Chapter 1

Location: Forest clearing

Time: Around 10:00pm

"Oh shit!" I jumped back surprised, examining the titanic azure blue coloured creature that smashed down in front of me. It was a serpent of sorts, it doesn't have a torso or any legs but one interesting feature is that it does have a... unicorn horn?, and also two large fins coming out both side of its head.

"Um, I-I'm s-s-sorry to disturb you!" I quickly stated as the last thing I want to do is piss off a dragon.

"*sigh*, don't worry, I don't plan on hurting you, human" a (surprisingly) feminine voice replied, although they sounded weary.

"T-thank you..." I said back. "Ummm... I don't know where to start but, uhh- a-are you ok?" I asked, very slowly approaching. "Yeah...I'm fine." The serpent answered, trying to hide an obvious injury "Are you sure? Because that scar tells me otherwise." I step even closer to the dragon. "Just let me have a look..." but as I reach out she coils up like a snake and conceals the wound. This immediate reaction causes me to stumble back onto the grass behind with a thud. I look back up at the dragon with a concerned look, but she only glares back at me. "Fine, it's your choice to be that way." I replied, shrugging my shoulders. "Ok then where were we? Oh right!... nice to meet you, miss dragon!" I somewhat cheerfully said, trying to lighten the mood. I extended my arm out for a couple of seconds but then lowered it back into my pocket as realising my immediate mistake, as the dragon humorously raised an eyebrow at me. "I'm just trying to make conversation, ok?" I said, staring at my shoes.

"Alright then.." she finally responded. I casually sit down to get comfortable to chat but to my surprise, a large crimson arcane symbol appeared in front of her. "Woooohh." I exclaimed, then in a flash of light, the once gigantic monster transformed into a beautiful young woman sitting on her knees a few metres in front of me. She has short dark brown hair with faded purple colouring at the end, the middle of her fringe was stopped by her... unicorn horn? Ok, I have to ask about that. She also has a pair of deep sapphire eyes that look really beautiful, but the thing that (admittedly) caught my attention were her very large breasts, like they're really big. But I seemed to miss the obvious fact that she's completely naked.

"Hmm!" I let out, entirely diverting my gaze. I mean it's not that i don't want to see her naked, but I gotta show some respect at least. "What's wrong?" She asked, not understanding the situation. "Nothing terrible, but it's just that your really very naked right now..." As I say this I unzip and remove my jumper to give to her. "H-here, please wear this." I stuttered, succumbing to the chilling breeze of the evening air. "Oh, thank you." She replied trying her hardest to try and fit on my small jumper with varying levels of success, I mean she quickly learned how to zip it up but only got halfway up her body and got stuck at her breasts only being able to cover up a tiny bit pass her nipples. I turn my head back facing her and try to relax. After a few seconds I decide to say the first thing that came into my head.

"I didn't know dragons could transform into humans" I stated. "Oh yeah, us dragons use it to interact with humans more easily, plus it does give us somewhat more freedom to move around in." She replied. "Interesting, oh by the way, I didn't seem to catch your name?" "Oh right sorry, it's Elma Joui! Nice to meet you!" She answered politely with a heartwarming smile. "Nice to meet you Elma, I'm Tom." I reply back enthusiastically. As a few moments of silence pass, I decide to ask another question. "So Elma, have you lived here all your life or have you come from another world?" I ask genuinely curious. "I came here from another world." She said with hint of defeat. "Oh... why's that?" I responded not wanting to sound demanding. "Well… I'm here because I almost lost a battle to my rival and if I hadn't escaped, then they would of killed me..." She said. "Oh..." is all I can say back.

