The Basilisk Kiss

Chapter 23

Alpine

I switched the room quickly again to reveal the thunderstorm above us. "Do you want to do it at the same time or one at a time?" I asked Ominis. I had no idea what would be better, and apparently he didn't either as he furrowed his brows trying to think. After several seconds he shook his head quickly.

"Screw it, let's just do it at the same time." He said quickly before drawing the vial closer to his mouth and looking at me waiting for some kind of que.

"Okay, ready? Drink on 3.. 1.." I started to count. My heart pounded inside my chest.

"2.." my hands shook, the potion moving with the rapid movements.

"3.." I didn't let myself think for even a moment longer. I swung the potion back as quickly as I could. Despite this the fowl taste still assaulted my tongue. The chunky texture almost forced its way back up my throat. My face twisted into that of disgust, as did Ominis's. He made a displeased groan and nearly gagged.

"Ominis, the incantation. Force it down, you got it." I said through a strange tone of voice as I tried not the gag either. We raised our wand to our hearts, and almost in perfect sync we changed the incantation

"Amato animo animato animagus.."

Ominis

After I cited the incantation almost instantly, I felt a very strange sensation. My body tingled all over and I felt another heart beat? Or was my heart beating double time? No no, that's right, there is a double heartbeat, I read that. Keep it together. It's all part of the process.. next is.. before I could finish the thought an intense and excruciating pain shot all throughout my body. My muscles gave way to the pain. I dropped to the floor with my arms clenched around myself in an attempt to push the pain away. The pain.. I finished the thought before letting out a blood curtailing scream.

I heard Alpine scream as well. I knew she was experiencing the same. I couldn't even bring myself to open my eyes and look up to see her. Or move my body towards her at all. I was frozen and tense with a constant pain in every cell of my body. After what felt like an eternity of pain which was only seconds, I finally got the image of what I was changing into flash into my mind. My head shot up and my eyes lifted to the ceiling. Alpines' screams stopped which was a good sign. The pain of this process rivaled that of the Cruciatus curse. Which was saying something. Moments later I felt my body start to shift. The actual transformation process was quick and clean. No ripping flesh, breaking bones, fire, smoke, nothing. The shift just happened in a quick phase of changing shapes.

The next thing I knew the pain had stopped, the double heart beat had stopped, the image had gone. Was I really..? I completely froze. What was I looking at? How was I..? My eyes that had been casted to the ceiling with darkness were replaced with.. color. Shape. Color. Sight. I was no longer blind! I could see! I wanted to exclaim and scream but nothing came as I couldn't speak. My eyes slowly moved around the room. Relaxing the room was now absolutely massive. 3 times the size it was before. What I became was large, but not that large to cause the room of requirement to need to expand. So why..?

I looked straight ahead of me and my jaw dropped. In front of me was a dragon. Not just any typical dragon. A Ukrainian Ironbelly. Absolutely massive. That's why the room grew, but how did a dragon get in here?? Did Alpine bring Naveri in the nabsack and it got out somehow? No. No way in Merlin's beard. IS THAT ALPINE??! I thought as loud as possible inside my head. She was looking down at me. A shocked expression on her face as well. Her red serpent-like eyes wide and the massive jaw open. Even as a dragon I could read that expression on her.

I remember she did mention one of her ancestors actually being a dragon Animagus. It was possible but in no world did I think it could actually happen. We both heard a shimmery sound to the side of us. I had thought that we really needed a mirror, and just like that a massive mirror appeared. I turned my head and was shocked to see myself. A long, serpentine body curled around, covered in large grayish blue scales. A large slightly spiky head with massive fangs from the top and bottom of the jaw along with lots of smaller sharp teeth. A basilisk. I was really a giant serpent with a petrifying gaze. Instead of the eyes being their usual bright yellow, they were instead a bright blue.

I looked straight at Alpine though. Oh shit.. I looked directly at Alpine! I panicked and looked over expecting to see her turned into a statue but she was looking at us in the mirror, not stone. I was confused as to why, but then again I was confused about a lot of things so I figured I'd just try not to overthink things for now. At this moment I just admired the both of us in disbelief. We spent minutes looking at ourselves and each other. I was looking all around the room as well. Alpine turned her massive head over to look at me with another surprised expression. She extended out a wing and using the one finger on the bend of her wing, she lightly traced under one of my eyes with the talon on that finger. She tilted her head and in return I tilted mine. Her expression somehow became even more shocked. She dropped her wing back down to balance out her two legged body.

Her eyes lit up and she inhaled into her long neck and massive lungs. What was probably a gasp I'd assume. Just then she quickly phased back into her human form. She no longer had her clothes on. She looked at me in awe and flailed excitedly and ran up to me. I looked down at her. Seeing her. I saw her face in full detail. Her beautiful eyes, her long shiny hair, the hue and beautiful tone of her skin. I was looking directly into her eyes which could've been a major mistake but nothing happened. So that meant I didn't have a petrifying gaze which in this moment was a very good thing. I felt like I needed to cry at her beauty but nothing came from my serpent eyes. They didn't have eyelids or tear ducts. Just an eye covered in a single clear scale. I didn't have anything to reach out to her which is what I yearned to do. But I figured I wouldn't be able to see her if I returned back.

I looked over her flawless and absolutely beautiful body. Everything comes flooding back in a flash. All of our intimate moments played through my head again, all now seeing her in all of her glory. I shifted back into myself, instantly my vision went black again as I was already reaching for her face. Placing my hands lightly on her cheeks with tears flowing from mine. I pressed my forehead to hers and whispered softly

"My heavens, you are more beautiful than I could have ever imagined." I said in a shaky tone. She chuckled and I felt her cheeks rise in a smile.

"So I thought right, you could see in your basilisk form!! Oh my gosh Ominis that's crazy! That's unusual because usually handicaps from your human form transfers to your animagus form. That's very curious. Speaking of your animagus! You're a basilisk! I've never heard any accounts of that being a thing! That's insane! How do you feel? She said quickly.

I sighed and dropped my hands from her face. "I felt wonderful but now I can't see you. It was a gift taken away so quickly. But I want to talk about you. There's the fact that you turned into a bloody dragon. Me being a basilisk is nothing compared to that!" I said as we pushed through my sadness again.

"Hey there's an account of someone being a dragon before, there's no account of anyone being a basilisk. So I think you've got it a little cooler than me. Sure I became a massive, fire breathing, flying beast but it's happened before. In my family line so that probably contributed. Give yourself some credit." She said through a Cheery tone. I rolled my eyes knowing arguing with her would be pointless. The thunder storm stopped and the thunder bird waited for us to come back out to get it

We went outside and got the thunderbird back into the nab sack and retreated back inside. Once everything was settled and the room turned back to how it was. Alpine and I looked at eachother and I asked.

"So what's next?" I ask, wondering what plan she's come up with for our next steps.

"Next we go and fuck shit up." She said vaguely. I gave her an unamused expression and she laughed. "I know. But let's talk it over in the morning okay? We are both really drained and it's late." She put her hand on my shoulder. "I'm proud of you Ominis. Thank you."

I smiled softly and nodded. Feeling the tiredness  is hitting me hard now. We walked over to get ready for bed then shortly after we laid down we both quickly fell asleep. I was anxious thinking about what could come next.

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Hell yeah!! Ain't that freaking exiting! Ominis has a way to see 😏🤯

You know this opens up an opportunity for some freaky stuff but for the sake of what I feel is most people, I'm gonna stay away from all that 😳

Anyway! Love you all! Can't wait to see what y'all think about this chapter. 🩵