[color:"#00bfff"]Ascolan and I circled around the castle while Jvb looked for the best place to land on the castle without being noticed. His eyes had improved remarkably over the last few days, they were much better than mine - maybe that was characteristic of a fire dragon? He finally pointed at the left most tower and he communicated with me through our mindlink, which had also grown stronger as we moved closer to our dragon selves, that it was unmanned - no guards. If we went in at night perhaps they wouldn't see us.
He must have told Kiya and Ascolan the same thing because Kiya was pointing to a small clearing and motioning me down. This was my first landing and it turned out to be a little rough, how I'd managed to catch Jvb in mid-air was nothing short of a miracle considering the grace involved when I landed. First I thought if I glided in that I would stop easily, instead my right claw caught on a boulder that I didn't see because I thought I was way past it and I turned into a regular dragon bowling ball - knocking down over a dozen trees in the process.
Kiy and Jvb were laughing so hard they were hugging each other trying not to fall over from laughter. Ascolan, being the gentleman that he was, looked at everything but me ... the sky, the bushes, the ... well, you get the picture.
I scowled at my laughing companions, stood up and shook myself off and closed my eyes seeing my human shape in my mind. I heard Jvb shriek, opened my eyes ready to do battle and saw him turn completely red and swing around to face the other direction. What was the matter ... I glanced down, oops, no clothes! Kiya ran over and started to throw her cloak around me, but I held up my hand. "Let me try something first..." I concentrated and sure enoungh my scales came back, covering me like a very fine scale mail. "Uhm, Jvb, I'm decently clad now. You can look." He turned around pretty slowly as if he wasn't sure if he could trust me or not. Ummm, he'd turned pretty red for a few minutes there. Jvb of the ever changing skin tones - I giggled to myself.
One thing that I hadn't thought of when I had changed into a dragon was all my weapons, luckily they had stayed (transformed??) with me, including my backpack and the mirror Meetheka had given me. Was that because they were magical? This would definitely require more research when we had the time. I had more important things to take care of right now though, Ascolan for one.
"Ascolan," He raised his majestic head. "Don't I need to heal you?" He just looked at me solemnly and answered in his beautiful deep voice. "At your discretion, my queen," and bowed his head. Geez, more of this queen stuff, and from Ascolan too I just shook my head and went over to seek the healing trance. My dragon walked and met a truly majestic Ascolan - if you thought he was beautiful before he was healed ... I just shook my head. I could see them together, healing his wounds and making him whole. [/color]
Last edited by DQueene; 16/06/03 02:23 AM.
