouth watering and he chuckles lightly as he pulls the first, and largest steak I had ever seen!, from the fire and hand it to me while taking the smaller piece out and uses his Dragon Claw's to cut it apart and give me half of it. I stare at him in surprise. Who the Tartarus passes up on so much meat!?
"Why are you giving me so much?" I ask out of curiosity as I eat the small piece in a few bites. He smiles softly up to me.
"Because I don't eat much besides gems or crystals. For some reason I can't eat much aside from those two things, though I can eat meats and veggies and fruits and stuff, just not very much. And you looked to be hungrier than me, so here, take the rest, I already ate a few days ago." He explains while gently handing me the other piece of meat and I take it and bow my head in thanks. He smiles lightly up at me and I allow a smile to play on my lips before scarfing down the piece of meat and tear apart the giant piece of steak that was given to me. Meat, it has been FAR too long since I tasted you!
"How did you get it to taste so good?" I ask after savoring the last piece and noticing that it was all rich and juicy and had some strange sort of spice I had never tasted before, but damn was it good!
"Oh, I used one of the crystals in this cave, when they were still here, and crushed a little bit of it when it still had magic in it. What your tasting is the natural magic." He tells me with a small smile and light blush while rubbing the back of his head. "A-Anyways we should get ready for bed so we can leave early tomorrow." He says with a yawn and light stretch as he sits against a wall. I sit on the bed and wonder why he doesn't just share it with me.
"Why don't you just share it with me? At least you'll be warmer that way." I tell him and he blushes heavily while staring at me with unbelieving eyes. Okay, what's the big deal? Haven't any of you shared a bed with a female that isn't your mate? It's not big deal! "Why are you staring at me like that? Stop it, it's creepy!" I hiss out. He shakes his head lightly as if to clear it before releasing a low shallow breath.
"You really don't mind it? I mean me sleeping in the same "bed" as you?" He asks me while making air quotes and a brow raised. I shake my head.
"Um, no? Just shut up and get yourself over here, idiot." I mutter out and he lets out another soft breath and strides over to where I lay and sits down next to me as the bed was next to a wall of the cave and he buttons up his coat while shoving his "claws" into those pocket thingies that I had heard about through my friend Gilda who had came to me after visiting her ex-best friend. It was rather sad watching her so broken up about it, but, I still don't understand why someone would feel so down in the dumps about a simple pony.
"So, why are you not over here?" I ask. He jumps slightly and rubs the back of his head gently.
"I've never slept in the same bed as anyone, and...well especially not with a female. I mean it was never really allowed on Earth unless they were mates or siblings, but even then it was strange to me." He mutters out in a tone that spoke volumes of insecurity and nervousness. I groan and roll my eyes and grab him by his forearm and pull him into my side. He blushes brightly and tries to move away. Yeah, no. I wrap and arm around his waist to keep him their and glare down at him with a growl.
"Your going to stay here where it's warm and your going to get some sleep, alright?" I growl down at him while barring my teeth. He nods his head lightly and looks around for some strange reason.
"Where am I going to lay my head?" He asks me. I face claw repeatedly and groan at his idiocy.
"Just use me you idiot!" I hiss out. He nods and lays his head gently against my shoulder as he curls up in the smallest ball I had ever seen a male curl into. He looked like a strange ball that was chewed up by one of the hatch-lings! It was so weird, but oddly enough his warmth and soft snores were soothing to me and I lay my head down onto the "pillow" and shut my eyes gently as I drift off to sleep feeling the strangest sensation's bubbling within my chest while some new warmth spreads across my body. It was really fucking weird.
But, soon enough, I was lulled to sleep and for the first time in a long while, I felt at peace. It was both strange yet I welcomed it with open arms.
Why do I feel so warm? I wonder as I move myself around. I feel something warm pressed up against me and I move int closer to the amazingly warm and soft thing next to me. I feel odd ridges against my cheek and I furrow my brows and place a hand onto something large, round, soft yet firm, you know like how those weird plastic animals filled with that goo or bead like liquid that you get from those cheapo stores like the Dollar Tree or 99 cents store? Yeah it sorta felt like that, but more fleshy and rougher.
I hear a soft gasp and I freeze. Oh shit I'm groping Lilith! I move my hand away and open my eyes to see that I had been groping her left breast and I feel my cheeks burn with the heat of a roaring fire as the scales turn a pinkish color and part just a little bit before I cover my eyes and move away from her as fast and far away as I can. Great, now she'll think of me as a god damn perv! Fuck! Why me?! Why is it always me that get's thrown into this kind of shite!? As I run out of the cave while covering my eyes, I slip across the muddied ground and flop onto my back and slide into the beyond freezing water of the lake.
I feel something hard meet the back of my head and I grow dazed as I lay in the lake's shallow end, or would it be called a "beach"? I never really learned to tell the difference. The cold water jolts me to an awaken and slightly dazed state, but I can't feel my body as if it were going numb. I move my right arm sluggish up and wince at the prickling feeling you get when you move a numbed part of your body.
In the mist like fog I see a large looming figure creep up to me like a specter in the night. I stare up at the large black mass as a large black hand moves towards me like in those alien movies when they reach for the camera before everything turns to black? Yeah, not my favorite moment right now!
I close my eyes and wait for the hand to crush me in some sort of way, but instead the hand grabs me by my chest and pulls me through the fog and I am pressed up against a rather toned female body. Lilith! Oh shit she must be here to kill me! Gotta think of something. I open my eyes for whatever reason and look up into her crimson orbs that hold a bit of worry in them. Why is she worried about me at all? I touched her for Christ's sake!
"What the Tartarus are you doing out here in the cold as winter lake!?" She yells out as she brings me into the cave again. She pins me to the bed as the fire roars lightly and I look up at her with a scared look. Oh I'm so gonna die! Oh why me?! I only just started to enjoy my new life! She looks down at me with a confused and worried look. "Hey, what's the matter? You look like I'm going to kill you or something!" She says.
"That's because you are for accidentally touching you!" I exclaim rather boldly and then realize that I had just admitted to feeling her up. Yep, totally gonna die now. Bye bye me! You know those bugs that go SPLAT!? That's gonna be me dammit!! She stares at me with confused eyes before realization seems to dawn on her and she moves in close to me slightly while growling lowly.
"So that's why I was exposed! You thought you could touch me and look at me!?" She roars out. I crawl away backward as she stalks towards me with furry in her eyes.
"I didn't mean to! I just woke up and was confused as to where I was! I never meant to touch you! I swear!" I cry out as I remember saying something similar to a bunch of teens holding pipes and calling me a "freakish monster". She glares down at me with her claws in the air.
"You swear?!" She yells out. I nod my head frantically as I shut my eyes tightly and the memory plays in my mind.
"So much pain for one so young. Only emptiness is all that matters. There is no good, there is no light, there is no love. There is only emptiness and pain." I remember the words that were once told to me by some strange man who had pain and anger filled eyes told me before leaving me alone in an alley to "lick my wounds". I breath shakily as my chest grows insanely tight and my birthmark burns like a sun is being pressed up against my chest as my hole body seems to burn next and I feel tears move down my cheeks as a pit opens up in my chest.
God I'm such a screw-up! Why can't anything be normal for me!? I ask myself as pain and sorrow begin to fill this strange pit and I wonder if Lilith was going to free me of this pain. But instead of sharp claws and a roar of fury, a gentle claw cups my cheek gently and I open my eyes gently and stare up at Lilith who looks down upon me with eyes that look sad but also holds a small bit of anger in them. I shy away from her touch and she gives me a confused look and he anger dissipates.
I close my eyes and place a hand up to my chest as the burning feeling returns and I dig my claw like nails into my skin from underneath the open coat and slightly torn shirt underneath. I grit my teeth in pain as my blood trickles down my chest and hand.
"Stop that!" She yells out as she grabs my wrist and pulls my hand away as she places a claw up against my chest. The pain only seems to grow as the heat slowly begins to cool down. I open my eyes and look up at her as her face is close to my own by just a few inches. I look up into her beautiful orbs and the heat returns at full blast, only it doesn't burn, it feels cool and nice like a nice soft breeze after being inside for so long, and for the first time in a long time, I feel a bit of peace creep it's way into the "pit" in my chest. "Are you trying to kill yourself!? What the Tartarus is wrong with you!?" She yells out as she looks into my eyes with fear, for some strange reason.
Why does she care? I touched her and she's worried about me? I remember her talking about getting home and I grow slightly sad. Oh yeah, she wants to go back to her home, and then I'll never see her again. I lower my eyelids and pull my hand away from her.
"Many, many things are wrong with me. Anyways, we should get going, since you have somewhere to be." I say with a slightly sad tone and she gives me a look that piques my interest and turns away.
"Y-Yeah." She stutters out with a disappointed tone. I watch as her wings sag slightly and I feel a pang of worry form in my chest.
"Lilith!" I exclaim. She spins around with a slight gleam in her eyes and her wings firm up as if she were getting out of her funk.
"Y-Yeah? Er, yes?" She asks. Okay, what's up with her? I move closer to her and wrap my arms around her wonderful hips and place my head against her body.
"I'm sorry for touching you, and scaring you. I'm just...unused to this sorta thing." I say nervously and her arms snake around my shoulders and tightly squeeze me up against her body. The heat returns in my chest and I feel a bit of happiness form in my chest as I feel her soft scales rub against my cheek and the coldness of them, which oddly enough feel extremely good! She runs a claw through my hair and the tips lightly graze my scalp gently and I tighten my arms around her waist and her arm tightens around my shoulder.
"We should probably get going." She says before parting from me and I nod with a disappointed feeling in my chest. I guess that same feeling showed on my face or in my eyes as she moves my chin up and I look up into her purple orbs that look dazzling now than they had before. What was this strange heat that would come and go from her touch and why was she starting to cloud my mind. "Don't look so disappointed, we'll hug again at some point." She teases with a wink making my cheeks burn. Oh god is she flirting with me? Best! Morning! EVER!
We walk out of the cave side by side as it stay barren and empty, thanks to my magic, and I summon my sword onto my back and we stride across the open space. I place a hand gently up to my chest and breath out softly.
"What's wrong?" I look up at Lilith who places a claw onto my shoulder and looks down at me with worry in her purple orbs. I smile up lightly at her.
"Nothing's wrong, I'm just wondering why that heat in my chest felt so...cool rather than painful." I explain. She gives me a confused look and I grab her claw and press it lightly up against my chest. "You feel that heat too? How it's so cool and nice?" I ask her. She shakes her head lightly.
"No, but I know what you are talking about. I felt that same sort of heat in my chest as well." She tells me with a light blush tinting her cheeks. Man she looks amazing when she blushes! "When do these heat things occur whenever you get them?" She asks me. Why is she so curious now?
"It happens whenever I feel your cold scales against my skin, or simply you touching me softly or like when we hugged. It feels like I can be happy and the feeling of being at peace flows into me, even if it was for that short period of time." I explain to her. Okay, so maybe it doesn't make all that much sense to me either, but you would be confused to if you've never felt like this before! She looks at me strangely.
"Really? Wait, you like my cold scales?" She asks. I nod my head lightly as I place a hand onto her belly lightly. The coldness of her scales is so soothing, so right.
"I love the cold. It's why I was seen as weird, because during the spring time or summers I'd be bundled up, while in the winter and fall I'd be in little clothing at all." I tell her as I move my hand from her belly and shove them into my pockets. She blushes lightly.
"I've never heard of anyone or any dragon liking the cold before, or at least not for a long, long time." She says to me and places a claw onto her hip as she cocks it lightly before winking at me in a teasing manner. "Maybe I'm just so good, I can charm an alien." She says with mock proudness. I roll my eyes.
"Well you managed that, now what else can you make this "alien" do, huh, mistress Lilith?" I say while doing a mock bow and my best Sebastian impression. She blushes lightly.
"Wow that was weird." She says as if she didn't understand what had just happened. Thinking about it, I start to wonder what made me so playful with her. Was this what flirting was like? Or was this what having a friend that wasn't a male was like? I can't really tell all the much to be honest.
"Yeah, so are you an Ice Dragon or something?" I ask. Maybe she's one of my favorite Dragon types, the beautiful Ice Dragon, or the hot Fire Dragon, or maybe even the mysterious Water Dragon. What? I love Dragons!
"Sorta. I'm half Ice Dragon, and how do you know about types anyways?" She asks me. Oh, right. I haven't explained the whole thing about humans and Dragon's yet, huh? Whoops!
"Well, on earth we sorta imagine Dragon types. Some are fire, other water, and we even have diefic Dragons as lore. If I remember correctly there is a Dragoness that made the world named Tiamat or something like that. I don't really know, seeing as how I never payed much attention in school." I explain to her with a light shrug and "meh" face. She nods her head lightly.
"Why do you know so much about us? Besides from watching those males that come though the forest." She asks. Oh boy, this is going to be awkward.
"I sorta, love dragons, kinda weird, right?" I ask. She nods as we move through the woods at a leisurely pace.
"I'll say. So what were your favorite types?" She asks. What's with all of the questions? Huh, maybe she's trying to get to know me more or something? Whatever.
"Uh, the Ice Dragon is at the top to be honest. Though it's followed closely by the Fire Dragon, Celestial Dragon and Cosmos Dragon." I tell her with a small smile. Her cheeks gain a redish pinkish tint to them.
"You like Ice Dragons?" She asks.
"Well, yeah? Who doesn't like them? I mean your super awesome, so who wouldn't like Ice Dragon's?" I ask. He looks down with a sad look.
"There are very few of us actually around anymore. Not many other types or races like us because we're "Spirits of Winter", as we are named. And no one likes the winter here, so we're hated by many. My mother was an Ice Dragoness along with being a Princess." She says to me. Hold up. Princess? Did that mean her father was a king?! Holy shit universe! You literally sent a PRINCESS to me!? How the fuck can you even do that shit!?
"W-What!? You mean your a Princess!?" I exclaim. Smooth move on trying to keep it "cool". Ugh, I suck at puns. She nods her head with a look that holds shame on it.
"Unfortunately, yes I am." She sighs out while crossing her arms underneath her large bust. I raise a brow. Isn't it every female's dream to be a princess or something like that?
"Why so down? Your a princess for god's sake! You can do and get whatever you want!" I exclaim while throwing my hands up into the air just as we pass beneath a low branch. "Ow that hurt!" I whine out as I wave my hands through the air. She giggles at my antics and I stare at her with wide eyes. Oh dear god her giggle is like heaven!
"What?" She asks with a ride raised. My cheeks burn slightly.
"I thought your giggle was like heaven, er, beautiful, er, I mean...Uh...meesa shuts up now." Yeah I made a Jarjar. The universe love hates me apparently! She blushes lightly before giving me a kind smile that makes that heat ignite in my chest. Oh hello there.
"Thanks. Not many males tend to compliment me like that." She says before pointing at something behind me. "Look! It's the outpost that allows us into the kingdom!" She exclaims with a smile and I smile softly with my back to her as I look at a strange wooden building. Think of a Star Wars walker with the two legs in the form of a tall tree house, and you'll somewhat get what I'm seeing, because I sure as hell am not sure what to make of it!
"Cool, but why aren't there any Dragon's in it? I mean look, it has a hole in the front of it." I point out to her and her eyes seem to widen. She looks left and places a claw over her mouth and I turn left as well to see what "shocks" her. I made a pour decision to even look let alone the fact that I am so not going to mention what we saw. It's just not right!
"Oh my divine, who would have done that?!" She coughs out after losing her lunch. See, told yah I wouldn't tell yah, okay I will! What we saw was two male Dragon's ripped open and having their internal organs strung along the tree's like streamers and their heads placed above their ripped apart body with wide eyes staring neverendingly into space. Yeah, pretty gross right? Try having to smell it let alone having to close their eyes and make "graves" for them, all while Lilith loses her last nights dinner all over the ground as you pat her back gently while she tried to get over it. Come on, lets see you try it! No? Then don't poke fun at me! Haters!
"I have a feeling that Dovaak might have had some allies. Look at these symbols, they look like the same one on Dovaak's sword or the armor pieces for the Saber Wolves, don't ask why I named them that please!" I tell her. She nods her head.
"I see, but, why would Drake's do this?" She asks. I shrug lightly.
"Dunno, maybe when we get into the first town we'll learn more." I say. Man that was a stupid thing to say. She gains wide eyes.
"Oh no! We have to hurry! If they did do this, then everyone in the town just beyond those tree's is most likely in danger!" She cries out in horror. I narrow my eyes and break off into a sprint.
"Then let's get a move on! We need to get there now!" I yell out as we tear off towards the slightly parted trees. You know how in Hellsing when all of those people are lying dead in the streets with few survivors and the Nazi's and those Crusaders running about? It was sorta like that, only with Dragons and Dragonesses. A spear wizzes past me and stabs into the tree next to me and I look down and left to see a green Drake and a yellow Drake rushing at us with weapons drawn.
I look to Lilith with a dark smirk. "What song you want to pump us up? "El Dorado " or "Protectors of the Earth"?" I ask. She growls lowly and holds up one claw, I grin widely. I think I might be knowing what love it! So I grab my sword by the hilt and move it down, but as I do so I enter my Dragon Form and the music she selected plays. Lilith jumps up into the air and axe kicks with her heel against the yellow Drakes shoulder as I shoulder back the green one in the chest.
I notice a Dragon staring at us from where the two Drake's had come from as he holds his young child and injured wife, or what I assume is his wife. Oh fuck no! You do not hurt women or children! I stab with my side and it moves through the Drake's chest. I ignite the sword with black flames as I slash to the side sending out a wave of black and blue flames and lightning that tears through a red Drake that was readying a bow and arrow with my name on it. Not today bitch!
I spin to the side dodging a plume of red hot flames coming from a blue Drake who thought it be smart to do a "sneak attack" on me. Fucking idiots and their idea's of "greatness"! I spin the sword around and stab backwards as I blur behind them and slide the blade to the side so I cut them in half. Serves them right! I see light blue flames rushing towards me and I shoulder roll out of the way and the flames consume a small platoon of Drake's freezing them into ice statues before they break apart into slushy frost across the ground.
I give Lilith a thumbs up and she returns the gesture before spin kicking a Drake's head completely off and I can't help but find her overly sexy. Huh, guess I like the whole "Amazonion" woman thing, huh? Oh well, whatever! I turn to my right and stare up at the biggest male Dragon I had ever seen, then again they were all massive beasts and I was thirty feet away. What? I had to be safe and great eyesight!
"You helping her?" The Dragon asks.
"Uh, yeah?" I ask and he nods his head before pulling his large ass sword from it's giant as hell sheathe and lets out a battle cry. I peak my head out and look behind him to see tones of Dragon's wearing armor, even a few Dragonesses stand there holding weapons. "Um...okay?" I say and he points his sword forward.
"CHARGE!!!" He roars and the soldiers move past us like a river.
"Geose!" Hold up. Geose? That has got to be the weirdest name ever, but than again, Cade certainly has it's weirdness too. I look over to see Lilith running over with a wide happy smile gracing her muzzle and I feel a bit disappointed that I wasn't the one receiving it. Guess the two of them are special to each other. I gain a sad smile as Geose talks about how he and his men were sent out to find her and bring her home along with making sure that the citizens were okay.
"Guess this is goodbye, huh?" She looks at me strangely as I turn to the side and place my sword onto my shoulder.
"What do you mean?" She asks me. I point a thumb to Geose and he raises a ridge as I sigh softly.
"You don't need me anymore. You have this tank right here to get you back home, that's what he's meant for." I say as my eyes close to keep in the tears. Why do I feel like crying? She'll be safe back at her castle and even have her friends back. She'll be happier without me the screw-up. A claw grabs my shoulder and I open my eyes to see Geose looking at me with a smirk. What's so funny?
"You think we're mates, huh?" He asks. Uh, duh?!
"WHAT!?!?!?" Lilith screams out with wide shocked eyes and blanches while making gagging sounds. "Oh my divine-! No fucking way! He's my brother in law!" She exclaims loudly with a disgusted look on her face, before stopping and looks at me with a curious look. "Why did you think that?" She asks. I shrug.
"You two looked to be so happy together, and that smile just seemed to be a loving kind. I mean I'm not really sure, considering what i went through." I tell her and she groans with an eye roll as Geose roars with laughter.
"Ah, young love! How long it has been since I have seen it!" He laughs out making the two of us blush.
"W-What!?" Lilith and I cry out, unfortunately I ended up flashing before my forms three times before returning to my human form. Geose stares at me with wide eyes as if his mind broked. I broked him hard!
"What in the world?" He breathes out as Lilith blushes heavily and clears her throat.
"S-So you say we love each other? H-How can that be?" She asks with a stutter. He looks at her strangely.
"Seriously? Did you two not feel the bond forming?" He asks. I blink. Wait, what "bond"? The fuck is going on?
"What the hell do you mean?" I ask sliding the sword onto my back and he crouches down and is still a giant to me! Dammit I hate being the short one!
"The heat in your chest and the feeling of love? Do you not have it inside you?" He asks. I stop and place a hand to my chest.
"That's what this is? Love?" I ask and Lilith's eyes seem to gain some sort of recognition and face claws herself repeatedly.
"Oh how could I have been so stupid! How do I keep forgetting these things!?" She cries out in anger. Geose nods and laughs loudly as a Dragoness in black armor runs up and stops to look at me. Okay, talk about being a living freak show.
"Sir, the Drake's have retreated and the survivors secured. Are we to take this...thing back with us?" The Dragoness asks as she eyes me strangely and Lilith does something I had never seen her do before.
She pulls me close to herself and growls at the other female with a hiss says "Fuck off, he's mine!" Whoaho! What happened to my Dragoness! Wait, did I call her mine? Weird. I so did not see that coming! She pulls me behind her and I look up at Geose who smirks down lightly at me.
"Looks like you got yourself claimed, bro. Good luck with this one, she isn't the easiest to get a smile out of, nor is her family." He turns to the new Dragoness who kneels to Lilith and he places a hand atop of the butt of his sword at it side and gains a stern mask. "Gather the survivors and begin heading back to the castle." He orders with a deep booming voice. Wait, wait, wait. Where am I going now? Do I go back to the cave in the clearing or am I being kidnapped by these giants!?
"And what of the ape?" The Dragoness asks. Geose looks to me and rubs his chin.
"We shall take him with the carriage along with the princess. Something tells me she won't let us take him away from her." He says with light smirk and looks to Lilith who has wrapped her tail around my waist. What am I some sort of doll!? "Shall we, Princess Lilith?" He asks.
"Yes, we leave now." She says while glancing over to me with a strange look in her eyes. Oh boy, what have I gotten myself into this time!?
"W-What?! W-Where are we going!? I have a cave remember!?" I say in surprise as she brings me up to her eye level, which was a few feet seeing as I was about 5' 11".
"Back to the castle, my home." She growls out. I feel the urge to roll over and accept it, but of course me being me I choose the funner route.
"Really? Why's that? Huh? I just now learn that I'm bound to you, not that I'm camplaining, but what if I'm going to bond to another female? And what of your father and mother and siblings let alone the rest of the whole Dragon Nation! How are you going to explain that to everyone!?!?" I exclaim loudly and she raises a ridge as Geose gives me an amused look.
"Are you afraid?" He asks me. No shit Sherlock! I glare at him.
"Of course I'm afraid! I'm an alien here and I'm going to be surrounded by a bunch of people who might want me dead just like when I was at home! Why the hell would I NOT be afraid of these turns of events!? I don't do well in crowds or with a bunch of people around me dammit!!!" I roar out. Geose narrows his eyes.
"What was that about people that want you dead?" He asks. Lilith gives me a stern look and I grow silent. Oh shit I said too much!
"Cade, tell me right now!" She says with a warning and slightly hissing tone. I sigh softly and bow my head in shame. Fuck me, fuck me so hard right now! And NO not like THAT you sick perverts!
"I...I'll explain in this carriage thing, a-alright? I don't like talking about it." I mutter out. Fucking hell how do any of these males do anything with females that practically run their lives!?
"Very well. But you will also explain this to the King and Queen, as they are here as well." Geose says surprising not only me, but Lilith as well. Well ain't that fan-fucking-tastic!? Ugh, I guess this is how Spike felt. And with that, I am dragged away towards the giant metal cage I call my doom. Fuck my life, fuck it so hard right now!
Yeesh, talk about awkward moments. Here I am sitting in this giant steel cage they call a carriage and what I call doom. Yep, I was literally dragged into this thing like I was a fucking toddler and now I sit as close to Lilith as I can possible in hopes that I can hide and blend in with her body. Evidently, that failed and I eventually just caved and sat in plain view for two of the largest dragons I had ever seen in my life!
The first dragon was and is the king. Yep, I get to meet my "bonded"s parents before being killed. How do I know I'm going to die? Simple really, if my daughter was to come back with some sort of alien, I'd most likely kill the alien if they had done anything to her. So I should probably skip over the part when I basically cupped a feel, huh? Yeah, let's go with that!
The king guy looks similar to an anthro looking dragon with brown scales, orange eyes while wearing strange Chinese style of clothing and armor pieces of some other culture, oh and the giant sword at his side, yeah can't forget about that one. Yeah, Dragon's wear clothes. Go figure right?
The queen lady, however, looks absolutely amazing! She looks like a snow white Dragoness that's gone anthro and wears strange looking snow gear in the form of pants and a bikini top for clothing. To be honest, I can easily see where Lilith gets her amazing figure and body from now, because I mean DAMN this queen be hot as all hell! Don't look at me like that, it's freaking true!
I sit next to Lilith who has her head bowed and I wonder if maybe they have an advanced culture that is similar to eastern culture from earth from the way she acts along with the clothing, or maybe they just like the way the clothing looks, because I certainly do, for the females that is!
"What are you?" The king asks me with a rumbling voice that reminds me of Smaug from that new Hobbit movie, really wish I had seen the third part, but hey, whatever am I right? But now that I think about it he does sorta look like an anthro version of Smaug. Better stay in his good graces, huh?
