"Hey who said you could borrow that," angrily yelled the
boyish slim teenage girl as she stormed into her brother's
bedroom.
Relaxing on top of his bed, lay a wiry looking teenage boy.
He appeared to be the same age and looked very similar to the
girl. He was mischievously focused on reading a brown leather
bound book. "What, I thought we didn't hide anything from each
other," he exclaimed with mock outrage!
She planted herself in the middle of his room with her
right hand held out expectantly. "We may be twins, but that
doesn't mean we share everything with each other Tyler. Give
back my diary now!"
He pointed to a passage he was reading, "do you really like
him?"
"Not anymore since you now know about him," she
sarcastically remarked while still holding her hand out. "Now
give it back."
He slapped her diary shut and held it protectively close to
his chest. "Try and get it Zoey," he playfully challenged her.
Rolling her eyes exasperatedly, "alright you asked for it!"
She exclaimed as she pounced on him. The two wrestled for a
moment on the bed while she tried to rip her private book out
from his strong grasp. For a couple minutes it looked as if
they were an even match.
Seconds into the fight Tyler made a tactical mistake and
opened himself up. Zoey saw her change when she realized that
her brother had opened his knees a bit. Just enough for her to
leverage her knee right in his groin. Doubling over in pain,
Tyler immediately let go of her private book.
"Don't make me come back in here to teach you another
lesson," Zoey playfully admonished her twin brother while making
a soft upward motion with her knee. With the joyful buzz from
winning that fight, she practically bounced back to her room.
After a short bit, Tyler recovered from the burning pain in
his groin. Composing himself, he got up left his room. From
there he headed downstairs where he briefly contemplated the
spring sunshine streaming through his parent's living room. The
space had a two story wall full of glass panes that afforded a
great view of ocean coast down below the house. Momentarily he
peered at the various homes down below his parent's house. Each
with families outside enjoying the warm weekend day. While the
California coastline was even farther below his house.
Instead, he went into the kitchen and grabbed a glass of
milk. Then, to take his mind off of losing to his sister, he
chose to go out onto the house's back deck to take a closer look
at the scene below them. His tried to ignore his parents who
were relaxing off to the side of the deck under a sun awning.
Both were deeply discussing the current dragon situation that
was happening around the world.
That was fine, he didn't really want to gossip right then.
Relaxing against the deck's wooden railing, he caught snippets
of what they were talking about. That there had been some
headway in trying to figure out where the dragons had come from
and what they wanted. Tyler gathered that a few people had been
able to make contact with the huge beings. That these dragons
revealed that they used to be humans. On top of that, they did
not mean any harm to them. His mother mentioned how there have
been far fewer human deaths caused by the dragons.
His father chimed in that he was still worried about the
few who weren't as friendly. It seemed as if the nation's
military agreed with him and were taking a careful stance with
the beasts. Though the president wouldn't allow them to
outright attack the dragons like others in the country would
like.
His mother was on the fence about whether to embrace the
dragons or wall them off. What intrigued her the most was what
was causing people to transform into dragons? She wasn't sure
what she would do if someone she knew changed.
Tyler gulped his drink and headed back inside. Putting the
glass in the dishwasher, he happened to glance over to see his
sister coming downstairs with a soccer ball in her hands. She
went outside to say something to their parents before hurrying
away.
Deciding to go back outside, he told his parents that he
was going down to the shore. They told him to be back by five.
Waving an acknowledgment, he rushed down a set of wooden stairs
and along the small path that led to the street behind his
house. From there he wound his way through the neighborhood
until he arrived at the public beach.
At the beach he began to walk along the shoreline gazing at
the active scene before him. After a while he realized that
none of his friends were out enjoying the son. So instead he
chose to see what he could find on his own.
Hours of fruitless searching later, Tyler climbed back up
to his house. His parent's had left the deck, while by the
sound of his sister's music, she was already home.
"Ok everyone, no one wants to cook so we're ordering out!"
Tyler's father called out to everyone within the house a short
time later. Zoey came racing down stairs with Tyler sauntering
behind her. Shortly there was a long discussion over what type
of food everyone wanted.
Hours later and lots of spicy Indian food, everyone in the
household broke up for the night. The parent's relaxed in the
living room watching TV, Zoey went upstairs to go online and
gossip with some friends, while Tyler decided to play a consol
military game.
