Chapter 3 - Dragon
Saphira's POV
The moment the blackness consumed her, it pushed her away, back into the living world were she gasped and rolled off her bed and staggered away from it. She stood in the middle of the room, the corners of her vision tinted with red as her bones shifted, her skin grew and grew over itself and created a strong solid metal-like surface, her nails elongated and curved into sharp metallic weapons. Twin pieces of solid bone sprouted from her back and her spine elongated into a tail. She let out a loud whimper and collapsed on the floor as a loud roar echoed in her head.
She squeezed her eyes tight as the rest of her transformation occurred. Once she felt it finish, she jumped up onto her legs, all four of them and opened her eyes and stretched out like a cat, yawning as her new vocal chords adjust, which actually turned into a growl instead. She flexed out her wings and fluttered them softly. Her ankle, which had been hurt from the fall, had been healed by her strong and newly set bones.
She looked back at the door, her mind just realizing someone had tried to walk in on her. She saw a very stunned Evan stood at the door. She took a hesitant step towards him, ready to pounce at him.
"I... I-I lied earlier." He managed to stammer out. She titled her head sideways and took another step forward, slowly this time.
"M-m-m-my names Eragon." He stammered again, turning into more of a whimper at the end. He turned quickly on his heels to try and escape her, but she jumped forward. Her scaly body more lithe than it looked. She pounced on top of him as he took a quick step away. Her lithe form was still heavy and Evan - Eragon, she corrected herself - hit the floor beneath them heavily. His skull was knocked on the wood hardly and the man let out a terrified scream before passing out underneath her.
In a moment of panic, she dragged Eragon in her room with her. She managed to close the door with her tail silently just in time to hear heavy footsteps start to search the room around her. She cursed in her head, and used her strong jaw and long neck to pick up him and deposit him on her back while she used her teeth to grab her back. It had a hardened leather strap that wasn't penetrated by her dragon teeth. She went to the window, which was a little smaller than her, and tore it apart with her claws, carefully not to pull it near the man on her back.
When she had finished, some people burst into her room behind her.
"It's a monster!" A feminine shouted behind her. She turned, with the bag still in her mouth, and roared loudly before turning and throwing herself into the air before anyone could throw a weapon or grab a ranged one. The women comment had stung, like the many before her had, but she ignored it and flew as high as she could, letting her sapphire blue scales blend in to the dark air around her. She then turned and hovered for a moment and looked up at the stars, seeing the constellation that she knew of and followed, she turned to it's direction and follow the stars above her in the direction.
Dreading the waking of Eragon, and the morning sun.
A/N: Since this is short. Would you all prefer short but quick updates? Or long and time-consuming ones? I have exams so the short bits will be every few days so I can work out the details. Long ones will happen every couple weeks probably.
