Another vore story I wrote from a dream I had.
Once again, it was a dream, so detail was minimal. Also, the story in the dream was very good I would say, and I would love to make it into a real story, but for the life of me I can’t figure out how to, so this is just a quickly written version.
Well first of all I was in some army, no idea what, or why. Me and a group of others were marching in unison around the base camp when our officer came out and stopped us, we saluted him and then stood at ease. He called me and two other people out of ranks for another mission, straight away I questioned him as we were just privates, privates don’t go on missions in groups of three, we at least have someone who controls the operation. He laughed, then said that if I want someone to control it, then I, as in me, should. I was honored and agreed, so did the other two people, yet we still had no idea what the mission was.
As we were taken to a small room for briefing, there were quite a few high ranked people there, all talking amongst themselves as we all entered. As we sat down, the officers started to talk. “Gentlemen, we received a note this morning with a very important mission which needs to be done, you need to go to the dragons cave and protect her egg from being stolen.” All three of us knew of this dragon, not personally, but heard of her. She was apparently just a nice friendly dragon, never caused any harm, that is why she lived so close without any problems. In the past she used to help stray humans and animals, and she rewarded anyone who helped her with one wish. Of course we would accept the mission.
As we were about to agree though, the same man spoke again, “If you are wondering why you three, privates, were picked out, do not ask me, the note I mentioned earlier asked for you three in particular. I wanted to send out more experienced men, and more than three, but there must be a reason for this, so I am going along with it, you will leave in the morning.” As that was said, we were taken out and told to pack our supplies.
Next thing I remembered, we were at the front gates of our camp with bags packed with a foldaway tent, sleeping bag, all the stuff you would use when hiking for a long time. The three of us left without a word said from anyone. On the way, we were talking about why us three were picked, we were just three privates, none of us had any special abilities, we were the weakest, dumbest, and probably the worst soldiers in the entire army! They said that anyway, I didn’t.
Time jumped again in the dream, we were outside the dragons cave, hearing fire cackling and a demonic laugh from a human inside. We all rushed in to see what was going on. Inside the cave there was a very tall European dragon, she was blue scaled, her body was smooth, and no spikes other than two on her head curving back. Behind her was her egg, it looked like a crimson pearl, the light illuminated from it. The dragon was guarding her egg from a short man in a dark cloak, we could not see his face. Suddenly, the dragon unleashed a jet of flame from her mouth towards the man, and he stood still! As the flames engulfed him, the sinister laugh was heard again, and when the flames ceased, the man was untouched. We had no idea what to do.
The man then raised his left arm and a long red sword suddenly appeared, he grabbed it and started to attack the dragon with it. At that point, me and the other two people ran into the battle with our swords drawn to defend the dragon. He was too powerful, even with three on one, he still managed to block every strike and advance towards the dragon. I heard inhaling from her again, me and the other two privates jumped for cover, and the flames released did the same again, didn’t harm him, all it did was mean that we three couldn’t help her anymore.
We started to get up and rejoin the battle again, but this man was already trying to slice the dragon’s chest, when she hit the man with her claws, he barely moved from the pressure, and every time she released even a bit of flame, even for a millisecond, the man uttered something. Me and the other two could not get there to help her, she kept lighting the area with her fire, if we were to even move, and we would be severely burnt and would die. The three of us looked at each other from either side of the battle, questioning what to do silently, then one of my men signaled to our swords, then the fire the dragon released, almost instantly we all knew what to do.
The dragon once again was about to breathe fire on the man, and as we saw her inhaling, we heard the man start to silently speak. Straight away all three of us jumped up without swords and flung them at the man. As they were flying towards him, he turned and said something else, the swords stopped motionless in the air, he then laughed at us. We had the last laugh though as the jet of flame from the dragon engulfed him again, but no sinister laugh this time, just shrieks of pain as he was being burnt. We made it so he didn’t finish the spell to block the fire and concentrated on us instead. It worked perfectly. The dragon kept her flame on the man for a good minute, and not long until there was no sound. When she ceased fire, there were only ashes where the man was, and a bit of burnt fabric.
The dragon then went to her egg to see if it was safe, it was, so she turned back to us. We bowed to her, and she bowed her head back. The dragon then started to speak, her voice was perfect, and each word seemed to flow of her tongue like the gods had written down what she said beforehand, it was enchanting. She said “Thank you for helping me protect my child from harm, if it wasn’t for you three, I would now be dead, and my egg would have been stolen.” I replied “It was our duty ma’am.” I bowed again. The dragon smiled at us, “I will see what you three most desire, and I will grant it for you, it is the least I can do.”
The dragon moved closer as my men and I stood in a line perpendicular to her. She touched one of the men on the head with the tip of one of her claws, and closed her eyes. After a minute, she took the claw off and put it on the other man. Same process again, leaving me for last. As she touched my head, she scrunched up her face, trying to understand. I didn’t have any desires, I had never thought of anything I really wanted. She took her claw off my head and moved back.
