I woke up to the sound of my alarm, and despite it only being 7 am, I was already feeling fed up. Nevertheless, I managed to pull myself out of bed and prepare myself for another school day.
After I changed my clothes, I walked out of my room and down the hall to the kitchen, where my parents were already awake and had prepared me breakfast as they always do.
I sat down and looked at the breakfast before me; my Mother always made breakfast, and she gave me a small portion since she never liked to give me too much food before I left for school.
After a while, I left the house to head to school. As I walked, I saw some brown-haired guy walking just ahead. It took me a moment to realise it was my friend James. Because I was wearing shoes that made a lot of noise, he heard me walking behind him and turned around. When he saw me, he immediately had a giant smile on his face, "Zander! Why didn't you say you were behind me sooner!"
I smiled, "Sorry, I didn't realise it was you."
"Oh, well, now we can walk together!"
"Sure..."
Even though I found him annoying sometimes, he was my best friend. He helped me forget about my hard time at school with our conversations. While we were walking to school, I could see storm clouds forming in the far distance, ‘I guess it’s probably going to rain later.’ After a while, we arrived at school and headed to our first class.
I never really paid attention during most of my classes. They were all too simple for me; I instantly understood everything the teachers tried to teach me, or I had already learned it in my own time.
Despite my higher-than-average intelligence, they kept me in regular classes, which I found dull and boring with how simple they were. Most of the time, I fell asleep during class, and because I always got perfect scores, my teachers let me get away with it.
Throughout the whole day, I was falling in and out of consciousness from boredom, or I let myself get lost in thought. During the last class of the day, I was completely caught up in my thoughts, so I was startled when I heard the bell ring, signalling the end of the class.
As I went to get up from my desk, James rushed over to me, "Hey, Zander, do you wanna walk back with me?"
I smiled at him as I threw my bag over my shoulder, "Of course. Don't I always walk back with you anyway?"
As we walked out of the school, I looked up and noticed the storm clouds I saw earlier were now over us and looked like they might start to pour down any minute. As we made our way down the street, James was talking to me about a game, but I was zoned out and didn't hear.
I was lost in my own thoughts until he looked at me with a delighted expression on his face, "That's why I think the sequel is going to be WAY better than the first! It's going to be so awesome when it comes out!"
I smiled nervously, "Yeah, it sounds great...! But you do remember that I don't play games, right? I prefer to read a book, honestly."
James looked slightly offended by what I said, "Come on! I try to get you into these things all the time, but you only ever care about books! And I only talk about the best games that are coming out, especially this one! You need to be more excited about this, so I won't stop until you admit you want to play it, too!"
"Alright, you win; I'll visit you at some point when the game's out, and we can play it together, okay? Happy now?"
He gave me a large smile, "Of course I'm happy now!"
As we continued to walk, James walked ahead of me while I was distracted by a message on my phone. I read the message, and it was from my Mother telling me they wouldn’t be home and to let myself in.
While I was distracted reading and replying to the message, I found myself losing my footing. When I looked down, I was falling into an open manhole. As I saw the ground rushing towards me, everything went black in an instant.
I slowly started to come to and open my eyes, but when I did, all I saw around me was pure darkness. As I tried to move, I could feel that my entire body felt as though it was being restrained by something all around me.As I moved around and tried to get free, cracks of light formed all around me as what looked like walls broke away, blinding me with light.I tried to look around after it was gone, but my eyes were still adjusting to the room's brightness. Finally, as my eyes came into focus, I looked down at what was left of what I was trapped inside and to my shock, I was sitting inside half of an eggshell.As I kept looking, I noticed my arms and legs were much shorter and stubby, and the rest of my body seemed to be the same, 'What the hell happened to my body?! Even my skin is a milky white now!'While I was completely confused about what was going on, a giant woman walked over to me, picked me up, and cradled me in her arms. I looked up at her face and saw she had yellow eyes, a
When I woke up, I found myself inside a dark room, but despite it being dark, I could still see as if the lights were on, 'Why does everything look so clear? I can tell the room's dark, but I can still see fine. Is it because I'm a dragon?'Looking around the room, I could see everything clearly. The room looked like a standard room that wasn't in a cave but was still elaborately decorated, just like the others.The room was much larger than the one I was reborn in but less than half the size of the sitting room my new family was in. The walls were tall and the furniture in the room was amazing, all looking handcrafted. However, the cot I was lying in looked to be the most valuable piece in the room.The cot, like the other pieces of furniture, looked handmade. However, the elaborate design on the wood suggested a much higher level effort.'I must have been reborn into a rich family. This place is completely different from my previous life. I doubt my parents could have afforded a sing
