Bright as Night [adopted book from 12ashlea]

Chapter 2 - Oopsie Woopsie

'Thought'
"Speak"

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When you woke up the light of the sun filled your vision, the sudden light blinding you for a moment. As you slowly stood up to examine you surroundings, you saw that the walls of the "room" were broken. Broken black eggshells bigger than you were scattered across the floor, which was made of sand. Your body also felt... weird. You slowly stood up on your two legs before the weight of your body caused you to loose balance. You let out a huff of annoyance as you settled for shifting to lying down on your belly and lifted your head to look at your surroundings. You seemed to be in a beach by the side of a rocky large mountain wall.

You tried to stand up on two legs and immediately fell down, your face hitting the sand. You let out a frustrated groan as you stood up again. You used your hands to push yourself up again. Looking down, you saw two black nubs with dark claws plushing into the sand instead of s/c hands with five fingers. "Wha... Wait what?!" You held up the claw to your face to examine it. The claws moved as you flexed it. You turned your head to look at the ocean. Slowly, you firmly put down your two front claws and stood up on all fours using your hind legs. You slowly walked over to the ocean. You silently stared at your reflection. A small nightfury that resembled the anatomy of the nightlights from httyd stared back at you. It felt surreal, like a dream. Where was your reflection? Why do you see a dragon instead of a human?

You looked over to your side to see a large dark wing folded against you. You could feel it, the feeling of two extra limbs attatched to your back. You turned back to look at your reflection as you unfolded your wing. It extended outwards into the air and the faint pattern of small white dots scattered about could by seen under the wings like stars in the dark night sky. The same treatment seemed to be given to your fins. Two eyes with e/c scleras and round white irises that resembled the moon stared at you. You looked like a toothless reskin. 'This is one trippy dream.' Hey, at least you were a dragon in this dream. Your body felt strange and foreign, the extra body parts new and unknown to you. Since you were a dragon, does that mean you could fly? You lit up at the idea, swerving your body around in the direction opposite to the ocean. Your tail brushed against the white sand, the itchy but smooth feeling of grains of sand could be felt on your skin. Everything felt so real, you really commend your brain for being able to make this feel so realistic. You could feel and smell the cold salty air of the ocean around you and the sound of the waves rolling onto the shore. Your dreams weren't usually this real feeling, but you didn't mind it. The exact opposite, actually.

Well, you are dreaming that you're a nightfury, so why not enjoy the dream while it lasts? Something you always enjoyed in the httyd movies were the dynamic flight scenes. You didn't know how dreamworks did it, but the end result was always something beautiful and breathtaking. You felt a giddy excitement grow in your chest, wouldn't it be fun if you could recreate those scenes in your dream? You wondered how it would feel to experience something like that. Well, you guess you would just do it now. How? You didn't know, you guessed that it would just happen somehow since this was just a dream. Well, no other way to find out!

You leaped into the air and spread out your wings, beating them as your body tilted downward and you face planted. Well that was embarrassing. The grains of sand scratched against your face and fell off as you stood back up. You decided against flying to preserve your pride for now, instead deciding to simply wander on foot. You continued to move along the shoreline until you reached the entrance to a more lush green forest placed on top of an elevated ledge. You jumped over the edge and onto the dirt, the feeling of grass tickling your... toes? Claws? The hell are you supposed to call your new body parts? Ah well, you'll figure it out. Its fine.

You continued to walk and passed by a large lake with a waterfall and made your way to a cliff that overlooked a vast valley filled with life, a small pond with a statue placed on a small island in the middle could be seen. You moved towards the edge of the cliff to look down at the valley and the faraway silhouettes of whatever else was across the horizon. Was it just you or did this place look familiar? There was a nagging feeling of familiarity as you stared at the valley. It only increased when you look at the statue. You changed the direction of your gaze to what seemed like the silhouette of a city. You saw large windmills surrounding it. Only when you saw a certain statue with wings and hands outstretched to the sky did you realize where you are. "I'm in genshin impact... as a nightfury." It was a strange combination, httyd and genshin, but both of them held a special place in your heart so it was understandable why you would dream this.