The dragon went to the back of her cave and soon came back with a diamond encrusted necklace, she handed it to the first man, “Give her this, she will love you forever. Don’t be alarmed though, it does not change the person who wears it, the beauty of this necklace is enough.” The man was obviously really happy, and honestly a bit scared, I don’t know why myself. The second of my men was now waiting anxiously for his wish, I knew what he wanted from before, he didn’t want any possessions, just a peaceful life, but how would this dragon make that happen? She looked at the man and spoke again, “What you desire most is peace, go to your commander and speak these words.” She then whispered something to him which I could not hear. “Your commander will let you leave the army and go back home, if you are worried about what you would do for money and food, worry not as that will be taken care of by your commander.”
Now it was my turn, the dragon was about to speak when the egg behind her started to shake and roll. We all moved to see what was going on, and all looked over the egg. A few cracks suddenly appeared on it, followed by more, and more. Suddenly, a blue head poked its way out, then the egg shattered. In the center of the shattered egg was a newly hatched blue dragon, it looked a lot like its mother, and smiled at all of us. The mother dragon spoke, “My son! You’ve hatched, welcome to the world.” She then sat down next to the baby dragon.
I was the first to speak, “Don’t worry about anything I want, we will leave you now so you can be with your son, I don’t want to disturb you in any way.” As I said that, my man and I turned to leave the cave without word from the dragon. We were almost out when I heard the mother dragon shout “Wait!” We all stopped. “I can’t let one of the humans who saved me and my sons lives go without something, it wouldn’t be right.” I said back as nice as I could “There is nothing I want from you, doing what I did was reward enough.” And we turned to leave again, but then there was a very high pitched squeak, obviously from the baby dragon as it was too high for the mother to produce. We ignored and carried on our way.
We were nearly out the cave when I saw the baby dragon run past my legs and stop in front of me, he flared his wings to signify that he is trying to stop me, but he fell backwards. Only a few minutes old he was, I laughed, but I couldn’t say anything, what else did I expect? I picked up the baby dragon in my arms, he looked happy that I did, I then spoke to the other men who were silently laughing at me, “I’ll be back in a minute, I’ll catch you up men.” They nodded and left while I took the baby dragon back. As I went back in, the baby dragon fell asleep in my arms very quickly. (That part of my dream I will never forget, it was such a perfect image) I started to put the baby dragon back down next to his mother, but she raised her claw and held it just under my arms, and she blinked at me, telling me to keep hold of him like that, he was obviously happy like that.
I didn’t know what to do, I had to get back to my men, but I could not dishonor the dragons by not doing as one wanted and doing what could be nasty to a newborn one. I sighed after thinking for a while, and sat down, I rested the baby dragon on my lap and stroked him. The mother dragon looked at me with her son and smiled, “If there is nothing you desire, then so be it, but please don’t just walk away, give me some time, I’ll think of something.” “I can’t ma’am, I…” “If you won’t stay for that then, stay for my son, even if just a week, if I haven’t thought of anything to give you, then I will let you go without saying anything. It will make me and my son very happy, just look at him there.” So I looked at him, there was a giant smile on his face, with every stroke I gave him, there was small purring, I felt happy just doing that, so I agreed to what the mother dragon said. She then looked really happy as well, and she moved closer to me to see her son.
“If I am staying for a while then, can I at least have yours and your son’s names?” I asked her, “My name is Crystilla,” she said, “And my son doesn’t have a name yet, you can choose his name.” I gave a small chuckle, “Will that be my reward?” “No, that’s just a nice gesture, what will you call my son then?” I had to think for a while, I didn’t know what to call a baby dragon, I had some ideas, but they just seemed silly to me and didn’t fit a dragon, I needed to think of a name which was unique, one which wasn’t a human name, one that would always be remembered. I soon thought of something, “How about Barthello?” (I don’t know why that name came to me, it is someone from final fantasy xii) “Barthello….I like it. And yours is?” I then said my name which was of course James.
Time jumped again to the next day, Barthello was still asleep on my lap and Crystilla was curled around me so she could stay next to her son. All three of us awoke at the same time somehow, Barthello smiled then climbed off me, to be honest, at that point I was confused, this dragon wasn’t even a day old, yet in human terms it acted like a five year old. I didn’t know if that was the way dragons were at that age, or something else. Crystilla once again put her claw on my head to try to see what I desire, but no answer again. Barthello had his eyes wide, jumping up and down slightly looking at me, I could tell he wanted to play, so I did, we played chase, then I picked him up in my arms and ran about with him, bouncing off the cave walls, we both seemed to enjoy it. The whole day went like that. (As it was a dream, a day was only about an hour)
The week went like that, everyday Crystilla checked for what I wanted, and every day she got no answer. There was one point which I don’t remember that well, but I found out the egg Crystilla had was not really hers, it was found next to her one night with a note that said on it the exact date when it would hatch (which it got correct), the word “Ouroboros” and something which mentioned “true love.” We spoke about it and had no idea what the whole thing about true love was, what Ouroboros meant, or how the date specified was correct. But the whole thing we quickly passed aside, it may have been weird, but it doesn’t matter, Barthello is her son no matter what.
