The Dragon's Ring

Chapter Four

*TIME: 7:32 AM*

The sound of the alarm clock woke Mikey up from his slumber and he shuts off the alarm.  When he sat up from his bed and stretched, he couldn't help but feel guilty for what happened, mostly for how he acted when he and the others returned to the house.

He shrugs it off and gets ready for the day, unaware of what will happen next.

*TIME: 738 AM*

Mikey walks down the stairs and notices that everyone was giving him a very pissed off look, only they had theirs arms crossed.  When you see that, you know that means bad news.  As he makes down the stairs, Tony got straight up to his face and gave him a very imitating look.

"What are you doing?" Mikey asked him.

"You know what you did" Tony snarled at him.

"Tony, I don't know what the deal is" Mikey said.  As he said that, Tony turned on the TV that was in the living room with the TV remote that was in his hand and showed him what was going on.  What Mikey saw was shocking.

Apparently, someone broke into the museum and stole the Dragon's Ring, leaving a skeleton behind.

"Mr. Bodkins, who do you think stole the Dragon's Ring?" asked the female reporter to the man, Mr. Bodkins, Mikey's former boss.

"Well, I think it's pretty obvious who did it" Mr. Bodkins began to say, "That miserable failure of an inventor, Mikey Kowalski"

As soon as Mikey heard this, rage surged through him like wildfire.  Mr. Bodkins was accusing him of a crime he obviously didn't commit and what Mikey thinks, is using this opportunity to ruin his reputation.

"HE DID NOT JUST SAY THAT!!!" Mikey screamed in pure fury.

"He stole it because he couldn't deal with his humiliating failure yesterday" Mr. Bodkins said.

"I MOST CERTAINLY DID NOT!!!!" Mikey screamed in much more fury.

"Besides, he is a loser" Mr. Bodkins said.

"A LOSER?!?" Mikey screamed once more, "THAT DOES IT!!!"

Mikey storms past everyone and out of the house and as soon as he did, he stopped in his tracks.  Standing outside his house was a huge crowd of people with very angry faces and they were all screaming at him in anger.

Just then, a police officer came up to him with an imitating look.

"Are you Mikey Kowalski?" the police officer asked him.

"I did not steal that ring" Mikey said defensively, knowing exactly where this was going.

"Sir, I am afraid you will have to come with me" the police officer said and pulled out a pair of handcuffs from his belt.

"Officer, I did not steal it" Mikey said it in a much more frustrated tone.  Mikey knew it was no use on trying.  The entire city has been convinced he stole it and he knew it would be almost impossible to prove his innocence.

"Put your hands behind your back" the officer before getting a direct kick to the private.

"How about 'no'" Mikey said and he marches back into the house, running past his family, Vixen and Melissa and stops at the back door and looks at them.

He could tell they were all disappointed in him but he had no choice.  He opens the back door, runs out and full on sprints into the woods, not caring on where he was going.

*TIME: 7:59 AM*

Mikey had been running for a good few minutes, still angry that Mr. Bodkins had accused him of stealing the ring and the WHOLE city believed it.  He couldn't take it with running anymore.  His lungs felt like they were on fire, his legs felt like jelly and felt like he was going to pass out.

He stops running and begins gasping for air and started to gag.  He couldn't believe this was happening to him.  Just then, he heard the sound of a twig snapping behind him and he turns around.

Standing behind him was a cloaked figure and the figure had the hood up and stood about 6' 7.

"Who are you?" Mikey demanded and the figure removes the hood off its head and Mikey nearly gasped from the sight.

The figure's face was partially decayed, the hands had long fingernails and the eyes were bloodshot and the top of its head was completely bald.

"You can call me 'The Wizard'?" the figure said.

"What do you want?" Mikey demanded.  The figure gets closer to him and was towering over him at this moment.

"I know what happened and how you were accused of the crime" the Wizard said and gave off an evil grin.

Just then, the Wizard grabs Mikey's right hand and slid a ring down his middle finger completely and shoves him to the ground.

"To be more exact, you DID commit the crime" the Wizard said in an evil tone.

Mikey looked at his right hand's middle finger and let out a gasp.  The Dragon's Ring was on his finger!!  The ring began to glow and a strange green aura started to surround him.  As he was about to grasp onto the ring to take it off, the aura completely consumed him and he began to go through a transformation that he couldn't feel.  The Wizard began laughing evilly as Mikey went through his transformation.

2 seconds later, his transformation was completed and the aura dissipated.  Mikey opened his eyes and looked down and examined himself and held in the urge to scream as his mouth dropped open.

His entire body was covered in green scales and his underbelly was a light blue, his finger and toenails had turned into claws, then looked behind and saw he had a tail, wings and spikes going down his back to the tip of his tail and had horns on his head.

He looked at the ring and could not believe what has happened.  The legend of the ring was true.

That did it.  He put a hand over his forehead, his eyes closed and he collapsed to the ground.  The Wizard let out an evil laugh and disappeared from the sight, leaving an unconscious dragon behind.