5. –Myths

Dorran looked at me with a knowing look in his eyes, it frightened me, as if he had expected this to happen.

"Dorran, um, why am I a dragon?" I asked fearfully, my voice was slightly different, with me now being a dragon and everything, but it was still my voice.

He sighed and looked away.

"I'm not really sure, but I knew you were different when I heard your mind this morning." He muttered.

I stood shakily to my feet, examining every inch of my elegant body. I swished my tail from side to side, watching with wonder when it moved at the slightest prompt from my brain.

Snow-white spikes ran down my back, starting from between my horns, ending at the tip of my tail.

As I moved my legs powerful muscles rippled underneath the glimmering scales. I turned back to him, and saw that he was still studying me.

"Why are you not afraid of what has happened to me?" I hissed at him. He turned his attention to my eyes and closed his for a second before answering.

"I am afraid for you, not of you, because I am like you." He whispered.

I stared at him with my jaw hanging open in shock.

"You're a dragon too?" I asked, just to be sure that was what he'd meant.

"Yes." He replied simply, then took a few steps back from me. Then he started vibrating.

I watched in amazement as his face grimaced from the pain.

All of his limbs elongated until they were slightly longer than mine. His face expanded forward and his heavily muscled back ripped open revealing two prefect, pitch-black wings.

The little clothes he had on(he still didn't have a shirt on because we had ripped it) absorbed into his tanned body, becoming one with him.

Midnight scales engulfed his body and two icy-silver horns pushed themselves out the back of his skull.

He stopped shaking suddenly and before me stood a magnificent onyx dragon, his eyes shining as he looked back to me.

"Do you remember the stone I had been holding?" he asked in an even deeper voice than his own.

I thought back to last night and instantly recalled the polished black rock with the silver cobweb-like veins running over it. I nodded my head and he went over to the rose bushes behind him.

He reached in with his scaly head and pulled out the very stone he had talked about.

Its beauty still outstanded me, but something was different about it. Then it hit me, there silver on it had disappeared.

Dorran walked back over to me and placed the stone at my talons. I arched my neck down and looked at it more closely.

The tip of my nose brushed over the surface. As I touched it the stone seemed to ripple. Then, to my amazement, the silver veins reappeared line by line.

But still there was something odd about it. It didn't shine as brightly as it had the night before. It was dull and seemed empty.

"What happened to it?" I whispered to Dorran, never taking my eyes off the lifeless rock.

My gaze flicked to his face and I was shocked to discover that it was only inches from my own.

He sighed and whispered in a barely audible voice, "It died."

I snapped my head to stare at him. "This is not a stone is it?" I whispered back, how could a stone die?

"No….", he whispered, "It's and egg." There was so much sadness in his voice, I could tell this egg meant so much to him.

Then something dawned on me.

"Dorran, when you died last night, you were holding the egg in one hand, and I was holding your other hand. The egg isn't a dragon egg, is it?" If it was everything would make sense.

"It is, and when I died the dragon sent his soul into my body, enabling me to live, and also giving me the power to morph into dragon form." That was what I thought had happened.

"And because I was holding your hand the soul traveled into my body and I got the ability to 'morph' too?" I asked.

He shrugged, "we only got half a soul each, therefore we are able to morph to human and dragon." That made sense, I guess.

"So now, the egg is empty?" I asked.

"Well, not entirely, the dead dragon infant is still inside." He replied. Then something occurred to me.

"Um, how did you manage to get a dragon egg anyway? Aren't they extremely rare?" His eyes drifted down until he was staring at his clawed feet, unwilling to meet my gaze.

"I'd rather not talk about it." He muttered, and I left it at that. I would find out sooner or later anyway.

"So…do you know how to fly?" I asked, excited at the thought.

"Not a clue." He grinned back.

"Care to find out?" I said, eager to feel the wind over my wings. I stretched them out to their full span which filled the entire clearing.

I crouched, wondering how to go about this task. I flapped them up and down, testing them.

I could feel the wind swirling around, causing leaves to fly up into the air looking like a leaf tornado.

I swept my wings upwards, crouched, bracing my muscles, then leapt into the clear blue sky, pushing my wings down hard to propel myself forwards.

I felt so free, as if being apart from the ground made all my worries evaporate.

I flapped gently, so that I didn't go too far while I hovered, waiting for Dorran to catch up.

His sleek onyx form rose above the tree tops, looking like a piece of the night sky that had fallen to the green canopy below.

His scales glistened in the golden sunlight, radiating onto the forest below.

He rose unsteadily on uneven wings, swaying slightly as a torrent of wind hit him.

He reached me in a few seconds, adjusting his wings slightly so that he could hover besides me.

"This is amazing!" I shouted so that he could hear me over the wind.

It's easier to hear each other when we talk with our minds instead of our mouths, his voice echoed in my head, I guess that made sense.

Ok then, lets see what our wings can do! I shouted into his mind, then I rose with the wind. Higher and higher until I was flying through the soaking clouds.

I looked to the world underneath me, surprised at how small it was from up here.

Then I did something exceedingly dangerous, but completely thrilling at the same time. I locked my wings tight to my body and dove straight down, head-first, with the earth rushing up to greet me.

This chapter only explains some of the things sharing a soul entitles. Hope u liked it! i now have two reviews for 5 chapters, which is kinda dissapointing, but thanx to the people that did review! I'm not going to post the next chapter until i get at least 5 reviews. sorry people, but it seriously doesn't take long to review.

now working on the next chapter as i speak...

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