Gracious's Last Wish {{ Extended Version }}

"Come, Gracious!" Jack called as he opened the doors of the Vessalius Manor.

I'm here!~" replied a beautiful CrystalWing, which bounded past him and out the doorway. Her wings were folded behind her and her purple scales shimmered in the sun.

"Slow down, Gracious. Wait for me," he ordered, closing the doors behind him.

"But I do not want to wait!" she pouted, her paws padding rapidly on the grass in excitement.

Jack chuckled as he saw how anxious she was. "If you go on without me, no treats for you.~"

Gracious flattened her ears and stood still. "Hurry up then! I can't take it anymore!"

"If I sat on your back, would you calm down?" he mused.

"Nope!~"

"Well then.." he came near her and playfully plopped himself on her back.

"Oof!" she grunted as his weight brought her down. She was crushed underneath her master.

"Now, let's try this again. Clam down and we will move on."

Gracious struggled to speak. "Y-yesss.. M-ma..ster.. J-Jack.."

"Good.~" he stood up, allowing her to breath.

"You are heavier than I have expected." she commented, getting to her feet.

"And if you do not obey me, I will keep sitting on you.~"

"I guess I should obey you more then."

"Indeed you should. Because I will sit on you until you are short of breath.~" he threatened, smirking slightly.

"Oh, no.."

"Hahaha. Come Gracious. We are going to merge first so we can travel faster."

"Yes, Master Jack."

Jack removed the glove from his left hand and revealed a purple mark on it. It was a purple dragon with a tail that curled and parted like vines.

"Gracious.. merge with me," he said, looking straight into her misty, silver optics. The mark began to glow. Her figure became wavey and unstable, almost ghostly. Her eyes emitted a soft violet glow as her transparent form jumped into her master.

Jack took a deep breath and closed his emerald optics as he felt Gracious's soul spread inside his body.

A set of purple wings sprouted from his back and spread out, having a wide wing span. He opened his eyes and they were silver instead of emerald. Two fangs pointed out of the upper part of his mouth, almost like a vampire. Charcoal-black talons unsheathed from under his finger nails. A lengthy purple tail stretched from his rear, curling around his feet.

"Ahh.. now we travel," he said and burst into the sky with a stroke of his large wings.

He flapped his wings and rose higher until he was touching the clouds. This beast Jack had transformed into is called Jackious. Jackious was headed somewhere for a week so he could fulfill one of Gracious's dreams: To visit the Land of the Lavenders upon Purple Peaks.

Gracious loved Lavenders. They reminded her of the many CrystalWings that once lived around her. Purple and lovely. Pretty and delicate.

Jackious did not know exactly where this place was, but Gracious has been telling him about a secret place in the woods that was marked by a birch tree with blue hairs like a magical tree. The woods was a large area that could take days just to get to the other side. Flying over the trees, he used his dragon eyes to search thoroughly fore the birch tree.