“Your mother had a hard time dealing with your loss.” My father said with a sad look in his eyes. I Looked at him in an understanding way and said with an empathic voice, “ I understand, let's try not to rush her.”
“For once, I have absolutely no idea how your mother is going to react.” My father looked even more desperate than before.
My father and mother had been living without me for three months now, and my mother was in the second phase of grief: anger. She considered my father responsible for what happened to me because he was the one who proposed me to become an adventurer. We were on our way to our manor to see my mother and talk with her about me being here, we would then go back to the castle to see the king.
We were finally arriving at the Lightbearer manor when a butler saw us and came to great us, “Master Dean and… Master Ithan!!! How can it be!” my father intervened and said, “We have no time to explain Willson we need to see my wife.”
“Of course sir!” Willson said
As we were walking in the halls, I saw all the maids look at us with concern and before we knew it we were here. “Wait here son.” My father said before entering the room. Because Of my now dragon like sense I was able to hear what was in the room. My father started speaking.
“Hello my dear.” my father said. But there were no answers.“I Have to tell you something that happened at the castle two days ago.” My father waited for an answer but nobody answered.“A very powerful magic beast appeared under the castle and we were instructed to go look and if possible kill what it was, But something unbelievable happe-'' My father was cut off by my mother that said In a weak and angry voice.“Were you hurt?”
“No I wasn’t, but that's not the point, I said.” He got cut again by my mother who said firmly“Good then leave me alone.”
“He was there!” My father said.
“What?” my mother responded with an annoyed and angry look
“Our son was down there and he-” My mother cut him again and said angrily.“You were the one to tell me that I needed to get over his death and not let myself believe he is not dead and here you are doing it right in front of me! Have you no respect for my sanity!” My mother was angry and sad, she was about to explode. My father continued only to be cut again by my mother only this time she yelled.“ LIES!!! YOU ARE JUST TOO AFRAID TO FACE THE TRUTH YOU COWARD!!!”
My father then began yelling in the same tone.“I AM TRYING TO HELP YOU AND YOU ARE YELLING AT ME?! TWO CAN PLAY AT THIS GAME YOU KNOW!!!” Things were escalating too quickly, it needed to be stopped before something unrepairable was said. I entered the room as loudly as possible and when I was in place I released a wave of dense mana waves and yelled.“SHUT UUUUUP!!!” The wave that passed on them had the effect of a mana tsunami and both of them turned their head to me.
I started to talk calmly. “I would have preferred if it was in another context but I guess it will do.” I replaced my coat and said, “Hello mom, it’s been a while.” Both of them looked dumbfounded and shocked. After a few moments my father said surprised. “Ithan! I told you to wait outside for me to call you!”
“Sorry dad but I couldn’t bear to hear you two fight any longer.” I said in a sorry voice. My mother then stood up from her bed and walked towards me, her face twisted in a scary angry look. Her body language told me beforehand that she was going to punch me in the face, but I deserved it so I was ready.She punched me square in the jaw and looked at me in the eyes, studying them. Her punch didn’t really hurt but it hurted my conscious a lot more.
My mom then said in an angry voice, “That is for dying in my arms you little brat!” She then hugged me and said “and that is because I am glad you are back with us.” She started to cry and she continued crying like that until she fell asleep in my arms.
I looked at my dad and told him to wait outside and that I’ll deal with her. I put her back in her bed and made her recall memories of our time passed together when I was a child in dreams. “At least she’ll sleep well.” I told myself, and I left the room.
Me and my father were walking in the corridors of the manor when he yawned. Seeing my father yawn made me realise that I was not tired at all so I proposed to my father that we wait for tomorrow to go back to the castle.
“Good idea, I am sleeping while standing up at this point.” He said jokingly.
“Good night dad!” I said in a fake tired voice.“Good night son!” my father answered back. But it wasn’t time to hit the hay just yet for me, I still had things to do at the castle.
I got outside the manor and walked in the forest that was behind it. I loved that forest when I was young, the air was fresh, the water was good and the fun was always present. Sadly, I had not come back to that forest in a while because I was always on adventurers duty. It felt good to be back.
When I arrived at the clearing that was in the middle of the woods and where my father and I always trained, I went to the middle and sat on the large tree stump and began meditating. I had to have a clear picture of what I had in mind or else the shaping wouldn’t work. I really had to concentrate, for the first time at least. I concentrated, Horns, claws, legs, eyes, skull, wings, scales, fangs, tail, height and weight. Everything was perfectly placed, I was ready. I shouted at the top of my lungs. “Shape!”.
Darkness quickly covered my body and stuck to it, It also made my clothes disappear. I felt my body changing and being molded by my spell. My arms began to get longer, my legs were reshaping, my spine and neck was getting stretched, my skull was being molded and I could feel a third set of thick membraned members growing on my back. It felt weird but weirdly good like I was embracing my true form.
I inspected my new body with interest, I could feel another set of arms on my back. They were muscular but the fingers on those arms were longer than the fingers in front of me and they were all connected by a membrane of thick skin with scales. Talking about scales, I was covered in them, all over my body, black and sturdy scales that were forming an impenetrable armor except for my underside which was covered in thick plates of plum exoskeleton. My legs were feeling a lot weirder. My front one looked like my human ones, with hands that had five fingers with an opposable thumb. My back legs however, were like cat legs. I was walking on my toes and the rest of my feet were going up to my chins and to my knees.
I also had a tail. It was just a tail, nothing there that looked out of the ordinary, same black scales and plum underbelly. My neck was longer but the most impressive was my head. It had completely changed. It was covered in black scales and my mouth was now filled with razor sharp teeth, On my head were a bunch of electric purple crown like horns that were emerging on the back of my skull and I had spikes erupting from each of my vertebrae from my neck to my tail. Lastly,I had grown to one and a half stories tall which I estimated was about fifteen feet. I was satisfied with and proud of this new form.
Now it was time to go make a visit to the king.
End of chapter 3
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