[I do not own Teen Titans or any characters mentioned in this story. Hi, guess who's finally back! Yeah, I lost muse to write for a while but the combination of my weird dreams and otp prompts helped me get it back! I had a weird dream about like mythical Joey and Kyd and this happened? Kyd is now a dragon shapeshifter and Joey is a human sized fairy. Oops.]
Joseph ran as fast as he could through the thick woods he called home. He shut his eyes and tried his hardest to block out tears as he heard the chaotic noise that was a crowd of hunters chasing him for his wings.
A few days ago, he had been hanging out with his other friends at the beach when Kole spotted something ominous. A huge, terrifying black and purple dragon with evil red eyes was washed up on the shore of the beach. Kole refused to even go near it, but as Joey got closer he noticed that the terrifying beast was left helpless and pitiful looking while one of its majestic wings was trapped underneath a boulder. It was going to lay here and die if Joseph didn't do something.
Although it took the smaller boy almost a full hour, he finally managed to release the beast who gave Joey a quick look of confusion before bolting into the sky at an amazing speed. When Joey arrived back at the beach, Kole and Malcolm were appalled at what he'd done. How dare he let the dragon go free? He should have killed it! After all, fairies and dragons had always been mortal enemies.
Soon enough, word spread back at the cavern to the other fairfolk of what Joseph had done. There was huge argument between Joseph and the Council, who sought to punish Joey for doing what he thought was right. Eventually, after Joey's telling off of the entire fairy population, Joseph made the decision to run away from the cavern and find somewhere else to live.
It was a rash decision of course, but the first few night on his own weren't so terrible. That is, until the fairy-hunting humans just outside the cavern found out. Soon enough Joey spent most of his night fleeing in terror from being chased endlessly through the forest. It was an easy escape most of the time, but this time he came too close and one of the hunters had managed to use a knife and cut his left wing. It wasn't so bad that it wouldn't heal, but it did hinder him from flying away and he knew very well he couldn't outrun them.
Joey came to a stop from his running when he ran into a tree and felt to the ground in a heap. This was it, he was going to be cut up and eaten, or sold for science, or even stuffed like an animal and mounted in some human museum. The large pack of humans slowly gathered around him as he curled in on himself, trying to ignore the flaming pain in his wing.
Just as what looked like the leader of the hunters crouched down and was holding his dagger up to strike Joseph, his eyes widen in terror and he stumbled back yelling in his human language. Soon all of the hunters looked like the very deer they hunted, stunned and ready to scream. Joseph looked up at them confused before realizing there was probably something behind him. Before he could turn around and see what monster was going to eat him, two large claws pounded the ground on both sides of him and he watched as a large seething dragon stood over him protectively. The same dragon he saved on the beach. The creature roared a terrible, guttural sound of anger at the frozen men whose hair were flying wildly due to the wind the roar created. The dragon leant down to their height, blowing a puff of smoke through it's nose right in their faces causing them to break from their trance and scream all the way back from where they came.
The dragon shook with breathy laughter before looking down at Joseph who was still awe struck from the whole event. After deciding he was alright, the dragon slowly turned around and started marching back to whatever hobble was home to it. As Joey saw a massive tail signal it's complete turnaround, he broke from his trance and half flew, half stumbled to the dragon.
"Knaht uoy os hcum! Od uoy evah a eman?...olleh? Era uoy gninetsil ot em?" said the small boy in his natural fairfolk language, struggling to keep up with the larger creature. He soon felt like an idiot when he remembered that dragons don't speak fairy, they speak human. He focused for a moment, trying to remember any of what Malcolm had yammered on about when he came back from a visit to the human's world.
"Tha...Thank you! Thank you so much for saving me! Do you have a name?" The fairy boy asked happily. The dragon simply continued trodding to who knows where, completely ignoring Joseph's attempts to communicate and hoping maybe he'd just fly home. Joseph frowned before running in the way of the dragon's path, finally capturing his attention.
"It's rude to ignore someone when they are trying to talk to you!" He yelled indignantly with his hands on his hips. The dragon rolled it's ruby eyes before they widened when it realized the fairy's left wing was clipped. No wonder the child had been roaming around the woods alone, he'd probably lost his way.
The dragon stared at the fairy for a few more seconds before nonchalantly picking Joseph up and laying him on its scaly back, continuing its path as usual. Joseph made a few angry noises as he was picked up, but just couldn't bring himself to fight back once he was on the dragon's back. It felt nice to (kind of) be tall for once, and the creature was awfully warm. Joseph hadn't been able to sleep in nearly two days, and it barely took him a minute to fall asleep on the guardian like creature, figuring he'd deal with his problems later.