"But hey, don't worry, I'm sure you'll get better an- actually, sorry to ask but... where is the scar from before?" As I said this Elma hunched over slightly and unzipped the jacket to reveal a large bleeding gash going down her right arm. "Oh shit!" I exclaimed as a hopped over to Elma to inspect the wound. It looks really bad, "Are you ok?!" "Yeah, I'm fine, I mean it hurts a little but I've experienced worse before" She replies confidently, with me still staring at the wound. "Ok, but it still needs to be treated to not risk infection." I look back up at Elma and she doesn't look that bad, but she looks kind of exhausted. "Alright, we're gonna go see a doctor, who's a friend of my Mum, ok?" I told her, Elma nods but gives me a funny look. "What's a doctor? Don't you know any mages or wizards to make a potion or cast a spell?" I let out a long sigh at this "I'm sorry, but those kind of people don't exist in this world, sadly. But a doctor is essentially this world's version of one." I reassure her and she nods in response. I pull her left arm over my left shoulder and hook my right arm around her back under her right side to keep her supported, I slowly pull us up and started walking.

*5 mins later*

"Umm… Elma. Even though it's nighttime, and I know this is a dumb question to ask but do you have any other clothes to wear?" I ask shyly. "Why do you want your jacket back?" She replied with a tired expression from under the jumper which she's wearing like a cloak, with the hoodie over her head and the rest of the jumper covering her back. "No no, you can keep it on. It's just that the rest of you is completely naked and it's not appropriate in this world to walk around like that." "Oh right, yeah, just give me a second." I raise an eyebrow at this, not expecting an immediate response, well to be honest I don't know what I was expecting as a response. Elma then stops walking and examines me for a few seconds as I stand there confused. Then a red arcane symbol appears in front of her, it's identical to the one she used when she transformed into her human form. The symbol glows brightly and Elma's body starts doing the same, I squint my eyes but then the light fades away. I fully opened my eyes to see that Elma is wearing the exact same clothes as me, I quickly look down at myself checking if I'm the one who's naked now but I'm not, thankfully. I look back up at Elma and see that the clothes suit her very well definitely better than me, but the clothes may be one size or even two sizes smaller. She's wearing the same comfy dark grey tracksuit pants and same light blue t-shirt as I am, which is gripping her chest pretty badly, I would stare but we're sort of on a time limit at the moment. "Better?" She asks waiting for my response. "Yeah much better, looks good on you." I said, complementing her with a smile on my face. "Thanks! By the way, are we close to getting help from your Mum's friend because my human body isn't as strong my dragon form..." she said. "Don't worry you'll be fine, just a couple few more houses." I said, moving over to her left side once again.

*a few moments later*

*ding dong*

I rang the door bell. "Hey Elma... to be honest, I don't know if they will help us, but they're the best chance we have at this current time." "Who is it?" A voice coming from the other side of the door. "Hi Sabrina, It's Tom!" I say. "Tom? Why on earth are you here at this time of night?" she asked clearly tired. "Can you just open the door please? It's an emergency!" I said raising my voice. "Fine." She replied. The door quickly opened showing a tall middle aged woman wearing glasses with short blonde hair. She stared wide-eyed at Elma and I, soon noticing the large deep cut going down Elma's arm. "Jesus! What did you two do?!" She said shocked with her hand over her forehead. "We'll explain later! Please just help her!" I told her. "Well what do you want me to do, Tom?! That is a very deep cut!" She said back, with a scent of impatience. "I don't know, I was thinking maybe stitches. Can you do that?" I replied somewhat calmly. She sighed at my request "Ok then, come inside, she's probably lost quite a bit of blood." Sabrina said, hurrying us indoors. "Thank you so much Sabrina!" I said, extremely grateful. "You can thank me when I'm done. Now follow me you two." She walked down the hallway with Elma and I closely behind her. 'Holy shit! How did I forget to try and stop the bleeding?! Step it up, Tom!" I thought berating myself.

She takes us to the guest bedroom, it has a medium sized bed, a wooden desk and a bedside table with lamp on it. As Sabrina flicked on the light she asked Elma "What's your name, Miss?" "It's Elma Joui, ma'am" she replied to the doctor. "Alright then Elma, I'm going to have to give you stitches, are you ok with that?" Sabrina asked to make sure her new patient was ok with everything before proceeding. "Stitches?" Elma responded with a confused look. Sabrina gives me a quick glance from the other side of the bed but I tilt my head in Elma's direction for her to stay concentrated. "I'm going to sew the wound closed as best I can, to stop the bleeding and limit the risk of infection." She tells Elma. "Alright." Elma nods as she replies. "Ok good, now I'm going to need you to sit up on the left side of the bed against the back for me." Sabrina instructed, and Elma sat down and positioned herself upright. "Alright, let me go get what I need and then I can help your arm, I won't be very long." Sabrina said, walking out of the room. As she walked out I looked back at Elma and saw that she didn't have her horn on her head anymore. 'Huh, smart move." I thought to myself.

