The Witch's Familiar

Chapter 33

 "Your new familiar is a dragon?" Clint demanded, staring at Sera in shock

"There are dragons on Asgard?" Tony demanded of Loki and Thor at nearly the same time. The looks of incredulity on the team's faces was amazing and you wished you had taken pictures. You weren't surprised that the humans were so surprised at seeing a dragon. They'd never seen one before.

"Obviously," Loki replied in the exact voice of one Severus Snape. You smirked over at him and he grinned at you, pleased you'd caught the reference.

"There's a dragon in my living room!" Tony tried again to make his point clear, as if you didn't understand why he was confused. You rolled your eyes.

"Yes. I am a dragon," Sera told them all carefully, speaking slowly as if to make sure her words were clearly enunciated and understood. "Soul sister, why do they not like me?" her 's's came out sibilant when she spoke aloud.

"They will love you, Sera. They're just human and foolish. They've never seen a dragon before. Dragons don't exist on Midgard, on earth," you explained to her and petted her nose reassuringly. "I swear they'll love you," you reassured her while giving a hopeful look to the team that they better not make your dragon cry. They wouldn't like the results if they made your familiar sad.

"Oh. Well if they have never seen a dragon before, of course the foolish humans are confused," Sera agreed happily once she understood the problem. She laid down in the middle of the living room. "They may pet me and see a dragon up close. I will not bite your friends," she added graciously. You laughed and sat on the ground your back braced against her side. She gave her musical trilling purr and shifted so you'd be as comfortable as possible.

Nat was the first one to be brave and made her way over to pet the dragon. She was cooing over the dragon about thirty seconds later, which seemed to reassure the others that the dragon was perfectly safe to carefully pet and investigate. Sera kept her word and didn't bite your friends. She purred when they petted her and submitted to letting Tony look at her wings and teeth and study her. At least she was until he poked her too hard and she yelped and gripped him in her teeth gently enough not to actually hurt him and casually tossed him out the window before she huffed and settled back to lying down.

No one seemed too concerned about Tony getting tossed out of the window. Except Tony of course. "Did she actually know it was safe to do that?" Tony demanded of you, grumpy not that he'd been thrown out the window, but for the fact that the dragon may not have known it was safe to do so.

"I did," Sera replied with a malicious hint to her tone. She didn't like that Tony spoke to you like she didn't understand him.

"Sorry," Tony told her and she purred her chiming purr. She was pleased with herself for teaching something to the foolish human. It seemed she'd decided that since they were so foolish, she would just have to teach them. It didn't matter that she was only a few days old. Dragons were remarkable creatures.

You stood again from the dragon and petted the top of her head when she looked at you confused for moving. "Sorry, Sera. Sitting on the floor is only comfortable for so long," you explained. She made a happy trill, seeming glad that you were taking care of yourself. You turned to your usual couch and saw Loki sitting there.

You couldn't help your wide, excited grin when you saw his cat-ears and tail were back. It was completely illogical. You knew they weren't part of his natural form, or his natural illusioned form to be more specific, since his natural form was technically his Jotun one. It made you happy to see them regardless. You'd fallen in love with Lokitty and missed his cat-ears when they weren't around. It was illogical and silly, but they were adorable. You went to him and scratched behind his cat-ears, cooing excitedly over him in this form just as you'd done so often over over the cat.