Chapter 70: Queen of Dragons
A couple hours passed by and everyone was getting tired of waiting for Odin to finish his deliberations with his advisers and the other gods. However, as luck would have it, the Allfather and other Asgardians soon reentered the main hall before any of the more ill tempered X-men could flip their respective lids.
"About time." Chelsea muttered as quietly as she could.
"I have reached a decision." Odin spoke as his advisers left them alone in the throne room. He then sat on his throne as he looked at them. "Seeing as that two of the three charges were the result of extenuating circumstances, we have decided to drop them." He spoke.
"I'm sensing that there's a 'but' coming on…" The pseudo vampire predicted.
"But due to a problem inside Asgard, I must insist that you remain here to assist in resolving it." The leader of the Norse pantheon stated. "Additionally, the third charge is still withstanding, so in order for it to be dropped, both the Tesseract and Eye of Anubis must be returned to Asgard posthaste."
"... Couldn't Thor have just taken them from the helicarrier? I think he has the right to do so." Jean couldn't help but point out. Her words caused said God of Thunder to facepalm.
"Blast it all, you're right!" He groaned. "... Though that's assuming that Fury will be willing to listen to me."
"My mom is dating him, so I could ask her to convince him." The boy told him.
"Thank you." The blond hammer user nodded.
"Now what is this problem you spoke of?" Xavier questioned. Odin sighed as he looked at the man.
"Sometime after the Gathering, Lord Oberon had made a decree that all magical artifacts that were scattered about Earth were to be returned to Avalon by the next new year." The god stated. "However, due to the actions of a gargoyle named Goliath, one of these artifacts has been lost in the time stream. And Lord Oberon is not pleased."
"Which artifact are you referring to?" Devin questioned.
"The Phoenix Gate." The man replied.
"And how exactly do you expect us to get this thing back?" Gavin questioned. This was when Odin pointed at Jean.
"The one who possesses the Phoenix Force will bring it back." He declared. This caused her to blink in response.
"That's going to be a problem, since I don't know how to harness it." The redhead stated.
"I figured as much. We have someone who can help with that." Odin nodded.
"That being…?" Chelsea asked. Freya then stepped forward.
"I'm particularly well versed in drawing out magical and cosmic powers, so I should be able to be of some assistance." The woman told them.
"Thank you." Jean nodded. Odin then stood and gestured for them to follow him. However as they did, Chelsea was suddenly caught off guard by the sudden smell of meat in the distance, which caused her to break away from the group as they continued walking.
When she found the source she saw it was a large leg of beef and an entire cooked cow. Immediately instinct kicked in and she went to devour the meat in front of her, and then felt herself get pulled back as someone pulled a cloth gag into her mouth before a sack was shoved over her head, shackles on her hands and then she was dragged away.
(Later)
"Now child, try to look within yourself. Find the power, and when you do, grab it, take hold and wield it." Freya instructed Jean. The redhead silently searched her mind, trying to find the Phoenix Force within her. Suddenly, she saw a flicker of fire, but then it vanished.
Concentrating harder she searched further for the fire until she found it again, only this time it burst into a large fire and took the form of a bird and flew towards her. When it reached the redhead, it stopped six feet from her and seemed to size her up before it nodded and its flames began to surround her. No pain followed, though. Instead, Jean felt… Powerful.
As soon as she snapped out of her thoughts, the telepath floated in the air before she suddenly was surrounded by cosmic fire and her costume started to change until she was in a green skin tight bodysuit with white a golden Phoenix on the chest, golden thigh high boots, gold elbow length gloves, and a gold sash around her waist. Lastly her hair was more curly and seemed to be on fire as well.
"Well done. You've tapped into the Phoenix Force's power." Freya said with a smile. Scott meanwhile was trying not to blush at his girlfriend's change in attire. "Now, the Phoenix Gate is powered by the very same source as your power. So to summon it you must again reach within and pull it to Asgard."
"Right." Jean nodded before she tried to focus on the artifact in question. It took a moment, but she managed to zero in on its signature. She then began to pull it to Asgard, which was a bit of a chore since the Phoenix Gate was in the time stream.