I decided to pull up a chair from the nearby desk and sit close to Elma whose surprising calm about this given the current situation she's in, I mean she's in a strangers house which she was lead to by a stranger and is hopefully going to have her 'half an arms length' gash fixed by a method she hasn't even heard of until about a minute ago. Like, if that's not courageous then I don't know what is. A few more moments pass without the either of us saying anything.

"Hey Tom?" Elma asked, breaking the silence. I focus my attention towards her. "Is there a problem?" I said back, reassuring myself more than anyone. "Everything good?" I added.

"Yeah... everything's fine and there's no problem, but I was wondering about why you decided to help me?" She asked me this as if human assistance to her and other dragons was uncommon. I tilt my head in response to this. "Why not just leave me and not let me brush my injury off like it was nothing?" I can tell Elma wants an honest answer, which I'm going to do. "Ummmm... I think it's down to the fact that if I left you in the state that you were, I wouldn't know if you were going to survive or not, and I don't know if you know this but sadly, dragons don't exist in this world and so just letting this, immensely powerful and mythical creature just slowly die is nothing short of cruel, and on top of that I also think that it's that you were nice to me and decided to have a chat like we were equals, and adding to that you also didn't kill me on sight and I respect that if you know what I mean." I said with upmost honestly to Elma.

"Wow, thanks Tom, that's really thoughtful" she replied back with a smile so cute that I think it made me blush. A few more moments of peacefulness pass before Sabrina comes back into the room with the equipment she has to perform this mini surgery, "Alright then Elma, are you ready?" Sabrina asked for a final time, in which Elma nods. "Um, Tom, can I use that chair your sitting on right now?" The doctor asked. "Yeah, of course." I stand up and position the chair directly behind Sabrina. "Thanks." Was all she replied with as she sat down.

"I won't lie to you, Elma this might hurt quite a bit." Sabrina said as she made the first stitch. But Elma didn't flinch or anything like that, she just watched carefully as Sabrina helped stitch her wound back together. 'What a tank!' I thought to myself. As Sabrina got around half way through she said to us, "So how do you two know each other? I mean Elma, you look quite a bit older than Tom does."

'Oh boy, here we go, what the hell are we going to say?!' I thought to myself. "Well, Tom and I actually met tonight for the first time in the forest nearby." Elma stated, as Sabrina was still working on her stitches. With this new information Sabrina paused for a short moment before continuing and saying "Alright, go on." Elma kept going. "Um, I was in a very dangerous fight beforehand and I was greatly wounded but then Tom found me and offered to help fix it but he couldn't do so himself so he told me that we would visit you so that you could help me get it fixed." She explained to the doctor. "Well thanks for the recommendation." Sabrina said, looking back at me. "No problem." I replied.

*about a minute later*

"Ok, all done" Sabrina said, sewing the last stitch on. "Thank you so much for you help, Sabrina!" Elma exclaimed sitting straight and shuffling to the edge of the bed before standing up. "Yeah, and on such short notice to." I added. "Well, it was a pleasure to be of service, to you Elma! But for now I'm go- *yaaawwwnn* -ing back to bed." Sabrina said packing up her equipment, "Oh! And say hi to your mum for me thanks Tom" she added on before leaving the room. "Sure, will do" I replied back. "Goodnight" Elma and I said simultaneously.

'Well now that that's sorted out, what do I do now?! Do I invite her back to my place to rest of something? If I do ask her back will she think I have some ulterior motives or anything.' I thought to myself in a panic. "S-s-so, um do you want to come back to my place to stay the night and rest and stuff, Elma?" I said trying to compose myself. "Sure, ok. Where do you live?" She replied curiously. "Oh, it's literally just across the road." I answered the dragon. "Let's go then shall we?" As she started walking out of the room with me following close behind her.