Well past midnight Tyler awoke on his bed. By the state of
his cloths, discarded game controller, and his flat screen
showing the game's pause screen, told him he had passed out.
Absentmindedly he turned off the game and changed into his
pajamas.
Sleepily he left his bedroom and went to the bathroom.
Passing his sisters bedroom he could hear her coughing behind
the door. He hoped he wouldn't catch whatever she got!
As he relieved himself, Tyler began to notice that he had a
pounding headache. One that felt more like a migraine or deep
painful hangover. Standing over the toilet, he felt his stomach
lurch and his center of balance shift. Leaning over the toilet
he struggled to hold his stomach contents in.
Finally winning the battle, Tyler lurched painfully back to
his room. He just wanted to lay down and settle his upset
stomach and swimming head. Absentmindedly he wondered where
this uneasy feeling came from? In the end, despite his queasy
stomach and hurting head, Tyler finally fell asleep.
The morning found Tyler still not feeling well. Except
whatever he had in the night seemed to have turned into a cold.
Tyler cursed his sister, he did catch her cold.
Wiping his nose, he slowly pulled on a pair of sweat pants
and a t-shirt. Then he left his room to go downstairs. There
he found his sister similarly dressed. Her face was flush and
her snuffling sounds told him she was just as miserable as he
was.
"Morning, thanks for giving me your cold," Tyler
sarcastically remarked to her as he grabbed a glass and poured
himself a glass of orange juice.
Zoey moaned for a second, "I was going to say the same to
you." The twins sat perched upon stools that sat around the
island counter in the middle of the kitchen. Neither had the
energy to do much more. They weren't sure how long they sat
there silently sipping their drinks in shared misery. Yet,
after a short bit they both could hear the sound of hard rolling
wheels along the wood floor upstairs.
Looking over they both saw their parents coming downstairs
carrying two black hard plastic suitcases. Plunking them down
on the kitchen floor, their mother regarded her sick children.
"Each caught a cold huh," their mother inquired to them as she
touched each of their foreheads. "You both seem to have a bit
of a temp. I think some bed rest should fix that."
Tyler was the first to get up enough energy to ask, "mom,
what's up with the suitcases, you and dad going somewhere?"
"We got a call late last night, Aunt Sable just died and
we've got to fly back to New York to help out with her funeral."
Their father informed them as he brought a few more suitcases
downstairs.
Checking her watch, "we've got to get a move on if we want
to make our plane. There's chicken soup in the freezer. Go
back to bed and get some sleep. When we land, we'll call to see
how you both are doing." Their mother hurriedly informed the
twins as she rushed out of the house behind their father.
The twins regarded each other silently for a moment.
"You know, if we didn't feel like road kill, then I'd say
this was the perfect opportunity," he remarked sickly to his
sister.
"I have no energy for anything. I'm going back to bed,"
Zoey painfully informed him as she hauled herself up off her
stool and thudded back upstairs.
Tyler sat there for a short bit contemplating his drink.
All around him was the soft background sounds of the kitchen to
listen to. Finally with nothing else better to do, he got up
and slowly went back to sleep.
Afternoon daylight streaming through his bedroom blinds
greeted him when he cracked open his eyes again. He still felt
groggy and his bladder was nearly bursting. Slowing getting out
of bed, Tyler automatically headed towards the bathroom. Coming
back out, he idly scratched his back and arms. He wasn't really
paying attention to any of it.
As he walked along the hallway, he noticed that his head
didn't feel as bad as it did that morning. He realized there
could be a glimmer of hope that he might actually be good enough
to take advantage of his parent's departure.
Before he could contemplate the thought any farther, Zoey
screamed from her bedroom. Alarmed, Tyler discarded those
thoughts and rushed into his sister's bedroom. He found her
sitting on the edge of her bed shuddering as she peered down at
her stomach.
What he saw caused him to come to a full stop. Tyler had
never seen anything like it before. What was happening to her
toned abdomen was not even human. It looked to him like light
colored green scales were emerging over her abdomen. That as
the scales grew along her sides and back, they became more
emerald green.
"Tyler, what's going on," she exclaimed in horrified
disbelief. He was completely at a loss to explain it himself.
Then he felt an aggravating itching coming from his own
arms. Looking down, "oh my god, it's happening to me too!" For
along his arms were sprouting the same colored emerald green
scales. Taking off his shirt showed him that more scales were
spreading along his skin the same way they had on his sister's
body.
