The Ether-Knight's Lessons

27

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— Idun —

"Ahh, everyone, look sharp! The cheater who stole #15 from Madeline DuPont graces us with her presence!" An anonymous sourpuss commented from the back of the room as I sat down in my class on Monday.

The teacher looked up. "Hmm? Ahh, Lady Idun, welcome back. I trust your stomach feels better?"

"I wasn't sick, Professor, just very busy, breeding dragons and doing alchemical experiments." I said calmly.

He blinked. "Ah... hm. Well, you did the work, so I can hardly fault you for being busy. Moving on, today's lecture is on the subject of-"

The commenter stood up, revealing her face, and I repressed a groan of annoyance. "Uhm, Professor, that's it? She skipped class for four days, and cheated her way into the upperclassman's-"

"Stacy, you eternal pain in my ass, sit the hell down, or I'll break your spine, and you'll sit down in a wheelchair, and never get up again." I sighed, annoyed by the very sound of her voice.

"Ahem... that's quite enough, both of you. I've handled the situation, and that's the end of it. Also, Stacy, don't make me remind you of things that are not your place to say." The Professor glared at her until she sat down.

He turned back to the board. "Now, as I was saying. Today's lecture is on the subject of Familiars. The first mention of Familiars was around 42,000 BC, when the Golden Elder Anatax decided to bond his soul to a human he'd been keeping for company."

I spaced out, bored, as I'd already read the textbook, and memorized it.

—

Saturday broke over the artificial horizon gloriously... right into my eyes. I'd been staring out the window, contemplating which of my Familiars to bond with, seeing as I could only physically bond with one, and it was permanent.

There'd be no pain to Weiss or Bergen, but as it could only be done once, and it was entirely permanent... it would mean the loss of their physical company, though they'd exist, mentally.

I blinked at the light, and grinned, an idea forming. I would play mad scientist.

I took one of Bergen's claws and a bit of his blood, then some of Weiss's hair and blood, and finally Scythia's, and mixed them together carefully, before thinking of anything else to add.

Taiga slipped around my shoulders, as I was deliberating. "I do always love a good experiment... you adorable savages have advanced so far in such a short amount of time... and I really would like more Golds and Silvers. Always the most amazing at debates, they are." He bit off a piece of his tail, and spat it, and his venom, into the mixture.

"Thanks..." I nodded, and then dropped a concentrated Ether Crystal in as well, crushing and mixing it all carefully, before compressing it, and extracting key components, settling those in a 'blank' of sorts, a Sperm with no DNA.

The female egg, (one of the sixty or so I now had lying around, waiting for the next generation of Golds to be mixed with Brass and Copper and Bronze, to attempt to recreate Gold,) came from Bergen's Mother, and so any draconic offspring would, (without the Elder Dragon types to turn it away,) be a Crystalline Breed.

Much more Crystal Ether, plus some of the Crystal Dragon's blood and scales, made up the immediate material used to build the Chimera I was designing.

The ability to utilize Etheric Crystal instead of only normal Ether was a skill that not many dragons could do, beyond Golds and Silvers, but even they couldn't make such crystals. This one would have them already growing, inside of it, and on its skin, like extra armor, but armor that would also make the dragon stronger, magically.