I woke with a start. "That was a weird dream." I said to myself. In the dream, I was in a white void as I slowly changed into a dragon.
I looked around the room and instantly realized something was off. "Where am I?" I said. I wasn't in my bedroom; instead, I was in a room with tan stone blocks making up the walls, ceiling and floor. There was a large window with no glass that was covered with a thick maroon curtain. I was lying on a large mattress on the floor. There was a desk and a bookshelf against a wall. Altogether, it wasn't bad but I had no clue where I was. I stood up to explore, but immediately fell on my face. I couldn't balance! I put my arms out to push myself up and instead of my arms; there were claws and silver scales!
Naturally this disturbed me. "AHHHHHHH!!!!!" There was a mirror above the desk. I made my way over to it, stumbling the whole way. When I got to it, I looked in the mirror. I was a friggin dragon! I was about 6 foot with bright silver scales with an almost mirror like quality to them, two swept back horns and 'fins' on the side of my face. My wing membranes were white and the blades on my wings resembled 12 inch daggers. I looked back at my body, I was long and slender, my tail ending in a long blade about 25 inches long. My talons were also white. My back was smooth with no crests or ridges. I was staring into the mirror, hyperventilating when the door opened. I got on all fours and turned around, There was another dragon. "AHHHHHHH!!!!!" I screamed. Again. I fell on my back and pushed myself backwards till I hit a corner.
"James, Are you Ok?" the dragon asked
"You-you #%&*$ talk!" I shouted.
The dragon stared at me. "This has got to be a dream." I said "A really bad… real dream."
"You're awake James." The dragon said again. For the first time, it clicked in my head, the body and facial features along with the voice, it was a girl!
"No way." I said, shaking my head. I pinched myself to wake myself up. When that didn't work, I scratched myself, leaving a bloody line on my arm.
"James! What are you doing?!" the dragoness asked, ass she made her way toward me.
"GET AWAY!" I yelled and swept at her with my tail, causing her to back up, a hurt look in her eyes. (That was weird,) I thought. (I've never had a tail before, how'd I know how to use it? Oh, it doesn't matter! I've got to wake up!) I stood up and ran as fast as I could toward the wall. Suddenly, there was a loud CRACK, a flash of light and a lot of pain before I passed out.
When I woke up, I looked around, the pain was gone and I was in a room with stainless steel walls. (Great, what now?) I sat up and looked at my arms. I was human again! "Yes!" I shouted I got off the hard bed I was on and looked around. There were a couple of steel tables with small doors lining the walls. "The hell?" I said and turned around and nearly puked. The bed I was on had another person on it with a white sheet pulled over their head. I slowly made my way over and reached down with trembling hands. This would be the first time I've ever seen a cadaver. Who was it? I slowly pulled the sheet back and stopped when I saw a bullet hole in the forehead. This time I did puke. I got back up and pulled the sheet away and came face to face with- myself?
"No." I said. Just then, a coroner came in. I ran over to him "Help me! Please!" He didn't answer or even so much as acknowledge me. "Tell me what's going on!" I shouted and reached to grab him by the sleeve, but my hand went right through him!
I backed away, finally realizing what happened. I went back to my body and looked at the tag.
Cranial trauma from gunshot .22 point blank
Bullet ricoched and destroyed much of brain,
Including memory lobe.
After I read that, I started to feel woozy and passed out again.
I woke up with blurry vision, as it slowly cleared, the first thing I saw was a beautiful face in front of me. Then she spoke "Are you Ok? I managed to heal your scratch and your horns. You broke them both! What were you thinking?! The rest of my family's here now." My vision cleared and I could se the face was the dragon from earlier. But now there were ten others! I sprang up and looked around, three were about my height, 5-6 feet. But the other seven were between 13 and 17 feet. The smaller ones were black, yellow and red. While the larger ones were green, yellow, blue, white, red, black and… purple? Wait… I recognize these dragons! I turned to the first dragon I met who was pink. "se-Selena?"
"Yes James?" She asked.
I cursed, loudly.
Terrador spoke next with a deep voice. "James! You know you're not allowed to use that kind of language!"
"I-I'm dead?" I said quietly.
"What are you talking about?" Selena said "What has gotten into you?"
"I've gotta go." I said.
"Oh, no you don't." Cyril said. "Your not going anywhere till we figure out whats going on."
I tried to get to the door, but Spyro blocked my path. "Get out of my way." I said. "I don't want to hurt you." Suddenly, I turned and dashed for the window. Fever got in my way, but using a move I perfected as a human, I fell to the ground, swept the ground with my leg, tripping him then leapt over him and out the window. As I spread my wings, I realized two important things.
