Fire And Gold

chapter 2: New horizons

A day or two passes by and I'm still this creature.

My experience on all fours hindered my ability to climb or even move about most of the time and I didn't really know how to use my claws effectively. As for my wings...useless too, in fact they get in the way most of the time since I usually I trip on them as I try and walk.

I'm surprised also that I didn't freeze to death at night...I guess being a dragon has its perks...

As time went on, my frustration grew and soon I begin to convince myself that this was some twisted punishment. For what exactly, I'm not sure what yet. I tried to do the good thing in life as a human...tried to better myself and follow by example. To become a creature I wasn't born as and to be stuck in this valley

By the second day, I started getting hungry and all this loneliness started drawing me into despair. By the afternoon, my hunger is really starting to irritate me. There are some fish in the water, I used My giant jaws and collected them before they could escape raw

"look at me...I'm starting to act like some wild animal too...I'm so hungry my stomach hurts though that wasn't filling at all."

I sit on my hind legs, clutching my small belly in agony and frustration. Whoever, or whatever, turned me into a dragon didn't bother showing me how to live as one...I kind of wish they just made me some mindless animal to give me a better chance! I huff, smoke seeping from my nostrils as I shake my head, "that actually was pretty cool to see."

During all this time, all I have in my spare time is to try and learn how to fly in the hopes of somehow escaping this prison. Other times I just think, it's all really I can do. Where am I exactly? Am I even anywhere near home? Are there even any people around here? I doubt they would even attempt to strike a conversation with me.

I can't take it anymore! I focus my attention on the pond again...it's pretty deep and I don't know how to move very well on foot and can't even fly...imagine swimming. I might drown...but I'll starve eventually if I don't act!

And so, I struggle toward the pond, still not knowing how to walk properly A large pair of wings with an orange membrane, a strong body covered in scales that seemed to shine and absorb the light at the same time, two hind legs which bore the same powerful claws than the ones on my arms and a tail that was almost as long as my entire body with four spikes on each side and of my entire body.

It was surprisingly easy to find the muscles responsible for the wings and soon I had them opened to their full extent. I had seen dragons take off before on TV or movies but doing it in person was an entirely different thing. A huge flap of my wing sent me two meters in the air, but I forgot to continue and smashed myself in the ground, making the earth tremble as I swore.

"Son of a bitch!" I swore as I picked myself up.

I had to repeat it two times before I managed to fully leave the ground and started to gain altitude with my wings to carry me higher. above the mountains surrounding the valley of Forest . And from the sea of green trees for kilometres as well as a massive city way further away in the distance. I immediately wanted to fly twords it but I stop myself as the reality of my situation dawn on me no doubt that dragons were seen as dangerous creatures and would immediately attack me on sight if I got anywhere near the city walls

I instead turned towards the sea maybe I could find refuge on a inhabited island somewhere far from anyone. That's the only real choice I have unless I want to spend the rest of my life as some dragon constantly under threat of being attacked and I don't even know how to breath fire or control this damn body fully I'm lucky as it is at actually being in the air.

I have a lot to learn.