Anyway, it was the end of the week, I was getting ready to leave, I had my bag packed again, I never actually used the tent in the cave, there was no need, I didn’t even use the sleeping bag as there was no need, every night Barthello slept on top of me, with Crystilla next to me as well. After pleasant goodbyes, I left. Crystilla stopped Barthello from stopping me leaving, horrible squeals were heard as I left, I couldn’t stand it, I hated what I was doing, but for some reason I was insistent on doing so. (No idea why) Time jumped again and I was back at base camp, I was welcomed by one of the other guys I was with, and a woman with the necklace from before on her, they kissed and she walked off to allow us to speak. He said that the other bloke has left and is actually living peacefully now. All this made me think about the note, these two people looked like they were true loves, so maybe it meant them somehow, and Ouroboros had something to do with the other guy. I shrugged.
Once again time jumped and I was marching in line again as I was at the beginning, I don’t know how long had passed, but it couldn’t have been more than a week. Anyway, during the marching, we all saw something in the sky, and it was getting bigger as it moved closer. It wasn’t long before I realized who it was, it was Crystilla, she dove down and stopped quite far away from everyone to not strike fear. Many people who I was marching with ran off, don’t know why. Suddenly she spotted me and ran towards me, everyone around where I was jumped out of the way as she stopped just meters away. She looked down at me and began to speak “Barthello is really sad without you there, I can’t get him happy at all, please come back for his sake.” Crystilla then gave the puppy dog eyes. I had no idea what to do now, if what Crystilla said was true, and I said no to her, I would be causing a lot of grief to two dragons, but if I said yes, well I didn’t know what would happen.
I was thinking for quite a while, thinking of the most logical thing to do. Before I got a chance to say anything though, Crystilla grabbed me with her front claws and jumped in the air. She flew back to her cave like that, and she put me down just outside it, she said “I knew you would say yes!” Even though I said nothing, I guessed she just assumed, but I never found out. I walked into the cave, Crystilla behind me, and I saw Barthello, he was a little bigger now, it would be harder for me to now pick him up, though easily possible still. As he saw me, his face lit up and he smiled. I couldn’t understand anything anymore, my head actually hurt. All of a sudden, Barthello ran at me and knock me flat on my back, he rubbed his head against me cheek in the same way a cat does to your leg, then he started licking me. Crystilla loomed over and laughed, “I told you, Barthello needs you here.”
Time jumped again, I don’t know how much by, but Barthello was getting tall, he was about to reach my torso in height. During that time, me and Crystilla had learnt almost all about each other, and to be honest, we were happy. But we did have two unexpected visitors, they were two very old looking dragons, one male who was green, and one female, blue. But not just any blue, the exact same blue as Crystilla, the same radiance shined from her. The old male one spoke first, “I remember this point in life, it was a nice time.” I had no idea what he meant, nor did Crystilla. Barthello was asleep next to me, his head on my legs. Crystilla was first to ask, “Who are you? Where did you come from, why are you here?” The old dragons just looked at each other and smiled, the old female one spoke, she also sounded a lot like Crystilla, only a little wiser, “We’re Barthello’s parents.”
When she said “Barthello” I was shocked, I never told anyone his name, nor did Crystilla, and Barthello couldn’t tell anyone himself, so how did these two know his name? The old male dragon laughed at us, “I don’t think they’ve figured it out yet, you got my note, it was with the egg, did you not work it out?” Crystilla shook her head slowly, she was confused even more so than I. “Think about it Crystilla, the note I wrote to you had the exact date when Barthello hatched didn’t it, and we know his name, yet you told no one by this point, nor did I. And have you not recognized Crystilla yet?” He looked at the old female dragon when he said Crystilla, who smiled as he said it.
I think at that point the young Crystilla had an answer, though not a believable one, this is what she said, “You’re…..me? How? And who is this then?” Looking at the old male dragon, he answered by nodding at me. I was about to jump to my feet until I remembered Barthello’s head on my legs, if I jumped, it would wake him, so I just talked while in shock, “How can you be me, first of all, I’m a human, you’re a dragon?!?” The old Crystilla spoke next, “You still haven’t thought about your true desire yet, at this time I was still checking your thoughts at night for it so I could do it for you. Before you say it, I know it isn’t your desire still James, it won’t be for a few weeks yet, but it is, and you will soon see….” Old dragon me then nodded in approval. He then spoke, “The note had all the answers on it, ‘true love’ was referring to you two. Also James, you never figured out why you were picked to do that mission, I wrote the note to your commander, I was also confused as you are now, I remember at this point that nothing seemed to make sense, but you will see all soon.”
