Beautiful Dangerous Creatures

{CHAPTER 1}

I slowly open my window, I can feel the cool autumn breeze coming into my room, its dark outside and im suppose to be asleep, I have school tommorow, but I cant stand this anymore.

Im sorry mom, I cant keep your promise.

Not anymore.

I put a leg out the window and I grow still when I hear someone rustling in their bed near by, I slowly put the other leg out the window when the rustling stops, then I bolt.

I run thru the forest bare footed, I sharpen my gaze and my senses come alive, I can hear the crickets chirping, I can hear the howling of the wind, I can feel the wind flapping through my hair.

My mom will never understand, she will never understand that this is me, that this is who I am, the real me.

A dragon.

Im the last of my kind, or so my mom says, their used to be a lot of dragons until they've gone missing or went extinct, they were hunted down for games and fun.

Maybe that's what happened to my dad? Maybe he got killed by hunters.

I asked my mom about my dad but she doesn't like to talk about it, she either snaps at me or changes the subject everytime I bring it up, im the only dragon in my family, my mom, sister and little brother are normal, human. My dad was a dragon he was the one who taught me how to fly, he was the one who told me to only fly at night, he taught me everything it is to be a dragon.

After my dad disappeared, or died? My mom wouldn't let me shift into my dragon anymore, she even forbid me to not fly anymore, I know she's only doing it for her though, she doesn't want anything that reminds her of my dad, she made me promise her to not shape shift anymore, what she doesn't know is that its killing me, the dragon inside me is dying, withering away. I've kept it in for the past few weeks and I've grown weak.

I cant shut out a piece of me that makes me, well me.

The piece that makes me happy... I cant keep my mom's promise anymore, I cant let my dragon die, or else I might turn to normal or worse, I might die.

I stop in the middle of the forest, my chest heaving, my breaths wheezing out of me, I wait for a moment letting my senses take over, after I've taken in a few breaths, I start peeling my clothes off of me, I've learned that if we shift into our dragon form with our clothes on they rip, I've learned the hard way when I ripped a cute pair of jeans when I shifted, I fold my clothes and hide it under a hole from under a tree, I shiver when the wind kisses my bare body, I look up at the moon and roll my shoulders back, I close my eyes and take in a deep breath.

Im ready.

My body start to shift, my skin slowly starts changing into black scales with flecks of a majestic purple, my face starts stretching, cheeks tightening, I can feel my talons growing from my finger tips, I feel a familiar tingle in between my shoulder blades and my wings spread out making a wshh sound as if letting out a sigh of relief after being occulted by so many weeks, my body shivers in excitement.

I forgot how this felt like.

I move my talons up and down feeling the earth below me, I crouch down, my tail in the air, I take in a deep breath and I spring into the air, my wings snap open and take flight, the wind is pushing against my face, I spiral in the air and laugh.