"I'm uh, not exactly sure myself." I say to him and he narrows his eyes as he moves in close to me and stares down at me. Now I know how Bilbo felt, dear god please don't let me die yet! I still have so much left to see and do! I haven't even had my first girlfriend yet!
"Who are you?" He asks. I think I just wet myself out of a nerdgasm.
"My name is Cade, sir. And I don't mean to sound rude or queer, but my god you are badass and you sound so fucking cool!" I exclaim boldly. Yep, I am a dead man! The king snorts and sits back while releasing a deep rumbling chuckle. So I get to hear the most epic chuckle in existence before I die. Yep, I can go happily now!
"Interesting. You are but an ape, yet my youngest daughter has claimed you and the bond is forming. Very interesting indeed. Perhaps I won't eat you." He says with his rumbling voice of awesomeness. Yay! I get to live! I get to live!! "But I am curious, how is it that she is safe and healed?" He asks. Well, shit. I get to die! No I get to die!
"Er...I uh, healed her, sir." I say softly. He nods his head lightly as he eyes me strangely.
"And just what is this power you have inside and around you? I have never seen such a force, if I may ask." Okay, this is getting to be way too creepy, but so damn cool all at the same time! I let out a soft shallow breath.
"I am not exactly normal. I've never been normal I guess you could say. But what you "see" is my magic." I say as I motion to the diamond on my forehead with a thumb. "This is my horn when I change into my Dragon Form." I say. This gains his and his queen's interest as Geose simply stays quiet with a knowing look and Lilith's tail tightens around my waist making me bite a gasp and yelp of slight pain. Dammit!
"Really? You can turn into a dragon?" The queen asks with interest and a strange look in her eye. Okay she is freaking me out now.
"Yes I can. Though I'm not exactly sure how I acquired this ability, maybe it's my birthmark?" I ask myself more than the others.
"Birth Mark?" The king asks in confusion. I groan softly and allow my coat to slide off of my shoulders and pull my torn up shirt off exposing my chest and scars. He looks at my birthmark with a curious gaze, as the queen stares at it and me with wide eyes that hold a sense of fascination.
"Intriguing." She says as I pull my shirt and coat back onto my form. Hey steel isn't just cold, it's freezing below fucking zero dammit!
"Sure, maybe if you like being chased by your own people while they try to bash your head open with steel pipes or bricks. Or how they try to run you over with a fucking truck! Oh yes, so intriguing!" I growl out. Seriously, all the shit I went through and I get gawked at like I'm an exotic-fucking-bird! Ugh, I really hate my life sometimes, along with my smart mouth....
"What?!" Lilith exclaims as Geoese stares at me with surprise and the two royalties look down at me strangely.
"Why were you being hunted?" The king asks me and I sigh sadly as I close my eyes and allow my emptiness to flow through me, and apparently the carriage as everything grew darker as I opened my eyes.
"I don't know, but I'm just a monster." I tell them and it was true. I was a monster, I was branded as one and I had to live with it for the rest of my godforsaken life. I raise a hand up to my line of sight as I change it into my Dragon Claw and flex my razor sharp claws before changing it back to my human hand once more. A white claw lifts my chin gently and I look up into the queen's bright aqua sapphire blue eyes that hold an intrigued sadness.
"Surely that is not true." She says to me softly. No, it pretty much was true. I was hated by everything and everyone, hell even my "best-friend" was slightly afraid of me! How the fuck can anyone tell me it ain't true!?
"It is." I hiss out as I feel tears stinging my eyes. I always got emotional whenever I talk about myself and fuck I hate that shit! "I was hated by everyone! My life was nothing but hell!" I growl out through grit teeth as tears forcefully move their way down my cheeks. Ugh, I hate being an emotional mess! Her eyes seem t grow soft and she moves her claw away from me as I close my eyes and let out a pained, shuddering breath. Fuck now I have to calm myself, but I can't because I'm in a fucking box dammit!
"There is no love, there is no light and there is no good! That is what I loved by, you know why?!" I yell out surprising them as I tremble in sorrow and anger and slight fear. Who wouldn't be afraid of three giant dragons that could kill you just be poking you? "Because that is what I had to hold onto when the world was out for my head. That's all I could do and believe in when I was going through hell and forced to deal with shit that no one should go through!" I hiss out as my anger slowly takes hold.
"I see. So you are known as an undesirable by your old kind?" The king asks as if he were mocking me. I glare at him with hatred in my eyes burning like flames.
"I was, and let me guess, I will be again, huh? The second we reach this castle of yours, I'm going to be killed for being different, huh?" I growl out and Lilith looks at me with wide eyes. Guess she didn't expect me to be disrespectful to her old...Dragon, huh? He looks down at me with narrowed eyes. Yep, I did it this time, might as well just slit my own throat!
"No. If there is one thing I follow, it is honor. You, hatch-ling, hold much honor to yourself and I shall not have you executed. If anything, I would like to know more about this world you came from and about you as well, you did save my daughter and are her bonded, after all. I may be seen as "evil" by many races, but I am by no means "heartless". But speak to me like that again, and I shall have to test you of your worth." He says with a rumbling growl at the end. I roll my eyes.
"I'd lose instantly, no offense to you, sir, but your like, five times the size as Dovaak was, and he was kicking my ass pretty hard before I managed to kill him. You'd easily mop the floor with me." I tell him. Well I guess that cat is out of the bag, because the second I finished that statement I was stared at by the king, queen and Geose. Fuck me big time!
"You killed Dovaak the Hunter?" Geose asks. I raise a brow and shrug.
"Well, yeah. He was trying to hurt Lilith and capture her again, so I did what was right and fought to protect her. No male should ever lay a hand, er, claw onto a female, unless it's out of self defense, but eve then, it's just not right." I explain as i give a bit of my own personal beliefs at the end. Geose and the king smirk down at me as the queen and Lilith look at me with soft smiles.
"A code to live by, I assume?" The king asks. I nod firmly and wipe my tears away, yay I managed to stop crying and am in a better mood! Yay for bullshit!
"It is a piece of my own "code" as you call it. I don't like to see females or young ones being harmed, granted they had harmed me, but I would never raise a hand towards a woman unless I was forced and had no other resort, and I would most certainly never dare harm a child! Only sick fucks do that kind of messed up shit!" I tell him and he nods his head lightly with his smirk growing.
"Oh yes, you most certainly are of interest to me. Perhaps you shall show the young ones the correct way to act." He says as if the generation he was dealing with now wasn't the best to have. Okay, weird. But whatever right?
"Er, sir?" I ask. He raises a claw as if stopping me from speaking. Okay, me no talky now!
"Please, call me by my name." He says. Oh my god I have to ask!
"Wait, before you tell me, is your name Smaug by chance?" I ask. He looks at me strangely.
"No, why would it be that?" He asks me.
"Because you sound and look like him." I say dumbly.
"Who is this "Smaug"?" He asks me with interest in his eyes.
"Well, he's a dragon, though he is a species called "Fire Drake" and he is one of the most, if not the most, famous dragon in my old world! He's living fire and death along with being the very dragon that Bilbo Baggans, a hobbit and if you wonder that that is just think of me by half my size and slightly rounder, has to deal with! I mean to be honest, Smaug is one of my favorite Dragon's of all time!" I explain like a little child. Man I must look so damn stupid right now!
"I see, that is interesting. And you say he lives in your old world?" He asks. I shake my head.
"No, he's made up. Fantasy. You see on earth Dragon's and such aren't exactly real, but I know you guys were there at some point in time, and are seen as fantasy creatures of great power. There are even Dragon's that are worshiped because they were gods or godlike. And to be honest, I always loved Dragons, er, weird huh? I love dragons yet i can turn into one and am surrounded by them. I know, I'm strange like that." I say with a shrug at the end.
"Interesting, so you say you know about us and our species?" He asks me. Well, yeah! Who doesn't?
"I guess?" I say. Okay I'm confused, what the hell's happening again? Oh right, We were talking about names. Maybe I should learn the king's real name though, might even help call him something other than sir. "Um, what is your name, by the way?" I ask with a sheepish chuckle. He nods and sits back up next to his gorgeous wife.
"It is Huolong." He says. Cool, sounds kinda like a Chinese name, but whatever. I wonder if he's a Fire Dragon of some sort? Eh, who knows am I right?
"Cool name." I say and he nods in thanks and I look to the queen who looks back at me with a ridge raised. "And may I know your name as well?" I ask. Maybe she's named after something awesome?
"Of course, my name is Saphrah." She says with a small smile. Man she is one elegant female that's for damned sure!
"Pretty name." I compliment.
"I thought so as well." Huolong says and Saphrah rolls her eyes.
"Oh shush." She says and slaps him on the upper arm making him chuckle lightly before looking down at me with a curious look.
"Now then, I would like to know how you managed to kill the great hunter Dovaak." He asks with a curious look. Oh this is going to be so much fucking fun!
"You like music?" I ask while Lilith and I glance at each other knowingly and she gains a wide toothy grin as excitement forms in her eyes.
"Indeed I do, but what does music have to do with this?" He asks. Bombshell time!
"Because that's how we fought against him and those Drake's in the town!" Lilith exclaims. Wow, thanks for staling my thunder! Nah, she's fine, though I did want to drop the bombshell onto them first!
"Really now?" Saphrah asks in amusement and slight interest. I look up at Lilith who smirks down at me.
"What song should I play? "When The Beat Drops" or "Ready, Aim, Fire"?" I ask as I pull out my IPod-XL making the three others look at me with great interest.
"Um, what's the first one like?" She asks. Oh boy, I hope they don't mind knowing about techno!
"Er, think of a bunch of machine like sounds in the form of music, now that's not right. Um, er, I don't really know how to describe it too well, it just sounds like a bunch of strange sounds. The style is called "Techno" though." I explain to her and the others. Hey don't look at me like that, I don't know what makes that strange music alright!? She makes a face.
"Um, let's try the second one." She says and I shrug.
"Alright, might as well, besides, I personally like it better anyways." I say to her as I move away from her and the others, man this carriage thing is fucking huge! I enter my Dragon Form taking them by surprise from the flames and lightning along with the crystals that cover my body and the song plays for them to hear.
As the song booms around us I allow them to become energized by the natural magic and the three of them shiver slightly as the magic mixes and merges with their own cores of magic and physicality. I feel a lay itself onto mine and I look over to see Lilith holding my claw in hers as the song plays it's soft lyrics. She moves over to my side and wraps a wing around me along with an arm around my hips as we sway softly to the music.
I feel the heat in my chest bubbling and slowly filling up my chest as I feel myself lean into her more and more and our tail coil around each other. Never though I'd be in a cheesy love thing, but hey, I ain't going to complain. Maybe I'll even know what it's like to be loved by another.
As the song ends, Saphrah looks at me with a really strange look. "That was a beautiful song, but where did it come from, and the energy, how did you make it?" She asks me.
"I didn't make it. It's the natural magic all around us. I just use my magic to pump out the music and for some reason the natural magic that lays within and around me energizes me. But other than that, I really don't know how I do it besides that." I explain. What? It's true! I don't really understand magic all that well and I've only known it for a few months!
"Could we perhaps hear another song?" Saphra asks me.
"I don't see why not." I say with a shrug as I look over to Lilith. "What do you think?" I ask her. She shrugs and holds me closer to herself. God if this is what being in a relationship is like, then I want one! It's so awesome to be treated like this! I love it!
"You pick this one. Besides, I don't know anything about these songs." She says and I nod my head lightly and close my eyes. I feel a certain song bubbling up and I decide to let them hear it. As the song plays out they gain curious looks at the lyrics and I feel Lilith's hold on me tighten for some strange reason. Maybe they didn't like the song or something? But can anyone not like it? It's Breaking Benjamin for god's sake!
As the song comes to an end The four of them look at me strangely. "What?" I ask with a defensive tone and look as I look back at them in confusion. "What's up? You guys not like it?" I ask them.
"It's not that, it's just that I have not heard something so, strange. Why was the male singing about something called a "devil"?" Lilith asks me. I shrug.
"I don't really know, but I honestly it's one of my favorite songs." I say with a light shrug and look up at Huolong and Saphrah and Geose who look at me curiously.
"What is a "devil"?" Geose asks. Oh boy this is going to be weird as hell!
"Uh, a Devil is a being of pure evil, I guess you could say, and they rule over hell, or in your case Tartarus." I say at an attempt of explaining something I have not met before or yet. "Though I'm honestly not sure what a Devil truly is, I mean I've never met one, I've been called one, yes, but I have never seen or met one, to my knowledge at least." I explain. And who can really explain what a Devil is anyways?!
"I see." Huolong says before there is a jolt and a knock resounds against the door. Okay, maybe we're stopping somewhere? Or maybe we're at the castle? "Enter." He orders and the door opens revealing a pasty yellow looking Dragon male wearing pitch black armor. "Speak." He orders. Man this guy must love ordering others arou- oh wait, he's a king. Right. Moving on.
"We have reached our destination, shall we lead you all into the castle?" The soldier asks. Oddly enough the armor looks like a Chinese dynasty armor like deal as they carry those Egyptian swords that you generally see online or in movies and such. Huolong nods his head lightly and steps out of the carriage and helps Saphrah out next. Geose steps out of the carriage while Lilith and I have to hop out, though I had returned to my human form to conserve my energy and she ended up holding up by her tail. I thought we distinguished that I wasn't a doll dammit!
She sets me down onto the ground and I pat at my coat to get the light dust off of it before looking up at the giants. Man the only one I can actually call a non-giant is Lilith. Talk about being short eh? I move forward only to have a spear pointed in my face and I jump back in surprise as I hold my sword pointed out at the male Dragon guard who growls and thrusts his spear at me. I narrow my eyes and spin in a circle as I change into my Dragon Form and I send the spear flying from the guards claws using the flat of my sword.
I come to a stop and have the tip of my blade at his throat as he looks on at me with wide eyes. Oh yeah, I'm a badass!
"Stand down!" Huolong growls out and the other guards and the one at the end of my blade seem to shuffle away. He strides up to me and places a hand onto my shoulder. "You are not to attack him, he is a guest." He orders out in the form of a statement and I give him a thankful look before placing my sword onto my back and shift back into my human form. Man that was so cool! One single guard doesn't shuffle away nor lowers their weapon from me and Huolong growls at the guard. "Lower your sword captain!" He growls out as the ground around his feet heats up and bubbles like magma.
Okay, so maybe he's more than JUST a "Fire Dragon", but man is that cool! I wonder if crystals will sprout from the ground if I get that mad or annoyed? I look up to Lilith who glares hatefully at this "captain" and I begin to wonder if perhaps this is a female, as she seem's to not like other females coming near me. Wait, am I an item now? I file away the question for later use, maybe I can mess with her to get a few chuckles in!
"Sir, I wish to test myself against this "guest" in a duel." The captain states. A test? A duel? Cool, might as well see just how well I am with my sword, Dovaak didn't really sword fight too much and even when he did it was sloppily. I spin my sword off of my back and hold it out so it points at the catptain dragon who oddly enough has a female build. Oh come on! I stop and stab my sword into the ground. Yep, I was right!
"No." I state firmly. The Dragoness glares at me.
"No? And why not?" She growls out. Isn't it obvious?!
"I don't fight females, I hold no desire to harm any female nor do I wish to." I state and she growls as she dashes forward while swinging at me from the side. I place a palm onto the butt of my sword and do a hand stand onto it as I then roll to the side and pull the sword from the ground and use it like a shield and knock her aside. She stumbles forward before growling lowly and lunging at me in a piercing like strike move and I spin to the side so she misses and my coat whacks at her armored body.
"Captain you are to stand down, now!" Huolong roars out and she glares at me before sheathing her sword. "To the barracks!" He orders and she leads the guards away with a final glare as they move around a sharp corner of the castle. "I am sorry for my captain's brashness, Cade." He says to me and I shrug lightly. Besides it was pretty fun.
"Nah it's okay, I had a bit of fun toying with her, but considering I don't fight females, she's lucky I hadn't accepted." I say boldly and proudly as I strike a pose. Hey look at me! I'm just like Dead Pool now! Wait, no I'm not. Dammit!
"How about you not do that kinda crap again?" Lilith growls down to me making me rub the back of my head nervously and give her a sheepish chuckle and smile. Man she can be scary as hell!
"S-Sure!" I agree with her with a nervous stutter and Geose lets out rumbling laughter which makes me glare at him. Asshole! "What's so funny, huh!?" I growl up at him as I debate whether or not it'd be a smart idea to attack a giant.
"Your simply whipped!" Geose chuckles out as he turns and walks towards the castle. "All males become whipped eventually." He calls out from over his shoulder as he enters the castle. Saphrah rolls her eyes and she and Huolong look to me and Lilith.
"You two should head to Lilith's room for some rest." Saphrah says with a wink making my face heat up immensely. Is she trying to get me and Lilith to fuck!? The hell!?
"M-Mother!" Lilith stutters out and blushes cutely.
"What is it?" She asks in mock innocence. Lilith groans and face claws.
"Please stop it, none of us are going to be doing THAT yet, if at all!" She groans out in annoyance and slight disappointment. Why did she sound disappointed? Did she want to...seriously? The hell is up with everyone I know and being so damned weird?! Ugh, as if I would do THAT right now anyways. I have standards you know!
"I don't really plan on giving myself up you know." I state firmly while crossing my arms across my chest and looking up at the three of them. "I'm not some sort of play thing, or slut! I have standards!" I exclaim loudly and boldly.
"I'm sure you do." Saphrah says with a strange tone and eye roll. Oh she's starting to get on my fucking nerves now!
"I do! Besides, I'm not really sure how that would work." I mutter out with a light blush and look at the oh so interesting ground while shuffling my feet around.
"How so?" Saphrah asks. Why is this so fucking awkward?!
"Because I'm human and, well, I don't really think any female would want something like that from me, even if I was to turn into my Dragon Form, I'm still a human." I mutter out softly and she nods her head lightly.
"I see, so you worry about not being accepted?" She asks. I close my eyes and let out a sigh. Jeez she like's to hit things right on the head with a mallet doesn't she?
"Yes, I am worried that when I am someone loved one, that I won't be accepted or even liked. I'm not even sure Lilith likes me that much anyways, bond forming or not." I say sadly. Why was I so sad about that? We were friends and that should be enough for me, right? Right? Man this stuff is confusing!
"Are you sure about that? Have you asked her?" Saphrah asks as she glances to Lilith who shakes her head lightly. "Then how would you know if she likes you? You seem to like her." She tells me and I blush heavily as Lilith looks at me with wide eyes. I sigh softly.
"Okay, yes. I like her, I think she- your beautiful Lilith. Jeez it's not fair. Why must I feel these stupid emotions now after so long of nothingness?" I ask myself loudly at the end.
"Maybe it's because you hadn't been found at the time." Lilith says to me as she wraps her arms around me tightly and I lean back against her gently as I look up into her purple eyes. "What if I were to ask you to try and see what this is like?" She asks me. Well then I'd have to agree, I mean it sounds like fun.
"It sounds like fun, but we literally only just met! How would that even work?! I mean you just became my friend and now your asking me to be yours? I...why do you want me? And why now? I'm so confused." I say and to be honest, I do want to be hers, but we are only friends and we met like, a few days ago! Why does this have to be so damn confusing?!
"Just say yes. It's only a test-run anyways, and we're going to be friends anyways, so why not just do both?" She says in a convincing tone and I struggle to think of words. Okay, this is getting really weird, but, I guess I can give this a try. Maybe I might even learn more about her and everyone else.
"I...alright. You...You can h-have me." I stutter out and she holds me close to herself tightly and gently kisses my cheek making them burn brightly like a tomato. Man this is so weird, I wonder if any of you have been in this sorta thing before? Probably not, but hey, I ain't poking fun at anyone! Yet.
"Thank you for agreeing." She says softly into m ear and I shiver lightly as strange sensations move up and down my spine. Whoa that was weird! I wonder what made that happen? I look at her and she gently presses the tip of her horn against the diamond like crystal on my forehead and looks into my eyes. Okay, this is a little creepy.
"Your, uh, welcome?" I say with an unsure tone. "Um, when are we aloud to go to sleep? It's been a few tiresome days." I ask and she nods her head lightly as Saphrah and Huolong had walked away as we were having our little "discussion" and she picks me up as if I was her bride, really weird image I know, and spreads her large wings. With a single flap we are in the air and traveling upward quickly up this strange looking castle that reminds me of a more Gothic version of Canterlot's Castle. Cool.
She stops just above a balcony and lands onto it. She then places me onto my feet and I move around in a dazed state. Whoa flying is such a rush! No wonder Rainbow Dash does it all the time! I wish I had wings...
"Come on." She says and I follow her through strange looking curtains that look similar to how the Elves in Lord of the Rings had made their own. It was pretty cool. She stretches and lays down on her back onto the large looking bed and pats the spot next to her. Remembering what had happened last time, I shake my head. "Why not?" She asks in curiosity and I blush heavily. Are you kidding me right now!?
"Because the last time we slept in the same bed, I ended up touching you inappropriately! No way am I going through that shit again!" I exclaim and she rolls her eyes.
"Oh will you shut up about that? I don't care anymore alright? And besides. in a way if you do touch me, it won't be all that bad considering that we're testing out this whole "bonding" thing." She says with a shrug. I look around with an apprehensive look on my face before sighing softly and bowing my head.
"Fine, but please don't get mad at me again if I do end up touching you. I don't mean to do it!" I exclaim and she rolls her purple orbs again. Still, I don't mind touching her- er, I mean, uh. Nothing. Anyways, I lay on the bed next to her and she pulls me close to herself so my body is pressed up against hers. He lovely chilled scales brush against my skin and I feel sleep taking hold of me. You know I could get used to this!
"Night." She yawns out softly before closing her eyes and falling asleep. I smile softly and snuggle in closer to her and close my eyes.
"Night." I whisper out softly as the heat in my chest grows stronger and stronger, before sleep takes hold of me. Oh yeah, this is awesome!
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Next Morning, Cade's 1st Pov
Heat, that's all I feel as I am wrapped up and pressed up against something cold yet warm all at the same time but feels extremely good, like how on a nice Saturday morning and it's raining outside and the blanket you have curled around you is just amazing? Yes, it was sorta like that but better.
Opening my eyes I see scales. Oh that's right I had fallen asleep with Lilith! Huh, and for once I'm not touching her inappropriately! Hooray! Anyways, I go to move away slightly only for her arms to pull me in closer to herself and I look up to see her looking down at me with her gorgeous purple orbs. Why does my chest feel so good right now? I mean it's amazing how warm I feel, is this what love feels like? Or what it feels like to start being loved and to love someone else?
"Morning." She says down to me softly and I shiver lightly again for some strange reason. I'll have to talk to...someone about that.
"M-Morning." I mumble out softly as my cheeks burn and I do my best impersonation of a tomato. She moves her face down to mine and I can feel her hot breath move over my face. Oddly enough her breath smells like cool mint instead of what many of you may think. Perhaps they have toothpaste here as well? Hm, I'll have to figure that out later. I look up at her again and she moves in closer to me and I beg for something to happen so we can get out of the bed as I was growing uncomfortable and low and behold something did happen!
Just not what you might think.
"Sister father told us of your retur-" A dragoness with light sand colored scales, the figure of Lilith, and Saphrah as well I guess?, with dark blue bordering black underbelly scales bursts into the room while wearing an Egyptian style skirt and a necklace that helps bring out her black and golden eyes. "What are you doing?" She asks and Lilith growls lowly in annoyance as she moves away from me. Thank god because it was getting really awkward!
"Nothing now." She growls out at the Dragoness who gives her a sheepish look. Great, not only have I been sucked onto another world that just so happens to be seen a cartoon in my old world, but it's apparently in the style that anime is like! Perfect, fan-fucking-tastic! "What the Tartarus do you want, Lizzie?" She growls. Okay, don't make her mad, she's scary when mad!
"I came to ask what it was that saved you, but it seems you already have it in your bed. Sinful as ever I see." Lizzie teases making Lilith roll her eyes.
"Oh yes, because I spend my days bringing males up to my chambers just to have them bend me over and rut me like some common Drake. That's so what I am up to." Lilith says with heavy sarcasm making Lizzie glare at her.
"Don't start that kind of stuff with me, I was merely curious!" She hisses out.
"Whatever." Lilith huffs out as she turns to look at me. "This is my older sister Lizzie. Lizzie, this is mine. His name is Cade." She says while pulling me to my feet by her tail. When did I become an item!?
"Wait, when did I become an item!?" Didn't I just think that? Huh, weird.
"Huh?" Lilith asks. Oh she's going there huh? Hmph.
"Oh, so I'm an item to you, huh?" I growl out making her sweat slightly. Oh this is too much fun! No wonder those women in the movies do this constantly, it's so fucking hilarious to see what the other's going to do or say to make it up to you! Haha!
"No, of course you aren't an item, Cade. Sheesh, you really need to not think of it as being seen as a simple tool." She says with an eye roll. Oh? Oh no she fucking didn't!
"So your saying I should be just an item?" I ask. Out of the corner of my eye I see Lizzie trying her hardest not to burst out laughing. Attah girl! Gettin' the jokes and all!
"No!" Lilith exclaims and I raise a brow at her as I cross my arms over my chest. "You'r not an item, okay?" She says. I smirk lightly and snicker.
"Jeez take a chill pill, Lilith! I'm just messing with you, I know what you meant!" I laugh out making her glare hatefully at me. Oh, so she doesn't like to get messed with? Well then, sucks to be her because I love messing with people! Haha! Let the fires of hell rain down upon the world as I pull a prank of pranks! May Pinkie Pie be proud of me!
"That wasn't funny!" She screams out and I feel a surge of electricity surge through me in the most painful way ever. I drop to my knee's with a grunt of pain and place a hand to my chest as the jolt passes and she stares down at me with wide eyes. "Oh shit, I'm so sorry!" She says as she helps me to my feet. Leaning against her I pant lightly as my lungs scream for air and I quickly deliver.
"F-Fuck, what the h-hell just happened!?" I pant out in slight pain as is passes completely. What the fuck is happening to me?! Is the universe mad at me for telling it to fuck off so much?!