He was right, that was how I felt, but all they were saying worked and made sense, I slumped my head on the ground to take it all in. as I did that, old dragon Crystilla and young dragon Crystilla looked down over me with wide smiles, that was when I knew they were definitely the same dragon, I had no doubt then, but I still had a doubt about the old dragon me. Old dragon Crystilla started to speak, “Barthello is our son, so he is your son, when everything is sorted out in the future, you will send your egg back in time to leave outside your cave with that note, thus, Ouroboros. Ouroboros means ‘never ending’ and thanks to this, it means life will never end, the universe will never end, you will realize all this is true in the future.” “Young Crystilla, why not tell James how you feel right now?” Said the old dragon James. Young Crystilla looked away from me then, contemplating what she felt, after a few minutes, she finally spoke, “I think what they are saying is true, James, I do have feelings for you which I don’t understand, and so does Barthello, he loves you, he may have already knew you was his father, and that is why he wanted you to stay, I am uncertain myself, but all the facts are there, I love you, Barthello loves you, do you love us?”
That questioned stopped my thoughts dead in the track, yes all the facts were there, but there were still a few problems, one, I am a human not a dragon, two, same as one, how can you love another species like that? I have to admit, I did ‘love’ Barthello, but as a really good friend, and I did ‘love’ Crystilla, but once again, just as a really good friend, but ‘love-love’ them, the answer was no, I did not love them. I didn’t want to say that, but I couldn’t lie, the old me would know if I lied and say so, and it would hurt Crystilla whatever I said, even more so if I lied about it, so I repeated my thoughts to her. Young Crystilla closed her eyes and a small tear came out as she walked away, old Crystilla followed her. Old dragon me then came up to me and stood over me, “See what you are feeling now, guilt, and a heavy amount, what you…I said then, I knew we had to say it, but the guilt you feel now is killing you isn’t it?” He was correct, I felt horrible, I wished I would die so I didn’t feel it anymore. “You feel guilty because you hurt the one you love, and believe me, believe yourself, it may not make sense yet, but you do love her, time will tell you that. Once you accept it, you will have a wonderful life, I did, it was what I truly desired in life. You want her, you need her, you can‘t live without her, and you know it, you just don’t know you know it.” (Just to say, I think those last lines were from ‘Friends’ that TV show, Janice said it to Chandler, just replace ‘her’ with ‘me.’ I have no idea how I thought of that in my dream.)
We were silent for a long time, then both the Crystilla’s came back in, young one went to me, old one went to the old me. Young Crystilla spoke, “I just got told that what you said was not your true feelings, but I will not ask again, I must wait until you say so yourself. Please say it soon James…please.” My feelings were all over the place, there was anger at the old me, guilt from what I said, a lot of confusion, happiness when I looked at Barthello, also when I looked at Crystilla, and something that can only be described as ‘half-love’ where yes I had feelings for these two dragons, but it was different to what I thought love would feel like. I didn’t answer Crystilla, I just closed my eyes. She then lowered her head next to mine, the older versions of us just watching.
For what seemed like hours, I was thinking it all over in my head, all that was said, all what it meant, but what the old dragon me said was the only answer, wasn’t a reasonable answer, but the only one. I opened my eyes but said nothing. The old me then spoke, “It will not be long Crystilla, the young me will love you shortly, and he will always love you, I still love you now more than anything.” He turned his head to speak with the old Crystilla when he said that. I could see in their eyes they were madly in love, time didn’t change that, they gave each other a very passionate kiss and curled their tails around the others tail, similar to the hand holding humans do. Both me and young Crystilla could see this was true love, it disturbed me a little, but had no effect on Crystilla.
Time jumped again, the old versions of us were long gone, I think a few weeks went by as Barthello was now nearly as tall as me. I woke up that morning in the middle of the two dragons, I had a weird feeling as I woke up, this all felt…right! I was truly happy, I could see nothing else I wanted in life, so I woke up Crystilla. “Crystilla, I am ready, you can check for my true desire now.” She looked confused for a second, then she suddenly awoke fully as she understood what I meant. Crystilla then tapped my head with her claw again, she leaned back and smiled, my true feelings came out, I wanted to be a dragon and be with her forever, I wanted what the old me and her said beforehand, I did love her and I did love Barthello. As Crystilla removed her claw, she gave me a tight hug and she was crying happily, tears of joy.
I still had no idea of how I would become a dragon, but Crystilla seemed to know, she picked me up and carried me away, making sure Barthello stayed asleep. She took me around the back of her cave where no-one could see us, and she put me down there. “I can turn you into a dragon as you desired, if you were wondering why I couldn’t before, well you didn’t desire it, so it was not possible. The wishes dragons cast can only be done if in both our hearts we want it, and one hundred percent want it as well. It is something no dragon understands, but as we both want this now, it can be done.” A puff of smoke came from her and it covered me completely in darkness, I could see and feel nothing. But I also remembered nothing as time jumped yet again.
I was a green dragon, I looked exactly like the older one from earlier would look decades in the past, I was sleeping next to Crystilla, Barthello nearby. Behind us was an egg, it looked exactly the same as Barthello’s did all that time ago, we knew we had to send it to the past, we knew all we had to do in the future to bring us two together in harmony, and we all agreed it was the right thing to do. I was truly happy, I could not have been any happier, I could not have been more in love with Crystilla, I could not love my son Barthello more, it was perfect.
Then I woke up from my dream. The first thing I did as I woke was scream and punch a wall, I really wanted it to all be true somehow, no idea how, but I did.
