We were all silent for a long minute stunned at the new discovery, even the guards stationed around the garden were stunned as well. All but Bowen who was glaring daggers at Aurther who was panicky looking from Bowen to me and back.
"Well, kids time to go Bowens about to murder my sisters' boyfriend," Abiageal said jumping to her feet then ushering the children out of the garden. Kara fallowing behind her.
"But I want to watch," one of the boys complained, several other children whined in agreement while Kara and Abiageal hurried them out. Brother Gilbert was still to stunned to react to the impending bloodshed.
"I'll give you a three second head start," Bowen said stepping closer to Aurther.
"Wait Sir Bowen I…."
"Three," Bowen said charging at Aurther. He cursed under his breath quickly turning on his heel and running away from the enraged Bowen.
"Would you care to explain how this happened child," father said moving to sit in front of me.
I looked at the ground my cheeks starting to heat up, "Well… as you all have guessed that Aurther is the father. But it was all my idea. We were walking around the castle walls when things just happened... at the stables...twice...in the hay loft."
Father was quiet for a moment then nodded to me nudging his forehead against mine then to my stomach before he stood up, as did I.
Bowen was still trying to murder Aurther chasing him around the guard shouting curses at him. He was just about to grab hold of the back of Aurther's shirt when father snatched him in his hand. I then picked up Aurther by the back of his shirt like a she-wolf carrying one of her pups. I moved over to the garden wall setting Aurther on top of the battlements before walking back to a still raging Bowen shouting and struggling in father's grasp. Bowen continued this till I ran my tongue along the left side of his face. His face changed from a fiery red rage to a look of confusion and a little disgusted, with his jaw on the ground he slowly turned his head to look at me.
"Why," he gasped out in a near whisper.
"I had to calm you down somehow," I smiled at him, "Besides why are you mad at him didn't you say you wanted me to have children with Aurther."
Bowen was still too shocked at my sudden 'kiss' to reply to anything. While father, Aurther, and all the guards were trying their hardest not to laugh. It took Bowen another five minutes before it was safe to have Aurther be about five feet away from him, another three for Brother Gilbert to snap out of his shock. After everyone was calmed down we talked about the situation and tried to figure out why I changed into a dragon and if there was a way I could change back. Brother Gilbert wasn't able to find anything in the castle library, and even my mother's collection of books held little information about why this happened.
According to father this was the first instance of a human-dragon-transformation that he knew of. I then told my family about my dream hoping that maybe it would shed some light on the situation. After I told them my dream we all pondered it for a moment before Kara recommended that we go back to Avalon. Bowen had told us about the vision he had of King Arthur after we left him on the island the last time we were there. I thought about that for a moment and agreed with Kara. After some discussing it was agreed that Kara would stay behind to keep an eye on the castle and to ensure the people that everything was alright. While Bowen, Aurther, my sister, father, Brother Gilbert and I would go back to Avalon.
The kitchen staff packed us some food for the trip. The maids packed blankets and clothes in packs for Abiageal, Bowen, Aurther, and Brother Gilbert. Once we had everything and Brother Gilbert prayed for a safe journey we set off on our trip. Bowen and Abiageal rode on father's back while Brother Gilbert and Aurther rode on me. At first I had some difficulty flying straight nearly giving Brother Gilbert a heart attack, but I soon figured it out and was flying as good as father it felt so natural to be up in the air soaring over the trees. Aurther enjoyed flying as well, I could hear him laughing and cheering as we flew.
"This is amazing," he shouted, "How could you stand being on the ground for so long Lord Draco? This feels great!"
"I must disagree with you my boy," Brother Gilbert said gripping tighter to my neck, "I much briefer being closer to the ground."
It took us the rest of the day to fly to Avalon. When we landed on the island the sun had already started to set, and the stars began to appear. After landing Aurther and Bowen set to work making camp while the rest of us looked around the castle ruins. I didn't really have a clue what I was excepting when we came there but I hoped somehow we would find some answers to how I was changed and if there was a way for me to change back. We wondered around for a while not finding any answers before we all met back at the camp site. Father and I encircled our bodies around the campsite adding to the warmth of the small fire Bowen had made. After we ate dinner we all went to sleep hoping for a sigh of something all except for me. I couldn't get any sleep so I started walking around the ruins my mind wandering. Till I came to King Arthur's grave.
I bowed to the grave of the old king then to the other knights before flying up to the tower father had been perched on when we first came here. I looked around the scattered stones that were covered in moss and tangled in over grown vines. Then I looked up to the stars. I looked passed the hunter Orin, connecting to stars till I found the Dragons Heaven.