"Tyler are we turning into dragons," Zoey exclaimed to him
in dismay. She was referring to the reports coming from the
dragons themselves about how they used to be humans and how they
had transformed.
"I think so," he confirmed as they both watched with a bit
of amazement tinged with shock while their lightly tanned skins
were gradually covered over by varying shades of green. Shortly
they could see that the scales along their bellies were softer
and a lighter shade of green. While the rest of the scales
across their bodies were more an emerald and much tougher.
Ignoring their modesty, both continually removed more of
their clothes to watch their transformation. Before long both
were hairless and covered from head to toes in scales. Each
looked like identical scaly humans.
Tyler was completely at a loss to explain or describe what
was going on. He wasn't even sure if he wanted this or not.
Yet as a comfort, he had his twin sister there with him and she
was going through the same thing. She was someone he could at
least commiserate with.
Without thought, Tyler sat down on Zoey's bed and leaned
his scaly shoulder against hers. Both took a moment of solace
in each other's touch. Each waiting for the next set of changes
they knew were coming. It was then that he noticed a tingling
sensation along his right side. It was the side of him that had
been touching Zoey. He wanted to lean away from her to check
what that strange feeling was. However upon trying to pull
away, Tyler noticed that his shoulder wouldn't leave Zoey's.
"I can't stop touching you," Tyler urgently blurted out.
"Tyler look," Zoey quickly exclaimed pointing to their
touching shoulders. When he looked over, he saw that somehow
their scaly skin had melded together.
While watching what was happening to their touching
shoulders, both people felt a sort of magnetic attraction
between their bodies. It seemed that the sides which were
facing each other wanted to come closer. Without thinking, more
of their sides began to touch. With each touch, those sides
began to fuse together.
In front of their shocked eyes, they watched as both
Tyler's right arm and Zoey's left arm began to dissolve between
their two bodies. The same thing began to happen to the legs
that were touching. Within moments both had a shard third
center leg.
But the two's joining transformation didn't stop there.
Each watched in horror as that shard third leg began to wither
and pull up into their body. While their individual ribcages
soon reformed into a single ribcage, their hips pulled together
and became one, even the distance between their two heads
shortened.
After a short bit, sitting on Zoey's bed was what looked
like one fully green scaled human who had two heads. Even their
faces looked the same. Along with that, both now could feel
their now fully shared melded body. Rapidly they realized the
only things on their body they couldn't feel was each other's
head.
Experimentally, Zoey brought up their hands to her face to
peer at them while Tyler chose to stand up.
Finally Tyler broke the silence, "um Zoey?"
"Yea I know."
"I've never heard of dragons transforming like this," Tyler
quietly commented as he took over one of their hands to feel
their shard body. While they moved about both realized they
could sense what he was touching.
Even though in the past the two had led separate lives,
being fraternal twins meant they were still rather close with
each other. They both had enjoyed the other's company. Yet now
being completely melded together changed that. To them it felt
as if they were one person except for having separate heads and
minds.
Before they could contemplate their joint existence any
further, both felt shooting pain come from the tips of their
fingers and toes. Peering at them, they watched as their
fingers reformed with sharp black claws emerging out of their
fingertips. While they had been so focused on their digits,
neither had noticed another pair of small limbs growing out of
their back and sides just slightly down from their shoulder
blades.
When one of them did, they saw that those little limbs were
growing larger, longer, and stronger as more muscles grew in.
Along with the muscles it looked as if emerald green skin grew
in between those limb's lengthening fingers, arms, and their
back. Rapidly it dawned on both of them that they were their
wings.
Along with their wings, both found they had to stand up as
a long highly flexible tapered tail. While their tail grew in,
other changes began to hit them. Their rear legs began to
reform into animal like hind legs. At the same time their necks
began to push outward a couple feet. Along with that, each
watched the other's head as their noses and mouths merged
together into scaly lizard like snouts. Their eyes reformed
into evil looking golden eyes with dark slits. Their teeth
reforming into jagged sharp spikes.
Within a short amount of time the two twins now looked like
a human sized two headed green dragon. When they wanted to
walk, they had to do it in a four legged gate.
However, with the changes to their heads both found they
couldn't talk to either other anymore. In the end all they
could do was grunt. Both wished they could telepathically speak
to each other. The best they could do was get a vague sense of
what the other wanted to do.