"It's the bond." Lizzie says with a serious look and tone. "The two of you are connected slightly, but it would seem that her anger causes you pain." She says to me. Oh ain't that just rich. I get bonded with the one Dragoness who has a fucking anger problem! Isn't that just great! "Though from what I can see, the bond isn't complete yet, so it will cause you pain for now, but when it's finished forming, her anger will mix with yours whenever you need it, like if you are fighting against someone or something." She explains and I nod my head lightly.
"So, I basically need to not get her angry?" I ask. Please say no, please say no, please say no!
"Yes." She says with a firm nod.
"DAMMIT!" I cry out as another jolt of pain shoots through my chest and I stagger back against the bed and grab at my chest with my claw like nails in pain. I look to her with hurting eyes. "Please stop being mad at me!" I plead before another jolt and I crumble down to the floor and grunt in pain. Wow this hurts, I mean it's like being shot with thirty taser's at once! Don't ask, and I won't tell!
I curl up into a ball and stab my nail into my chest in an attempt to stop the pain, but I only manage to make it worse and I cry out in pain as spark fly off of my body. I close my eyes tightly and wonder why she was so mad at me, I mean sure I teased her, but dear god she can't be THIS mad at me! I stab my nails into the stone floor making it crack slightly and I hear them gasp and I see them jump slightly. Why am I always getting hurt?!
"Stop, please...!" I ask as I drag my hand and rip chunks of the floor up as I cry out in pain as electricity sparks and shoots off of me in strange colors. The pain begins to dull as the sparks start to fade before the jolts cease and I pant heavily while coughing as my entire body is in searing pain and my lungs refuse to allow air in for more than a few seconds. Closing my eyes tightly I bring my hand to my chest and try to breath, but it doesn't seem to work.
"Cade." I look up at Lilith who looks down at me in sadness. "I'm sorry, I...I don't now what happened." She says with a sorrow filled tone. Awe hell, I can't be mad at her, it's just not possible! I bow my head so my diamond presses against the floor gently.
"I-It's fi-fine. Just please, n-no more pain..." I beg of her and I feel her claws grab my shoulders gently and I look into her eyes.
"Don't ever beg, you hear me, Cade? Begging shows your weak, just tell me, alright?" She asks me softly and I nod my head tiredly and weakly before reading my head against her shoulder and pant heavily as I lean against her for support. The pain vanishes slowly and it filled with a warmth of sorts and my breathing becomes easier and my lungs are filled with fresh cool air and her scent move through my sense's.
She moves in closer to me and I move back slightly, unsure of what is going on. She places a claw onto my right hip and I feel heat rushing to my cheeks as she grips my hip tightly with her claw and my lips part as I gasp softly and her lips press up to mine as I feel her tongue invade my mouth. I feel those sensations return and spread across my whole body as they give me really good tingling feelings that causes me to gasp softly again.
I close my eyes and the sensations grow stronger and stronger and move about my body causing me to whimper softly out of some sort of feeling. It feels amazingly good, but confusing at the same time and I enjoy it immensely as it just spreads across my body like a wildfire and causes me to shiver in a strange longing for it to continue. The heat in my chest grows through my body and I feel absolutely wonderful as it just keeps growing until it fills most of my "pit".
She pulls away and I open my eyes gently and stare up into those purple orbs that just capture me, as if I had lost all sense of where and who I was, as I gaze into her eyes. "Did you feel it grow too?" She breaths out and I nod my head softly before closing my eyes again to savor this new feeling that surges through me.
"That, and more." I whisper out softly before letting out a breath and looking up at her. "Why do I feel so strange? What is this tingling feeling that feels so good?" I ask, and she gains a smirk.
"That's pleasure. Something you'll being feeling more of, if this bond keeps growing like it just was." She says down to me with a strange tone that reminded me of a purr. But Dragon's can't purr, can they? Weird. So what this feeling is called is "pleasure"? I like it, but, something tells me there's more to it than what she's not telling me. I look her in the eyes and place a hand gently to her scaled cheek.
"So, should I go tell father and mother that your going to be busy rutting?" Lizzie says with a smirk and a ridge raised. I blush heavily.
"N-No! We'll meet them." Lilith growls out with a faint blush as she gets to her feet and pulls me to my feet by her tail but then keeps me close to herself as her tail snakes it's way around my hips tightly and keeps me there. I huff indignantly and look away.
"You don't have to worry about me running off, not like I could get very far anyways." I mutter out and she rolls her eyes and playfully flicks my nose with a claw.
"Oh shut up." She says teasingly before looking to Lizzie. "Tell them we're on our way." She says ans Lizzie vanishes with a nod and the sound of rock being sucked against rock, really weird right? But whatever, I look up to Lilith who releases me from her tail and smiles down gently at me. "Come on, you might even meet the rest of the family." She says to me and I chuckle nervously. Oh good, I get to be judged by a bunch of Dragons and possibly murdered. Well, might as well get it done and over with.
"Alright, let's do this!" I exclaim while fist pumping the air and we travel down the overly long staircase that spirals down before we reach a hallway. Fucking hell! If this is how Celesita and Luna have to travel around their homes I can see why they use magic constantly! The two of us move through the hallway and into a large room with...so many fucking thrones, why! Why me!? I look around the room to see multiple Dragons and Dragonesses sitting in thrones all various sizes and such and to be honest I'm starting to wonder if my Dragon Form would even look menacing to them.
Oh well, might as well get this over with and meet her family, I might even learn about what I am while I'm here! I take in deep breath in through my nose and let it out through my mouth before taking a step forward and entering the room that could easily become my tomb, but the heat in my chest burns like a wildfire and I allow a smile to form on my lips, and walk to the center of the room with Lilith.
As we cross into the room I notice that dragoness captain from before and inwardly groan. Great, looks like my first enemy here is a fucking captain! Well, might as well see who else I can piss off before I manage to see a blood bath, or maybe I should be a good boy and not piss off Lilith. Man being on a "leash" fucking blows, and not in the good kind! A large brown old looking Dragon who wears strange Chinese robes leans forward to look down at me. Man this guy is old as hell! Maybe he's Huolong's old man? Let's find out shall we?!
"What is this?" The old dragon asks with a voice that reminds me of that brown looking Gargoyle in the t.v. show. Well gee thanks for making a bad first impression on yourself Hudson! Fucking prick! A charcoal grey looking Dragoness who looks just as old leans down and pokes a claw at me and I move to the side so she doesn't skewer me. Hey watch it lady! I'm a living being!
"It appears to be an ape of some kind." The old Dragoness says as she sits back up. Is it just me, or does she sound like that old granny from "Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends"? No? Just me? Alrighty then.
Moving along.
A short male dragon around my size, when in my Dragon Form if not a few feet taller, gets to his feet and strides up to me and snorts in my face. Gee, nice guy this one! "Looks like a simple monkey who thinks it has the right to be in our presence." The dragon says with a voice oddly familiar to Renji Abarai's voice from Bleach and I begin to wonder if perhaps I am in some strange twisted part of the universe once again.
"Oh really?" I ask making the male widen and then narrows his eyes and pokes at my chest with an index claw. I stagger backwards in an attempt to not have my chest torn open and growl up at him. I grab the hilt of my blade and spin it around before pointing it up at him. "Hey watch it dude! I don't need a hole in my chest, thank you very much!" I growl out and he growls down at me.
"You think you can fight me?!" He snarls out and I narrow my eyes. Well of course I can!
"Of course I can, who else killed Dovaak when he was about ready to choke and capture Lilith again?" I say with a smirk. The male widens his eyes, before they seem to turn into narrowed slits and he growls.
"Fight me then, show me how you managed to defeat the great hunter!" The dragon growls out and looks to Huolong. "Father, allow this so I may test his worth! If he truly did defeat the great hunter, and saved Lilith, then allow me to see if he is even worthy of her!" He yells out making my eyes widen. Father? Oh come on man!
I look to Lilith who gives me the "thumbs-up" pose with her thumb claws up and I feel my left eye twitch before sighing softly. Looking back to Huolong I notice how he has a look I don't very much like, and I begin to wonder if I should be even happy to be here. He looks to me with narrowed eyes and rubs his chin before nodding his head.
"Very well, I shall allow the fight to occur, but only because I wish to know how you had defeated Dovaak the Hunter." He says to me and the dragon next to me who pulls out a steel rod and I feel the urge to move to the side. He looks down to me once again and smirks lightly. "And shall I ask of you to show us all that music power? It would perhaps help your case." He says with a knowing look in his eyes as I feel something click in my mind. Holy shit! He's actually trying to help me?! Wish I had a father like that...well, I wish I had parents, but, that's a story for another time.
Nodding my head lightly I grip my blade by it's hilt and pull it off my back and over my shoulder so it stabs into the ground and I smirk to him with a fire in my eyes. "As you wish, my lord." I say making him look at me in amusement and a few giggles from Saphrah and a ridge to be raised from Lilith as Geose barks with a low rumbling laughter as the busty dragoness next to him elbows him in the side lightly, but clearly has a grin on her muzzle.
Spinning to the side I hold my blade out in front of me and place my left hand onto my right upper arm and smirk at Huolong's son who flicks his wrist and the rod extends and becomes a combat staff of swords with strange holes at the ends and I wonder just what sort of dragon he is. A wind dragon perhaps? Oh well, might as well raise some hell!
"So, no kill blows, right?" I ask and he growls lowly with narrowed eyes. I stop and look back at him with a glare. "Right?" I growl out and he slams the bottom of his staff down against the floor as his strange skirt like cape flutters around as he wears strange looking combat clothes. "Guess I'll just have to not kill you then." I sigh out in annoyance. Really, why can't he just say something?!
"Come!" He snarls out at me and I roll my eyes. Of course he's wanting a piece of me, hell, I'm sure Lilith wants a piece of me too, though I wonder as to which piece she wants. Hm, maybe I should ask her later when all this shit is done and over with! I enter my Dragon Form and allow the music to play, "ULTRAnumb, by Blue Stahli", and move about the air for all to hear.
"Alright then, I will!" I yell out as I charge at him and he at me. Swinging my sword out to the side I manage to lightly cut him across the left side, but he manages to club me up into the air from behind and make me face plant onto the floor. Ow! Do you know what face planting on hard rock is like?! It hurts like hell! Pushing myself up, I flick my tail and knock him onto his back, or try to at least, as he spins through the air and uses his staff to push himself back to his feet. Man, what have I gotten myself into?! "Okay, cool moves, but can you use magic?" I ask. He snorts indignantly. Okay, so he's a ponce!
"All Dragons can use magic, you idiot!" He growls out before he holds his staff out and the air spirals around the ends of the staff seem to gain wind drills or something like that. "As you can see, I hold wind magic, making me an Aero." He states coldly. I nod my head lightly before pointing an index claw to him.
"So what your saying is, your either a Sky Dragon, or Air Dragon of some sort, right?" I ask summing it up. He gives me a flat and annoyed look as his left eye ridge twitches lightly and I notice Lilith and Geose have their heads bowed and sweat drops. What the fuck just happened? Did I do something wrong?
"You are annoying." The dragon growls out and I huff and roll my eyes. I still don't know this fuckers name!
"Hey wait, what is your name?" I ask and he stops and nods his head lightly.
"I see, it does appear that I have not introduced myself, but then again, neither have you." He says to me as he places his staff across his shoulders and bows slightly. "My name, is Flaire." He says. Oh okay, so he's got a strange ass name, still cooler than mine though. Dammit!
"The name's Cade." I states while shouldering my sword like a boss as I turn and look to him from the side. "So, what exactly is your deal with me? You hate me or something?" I ask. Seriously, why must he always glare at me?! He snorts lightly before twirling his staff about and holds it while taking a fighting stance.
"I just prefer to get to know someone before trying to "make nice"." He hisses out before he dashes forward and stabs at me with those wind drill thingies. I weave from side to side as my eyes track his every movement and I notice how he generally lunges and puts his right foot forward every time. I smirk lightly and swing upward and to the side and I manage to knock the staff out of his claws and do a low sweep kick and knock him onto his back.
"And I prefer to not get a drill to the body, again." I growl out as I stab my blade next to his head. "Besides, no way in hell would I take one of Lilith's family members away from her, let alone use my magic on them. I can't use it on you, your not an enemy." I hiss down to him and out to the whole room as well before shouldering my blade and spinning around and move to walk towards Lilith, but I'm stopped by a claw gripping my shoulder and I look back to see Flaire back to his feet and gripping his staff tightly with the other claw.
"Sucks to be you then." He growls out as he pushes me forward onto my face and while I lay there on the ground I feel a breeze moving around next to my head. Looking from the corner of my eye I see one of those wind drills next to my head. "I suppose you shall allow Lilith to be injured, no?" He hisses out in my ear as he points his staff towards her making her eyes grow wide and for mine to narrow, he slams his foot onto my shoulder and stomps onto my claw making me let go of my blade. "Watch her fall." He whispers out in the form of a hiss and the drill shoots off of the staff and rockets towards her like a cannonball making the air scream.
I growl lowly an deeply as I stab my claws into the stone floor and send my magic through the floor and make a wall of black crystals shoot out in front of her blocking the drill like winds by it being sucked into the crystals and for them to retract back into the floor and for them to burst from the ground up at Flaire who jumps up into the air and I rip my claws from the floor making the crystals send out a blue energy that is then sucked into my spines as I pick up my blade and wind circles around the blade similar to the drill, but it forms an extra blade to it. The black crystals turn holy white as they simply stand there like statues and nothing else.
"You desired to fight me? Fine, let's DO THIS!" I roar out as the song "War, by Sick Puppies" starts up around everyone as I slash downwards up at him. sending a large wind blade rocketing towards him which he bats aside with his staff, but I throw my sword up at him making a sort of wind lance that drills past him and manages to cut his side lightly and stab into the ceiling above him. He grunts in pain and I heat up my claws so they glow bright red and push off into the air making the floor crack beneath my feet as I swipe at him from side to side.
He spins his staff around blocking my strikes and spins around tail whipping me upwards, and I land on the ceiling, but thanks to how my feet are I stick to his and run along it and grab my blade by the hilt and rip it free where I send out a wave of red flames and orange and yellow lightning down at him making his eyes widen at the mixture of magic types. He then narrows his eyes before spinning his staff to the side of himself making a sort of wing like shield and holds it in front of himself blocking the wave of flames and lightning making me growl lowly before pushing off of the ceiling and slash across the "shield" and knock his staff out of his hands before kicking him in the chest and sending him bouncing across the stone floor.
The music changes to "You're Going Down, by Sick Puppies" as I land with a roll and as he flips to his feet I cleave downwards and he rolls to the side making my blade cleave into the floor shattering the part around me and making him flop onto his side from the large gust of wind that followed my swing downward. He kicks me in the side knocking me away from my blade and I slide across the floor on my feet while digging my talons into it kicking up parts of it.
Looking around the room I notice how we had been tearing it apart, yet somehow it had only been in very small sections of the huge room we fight in. Wow, and here I thought we were destroying the whole fucking place! Oh well, at least I know it's large enough to let a little more out. I think to myself with a smirk gracing my muzzle. And come on, who wants to have their throne room being destroyed? No one, that's who! Still, it'll have to be a last resort I want to keep him alive along with myself. I mutter to myself inwardly as I hold my right claw out and charge my magic through the claw tips making them gain flames of sorts.
Lunging forward, I stab my claw forward in a stabbing motion as he pulls my sword from the floor and charges at me with it. Oh man, not my sword! Glancing to Lilith I notice how she has a strange look on her face still. Okay, I can always fix the sword! He swings down and I grab my blade with stabbing each claw through it making it break apart down the middle along with it's hilt. Dammit that was a good sword!
I move to grab him by the throat but he flips backwards on his claws and I narrow my eyes as he spins around on them while kicking his feet and tail out in a circle as a miniature tornado forms around himself with spinning blades that scream and hiss about the air. Holding my claw up I look back towards the tornado and hold my whole arm out making it ignite before lunging forward and moving to stab at the tornado, but spinning blades shoot out and knock the flames and lightning away while cutting my arm making me grunt in pain. A thin beam of spinning air shoots through my left shoulder making me grunt in more pain as may arm grows numb making me growl lowly.
"You've lost the ability to use that arm, give up!" Flaire roars out with his strange echoing voice as the wind screams. Looking at the corner of my eye I notice Lilith gaining a worried look in her eyes, before gaining a strange one and I growl lowly as the heat in my chest burns and the natural magic around me spirals around me turning into physical waves looking similar to a cyclone of sorts as it spirals around me before it turns into strange blue energy like before and flows into my wounded arm like streams and I feel the numbness leaving me as I flex my arm as the natural magic goes silent and vanishes from the air.
Smirking up at him as everyone has gone silent I punch the ground sending out a river of crystals jetting up towards him and he flicks his wrist making his staff appear and slams it into the ground sending out large claws that tear through the ground and at me. Crouching down low my smirk only grows larger as "Last Resort, by Papa Roach" plays making everyone grow curious.
I slam my fist to the ground once more making a wall of flames form and the air claws are sucked into them making the flames rise before sucking in deeply taking the particles into my mouth as my spines, horn and underbelly begin to glow brightly as lightning spirals around my shoulder crystals like flame tornadoes. Letting my breath out it is red like lava with red lightning spiraling around it as the beam of flames crash against the tornado like shield completely destroying them and knocking Flaire backwards and sending his staff across the ground.
Dashing forward my right claw ignites into flames and lightning once against and I notice how he pulls the two pieces of my sword and slam them together somehow fixing it and charging at me as blue wind blades are slashed at me. The holy white crystals absorb the blades as if they had been drawn to it like lightning to a steel rod and the energy is transmitted to me in the blue energy pumping me up more and more as the song changes to "Kryptonite, by 3 Doors Down".
He does a lunging stab and I stab my right claw forward as two thunderous cracks leave us as he do so and my claws and the tip of my old blade connect and I notice how a dome of pure air and gusts of wind roar about around us and across the room making capes flutter and eyes to narrow. I growl a deep, low, feral growl that makes his eyes widen as my eyes seem to glow, from what I can see of my reflection in the steel of the blade, as I press forward.
"Graagh!" I roar out as I split the blade apart and down the middle to the very butt of the hilt and the steel and rock melt to the very stone floor making Flaire's eyes widen in shock and surprise as I grab him by the throat with my left claw and slam him down into the floor and press my burning claws to to his throat and chin.
"I win." I state with a growl and he grunts his agreement as I press down upon his throat before moving away from him and changing back into my human form. "Did that appease you, sir?" I ask Huolong who nods his head lightly.
"Indeed it does." He says. Oh it fucking better, I had to destroy my own sword dammit! But I guess it was for the best. Spinning around I move to Lilith and place my hand gently onto her right claw.
"Are, uh, you okay?" I ask nervously. What? I've never had to deal with this kind of shit before! She looks down at me and grabs my hand within her claws making me wince slightly as she scraped my skin slightly and I notice how my blood lightly drips onto the floor. Okay, well I don't feel any kind of pain in my chest, so maybe she isn't mad at me for kicking her brothers ass? Weird. She lifts me up into the air by my arm and I grunt in pain as I feel like my arm's about to be pulled from it's socket. "L-Lilith! What are you...?!" My eyes grow wide from her narrowed ones, but their isn't any anger in them, no, it's something worse!
Worry. Oh god why must it be worry?!
"W-What's the matter?" I ask as I try to keep my arm. Fuck this hurts like all hell! I look into her eyes and she sighs softly as she brings me in close to herself and wraps her arms around me tightly and I feel my cheeks burning. "U-Uh, Lilith? What's wrong?" I ask her as she never really hugs me. Weird right? Maybe she's feeling under the weather or something?
"Don't you ever freak me out alright? If you do, I will rip your arms from your body." She says softly yet clear as day into my ear and I look up to her in a confused way. When did I freak her out?
"Was this when I made the crystals shoot up?" I ask and she shakes her head lightly. No? alright, let's see, what else could have done it? "Then when did I freak you out?" I ask and she tightens her arms around me making me gasp in pain as she nearly breaks my back. Holy fuck she's a tight hugger!
"When you tore your sword with a bare claw, I thought you were going to kill yourself." She says and I nod my head lightly. Oooh, okay, I guess that makes sense, but did she not see my break it?
"Didn't you see me have my claw up ready to rip through it?" I ask and she shakes her head. She didn't? That's a bit hard to believe, I mean my whole claw was on freaking fire!
"But how? My whole claw was on fire!" I exclaim loudly and She shakes her head lightly.
"Your whole arm was on fire." Flaire states as he moves back into his chair like throne made of...wind? Huh, go figure.
"Seriously?! All I saw was my claw go ablaze, not my whole arm." I breath out in surprise as I look down at my left hand before flexing my fingers and looking back up at her. "I'm sorry for worrying you, I'll try not to next time, alright? Besides, wouldn't be much of a "test of the bond" if I were to kick the bucket now would it?" I say with a light smirk before feeling the heat in my chest seem to grow. Okay, weird. Maybe this bond thing is like our feelings for each other in a physical state? Better ask.
"Hey uh, what is this "bond" thing anyways?" I ask and Saphrah smiles down at me with an almost knowing look. Oh boy, this is going to be strange.
"The bond is your tether that connects mates of the soul together and is fueled by their feelings for one another which is what the heat is." Saphrah says before looking down right at me and Lilith. "However, there are times where the bond that has yet to be complete allows the two bond-mates to share emotions, abilities, and even thoughts as it forms, and after it forms keeping them closer to each other. I believe Lizzie had told you something similar, yes?" She asks me. I nod my head lightly. Oh, that makes some sense, but how does it explain everything else? "There is something else you should know, however." She says to me holding up her index claw making me raise a brow as Lilith holds me up close to her form. Uh, okay, this weird. "One of you must be the claimer and the other the claimee." She states. Oh. Oh! Oh...! Oooh. That's not good.
"I see, so, how do you tell who is what?" I ask and she gives me a small smile that holds a bit of knowing. Of course I'm to be claimed by her, not like it couldn't be me for a change, huh? Still, she is amazing, just so long as she doesn't have a bitch fit! "Alright, is there a way for us to claim each other?" Hey, I'm curious alright? Not my fault I grew up horribly! Saphrah nods her head lightly.
"There is." Oh thank god! "But it would mean that you two are truly mates of the soul, which is a good thing." She says with a smile. "But it is the same if one of you is claimed, it truly does not matter, both have a say in what happens, but, truly the claimee is the one who gains the final decision and the claimer must deal with it." She states with a voice that makes me shiver slightly. So, let me get this straight, I get claimed and I can decide on what goes? Cool, but how does that help me?!
"How does that help?" I ask. Might as well see if she is the claimee or not. She gives me a look that just screams, "I-Know-What-You-Are-Thinking". Man she is creepy!
"It helps, because the claimee is the one who is in charge." She states with a firm nod and I blink. So, I get to be in charge while being the one who is claimed. Okay, I sorta see how this could be interesting to know.
"Alright, but may I ask you a question, er, later? You know, when it's just us four?" I ask nervously and she gives me a confused look. Oh come on lady!
"I do not see why not, this is your home after all, is it not?" She asks. I blink up at her again. It is? When the fuck did this happen?!
"Uh, your highness, when did this happen?" I ask in confusion as I gently run my fingernails up Lilith's arm scales making her shiver slightly and I smirk up at her as she glares down at me. "Oh don't give me that! Your the one who's holding me like some strange doll!" I whisper up to her as she growls softly making me huff and fold my arms and look back to to Saphrah to see her confused look. "Yes?" I ask out of curiosity.
"Do you not consider this castle as your home?" Huolong asks and I raise a brow to him. What in the hell is he talking about? Did some sort of dimensional memory bullshit hit them while Lilith and I were whispering?
"Uh, I don't have a home. I had a cave, but now I'm here. Erm, wouldn't I need to have a room here in order to call this place home?" I wonder aloud in the form of a question making the two look down at me in an even stranger way. Okay, this is getting ridiculous, what the fuck is going on?
"Did you not stay with Lilith in her room and has she not explained that you both shall share it?" Huolong asks and I blink. Uh, no. Looking up to Lilith I see her flashing me a sheepish smile and shrug and I huff lightly.
"No, evidently not." I state and the two nod.
"We see, well that is what is to happen." Saphrah states as if she were telling me it WAS going to happen. Might as well let it go down, I mean I did enjoy sleeping on an actual bed again, even if I was sharing it with a hot dragoness.
"Alright, I guess." Scratching my head I look back up to Lilith. "So, um, what do we do now? Because I don't think we are needed her, er, are we?" I ask Huolong and Saphrah at the end making them shake their heads.
"No, but you will be needed again this evening, along with tomorrow afternoon as the Elders will desire to meet you, and perhaps help you learn learn as to what your power and type is." Huolong states with the nod of his head, before raising a claw to the door. "You may both leave and do as you two wish." He states and Lilith puts me down to my feel while giving her father, mother and the rest of her family a bow before leaving the room with me following after her.
The heat in my chest seems to have grown, as I notice that my whole body feels the heat as if it were a cool breeze on an autumns day. Looking about the hall i notice the odd looking runes carved into them along with the columns that line the walls as well. Weird, I imagined this place to be similar to tunnel like hallways, not hallways that open up to the land to gaze down upon. It feels as if I am in a castle from J.R.R. Tolken's mind an stories. I mean the clouds look amazing, the waterfalls moving down from the floating chunks of land tethered to the castle by large black chains and that giant gate that sits at the very bottom of it all, just magnificent!
A tap on my left shoulder makes me look left and then up to see Lilith looking down at me with soft eyes. "Are you okay? You seem to be looking outside pretty hard there." She asks and I shrug my shoulders lightly no longer feeling the heaviness of my sword making me look down slightly.
"I guess I am, I mean it feels strange not having my sword anymore, but, I can deal with it, I guess." I answer with a small smile while looking up to her, before looking back down at the outside world. "So, we're bonded huh?" I mumble out as I place a hand to my chest and begin to feel as if I am being trapped. It feels strange, you know, being stuck someplace and just being told what is to happen, rather than making it yourself.