1. I was three stories up.
2. I had no idea how to fly.
I moved my wings frantically, but couldn't get the rhythmic flapping required for flight and plummeted the three stories to the hard ground. I hit. Hard. Barely conscious, I looked up at the sunset with the twin moons rising. The young dragons flew out the window and dove to get to me and I could tell the adults would be making their way here shortly, so I got up and tried running. I just wanted to be alone! I took one step and felt excruciating pain, one of my legs were broken. I hobbled toward the streets of the city with the dragons close on my tail. I almost made it to the temple gate before Zoulu pinned me and used the notch in her tail blade to pin my tail to the ground. Suddenly, I felt as if my body wasn't my own anymore and Zoulu got off. My body stood without my command and I saw Spyder looking at me, her eyes glowing white.
After the rest of the dragons had caught up, the interrogation began.
"Why did you run just now?" asked Terrador.
"I just wanted to be alone." I replied.
"Well you could have just asked you know." Cyril said.
"Why have you been acting so weird today?" Selena asked.
I stared at her for a moment, "How do you know me?" I said.
"What?" she said, confusion on her face. "We've known each other for years!"
Now it was my turn to be confused. "But I've only been here an hour! When did we meet?"
"Five years ago, right after Mom and Dads wedding, don't you remember?"
I stared at all of them bewildered. "But, I only wrote that eleven days ago!" I said. "%&$ I'll never get to finish real 5ds or the sequel to The Ballad of Spyro."
Now they looked at me like I was completely insane. "What are you talking about?" Selena asked.
"Just leave me alone." I said. "I don't want to talk about it."
"But you're talking nonsense!" Cynder said.
"No I'm not! You wouldn't understand! I'm not a dragon! I'm a human!"
All of them took a step back. "What? When were you ever a human?"
"Until I woke up this morning!" I started struggling against the shadows holding me, but quickly wore myself out.
"I've heard of creatures transforming before." Volteer said. "But how did you change from a human to a dragon and where did you come from?"
"I said I don't want to talk about it!" I shouted "Now leave, me, ALONE!!!" Suddenly, there was a flash of white light and I could control my body again. I opened my wings and tried flapping, this time it worked and I rose a couple of inches. Everyone was still blinded by the flash so I jumped as hard as I could on three legs and took off. Almost crashing a few times but I quickly got the hang of it and even figured out how to turn; all those hours in physics class finally paying off. I headed towards the nearby forest and landed near a pond. I hobbled over and tried figuring out how dragons drink. I eventually gave up and dove in, drinking underwater. When I got out, I just lay there and cried.
After a while, I heard a noise behind me, I turned and saw Selena alone walking up to me. There was a basket floating next to her. "Here." She said "I brought some food. You must be hungry." The basket floated over to me and I could smell warm meat coming from it. My stomach growled loudly, but I ignored it and laid back down. Selena walked over and sat next to me. "James, whether you remember it or not, we've been friends for five years. Now please, tell me what's going on. I'm worried for you." I looked up at her and saw her face had concern and… something else on it. I sighed and stood up and walked over to the waters edge to stare at my new face.
"You want the truth Selena? I'll tell you the truth. I'm a human. If this is the reality I think it is, I'm from the distant past. The year 2010 in human years. Before Armageddon. How long before I have no idea. I was a lonely person; unpopular in school, the 'Nerd'. Even other unpopular kids would avoid me. All I had were my books, games and cards. Recently I started writing stories. My favorite was based of a game called 'The Legend of Spyro'. I don't remember anything of what happened recently or even where my memory stops. What I do know is when I hit my head earlier and passed out, I was back in the past and saw…" I chocked and stopped.
"What did you see James?" Selena asked.
"I saw me, but I was-I…"
"You were what?"
"I WAS DEAD!" I shouted as I hit the water , causing us both to get wet.
I looked back to Selena, Who was looking at me with horror. "James, I'm- I'm so sorry! Are you Ok?"
I looked back to the water and saw my reflection distorted by the ripples, the result looking like how I felt inside. "I'm dead, of course I'm not ok!"
Selena came up to me and hit my broken leg. I cursed. "Selena! Why'd you do that?"
"To prove a point. If your dead, how could you have a broken leg?" I looked at her, trying to figure out the true meaning behind her words. "James, you may have died as a human, but your alive now. You probably had friends and family then, but you have them here too, you just have to… I don't know, re-meet them. Now let me fix that arm." With that, she breathed pink mist on my arm and I felt the bone snap painlessly back into place and heal. When She was done, She looked back up at me. "Are you Ok now?" she asked.
"Yeah." I said
"Good, just one more thing." She said as she raised her arms and a glowing wave rose from the pond drenched me. "That's for getting me wet. Now lets go back. We've got a lot to explain to the others."
