"Young man, can you hear me? If you can listen close, it is time for you to move on. But before you do, I grant you this boon, the one ability you always wished for."
With a chuckle the voice paused before it began again.
"With the very limitation you set upon it."
As I slowly opened my eyes, I blinked rapidly waiting for them to adjust to the morning light. It was just another day, or so I thought. Moments after I woke, A searing pain corsed through every nerve of my body. It felt as if I had taken ahold of a lightning bolt.
My grip became so tight upon the hard wood frame of my bed that the iron wood began to creak, and eventually gave with frightening crack. I wanted to scream but couldn't do to a warm liquid running down my throat.
Two thoughts passed through my mind, why do I taste blood and when will this pain end?
I found the answers an instant later. the pain vanished and I realized I'd simply bit my tongue. Swinging my legs over the side of my bed, I walked over to my dresser and the full length mirror that hung above it. My eyes widdening in shock, I didn't recognize the person looking back at me.
Blue-green eyes with a ring of gold around the pupils, shoulder length blonde hair. Done up in a braid similar to Legolus's from lord of the rings, and for some reason I was kitted out in a suit of armor that appeared to made from.....looking down at it. A description of the armor flashed into my mind.
ARCH DRAGON ARMOR. (Custom Make) Legendary
Def: 55,000
Soul Bound
Passive ability 1
Flame sheild, automatically summons a three layer barrier of white fire around the user. Blocking all Spells and projectiles that would deal 175% of armors def rating as damage. (costs 50 mana for every 200 projectiles, 25 for every spell. Exorbes 50% spell damage and converts it to mana.)
Passive ability 2
Rapid Heart: Auto Regen 100% Activates when user draws weapon. Minor injuries heal instant.
Cost: Increased drain on concentration.
Active ability 1
Summon Flame spirits: Summons a 20 foot tall dragon, 5 six foot tall flame Knights and 5 ten foot long salamanders to aid you in battle.
Cost: 5000 Mana
Cool down: 3 minutes
Active ability 2
Firestorm Domain: Summons a Maletrome of lightning and fire in a 50×50 area around the caster. Dealing 1500% magic damage 1000% lightning and fire damage every 5 seconds, for 2 minutes. Heals 100hp for every enemy in targeted range.
Cost: 3000 hp and 3000 mana
Cool Down: 20 min
Armor fordged by the 12 Dragon kings for last born son of the Dragon Overlord, Kias The Flare Bolt. made from his fathers scales after death. Carries Kias's will to protect his kith and kin.
User: Alister, Son of Kias, (Overlord of Dragons ???)
'You die wearing this, then you truly fucked up'
"OK, didn't see that comeing. Legendary armor, check. Smart-ass system, check. Now what about my offense." I say softly to myself, delight dancing in my eyes. as I pull my gaze from the mirror to look around the room. Only now did I begin to take note of how simplistic the decor was. Every peice of furniture was carved from iron wood, one of few materials in this word resistant to dragon fire.
Spider silk Curtains hung to either sides of the east facing solid sheet diamond wall. Offering a spectacular veiw of the country side. Just from where I stood I could make out a lake below, with three rivers branching from it, running down the mountain. The water so clear i could see the fish and Mermaids, clear down at bed of the lake 70 feet down.
Oh yeah, don't think I mentioned my new living corters appeared to be the top floor of a tower, easily 10,000 feet tall, so yeah, I've got telescopic vision too.
Sitting down in front of the eastern wall I stare out at the land as I delve into the memories of 'Alister, Son of Kias' He hatched from his egg around 25 years ago, a unique existence due to being born with the apperance of a human child. Ridiculed and tormented by his brothers and sisters, save for his eldest sister who spoiled him in secret, Adera mastered the ability to shift into her human form a full century early, and took over responsibility of raising him.
This world was plauged by a war between humanity and the dragon kin, the five blood lines branching away from Altria, the Dragon Godess. From my memories, the eldest of the bloodline was my very own. That of Trila, first born of Alrtia and Kias, My father the oldest known dragon to have ever lived.
Shaking my heard I roll to my feet, my gaze dropping to calloused human hands. A tinge of self hatred flashing through me. "A dragon that can't take on his dragonic form save for temporarily once a day every month." I whisper to myself, mockery clear in my voice. "No wonder my siblings make my life a living hell."
A dull thunk echoed through his room and instant later as my head bounced off the diamond window. My eyes shift up as I land on my back, her pure silver hair was the first thing he noticed as always. Adera, the oldest of their clutch stood above him. "How many times have I told you Ali, don't listen to those knuckle heads. They are just jeleous of the both of use for having human forms. Not one of our other siblings have been able to shift even partially." She says with narrowed eyes before laying down beside him. Her slim figure seeming all the smaller next to my above average physic. Standing at 6.5 feet, he was the tallest (in human form) male that the dragons had ever known. Where Adera topped off at a mear 4 feet, of fiesty fury. Thinking back he had noticed the tell tail shimmer of her wings vanishing as he looked up at her.
"hello sis." I whisper softly and grin as I roll my head to look at her. Her eyes a perfect mirror to his, and her scent the only similarities between their appearances.
"wipe that grin off your face, nobody knows why you have a limited time in your dragon form. But as I have always said you stubbotn ass, you are special and everyone knows it. Without you our clan would have died out decades ago. You can blend in with humanity. Learn their ways and bargain with them. Without the food you have supplied us, the dragonic races would be long extinct Ali." She says softly, he r gentle gaze flashing with an inner light.
"Yeah, I'm definitely Unique. Instead of scales harder then diamond, I've feathers that slice through anything in every known dimension. And my 'dragon' form looks more like a giant black bird. With flaming feathers." I reply with a shake of my head. So saying I roll to my feet and knock lightly on the diamond window. Like water a 6×4 foot section opens before him and he leaps out into thin air. black and silver flame enveloping him as he plummets towards the lake below. An instant later the fire spreads into the form of a massive bird, silver tipped black feathers flashing in the light of the rising sun. Wings spanning 200 yards at the minimum. From beak to the tip of my tail, I was head and shoulders shorter then all my siblings dragonic forms, a mear 100 yards in height.
As he glided slowly down towards lakes edge he glances back up, as a shadow block the sun. Adera's massive silver scaled form had appeared above mine, in a flash of white-silver fire. With a thundering roar she spiraled down above him, forcing him farther out over the water.
With a sparkle in my eyes, I fold one wing in pushing myself into a bluring spin, the tip of my right wing narrowly missing her white scaled belly as she snaps her wings out pulling out of her dive to avoid my dimension spreading feathers. And instant later, black and silver flames envelope me again as I shift back and cannon ball into the lake 20 feet below.
The crystal clear water geysers up 30 feet as I slowly sink to the lake bottom and kick off. Making it back to the surface as Adera lands on the beach, shifting 20 feet from the white sand.
"You are a fantastic war leader Ali, even as the youngest of our clutch." She says with a slight smile and shake of her head. "it is no wonder our brothers hate and fear you."
"Saiver defiantly hates me." i say softly with a shake of my head, as I slip out of the water and walk up onto the beach.
Steam rising from my clothing as I summoned a white hot ball of flame. The unique core of silver could be seen deep within the basket ball sized orb. Glancing up from the ball of fire, I hold back a chuckle at the look on Adera's face. Every dragon hordered a different thing, she had a penchant for grabbing everything colored silver, that passed before her eyes.
"You may see yourself as an outcast little brother. But you must remember what mother always said. 'You were born for a reason, you Ali have a truly unique path before you.' Never forget, you may not know what your purpose is yet, but eventually it will come to you."