Hello, for those who follow me on Thousand Roads, you might have recalled me making a set of drabbles back in May 2022 that I kept insisting that any day now, I'd get around to expanding and overhauling into finished one-shots. Well, these are those much-ballyhooed one-shots, ready to be thrown out into the wild for others' reading pleasure. Now, while some details got changed around, the stories are largely still the same, though if you're curious as to what the original drabbles looked like, they are hosted on AO3 in an anthology titled Like a Dragon β.

Time will tell just how much things wind up outgrowing that initial base of stories since this one-shot collection happens to have one of those "theoretically indefinitely expandable premises", but as my latest sideshow to a sideshow I've got going on from my main work, this is one of those "bumps whenever I have time, energy, and motivation to make things happen" projects. But hey, there will be at least seven stories in this thing for your reading pleasure before I decide that I'm done with it.

These one-shots are uploaded in the order they were originally written in and are designed to be read in any order the reader pleases. To that end, I've added a cute little table of contents added as a little flourish for those that want to just skip straight to one or another story. They unfortunately don't have working links thanks to format limitations on FFN, but they contain short little blurbs about what they're about to help you zero in on the stories from the index you'd like to read in particular.

But that's enough rambling from my end for now. Let's get right into those actual stories...


Like a Dragon


It is the world of Pokémon and you are a dragon, a word that means many things to many sorts. Mighty and meek. Strong and weak. Covered in scale and fur and most everything in between. These are your stories, ones about the various creatures who can claim such a title.

Even if some of them might seem strange to others at a first glance.

A Guarding Dragon
It is in the nature of dragons to stand guard over their treasures. Even if you are a Flapple, you are no different.

A Dragon's Ferocity
Ampharos are unassuming creatures, ones that a human might find cute and unthreatening. You thought the same once, until you saw one display a power and ferocity like your own.

A Dragon's Lineage
The birth of a child is a milestone in the life of any Pokémon, not least of all for a dragon. Few things are said to be stronger than a parent's love, but can that still be the case when your child is so different from you?