Seconds passed before a rift started to tear open and then in a pour of golden light and lightning, the shield shaped artifact fell from the rift and into her hands. It had been done.
(Elsewhere)
Chelsea's eyes slowly adjusted as the sack was removed from her head and she found herself in a different castle room and found that she was chained by her hands and her neck to the floor and she was gagged with a metal bar in her mouth.
"Good. You're here. Now we can begin." Loki said, stepping into view. "Amoura, the Crown." He ordered as The Enchantress, a blonde woman who was dressed in a skimpy green witch outfit stepped forward holding something in her hands.
It looked like a mask-like Crown, and it had five dragon heads rising from the top each of a Red, Blue, Green, White and Black Dragon. It was colored dark green and gold and had what looked like dark green veils around the sides. There was also a point where it seemed to glow orange with two hook-like protrusions flanking it. It also had what looked like a nose covering.
Enchantress smirked as she approached the Dragoness and used her magic to change Chelsea's attire from her costume into a green dress with a transparent mesh section on her shoulders and chest, showing her cleavage. Once this was done, she put the crown on Chelsea's struggling head until it was completely on.
"Now we need to charge the Dragon's heads with magic to trigger her evolution." She told Loki.
"Right." The God of Mischief nodded. They built up magic in their hands and shot it at the Dragon heads of the crown. Chelsea, meanwhile, was shaking nervously at what was happening. As the magic was taken in by the Dragons, their eyes glowed their respective colors and then Red, Blue, Green, Black and White light surrounded Chelsea before the woman let out a loud muffled scream as her body started to change.
(Elsewhere)
"Hey, has anybody seen Chelsea?" Rogue asked as she held Damian, having noticed that the Dragoness was absent.
Everyone looked around and saw that the blonde was gone, and this realization made Laura start to panic and Logan become very worried.
"Crap crap crap crap! Where'd she go?!" She asked in her panic induced state. Drake meanwhile started to squirm from in his sister's arms before he transformed and suddenly bit her on the arm, causing her to drop him. "Ow! What was that for?!" She questioned her little brother.
As she dropped him, he plopped onto the floor and this allowed him to start crawling on the floor with his draconic nose to the ground as he started sniffing around and following a scent he seemed to pick up.
"Well don't just stand there guys, let's follow him!" Laura yelled as they chased after the dragonet.
As they followed him, they started to hear screaming… Chelsea's screaming. Naturally, everyone picked up the pace to save her from whatever was happening to her.
But as they reached the source of the screaming, a wall was suddenly destroyed and both the Enchantress and Loki were sent flying out of it. The screaming had also stopped as well. Everyone looked in and their eyes widened when they saw Chelsea standing there with a crown on her head, breathing heavily and wearing clothes that she wasn't wearing before and a green cape was draped over her.
But there was something else, she looked… Different. Her figure was now much more womanly, and even more sexy than she already was and was practically on par with Emma with her breasts now being an F-cup instead of a DD-cup like before. Additionally her hair gained a red streak on one of her bangs like Rogue's. Finally, her eyes had also turned permanently draconic and her teeth became permanently fangs.
Drake squawked as he transformed back and ran towards her. "Mommy Mommy Mommy!" He cried as he ran towards her and quickly hugged her leg tightly. The woman looked at him and smiled slightly as she picked him up and held him close while she kissed his forehead.
"Uh, Chels? What happened to you?" Logan asked in concern. Chelsea looked at herself and examined her new womanly figure, squeezing her newly expanded heart shaped ass and blushing as Drake nuzzled himself into her newly grown bosom.
"Damn, do I look good or what?" She asked as she gave her ass a tight squeeze and pull, watching it jiggle for a second.
"You do. Now, what happened?" Logan nodded before repeating his question. Chelsea immediately sent a glare at the unconscious Loki and Enchantress as she pointed at them.
"Those two happened. They baited me and dragged me all the way here and put this crown on my head before they shot their magic into it." She explained.
"They've evolved you into the Dragon Queen." Freya spoke as she, Odin and Thor arrived on the scene.
"What?" Storm questioned.
"The Crown of Tiamat is a relic that, when worn by a direct descendant of one of Tiamat's daughters, had the potential to magically evolve and become the Queen of all Dragons." The goddess told the X-men.