"Yeah." She answers me while having a slightly sad tone. What, was she not happy about this? But why does the heat in my chest seem to grow? Looking up to her I tilt my head gently to the right with a small smile.
"I did agree to try this..."bonding" thing, so don't think I'm going soft on yah!" I say while lightly punching her upper arm and she smiles down at me gratefully. Atta girl, no need to be sad over a few words. "Besides, I might even like this whole thing, who knows what's going to happen!" I exclaim before looking out beyond the large golden glowing gate and wonder what it's like to travel around, to see the new world. "Still, I do wonder what it would be like to travel, see this new world I've been placed upon. You know?" I say to her as I look up into her eyes.
"I wouldn't know, the world has been unknown to me ever since I was born. When I was with you in that clearing, was the first time I had ever been out of this accursed place." She says with a hissing sigh. Okay, so let's see if we can go to the outside world then!
"What about if we were to go to the outside world? I mean, we could just leave, after everything is done of course. And I mean, who doesn't want to see the world?" I ask and she shrugs.
"I would not mind going out to the outside world, even if it was to gain allies for our kingdom, but my father would never allow me to do such a thing." She says with a low growl. Maybe not him, but Saphrah might.
"And your mother might allow you to go out for just that, along with seeing the world." I say to her softly as she looks down to me.
"Perhaps, but what if father says no?" She asks me, and I shrug.
"Dude's gotta respect the word of his queen, otherwise everything falls apart." I tell her with a smirk. Oh yeah, kings need their queens otherwise everything get's fucked! "You should ask her tonight when you all have your dinner." i tell her with a small smile and she gives me an odd look while tilting her head to the right. "What?" I ask.
"Are you not going to eat with us?" She asks me. Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
"Er, right, sorry I forgot about that. I'm used to not eating for a good while." A chuckle out with a sheepish smile and rub the back of my head gently. Opening my eyes I see her looking at me with soft eyes as if looking at me with fondness. My cheeks begin to burn as I feel the heat in my chest fill up with something new, something that fills my body with a strange feeling that lifts me up higher than any energizing song or magic could ever accomplish and close my eyes to savor it.
Then, I feel lips press up against mine, and that feeling just grows stronger and I move in close to what is Lilith's body and kiss her back. I feel her tongue lightly graze my lips and I part them with a soft gasp and I feel her tongue slide into my mouth and I am filled with pleasure and that strange feeling as they both grow and feel amazing. Her tongue leaves my mouth and her lips leave mine making me open my eyes and I find myself being dipper like those dances. Huh, guess I really am being claimed, but a least it's with someone who isn't a total jerk.
"How was it?" She whispers with a voice heavily laced with what I assume is lust as her claws grip my hips my left hip and back lightly. I blush heavily and hold a finger up to my lips and wink up at her. So gonna love teasing her!
"One does not kiss, and tell." I tease making her move in closer and she gently kisses the tip of my nose gently making my blush spread and thicken. Freaking jerk/tease!
"I suppose that's true." She says with a teasing chuckle and look as I roll my eyes and look back to see Geose and that black dragoness standing their with smirks making me squeak softly and in my moment of embarrassment hide my face in the nape of her neck. I feel her shudder and her arms to wrap around me tightly as I hear the two newcomers snickering at us. Oh god, why did it have to be me?!
"Are we interrupting something?" The dragoness asks with a voice that sounds to heavenly to be an angel. I look back at them and huff indignantly before looking to Lilith and fold my arms while pointing to the floor and she sighs and drops me to my feet.
"Actually, yes, yes you both are." She sighs out as she glares at the dragoness. "What does it matter to you anyways, Dusk?" She hisses out in a growl. Dusk? Seriously? Weird name, but I guess it's kinda pretty?
"Simply because I am curious as to how you and your...thing are doing, sister." Dusk asks with a raised ridge making me wonder if perhaps she hates me for whatever reason. Lilith growls dangerously low and pulls be behind her as her tail flicks a few times.
"We're fine, and he's a human!" She hisses out in anger making Dusk roll her red eyes.
"Of course, how could I forget?" She says before eyeing me strangely. "You know, the bonding is still forming and fresh, perhaps I may take him for a bit?" She asks while eyeing me. I shudder under her intense gaze as I grip Lilith's hips tightly making her tail coil around me possessively.
"Not a fucking chance!" She growls out making Dusk shrug.
"Oh well, his loss." She says with a wink before turning and struts down the hall with her tail and hips swishing from side to side as she and Geose move out of my line of sight. Moving from behind her and out of her tail I place a hand to my chest in trying to keep my heartbeat down. Why did I feel so uneasy when she was here?
"Are you okay?" She asks me gently and I nod my head gently as I lean into her frame while placing my head just below her chest and against her belly as I control my breathing slowly.
"Y-Yeah, just a little uneasy. I'll be fine in a few minutes." I breath out as I stay close to her as she wraps an arm around my shoulders. Dammit, I thought the guy was suppose to do this sort of thing for the chick?! Not the other way around!
"It's okay, she won't do anything to you as long as your with me." She says to me with a soft and gentle voice as she rubs my back gently with a claw. I look up to her and notice how close her face is to mine, and I place a hand to her cheek gently and brush my thumb against her scales lightly.
"I know. But, can I ask something of you?" I ask her with a low voice that is just barely a whisper.
"Anything." She whispers back. Anything?
"A-Anything?" I ask with wide eyes and she nods her head and gently kisses my lips before whispering out an "Anything" into my ear making me shiver lightly.
"I was wondering if I could perhaps go lay down with you, and rest up a bit." I ask with a light blush and she nods her head while spreading her wings and pulls me close to her body and shoots out of the castle and up into the sky near the towers. She lands onto her balcony and sets me down gently and I move into her- er, our room and lay on the bed gently. She lays onto the bed with me and I place a forearm over my eyes to keep out the light, before the sound of curtains closing and doors along with windows shutting as well.
I look about the dark room and close my eyes as her arm wrap around me and I lay my head against her and close my eyes, enjoying the coolness of her scales and the darkness of the room washes over me easing my nerves and allows me pass into the land of slumber and I faintly hear Lilith's soft breathing drawing me in farther to my dreams.
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Lilith's 1st Pov
Laying with Cade in my bed while having his skin pressed up against my scales is an undescribable experience as the heat of his skin and the coldness of my scales just mix wonderfully and merge together causing my part of the bond, the heat in my chest, to harden and grow. But I wish it had been in a way that didn't involve her.
Dusk, my older sister and the second born of mother and father, or as I call her, the bitch. She just HAD to ruin the little moment we were having, let alone send him into some sort of panic attack. I wonder if perhaps something like that has happened to him in the past, but then again, I don't know much about him or his past. Maybe I should ask him about it sometime after he gets settled in, I mean if I were to be plucked from my world and dropped someplace else I would still be a bit unsure about it all.
Looking down at him I smile softly and run my claws through his mane as I lightly graze his scalp with the tips of them as to sooth him and help him sleep. I wonder how many times he's actually gotten any sleep, from what I've seen of him he generally thrashes about. Maybe the bond is keeping him occupied when I am near him? Weird huh? His soft snores echo about the room like a bell that helps to quell my anger towards my sister who honestly should be talked to by Geose, but, love is blind I guess you could say.
The feeling of being watched causes me to shiver and I notice how the darkness of the room seems to thicken as the cold rushes into like roaring winds of the north where that Crystal Kingdom is. I wonder if it's still there, hm, might as well take a look if father allows us to move about outside the kingdom. The darkness holds shapes I had never seen before as they spiral around like clouds before slithering their way through the air and into Cade's diamond crest on his forehead which glows a dull red and strange looking mist faintly leaves the corners of his eyes.
Okay, that's pretty weird but also interesting. I place my right index claw to his crest and tap it gently making him gasp softly in his sleep as if he had felt pleasure. Hm, I wonder. Moving my muzzle close to his crest I slide my tongue out and flick it upwards across the crest making him shudder and release a soft moan as his hands claw at my belly and scales as his legs shift around strangely. Heh, this is kinda fun, maybe I can make him talk?
I bring my lips to his crest and gently kiss it making him shudder and move in closer to me and I notice that his body is heating up and his pulse is moving rapidly. Guess he enjoyed it huh? Oh don't look at me like that, it's nice okay?! I feel his right hand grip my hip lightly as his left hand places itself against the center of my chest and his lips press up against mine taking me by surprise. Oh shit! Did I wake him up?! I think to myself as he presses his body against mine and his tongue invades my mouth and feels around.
I close my eyes and enjoy the strange kiss that I had done to him a few times, and press my body against his and I feel his hands roam around my body until reaching my rump and grips it lightly making me gasp int surprise before growling lowly and I roll over to I am atop of him and open my eyes to see his are still closed. Seriously? He's still asleep and yet he's passing moves on me?! I inwardly roar out as I feel the heat of the bond thickening and growing stronger for whatever reason. What is he dreaming about anyways? I wonder as I roll onto my back and pull him close to my form.
He moves his face to my neck an I feel his warm breath brush across my scales and I shudder at the pleasurable feeling before I feel his breath hitch and his strange claws to run along my belly gently. What is his deal and my belly? Maybe he's trying to not actually do "anything" to me? Heh, not that I'd really care, we are trying out this bonding thing so I guess that's allowed too, right? Eh, maybe I should ask him before doing anything else like that, just to be safe and not freak him out or something.
Looking down at him I see his eyes shifting beneath his thin eyelids slightly as they lift up and his uneven eyes meet mine and I lightly brush a claw against his cheek. To my surprise he places a hand to my claw and leans into my touch allowing me to cup his cheek gently within my claws.
"Hey." I whisper out and he smiles up to me softly as the room seems to gain more light then it had a while a go.
"Hey." He whispers back before his eyes widen and his cheeks become flushed. "Wh-Why am I on top of you?" He asks me with a worried tone. I rub the back of my head sheepishly. Oh boy.
"Because I pulled you on top of me?" I say while a small smile and he looks at me incredulously. What's the matter with him? It's not THAT weird is it? "What? It's not THAT weird is it?" I ask. Hey didn't I just think that? Weird. He blinks down at me strangely.
"Kinda. The last time I slept atop of you, I ended up copping a feel." He says to me making me raise a ridge. The Tartarus is "copping a feel" supposed to mean? He must have known what I was thinking as he blushes lightly and clears his throat. "It means groping, or something similar to that." He says and I nod my head lightly. Makes sense.
"So?" I ask. Not like I would have minded or cared if I were to have that experience right now, but maybe it'd be a good idea to hold off on that sort of thing, huh?
"So?! That's it?!" He exclaims in surprise as I look up at him strangely.
"Yeah? It's not like I would have cared this time around." I tell him with an eyeroll making him blush heavily. Hehe, cute.
"W-What?!" He stutters out in a squeak. Why do males have those times where their voices crack or squeak? It's really, really weird.
"Yeah, but meh." I tell him with a shrug before sitting up making him sit up at my side and he stares at me strangely. He smirks at me in a way that gets my blood flowing and my heart pumping as he pushes me back down to my back and sits on my belly. Wow he's light as, well, air. He doesn't even cause the bed to shift, maybe I should get him to eat me and gain a little more weight so he doesn't look like bones wrapped in skin. "Yes?" I ask and he shrugs.
"Just felt like sitting on you." He says to me making me wonder if perhaps he's teasing me in some way. Wow that's not fare!
"Ugh, let's just get up out of bed before I feel the need to take you." I growl out making him blush heavily and teleport over to the door with a strange nervous smile on his lips. Okay, that kinda ruins my mood but whatever. Getting to my feet I move over to his side where he opens the door and allows me to go first. Okay, that's strange. "Why do you want me to go first?" I ask.
"It's common courtesy." He says to me in surprise. Really? Weird.
"Huh, alright then." I tell him while leaving the room with him behind me. Let's go and have some food!
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Cade's 1st Pov
Well this is strange. First I fall asleep and wake up atop of Lilith and then she threatens to "take" me as if I was some sort of item. Better not piss her off, I really don't want to be treated like some sort of item! I hold the door open for her and she looks at me as if I were being weird. "Why do you want me to go first?" She asks me with a suspicious tone and I blink to her in surprise.
"It's common courtesy!" I say to her in complete surprise. Seriously, who doesn't allow the girl to go first? She nods her head as if thinking of something strange.
"Huh, alright then." She tells me as if she were having an off day and heads out of the room with me behind her as we stride down the hall and to what I assume is the dining room, but it hasn't been a whole day, has it? Better ask. Looking up to her I lightly tap her claw and she looks down to me with a ridge raised. "Yeah?" She asks.
"What time is it?" I ask curiously and she places a claw to her chin.
"Around 7:30 I think." She says to me before looking back to me. "Why? Did you think it was earlier?" She asks. Uh, yeah!
"I did think that." I say and rub the back of my head lightly while giving her a small smile and she nods her head lightly before striding forward ahead of me and I sigh softly before shoving my hands into my pockets and stride beside her as my coat flaps through the air as if it were a cape or twin tails swishing about. As we move through the halls she turns to me.
"Have any songs that might help pass the time?" She asks making me tap my chin lightly before nodding. Why did she want music now? "How about we put one on?" She asks. I shrug lightly.
"Alright, whatever you say Lilith." I say to her and pull out my IPod-XL and flick through the songs, before stopping and looking to her. "You wanna pick the song?" I ask. Might as well let her enjoy herself, right? Her eyes get wide and sparkle. Oh yeah, she's wanting it. I hand her the device which fits in her claw like a normal IPod would fit in my hand as she flicks about before pressing her index claw against the screen lightly as she had been watching me do, for some reason, and the song plays.
I stop and look up at her with a raised brow and place my hands onto my hips making her sheepishly smile at me and shrug lightly. "I thought it sounded interesting?" She asks in the form of a question making me shrug my shoulders lightly.
"Meh, still a pretty good song. "All Star, by Smash Mouth" is a favorite of mine anyways." I tell her with a smirk as my eyes are closed before crossing my arms over my chest and opening an eye slightly as my smirk grows. "Besides, there are certain songs that one should not ever hear on there." I tell her while spinning on my heels and stride down the hall with her at my side as we listen to the song.
As we pass by the pillars leading to the outside world the song changes to something I had never heard before. I stop and stare up at her as she stare down at me with wide eyes as the song plays and I notice how she blinks and looks down at the IPod-XL with a curious look as the morbid music plays before going silent right as chilled night air wipes out the torches light as the music has ended making the entire hall become pitch black. I huff softly.
"Okay, talk about cliche." I mutter out under my breath while looking up to Lilith who has her eyes squinted as the light freaking shines in her eyes. "Uh, Lilith, use it like a torch." I mutter out as a sweat drop forms on the side of my head and I slump my shoulders lightly in that chibi anime style that everyone see's in the background. She blushes lightly. Cute.
"Right." She says while pointing the IPod-XL forward and she yelps in surprise as I feel a claw grab me around my neck and throat making me grab the person's wrist and flips them onto their back on the floor while entering my Dragon Form and the flames ignite the torches once again and I stare down at Flaire who rubs his head with a groan.
"Ugh, what the fuck is the matter with you?" He groans up at me and I move to grab my sword, only to remember that it was destroyed. I close my eyes and change back into my human form and cross my arms over my chest.
"What the Tartarus Flaire!" Lilith hisses out as he gets to his feet and cracks his neck lightly. Starting to wish I struck him with my claws now.
"I wanted to see if I could scare any of you, guess I was wrong." He grumbles out while glaring at me and I notice how Lilith drops her head in a bow and sweat drops. Okay, talk about real life anime, huh? "What?" He asks in a way that just screams stupidity.
"You really must love being thrown about if you try to do that to me." I growl out while stomping my foot to the floor making it crack from some sort of pressure that makes the two of them stare at me. I smirk lightly while looking up and closing my eyes while crossing my arms over my chest. "Please, it's not as if I've been trying to harm anyone." I spout out before glaring up at Flaire. "But seriously, had I had my sword with me still, I might have made a move to swipe at you, what in the hell were you thinking?!" I exclaim.
"That's actually another reason as to why I'm here." He says with a serious look on his face. Uh oh, what happened now?
"What is it?" Lilith asks making him look back at her for a split second before looking back down at me.
"We may be able to help you gain a new sword, but, it won't be simple." He tells me. Seriously?! I can get a new sword?! Fuck yeah!
"H-How do we do that? Do I have to go on some sort of quest? Or maybe I have to fight some large monster?" I ask making him look at me strangely. I so don't like that look.
"No, you just need to look into yourself to find your blade. And we can use pieces of your old scales, a few crystals and whatever metal responds to you to make it." He explains and I nod my head lightly. So I go on an internal journey to find myself, eh? Alright, I can deal with that.
"So when can we do this?" I ask and he sighs softly. Oh man, I have to wait for something huh?
"You would need to wait for our smith to come back from the lands of Equestria, he is supposed to be working on some sort of metal that the Princesses had commissioned him to make. They are also supposed to be coming back here with him and the metals that he has been finding and making." He explains to me with a sheepish look. Okay, so I get to see the princesses? Cool!
"Okay, so what's the problem?" I ask and he rubs the back of his head lightly.
"The problem is you, to be honest I am not sure how the princesses will react to your presence, let alone how they will react to you becoming something that has never been seen or heard of in the world for, well, ever." He explains making me face palm myself repeatedly.
"Of course, so let me guess, I'm to be locked away in some tower with guards keeping me where I am, huh?" I growl out making him nod his head lightly and I hiss lowly as I glare up at him. "So, what exactly am I now? Prisoner? Friend? Enemy? Or item?" I growl up at him. He narrows his eyes at me and grabs me around my throat.
"You are an unknown." He says while dropping me to my feet and I rub my throat lightly as I glare up at him.
"Gee thanks you dick!" I growl out as Lilith stands at my side and grabs my hand while tugging me along.
"Let's get going Cade, we should be heading to dinner anyways, maybe if we're lucky we can blame Flaire." She says while sending him a glare that makes him pale before vanishing in a burst of wind and she sighs softly in relief while placing a claw to her chest, before looking down at me with a small smile. "Don't think too much about what he said, I'm sure you'll be fine." She says to me and I nod my head lightly.
"I know, you have no need to worry about me, alright?" I say to her with a small smile before looking down at my hand. "Still, I wouldn't mind having a new sword." I mumble out and she smiles down at me softly.
"You'll get one, okay?" She says to me gently and I shrug.
"I know, if not that way, then I'll just figure out where to buy one or make one myself. I remember watching some sort of sword making video before everything changed for me, so I know how to make one, the hard part is finding the right one that fits for me. I mean I can take any kind of sword and melt it down to make a new one, but there's no forge, is there?" I ask and she points a thumb claw down at what I assume is the barracks for their military as I see that captain dragoness moving around. "Okay, so maybe I could just use it tomorrow if I gain Huolong's permission.
"Sure, but we should really get going, I don't like to be late for anything really. So come on!" She says while essentially picking me up and flying down the hallway as we head towards what I assume is the dining room, as we enter a room with Huolong, Saphrah, Flaire, Dusk, Geose, Lizzie and many other's that line the chairs around the table as they all stare at me and her. She places me onto my feet and I make a two fingured salute.
"Yo, what's up?" I ask casually as Huolong, Saphrah and Lizzie look to me in amusement. Hehe, still got it!
"How fine of you to join us." Dusk says to me softly while sending me a strange look. I raise a brow to her with a confused look on my face. Okay, talk about weird.
"Er, hello?" I ask back awkwardly while rubbing the back of my head gently before pulling out the only two chairs left and Lilith sits into one of them while I take the other. The plates before me are filled with various kinds of meats, meats I can't even eat at the moment. I watch as everyone digs into their meals while I simply poke my fork at the large piece of steak that sits before me. Man, it looks and smells so freaking good! I slowly feel the energies and crystals inside me seem to burn away as if allowing me to grow hungry.
I grunt softly as I press a hand to my belly in slight pain as hunger sets in for the first time in what feels like a hundred years or so. I grab my knife and cut a piece off as I then devour it with as much table manners as I could muster in my hungery state as I then simply growl and place my knife down and rip the steak apart before me like a hungry animal as I basically shovel it into my mouth. After devouring my food I look up to see everyone looking at me in amusement and I chuckle sheepishly and rub the back of my neck nervously.
"Er, thank you for the food, Lord Huolong!" I exclaim to him with a slight bow as I have my hands together in a prayer like position making him look at me with great amusement. Glad I can amuse the king!
"You have good manners. So tell me, how did you enjoy the food?" He asks me with a light smirk and I look to him with a wide grin.
"Sir, that was the greatest food I have had in months, if not years!" I exclaim with a light chuckle before looking to him seriously. "Can I ask of a favor, sir?" I ask and he raises a ridge to me as if asking "Yes?". "Could I perhaps use the forge to make a new sword until this smith guy comes back with the new metals so I can craft my true weapon, please." I ask of him. He nods his head lightly as if debating it.
"I see, I should like to know why you desire to use the forge for such an ordeal, when we could simply give you one." Huolong says with a straight face, yet a twinkle is in his eyes. Is this a test?
"Sir, I would prefer to make something myself, rather than be handed something I had not worked for." I say to him and he nods his head lightly with an amused look. Okay then?
"Very good, perhaps I could watch you craft your weapon, no?" He asks and I nod my head lightly.
"I wouldn't mind it at all, sir. If anything, you might even be able to help me when I screw up." I say to him with a chuckle as I get to my feet. "But, um, could we do that tomorrow? Perhaps in the early morning so we may have the skies above us being cloudy? I prefer to do things outside when it's not sunny." I say to him with a sheepish smile and he raises a ridge to me.
"Why is that? Does the sun bother you?" He asks and I sheepishly bump my index fingers together.
"To be honest, no it doesn't, I just prefer rainy days than sunny days." I say with a shrug. At his confused look I sigh softly. "Rainy days were good days for me, because it meant I could go around the village, er town, without any problems. Everyone was always inside so I could simply roam about and get what I wanted or needed. But other than that, the smell of the rain in the air and how the world smells during, before and after it just seems right." I explain to him as I lean back in my chair.
"I see. Very well, I shall accompany you to the forges for the morning tomorrow, I have some metal that you may also enjoy using." He says to me while getting to his feet and striding away from the table and towards the door with Saphrah at his side. "Come, I have a few private questions for you and my daughter." He states while motioning for me and Lilith to follow.
"Y-Yes sir!" The two of us exclaim as he hop to our feet and follow after them. Weird change of events huh? Oh well, the world is filled with many. As we travel through the halls of the castle I notice just how eastern looking this place is. I notice how there is a mixture of cultures that seem to blend well together. What you may be asking? Well I am not sure, I don't know what Dragon culture is like so this is new for me.
We enter a large room with a table and four pillow like seats. We each take a pillow and I notice how they sit similar to the Japanese or Chinese people of earth do. Saphrah looks to me with a small smile. "You said you had a question for me, may I ask what is is or was now that we are someplace private?" She says to me and I nod my head lightly. Yay she remembered!
"I was wondering if you were a Claimee or the Claimer." I ask and she smiles with her eyes closed. She lifts her right claw up and an icy blue bracelet flashes in the light with a snow white gem sitting on the top of it while the bracelet spirals up her whole left arm in the pattern of a strange snowflake of sorts as well as a Dragon. Huolong holds up his left arm showing a bronze bracelet in the pattern of flames and a Dragoness. I notice that there is a fiery red gem on his. Strange.
"I am the claimee." She says to me with a small smile. "This bracelet is how he had fully claimed me as his, and what had shown that I was his mate." She says to me with a small smile. So their like wedding rings eh? Pretty cool.
"So they are similar to wedding rings then?" I ask. Hey, I know they have them thanks to that wedding episode! Saphrah looks to me with mild surprise.
"How do you know about wedding rings?" She asks and I shrug.
"On earth humans wear wedding rings on their ring finger, though it means little to them now then it had before." I sigh softly. She nods her head lightly.
"I see, and yes, these bands are similar to wedding rings. Each band is made custom for the dragon or dragoness as the stone is as well." She states and I nod my head softly. Cool.
"Thank you for answering my questions, though I'm afraid I have another. Lord Huolong, what is this metal you were talking about?" I ask him with a raised brow. He nods his head lightly as he raises a claw and a mass of metal appears in his it. The metal looked to be a mixture of black and white, while it pulsates with raw natural power.
"My blacksmith and guards had found this metal by accident, but when our blacksmith tried to craft it into a weapon, it would destroy his tools and send out a pulse of powerful magic that would knock anyone back from it. Evidently it responds to you." He says to me while placing the metal onto the table, yet it floats just an inch above the wood. Okay, talk about weird and creepy!
"Sir? What do you mean?" I ask as the metal float over to my and glows brighter while pulsating quicker. Okay, really creepy! But so damn cool!
"This metal was found in a crystal like cavern underneath the castle. I believe that it holds this "Natural Magic" that you speak of, and the crystals pulsate strange power that causes our own magic to fluctuate and darken. We cannot enter the cavern unless we plan on being consumed by some sort of darkness. This energy that it pulsates when near you makes me wonder if perhaps you are meant to have this metal. There is more of it down in the cavern, let alone that my blacksmith has sent word that similar metals are in Equestria, The Griffin Dominion, and the Diamond Dog Isle's.
"From what I can see, only you house the potential of holding such metals or crystals." He says to me with a serious look and tone as the metal floats and spins around through the air slowly before me. I place a hand onto the metal and feel a familiar rush of magical power surge it's way through my veins and I give it a soft look. "What is the matter?" He asks me while looking to me in interest.
"I feel connected to this metal for some reason, like there is something else inside it than simple magic and metal." I mutter out softly before placing the metal down and it floats back into the air. "Could I perhaps see this cavern at some point?" I ask him. What? A cavern of crystals and metal that holds great power? Fuck yeah I wanna see it! I just wish Trevor could be here, he'd probably have a field day with this kind of stuff.
