A Dragon's Crimson Cry

By: Tippi

Ch 17 A Seal

Despite Jake being unable to audio his distress in his dream the same was not true in the real world. Jake let out a loud piercing scream that drowned out the normal night noises of the city. His scream awoke his grandfather, Fu and most likely the whole block.

LS shoot up in bed worried for his grandson. The scream had startled Fu so much he fell out of his chair hitting the floor rather painfully.

LS ran to Jake's room shortly followed by Fu who dragged him self upstairs once he was rudely awakened.

Jake was trashing around in bed making gasping noises like he couldn't breathe. LS came to Jake's side and drew closer to him. But Jake had not stopped and didn't wake. So LS tried to wake Jake by calling his name and shaking him but the boy wouldn't wake up from his nightmare. Then something no one expected happened.

Jake swiped out with his right arm and LS leaned back just in time to miss Jake's sharp claws. LS stared at Jake's fully transformed arm. Some how Jake's whole arm transformed into that of a dragon's.

His pajama sleeve slipped up showing off an arm completely of red scales and a hand tipped with sharp black claws.

LS was lucky to lean back just in time to miss getting cut by Jake's new claws, to bad his night shirt wasn't as lucky. It had four rips in it from the claws.

Fu walked in just in time to see LS narrowly miss the claws and was in shock like LS. Young dragons would often, maybe, spit a spark of fire, sprout claws, or a patch of scales, all of which disappear just as quickly as they appeared.

Dragons are born with a seal that kept them human for the most part; some dragons have dragon characteristics even as humans (like Jake's natural green hair.)

The seal eventually begins to breaks when the dragon reaches a particular age, usually an earlier age for girls then boys. The change begins with pain then the tail and wings (if their dragon form has wings) appear. Learning to control their chi for the tail and wings then prepares them to be able to control the transformation between complete dragon and human when the seal is completely broken.

Jake was still a bit young for the seal to start to break naturally and then there was no pain that he knew of nor did his tail or wings come first.

There was only one explanation for Jake's whole arm transforming and that was something had cracked the seal.

After Jake had unknowingly taken a swipe at his grandfather his arm fell back to his side and changed back to his human arm. Then Jake shot up in bed waking up finally. He wrapped his arms around him self, pulled up his legs to his chest, and started to cry. The freighted boy was slightly rocking back and forth as he cried.

LS came out of his musing and pulled Jake to his chest and rubbed his back to try and calm the boy. Unknown to Jake, Fu and LS locked eyes with each other thinking the same thing.

Once Jake had calmed down from his nightmare LS got Jake's sleep medication feeling it would beneficial to everyone that he took it every night from now on.

LS was unable to get back to sleep that night. The matter of Jake transforming was troubling his mind.

A/N This may get confusing later on if it isn't already so any questions just ask. Review