Once again, it was a dream, so detail was minimal. Also, the story in the dream was very good I would say, and I would love to make it into a real story, but for the life of me I can’t figure out how to, so this is just a quickly written version.
Well first of all I was in some army, no idea what, or why. Me and a group of others were marching in unison around the base camp when our officer came out and stopped us, we saluted him and then stood at ease. He called me and two other people out of ranks for another mission, straight away I questioned him as we were just privates, privates don’t go on missions in groups of three, we at least have someone who controls the operation. He laughed, then said that if I want someone to control it, then I, as in me, should. I was honored and agreed, so did the other two people, yet we still had no idea what the mission was.
As we were taken to a small room for briefing, there were quite a few high ranked people there, all talking amongst themselves as we all entered. As we sat down, the officers started to talk. “Gentlemen, we received a note this morning with a very important mission which needs to be done, you need to go to the dragons cave and protect her egg from being stolen.” All three of us knew of this dragon, not personally, but heard of her. She was apparently just a nice friendly dragon, never caused any harm, that is why she lived so close without any problems. In the past she used to help stray humans and animals, and she rewarded anyone who helped her with one wish. Of course we would accept the mission.
As we were about to agree though, the same man spoke again, “If you are wondering why you three, privates, were picked out, do not ask me, the note I mentioned earlier asked for you three in particular. I wanted to send out more experienced men, and more than three, but there must be a reason for this, so I am going along with it, you will leave in the morning.” As that was said, we were taken out and told to pack our supplies.
Next thing I remembered, we were at the front gates of our camp with bags packed with a foldaway tent, sleeping bag, all the stuff you would use when hiking for a long time. The three of us left without a word said from anyone. On the way, we were talking about why us three were picked, we were just three privates, none of us had any special abilities, we were the weakest, dumbest, and probably the worst soldiers in the entire army! They said that anyway, I didn’t.
Time jumped again in the dream, we were outside the dragons cave, hearing fire cackling and a demonic laugh from a human inside. We all rushed in to see what was going on. Inside the cave there was a very tall European dragon, she was blue scaled, her body was smooth, and no spikes other than two on her head curving back. Behind her was her egg, it looked like a crimson pearl, the light illuminated from it. The dragon was guarding her egg from a short man in a dark cloak, we could not see his face. Suddenly, the dragon unleashed a jet of flame from her mouth towards the man, and he stood still! As the flames engulfed him, the sinister laugh was heard again, and when the flames ceased, the man was untouched. We had no idea what to do.
The man then raised his left arm and a long red sword suddenly appeared, he grabbed it and started to attack the dragon with it. At that point, me and the other two people ran into the battle with our swords drawn to defend the dragon. He was too powerful, even with three on one, he still managed to block every strike and advance towards the dragon. I heard inhaling from her again, me and the other two privates jumped for cover, and the flames released did the same again, didn’t harm him, all it did was mean that we three couldn’t help her anymore.
We started to get up and rejoin the battle again, but this man was already trying to slice the dragon’s chest, when she hit the man with her claws, he barely moved from the pressure, and every time she released even a bit of flame, even for a millisecond, the man uttered something. Me and the other two could not get there to help her, she kept lighting the area with her fire, if we were to even move, and we would be severely burnt and would die. The three of us looked at each other from either side of the battle, questioning what to do silently, then one of my men signaled to our swords, then the fire the dragon released, almost instantly we all knew what to do.
The dragon once again was about to breathe fire on the man, and as we saw her inhaling, we heard the man start to silently speak. Straight away all three of us jumped up without swords and flung them at the man. As they were flying towards him, he turned and said something else, the swords stopped motionless in the air, he then laughed at us. We had the last laugh though as the jet of flame from the dragon engulfed him again, but no sinister laugh this time, just shrieks of pain as he was being burnt. We made it so he didn’t finish the spell to block the fire and concentrated on us instead. It worked perfectly. The dragon kept her flame on the man for a good minute, and not long until there was no sound. When she ceased fire, there were only ashes where the man was, and a bit of burnt fabric.
The dragon then went to her egg to see if it was safe, it was, so she turned back to us. We bowed to her, and she bowed her head back. The dragon then started to speak, her voice was perfect, and each word seemed to flow of her tongue like the gods had written down what she said beforehand, it was enchanting. She said “Thank you for helping me protect my child from harm, if it wasn’t for you three, I would now be dead, and my egg would have been stolen.” I replied “It was our duty ma’am.” I bowed again. The dragon smiled at us, “I will see what you three most desire, and I will grant it for you, it is the least I can do.”
The dragon moved closer as my men and I stood in a line perpendicular to her. She touched one of the men on the head with the tip of one of her claws, and closed her eyes. After a minute, she took the claw off and put it on the other man. Same process again, leaving me for last. As she touched my head, she scrunched up her face, trying to understand. I didn’t have any desires, I had never thought of anything I really wanted. She took her claw off my head and moved back.