"I do not see why not." He says to me with a light nod before rising to his feet. "I must apologize, but it is late. Shall we perhaps continue this discussion in the morning?" He says to me and I nod my head lightly while getting to me feet. The strange metal floats up along with me and moves into my outstretched hand as I move to give it back to him. He raises a claw. "It is yours now, as much as I would enjoy having it, I cannot use it, for now at least. Perhaps later on you may find a way to help us control this steel." He says to me as he then turns away and he and Saphrah leave the room. Man this guy is so damn cool!
"We should head to bed." Lilith says to me softly and I shake my head lightly. "Why not?" She asks. Um, I smell?
"Do you perhaps have a shower of bath I could use? I don't exactly smell fresh like a daisy anymore." I say with a lighthearted grin. She smiles down to me softly, before nodding her head.
"I do, it is back at my room, perhaps I could join you?" She asks me and I feel my cheeks flush.
"I, well, I don't see the problem with it, I mean we are to sleep in the same bed together I suppose, and we are bonded, so I guess it'll be fine." I stutter out before narrowing my eyes at her in a light glare. "But no peaking, staring or touching, got it?" I say with a warning tone and she rolls her eyes.
"Kill joy." She huffs out. The fuck?!
"Lilith." I warn and she raises her claws up in defense.
"Fine, fine! I won't peak, touch or stare alright? Sheesh." She huffs out in annoyance before picking me up once again. What am I? A doll? She spreads her large wings and bursts out of the open window and we shoot upward into the night. The torches of the whole castle give it a dark vibe. Time seems to move slowly as I look upon the castle that is now my new home, and notice how Gothic and ancient it looks and is. I mentally compare it to Dracula's Castle, an evil version of Canterlot Castle or even that sunken city that this strange octopus monster lives in. What was it called? Clulhu? C'tulhu? Something like that. Anyways, I can't really describe how amazing this is though, it's far to amazing for words and even comparisons lack to express this epitome of a building.
We land onto what is now our balcony and she sets me down to my feet. Moving into the large room torches flicker to life revealing a Gothic, yet bright and elegant room fit for Lilith. Weapons line the right wall, a family portrait of sorts lines the left wall as the floor is not simple stone like the floors of the halls or the throne room, but instead it looks to be garnet of some sort. The ceiling is similar, but holds a diagram or picture of the Dragon Dominion being watched over by a being made out of white light combating against some sort of darkness.
Whoa, this place looks out of one of those fantasy novels or large fantasy scifi films. Looking over to Lilith she raises a ridge while pushing a door open and I walk into the dark room. Torches flicker to life in here too, and whoa, it's amazing! It's a large room that looks like an Ancient Greek styled Bathhouse of sorts with all manners of items littering about it.
"This is amazing." I breath out in the magnificence of the room as words truly begin to fail and leave me behind for something else or somewhere else. She places a claw onto my shoulder lightly while smiling softly down to me.
"Thanks, I had carved most of this out myself before father had it finished in the image I had in mind. Now let's get this stink off of us." She says with a lighthearted chuckle while moving into the water and diving underneath it. The water looks so clean and fresh, yet I can feel magic in it. Perhaps they have magical springs that they gain their water from? Moving over to a heated rock I strip myself of my clothing and fold each piece up before placing them onto the rock. I like my clothes to be warm, alright?
Turning to the bath I step into the water to test it. Nice and hot, just the way I prefer! I move into the massive pool like bath and lean back against a wall and sigh softly to myself as the hot, soothing water soothes my aching body and seems to refresh me in some way. Opening my eyes again, I yelp in surprise at having Lilith's face just mere inches from mine. "L-Lilith?! Don't do that!" I cry out in surprise while placing a hand onto my chest and try to control my breathing and heart-rate. Fuck man, not a fan of being scared!
"Sorry." She giggles out with a not so sorry look or tone of voice. "So how do you like the water? Feeling refreshed?" She asks me. Actually, yeah. Yeah I do.
"Yeah, but how did you...?" I ask not finishing my sentence of whatever reason. She smiles to me softly and sits next to me while leaning back against the wall with me.
"The water comes from a spring up north from here, it's filled with rich magic that helps sooth the body and refreshes the one inside the water. It's also capable of healing wounds, pains, and even grant longer life if bathed in it regularly for a certain amount of times." She says to me while stretching lightly and then wraps and arm around my shoulders. My cheeks burn as I flush, but instead of acting weird or moving away, I lean into her and rest my head onto her shoulder while staying close to her as the heat in my chest grows and seems to harden as if solidifying and strengthening the bond.
"This is nice." I say to her softly after what feels like hours of sitting there with her when it has only been mere minutes. I think I might end up coming here more often with her.
"What is?" She asks me. Seriously? Oh well.
"This. Just sitting and enjoying the "bath". It's nice. Well, to me it is." I say to her while opening my eyes and looking up to her. Her purple orbs seem to capture my mismatched ones as her hold on me tightens and I am pressed up against her even more. "What do you think?" I ask her while resting my chin onto her collar bone lightly. She runs a claw through my slightly wet hair lightly.
"I like this too. Though I am liking more since how your nor hiding yourself in those clothes you constantly wear." She says to me softly and I flush. And she's back to being perverted. Great, way to ruin the mood!
"Right." I huff out softly while moving away slightly. She gives me a confused look and I stand up, luckily the water is high enough to cover most of my body. I move about and raise a brow. "Where is the soap?" I ask her and she pats the water lightly.
"It's the water. It cleans itself and is capable of cleaning the body in many ways, let alone that when you get out it somehow smells like your favorite sent." She says to me with a shrug. That's informative. I wonder if the rest of the world has this kind of water. Most likely, but hey, you never know right?
"Informative." I say to her before dunking my head and then stand up while doing that backwards hair flick so it slaps against my shoulders lightly and look to her and notice her cheeks are lightly tinted with pink or red of some sort as she stares at me with wide eyes. "Wh-What?" I softly stutter out and she moves to her feet and strides to me. Okay, so her scales are still covering her breasts, good. I don't think it's even right for me to see them yet. "What are you doing?" I ask nervously as she stands before me.
She tilts my head up lightly by my chin and captures my lips in a soft, gentle kiss that holds what I believe is passion. I feel my cheeks heat up as I flush once more. I seem to be blushing a lot lately, I hope this doesn't become a thing! She pulls her head back and gazes down into my eyes while we breath softly from the long kiss that we had shared. "You look good." She softly breaths down to me making my cheeks flush and burn even harder.
"Th-Thank you." I stutter out softly while she pulls me up against her form. Why do I feel like our genders and rolls have been reversed? Is this a normal thing in this world? Why must life be so fucking confusing?!
"Your welcome." She says to me softly before moving away and we walk side by side out of the bath and I move to grab my clothes, but she stops me. "Don't dress up please." She says softly making me snap my head around to look at her with a deep blush.
"B-But I'm naked! I-I need clothing to keep my warm and to hide m-my, er, stuff." I stutter out nervously as she rolls her eyes softly and moves up to me. I place my hands over my junk now that we are out of the water and have no clothes on to boot. The fuck is going on! She places a claw to my chest gently and traces my birthmark lightly with her index claw making me shiver in slight pleasure.
"That doesn't matter, besides, I can keep you warm and you'll have covers to cover up your bits." She says with a light giggle that makes me glare up at her slightly. Pervert!
"And it'd be easy for someone to walk in and get the wrong impression! I don't think it's a good idea, I mean what if something happens, or Dusk, or Lizzie or someone else enters the room while I'm naked?! What if they think I'm using you for your body, or that you and I, y-you know." I stutter out at the end. She rolls her eyes.
"Relax, no one will come in, and if they do you'll have a blanket covering up your naughty bits, and if they think we fucked, then so what?" She asks and I whimper softly in worry. She sighs softly and holds me close to herself and rub my back gently with her right claw. "Just stay calm, and you won't have to worry about me touching you, I have enough self control for that you know." She says with a smile. I sigh softly in defeat. I just can't seem to win.
"Fine. But can I at least have my clothes nearby on the off-chance I might need them?" I ask and she nods her head with a smirk. "Thank you!" I say to her repeatedly before picking up my clothes and place them over my crouch as we leave the bathroom and enter our room. She sits onto our bed and pats the left side lightly with a ridge raised and I sigh softly while contemplating if I should simply just reveal myself to her. I mean I am to be sleeping in the same bed with her and I roll about when I sleep, so she might end up feeling my stuff, might as well let her see.
I place my clothing down and rub my left arm as I stand before her with nothing covering me at all and she stares at my no-touchy zone with wide eyes. My cheeks burn as I flush heavily and bow my head lightly while looking away from her. "S-Stop staring." I stutter out softly and she shakes her head to clear it.
"Sorry, it's just, why are they out? Do they not move into your body?" She asks me. Oh great, now I have to explain the biology of the human body to her?! Fuck no, I'll explain it to her some other time.
"It's a human thing, now can we please not talk about it? I promise I'll tell you about human biology some other time alright? I'm tired, nervous and honestly scared out of my freaking mind right now, alright? Can I just lay down and cover up?" I beg to her softly and she nods her head with a soft look in her eyes.
"Why are you scared?" She asks as I sit on the bed next to her. Pulling my knees to my chest and resting my chin on their tops I sigh softly.
"I've never done this sort of thing before, ever. I've always worn clothes to bed because of how I always needed to run away." I explain to her and she nods her head lightly before wrapping her arms around my form.
"You have nothing to fear or worry about, Cade. Your safe here, and honestly, if you were to be attacked I'd be fighting off whoever or whatever it was, and then you'd be killing it for even fighting me." She says to me softly and I nod my head gently with a sigh.
"I know, I, I'm just not used to being safe, to be liked, to being in a place where I can walk about freely without being hunted down or fighting someone off because of something I didn't do." I tell her while leaning into her and resting my head on her large chest. She rubs my back gently as her claw tips run along my skin softly and sending tingling sensations that help to calm my nerves down. Closing my eyes softly I stay close to her form before feeling her lips lightly press up to mine after my head had been tilted upward slightly.
"I know, and your safe here. Father and mother seem to really like you, Geose looks at you like he does to his younger brother, Lizzie see's you as a friend and you've only talked to her once, Flaire is, well Flaire is Flaire. Tartarus, even Dusk likes you! Granted, she may want to test out your sword, but I can tell she doesn't want to harm you, or see harm come to you." She says to me softly while keeping me close. "You have nothing to worry about, besides, your mine and no one messes with what is mine." She says with a light, gentle growl at the end as her grip around me turns possessive, yet somehow caring. It's an amazing feeling to be cared about, I just wished I had felt it sooner in life, but everything happens for a reason, does it not?
"I, I guess so." I mumble out before opening my eyes and look up to her. She looks over and picks up my IPod-XL and taps on the screen as the torches seem to dim slightly. I stop and look up at her as the tune that plays is one that I would generally listen to to help me sleep. "How did you...?" She smiles down at me.
"I pressed "Sleep Music" and this popped up. What a "Davy Jones" is I don't know, but the tune sounds nice, and the rain effect it nice too." She says to me while resting her head next to mine. I feel my sleepiness take hold of me and I move in closer to her form and she wraps her arms around me while the IPod-XL is back on my clothes with the music still playing.
Resting my head next to hers with our faces a foot apart, I slowly begin to drift off from the world and into the realm of dreams as I feel myself being drifted away by the music, the rain so and thunder sounds, but most important of all, he soft breathing that completely calms me down and sends me into my dream world. The world I hope I can make in this new one and make it a reality.
The coolness of Lilith's scales wakes me up along with my body being shaken slightly. Opening my eyes I am greeted by Lilith's lovely face as she looks down at me. The light of the sun making her look similar to an angel or goddess as her beauty is simply enrapturing. Beauty? Yeah, she looks amazingly beautiful, maybe I'll actually allow her to make me hers. Wait what in the hell am I thinking?!
I sit up lightly and hold the covers over myself lightly and yawn. "What is it, Lilith?" I ask with a soft groggy voice. She kisses me light on the lips stunning me for a split second, before looking to her in confusion.
"Just thought I'd wake you up early for when you go and make your stuff with father, I hope you don't mind if I tag along though." She says to me with a soft smile. Why would I mind?
"Of course I don't mind." I say to her before yawning again and stretching. "Grh! What time is it anyways?" I ask and she shrugs.
"Dunno, though I'd say around four in the morning." She says as the rain outside pours down. Cool, it's actually raining!
"Alright then, so should I get my clothes on now, or should I wait for a little bit for everyone to wake up?" I ask her and she rubs her chin lightly.
"Wait a bit, no one ever wakes up this early, not even the guards are fully awake right now. So just stay here in bed and be nude with me." She says to me softly and I rest my head against her large chest and rub her belly lightly feeling each of her scales and just to mess with her. She grazes her claw tips against my back lightly making me shudder and shiver with delight and move in closer to her form. "I found your spot~" She chirps out with a soft sing song voice of tone making be blush.
"That's not fair!" I huff out softly and she rolls her eyes before pinning me to my back and I flush heavily as she runs her index claw along my chest and belly lightly as I shiver more while feeling pleasure course through me. What the hell is going on? Why does this always feel so good? I whimper softly as she runs her claw tips down my chest and belly to my lower belly making my eyes go wide and blush to thicken. "W-Wait! S-Stop Lilith!" I stutter out quickly just before her claws could move down to the, ehem area.
"What's the matter?" She asks me and I squirm around in an attempt to try and cover myself.
"Let's not do that, okay?" I plead to her and she gives me a pouting look. Freaking pervert!
"But why not? It could make you feel really good~" She says to me with a lustful tone and I shiver in some strange excitement before shaking my head again.
"I don't think I'm ready for that kind of stuff yet." I say up to her and she sighs softly as she moves away from me. An ache forms in my chest as seeing her disappointed.
"You most likely will not ever be ready for that kind of thing ever." She huffs out sadly and I feel the ache grow. Oh man, I made her sad. What the hell do I do?! I close my eyes and have an internal battle before opening them and sighing softly to myself and move over to her side and get onto my knee's and plant a soft kiss firmly onto her lips making her stop and I see her eyes widen in surprise and shock before they close and she leans into the claw and me while pushing me down against the bed. I close my eyes tightly as her claws roam around my body and I gasp softly as she lightly rubs my "sword".
I whimper softly in pleasure and uneasiness as she parts from me while looking down at my naked form. At least she isn't sad anymore, and the ache is gone, but, I feel so...so dirty. I look up at her and I see what looks to be lust in her eyes as she feels my body and I gasp softly while closing my eyes and biting my lip to keep myself from speaking. She stops and I open my eyes to see her looking down at me with soft eyes.
"You don't want this, do you?" She asks. No shit!
"I...I don't feel that it is right to do this stuff now. I...I just feel dirty." I say to her as I feel tears stinging my eyes. Why are there tears forming? I don't understand why I am feeling or acting this way! She nods her head lightly before brushing my tears away with a thumb claw and gently cups my cheek.
"I'm sorry. I should have taken your word for it. I'll wait, alright?" She tells me and I nod my head gently. She hugs me tightly to herself and I bury my face into the nape of her neck and take in the coolness of her scales and breath in her scent. "Are you okay?" She asks me after a few minutes and I nod my head lightly before looking up to her.
"Yeah, I'm fine now. I'm sorry for being a pussy." I say to her and she raises a brow.
"Um, I felt what you got there, and you most certainly don't got one, nor are one. You just weren't comfertable with what I was doing and I wasn't paying attention. It's alright." She says down to me while sitting up and looks down at my crouch. I sigh softly. Still a perv even when she's sorry!
"I don't mind you looking, but please if you can help it, don't touch. I don't want to be freaking out on you." I tell her and she nods her head lightly before looking up at the door as it is being knocked on. The door opens revealing Huolong and I eep lightly while pulling the covers over my form. He stops and stares before releasing a rumbling laughter.
"I see I had interrupted something, perhaps I should come back later?" He asks and I shake my head. Even when making fun of me he sounds badass!
"N-No sir, you weren't interrupting anything, I had taken a bath with Lilith last night and didn't get dressed as she had asked and, well, that's about it." I explain to him and he nods his head lightly.
"Very well, shall we go to the forges to mold that metal into something that can be of use for you?" He asks me and I nod my head lightly before getting to my feet with the covers still, well, covering me. "I shall give you a moment to get dressed." He says as he leaves and shuts the door behind himself. Okay, so the dude is pretty cool, chill and overly awesome. Wish I had him for a father, though I wish I knew my father.
I drop the covers onto the bed and get dressed into my clothes and sigh softly before looking Lilith with a light smile. "Let's get going." I say to her and she nods her head as we leave the room and enter the hallway where Huolong and Geose stand. Geose is here? The two chuckle when seeing us and I blush heavily while feeling as if I had been violated by peeping eyes. Oh wait, I was! "What are you two chuckling about?" I ask with my blush slowly beginning to go away.
"Nothing, now let's get going!" Geose says as he and Huolong lead Lilith and I around through the castle before getting to the barracks and before the guards and the forges. I sigh softly before pulling out the large chunk of metal that is honestly larger than my head as it looked pretty large in Huolong's claws and such. I move to go near the forge, only to have that captain dragoness to come up from the crowd of guards and glares hatefully at me.
"What are you doing here at the forges?" She hisses out. I raise a brow to her. Um, turning this chunk of metal into a weapon of some kind?
"Things." I say to her and she hisses at me lowly as if preparing to breath fire at me before the metal in floating in my hand shifts and slightly. I blink in surprise as the metal moves on it's own accord blocking the captains red hot flames. I stare with wide eyes as the metal is completely fine, let alone the fact that the fire was sucked into it and then red energy shoots from it into my crest making me cry out in slight pain.
As the pain subsides I feel strange as I open my eyes to see that I am in my Dragon Form and the metal is different. It glows and pulsates raw magical power and I can feel some sort of pull coming from it. I grab the metal chunk and move to the forge once again where the metal seems to pulsate quicker and rougher as it shakes within my grasp as it turns into a strange rod of sorts with crystals on the inside of it from when I look at the bottom of it. Okay, that's pretty cool.
I heat the metal up as Huolong stands there beside me watching silently as Lilith is being held back by Geose and many of the guards as she tries to rip the captain apart. I bring up the hammer and clang it down to flatten it and form it into the shape of the blade before putting it in water to cool it down. I heat it up once more and continue. I begin to wonder just what kind of blade I am going to make, but then again it is magical metal, maybe it has the power to change into any kind of blade I want? That makes a bit of sense.
As the blade is done heating up I blink and lift the blade into the air and notice how it looks like a strange Katana like blade with a guard made of metal and white crystal as the blade itself is black with blade crystal's in it making the patterns of a dragon in bright red. To my right Huolong holds out a sheathe made up of metal and wood making me wonder when in the hell he had time to make it.
I slide the blade into it's sheathe. The hilt is covered in white cloth that dangles like a chain at the butt of the hilt and I nod my head lightly. Pulling the blade from it's sheath lightly the steel shines with a blue hue that reminds me of blue fire that Rei has on his sword from "Ao No Exorcist".
Giving it a test swing I swing down and to the side towards a diamond dummies and cut it clean in half while cleaving the ground behind and beneath it to break apart leaving a long slice in the dirt. Interesting indeed. Sliding the blade back into it's sheathe I tie the katana at my right hip and look to Huolong who nods his head lightly.
"Interesting. It would seem that metal does not need to go through the long process that normal metals do, let alone that it seems to be tied to you in some way. Very interesting indeed." Huolong drawls out as he holds a claw out. "May I see if I may be able to wield it? I wish to test something." He says to me and I nod my head lightly. Why not? The dude's awesome and chill as fuck, besides, he's treating me like I'm an actual person! I hand him by sheathed blade and he grips it's hilt. A burst of magic bursts through the air and light shines into my eyes making me grunt and close them, but even that isn't enough so I cover them to make sure nothing happens.
As I feel the magic settle down I lower my claws and open my eyes to see him standing there with the blade in his hand and hellish fire circling the blade like tendrils and the blade had changed looking something like an elvish sword of sorts with a Ghost Rider Chain coiled around his forearm and I think of Kratos' "Blade's of Chaos" and such. He looks the blade up and down before nodding his head lightly and lightly stabbing the tip into the dirt making tornado inferno's burst from the ground and move about destroying the very earth and making it become completely unhabitable before pulling it from the ground and the flames flow through the air before roaring towards me.
Wait WHAT?!
I stare with wide eyes as the hellish fire moves at me with speed that outclasses a Sonic Rainboom and I feel my scales heat up intently as the flames crash into me before spiralling around me and are sucked into my horn, crystals, and my chest and I feel oddly stronger and faster as well as more agile than before. Blinking I look up to Huolong who nods his head lightly and sheaths the blade and moves to hand it to me, but the chain tightens around his forearm and I raises a brow. Guess the blade chose him, might as well let the badass keep it, eh?
"It seems to want you to wield it, I don't mind." I say to him and he gives me an odd look as if I had given him something truly valuable and rare. He bods his head to me lightly. Why do I feel good for giving someone something?
"I thank you. Perhaps you might be able to help us make the armor and weapons that these new metals are capable of doing. But I wonder, why did my flames move into you?" He asks me at the end, and I shrug my shoulders lightly. How the fuck am I supposed to know?!
"Hell if I know, maybe it's a way of you being able of weilding it, like payment of sorts?" I ask while changing back into my human form and I feel a pressure forming in my head. Gripping my head between my hands I grunt in pain and Lilith moves to my side and places a claw to my back, but pulling it away quickly and yelping out in pain.
"What the fuck?!" She exclaims in confusion and surprise as my back steams heavily from the spot she had touched. I growl lowly feeling heat rising inside me but it is different, it's as if an inferno is raging inside of me, what in the hell is going on?!
"What is the matter?" Huolong asks me while kneeling down to me with his new blade at his left side. What the hell does it look like?!
"It feels as if an i-inferno is raging inside me...just begging to be released...!" I whimper out softly and he nods his head lightly with a look that screams "I-Know!". I being knocked aside through the air and flop across the ground and crash into a steel wall, the metal instantly melts and pools around me, yet my skin and human body are not injured or hurting in the slightest. What in the hell is happening to me?!
"What are you doing?!" Lilith roars out in rage and confusion as Huolong moves to stab his claws at me. What the fuck is he doing?!
"You must get the fire out of you. Change into your Dragon Form, and spar with me." He says with his epic voice. I growl lowly and shake my head as I feel my skin beginning to heat up painfully so and I look up to him as I push off the ground and to my feet. I enter my Dragon Form and spin around to club him with my tail. My tail connects, but nothing happens and he flicks me in the chest with an index claw and it feels as if I had been shot by a tank's canon.
Sliding across the ground I am stopped by him as he pokes me with little strength evident in his movements, and he pushes me directly ten feet into the ground. I cough heavily as he flicks me in the chin and I make an underground tunnel as I move through the earth before bursting through the ground and flop face first onto the ground. Holy fuck this guy is a beast! The Hulk couldn't even take this guy! I doubt anything could take this guy, actually. Well, maybe Dante from "Devil May Cry", but he's epic, badass and true awesomeness, sorry Rainbow Dash.
Grunting I get to my feet and in a split second he is standing before me like he teleported, but I felt no magic move through the air. Holy shit he's fast! I roll to the side, bad idea, as he flicks his tail around and upward knocking me high into the air before he spins around and lets his tail fall onto my dropping body making me bounce another twenty or so feet into the air while parting the earth like Moses parted the sea. Holy fuck this hurts!
"Is this all you can do? Where is your music to pump you up, why do you not attack me with your abilities?" He asks as he looks down at me in a judging way. I cough lightly and wheeze heavily as I notice my vision is flickering and I look to my left to see Lilith looking at me with wide, horrified eyes. A fire rages inside me at her look of horror in her eyes as I feel my side it injured, and my blood covers the ground. Thank god for my super healing, otherwise I'm sure I would have lost most of my body with those simply flicks and pushes. But fuck I hurt like hell!
"I'm not even getting started." I pant out as I feel my body healing itself and realigning my disjointed bones. Okay, that hurts a bit more than the cuts! "So, you want me to get pumped up? Fine, let's rock." I state as I feel "Bulletproof, by 12 Stones" plays as I push off the ground and swish my tail around sending out crystal spines out towards him. He bats them aside with a simple back hand, but I smirk lightly and as I land I dash forward and ram my shoulder into his stomach with enough force to make him slightly stumble backwards.
"Good, but not good enough." He states calmly as he punches down at me and into the ground once more. Fuck hell man, how can this guy be hurt?! Bursting from the ground and punching upward I ram my fist against his stomach only to bounce off like I was nothing but a simply fly. What the crap?! He turns to the side and his tail clubs me across the ground and I begin to grow angry and annoyed at how I can't seem to even hurt him, let alone make him take me seriously, but then again if he were serious I'm pretty sure I'd be dead right now, so there's that. Hm.
I dig my claws into the ground before feel that heat return and I throw caution out the window and breath in deeply. My spines, horn and belly heat up as deep red and orange particles flow into my mouth like rivers. What the hell is this? I feel like my fire power is being doubled, quadrupled even! I breath out and spiraling orange and red hellish flames blast forth from my maw like a beam of pure fire and magic melded as one. The beam crashes against Huolong's chest and knocks him back and even forces him to a knee as he uses a wing like a shield from my new intense fire.
I cut off the flames and pant slightly and he fans his wing out sending out blades of wind to rip across the air towards me and I punch the ground making black crystals shoot up forming into a strange wall that absorbs the blades of wind before turning holy white as blue energy flows into my crystal spines. The white crystals begin to crumble away before I get an idea and thrust a claw forward and the crystals break apart into sharp shards and shoot towards him like Byakuya Kuchiki's Senbonzakura Kageyoshi from Bleach.
The shards flow towards him like streams all moving to meet up directly at him and he narrows his eyes with a lighthearted smirk on his muzzle before using his wings as shields. The shards crash against his wings and keep moving about to penetrate them, but his scales are far too think and durable so I hove my claw to my side so it rests and the shards circle me like water and flow about through the air. The natural magic courses through my body and the shards as the music changes to "Fired Up, by Mc Hush" and I feel the magic flow about through me pumping me up more and strengthening my cores as I feel my abilities and body growing stronger. Oh yeah, this is awesome!
