-- NOTICE : Growth threshold achieved ! Congratulations ! --
GRAAAAAAHH !!!! ....
HURTS ! Everything hurts !
What is going on ?!? ... Well , I can at least move . Lets see why am I in so much pain ... Were my scales always this small and ... spiky ? Were there always so many of them ? What is going on ? Is my neck longer ? ... Alright , move you overgrown lizard ! Yeah , moving makes the pain go away , so move some more Tramas . Move till the pain goes away . Why am I so stiff everywhere ? Better move , to limber up my body and get rid of all these pains and aches ...
Aaahhhh , bit better , wait . Were my claws this ... I don't know , shiny ? They look a bit stronger . What are all these scratches on the stone under me ? Was I always able to scratch the stone ? ... Nope ! Not that I can remember . I could not scratch any stone , ever . Heh , maybe I have grown stronger , hehe ... Heh , I wish . Probably just some weird , softer stone and I didn't notice , when I went to sleep .
Yeah ! That must have been it ! Just a weak stone and yesterday I hunted too much ! That's why I am hurting all over . After all you don't grow overnight ! It takes time , for body to grow stronger , so I must be just tired and sleepy , because I overdid it yesterday ... Yeah , that must be it ! ... Even my memory must be jumbled , because of pain and hunger . Yeah ! I am actually quite hungry ... More like famished , damn . Better to find me a morsel or two to gulp down .
So Tramas went hunting and put the changes , his body went through out of his mind . He quickly found his prey . His favourite Scalehoof and caught it with ease , even though his body was still in pain . But even if the Scalehoof was not the biggest , he was still hungry after he devoured it in its entirety . So on another hunt he went and easily sniffed out another , caught and ate it . But something was wrong . He was still hungry . By the time he devoured the third catch of the day , he knew something had to have changed .
What the hell ???? How am I THIS hungry ?!? I guess overdoing it , with my hunts might be it , but it was never THIS easy to catch them . Are Scalehoofs in this area weaker ? Smaller or something ? Are they sick ? .... Hopefully not ! I don't want to catch some weakness sickness from them , if that is the case . Or are they simply younger ? Maybe ...
Welp , no matter . I have to go on .... Lets see now , if I can find something bigger , or I might be in trouble if I have to hunt this much everyday . Although I am getting better at this , am I not ? Yeah ! I am stronger ! Hehe .
Oh ! A Spiketail ! .... Is it smaller ? ... Alright , no more of this stupidity ! Its not that everything is smaller , I AM bigger ! ... But how ? As far as I know , dragons do not get stronger overnight ! Nothing does ! How did I grow overnight though ? Was it my overhunting ? Was that , why I was in so much pain in the morning ? ... And now that I think about it , there was a weird voice in my head again . What did it say again ? ...
This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.
-- NOTICE : Growth threshold achieved ! Congratulations ! --
" GRAAAAAAHHHH !!!!! " WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT !?! WHO SAID THAT ??? ....
SHOW YOURSELF !!!! ... Nothing . What was that ?!? ... Growth threshold ? Did I really grown overnight ? Am I stronger now ? And why would that weird voice congratulate me ? This is creepy . I don't like it one bit ! ... But what can I do about it ? ... Nothing ... Welp ! Lets see if I am really stronger , and try to finish this Spiketail without catching its tail ... I am going to regret this , am I not ? ... shit ...
So Tramas went to the Spiketail without any sneaking or a real plan . Just slowly walk towards his prey , and fight it with raw strength of a dragon . Of course , the creature easily spotted Tramas and turned towards him . It started hissing and backing off , but seeing that Tramas did not even flinch and continued towards it , it stopped and dug its legs in , ready to fight . When Tramas was in easy distance to lunge towards it , he did and was almost surprised how quickly he closed the distance . He swung his right front paw and was astonished to see , couple scales and some blood fly from Spiketailes face . Of course , this astonishment allowed the Spiketail to retaliate and hit Tramas on his shoulder with his tail . Feeling pain , he broke out of his astonishment , reared up on his hind legs , and with full weight of his front body and both of his front paws dropped on Spiketails neck . What Tramas expected was to stun the creature . What he did not expect , was for his claws to break the Spiketails scales , and plunge right into its neck and spine . Tramas was very astonished when Spiketail immediately dropped dead . He took two steps back and simply watched the dead Spiketail for a couple of minutes .
... Heh , That happened ! I really did get stronger , didn't I ? ... Welp , this will make me grow stronger faster , no ? I should hunt more Spiketails , since they are not so dangerous anymore ... OH ! I have to remove the spikes from my shoulder ... There are none ?! HOW ?! Are my scales stronger too ? OH ! So I didn't imagine all of that , in the morning . I really am bigger and stronger . Faster too , am I smarter too ? How should I test that ? .... No ! If anything , I am stupider . I cannot believe , that I just stood in front of that Spiketail and took that hit like an idiot ! Really ?!? What the hell was I thinking ? If it hit me in the eye , I would be half blind ! Get your shit together , Idiot !!! ... Wait , where are all these words , my parents didn't teach me coming from ? Where did I hear them ? Since I am sure my parents did not teach them to me ! ... Neither mama nor papa ever swore in front of me ! I am sure of that ! ... HOW DO I EVEN KNOW WHAT SWEARING IS THEN ?!? ... GRRRRR !!! What is going on with my head ? What the shit is going on ?!? ...
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I am scared ... Am I really going insane ? ... How can I tell , if I am ? ...
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" Haaaaaaahh . " No matter . Once I find my parents , they can fix whatever is wrong with me . I am sure of that . They are after all glorious , huge , powerful , magnificent dragons ! I know , they are the best in the world ! And that is the absolute truth ! Yeah ! They can do anything . So I just have to find them , and after they fix whatever is wrong with me , we can be happy together again for ever and ever ! YEAH !
Little did Tramas know , that there was nothing wrong with him . Simply a rare occurrence in the world happened to this little dragon , and now he will have to live with it . At least it will make his goal to be strongest dragon , easier and maybe it will even help him on his quest to find his family . But his knowledge of new words is strange . Are the two somehow connected ? How will the world react to a dragon , with not only unnatural power , but knowledge too ? Will he be welcomed , as a being of magnificent power and liked by worlds inhabitants ? Will he be shunned , as a clearly dangerous creature ? Will he be loved ? Hated ? Both ? ... Time will tell .