The dragon went to the back of her cave and soon came back with a diamond encrusted necklace, she handed it to the first man, “Give her this, she will love you forever. Don’t be alarmed though, it does not change the person who wears it, the beauty of this necklace is enough.” The man was obviously really happy, and honestly a bit scared, I don’t know why myself. The second of my men was now waiting anxiously for his wish, I knew what he wanted from before, he didn’t want any possessions, just a peaceful life, but how would this dragon make that happen? She looked at the man and spoke again, “What you desire most is peace, go to your commander and speak these words.” She then whispered something to him which I could not hear. “Your commander will let you leave the army and go back home, if you are worried about what you would do for money and food, worry not as that will be taken care of by your commander.”
Now it was my turn, the dragon was about to speak when the egg behind her started to shake and roll. We all moved to see what was going on, and all looked over the egg. A few cracks suddenly appeared on it, followed by more, and more. Suddenly, a blue head poked its way out, then the egg shattered. In the center of the shattered egg was a newly hatched blue dragon, it looked a lot like its mother, and smiled at all of us. The mother dragon spoke, “My son! You’ve hatched, welcome to the world.” She then sat down next to the baby dragon.
I was the first to speak, “Don’t worry about anything I want, we will leave you now so you can be with your son, I don’t want to disturb you in any way.” As I said that, my man and I turned to leave the cave without word from the dragon. We were almost out when I heard the mother dragon shout “Wait!” We all stopped. “I can’t let one of the humans who saved me and my sons lives go without something, it wouldn’t be right.” I said back as nice as I could “There is nothing I want from you, doing what I did was reward enough.” And we turned to leave again, but then there was a very high pitched squeak, obviously from the baby dragon as it was too high for the mother to produce. We ignored and carried on our way.
We were nearly out the cave when I saw the baby dragon run past my legs and stop in front of me, he flared his wings to signify that he is trying to stop me, but he fell backwards. Only a few minutes old he was, I laughed, but I couldn’t say anything, what else did I expect? I picked up the baby dragon in my arms, he looked happy that I did, I then spoke to the other men who were silently laughing at me, “I’ll be back in a minute, I’ll catch you up men.” They nodded and left while I took the baby dragon back. As I went back in, the baby dragon fell asleep in my arms very quickly. (That part of my dream I will never forget, it was such a perfect image) I started to put the baby dragon back down next to his mother, but she raised her claw and held it just under my arms, and she blinked at me, telling me to keep hold of him like that, he was obviously happy like that.
I didn’t know what to do, I had to get back to my men, but I could not dishonor the dragons by not doing as one wanted and doing what could be nasty to a newborn one. I sighed after thinking for a while, and sat down, I rested the baby dragon on my lap and stroked him. The mother dragon looked at me with her son and smiled, “If there is nothing you desire, then so be it, but please don’t just walk away, give me some time, I’ll think of something.” “I can’t ma’am, I…” “If you won’t stay for that then, stay for my son, even if just a week, if I haven’t thought of anything to give you, then I will let you go without saying anything. It will make me and my son very happy, just look at him there.” So I looked at him, there was a giant smile on his face, with every stroke I gave him, there was small purring, I felt happy just doing that, so I agreed to what the mother dragon said. She then looked really happy as well, and she moved closer to me to see her son.
“If I am staying for a while then, can I at least have yours and your son’s names?” I asked her, “My name is Crystilla,” she said, “And my son doesn’t have a name yet, you can choose his name.” I gave a small chuckle, “Will that be my reward?” “No, that’s just a nice gesture, what will you call my son then?” I had to think for a while, I didn’t know what to call a baby dragon, I had some ideas, but they just seemed silly to me and didn’t fit a dragon, I needed to think of a name which was unique, one which wasn’t a human name, one that would always be remembered. I soon thought of something, “How about Barthello?” (I don’t know why that name came to me, it is someone from final fantasy xii) “Barthello….I like it. And yours is?” I then said my name which was of course James.
Time jumped again to the next day, Barthello was still asleep on my lap and Crystilla was curled around me so she could stay next to her son. All three of us awoke at the same time somehow, Barthello smiled then climbed off me, to be honest, at that point I was confused, this dragon wasn’t even a day old, yet in human terms it acted like a five year old. I didn’t know if that was the way dragons were at that age, or something else. Crystilla once again put her claw on my head to try to see what I desire, but no answer again. Barthello had his eyes wide, jumping up and down slightly looking at me, I could tell he wanted to play, so I did, we played chase, then I picked him up in my arms and ran about with him, bouncing off the cave walls, we both seemed to enjoy it. The whole day went like that. (As it was a dream, a day was only about an hour)
The week went like that, everyday Crystilla checked for what I wanted, and every day she got no answer. There was one point which I don’t remember that well, but I found out the egg Crystilla had was not really hers, it was found next to her one night with a note that said on it the exact date when it would hatch (which it got correct), the word “Ouroboros” and something which mentioned “true love.” We spoke about it and had no idea what the whole thing about true love was, what Ouroboros meant, or how the date specified was correct. But the whole thing we quickly passed aside, it may have been weird, but it doesn’t matter, Barthello is her son no matter what.