The rain that I had forgotten was even around pours down upon us and I look up to see lightning thrashing about and I feel my eyes widen. Oh no. I look to Huolong who is moving towards me and I thrust my claws forward and the shards hold him back, surprisingly, right as lightning crashes into me and I cry out in pain as volts of raw electricity courses through my body. Soon I feel some sort of recharge happening as I feel the magic inside me bubbling and the ground around me to darken slightly. I pant in slight pain as I look up to see Huolong looking to me strangely.
"You stop me from being struck by lightning with you, why? It would not have affected me." He states and I shake my head lightly. Well that's good to know!
"I...hadn't known if you would be...so I didn't want you to get shocked..." I pant out heavily before rolling my head around and flexing and popping my neck lightly as I begin to feel better. "Though I should warn you, Lightning is partially my thing." I state with a smirk as orange and golden lightning surges around my arms and crackles. The music changes to "Rock You Like A Hurricane, by Scorpions" and I punch the air sending out a bubble of air and lightning as the crystal shards spiral around and move to crash into him once again. I dash forward as the song plays and my new energized state making everything seem to move incredibly slow, though Huolong looks to be moving at a slightly slower pace but is still fast.
I blur above him and punch down at him as a blue bubble of air being spiraled by orange lightning bursts down towards him at the speed of a bullet. He folds his wings around himself blocking the shards, his tail swishes through the air knocking the bubbles away before raising a claw and catching the last bubble before crushing it making an explosion sound off in his bare claw as he then grabs at me, but I spin to the side and land onto the ground in a crouching position. Oh yeah, I'm starting to get the hang of this! And the heat is going down too!
"Do you feel the heat lowering itself every time you fight?" He asks me as he circles me. I nod my head lightly and he rumbles out a chuckle. "Good, very good. But you need to use your fire to make it settle. Come, breath your flames at me!" He orders and I nod my head lightly before sucking in a deep breath as those deep red and orangish red particles spiral into my mouth as my spines, horn and belly heat up immensely.
As the song comes to a close I breath out sending out a wide beam of fire and magic that collides with Huolong's form and he is pushed back towards the castle at a rapid rate. I feel the heat begin to stabilize within my chest and I allow the flames to go on until they simply stop and I am panting and gasping for air. I look to see him standing there with his chest lightly charred, but I can tell it's simply ash from the burning barracks he had passed through, and looks to me with an amused look.
"Very strong firepower indeed, perhaps you may be able to help some of the guards use their own flames in such ways, no?" He asks me with a ridge raised. What?
"Sir? I don't quite understand, what do you mean by that?" I ask him in confusion. Don't look at me, I have no fucking clue what goes through this dude's mind alright? He chuckles lightly which still sounds cool.
"What I mean is, would you like to help my guards with some of their training and possibly even help my Blacksmith?" He says to me and I stare at him with wide eyes. Holy shit really?
"Sir, a-are you asking me to work for you? To have my own jobs and pay?" I ask and he nods his head lightly. Fuck yeah! But, why do I feel as if something is missing.
"What is the matter?" He asks me and I sigh softly.
"I just feel as if something is missing, sure I'd love to do those things, but I just get the feeling that something is missing." I say while looking over to Lilith and she looks to me with a soft look while striding over and standing by my side. Huolong rumbles out a deep laugh making me jump slightly in surprise.
"I see, you wish to be by her side, do you not?" He asks and for whatever reason that is beyond me, I not my head lightly making Lilith blink in surprise. "So wish to stay with her, do you not? To protect her?" He asks me and I nod again. Hells yeah I do!
"I do want to, but, I feel as if I should remain by her side, even if we're only testing out this bond thingy, I want to stay by her side." I say to him as I change back into my human form and he nods his head lightly before turning to the side towards an entrance to the castle.
"Very well, but you may do the other jobs if you so wish, and you are to remain by her side then, and if you so choose to remain hers and take the bond to a higher level, you have my blessing." He says while striding into the castle leaving me alone with a lightly blushing Lilith, and an amused Geose as that captain dragoness stalks up towards up with a pissed off look clear on her features. Oh come on, why me?! Wait, did he just say I wanted to, I could make Lilith mine?! Wait, why am I even thinking like this? Ugh, maybe I'm still tired? Who knows.
"Yes?" I ask as the dragoness stomps up to me and glares down at me as if I were some sort of scum trash. Just fan fucking tastic!
"You made a mess of my barracks, you are to clean it up you piece of filth." She growls out and I narrow my eyes and move to lash out, but I am stopped by Lilith who stands before me and crosses her arms beneath her breasts and gains an authoritative look making the captain lady pale slightly. Guess she's felt Lilith's temper and ire as well, eh? Hehe, this is gonna be funny! "L-Lady Lilith, what do I owe the pleasure o-of..." She is cut off by a low growl from Lilith.
"You should not be speaking to my bonded that way, Mizu." Lilith growls out making the dragoness flinch slightly and bowing her head in shame. "What is making you be this way?" She asks with a gentle tone and I watch as Mizu glares lightly at me.
"This male is not even a full dragon, and he's an ape to top it. I can't trust him, he is too much of an unknown, my lady." She says to Lilith and I nod my head lightly. I see.
"Why not just ask to hang out?" I ask her and she raises a ridge to me questioningly. "You can get to know me while hanging out, maybe we could even be friends?" I ask her and she looks to Lilith with an unsure look. She nods her head lightly and Mizu sighs softly before looking to be with an odd firm look.
"Very well. I shall try this "friendship" thing with you, but if you so much as harm Lady Lilith or any of the civilians I shall have your head rolling at my feet before you could even think." She growls to me while gripping her blade by it's blue hilt. Yeesh, talk about scary.
"That's fine, I wouldn't harm Lilith or anyone else anyways. Though if anyone tries to harm her or my friends, you better believe I'll rip them to shreds." I state firmly and darkly while giving her a flat look. She nods her head lightly before letting go of his swords hilt and looking to her new scrambling guards and sighs.
"How annoying, I must train these newbies that barely know how to hold a sword." She states and I nod my head lightly while watching her stride over to the newbies and yell drills for them to do and Lilith lightly tugs my coat lightly and I look up to her with a brow raised.
"Yes?" I ask her and she gives me a smile before moving down and capturing my lips with hers in what I assume is a loving kiss, and I kiss her back the same way. She parts from me and I feel my cheeks burn slightly as I flush when she holds me close to her body.
"What would you like to do?" She asks me and I place a hand to my chin. Hm, perhaps I should get something to eat, as much as I love getting soaked by the rain, I don't need to be shocked again, thank god the lightning and thunder left a while ago.
"Perhaps have some breakfast?" I ask her and she nods her head as she places me back onto my feet and I rub the back of my neck lightly before tapping my chin lightly. "And maybe I should ask Huolong about those mines he told me about last night. What do you think?" I ask her and she shrugs her shoulders lightly.
"It would be interesting, and from what I saw, your pretty good at making the weapon." She says to me. I sweat drop slightly.
"That's because it was done magically, not normally. But you have a point, maybe I could make myself a weapon and even you one, eh?" I ask her and she nods her head lightly.
"I wouldn't mind one, maybe I can finally show you my moves with a pole." She says with a wink making me flush heavily and stare at her with wide eyes. Uh, why am I not putting that thought outta my head? Oh yeah, because it's hot!
"Strangely enough, I don't have any problem with that." I state with a blink making her smirk lightly down at me while striding towards the castle entrance and I follow after here leaving behind Geose who had remained silent the whole time before simply leaving to help Mizu. Weird, but alright I guess. More alone time for me and Lilith then! As we move into the warm dry castle I lean softly against her side while walking next to her. She smiles lightly and wraps and arm around my shoulders while we move through the halls.
We enter what looks to be the dining room and I notice how Huolong and Saphrah are having an interesting morning together as we watch them make out. Lilith drags me out of the room silently before groaning softly as she runs a claw over her face. Uh oh, something isn't right.
"What's the matter?" I ask her gently and she blushes. Why do I get the feeling I'm gonna regret sleeping in the same bed as her now? Ah whatever, probably nothing.
"It's becoming "that" time of the year." She huffs out and I stop.
"Mating season?" I ask and she shakes her head and groans softly.
"No, it's worse! My mother and father are in the mood!" She whines out. Seriously?
"What's so bad about that? Just this morning you were in a mood to take me, what's so bad about them?" I ask and she sighs softly.
"It's annoying, they just fuck and fuck and fuck for days on end! It's so gross hearing them roar or moan at night too, and extremely awkward." She says with a shiver. Okay, I guess I can see how that would be seen as odd. But they are lovers, after all.
"Well they are lovers after all, I wouldn't expect much less from them anyways." I say with a light shrug before stopping and placing a hand to my chin. "And if I had a lover I'd most likely be constantly wanting to be by their sides, even if all they were in the mood for was sex. Not like I'd mind it and all that kind of crap." I state with a nod before walking past Lilith completely missing her large blush and wide eyes before she curses about "rotten luck" or something, I never really pay much attention. As I move through the hall with Lilith at my side I stop and look up at the dark skies as rain downpours before I feel something from behind. Turning around I notice how the shadows look to be darker than before.
This is new, wonder if maybe the weather is affecting the shadows? Oh well. We stride down the hallway in search of something to do before I feel something beneath us. It feels like that metal that made Huolong's sword, but also something else. Maybe this would be a good time to see what else is in this cavern. Looking to Lilith I place a hand onto her forearm making her look to me in question. Pointing down I smirk. "Let's go to the cavern." I say to her with a grin and she shakes her head.
"No way, we need to wait for father's permission and besides, I don't know where it is." She tells me and I huff slightly. Kill joy.
"Fine." I whine out while crossing my arms over my chest and we continue down the hall but are stopped by a black dragon wearing what looks to be ninja pants or something similar. Really weird. The ninja dragon grab what appears to be a short-katana and rushes towards us. The black scarf around it's face flaps in the wind like a cape of sorts. The dragon swipes at us and we dodge to the side.
Lilith tail whips at the dragon only for them to block her tail with a claw and flip her through a wall. It turns towards me and moves to stab at me, but I step to the side. Oh bad move shit for brains! Kicking their wrist I knock the blade from their claw and it spirals through the air before stabbing into the ceiling above us. Feeling the magic around and inside of my body I punch the air sending a blue sphere that crashes against the dragon's chest knocking them across the floor.
Landing I slam my fist's to the floor sending a pulse of lightning that completely washes over Lilith like a stream does to a rock and races towards the offending dragon. It sucks in air and breathes out purple flames that destroy the lightning and spiral towards me and I shoulder roll to the right. The flames move past me and into the wall behind me making it look poisoned and burned through. Holy shit, what the fucking hell?! Too close for comfort, thank you very much!
They suck in a large breathe and spew multiple purple fireballs that zoom at me like cannonballs while making thunderous cracks as they smash against the floor, ceiling and walls. I dash around across the walls and push off of a pillar and punch the floor making black crystals form before me as the remaining purple fireballs are sucked into them before they turn holy white and purple and white energy flows out and into my crest.
Looking to my hands as I feel a pressure to them I touch the floor before me and the spot I touched darkens and a small charred hole forms a few inches deep. Okay, so I can absorb powers and use them to how I wish? Freaking awesome! Swiping my hands through the air downwards like claws I send out purple and white blades that jet towards the dragon who breaths out purple flames that destroy the blades and spirals towards me and Lilith. Dashing forward I swipe at the air sending blades of that hellish fire that I had gained from Huolong that completely destroy the purple flames and force the dragon to move.
They jump and pull their sword from the ceiling before moving to stab at me, but Lilith bursts from the debris and breathes out icy blue flames that freeze the offending dragon to a pillar. I raise a brow to her as she looks pissed. From behind I notice Flaire's energy moving close and I begin to wonder if he sent this fucker after us. That asshole. "Shade, what the fuck are you doing?!" Lilith screams out making me stop and look to her with a slightly surprised look.
"Wait, you know this asshole?!" I exclaim and she nods her head with a glare being sent his way. Oh boy.
"This is Shade, one of Flaire's helpers, or something like that. I never gave a shit about having underlings to be honest." She says to me. Underlings? Like how Aizen has the Espada? Or Madara the Akatsuki? Weird. "What are you doing here, Shade?" She growls out and he glares at me. Oh come on! I've only just made up with Mizu now I have to deal with THIS asshole?! Fucking hell man! Can I not have a simple day in this crazy world?! Guess not.
"No one makes Lord Flaire look like a fool! No one!" Shade growls out making me roll my eyes. Yep, he's one of those.
"I am not Lord yet, Shade." Flaire says from next to me as Shade's eyes widen. "And I would like you to not attack my sister's bonded, he might have allowed me to live, but he may end up killing you." He says sagely making Shade growl at me. What did I do now?!
"This ape can't be that powerful! It is just an ape, a lower life form! And it's an alien to boot, it holds no reason for existing here!" He growls out. I fold my arms over my chest and raise a brow.
"Really? Yet I beat Flaire and managed to fight with Lord Huolong, granted he out classes me easily but he is also far more experienced than I. And not only had I been holding my own against you, I did so in my human form, something that isn't possible to do with Flaire or even Lilith. Does that not say something to you?" I ask and he growls lowly.
"Fight me then, truly fight me! Alien!" He roars out and I shake my head.
"Not a chance, I won't be fighting against you." I state and Flaire looks to me strangely.
"Why not? I do wonder how he would fare against you. He is one of my best, and I know he is powerful. Why not test him?" He asks me and I sigh softly before looking to Lilith who nods her head firmly.
"Kick his ass." She growls and I nod my head lightly while looking to Shade. Guess this dude's gonna get his ass kicked then.
"You have a deal. We fight outside in the rain." I state and he nods his head before purple flames destroy the ice and he dashes outside and spreads his wings. Hovering in the air waiting for me the three of us head outside and I look up to Flaire who had stopped me and hands me a dagger, for me it is a sword though. "This won't last, but I'll use it for this fight. Thank you." I say to him before moving forward and unsheathe the sword.
The blade looks similar to a standard straight sword only at the tip it has hooks and the edges of the blade are serrated. I spin it around before holding it with two hands and get ready for the fight. Shade swings his blade down and purple blades shoot down at me and I slide around on the wet ground like I were wearing roller-skates. He growls and dives down at me in hopes of slashing me. I block his blade with mine and manage to cut his side lightly. He spins around and shoots up into the air before breathing down purple flames that spiral down at me like a tornado.
Holding my blade up to the side I swing down and to the right sending out wind blades that cut through his flames and lightly slice at his body. He drops down at me in a stabbing pose and I spin my blade around making a wheel of hellish flames form before swinging upwards sending the wheel up at him. He spreads his wings and spins to the side but I send another wheel that crashes against his chest knocking him upwards.
Watching his every movement I notice he recovers quickly and shoots around and breathes down purple fireballs like a fighter plain does bullets in those war movies. Heh, so he learns a new tactic, but it won't do him any good. I slash the air sending out purple and white blades that zip about towards him cutting apart his fireballs like they were nothing. He moves between the blades and stabs at me as he gets close enough. Narrowing my eyes I block him with the flat of my blade before slashing up his arm making a cut form and I start growing annoyed.
As he lands and slides across the wet ground I enter my Dragon Form while sucking in air particles and breathe out orange lightning and red flames that race towards him but are stopped by his blade. I smirk as music begins to play and the song is a favorite of mine. Double-Boost! Fuck yeah! "Welcome To The Masquerade, by Thousand Foot Krutch", a Freaking epic song!
As the music plays I dash forward with my dagger held out and swipe up and to the side making him move back and a cut forms on his chest. Swiping downward he brings up his blade and blocks mine from cutting him again and I push down cutting into his sword making his eyes widen. I smirk and push back from him before dashing at him again while swinging down cutting his blade in half while leaving a cut on his right shoulder.
With a grunt he kicks me away from himself and I flip through the air and lands onto my feet with ease as he has some trouble with moving on the ground. Hehe, pays to have feet like mine! He glares at me and breathes a beam of purple flames that I part before slicing the air sending out a large wind blade that he side steps and swings his broken sword sending out purple blades that zip towards me like bullets.
I cut a few of the blades before one of them slices my dagger in half forcing me to throw it at him like a throwing dagger and dodge the other blades. The song comes to an end and changes to "I Get Wicked, by Thousand Foot Krutch" and I blur towards him and punch him in the abdomen knocking him back before blurring forward again and grab his head before kneeing him in the face knocking him backwards onto his back.
Spinning around I slam my tail down at his head and he rolls away before trying to kick my feet out from under me, but I jump up and spin through the air. Axe kicking him in the chest I knock the air out of him and he locks up while trying to catch his breath. Grabbing him by his feet I throw him into the air and into the ground. He coughs and wheezes as the rain washes the dirt off of our bodies and making it harder to move, for him and the others that is.
He breaths down at the ground making the ground start to darken and burn away to black ash that moves through the air as he flaps his wings obscuring my vision. "Your a good fighter, alien, but can you keep fighting something you can't see?" He asks as he literally disappears. Seriously? Since when did he become a ninja? Oh, wait. Never mind. I look around before feeling claws scrape against my shoulder knocking me forward and to then feel a knee collide with my stomach. Ow, pain!
"Can't seem to stand, eh, alien?" Shade chuckles out from behind me and I spin to the side using my tail as a club and I cut through the ashes only for it to spread them about and somehow cause more. Fuck! Looking around I look to see any kind of space that has been disturbed by him and see a small puff form and punch at it. I feel my fist connect and a grunt meets my ears. Gotcha! Grabbing what feels to be a neck I pull the body into my vision and see Shade staring at me with wide eyes.
I smirk and prepare to punch him in the face, but he twists and claws my chest making me let go. He pulls out two daggers and slashes my sides making me grunt in pain as my blood stains the ground. He grins and vanishes back into the ashes making me curse under my breath before feeling my shoulders being slashed and my chest to gain an "X" mark along with my forearms. Fuck he's faster somehow. Just what in the hell is he on?!
Looking around quickly I narrow my eyes as I try to look quicker as the ashes become disturbed just before I am cut. There! I think while punching forward and my fist crashes against his blade while the other is moving towards my throat. I grab the blades with my claws and knee him in the stomach. He grunts and flips his daggers making me let go before slashing me multiple times making his blades look like they were simple flashes of light. Fuck! I stagger backwards as he jumps back into the ashes and I pant while bleeding heavily.
Well, this fucking sucks. Getting my ass kicked by this guy who couldn't even handle my human form. I see the ashes spiral slightly and growl while clubbing my tail down and I feel the body beneath it crash into the ground. I feel the natural magic change as the music does. "Hail To The King, by Avenged Sevenfold" plays and I punch the ground sending raging winds that dissipate the ash and I look to see Shade picking himself back up from the ground and I grin widely to him.
"Let's see you fight now, bitch." I growl out before blurring forward and kicking him across the ground and punch the air repeatedly sending out bullets or bubbles of air that would crash into his form. Really fucking cool looking if you asked me. I dash forward after him as he recovers and uses his wings to block them, though they keep pushing him back, and I knee him in the chest knocking him back more. Spinning on my toes I tail club him down against the ground before grabbing his ankle and using him as a club making indents in the earth.
Throwing him away from myself he breathes out purple flames that scar the earth in black ash and I narrow my eyes, before flipping my head back as my spines, belly and horn glow alight before letting red flames fly from my jaws when whipping my head forward. The two flames crash against each other like beams and the ground on my side melts as his simply burns. My flames begin to be pushed back and I send in more flames before I feel my breath running thin. Well, guess this is going to hurt!
My flames stop and his crash into me but they simply part around my form as a black shadowy mass forms before me like a shield and I stare with wide eyes as the shadowy mass absorbs the flames before it moves into my shadow. Okay, what the fuck was that? Shade stares with wide eyes as I smirk to him. Oh well, might as well keep up with the surprises! Who know's what else I can do! I charge forward and cock a fist back as red flames form around it like an extra fist of sorts, really fucking cool!
My burning fist collides with his face and knocks him back across the ground like a pebble across a lake making craters instead of rings or ripples as he slides to a stop before...Huolong and Saphrah. Great. The music comes to a close and I exit out of my Dragon Form and into my human form while holding my hands up in defense.
"I can explain!" I exclaim and Huolong raises a ridge as if questioning why I had said so. "Wait, are you not upset that I wrecked your, uh, field?" I ask and he chuckles a deep booming chuckle.
"No, I hold no reason to be angry. Flaire had explained what was happening when we arrived here as the ash was in the air. I had feared that the Drake's had returned, but evidently they were not brave enough to enter the kingdom at this time." He states before looking to me strangely. "But how did you control the shadows?" He asks and I shrug my shoulders lightly.
"I'm not sure, all I thought was "Well, guess this is going to hurt!" and then the wall formed and absorbed the flames. I'm not even sure what else I can do." I explain and he nods his head lightly. Looking to my hands I wonder if perhaps I could summon the wall of shadow or darkness again. I close my eyes and concentrate before seeing a glimpse of large orange or red eyes and deep growling before snapping my eyes open and to see my shadow spreading and that wall to form once again. "Whoa." I breath in awe as the wall then shifts back into my shadow.
"Interesting." Flaire says while looking to me with a strange look as if I were an answer of sorts. Okay, talk about freaky. Huolong narrows his eyes as if contemplating something.
"Tell me, do you enjoy being in the dark?" He asks and I nod my head lightly. Yeah? Is he going to call me an "evil darkness dragon" or some bullshit like that? "I see, perhaps you hold an affinity to darkness, magic and crystals. Very interesting indeed." He says as if thinking of something, but chooses not to spill the beans completely. Better not be evil! I don't need to be seen as a god damned weapon for fuck's sake!
"Okay?" I ask before looking to Lilith with a raised brow who simply shrugs her shoulders giving me the same look. I guess it would make sense for her not to know if I were to be used as a weapon, what with us being bonded and whatnot. But still, she should at least know what the fuck is happening! "And what does that mean, exactly, sir?" I ask as Shade moves to his feet and is healing slowly from me beating his sorry ass. I tell yeah, the dude has some moves, but when he isn't hiding like a bitch, he's easy to pick off. Guess he does make for a good assassin though.
"I am yet unsure, but perhaps the elder's shall know when I speak with them tonight. They may wish to have you there as well, but I am unsure. Now let us get out of this rain, the storm is growing." He orders out and I nod my head and move over to Lilith's side as we all head inside just as lightning flashes and flickers across the sky and thunder booms as the dark, gray storm clouds loom above us as if the real storm was just starting and more was to come. I hope I don't have to fight again for a while, I need to rest too dammit!
We move into the throne room we stop as old dragons stand there dressed in strange clothing and wielding staffs of sorts. Oh boy, this might not be a good thing. They look over to us and focus on me and I wonder if perhaps I should should enter my Dragon Form and prepare for a fight. A white dragon steps forward from the others as he is about my Dragon Form's size if not a few meter's taller or so. He looks down at me as if studying me and weighing how much my life meant.
"You are the being known as "Cade", correct? Slayer of Dovaak the Hunter, bonded to Princess Lilith, the alien of the world and unknown dragon species?" He asks and I nod my head lightly.
"Yeah?" I ask while clenching my hands into fists getting ready for a fight and the old dragon scoffs. Asshole!
"You need not worry, we hold no reason of ending you, but we do have business with you." He says while moving back over to the other old ones. "We have been curious as to why you are here. You are an alien capable of controling magic and even able of turning into a dragon species that doesn't exist. You can control the natural magic of the world and universe by using your old worlds music or simply thinking about it. You interest us, in short." He says to me before turning around and giving me a firm look. "And we wish to see what you can do." He tells me and I raise a brow. Why the fuck should I listen to this old goat?
"I mean no disrespect when saying this, but, who exactly are you? All of you?" I ask and Lilith bends down and smacks me upside my head. Gee, thank's love! Love? Weird.
"Their the elders you idiot!" She hisses out in the form of a whisper and I nod my head lightly. Well fuck, guess I screwed this little meeting up. I look up to the old dragons and dragonesses and nod my head with a smirk.
"Alright, but can this be later on? Or in a few days? I'm a little sore from fighting with Shade over there." I say while pointing a thumb over my shoulder at him. At his glare I shiver slightly. Yeesh, probably shouldn't have mentioned him then if he's going to be such a dick about it. A slightly old purple dragon chuckles lightly. Why the chuckling? What's so funny?
"We do not require you to fight anyone, but we require you to allow us to see you." He says making me raise a brow in response. The fuck is this old dude talking about? See me? He's looking right at me dammit!
"What?" I ask bluntly and he nods his head while sending me a small smile.
"Allow me to explain, we would like to see you as in your power. What it is you hold. From what we have heard you are said to be an alien that turns into a breed of our kind that none have ever heard about before. We wish to see this you, the you that saved the princess, protected a whole village, bested prince Flaire and even forged a blade of pure power for the king, let alone being able to control natural magic; the very magic of the world. Allow us to tap into you to learn more about where you came from, how you gained these abilities and see just what you are." He asks and I nod my head lightly. The other elders place their claws onto his form as he presses an index claw lightly to my crest and jolts of power roll over me like waves.
I shut my eyes tightly and feel Lilith's body pressed to mine as she steadies me and the sounds of the elder's grunting as if they were dealing with the same waves of power I was. I feel the natural magic around me begin to pool into me like it were being sucked into me. The darkness of the room sends chills into my form as the sounds of gasps reach my ears like something remarkable was happening. A heat burns deeply inside me before it all seems to dull down as the claw leaves my crest and I open my eyes to see the elder's looking to me strangely.
Turning I see the others looking at me oddly as well, though Lilith is looking to me the same way as always so that's a plus. I raise a brow to them all and Lilith shrugs her shoulders lightly. "They must not have been around you in the dark." She tells me and I nod my head lightly. Right, in the dark.
"What was it though?" I ask and Huolong looks to me as if I had done something he had never witnessed in his long life. Guess I can still give others a surprise, eh?
