So many fantasy stories start out, Once upon a time.. my story is not that old so here goes.
When I was a kid about 20 years ago, I often wondered why I always felt differently about myself. I was shy and quiet and would rather look to the stars then go looking for danger. I was always reading a book or watching the clouds.
Around 7 seasons of snow, I started feeling ill during the time the moon was crescent. One night I was standing at the door on south side of our home when the snow started led to fall in from of the crescent moon, I felt as if I might wretch so I started stumbling forward and then a snowflake landed on my forehead. I froze in place and time, I blinked and then started to change. My arms and legs became covered in soft scales, a long cat like tail emerged on my rump, and my head began to pound as it changed into a dragons head. After a few moments of looking at my body, I fainted.
When I woke I was laying on the snowy ground, my whole body hurt. My brother who had basically raised me since our parents disappeared a few years ago was shaking me and yelling for me to wake up.
"Jolpe, wake up are you ok? "
I blink a few more time and try to sit up.
" I'm ok Trass, I was having such an odd dream. I dreamt the snowflakes changed me into a dragon. It was so much fun, I wish it was real. We could have anything we wanted if we were dragons. Help me up please so we can do our chores."
I extended my hand only to see it was still a Snow White scaled claw. I screamed.
" by magics waves, what's is going on Trass?" I start trying to scratch it off. Trass grabs my arms and tells me to calm down.
" I can't calm down I'm a, I'm a dragon.! How am I a dragon? Why am I a dragon? Is this why our parents left? Are you a dragon brother?"
He grabbed by shoulder and slowly pulled me up to a stand.
" there is some things I need to tell you, Jolpe "
We talked til nightfall then we made dinner in silence, I had no idea how much my parents had done go through. Running for thier lives, scavaging for food, hiding thier children so the hunters wouldn't find them.
I shifted into a dragon every night as the snow fell from the skies, it doesn't hurt as much now. I have gotten used to the pain of growing a tail out from back of my hips and claws out the end of my fingers. My head still hurts as I shift to hold a dragons mount.
Trass changed to help me learn also, his colors were warm oranges and reds. Not at all like mine, I'm as white a fresh fallen snow on the frozen mountian. My claws are a pearly white, that shimmer under the moonlight. My eyes sparkle like ice hanging from the door top, the blue in them is like frozen water in the lake. Almost see through as a looking glass.
My appetite has grown much over the last two sunsets, I now want to eat larger meals and more live foods. Where a loaf of bread and some cream was a meal before, now I crave bread, cheese, and meats.
Also my sight is better as is my hearing. I can be sitting in a tree and see a field mouse scurrying around the field and hear his tiny paws running from me.
Trass has started teaching me to how to use my different abilities. I can see better, further, more clearly, and at night. I can hear the whisper of butterflies as they perch on flowers drinking the nectar. I am stronger then ever before, I can move 2 of the straw bales at a time where I used to only be able to roll one.
With each passing day I grow larger, stronger, more adventurous. Dreaming of the days I can escape this retched life of nothingness, I dream of those days.
The life I was meant to have will be here before I know it...