Anyway, it was the end of the week, I was getting ready to leave, I had my bag packed again, I never actually used the tent in the cave, there was no need, I didn’t even use the sleeping bag as there was no need, every night Barthello slept on top of me, with Crystilla next to me as well. After pleasant goodbyes, I left. Crystilla stopped Barthello from stopping me leaving, horrible squeals were heard as I left, I couldn’t stand it, I hated what I was doing, but for some reason I was insistent on doing so. (No idea why) Time jumped again and I was back at base camp, I was welcomed by one of the other guys I was with, and a woman with the necklace from before on her, they kissed and she walked off to allow us to speak. He said that the other bloke has left and is actually living peacefully now. All this made me think about the note, these two people looked like they were true loves, so maybe it meant them somehow, and Ouroboros had something to do with the other guy. I shrugged.
Once again time jumped and I was marching in line again as I was at the beginning, I don’t know how long had passed, but it couldn’t have been more than a week. Anyway, during the marching, we all saw something in the sky, and it was getting bigger as it moved closer. It wasn’t long before I realized who it was, it was Crystilla, she dove down and stopped quite far away from everyone to not strike fear. Many people who I was marching with ran off, don’t know why. Suddenly she spotted me and ran towards me, everyone around where I was jumped out of the way as she stopped just meters away. She looked down at me and began to speak “Barthello is really sad without you there, I can’t get him happy at all, please come back for his sake.” Crystilla then gave the puppy dog eyes. I had no idea what to do now, if what Crystilla said was true, and I said no to her, I would be causing a lot of grief to two dragons, but if I said yes, well I didn’t know what would happen.
I was thinking for quite a while, thinking of the most logical thing to do. Before I got a chance to say anything though, Crystilla grabbed me with her front claws and jumped in the air. She flew back to her cave like that, and she put me down just outside it, she said “I knew you would say yes!” Even though I said nothing, I guessed she just assumed, but I never found out. I walked into the cave, Crystilla behind me, and I saw Barthello, he was a little bigger now, it would be harder for me to now pick him up, though easily possible still. As he saw me, his face lit up and he smiled. I couldn’t understand anything anymore, my head actually hurt. All of a sudden, Barthello ran at me and knock me flat on my back, he rubbed his head against me cheek in the same way a cat does to your leg, then he started licking me. Crystilla loomed over and laughed, “I told you, Barthello needs you here.”
Time jumped again, I don’t know how much by, but Barthello was getting tall, he was about to reach my torso in height. During that time, me and Crystilla had learnt almost all about each other, and to be honest, we were happy. But we did have two unexpected visitors, they were two very old looking dragons, one male who was green, and one female, blue. But not just any blue, the exact same blue as Crystilla, the same radiance shined from her. The old male one spoke first, “I remember this point in life, it was a nice time.” I had no idea what he meant, nor did Crystilla. Barthello was asleep next to me, his head on my legs. Crystilla was first to ask, “Who are you? Where did you come from, why are you here?” The old dragons just looked at each other and smiled, the old female one spoke, she also sounded a lot like Crystilla, only a little wiser, “We’re Barthello’s parents.”
When she said “Barthello” I was shocked, I never told anyone his name, nor did Crystilla, and Barthello couldn’t tell anyone himself, so how did these two know his name? The old male dragon laughed at us, “I don’t think they’ve figured it out yet, you got my note, it was with the egg, did you not work it out?” Crystilla shook her head slowly, she was confused even more so than I. “Think about it Crystilla, the note I wrote to you had the exact date when Barthello hatched didn’t it, and we know his name, yet you told no one by this point, nor did I. And have you not recognized Crystilla yet?” He looked at the old female dragon when he said Crystilla, who smiled as he said it.
I think at that point the young Crystilla had an answer, though not a believable one, this is what she said, “You’re…..me? How? And who is this then?” Looking at the old male dragon, he answered by nodding at me. I was about to jump to my feet until I remembered Barthello’s head on my legs, if I jumped, it would wake him, so I just talked while in shock, “How can you be me, first of all, I’m a human, you’re a dragon?!?” The old Crystilla spoke next, “You still haven’t thought about your true desire yet, at this time I was still checking your thoughts at night for it so I could do it for you. Before you say it, I know it isn’t your desire still James, it won’t be for a few weeks yet, but it is, and you will soon see….” Old dragon me then nodded in approval. He then spoke, “The note had all the answers on it, ‘true love’ was referring to you two. Also James, you never figured out why you were picked to do that mission, I wrote the note to your commander, I was also confused as you are now, I remember at this point that nothing seemed to make sense, but you will see all soon.”