"Why did Loki put it on her? What was he trying to do?" Scott wondered. This was answered by the trickster groaning awake.
"The idea, mortal." He said as he got up and picked up his scepter. "Was to turn her into the queen of Dragons and use her to rally all Dragons to me and burn the nine realms a collective new one."
"And you expected that to go smoothly? When have any of your plans ever been done without some kind of turn of events?" Devin deadpanned. Almost everyone had to agree with that one.
Loki growled angrily as he pointed his scepter at Devin as he started to conjure more magic… only to be facepalmed through the wall when Chelsea suddenly turned her arm into her giant dragon arm, which was something she wasn't able to do before.
"What the-? You were never able to do that before." Katerina noted in surprise, which was shared among the rest of the X-Men.
The Dragoness slowly transformed her arm back to normal as Drake started clapping happily and joined Damian in laughing at Loki's misfortune.
"I reiterate: Loki's not a prince of darkness, he's a looney toons antagonist." Gavin said with a grin of pure amusement.
"Why is that so accurate?" Johan wondered as he shook his head with a grin, the pseudo vampire's amusement being shared by more than a few members of the group.
(Later)
As soon as a representative was sent to Avalon with the Phoenix Gate, Odin permitted everyone to be able to leave Asgard and go home. This of course made everyone very relieved. Chelsea however was still in the dress Enchantress put her in and the crown was under her arm.
"Ya know, throw on my jacket and my jewelry and this could actually be a good formal and cocktail dress." She said as she admired her new attire.
"I can actually see that." Logan nodded.
"I just can't believe zhis whole trial was a sham by Loki." Kurt remarked.
"None of us can believe that he tried it, either." Bobby nodded.
"Never underestimate the God of Mischief…" Thor sighed as he saw them off. "Farewell X-men, and again, sorry about all this." He told them apologetically.
"Apology accepted." Gavin nodded.
"At least we were able to get an up close look at what Asgard looks like in person." Rogue mused.
"Regardless, please have a safe journey." The God of Thunder said. "And Professor." He said to Xavier. "If you happen to run into a Dr. Jane Foster in Midgard, please tell her that I will see her soon."
"Of course." The telepath nodded with a small smile as the group left Asgard.
(Later)
"Bast, I'm home! And I brought Chicken Shawarma for dinner!" Johan called as he walked into his house. The Shawarma he had was from a place recommended to him by Gavin who had gotten the recommendation from Tony Stark and Captain America. Apparently it was a favorite spot for the Avengers.
"Coming!" The cat woman called as she walked out of her room and smelled the food he boyfriend brought with him. The aroma was enough for her mouth to water. "I want that food in my stomach already." She purred in delight.
"Why wait?" He asked with a smile as he walked to the kitchen and put the food on plates for them. Bast did a quick prayer before she started eating.
"Where were you all day? You really had me worried." She asked her boyfriend as she ate.
"Sorry about that. Apparently Odin himself learned of what Gavin did during the Gathering and his Vendetta and wanted him brought to Asgard for trial." The green streaked man explained, getting a worried look in return.
"Is he…?" She trailed off worriedly.
"Gavin's fine. Two of the charges were dropped when Odin learned they were just results of circumstance. The Tesseract and the Eye of Anubis need to be sent to Avalon, though." Johan replied, causing his feline girlfriend to sigh in relief.
"Oh good." She said as she ate another piece of chicken.
"Then we learned something else." The man suddenly said, looking a little sour.
"What?" The woman asked, her tail bristling in worry due to his sour look.
"We learned that it was just a scheme by Loki to use Chelsea to rally every Dragon in existence to his side to burn the nine realms a collective new one." He replied, his face souring even further.
"What?!" Bast hissed angrily, her tail fur standing on end and her claws coming out.
"Yeah, we weren't happy about it either." The soldier sighed. "But luckily it didn't work." He added as he reached into his pocket. "... Fatima." He said, getting her attention since he only used her real name when he was going to tell her something serious.
"What is it?" The woman responded. Soon though her eyes widened as he pulled out a red box and opened it, revealing a silver diamond covered ring.