"Why," I sighed to the stars, "Why did this happen to me? What does this mean for my people, my sister, and the child I know carry?"
Tears formed in my eyes as I thought of the unborn life that I know carried, "What will happen to it? Will they be born a human or a dragon? Or am I doomed to lose my child before it even enters the world?"
At this point tears were falling to the ground like rain. I looked up to the heavens in pure rage, "Do you enjoy torturing me?! Does it please you to give me some happiness before you shatter me again?!"
Jumping off the tower I continued to curse the stars till my voice became horse and all I could do was cry. Collapsing to the ground I covered my face with my hands as I cried whispering my apologies to my unborn child. I shouldn't have lost my body; I should have done more. I don't know how long I had been crying till I finally drifted off to sleep.
When I woke up I had a slight headache from all the crying I had done the previous night. It was early morning when I woke up and a thick fog surrounded me, barely allowing three feet of visibility. Morning dew covered my scales causing my body to shiver till I shook the water off my body stretching my wings in the process. I started off towards I remembered where the camp was when I felt a tickle at the edge of my nose.
'Well this is lovely,' I thought to myself right before I sneezed a huge blast of flame. This happened three more times before my sneezing stopped. I looked at the ground around me and there was a small growing fire caused by my sneezing. I scratched at my snout before I stomped out the flames, "Great I sneeze fire now."
I was maybe three steps down when another wave of sneezes caused me to stop in my tracks. I sneezed five times and five times a jet of flame came from my mouth causing the surrounding area to be engulfed in flames. The flames circled around me as I sneezed another five times, as much as the flames should have caused me to panic for my safety I didn't really feel any extreme heat from the flames. In fact, it was very cozy being surrounded by my fire. Though unbeknownst to me the flames were burning off my scales revealing a human body.
Still oblivious to my transformation I sneezed one final time, as the flames died down. Finally, over my sneezing fit I continued down to the others. The fog had cleared by the time I had reached the others who were starting to pack up the camp, as I got closer to the camp Brother Gilbert saw me as he was rolling up his sleeping blanket. Once he saw me his face turned white as the fog and started breathing heavily. I looked behind me to see if there was something behind me that had caused Brother Gilberts panic, but I saw nothing just stones. I looked back at him and he crossed himself before he started muttering prayers.
"Brother Gilbert what is wrong," Abiageal said coming up behind him. She saw me and I shrugged my shoulders coming closer to him. Suddenly I heard an ear piercing squeal before a large mass that was my sister launched herself onto me in a death hug, causing me to fall on to my back.
'Wait', I thought as the air was knocked out of me, 'How did she tackle me.'
"Ava you're human again," Abiageal squealed into my ear. I sat up looking down at my body and she was right. I had my human body back. That was also completely bare and naked as the day I was born.
"By the stars I'm back," I squealed happily back to her hugging her tight. Bowen, father, and Aurther came running over to us, shock and happiness plastered on their faces as soon as they saw me. Though Bowens and Aurther's face soon turned red from embarrassment at seeing me without my clothes. Brother Gilbert had collected himself know and was facing the other way his back to me. Father placed his wing in front of Aurther and Bowen covering their eyes, "Alright lad that's enough of a show for you. You already got her caring your child."
Abiageal stopped hugging me and went to get a blanket for me to cover myself. She wrapped the blanket around my shoulders providing some cover for myself. I didn't realize how chilly it was till my sister left my side and was soon replaced by the blanket. My teeth had even started to chatter.
"Thanks," I said between chattering teeth. Then I sneezed from the cold, lighting the blanket on fire engulfing me in a second, as well as Abiageal. Before anyone could respond the flames died down as fast as they came to life revealing now two dragons in the place where my sister and I stood not moments ago. I looked at my body seeing I had changed again to a dragon again. I then looked over at my sister who was now half my size but had the same red colored scales and the same body shape as father. All of the boy's jaws were now on the ground as they looked at us in awe.
"This is awesome we can change at will to dragons now," Abiageal happily cheered before she started looked over her new body spinning in circles as she did so. I chuckled at how laid back she was about the whole thing then I saw her face light up as she looked over at Brother Gilbert.
"Hey Brother Gilbert want to test out my wings with me?"
First chapter of 2018 wahoo! New Years resolution, remembering to double check stories before posting because I have a very bad habit of getting to excited when I finish a chapter that I don't look careful over the chapters before I hit post, but I am getting better with each story.
So now the girls can shape shift now, how shall this affect a certain baby brother and his future.;) Hope you enjoyed this chapter, also MMM I have seen the new Dragonheart movie loved Patrick Steward as a dragon :)