He was right, that was how I felt, but all they were saying worked and made sense, I slumped my head on the ground to take it all in. as I did that, old dragon Crystilla and young dragon Crystilla looked down over me with wide smiles, that was when I knew they were definitely the same dragon, I had no doubt then, but I still had a doubt about the old dragon me. Old dragon Crystilla started to speak, “Barthello is our son, so he is your son, when everything is sorted out in the future, you will send your egg back in time to leave outside your cave with that note, thus, Ouroboros. Ouroboros means ‘never ending’ and thanks to this, it means life will never end, the universe will never end, you will realize all this is true in the future.” “Young Crystilla, why not tell James how you feel right now?” Said the old dragon James. Young Crystilla looked away from me then, contemplating what she felt, after a few minutes, she finally spoke, “I think what they are saying is true, James, I do have feelings for you which I don’t understand, and so does Barthello, he loves you, he may have already knew you was his father, and that is why he wanted you to stay, I am uncertain myself, but all the facts are there, I love you, Barthello loves you, do you love us?”
That questioned stopped my thoughts dead in the track, yes all the facts were there, but there were still a few problems, one, I am a human not a dragon, two, same as one, how can you love another species like that? I have to admit, I did ‘love’ Barthello, but as a really good friend, and I did ‘love’ Crystilla, but once again, just as a really good friend, but ‘love-love’ them, the answer was no, I did not love them. I didn’t want to say that, but I couldn’t lie, the old me would know if I lied and say so, and it would hurt Crystilla whatever I said, even more so if I lied about it, so I repeated my thoughts to her. Young Crystilla closed her eyes and a small tear came out as she walked away, old Crystilla followed her. Old dragon me then came up to me and stood over me, “See what you are feeling now, guilt, and a heavy amount, what you…I said then, I knew we had to say it, but the guilt you feel now is killing you isn’t it?” He was correct, I felt horrible, I wished I would die so I didn’t feel it anymore. “You feel guilty because you hurt the one you love, and believe me, believe yourself, it may not make sense yet, but you do love her, time will tell you that. Once you accept it, you will have a wonderful life, I did, it was what I truly desired in life. You want her, you need her, you can‘t live without her, and you know it, you just don’t know you know it.” (Just to say, I think those last lines were from ‘Friends’ that TV show, Janice said it to Chandler, just replace ‘her’ with ‘me.’ I have no idea how I thought of that in my dream.)
We were silent for a long time, then both the Crystilla’s came back in, young one went to me, old one went to the old me. Young Crystilla spoke, “I just got told that what you said was not your true feelings, but I will not ask again, I must wait until you say so yourself. Please say it soon James…please.” My feelings were all over the place, there was anger at the old me, guilt from what I said, a lot of confusion, happiness when I looked at Barthello, also when I looked at Crystilla, and something that can only be described as ‘half-love’ where yes I had feelings for these two dragons, but it was different to what I thought love would feel like. I didn’t answer Crystilla, I just closed my eyes. She then lowered her head next to mine, the older versions of us just watching.
For what seemed like hours, I was thinking it all over in my head, all that was said, all what it meant, but what the old dragon me said was the only answer, wasn’t a reasonable answer, but the only one. I opened my eyes but said nothing. The old me then spoke, “It will not be long Crystilla, the young me will love you shortly, and he will always love you, I still love you now more than anything.” He turned his head to speak with the old Crystilla when he said that. I could see in their eyes they were madly in love, time didn’t change that, they gave each other a very passionate kiss and curled their tails around the others tail, similar to the hand holding humans do. Both me and young Crystilla could see this was true love, it disturbed me a little, but had no effect on Crystilla.
Time jumped again, the old versions of us were long gone, I think a few weeks went by as Barthello was now nearly as tall as me. I woke up that morning in the middle of the two dragons, I had a weird feeling as I woke up, this all felt…right! I was truly happy, I could see nothing else I wanted in life, so I woke up Crystilla. “Crystilla, I am ready, you can check for my true desire now.” She looked confused for a second, then she suddenly awoke fully as she understood what I meant. Crystilla then tapped my head with her claw again, she leaned back and smiled, my true feelings came out, I wanted to be a dragon and be with her forever, I wanted what the old me and her said beforehand, I did love her and I did love Barthello. As Crystilla removed her claw, she gave me a tight hug and she was crying happily, tears of joy.
I still had no idea of how I would become a dragon, but Crystilla seemed to know, she picked me up and carried me away, making sure Barthello stayed asleep. She took me around the back of her cave where no-one could see us, and she put me down there. “I can turn you into a dragon as you desired, if you were wondering why I couldn’t before, well you didn’t desire it, so it was not possible. The wishes dragons cast can only be done if in both our hearts we want it, and one hundred percent want it as well. It is something no dragon understands, but as we both want this now, it can be done.” A puff of smoke came from her and it covered me completely in darkness, I could see and feel nothing. But I also remembered nothing as time jumped yet again.
I was a green dragon, I looked exactly like the older one from earlier would look decades in the past, I was sleeping next to Crystilla, Barthello nearby. Behind us was an egg, it looked exactly the same as Barthello’s did all that time ago, we knew we had to send it to the past, we knew all we had to do in the future to bring us two together in harmony, and we all agreed it was the right thing to do. I was truly happy, I could not have been any happier, I could not have been more in love with Crystilla, I could not love my son Barthello more, it was perfect.
Then I woke up from my dream. The first thing I did as I woke was scream and punch a wall, I really wanted it to all be true somehow, no idea how, but I did.
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