"I was going to do this earlier, but the trial stopped me." He told her. "Fatima Qadir, I know this may be a bit sudden but, would you be willing to be my wife?" He asked. Bast's eyes watered before she grabbed the ring and put it on her right ring finger before she tackled him to the floor and kissed him as passionately as she could.
"Yes! I will gladly be your wife!" She exclaimed happily as they pulled apart for air. Johan chuckled as he hugged her waist and kissed her back.
"How about after dinner, we do some late evening cuddling?" He asked as he petted her like a cat, causing her to purr.
"Mmmmm, sure." The woman sighed in content before they went back to eating. After dinner, both Johan and Bast got dressed for bed. Bast was in a black nightie while Johan was in a pair of green pajama pants.
The cat mutant sighed as she laid her head on her boyfriend's bare chest as they laid under the covers. Johan had his eyes closed as he enjoyed the feeling of his girlfriend's body against his, her peach fuzz making him hug her as close as possible.
"*Purr Purr Purr*" The sounds made by the catwoman as she started to fall asleep made Johan hug her even more, just like he would his actual cat.
'I love this woman so fucking much…' He thought before he entered the land of dreams, his cat mutant girlfriend following a few moments later as she slept in his arms. Both had smiles of content on their faces.
(Elsewhere)
Chelsea smiled as she laid Drake down in his bed as the tyke yawned after a long day, especially since he just took some cold medicine that made him groggy. Poor little guy. The crown was on the desk in the room.
"I'm so glad that I didn't abort him. I can't imagine my life without him and Laura." The blonde said as she kissed her baby's forehead before climbing into her and Logan's bed.
"I'm glad you made the right call to keep him." Her lover nodded in agreement before he kissed her as she went into his arms.
"Me too. I can't imagine myself without you either, 'husband'." She smiled as she pulled back from the kiss and laid her head on his chest.
"Same here, 'wife.'" Logan chuckled before both of them fell asleep.
(Meanwhile)
"Good night, buddy." Gavin said as he tucked Damian in for the night and handed him Hobbes while Brownie dangled himself above the boy's bed. "You keep an eye on him, okay Brownie?" He ordered, and got a small chirp in reply. Gavin nodded before he left.
"You going to bed, Bo?" His Southern Belle girlfriend asked as she gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"Yeah. It's been a long day for everybody." The boy nodded. "You wanna join me, Babe?" He asked, pointing at the regular bed he rarely used that was next to his coffin and Damian's bed. On a nightstand next to the bed was a set of earmuffs he had for just such an occasion.
"Ya know what?" Ah think Ah do wanna join you." Rogue replied softly with a smile.
"Come on, then." Gavin beckoned as he got in bed, already in his night clothes. Rogue was too, her usual orange pajama shirt and pants, and as they climbed into bed together, Rogue couldn't help but sigh happily as she felt the warm embrace of her boyfriend surround her.
Today was a truly taxing day for everyone.
ThermalsniperN7: And so, the Vampyr's Trial arc has come to a close.
Dragon Emperor0: Yeah. This is gonna be the last big arc for a while until the Eldritch Light saga (Romano x Katerina). So don't expect anything anytime soon. On a completely different note, we have an announcement to make. To all you readers who are Artists, listen up.
ThermalsniperN7: We had a small discussion about something and came to a decision: If at all possible and you're willing, we'd like you guys to make some fanart of the OCs in the story. We're curious about how you'll do them, and would like to see it happen. Be as creative as possible.
Dragon Emperor0: Be it ship art, action pieces, stationary, anything. We wanna see it all. And if we find some we really like we'll link it in a future chapter.
ThermalsniperN7: So come on. Surprise and impress us. On a different note… JOHAN PROPOSED TO BAST! Yay!
Dragon Emperor0: Yep. Looking forward to what happens next with those two. And Chelsea's looking sexy with that new design. I'm pretty sure her new role as the Queen of Dragons will definitely be helpful.
ThermalsniperN7: Yeah. That's gonna come in handy for several highly risky scenarios.
Dragon Emperor0: Anyway guys, see you guys next week. And please give our idea some thought!
