The Scroll of Harmen Chapter 12

''What?'' I moaned as I finally came to. Looking around it seemed I was in the hospital wing of the tower. Standing over me was a black haired woman I hadnt seen in the tower, though I could tell she was far from normal with those fangs.

''Quiet. You've lost both wing membranes and have quite a few bullets lodged in your scales. You really dont want to move'' the figure said as she pulled out a strange device. ''Im Doctor Sarah Nightingale, a friend of Blake'' She shoved the device back, picking up a pair of tweezers. I hissed in pain as she began removing bullets.

''What happened? How is everyone?'' I asked, roaring as she took a bullet out of a particularly tender spot. Dara wandered into my vision. ''thank god youre ok!'' she squealed, looking worriedly at me. ''we thought we'd lost you when Rex radioed back that you were down. Lucky that storm appeared. Without it we would all be in trouble'' she said turning from us again. ''right. I've got some filing to do on this so I'll leave you with her.''

Throughout the process various friends all came to check on me, Rex the most since he felt it was his fault for not keeping an eye on me. ''Rex. What could you have done? They had weapons that could burn your wings off. If I didn't go down you would have'' I reassured him, getting a sad nod of agreement.

My next visitor was my sister of all people. She looked rather unconfortable though. ''Whats wrong Abria?'' I asked her. ''Well while you were out of it...''

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I had rushed out of the tower when I heard the call. I thought you were gone so I had to get you back. By the time I reached you Rex was lifting you alongside Rob and the storm was picking up. I was about to turn around when I spotted an odd looking box. Figuring it was some kind of treasure the humans had dropped I opened it. Bad mistake.

My feet reshaped, becoming kinda like yours but red in colouration. I felt my tails bulk up before pushing further backwards, more bones and muscles growing. By the time I looked back they had grown a second set of dragon legs and made me look like a centaur. Not only that but I felt two more limbs break free from my back,covering in feathers before my mouth reshaped into a beak.

Arakod found me crying in the field shortly after and got me inside. Its a good job Sarah was there to fix me up. With her mechanical injector thingie she put me right back to normal. It was such a random body to have yet it felt normal. I shudder just thinking about it.

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''wow.'' I replied as she finished her story. ''Well at least its over now. Wonder what it was.'' Abria shrugged ''beats me. Blake took the box for now and said something about giving it to a mage or something like that. Well I hope your better soon!'' and with that the mostly human girl made her way back into the rest of the tower.

''Right that should do it. No flying for at least 10 hours or you'll tear them again.'' Sarah said as she packed her things away. ''Thanks Doc'' I said, getting a smile from what I was sure was a vampire.

''Zorath!'' Rob shouted as the group spotted me. ''good to see you back on your feet again!'' I walked up to them, getting a slap on the back from Rex, commenting on how he'd ''never seen such a fiery skydive before!'' which made us all chuckle.

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The others all had work or training to do so I decided to go for a walk in the countryside now that storm had passed. Everything looked much greener and it was nice to just take a walk for a change, gave me time to think.

I was glad everything had happened. While I was in much more danger than my life before I felt so much more alive, not to mention having tons of friends to hang around with. Oh and I was a dragon of immense power. That was always good.

My trail of thought was cut off by a crash from my left. I quickly rushed over to what seemed to be an impact crater, staring at its contents.

Right at the impacts center sat a pair of dragons. Both looked pretty beat up and were huddled close together. I'd never seen the eastern or Lung variety of dragons before in the tower and was quite interested by their appearance. Then it dawned on me. Light blue scales, cream coloured mane and scutes alongside a koi coloured dragon...

''Shinkou?'' I mused aloud, rousing the figures from their sleep and looking up. ''Who wants me?'' the blue dragon asked as he looked up and shock painted his face. ''It is you Shinkou!''

''Wait. You look just like... then that means... Zorath?'' he said in disbelief. ''The one and only'' I replied, helping him wake up the other dragon, who I presumed was his girlfriend Aria, and then pulling him out of the crater they made. ''So what brings you to good old england?'' I asked.

''Lets just say that Americans dont like scale and fur. We flew out as fast as we could after hearing that England was safer.'' He replied. ''Cant believe we finally meet.''

''same. Shame its not in the best of circumstances. Follow me. We'll head back to the tower'' I said, leading the two new additions back to base and chatting about what had happened to each of us.

These next few days would be interesting.