What each twin could discern was that they were hungry.
Taking a moment to figure out who was doing what, they soon
padded their way out of Zoey's bedroom and downstairs towards
the kitchen.
Sitting up onto their hind legs before the refrigerator,
they reached out to open the machine's door. Then each using a
hand, both began grabbing food and wolfing it down. After a
while their shared stomach felt bloated. Leaving the trash from
their hurried feeding discarded in front of the refrigerator,
the two walked over into the living room. There they curled up
on the throw rug under the glaring bright sunshine. One head
rested against the other as they slept.
When the two awoke, both groggery realized that they had
gotten quite bigger. The two story living room they fell asleep
in seemed a bit smaller now. When they stood up both realized
they were large enough that if they sat back on their hind legs,
both could easily reach their heads up to the second story
balcony overlooking the living room.
While marveling at how large they had gotten, the two
noticed how they were communicating to each other. Though to
call it communication was a bit of a stretch. What they had
seemed more like they knew what each other was thinking. That
is not to say they were of one mind. The twins still felt and
thought as individuals, just that if Tyler thought of going
left, she knew it too. If there was complete agreement, then
they easily did something almost without thought. Yet if they
had any disagreement, they stood there until it was settled.
Though being able to see the other's thoughts made the
disagreement resolve faster than if they tried to do it
verbally.
Tyler looked over and saw that dusk had fallen. Zoey
looked over and felt like trying out their wings. Tyler agreed
and the two carefully squeezed their way through the living room
towards the deck. Being as large as they were, nether wanted to
destroy their parent's prized possessions.
After cautiously pushing their large shard body through the
now small deck door, the two moved around stretching their huge
wings. Both marveled at how large they were and that their
wingspan easily reached the entire span of the deck.
Almost with one thought they reached their wings up and
powerfully stroked their wings downward while jumping upwards.
Quickly they found themselves rapidly climbing up through the
night air. Both marveling at the sensation of flying and of the
freedom it brought.
Soon it dawned on the two that they actually liked being a
dragon. Liked the power that came with their change. Heck,
even sharing their body with each other wasn't so bad either.
Flapping higher, the two began to glide around the dark
neighborhood and beach. Absentmindedly the two watched the dark
ground pass below. Cruising through the air, they felt a
rumbling in their stomach. Zoey proposed going back and raiding
their parent's refrigerator again. Yet Tyler didn't relish the
idea of trying to squeeze their large frame back through that
door again. Zoey's thoughts quickly agreed with Tyler.
Instead they chose to do a little hunting. Their instincts
told them that was the best way to find food. At first they
spotted a man walking along a sidewalk. Adam's mouth salivated
at the idea of eating him. Yet Zoey had no interest in eating a
human. She remembered those reports of the other dragons eating
humans and wanted no part. Tyler saw her remembering the
reports and reluctantly agreed.
Ignoring the humans they spotted, the two began casting
about for some other animal they could eat. Zoey was the first
one to spot a lone horse standing up sleeping in a fenced off
field. Gesturing to Tyler they both agreed that would make a
fine meal.
Silently gliding closer, the horse woke up to sense
something dangerous was coming. Yet, it's night vision wasn't
as good as the twin's vision. Extending their claws, the two
dove downward towards the horse. At the last minute the thing
saw them neighed, then darted away from them. The two pumped
their wings hard to catch up. However being fenced in worked in
the twin's favor.
Soon they had the terrified animal pinned into a corner
unable to escape. They slammed into the horse and dug their
claws into its sides. The beast was so large that they could
not lift it off the ground. Instead, Zoey reached out and
clamped her jaws over the horse's neck crunching its spine
killing it instantly. She had bit down so hard that she nearly
decapitated it.
Then both locked their jaws onto the horse's legs and began
to drag the heavy corpse out away from the fence corner it had
been caught in. Now with more room, both dug their heads into
the animal's sides ripping off chunks of meat. Each were so
intently gorging themselves that their shared stomach rapidly
became full.
It wasn't until they had eaten their fill that they noticed
a man yelling behind them. Tyler looked up to see an older man
rushing towards them. While his sister kept picking at the
remaining gory bits, he watched the man take aim with his rifle.
At first he was scared of getting shot when the man's rifle went
off. Yet, they did not feeling any pain when the gun went off.
At first Tyler thought that the man had missed. Then he
realized that the bullet had just bounced off their scales.