The following day I woke up to Crimson's smiling face. She picked me up from my cot and changed me into another new dress she had ready for me. Part of me was starting to feel like I was her own personal dress-up doll. When we left my room, Crimson took me down a new corridor. This one took us outside the cave. Because of how bright it was inside the cave, my eyes didn't need to adjust to the bright outside. As I looked around, I saw the area outside was a large training area built onto a large ledge on the side of a mountain and in the middle of it were Walter and Tom, 'Wow! I didn't realise the cave was in a mountain! From what I can see, we're pretty high up too!' Crimson raised her hand in front of her, and as she did, I saw a yellow aura emit from her hand, and then a wooden chair materialise out of thin air. She then sat down and watched the two of them train, 'So I was right. She can use magic, and it wasn't just my imagination!' As I sat in awe of Crimson's skills in magic,
A month passed, and eventually, I was able to start sitting up on my own for the first time, 'I finally did it! I didn't realise how much I missed being able to sit!' just after I managed to sit up, Crimson came into the room and saw me. She quickly became ecstatic, 'Is she really that happy to see me sitting up on my own?' Before I had any time to react, she materialised another one of those floating spheres and quickly made a memory crystal of me sitting up for the first time. I couldn't help but feel exhausted at her boundless energy and excitement, 'She's doing it again... She creates one of those magic pictures anytime she sees me doing something cute or new, and I'm getting tired of it... She's just too excitable...' Crimson took the crystal from the sphere, and as quickly as she entered, she ran out of the room and down the hall with a massive smile on her face, presumable to Walter, to show off the new crystal. I sighed rather heavily from feeling exhausted, 'I know I alway
The months started to pass me by within the blink of an eye, and before I knew it, I was already three months old. Since seeing my dragon form, Walter had personally started teaching me in the living room to control and practice changing forms nearly every day. Every time he trained me, he made me change into my form as fast as possible. With his training, I could start changing within a couple of seconds because of how often I practice. After I could begin to change within ten seconds, he started taking me to the training area and teaching me how to fly, and he gave me my first flying lesson only yesterday. The next day, Walter came into my room and changed me out of my night dress. After he did, he carried me out of my room and down the hall, "Today, Sash, I'm going to try and teach you how to fly again." He took me outside to the training area and placed me in the centre of the arena, "Ok, Sash, today I'm going to show you how to effectively use your wings!" I couldn't help but
A few months later, I was startled awake by the sound of heavy foot traffic coming from outside my room, 'What the hell's going on out there?!' Before I could guess what was happening outside, three maids rushed into my room. Two of them went to my closet and jewellery case and started going through my dresses and accessories, while the other came over to me and picked me up. My head was starting to spin from everything, 'Why are these maids in my room?!? Normally, Crimson's the one who comes and picks me up!' When the maid saw I was looking confused and concerned, she said to me, "Please don't worry, young Miss, the Duchess is busy setting up for today's ball, so she didn't have time to prepare to collect you herself." Her words caught me off guard, 'She's busy with a ball? She's always put off all her work to spend time with me in the past. So this must be for something important.' The two maids picked out a matching dress and accessory for me while the maid carrying me changed
The following day I was sitting on Walter's lap while he was reading documents in his office. While going through them, he paused when he saw a letter with a gold seal. Walter carefully opened the letter, and after he finished reading it, he rang a small bell on his desk, and a butler came into the room, "Yes, sir?" "Please inform the Duchess to bring Tom and Dan to the living room and wait for me. I have an important announcement." "Right away, sir." The butler exited the room, and Walter lifted me up and carried me out of the room with him. After a couple of minutes, we arrived at the living room, where Walter sat down, put me back on his lap, and waited for Crimson and my brothers to arrive. We didn't have to wait long for them to arrive. The three of them entered the room after just a minute of waiting. They all took a seat in front of where Walter was sitting and waited for him to talk. Taking a deep breath, Walter looked out at them, "I've received a letter from the king sum
With how late it was, we all rested for the rest of the day. The next day Walter left early in the morning with a guard for his audience with the king. The guard escorted him straight to the king's throne room. When there, the guards in front opened the doors and allowed him inside. Walking into the throne room, Walter knelt before the king with his head bowed. The king smiled at Walter, "There's no need for formalities between us; feel free to be informal with me." Walter got to his feet and thanked the king, "Thank you for your consideration, your Majesty, but respectfully, I would prefer to show proper respect to you." "Very well, I won't force you to do something you're uncomfortable with. Now, let's get to the matter I summoned you for. You may have guessed already, but I called you here about your brother, Peter Hastus." "May I ask what my brother has done, your Majesty?" "It saddens me to say this, but he committed high treason." Walter was shocked by what he heard, with a