dragon rebirth

Chapter 8. calming campground

After we ate they had us head over to the lake, which had an artificial beach. "Okay, so play around here for a while so I can get this set up," he said to us. The others seemed pretty playful but Xavier seemed pretty concerned about me as he was just laying in the sand under the Sun. 

"Something wrong Xavier?" I asked him. 

"You haven't had much time to relax haven't you?" He asked me. 

"Yeah, it has, I've only just now been able to enjoy myself without worry" I replied. "Come, let's play with the others."

We played with the others for an hour before he started flying a drone. "I think I know what he's trying to get us to do," I said to Xavier. 

"This shouldn't be hard for you guys, take the drones out," he said to us. As they went after the ones that the girls were flying, I and Xavier went after the fast one, something that shouldn't be hard for a quick flyer. But Xavier had a plan, he grabbed a broken branch and knocked it out of the sky. I then swooped down and caught it. As I head back he looked at Xavier like he just noticed something. "You're part Xenomorph, aren't you Xavier?" He asked. Xavier nodded yes and dropped the branch.

"It took him that long to notice?" I heard one of them say.

"probably just ignorance, but I'm more focused on our new shifter friend over here," someone else said looking in my direction. She walked over to me then said: "So how does it feel? someone who used to try to prevent others from being turned themselves."

"I don't mind it's something I've grown to like rather quickly," I replied.

"So who's your captor?" She asked me.

"You know that dragon that took me into the woods about once a week, that's my captor," I replied.

"Then I guess that means you've wanted to be a shifter then. She comforted you into her grasp then you didn't put up a fight," she replied.

"It's not that it's that I figured that since I only live once I'd straight up yolo it," I replied.

"Come on Nathan we all know no one's going to do that with a specific dragon. You don't have to be scared to tell us. You step into our shoes and then you see how good it is for people," She replied.

I knew it was unhealthy to be holding back something that would likely burden me if I didn't let it get out so I told them. "Not at first, when I was 12 I realized I was incomplete without her so for 4 years I waited for her to take me. I soon acted though, I held onto her and didn't let go she shook me off though, but when she came back the next day I acted as if everything was normal. After that, I felt complete because now the one I saw as my mother would never leave my side."

When lunch came I wanted to try something different, so I went for the seaweed. "Nathan isn't picky about his food," one of the counselors said. After that, I went to an opening in the forest and soaked up some sun. That's when the black dragon that took me landed next to me. 

"Is this your captor?" One of them asked. I nodded yes to them as I laid to her left, her heartbeat feeling like home for me. "Her heartbeat calmed me throughout my life, even to today," I said to them. Two of the counselors unaware of what I said. 

"You mean that how exactly?" Xavier asked.

"She used to just take me into the nearby wooded areas from time to time, about 4 times a month until she marked my arm just like I told them. The first time she did I was trying to save another kid from, weirdly enough, her. I pulled her under part of the playground before she grabbed her. But after that she landed, the others ran while we were under it, she was reaching under to trying to grab one of us. I saw she had her eyes closed, probably testing her luck. As her hand got closer to the girl I went in front of her. I thought I'd never go that far. She grabbed me and flew into the woods, holding me up against her chest, which at the time didn't calm me as much. But when she landed I realized I was safe, I wasn't gone, this time. I felt more relaxed after that to where I was starting to fall asleep in her clutches, her heartbeat being something I got accustomed to as being soothing after a month, and then I wanted to be her's after 6 years" I replied.