The Enigma

Sometimes, in rare cases, the end of time only means the beginning of a story, in this case the beginning of a life. The universe had just died and all that was left was darkness. Some were deep in the inky darkness a small light floats. All alone. Stranded and out of place.

"Does anyone here have dreams that tell stories?"
I do  except mine twist and turn like a magic forest....... And then they grow thorns.
"Diloria." I snap back to reality, though I get trapped inside my head often.
"Yes Shey?"  I'm also an orphan, Shey is the caretaker.
"Can you go to the store for me please?" She hands me some money and a shopping list.
"There's also a few extra bucks in there for you, have fun dear!" She shouts as I head for the door. I'm fifteen, turning sixteen in a week, no one knows though. I take a shortcut through the woods in the backyard, enjoying the silence on the way through. Shadows and fog dart across the ground on the way, allowing the frost to cling onto my pant legs freezing over like unforgiving chains. I step out onto the sidewalk like a ghost sweeping through the trees and misting onto the sidewalk, surely scarring passing bystanders with my pale skin, forever changing eyes and long black hair. I walk along the sidewalk misting through the people like I was never even there. Suddenly, pain strikes, clawing its way up my back making it hard to breathe. I stumble my way back through the now empty streets and into the woods,falling slowly onto a fallen tree. I hear my bones cracking and moving beneath my skin. 'Oh god what's happening to me?!?!' And then it all goes black.

'What happened to me?' When I look up everything looks different, clearer, sharper. I shift, something feels different. I look down at my hands, or what would have been my hands. I sit looking at the scaled claws that replaced my hands, I shift again this time to look at the rest of me .......... More colorful scales, and .......... Are those....... Wings? I walked over to a nearby stream. When I looked down................. I screamed, but all that came out was a horrific roar, vibrating all the trees around me. Oh god what ....... What, l- ....... What? WHAT?!? Oh no what do I do? How do I change back?! How are dragons even real?!?! I backed away from the stream in front of me and ran away as fast as I could, darting through the trees.

By the time it's dark I had come across a meadow, in desperation and frustration, I lift my head and flap my wings as hard as I could, leaving a crater and shooting up into the sky. Soon,I'm up so high that I'm surrounded by stars and couldn't see the world beneath me.
What am I?
You are an Enigma my child.
What? Who are you? Why can't I see you?
Patience, all answers are found with time. Now go child, someone is calling your name.
I don't understand!
Go now! Your time is running out!
What do you mean?!
Hunters are coming.

Everything went black.
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'Where am I?' Bleary shapes flashed by. People in white coats, a metal table, tied down wrists, glinting metal. Once again, everything goes black .......... But I can hear..........
" Dan! Grab the needle will you?" I hear rustling.
" sure thing boss." Well, He sounds spiteful.
"Oh shut up Dan!"
"Why? What are you gonna' do, huh Jack? Kill my wife?! Well, you've already done that now haven't you?"
"Just get me the needle already will ya?" More rustling.
" Here."
" That wasn't so bad now was it? Dan."
He sighed, "No sir, sorry sir."
"Thank you, you're dismissed."

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It's been a week in this place and I need to get out before it's too late. They are an organization called the core, they are doing illegal experiments under the government's noses. I have a plan to break free, but in turn I'm also making a plan to tear the whole organization down, that is the only reason I have not escaped yet.

--------------------------------------------------Week Two---------------------------------------------------------------

I'm breaking out tonight, if I don't I won't see next week. I heard them planning on killing me so that they can dissect, they said that by the end of this week all of the experiments with me alive will be done and that they then could proceed with the dissection. I had completed the first half of my plan to escape now I just have to finish where I left off.

"Hey Dan,"
"Yes Boss?"
"It's your turn to lock up tonight."
"Ok sir, have a nice night sir."

Thank goodness for windows, Dan never remembers to lock them.
I slowly get up, making sure not to set off any alarms. I take a nearby chair and put it under the window. On the chair looking out, I see nothing but sand. I climb out the window, making sure not to make a sound, I land. For miles I ran, doing anything to get away. A good hundred miles later, I rest, so by morning I can shift and fly away.

I wake to the sun and sand burning at my skin.

I fly for days, nights, weeks, months, never stopping and never resting always above the clouds. Eventually I fly into the universe, just like on that fateful day.

Hello?
Go east, across the ocean. Never stop flying. The only way to enter is from above.
Why do I feel like you just never make any sense?
Go.
Ok, ok. Going now. Bye.

I take the directions she gave me. When I get there I see an island............ Full of dragons.......

You see, once I got there I found out that I am the only one that can shift into a human. (Though  I'm more a human that shifts into a dragon.)

〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰one year later〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰

Me and some other dragons took down the organization core, I found love and made little Enigmas and put a spell on the island so that no human will ever be able to find it. Best of all ........ I had a family for the first time in my life, and it's the best thing anyone could ask for.