When the fairy finally woke up from his long nap, he was more than confused. He was in a cave of some sort that was lit by scattered torches glowing blue and green fire, he was surrounded by gold and jewels and every shiny thing you could name. Before he could really explore, an impending female voice broke him of his thoughts.
"About time you finally woke up. So Kyd Wykkyd was telling the truth, a real fairy. He sure knows how to pick them I suppose…" came the condescending voice from the shadows of the cave.
"W-Who are you? Where am I? Where is the dragon?" The fairy asked nervously, ignoring the shaking in his legs.
"Oh calm down hun, I'm not gonna hurt you. And Kyddie had made sure that every creature here on Tundra knows you're not on the menu." Said the voice as it's owner finally stepped towards a still shaking Joseph.
A female only a few inches taller than him walked out of the shadows. She was most obviously a witch of some sort. She had striking pink hair and cat slit pink eyes, her attire screamed 'mess with me and I'll turn you into a frog'.
"If anything, you should be worrying about where Kyd is and apologizing to him. You gave the poor guy a heart attack when he couldn't figure out how to patch your wing up. I helped him through it of course." The witch said sharply.
"Wait," The boy finally replied, "Kyd Wykkyd...that...that's the dragon. Where is he?"
The girl merely shrugged before disappearing with a snap of her fingers, leaving Joseph more than a little uneasy. He quickly ran outside the cave, the bandaging around his wing still hindering his flight. He finally found the dragon, or Kyd Wykkyd, sitting on a ledge and looking completely sick with himself. Of course now he wasn't so much a dragon.
Joseph had heard fairy rumors of dragon's being shape shifters but this was incredible. Where was once a mighty, terrifying beast sat a lonely teenage boy who kept fiddling with his makeshift hair tie.
The boy was tall, obviously much taller than Joseph, and still had his ominous fangs. His hair was black and his skin was pale, his eyes ruby red like the dragon's. He had sharp, black nails that were almost claw like and his clothes were black and purple with strange markings over them much like the dragon's skin. He also seemed to keep the horns which protruded from his hair, and his whip like tail that flicked back and forth behind him like a feline's. He had pointed pale ears and his right one seemed to have a part that looked to be bitten off.
Deep down, Joseph knew this was a bad idea but he honestly didn't care anymore.
"Hey." He said to get the boy's attention as he sat beside him on the ledge. "Thank you...for everything. If you want to talk we can, you look really lost in thought." He said softly, as if not to scare the half reptile away.
'Kyd Wykkyd' hung his head for a few moments in what looked like half anguish and half anger before finally speaking to his new companion.
"This is your fault. This disease I seem to have." He said shortly and angrily. Before Joseph could puff up and retaliate however, Kyd interrupted him oh so rudely.
"I've never felt like this and now I have some stupid disease, and I'm going to die. When you helped me on the beach, I felt...weird. My stomach felt all light and I got really confused so I flew away. But until I found you again I kept feeling weird, but not in the good way like before. When I did find you I was happy for no reason - I've never felt happy before for anything but gold. And then when I brought you here and let you sleep...you...when I layed you down in my sleeping horde you made this face and smiled and my face started heating up more than usual. Not like a fever though...and I couldn't stop smiling…Jinx keeps telling me I have 'love', but I don't know what that is. This whole thing is your fault now fix it! I don't wanna feel...sad again. I don't wanna be sad and alone like I was before when you leave. I was fine until I met you so fix it stupid fairy!" The dragon rambled softly at first, finally yelling the last part angrily.
The fairy boy simply smiled at him before giggling cutely at the angry teen's expense, knowing that what he had wasn't any disease.
"Listen, you're going to be fine, you don't have a disease. And...I...If you'd be generous enough to let me stay...I don't think I am leaving. I ran away from the cavern and I don't think the woods will be welcoming me back anytime soon…" The fairy sighed sadly, unaware of how his sadness sent a pang through the other boy's usually stone heart.
"I'd...You can stay as long as you want. I just...don't want to feel sad again…" The boy mumbled in response.
"You…" Kyd said as he wrapped his arms around the other boy in what the humans called a 'hug'. "...you make me not sad. You make me...h...h-happy." Kyd said, almost spatting out the last word like it was some disgusting creature.
"I'm very glad that I can make you happy." Joseph responded, melting into the embrace. The strange boy smelt like ash and burning wood - but it was nice.
Kyd Wykkyd smiled the smallest smile you could ever see, hidden from the fairy boy 'Joseph' and maybe...just maybe he giggled a little.
[I'm hoping to turn this into a full story - I really like this idea! Hopefully I won't drop it like I have others. Reviews are wanted!]