"Remarkable, the shadows bent around you and Lilith like a protective barrier while the very air grew cold like a winter's night." He tells me and I nod my head lightly. Guess that makes sense. I think? Whatever.
"Right." I state while shrugging. "I like the night and cold let alone the winter." I tell them and Huolong nods his head.
"I see, interesting indeed." He mumbles out. Okay, now that's weird.
"You most certainly hold great power inside you, young one." The dragon says to me. Well thanks! "It would be wise to harness your powers and be trained." He tells me and I raise a brow.
"Trained? By who exactly?" I ask. Maybe they have some sort of- OH! They mean, right. Okay, got it. "Wait, you all?" I ask and they nod their heads lightly. "I don't see how I could be worth your times." I tell them.
"Nonsense, you should train with them, never have I seen someone so openly accepted by them and for training no less. It is a great honor, Cade." Huolong tells me and I nod my head lightly.
"Well, alright then." Looking to the elder's I bow to them respectfully. "I accept your offers." I tell them and they nod their heads.
"Good, your training begins next's month's dying day." The blue dragoness says to me, though she isn't that old looking, and I nod my head gently. The elder's then vanish in a burst of light leaving us in the roughly empty throne room which has been repaired from Flaire's and my little battle. Cool, so I'm going to be trained by powerful beings, lovely. Hope none of them are corrupted! Most likely. Well, this should be fun. Turning back to the others I look up to Lilith with a light smile and she smiles back before hugging me tightly.
"Congratulations!" She cheers out before setting me back down and I grow confused at her change of moods. I mean I know I've been with her for a few days, like close to a week right? Well she seems to be going through moods quickly, maybe it's a side affect of the bond? Better ask.
"Thanks, and what's with the mood changes?" I ask her bluntly. She stops, blinks and then face claws.
"Side affect of the bond is not my favorite thing at the moment." She grumbles out. There's the Lilith I know and most likely love! Confusing, I know. I hug her around her hips tightly making her flush lightly and glare lightly down to me in confusion. "What the fuck are you doing?" She asks and I shrug.
"I prefer this you. Not the "girly" version, just doesn't seem like you, ya'know?" I tell her and her blush grows and huffs before hugging me back and grumbling underneath her breath that I can't seem to pick up.
"Right, well then, shall we make plans for tomorrow?" Huolong asks and we separate to look to him strangely, well I do anyways. Plan's for what tomorrow? What?
"Sir? What do you mean?" I ask and he looks to me with a slight smirk. Oh this might be awesome!
"Tomorrow we shall head into the cavern's to get more of the metals and possibly some crystals. As from what I have witnessed, you hold a connection to change the metals into weapons, perhaps the crystal's can be of use to us in other ways." He tells me while striding over to his throne and sits into it. "But for now, I suggest you get something to eat, and rest. You look to still be healing if not from the wounds, then from what you used." He says to me firmly and I nod my head to him. I'm so not wanting to fight with him again, dude kicked my ass!
"Yes, sir. Thank you sir." I say while going to bow, but he holds up a claw stopping me.
"You need not call me "sir" or "lord". You are not a mere citizen or a soldier. You may be an outsider, but you have shown that you can be trusted, that you and my daughter are bonded as well. And as such, you have certain rites now. Please, do not prove me wrong." He tells me firmly and I bow my head to him in acceptance and thanks. He bows his head back with a small grunt before Lilith and I leave the throne room behind. As the door's close I hear Shade complain about something, but his voice grows muffled as we move down the hall and into the dining hall.
As we enter the large room we come to find two platters on the large, long wooden table ready for our use. Cool, guess the cook's got word somehow? "Please, enjoy za food." A French-esk accent states from behind making me spin around to see a Griffin dressed in cooking clothes and having a twin-blade on his back. His fur is black as night, his feathers are white as snow except his head feather's which are tinted a deep purple on the tip. Holy shit this guy looks like a dude version of Gilda!
"Um, thank you, sir." I say to him with a bow and he waves his claws through the air and "tsk"ing. Okay then?
"No, you 'ave no reazon to call me zir. Lord Huolong haz told me about you." He says to me with a French accent though he does pronounce English, or whatever they call it here, quite well. Maybe this dude was raised somewhere like France? Doubt it though, it'd be incredibly awesome if he was.
"Um, he has?" I ask and he nods his head lightly. "Nothing bad I hope." I chuckle out nervously.
"Oh no! No, zir. You 'ave been praized by Lord Houlong! He zpeakz highly of you." He tells me with a slight grin that makes me smile awkwardly.
"Oh, that's good. I think?" I say with an unsure tone and look. What can I say, it's still strange to know I'm being praised, alright?
"Good indeed, zir." He says to me before sending both of us a small smile and then leaves the room into a different one that I assume is a pathway to the kitchen. Well, that was interesting.
"Well that was interesting." Lilith says with a blink. Hey! That's what I thought!
"Yup." I say while popping the "p" at the end before getting into my chair as Lilith get's into hers and we dig into our food which was some sort of steak and a goblet of orange liquid that wasn't orange juice. What was it? Hell if I know! Did really ask, nor did I care to ask. After our lunch or early dinner? We head back up to our room in Lilith's tower and I blink. "What time is it?" I ask and she looks around the room before shrugging.
"Around six p.m. give or take seven." She says and I make a "wah?" sound making her roll her eyes. "Just shut it and lay down, the day has been long and the storm is raging." She huffs out and I nod my head lightly before looking to her with a brow raised. "What?" She growls.
"Did you want me to be like last night?" I ask and her eyes light up as a grin graces her lips. Awe fuck.
"Yes." She says with a slight purr making me shudder for some reason. Nodding my head to her I essentially strip down to my birthday suite and crawl into what is now our bed with her moving in by my side. She wraps her arms around my form and holds me close to herself. Her scales for some reason don't seem all that cool or cold, but warmer than ever, yet hold some form of their coolness but it moves around me like an extra blanket.
Burrying my face into her neck and tightens her hold around me and I feel myself being lulled by her soft breathing, her heartbeat though it be faint. She runs her claws gently across my back, and the world melts away so it's only the two of us before I am in my world of dreams while being up against the dragoness that is truly capturing my heart.
And it's wonderful.
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Lilith's 1st Pov
Today has been crazy hectic. I mean I wake up with my bonded in my arms without those clothes on him and here he is back in my arms without those clothes. His skin is slightly warm and tingles my scales sending sensation's through my body that I am growing rather fond of. His hot, faint breathes sends shivers down my spine and I graze my claw tips against his bare back. It's so strange feeling a human's skin.
My human's skin.
That's right, he's my human. My dragon. And my bonded. Our bond has become pretty solid as of late, and to be honest, I am starting to feel his emotiones, I can hear a few of his thoughts and while he was battling against Shade, I noticed that the natural magic and the shadows would actually wisp around me like they do with Cade. Just as mother had said, we are sharing each other's abilities. I wonder if he can control the cold like I can? Guess I'll have to wait and see.
I lightly breath in his scent and close my eyes as his breathing begins to lull me. The world melts away and only the two of us are left even though I know the world is raging outside, like something was starting. His body heat, though it isn't as much as it probably should be, helps me go to sleep and moving a wing over us along with the covers to cover up his special bits, I keep him close to me in my arms.
Honestly, I hope he remains with me, that he accepts me as his mate. I think that I may actually love him, but, I'm not completely sure. I think I do, I feel myself constantly yearning for him, for his touch and his love. I think I do love him already. I just hope he love's me. And with these thought's inside my head, I fall asleep with a small smile on my face.
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Huolong's 1st Pov
It has been an interesting series of events over the past few days, but perhaps we may become one with the world that has so long forgotten us. A world that has been ever changing and growing around us that we have not been a part of in quite some time. We have become allies with the Griffin's of the Griffin Dominion, and Equestria and the Minotaur Isle's. But that will not be enough. The Diamond Dog Isle's has just become an ally, but I may be forced to send some of my soldier's over.
Equestria is asking for help as they are dealing with Changeling's, a long lost empire of crystal's, a deity of chaos, that is responsible for much of the worlds problem's, as an ally that they may bring with them when the princesses bring back my blacksmith. It will be interesting to see this "Discord" in the flesh, along with meeting the princesses once again. I wonder if they will bring their new princess and their dragon hatch-ling as they had been having problem's with his growth. Spike I believe his name was.
Tomorrow will be an interesting day though, as Cade, the human-alien, shall be going into the cavern like mines beneath my castle to retrieve metals and crystal's that are filled with far too much natural magic for us to go near as it causes problems for us, and yet he is not only able to go near them, but he can eat them and their magic. It will be very interesting indeed.
Looking from the floor that is dimly lit by a few torches and out the window I stare at the raging storm outside like there is something on the rise. The lightning is coiling and lashing out like whips or tails. The thunder rolls and booms like the cracks of cannons from what I had seen while visiting our allies countries. Normal storms for us, but the clouds gives me foreboding feeling as they are dark gray to a light black.
It is unsettling.
But it is the season of storms for us, and I shall get over my trivial feelings of what is foreboding and what is not. Looking down back at the floor I contemplate what Shade had been telling me about his Cade is a "threat" to us all. If that were true, he wouldn't have let me treat him like I had in our spar. But with him becoming a student of the Elder's by their want's, I can't help but feel a slight hint of worry for him.
The Elder's that are older than most still go by the old ways. The ways of when our race would conquer and use other's to get to the top. I'll have to ask the younger one's to keep an eye on the old one to make sure he remains as he was when they had met Cade. I'd rather not have to deal with a war with the world. And I do not desire to separate him and Lilith, they hold love for one another from what I have been seeing. Hopefully they will remain at each other's sides, though I know they will, they care for each other the same way I care for Saphrah, and her for me.
Getting to my feet I stride through my throne room and into the halls where I move down it and onto a platform. Spreading my wings I push off into the air and head towards my tower where Saphrah is no doubt waiting for me. I land onto our balcony and enter our chambers where I find Saphrah laying on our bed sleeping soundly and out of her clothing. I pull mine off and join her in our bed pulling her into my arms feeling her cool scales brush against my heated ones.
And with that, I drift off to slumber with my loving wife in my arms and her perfect form pressed up against mine. The sound of the storm and her soft snores lulling me. Perhaps tomorrow shall be a more interesting day.
Darkness surrounded me as I floated in endless space. I couldn't speak and I couldn't move. Only my thoughts and memories were keeping me company as I floated. Time had no beginning or end and so I could not distinguished how long I had been here, but something told me it was coming to an end. I had been dreaming peacefully about Lilith and I before those red or bloody orange eyes appeared to be looking down upon me and then a storm hit.
My dream had been ripped asunder and the endless blackness remained. I look around now to see any source of light before out of nowhere lights flicker on and I stare in awe down at a planet similar to earth, but for some reason I know it is the world I now call home. The stars around me twinkle, the moon and sun shine as I am whisked away from the world and I watch as stars dash past me, planets do the same as I am torn through layers upon layers until white blinds me, but not before those red eyes appear again in a flash as if reminding me of their constant presence.
My eyes snap open and I gasp for breath while sitting up. I find that the bed if empty and that Lilith was nowhere to be found. The bond between us has solidified and I feel a yearning sensation for her as I get to my feet and get over to my clothes, only to find them missing and new clothes sitting where they once were.
The pants were black with pockets along either side and they were baggy like my old pair. My new shirt was white with a black flame with a white version of the dragon birthmark I have on my chest. The coat is my old one, but it had been altered slightly. A hood had been added along with slight white trimming and a symbol on the shoulders and back that looked similar to the one on my shirt's chest.
Pulling the new clothes onto my form I find that they fit great and are like my old ones. My coat however is still torn up at the ends but the white trimmings are actually a secondary coat that reminds me of Ichigo Kurosaki's Bankai jacket. Nodding my head in acceptance I turn towards the door to find Lilith standing in the doorway and the door wide open. Unfortunately I jumped and squeaked like a freaking girl as well as flopping onto my back and banging my head onto the floor, thank god for my abilities, or I might have been dazed.
"Are you okay?" Lilith ask's me as she helps me up to my feet and I nod my head lightly. I notice that for whatever reason, she looks even more beautiful than yesterday and ever before. Maybe...maybe I do love her.
"Yeah, just a fall." I say while rubbing the back of my throbbing head. She nods and gently kisses me and I feel pleasure surge through me and I lean into her and kiss her back. If this is what it means to love and be loved, than I want more of it. She pulls me close to herself by my hips and I wrap my arms around her neck as our kiss grows passionate and filled with love for each other, how I know she loves me I am not completely sure but I can just tell. She parts her lips from mine and I look up into her loving purple eyes with my own.
"That was...wow." She breathes and I nod my head lightly and lay my head onto her shoulder.
"Yeah." I breath while keeping my form up against hers and she rubs my back lightly.
"Your in a good mood this morning, something change?" She asks in a teasing way and I smile up softly to her.
"Only the fact that my dragoness is here." I tell her with a soft tone as I am still getting over the effects of just waking up. She stops and looks to me with wide eyes and I raise a brow to her in her stunned or slightly shocked look. "What?" I ask. Did I say something wrong?
"You called me yours..." She says in shock and I begin to feel doubt and fear. Not this again, why do I jump the gun so fucking quickly?
"I...I'm sorry, I'll- Mnf?!" She takes me by surprise as her lips crash into mine capturing them and I feel unbelievable pleasure course through me as her tongue dominates mine and her touch sends pleasurable jolts across my skin making the hair on the back of my neck stand up in a good way and goosebumps to form. I close my eyes and lean into the passionate, love filled kiss as her arms tighten around me and I tighten mine around her neck.
Our make out session continues for another few minutes or so before we are forced to part for breath, well I am anyways. Opening my eyes I see her purple orbs are filled with love for me and I blush heavily as she holds me close to herself and makes me feel a bit embarrassed but I am unsure as to why. Maybe I should ask Saphrah about it later, you know, claimee to claimee? Anyways, I raise a brow to her as I pant and my blush only seems to have grown larger as my head or mind or whatever goes into a haze like state.
"Don't be sorry. I'd love to have you and for you to have me." She says with a soft purr making me shudder and lean into her form as she holds me tenderly. This is so awesome, not only do I have a home, but a girl- er, dragoness-friend, mate? Yeah, mate is the right word I think! She kisses me again with much love but it is short lived as a knock from the door meets our ears and we separate and look to see Huolong standing there with a smirk gracing his face. Oh boy, this is awkward.
"Oh don't mind me, do continue, I was merely here to tell you that we are preparing to depart for the cavern's." He says before looking me up and down. "Though I am glad the magical effects worked on the clothing I had Saphrah make. Those old ones were damaged beyond repair." He says before moving away down the hall. Magical effects? Saphrah made these for me? What? Looking to Lilith with a curious look she smiles slightly.
"He means that all our clothing can fit each other do to the cloth being imbued with magic, though your coat is element resistant which is rather hard to do. I had taken your old clothes to mother and when she was finished making you your pants and shirt I asked her to add some things to your coat and then asked her to put your, what was it called again? Birthmark?" She asks and I nod my head. "Right, well I asked her to put it onto your coat and shirt." She says to me and I nod my head gently.
"Thanks, Lilith." I tell her and she kisses me gently on the lips before setting me down onto my feet and turns away slightly. God I think I really am in love with her, I mean we are bonded and lately I've been feeling happier with her and honestly I can't see myself without her.
"Don't worry about it." She tells me with a smile before winking to me saucily. "Though I wouldn't mind you sleeping without them every night from now on, alright?" She teases with a slight purr. Blushing I smile up to her and nod. Truth be told I enjoyed the closeness I get when I am in my birthday suite, seeing as she doesn't wear clothes ever but, meh.
"Alright, but no touchy." I tease and she rolls her eyes.
"Kill joy." She huffs and I cross my arms over my chest and give her the "look". Oddly enough she chuckles sheepishly and nervously stutters out, "J-Just kidding! Eheh!" And I smirk up at her.
"I'm just teasing you, I prefer being nude with you." I say and she gives me a lidded smile and I feel my blush return as she moves in and kisses me with a passion.
"Then maybe eventually we could...explore each other?" She purrs and I sigh softly. Okay, why am I being such a sissy? Most guys would kill to be in my position, and yet, here I am being a sissy lala! Ugh!
"When I'm ready, maybe." I say with a teasing wink before slipping around her form and slip out of the door with her following. We move down the halls until we reach the throne room, as there had been guards moving towards it as well, and Huolong stands in the center and looks to us with a smirk.
"Ah, how good of you two to join us. We move out now." He says and with the nod of our heads we follow him out of the castle and down a windy path leading beneath the castle that looks to have been carved out or burned through by tools and flames. A large cave stands before us and the guards breath out red flames light up torches that had been left inside the cavern and unknowingly make the crystals glow from their magical fires. Huolong looks down to me and nods as if telling me to head in.
I push forward and stride into the cavern and stare at the crystals as they light up from my presence. Pulling one from the wall of the cave it pulsates raw natural magical power that sends shivers down my spine. Putting it back into the wall of the cave I move down farther into the cavern but not before looking back to Lilith who gives me two thumb-claws up and telling me good luck. I smile back to her and continue on into the cavern.
The crystals light the way throughout the cravenness cave before I reach the spot where the metal had been found and I stare with wide eyes as the ore lines the walls, ceilings and floors of the cave. Touching one of the ore the metal oozes out and I blink in surprise. So it isn't like normal metals where it needs to be mined? Well not for me at least. Still, I should be careful, don't want to cause a cave-in. Picking up the solid metal I slide my fingers across the ore's and more of the metals ooze out and solidify across the floor and I pull them back to the entrance where Huolong, Lilith and the guards wait.
"Here's some of the metal." I state as I push it towards them and Huolong nods his head before motioning to the crystals.
"Can you absorb the magic in them so that we may enter to help you?" He asks and I nod my head and enter my Dragon Form. The natural magic in the crystals flows out of them as I touch them one at a time and into me. I feel the magic storing up inside me and I nod my head gently before holding a crystal up and the natural magic in the others flows into it like lightning to a metal rod before the crystals cease glowing as they become empty of the natural magic. Looking to Huolong I nod my head.
"It's done, sir. You should be able to come get the ore in this part of the cavern, but in the back where I got those pieces, it's too dangerous." I explain and he nods his head before stepping into the cavern.
"That is fine. Guards, collect the ore." He orders and they nod and move about with pickaxes and many other tools. They manage to collect the ore normally however I focus on salvaging the crystals that had retained their natural magic and place them into my belt loops as I had returned to my human form with Lilith remaining by my side. She looks at a crystal that looks icy blue with a snow white core and I smile slightly.
"You want that one?" I ask and she blushes slightly and nods her head gently. I grab the crystal between my hands and pull with all of my strength but for some reason it just wouldn't budge. I furrow my brows in confusion before wondering if perhaps Lilith must remove it. "You give it a try." I ask and she grabs the crystal and with utter ease pulls it from the wall. Frost rises from the crystal as if it were in tuned to her elements and I smile softly at her wide childish grin as if she had received an amazing gift.
"This is so cool." She giggles out and I shake my head at her giddiness before looking over and seeing a pulsating light at the very end of the cavern and I move towards it. Lilith looks up and follows after me as I move through the cavern and enter a chamber I had yet to see. All along the walls and ceiling are metal ores that hold crystal shards in them as well. In the very center of the room, however, is a large purple crystal with a rainbow core and that metal ore circling it making a ring about four inches from the crystal and five inches wide. "Now that is cool." She says from behind me and I look up to see her standing there with absolutely no problems what so ever.
"How are you able to enter here, Lilith?" I ask in curiosity and she shrugs her shoulders lightly. What?
"I'm not really sure. I just followed you and the natural magic was soaked up into this crystals, though it has a bit of that metal like that purple one over there." She says motioning to the large crystal before us. I nod my head lightly. Right, well I am in a world of magic, anthro-creatures and can turn into something that doesn't exist. What else can possibly happen in this magical world?
"Right." I mumble before shaking my head to clear it and move forward with her at my side as we stand closer to the large crystal. I press a hand against the large crystal and rub it's smooth side before feeling the rough edges. It looks to have been something of importance from a long, long time ago, but also new as if it were just created not more than a few months ago. Maybe this is somehow tied to me coming here? Or maybe it's something I'm fated to meet? I am unsure.
"I think your supposed to take it." She says as she holds up her crystal. "Like how only I could take this one, maybe this is yours, though the rainbow coloring confuses me, what's with that?" She asks with a look of confusion. I shrug my shoulders lightly before entering my Dragon Form to move it, or try to that is. Then, something amazing happened.
The second I had changed the crystal began to spin around with the ring of the metal spinning the opposite direction. I blink in surprise as the crystal and metal move into each other, fusing together into one singular item. A blinding light shines as their fusion takes place and the two of us cover out eyes, though I note that a little piece of the metal moves to Lilith's crystal and they react the same exact way.
The light fades and before us are two crystals. Lilith's old one now looks to be brighter, it's core looks to be moving as the metal has become symbiotic just as my crystal and metal are though it is larger than her's. She grabs her crystal and has come to find that she can control natural magic similar to me as it flows around her only instead of being crystals, it's snow or ice shards. I grab my crystal and notice how the rainbow colors shift around as if they were alive or like a lava lamp.
I remember what Flaire had said to me about remaking my own personal weapon and I smirk down at the crystal in my claws. Looking up I see Lilith looking at me with a curious gaze. "What's the smirk for?" She asks and I shrug.
"I might be able to make a new blade with these, though I'm not sure how it would work with a crystal." I explain and she nods her head before looking to her own crystal and then back to me.
"Maybe you could help me make mine, please?" She asks and I nod my head.
"Hell yeah I'll help you! Though I get the feeling you might not get a pole weapon." I state and she shrugs.
"Meh, I don't care much for poles anyways. I was just teasing you then." She says with a wink and I nod my head with a small blush. Oh she's good.
"Right." I say before we leave the chamber and move through the cavern. We come across Huolong and the guards standing at the entrance with the metals and a few crystal's with core's, though none of the guards look to be able to touch them, sitting in a barrel I had somehow missed. Weird, didn't know they had one.
"Ah, there you two are." Huolong says while moving towards us before stopping and staring at us as we hold our crystals. "Interesting, you have crystals with cores and metals as well, yes? Interesting indeed." He says while eyeing us for whatever reason before turning away. "We must return to the castle, I have a feeling I know who some of these crystals belong to, however they are difficult to move, perhaps you two could go back to the castle to get them?" He asks us while showing us a sand looking crystal, a darkness looking crystal and windy looking crystal.
"Sure." I say with a now before changing back into my human form and the crystal actually shrinks down to my size. Cool! Lilith wraps and arm around my waist and spreads her wings and we move into the air towards the castle at quicker speeds than I thought she could travel. We move into the hall outside the throne room through the wide pillars and move inside where we find Dusk, Lizzie and Flaire standing there with Saphrah there as well smiling to us kindly.
"Ah, welcome you two." She says and I nod my head to her and she nods her head back in response before raising a ridge. "What are you both here for, may I ask?" She asks and I go to speak, but Lilith beats me to it.
"Father needed the three of them for some crystals." She says and Saphrah nods her head gently.
"I see, well then, off you go." She tells the three of them and when Lilith moves to take me with her to show them the way, I slip from her grip and move to Saphrah.
"I'll see you there Lilith, I just have something I want to ask Saphrah." I tell her and she nods her head before flying off with the three others following after her. Looking to Saphrah as she sits into her throne I smile nervously to her. "So, uh, I'm her claimee, er, mate, er, whatever the word is here." I tell her and she smiles kindly to me again.
"I heard from Huolong, so you are in love with my daughter, hm?" She asks and I rub my arm lightly while sighing softly.
"I'm still a bit unsure, I mean, I feel like I do, but...I...I've never felt like this before. I've never been loved, never felt like I could love." I explain with unease and she nods her head gently as if motioning me to continue. "I...I believe I love her, I can feel she loves me, and I...I'm just not sure." I tell her with a sigh as I feel my emotions getting the better of me and my tears to move down my cheeks.
"I see." Saphrah says as she gets up from her throne and moves to my side and rubs my back gently with two claw tips. "Let me ask you this, do you see yourself without her? Do you always feel as if she is not important? Would you do anything to see her happy? Do you want her to leave your side?" She asks me and I nod my head gently.
"I...I can't see myself without her. She's in my dreams and mind and my heart. She's the most important person in my life, and I never want to see her sad or to see her go. I...Am I in love with her?" I ask and she nods her head gently.
"Yes, you are. You love her and from what I can tell, it's a great deal." She tells me and I nod my head gently as I try to reign in and control my emotion's, but for some strange reason they just keep controlling me. I've been doing well in keeping them quiet, but they just seem to be breaking down the walls I made for them.
"Why am I like this?" I ask and she rubs my back soothingly and shushes me to be silent with a soft, gentle tone of voice.
"I believe you simply need someone's shoulder to cry on." She says just as Lilith bursts into the room in a slight panic with worry in her eyes and Saphrah motions to her. "I believe that perhaps you should talk with her, cry on her shoulder." She says and I look to Lilith with my tears moving down my cheeks still and she moves over to my side. "Take care of him." She says to Lilith before leaving the throne room.
"Cade, what's wrong?" She asks me with a gentle voice and I wrap my arms around her neck and bury my face into her chest as I try my hardest to not cry. Her claws gently rub my back and she says to me with a soothing voice, "Let it out, Cade. Let the tears out." The dam breaks and I cry into her chest as she rubs my back gently and in soothing patterns. Moments pass by before I manage to stop my crying and I look away from her ashamed that I had broke down like that, but she turns my head so I face her. Her eyes are soft and full of love as she speaks to me gently. "What is the matter, Cade? Did something happen?" She asks and I sigh out through sniffs.
"I...I don't understand why I am acting this way. Or why I have all these emotions, or why you treat me so well. I...Do you l-love me?" I ask her and she looks at me as if I had asked her why the sky was blue, or why fire was hot, or possibly what the color purple was.
"Of course I do." She tells me and I sniff softly before blinking away some tears.
"E-Even if we only met a week and a half ago?" I sniff out and she nods her head while looking to me with nothing but love, and I feel it as well.
