Chapter 3: You have got to be kidding me


When I awoke I was vaguely aware of the people as they, with massive effort, moved my body into a white room, the details blurred together. Everything hurt. I could feel my new wings aching, I could tell one had been dislocated. After what seemed like forever I fell into a deep sleep.


Eventually, what seemed like hours after I entered my dreams I began falling towards a deep darkness, it was comforting absence of everything, it was so warm and soft, it begged me to join it, to join in its embrace. I almost gave in a few times but I knew that I couldn't just yet, something in the back of my head told me 'no.' After what seemed like years I began lifting back up into my body.

I jerked awake with a start. A long tube fed through my jaw that was slightly stretched open. My body was almost impossibly sore. It felt stiff and immobile, and I could barely twitch. An IV went in right under the base of my head right into, well I would assume a vein. Multiple monitors were connected to my chest.

My throat was dry and scratchy and it was quite terrifying not being able to control your own breathing...

I realized something was missing. Sera!

Nothing came in response, I couldn't feel him at all anymore. His entire consciousness was completely gone from my mind. I began to panic, had the feedback of getting shot somehow killed him and spared me?

I was relieved when I found just the slightest touch of his consciousness. He was in a coma like state. Barely still functioning. I began to relax and I lapsed back into a real sleep.


I woke up at some point during the night to multiple people snapping pictures of me, I reached towards Sera's unconscious mind. When I touched the edge of his consciousness it was like ice. I jerked back. Which caused my real body to twitch too. I tried to move but my damaged muscles shouted with protests along with aches. I let out a low whine, someone off to my right shooed the people out of the room. I assumed they were reporters. The man in a totally clean white lab coat brushed the back of my head with a gloved hand.

His voice had a note to it that was calming, even though I could barely hear I got the message from him that I was going to be OK. And I lapsed into a dreamless sleep.

When I woke up I felt as though no time had passed, but based on the changes to the room and my surroundings quite a few things had changed while I was unconscious.

The room was large, several monitors connected to my chest while the tube still was in my mouth for what I assume was feeding and breathing. Several lines traced up and down my chest from where cuts had been made, I reached out to try to find Sera but he was gone from my mind, along with all my memory of how I looked in my human form. I wasn't concerned, he had probably withdrawn briefly from my mind as he said he could, however not being able to remember what I looked like was an issue.

Over the brief hours Sera and I had talked I had learned to focus my Aura that all dragons and riders had to heal any injuries and scars, claiming that was the main thing that I needed to know how to do other than shifting from one form to another. So I devoted a slight amount of energy to erase the creases in my skin where they had gone in to remove the bullets. The stitches remained in, so I squirmed around, trying to remove the hose from my mouth, but to no avail.

Moments later someone that appeared to be a doctor entered the room. "Doctor he's awake!" the young man shouted.

I twisted my body around so that I could completely see him. A million thoughts raced through my head. I could panic and run, or at least try, but without Sera's help I doubted that I would get far.

Or I could act like an intelligent animal, and try not to reveal that I was completely intelligent because that would make security tighter around me.

I whined and tugged at the hose in my mouth, by scooting away from it. "Sorry big guy you were out for a good two months. We needed a way to constantly keep you breathing. We will remove it soon."

I blinked back my surprise, I had lost two months of my life to sleeping, and that meant that my mom thought I was dead, poor mom must have been devastated, I had to find a way to get back to her.

I wiggled, only to find that my wings had been securely covered and attached to the table by what felt like a mesh. My muscles were incredibly weak, I could tell the second I started moving. Every few moments the machine off to my right would humm and a new breath of air would be squeezed into my lungs, a most unsettling sensation.

A few minutes later a few more people entered, I assumed they were vets not doctors but I couldn't tell and at this point I didn't much care. One placed her hand on my head, another person grabbed the hose in my mouth. I felt someone touch my tail. "Alright, removing the heart lung machine's tube."

The long coil slowly snaked out of my mouth, scraping leaving a feeling like a thousand needles ripping up my throats inside. I squirmed as it came clear of my mouth. Leaving me with a sore dryness.

They removed the IV with one quick tug and then injected something new into my bloodstream, "Good night." a voice whispered into my ear. Just as I lost consciousness a voice with a sing song lilt filled my head, Hunter! Where are you! I am in a cold metal locker!

And I am stuck inside the dragon body, we have our own problems right now, try to figure out yours first then we can work on mine. I shouted with notes of relief hanging on every word that I thought as I descended into a drugged sleep.


I descended into the darkness that had always stayed close to me. And my mind stopped and an eerie silence filled me with nothingness.

Suddenly my mind started working again, but in a cold metal locker meant for the dead. I focused my aura, searching for the lost half of my soul.

Hunter! Where are you! I am in a cold metal locker!

His reply came instantly, And I am stuck inside the dragon body, we have our own problems right now, try to figure out yours first then we can work on mine. And his mind went dark into a dream.

I focused all the energy from my human body into a single thought, melt. And the door holding me back from returning to the world of the living melted away into nothing but a shiny goo. And I slid out into the sunlight. I couldn't tell him my secret, not after we had just been reunited after what I would guess as months of separation.


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