Chapter 1: Eggshells

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Picture is mine, and it's of Percy's dragon mother(and what Percy will look like once grown). Imagine Percy as a smaller version with smaller horns and wings, and bigger and rounder eyes. (I'll probably draw and show it next chapter. I dunno, I guess I'll be making a chibi version lol)

He didn't know when exactly his consciousness returned. Nor how long he was unconscious. Weeks? Months? Years even?

It was just blank and darkness one moment, then he opened his eyes to...more darkness. If he weren't so disoriented and confused, he would've felt annoyed. He body felt a bit numb, as if it didn't had the chance to move for a very long time. Just how long was he unconscious?

He moved an arm, it was clumsy and weak, but the movement caused him to realize that he was submerged in some type of thick liquid. And it seems he was curled up tightly with some type of walls encompassing him for some reason.

A cage...

He needed to escape.

Now.

His need urged him to raise his head, a tiny movement really, but he somehow managed to gather enough strength to break the wall. He was rewarded by a ray of light, slipping between cracks. Bolstered by the result, he tried again and again, until he freed his head and arms. Percy blinked his eyes rapidly to adjust to the lighting, before he shifted in an attempt to free the rest of his body.

He succeeded, but he yelped when it took the cage falling over and making him stumble and roll to the ground to make it happen. He landed on his chin and stomach, before he painfully sat up while rolling his jaw.

His body felt odd. He looked down on his hands only to see claws covered in light blue scales. Startled, he stumbled and fell on his back. He panicked as he tried to get up-there are things on his back!

Percy stumbled and rolled around, his new appendages moving-flapping?-with him. But then there was a rumbling growl that immediately silenced him. It was deeper, older, and more dangerous. Gulping, he turned around...only to squeak and fall on his back again at the sight of a pair of giant eyes.

The giant monster made the same sound again, that now Percy recognized to almost resemble a laugh. He huffed, only to squeak again when it moved closer and enclosed his middle with its huge jaws. Was this how he's gonna die? He hadn't even managed to solve the mystery of his weird appearance yet, much less get back to Annabeth! But then something inside him seemed to say that it's safe. That the creature was home, and safety, and protection.

Percy didn't know why, but he listened and relaxed. The creature didn't bite down, much to his relief, only carried him to someplace a little higher. He was lowered on a place made out of grass, straw, branches, and seaweed, and in front of him are giant broken eggshells. Which was covered in the same sticky liquid that he now realized he was covered in.

Wait...

Scales, claws, eggshells, -he took a look behind him, only to have his suspicion confirmed-...wings, and a tail, and now having a good look at the creature, since it was some distance away instead of being right up at his face...

Is that a freaking dragon?!

...and I am one too?!

While the demigod in a dragon's body was in the middle of an existential crisis, the dragon had flew back in through the cave entrance, carrying a fish in its mouth. It dropped the fish outside the nest, and tore out a chunk. The piece of meat dropping in front of him certainly snapped him out of his frantic thoughts, but looking at the thing didn't give him any positive feelings.

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