Dragon's Wolf

Fluffiness and Ears

Aeriella's POV

He stopped tickling me and I caught my breath before looking up to find everyone giving me amused expressions so I narrowed my eyes and they began to disperse. I felt Aaron's fingers lift my scowl into a smile, "You'll never get everyone to like you if you don't smile."

I bit his fingers and he pulled them away, "That's the third time you've bitten me in the past twenty-four hours."

I shrugged and wiggled out from underneath him before standing and rolling my eyes, "You'll get over it. Come on mom made breakfast and won't let me eat until you're with me."

He stood up easily but instead of obediently following me to breakfast I felt his arms slip around my waist and his breath on my ear causing my stupid heart to accelerate. I should really have that checked out. Must be broken because it's never hurt or beat this hard for anything, not even my first flying lesson.

He must have felt it because I felt his lips smirk against my ear, "You're turning red."

Snapping out of it I pushed my hips back and tried to flip him over my shoulder onto the ground. This always works. I smirked, wait why wasn't this working?

Looking over my shoulder I saw him smirking instead of me. Looking down I realized he'd braced himself and was using his bigger size as well as strength to his advantage. Huffing I gave up and started walking towards the house because I was hungry.

I felt his touch around my waist then felt the ground vanish from under my feet as well as saw the ground and his very nice looking ass. Rolling my eyes I allowed him to carry me to the house then inside. I heard a wolf whistle and ended up flipping my uncle off. Just by looking at the walls changing color I knew that he was taking me to the table.

I felt myself tilting again and found myself sitting in my chair looking up at his cocky grin. I huffed and looked at my mother who gestured for him to sit down. He did so and seemed pretty amused by himself, "You're just annoyed that you couldn't flip me."

I rolled my eyes again, "Just say your prayers of thanks and eat."

I took my own advice and dug in. A knock on the door sent my one of my sisters running toward the door and I just kept eating not in the mood for anything. Footsteps sounded and I looked up to see my deputy sit down at the table and take a strip of bacon, "So he's the new mate?"

"New?" Aaron rose an eyebrow.

I rolled my eyes, "He means only."

Mark shrugged, "More like the only thing alive she's ever shown romantic interest in, almost makes me think she's half woman."

I ignored them and finished eating. They were still talking when I cleaned up my plate and went to my office to finish the pent up paperwork. Gah, I was only gone for four days and it built up into a huge stack. I began computing stocks and going over the patrol reports until something caught my eye. There had been a lot more western dragon sightings around our borders as well as strays that had been chased out of other territories. They'd temporarily placed them all in a small holding town for now.

Why are there so many stray dragons all of the sudden? Is there a problem in the other territories or the smaller territories? I wondered.

Deciding to talk to them I grabbed my coat and put on my boots. On my way to the door I saw the two guys stand up and knew that the look on my face may have given it away. Mark frowned and stood up, "What's the look?"

I shrugged and looked at them, "I'm going to find out what's going on from the strays."

"Strays?" Aaron frowned seeming confused.

"The dragon equivalent of rogues." Mark explained quickly, "but why ask them and not the chiefs?"

I sighed, "Do you really think some stuck up big shot wannabes are going to tell me they're having problems in their territories?" He shook his head, "I didn't think so either, now I'm going to the holding village to get to the bottom of this. Are you guys coming or not?"

"Of course. Come on Chief One, Chief Two." Mark gestured for us to follow him.

Once we were outside we each went around opposite corners to strip and shift. It's not that I have any self image issues, it's that I don't want to give anyone else any body image issues or opportunities to blackmail me. Aaron followed me and blinked when I threw my balled up clothes and boots at him, "What are you doing?"

I grinned flashing my perfect teeth and allowed my body to become a white dragon. Crouching down I nudged him towards my back. He rose an eyebrow before shaking his head, "Is it all over land or is it partially over the water?"

I felt my lips pull up into a grin and held up one claw to tell him it was the first option. In response he nodded and started to strip himself. I can't say that I didn't enjoy the view but what was he doing? He's never going to keep up if he's on the ground. Well whatever, once he can't keep up I'll just swoop down and pick him up. It'll be like an "I told you so" moment.
His shift was fast signaling that he'd done it often. Standing before me was a fluffy wolf. His fur was black throughout his back and his chest and legs faded to gray. It looked so soft that I just wanted to touch it. I found myself reaching forward and nuzzling his neck where the fur was thicker. It was so soft!
I just wanted to cuddle up around his fuzzy-ness and play with his ears. They look so soft and perky, like a perfect toy to keep me occupied for hours. Reaching over I batted at his ears a couple times and felt myself get giddy every time they perked back up.
He gave me an amused look and picked up his pants before tilting his head towards my clothes. Taking them in my mouth I tucked them in the small pouch underneath my wing.