Hello everybody! I'm back with another new fic! Yay!

The idea for this one originally came from Nakedmolerat05, although I tweaked it quite a bit. This one's for you, Nm05!

This is likely going to be the only chapter you guys'll get this weekend, 'cause I have to go to the Harrisburg Sports Show with my family. We've got a booth for the campground this year, so we've got advertising space. I'm not complaining, since the more campers we have, the better a paycheck I'll get in the summer. XD

Enjoy!

Disaster

Piper was in her lab with Weaverbird, examining a crystal they'd found on a small uncharted terra. It wasn't like any crystal she had ever seen; it had been carved into the shape of a snake that curled around to bite its own tail. The crystal was a dark green, and a pale green light circled endlessly around inside it.

"Any idea what it is yet?" Piper jumped when the query was issued; she had gotten so absorbed in her work, she hadn't noticed Aerrow leaning against the doorframe.

"No idea," Piper replied with a shrug, "There might be a clue in its shape, but other than that…" Piper trailed off, gazing at the crystal perplexedly. Aerrow watched the light circle around inside it; it had a mesmerizing effect. Aerrow could feel himself involuntarily zoning out as he watched it. He shook himself back to reality. Weaverbird tilted her head at it thoughtfully.

"Its shaped like an Ouroboros." Weaverbird muttered. Aerrow and Piper turned to look at her.

"An Ouroboros," Weaverbird explained, "Is a symbol for many things. The paradox, eternity, chaos, impossibility, etcetera. The snake, or Dragon in some cases, that swallows its tail has been an alchemical figure for centuries." Piper turned her gaze back to the odd crystal.

"I wonder if its effect has something to with alchemy." Piper mused, one hand on her chin. Aerrow raised an eyebrow.

"What, like turning iron into gold, or finding a way to live forever?" Aerrow asked. Piper nodded distractedly. She picked up a small hand torch to work on stabilizing it. There was a bright spark of light, and a loud whooshing noise. Piper shrieked in surprise, and Aerrow shielded his eyes.

When the light faded, Aerrow blinked, trying to get his eyes to refocus. Piper blinked back at him, equally dazed. Aerrow was about to say something, but a tearing pain in his shoulder blades cut him off and he gasped. Considering Piper's equally painful cry, Aerrow guessed she was experiencing the same sensation. He fell to his knees. Aerrow shut his eyes and gritted his teeth against the agony building in his body. It was getting almost unbearable when Weaverbird gave a sharp squawk of surprise, and darkness took him.

Aerrow gave a small moan and opened his eyes. All he could see was a pair of slit-pupiled blue eyes. Weaverbird moved back a bit as Aerrow sat up.

"What happened?" Aerrow asked groggily. Weaverbird stared at him, her eyes the size of dinner plates. Aerrow looked around for Piper. He yelped in shock to see a midnight blue Dragoness lying where Piper had been sitting only moments before. Aerrow looked down at his hands… Or rather, his paws.

Aerrow looked at Weaverbird for an explanation. Weaverbird wordlessly indicated to the mirror hanging on Piper's wall. Aerrow peered at his reflection in shock.

A ruby red Drake with slit-pupiled green eyes stared back at Aerrow from the mirror. A shard of blue crystal was evident under the plated scales beside his left foreleg. Aerrow placed a paw against his reflection as if to prove to himself that it was real.

"This has to be a dream…" Aerrow muttered sitting back on his haunches. He prodded Piper awake with one paw. "Piper, wake up!"

"What is it Aerrow?" Piper muttered groggily. She stared at the sky knight for a few moments before realizing he wasn't exactly human anymore. Piper gasped in shock, sitting up quickly. She caught sight of her reflection in her mirror and stared at it numbly, her amber eyes wide.

"So that's what that crystal does…" Piper said faintly. Aerrow was speechless. Weaverbird only stared at them. Aerrow was about to say something, when the sound of Finn's high pitched scream interrupted them. The three Dragons rushed out of Piper's lab in the direction of the bridge.

Aerrow and Piper galloped onto the bridge to find that they weren't the only ones who had transformed. A bright yellow Dragon with blue eyes was staring at his reflection in the window, a horrified expression on his face. A stocky red-brown creature with a horn on his nose was picking himself up off the floor. A green Dragon-like creature was staring at his paws.

"I suppose it doesn't just turn humanoids into Dragons." Weaverbird mused, "Junko turned into a Firedrake, and Stork looks similar to a Lung from terra Orienta, but is obviously not the same species." Weaverbird tilted her head at the other creatures.

Stork's new body was long and lithe, and wingless. A pair of slightly spiraling horns curved from his head. A shaggy greenish-black mane ran down the length of his neck and back, and flopped down over his eyes. A shock of green-black hair drifted from the end of his new tail. His ears were rather similar to his original ones, and the silver piercings had somehow managed to remain in place His wide yellow eyes continued to stare blankly at his paws.

"Stork?" Aerrow called, "Are you okay?" Stork returned Aerrow's gaze.

"This is a terrible disaster," Stork finally choked out, "How am I supposed to pilot the Condor without thumbs?" he wiggled his toes as if to prove his point.

Junko's body was similar to a Dragon's except without the plated scales. The horns that curled from his head were rather like a goat's, and one small horn sprouted from the end of his nose. The wings on his back were rather shorter than a Dragon's would be.

"Uh… What happened?" Junko asked, his grey eyes confused. Aerrow shrugged, feeling the new weight of his wings move at the same time as his shoulders. He couldn't help but find it disconcerting.

"We're not really sure either," Piper replied, the new crest on her head rising slightly, "that new crystal we found did this to us."

"You mean we're gonna be stuck like this?!" Finn yelped, his yellow scales paling slightly.

"Only until we find a way to reverse the effects of the crystal." Piper replied. Weaverbird tilted her head at them all.

"I think it's an improvement." She said dryly. Stork moaned with dread.

Ooh, this is going to get interesting! -laughs- Stay tuned!