"Yes, yes I do. Bond or not, I do love you. Do you love me?" She asks and I gulp in some air as I control my breathing. Do I love her? I recall what I had told Saphrah and look deeply into myself to find that it was all true. I can't see myself without her, I can't bare to see her leave, I can't stand to see her sad and how much I do love her, even if I've never experienced it till now. Looking up into her eyes, I nod my head gently.
"Y-Yes. I do." I tell her and she smiles to me softly and kisses me gently on the lips. God I love it when she kisses me!
"Then why the tears? Were you worried that I might not love you anymore? Or that I might end up cheating on you?" She asks and I shake my head gently as I rest my head against her shoulder.
"I...I was confused about love, I was scared that...that maybe I couldn't love. But the truth is, I do love you. I love you so much that it pains me to not tell you." I explain to her as my tears begin to reform as she looks to me with wide eyes. "Do...Do you still love me even after knowing my doubt?" I ask and she nods her head with a gentle smile.
"I do, everyone has doubts. I had many about you, believe me, I did. But after getting to know you, after spending time with you and experiencing this bond with you. I learned that I do love you, that I'd never want to be away from you." She tells me while brushing some of my hairs out of my face and kisses me again which sends shivers up and down my spine. When she parts from me, we look into each other's eyes.
"How cute." A voice hisses out and our heads whip around to Shade standing there with a dark look in his eyes as he glares at me hatefully. "The princess loves the alien ape. How "cute"." He growls as he holds a short sword in his left claw. "Lord Flaire may not think of you as a threat, but I do." He says with a manic look in his eye. What the fuck is this guy talking about?!
"What the Tartarus are you talking about?" Lilith growls out and Shade glares to her slightly.
"You have no right to speak to me, filthy traitor! You probably allowed this thing to bed you!" He hisses and I growl at him. No one calls my dragoness a slut!
"Shut up, you cock sucking asshole!" I spit out in anger and he glares at me with hatred before lunging at me with his blade being readied to stab. I push Lilith to the side before spinning to the left and having the blade of his sword miss me by an inch. He spins around and breathes out green flames that I block with my coat which grows in size like a shield. When the flames dissipate the coat shrinks back down to normal surprising him, before he growls savagely.
"You may have blocked that, but try this!" He roars as he dashes at me and moves to stab me again. I do backward flips as he repeatedly stabs at me while running before simply throwing his sword which I catch as it passes by me though it is more like a great sword or bastard sword. Placing the crystal into my pocket at is had shrunk down to fit in it, yeah don't ask me how I'm not even sure, and wield the blade with both hands as Shade lunges at me with a spear in his claws.
I grunt while using the sword as a shield before entering my Dragon Form not thinking about the crystal I had in my pocket and unaware of what my transformation would actually do to it. Picking the short sword up I spin it around and parry his attempts to skewer me onto it. Looking closer to the spear I notice how it looks similar to the Tower Knight Spear from Demon's Souls. Oh shit, better not get his by this then, don't need to be missing any scales!
Rolling to the side I slash upwards and manage to cut him up the arm but he heals quicker than I thought. Shit, this might actually be more difficult, but maybe I could get in close behind his range! Rolling on my shoulder I manage to bypass his striking attack and I slice to the side cutting his right side slightly. He grunts in pain as he staggers back. Spinning to the side with my tail being a club I knock him over onto his back. Mentally playing my music, The Old Dragonslayer theme plays from Dark Souls 2 and I smirk at him. Oh yeah, this fits perfectly!
As the music plays I notice that my crystal, which had been around my neck with a piece of the metal making a sort of chain, begin to glow and pulsate energy. Rolling backwards away from him as he gets to his feet and heals I pull the crystal from around my neck and it shifts into Ornstein's Spear with lightning and darkness and fire surging around it. Oh yeah, this is awesome! Though I was wanting a sword, but then again, it might be able to change forms! As a quick test I think of a katana and it shifts into one and then back into the spear. Yep, it can change forms!
Spinning the spear around I stab at the air sending a bolt of lighting at him which he bats away with his spear, but the effects cause him to be paralyzed for a few seconds until he breaks free. Okay, so if I time this right I might be able to beat him without killing him, I'd rather not have Huolong or the others breathing down my neck thank you very much! Shade roars and swings his spear at me like a sword and I use the pole to block him and knock him back slightly. I see Lilith from the corner of my eye manages to turn her crystal into a katana that looks like it is made of ice though I know better.
She swipes upward with two claws on the hilt and cuts shade up the back making him grunt in pain. I swing my spear to the side knocking him over before slamming the butt of the pole across his spear knocking it away from him. He growls and breathes out green flames towards Lilith, but her katana absorbs the flames like my crystals do with. She shivers as I see the magic flow about her body as if becomes a part of her. He stares with wide eyes and she glares down at him and as she moves to stab him, Huolong's voice echoes through the room.
"ENOUGH!" He growls out which sounds more like a roar, but I get the feeling that his roars would knock me into the floor and then into the floors below us. "What is going on here?!" He hisses in anger as he stomps towards us. Shade grabs his spear and moves to stab me, but I spin my spear around blocking his attempt to off me, and as he staggers backwards I change my spear into an Uchigatana and slash upwards with both claws on the hilt of my blade cutting him across the chest and making his blood spatter across the floor. The music comes to an end as Shade collapses onto the floor with his spear in my other claw.
"This fucker tried to off us!" I explain with a pant and a growl mixed together as I change my Uchigatana into a necklace in the same style as my birthmark. Huolong looks from me to the downed Shade who is slowly healing from my slash. He narrows his eyes and moves towards us and I move backwards quickly hoping that I am not the one he is targeting. Thankfully I wasn't. Unfortunately I hadn't thought that Shade would do something so risky as to what he did next.
Shade had spun up to his feet while ripping his spear from the ground. It began to glow at the tip and he stabs forward at the ground sending a bluish-green spike made of raw magic crash into the floor before Huolong stopping him. Shade then spins around to face me and fires another spike that flies towards me with incredible speeds. I change into my Dragon Form and make my crystal turn into the Tower Knight Shield which I slam down sending out a wave of natural magic that crashes against the spike and makes a large explosion. I snake my tail around Lilith's hips and pull her close to myself as I use my shield to bassically shield us from the blast.
When the dust clears I shift my shield into the Moonlight Greatsword and look about to see that Shade was bee-lining for the gap between the columns to the outside world. I dash after him and I look up towards the outside world to see that the moon had risen and was completely full. I look to my sword to see blue light spiral around it and I look back to Shade's escaping form and swing forward and to the side sending out a wave of magic that crashes into Shade but then explodes knocking him into a column but not off the edge just yet.
I slide over to him and hold my blade's tip up against his throat while my tail knocks away his spear. He glares up at me in hate as Mizu moves over with some guards to apprehend him, but he then smirks and his spear returns to his hand and points it at Lilith and fires a spike that zooms towards her. Her eyes grow wide as the glowing spike surges towards her quickly and I dash towards her but while doing so another spike it fired and hits me in the shoulder. I grunt in pain but I keep moving forward and use the natural magic around me to move faster as the moon's light seems to cause my crystal spines to glow.
I move in front of her and as Shade moves to flee once again I sigh internally at what was to happen next. I slash towards him with both claws and send out another wave that crashes against his side and explodes sending him off the edge and into the night air. The spike stabs into my side and I stabs my sword down before Lilith like a shield just as the spike explodes sending me crashing across the floor and into a column as I feel nothing but pain.
I look up to see the full moon shining down upon me and I feel myself slowly being healed as I look up at the moon while changing back into my human form. I close my eyes softly as I feel my shoulder popping back into place once again before opening my eyes to see that the stars were coming into view. Looks like Luna is putting up one hell of a night, huh? A certain constellation forms that I know from earth as the "Draco" constellation and I smile softly...
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Lilith's 1st Pov
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. First we were attacked by Shade and then father comes in with guards, Flaire, Dusk and Lizzie and stops me from killing that fucking asshole! And when I thought the stalker, as Shade for whatever reason would follow me around all the fucking time, was to be taken away he attacks father and us!
But thankfully Cade had made that shield to protect us and block out the glowing spear head of little raw magic. Cade had moved after Shade before I could understand what was going on as my ears were ringing and my vision was blurry as I had tried to spot was happening. A flash of bluish-green light makes me moves a claw over my eyes but then as my vision focuses I see a glowing spear head blazing towards me quickly and I stare with wide eyes as it moves faster than I could react.
I had noticed Cade standing over Shade looking to me with wide eyes and then in a flash of gold flame he had appeared before me like he teleported while sending out a crescent moon shaped wave of green magic that knocks Shade off the edge and into the night sky. He had then stabbed his sword into the floor in front of me like it were a shield and then an explosion later I see him bouncing across the floor and into a pillar near the edge reverting back into his human form looking up at the full moon as the stars come in.
I grab his sword only to have it vanish and Cade's healed form to glow with his necklace returned around his neck. I rush over to him as my curved-sword changes into a ring that rest's on my ring claw, the idea came to me after hearing about how humans have rings on their ring fingers from Cade, and slide down next to him and look down into his uneven colored eyes. He smiles up to me softly and grabs my right claw and kisses it gently making my cheeks heat up slightly.
"What was that for?" I ask and he shrugs his shoulders lightly with a small goofy grin forming onto his lips. I feel my heart flutter softly as I absolutely love those grins and smiles he gives me.
"Dunno, just felt like kissing your claw since I can't reach your lips." He tells me softly and I smirk down to him with lidded eyes and bend down slightly. As I press my lips up to his he wraps his arms around my neck and pulls himself up closer to me as I pull him up closer to myself and deepen the kiss. I feel his hands lock with each other and I grabs his hips tightly as I feel him moan softly against my lips. Divine's he sounds so cute when he moans.
Separating from each other he rests his head onto my shoulder and I smile down at him as he smiles up at me with eyes filled with love. I feel the floor move slightly and I look up to see father standing over us while looking towards the night sky in the direction of where Shade had gone. Something doesn't seem right about this.
"This is not good at all." He states with his rumbling, powerful voice that shakes me to my core from how loud he is.
"What do you mean, sir?" Cade asks and father looks down to us with a serious look that makes me worry slightly.
"That spear Shade was using is from the Drake's, but how they managed to place raw magic into it worries me. They are not supposed to be able to use magic, and yet they have found a way to do so. Not only that, but Shade holds a form of hate and grudge against you, Cade." He rumbles out and I feel Cade nod from against my shoulder and chest.
"I see." He says and father nods before looking back to the night sky and begins speaking again.
"But I fear that perhaps he will try to attack you again, but will have allies with him if he has truly joined their side. My spies have told me that the Drake's have been in search of something, I believe that something may be a weapon of some sort or possibly someone." He explains and Cade nods while getting to his feet as I get to mine but I keep him by my side with my tail being snaked around his slender hips.
"I see." He says before looking up to father with a grim look. "Do you think they might have found some of the metals and crystals similar to ours or the ones in Equestria?" He asks and I look up to father to see him nodding his head gently.
"Perhaps they have, but they might not be able to use their full extent as you can from what I have seen with you changing weapons so quickly and with ease." He says and Cade nods his head lightly while placing a hand up to his chin lightly.
"That's true. Hm." He mumbles out but is quieted as father turns away and strides towards Mizu and whispers orders to her. She nods her head and moves over to us with two guards at her sides.
"I am to escort you both to your room. Lord Huolong believe's that Shade might attack you both in the middle of the night." She explains and I nod my head gently. Great, so I'm to have guards watching us! Just great!
"Alright, well we should get going then." Cade states and we move towards my tower where the room is inside the castle as the two guards look to be unable to fly. We move up the many stairs and I open the chamber doors where I slip Cade in first and I follow with Mizu behind me as the two guards stand outside. Oh good, we're having company! Fuck...
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Cade's 1st Pov
I stand in our room with Mizu in it with us. Oh good, so not only am I going to disrobe, but I'm to disrobe in front of my new friend! I just hope she isn't a pervert. I rub my neck gently before stopping and looking about the room as I feel eyes on me. Glancing to Lilith and then Mizu to see them speaking to each other near the doors of the chamber and I glance to find nothing and then to the doors that leads to the ledge where Lilith and I will generally land whenever she carries me up to this room.
Seeing that nothing else is in the room with us I simply chalk it up to my nerves being on high what with Mizu being in the room when it has only been me and Lilith in the room for the past week. I breath out softly before jumping slightly as I feel a claw grab my shoulder lightly and I spin my head around to see Lilith standing there. "Let's head to bed." She says and I look over to see Mizu sitting in the love seat in the corner of the room with her sword laying against her shoulder.
"How do you want me to sleep?" I ask and Lilith gives me a look of "You-Know-How" and I sigh softly while glancing to Mizu and she rolls her eyes softly before spreading her wings and moving behind me blocking me from Mizu's view, though I notice her raising a ridge before Lilith put herself in the way. As I dress down I fail to fight back the heat burning it's way to my cheeks nor can I help not feeling as if I am putting on a "show" for Lilith and Mizu. Why do I constantly feel so weird?!
After undressing I lightly tug on Lilith's tail letting her know I was finished and I slip into the bed and Lilith makes a head motion as if rolling her eyes and I send her a silent glare making her smile sheepishly and Mizu to look completely confused before furrowing her ridges. "Why are your clothes off you and on the floor?" She asks and I motion to Lilith who gives her a sheepish grin.
"I like to have him sleeping in nothing." She says with a wink making Mizu look to me in surprise and I grumble softly under my breath. "Only thing is, I can look but I can't touch." She huffs out with a slight disappointed tone making Mizu smirk to her in a mocking way.
"It would seem that you are being "whipped" as the Griffin's say, yes?" She teases and Lilith grumbles with a low growl. Haha! I knew they had that saying here!
"Shut up." She growls out with a grumble before joining me in bed and holds me close to herself. I rest my head onto her shoulder while having my naked form pressed up against her body. Her claws lightly graze over my back making me shiver in pleasure as her claw tips send chills across my skin. I look up to Lilith to find that her eyes are trained on me and I feel my blush return in full force and I sigh softly before nestling myself closer to her form and allow sleep to take me.
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Cade's 1st Pov
Waking up was strange as I had woken up to finding Mizu right next to me staring down at me. I yelp in surprise ultimately waking Lilith up who mumbled something about sausage's or something like that. Hey! Don't look at me like that, I was a little too busy trying to stay on the bed with a military dragoness staring down at me while sitting on her knee's over me! You try to remain calm!
"Mizu?" Lilith mutters out as she rubs the sleepiness out of her eyes with her claw tips lightly. "Why are you startling my mate?" She asks and Mizu shrugs as she stays over me with my covered up junk between her legs, which makes Lilith's eyes widen in surprise. "What the Tartarus are you doing to him?" She asks and Mizu shrugs once again.
"He was tossing and turning in his sleep talking about blood and I had came over to wake you up, but as I moved to you, he hugged onto me for dear life and so I just sat like this through the night." She says tiredly and I give her a sad smile while letting go of her hips and instead of getting off, she flops backwards. "How you can sleep with this thing is beyond me! He has a steel grip!" She exclaims and I blush heavily as Lilith giggles softly.
"I generally hold him in my sleep, though I think I let go of him when he did me. Why were you holding her anyways?" She asks me and I shrug my shoulders while giving a gentle, nervous smile. Hell if I knew!
"I'm not sure, maybe I was having a nightmare?" I state and she nods her head gently before looking back to Mizu.
"Was he crying in his sleep and saying things about monster and he didn't do it?" She asks and Mizu nods her head gently before looking up with a thoughtful look.
"Yes, he did. But he also kept talking, like there was something else here with him." She says and I freeze. Something here with me? That can't be right, I mean there was no one here!
"Did anyone stop by? Like peak into the room throughout the night?" I ask and Mizu shakes her head.
"Negative, it was quiet." She says before moving away from the bed and towards the door and opens it while telling the guards something. I look to Lilith to see her getting up to her feet and moves to her bathroom.
"Come on, let's go get ourselves clean." She tells me and I nod my head gently while following after her quickly as Mizu had turned around and was watching me with a curious look and my cheeks could not be brighter red than at that moment. I as enter the bathroom I slide into the warm waters and close my eyes gently as my blush leaves me. Lilith slides in next to me and holds me close to herself and I lay my head back against her shoulder.
Her claws lightly graze across my bare chest and my skin tingles as she moves her claw tips across my skin. I shiver and blush once again as she rubs my legs gently and I feel strange jolts of pleasure course through me at her gentle touch. Her lips lightly press against my neck and I muffle a small moan that tries to escape past my lips. She gives me a lidded look and I gasp softly as her claw tips lightly poke very sensitive bits, ehem.
I move myself to my front presses up against her form and she gives me a pouting look and I pant softly from just regaining control over my speeding heart and rapid breathing. She looks to me with a ridge raised a teasing smile gracing her lips and I huff softly and look away. "Pervert." I huff out and she rolls her eyes before kissing me gently on the lips making me smile softly. "A good pervert." I tease and she grins before sliding a claw up my leg and- hello! I send her glare while blushing before hissing out, "Let go of my butt you super perv!" and she huffs and does as asked before I fold my arms over my chest and swim away slightly as the bath is still incredibly deep for me for some reason.
"You are a tease." She huffs out and I look away in annoyance.
"Yeah, yeah." I sigh out before moving about through the water before simply diving into the deeper part and open my eyes to find that they didn't burn like chlorine or soapy water would, but that the water made my eyes see sharper through the water and even Lilith's form as she strides to me. Weird, maybe the water is healing my eyes or something? She stands before where I am and I move around swiftly in he water like a fish or some other aquatic creature and smile softly to myself as I poke her belly gently.
She jumps slightly and I inwardly laugh at making her do so, before maneuvering around her claws which try to grab me, but obviously fail to do so. I move around her quickly and swiftly before noticing that I am not feeling any sort of pain or that my lungs don't burn from being under the water for so long. Must be something to do with me becoming a Dragon or something? Or maybe it's because of something else? Oh well, it's pretty cool.
She moves under the water and looks at me and I wave with a smile before spinning around through the spacious spring and looking up to see that I am not floating up to the surface and wonder if perhaps I can control my mass in the water. Then again it could just be because the water is magical and doesn't follow the same rules and laws as normal water does. I look down to see Lilith moving towards me like a crocodile or snake as she swims in a serpentine pattern as she gets closer to me.
I give her a smirk before moving down against the floor of the spring like bath and swim underneath her while turning onto my back. She presses my lips to mine taking me by surprise before I close my eyes and press my form up against hers as we share a passionate underwater kiss with each other before moving back up to the surface for air. I look to Lilith and smile up at her as I kick my legs to keep my head up as she stands and looks down at me with a smile.
"Well that was certainly an interesting moment." She says while snaking her tail around my hips and pulls me up into the air and I flush heavily while placing my hands over my crotch and keeping my legs together.
"L-Lilith?!" I cry out and she raises a ridge to me as if I were being a fool.
"I've already seen what your bits look like, so why hide them from me?" She asks and I go to retort but I stop and blink in surprise. Huh. Moving my hands and letting my legs relax she smiles and nods her head. "And I still like what I am seeing." She purrs softly and I blush more before huffing.
"Let's just go get dried off. I think Mizu is getting tired of us being in here for so long." I tell her and she nods her head while moving through the water with me still being held up in the air. "Please put me down." I ask and she gives me a smirk as a gleam forms in her eye making mine widen.
"If you say so~." She says in a teasing way and I shake my head quickly.
"Wait a min- !!" And she drops me. Great, just great! I get up from the water, as we were in the shallow end of the spring like tub, and I give her a glare as she winks to me before flapping her wings slightly and we are instantly dry. Only downside is that now I am cold as all fucking hell!! "N-N-N-N-Not! F-Funny!!" I growl out and she shrugs her shoulders lightly before striding out of the room swaying her hips from side to side in a hypnotic, seductive way and I stare in a trance like state before she stops and looks at me from over her shoulder with an innocent look.
"Aren't you coming to bed with me?" She asks innocently but I hear the underlying lust in her tone making me shake my head to clear it and follow after her. As we leave the room I notice that Mizu is...right in front of me?! I squeak and move behind Lilith who rolls her eyes as Mizu's are wide and unblinking as if she just saw me naked. Oh wait. She just did!
"Well now I can see why Lilith likes to have you out of those clothes." She says with her wide eyes as she then shakes her head to clear it.
"Mizu! What the hell?!" I exclaim and she shrugs with a sheepish smile. Oh so now your all buddy buddy with me now that I basically flashed you?!
"Hey don't blame me! I was just walking over here to close the doors." She says in defense and I stop and blink before rolling forward and changing my necklace, which had been on me the entire time and yet I somehow did not notice it, and change it into a serrated falchion and crouch low to the ground as I look underneath the bed before around the entire room.
After finding that the room did not have someone unwanted in it, I stand up straight while changing my sword back into a necklace and look back to Mizu and Lilith to find them looking at me strangely. "What?" I ask and Mizu rolls her eyes.
"The wind pushed open the doors, not someone you idiot. I've been here the whole time!" She huffs out and I grin to her sheepishly before she looks down and nods her head lightly. "Yep, seeing why indeed." She says and Lilith nods and I pull the sheet off the bed and wrap it around myself while glaring at them.
"Stop looking!" I yell out. Perverts.
"But you said I could look!" Lilith whines and I face palm. My dragoness-friend is being a pervert again!
"Not you! You!" I groan out while pointing to Mizu who huffs.
"Well forgive me for noticing something that looks remotely interesting!" She huffs and I roll my eyes before moving onto the bed.
"Whatever." I sigh out before rubbing my eyes gently. "Can we please just get some sleep? I'm tired from all of the shit that went down today." I sigh out softly and Lilith nods as she moves to my side on the bed and rubs my back gently. Her claw tips feel like heaven as I lean into her touch and she keeps rubbing my back gently while running her claw tips against my skin gently, lovingly. I close my eyes and press myself up against her and drift off to sleep.
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Unknown 1st Pov
Damn that ape! Damn him to the depths of Tartarus! I fly across the night air as I hold the spear-lance that Elfiere had given me to get rid of the monkey, but evidently it seemed to be that he is stranger than I had originally thought. And that crystal! It took on multiple weapon forms and shapes that I have never seen before, let alone the fact that they could do their own magic like this spear can but of different elements.
I pass over the southern mountains as head to the rendezvous he had told me to go to on the off chance that I had failed or if I had completed the mission. I had told him that I would not be able to kill him, but I may have been able to poison him as the magic is raw poison magic. How they were able to get it or infuse it with weapons is beyond me, but perhaps this will be useful news for him. What "Lord" Huolong doesn't know is that there is already someone else among his ranks who is helping the Drake's with their plans to not kill us off, no, they simply want to take over and have rights like us.
I glide down before a few Drake's who I know to be Enrassha and Overrdik, my friends and helpers in gaining the Drake's onto my side, moving towards me with curved swords in claw. "Shade, what has happened? Why are you bleeding?!" Enrassha asks quickly and I wave a claw through the air.
"Don't worry about it." I tell her before looking to Ovverdik with a grim look. "I need to speak to Elfiere, it's about the mission." I tell him and he nods while leading me to him with Enrassha at my side as she gives me worried glances and I smile softly to her. "Don't worry, I will be fine." I tell her and she nods her head gently before we enter a large hut covered in rocks to look like the side of a mountain.
As I stride into the hut I see Elfiere who stands at about half the height of Geose, that brainless idiot, but has pale white scales and pitch black underbelly scales along with golden snake eyes that shake me to my core, the weird fuck..
"Hello, Shade. I take it that the mission wasn't a complete failure?" He asks and I nod my head gently while holding out the spear.
"I shot him twice with the magic, though it didn't seem to do much. But I have more imprtant news." I tell him and he looks to me with an interested gaze as he stops talking to one of his soldiers.
"Oh? Do tell." He says and I nod my head firmly.
"I had witnessed the ape using a crystal that could change it's shape and form, along with the princess Lilith his, ugh, bonded, using this same kind of crystal. It may prove beneficial to us if we keep an eye out for such things." I explain and Elfiere nods his head lightly and gains a thoughtful look as if digesting the information.
"I see, thank you for the information, but I take it that they know that you are now on our side, correct?" He asks with a slight grin and I nod my head lightly making him chuckle for some reason. "That's just fine, as we have someone else in their castle keeping a close eye on them." He states and I nod my head lightly as he turns away from me. "You have done well, Shade, please do keep me informed on our helper when they are capable of relaying information to you, yes?" He asks and I nod my head firmly.
"Yes sir, but what about the ape and if he is still alive?" I ask and he gives me a disturbing smile.
"Oh don't you worry about him, my friend, as I already have some very talented Drake's moving towards him as we speak. They are easily capable of sneaking up onto this...thing and most likely will carry out their mission." He says with a hiss and I raise a ridge towards him while asking the silent question and he hisses out an eerie chuckle. "The mission is to capture." He states with a wide grin and I nod while inwardly shivering with a tremble in fear.
"I see, sir. And if they are to catch him?" I ask. He wags a finger out in front of me in a mocking way that makes my blood boil in rage.
"Ah ah ah! That's for me to know, and you to find out later." He hisses out with his raspy, high pitched voice before cackling sending shivers down my spine. "Now you will be heading to the frozen north to pick up some precious cargo for me." He hisses out and I look to him in curiosity.
"May I know why?" I ask and he gives me a blood freezing smile.
"You are looking for a smooth, red, curved horn from a fallen king that had recently been defeated by the Equestrian's. I have already sent out Ultarrk to gather our allies from the hidden serpents." He states with a chuckling hiss before waving a claw through the air. "Be gone with you!" He orders and I bow my head to him before leaving with Enrassha and Ovverdik along with a few other Drake's I had no care for to go towards the empire of crystals. From behind me I can hear the cackling laughter of Elfiere and the screams of those who had come too close to our base.
I shiver before taking flight with the thought of not failing and feeling his ire upon me like so many others have before me, but the only difference is, I'm still alive, and they are currently missing from the world as a whole.