That the it felt like lightly thrown pebbles against their tough
scaly hide.
Zoey finally finished with her gorging, Tyler suggested
they get away before the man chose to try something bigger. The
two jumped back up into the air. Beneath them the man became
terrified at seeing the large green two headed dragon flying
towards him. Yet with a loud roar from their mouths, the twins
flew over him and continued higher up in the air.
Both felt drowsy after that big meal and began to look for
a nice spot to sleep in undisturbed. Within a short bit they
spotted an out of the way valley that was far enough away from
any human dwelling for them to sleep undisturbed. There they
curled up and dozed for the rest of the night.
The next morning found that the two had grown much larger
than before. They both guessed that they had to be the size of
a large truck. Like last night, their hunger forced them to
hunt again. Also like last time Zoey didn't want to eat any
humans. By this point Tyler simply decided to not bring it up
anymore.
Four horses later and even more dozing found the twins even
larger. Flying around told them that their body was as large as
their old house. That even the humans they saw seemed rather
small to them. Like small plastic toy army men.
Flying over a bit of ground by the border of California and
Nevada, the two began to notice some strange feelings over their
body. Landing heavily on the sandy scrub brush ground, they
both watched as various horns began to sprout throughout their
body and on their heads. Then just as abruptly both began to
feel a pressure behind their eyes alongside the temples of their
heads. Before they knew it, two more dragon eyes had emerged on
each head behind the first pair. Both were presented with a
much wider vision. It was like they were looking forward and to
their sides at the same time.
Next in almost perfect synchronization, both Tyler and Zoey
felt something strange grow into their mouths under their
tongues. It felt as if something hard and fleshy was growing
within new pouches of skin within their mouths. After a couple
moments, whatever had grown in felt finished.
Both felt the urge to push whatever it was out of their
mouths as if they were sticking out a tongue. As soon as they
did that, both twins felt as if their consciousness shifted from
their dragon heads to that new bit of growth.
Opening up the eyes on those things revealed that they had
grown human torsos. One out of each head that looked just like
their original bodies. Coming out of Tyler's head was a human
torso that looked like his old body. While coming out of Zoey's
mouth was a perfect representation of her old body right down
to her short hair. It felt strange to the two that while they
felt like they were thinking in their now human heads, they were
still seeing out of their dragon eyes, feeling their tongues,
and sharing the same feelings from their main body.
"Whoa," Tyler exclaimed testing to see if he could speak
with his human mouth.
"Wow we can speak again," Zoey blurted out with amazement.
Moving their torsos about with their heads, feeling the
individual and shared sensations, both were amazed at what they
had become.
"So this is what it feels to be a dragon," Tyler remarked
as he peered back at their huge shared dragon body.
"I like it," she said with a evil grin.
"Yea it feels good," he said bringing his torso close to
hers. It looked strange that this two headed dragon had not
only its two heads close together, but that a human torso
emerged from each head as if they were sticking out their
tongues. It looked like the nude human torsos were facing each
other like regular humans. Both reached out to grasp each
other's hands. After going through what they had together and
feeling the same things for as long as they had, touching each
other hands and not feeling it from the other's point of view
felt strange.
While they could still feel each other's thoughts now, both
could now speak to each other. After some small talk they tried
to figure out what they were going to do. Mentioning that
question verbally caused an urge to form within their shared
body. It felt as if that they needed to go somewhere.
The twins discussed it for a moment before agreeing to
follow the beacon like feeling. Tyler was eager to go while
Zoey wished she could leave or say something to their parents.
After a couple more moments of discussion, Tyler dissuaded her
while mentioning that they could try later on to get a message
to their parents once they got where they needed to go.
With that, the two withdrew their human torsos back into
their mouths and leapt up into their air. That beacon like urge
led them in a north easterly direction.
After barely a day, the two arrived at the tall peaks of
the rocky mountains. There they saw all sorts of dragons. Some
had single heads while others hand multitude of heads. With
some introductions and marveling from the other dragons, the
twins realized they were the only dragons with two human torsos.
That even the other dragons with multiple heads only had one
main torso. Yet the other dragons assured them that there had
to be other dragon subspecies that were like them.
Either way the twins felt as if they were home. That they
really had no urge to leave and go back home. Even the thought
of contacting their parents had rapidly faded as they got more
comfortable within the draconic culture.
