Platinum woke up one night with new legs. Dragon legs. The next day is the day of sorting. When Platinum is chosen to go with his friend Silver, they meet new friends and abilities they never knew they had.
I wake up in the morning to Seaqia crowing at the first light of dawn. I rub my eyes and see Seaqia standing over me. I grab her belly and haul her into the air. I slide out of bed with Seaqia still high in the air. She squeals in delight and stretchs out her front legs like wings, seeing as she doesn't have wings. I bring her down and she jumps onto the floor. I pull off my pjs and toss a blue shirt over my head and pull out a black sweater. I guess I don't need to wear shoes anymore because of my tough feet. I open the door and instantly smell burnt bacon. "Uhh what did you do." I say while holding my nose. "I tried to cook." "Why, you know that they feed us in shell hall." "I forgot." "Ugh whatever, I'm heading down now if you want to come." "No thanks, I need to clean anyway." "Okay then, see you later." I walk to the door and hear a click as the latch opens. I step outside and try to avoid other students. Seaqia follows my lead and helps to scout a safe path. Eventually we get downstairs and I see Leanna waiting outside. I push the doors open and hear a shocked gasp. "Woah, you're one of those." Leanna stares in shock. "I know." "Why did you try to hide it?" She asks. "It's considered a curse in my village and surrounding areas." I respond. "Woah, harsh." "I know right." "Let's go for breakfast." Leanna says. "Okay." We walk down the path and get a few looks when people notice my legs. They start to whisper but me just keep walking. Seaqia is skidding around our feet in a cheerful mood. We enter Shell hall and instantly everyone is staring at me. Even Silver looks terrified. She still waves us over though. We walk over and sit down beside Silver. "Neat scales, Platinum." She says. "Thanks." I respond as my scales change colour to tan and white. "Woah, they even change colour." "Yeah, it's never happened to anyone before." "Nice, so your rare I guess." "Yeah." Ding-ding went the bell as waitresses came in carrying plates of freshly cooked bacon, scrambled eggs, waffles, and of course waffle toppings. As soon as she placed the platter down I grabbed a waffle, berries, chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, and whip cream. I spread everything across my waffle and grabbed some bacon and eggs. "Someone's hungry." Joked Leanna. "It's probably since I'm an Draman now." I replied. "Yeah, probably." I stabbed my waffle in the heart and it cried caramel tears. I took off a chunk and shovelled it into my mouth. When I finished my waffle I ate some bacon. After that I found a cup of strawberry lemonade standing in front of my plate. I took a sip and continued on to my eggs. I finished and saw that Riptide had walked in. I waved him over, since I saved him a plate. He came over and sat across from me. "You good." I asked. "Yeah I'm fine." He responded. "You don't look so fine." "I was tripped and beaten up by some kids when coming down." "Are you okay, do you need help." "No, nothing a little food can't handle." Riptide ripped apart his waffle as Mr. Dramonus stepped up to a microphone. "Good morning students," he said, "I would like you to acknowledge the Dramans here at Serpent academy. This morning I saw a few individuals beating up one of the Dramans." "I don't like how he talks like we're a whole different species." Whispered Riptide. "That is not okay. I will say the names of our Dramans so you know who is being beaten up and report it to me. 10th years, Zargon, Umla, and Targums. 9th year, Isla. 8th year, Hulam. No 7th years. 6th year, Pulca. 5th year, Reta. 4th year, Dreas. 3rd year, Lalca. 2nd year, Kilan. And our 1st years, Platinum, Riptide, and Silver. I look over at Silver with a shocked expression on my face. "You too." I whisper. "I was going to tell you in the tree, but then the teacher came. I'm sorry." "It's okay." I never realized that she was sitting without pants. I'm so dumb. "Bye guys. My classes start in 10 minutes, so I've got to go." Says Leanna. "Bye." I say. She walks off down a hallway and disappears. "So what do you want to do?" I ask everyone. "Well first of all we should get to know more about Riptide." Silver answers. "Okay then," exclaims Riptide, "my name's Riptide, obviously, and I'm a Draman, yet again obvious. I'm gay, just to let you all know. So girls, no sneakies on me. I'm from the town of Gaftor." "Okay." Silver says sadly. "Why don't we walk around, get to see the place." I announce. "Sure why not." Jumps Riptide. We all stand up and walk out the main door. Instantly I'm bombarded with licks and feathers. "You sure have someone's attention." Giggles Silver. "Yeah ha, ha very funny." I say while picking Seaqia up. We walk towards an arena with Seaqia curled around my shoulders. We enter and sit on some bleachers. "Well looks like we have a few volunteers." Booms a voice. We all look over and see a man staring at us with a group of second years around him. "Uhh volunteer for what." I stammer. "Training." "With what." "Dragons." We all stare wide eyed to the large dragons entering the area. I start to walk down and the others shortly follow. The man quickly notices our scaled legs and says, "all three first year Dramans, how interesting." I finally manage to clamber down and step up to the man. "I am Mr. Douglas, the second year flying teacher. Today you can help with saddles and cleaning. I will pair you with a second year for 30 minutes to help." Mr. Douglas says. "Okay, challenge accepted." Riptide exclaims. I'm paired with Will and his dragon Fafnir. "Hi I'm Will," He smiles, "and this is Fafnir, she's a Shadow dragon."
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I walk up to Fafnir and coo, "hello cutie." She purrs back and rubs her head against me. "So first we must clean her saddle area." Will says while forcing a bucket and cloth into my hands. I grab and ask, "so how do I clean her?" "Silly, you climb up and scrub." He responds. So I jump up onto her back and can see a shadow from where her saddle usually sits. I start to scrub and can see small bits of leather, dirt, and shedded scale pieces. I wash them away and continue to scrub the rest of the area. I clean at a quick pace. It took only 7 minutes to clean. I wave goodbye and walk back to my bedroom to take a nap.
