Yellow dragons tend to live in either desserts or mountain tops. Both ecosystems putting them in competition with other dragon’s larger and more powerful than them. They only manage to do so from their rather interesting instinctual magics of lightning and sensing other life at a distance. If you are able to find one more than a few days old they have mastered an ability to know where every lifeform not covered in metal nearby. The only way to hide from this sight making you unlikely to survive in their habitats of choice. -Common Monsters

Adrian

I feel my mind adrift for several moments before I find myself in the Grey Dream. What I see there surprised me and tells me whatever I did on instinct worked.

Fusion of forms: + 500 EP, you will no longer possess two bodies.

You managed to be recognized as an adult before the biological growth period is over. + 50 SP, + 50 EP, Adult options unlocked.

Gain: by kills 100 SP, 50 EP, Dragon 10(+50 SP, + 25 EP), Magus 17(+1 Sphere, + 40 SP)

Name: Adrian Ravnos

Gender: Male

Age: 17

Skills

Attributes

Class

SP: 362

Traits

Magic

Languages

EP: 645

I can’t help but smile, this is just what I needed. I immediately open up to the dragon racial powers.

Alternate Form

Senses

Special

Void Powers

I open up both Alternate Form and Specials

Adult Void Dragon 150

Increase Natural Armor 50

Basic Magic Resistance 50

Standard Magic Resistance 75

Greater Magic Resistance 125

I buy the adult tier of alternate form though I am not sure how that is going to work now. Then I take the highest level of magic resistance available, and open up senses.

Colored Darkvision 25

I take it and after this there is another option added.

Void Dragon’s Eyes 75

I take it and then open up Void Powers.

Void Dragon Body 200

Void Grasp 75

Void Slip 75

Void Touch 75

Void Twist 75

Ok I don’t have enough to get everything. I take Void Dragon Body as it is probably the last physical augmentation and then Void Touch.

My EP spent those screens in this mental landscape dismiss themselves. Next, I’ll see what I can get for my magic.

Free Sphere Increase: 1

640 Arcane Power 5

320Space 2

320 Planar 0

80 Fate 2

320 Life 3

320 Death 3

40 Mind 1

1280 Soul 4

160 Primal 2

640 Time 3

40 Transmutation 2

10 Telekinesis 0

40 Fire 3

40 Lightning 3

40 Light 3

40 Darkness 3

20 Gravity 1

I spend the free Sphere increase on Life and then buy an increase to Death.

Before I can take the mental step needed to leave the screens all vanish and there is a woman who appears from out of the grey mist that fill this world.

“I must congratulate you Adrian Ravnos. You have managed to grow strong enough that the light infernal energies of this place won’t affect you. You can call me Manaereth and I would like to make a deal with you.”

I immediately recognize the woman to fit the description of a succubus. So the spirits that run this place are demons. No that doesn’t make sense no enemy would make a deal to help you fight themselves. One of the infernal succubi then?

She continues onwards to her sales pitch. “I can’t give you anything more from here or offer you infernal power but what I can do is see that the infernal taint that is added to everything anyone takes from this place is removed for those you care about.”

“And what do you want and why shouldn’t I just remove that taint myself now that I know what it is?”

She smiles, “because you don’t know how to even identify it. A deal with me is better and what I want from you is easily given. Don’t kill all of those that came to your plane from Althrá and don’t reveal that this place is run by devils.”

That’s it? This has to be screwing me over somehow.

“Why the deal at all?”

“It is only a matter of time now until you can walk the planes and my supervisors have decided that the cost of stopping you is now too much. If you don’t strike against hell we won’t strike against you, fair enough no?”

Before I answer another voice echoes through the misty grey void, the tongue I don’t know but the symbolism of the attack that obliterates the succubus I recognize.

A silver blade covered in roses sunders the fiend in twain and the body dissipates, not just the devils are here in these mists then. Althaen deities are indeed involved as I was told by the trio.

Nothing left to do after I touch the silver blade out of curiosity I drift off to true sleep.

My eyes snap open and I find myself in the bathroom of a honeymoon suite in the hotel. I touch my chest to find no mark or sign of the wound that I am sure should have killed me. The tiny amount of light more than enough for me to see clearly. I stand up and inspect my body, everything seems the same except that my muscle tone has improved. Not sure if that is from the travel and exercise or whatever changes I just went through. I should propably pay more attention.

Once I look into the mirror though I see two differences. The more minor one is that my hair color changed again, somehow I can tell it’s new color lies outside of human perception and that the metallic tint from before is still there. That might have to do with the other change though.

My eyes are completely different now. The shape of my iris is now slit like a cat's the coloration a myriad of dark blues, violet and whatever color my hair is. I should find something to take height measurements when I get the chance.

Deciding to check out how the dragon alternate form works and now looks like later I get dressed and smirk as I try to figure out how the trio will respond to my new eyes. Lysan won’t care and I don’t think K will mind either. Talia’s reaction should be fun though.

I step out of the bathroom to see that none of the trio are sleeping in the bed but rather against the walls near the bathroom. They must have checked on me and fallen asleep waiting for me to wake up. I smile as I start to gently pick them up and place them in the bed before joining the almost pile. I close my eyes and pretend to sleep as I make lists of what we need to do. The book I saw in K's hands as she slept left on the floor.

It was not too long before I felt the light of dawn breaking through the curtains of the window. I think Lysan woke first but just moved a bit closer to me as she wraps my hand around her chest and under her shirt. Only a few minutes later does her twin, Talia bolt upright and look around.

I guess this game has begun then. I get up and Lysan follows me once my hand exits her shirt. I want to have some sexy time but if we start now then nothing else will get done today. I look over to Talia and meet her gaze with a smile.

“What happened to your eyes?!” Talia all but yells.

I just shrug, and K gets up with a frown before looking into my eyes. She is concerned but not like Talia who is almost panicked over the change.

“It’s probably dragon stuff, does it matter anyways? I am still me.” I say as I pull her into a hug.

I think the other two might be jealous so I pull them to me and in hugging all three turn Talia's further protests into indecipherable and muffled words. This is a good morning even if going and talking to Thrane and the government people will have to happen today. I need to get money, food and transportation equipment too before we can leave Kansas City.

“Shall we get started? There is a lot to do today.”

They nod but make no move to leave my embrace. After a few more seconds I let go of them and walk towards the door as I straighten my clothes. I pick up the book that I saw next to K earlier and turn it over to see all of the cover.

A plain black journal, no markings aside from creases in the spine from holding it open as you write in it. There is no way I did not notice her having one of these.

I open it up surprised that none of the girls prevented me from trying to read this diary. I glance at the pages inside, it is not their's. It is too used for it to have been written in the few weeks since they came to this world and the paper is definitely machine pressed and cut.

“Whose is this?” I ask as I turn to the first few pages. What I find there answers my question, a letter. I recognize the penmanship as my dad's. How did this get here? When did he visit? I read through the letter.

Adrian,

I have been writing this book for years but still have not finished it, even so it is time for you to have it. You already know that my side of the family can and do wield magic that commands reality itself to bend to our will. Such power cannot come without a lot of history and everything I know and can find I have put in this book.

None of us are the kind and nice people that you know. There are centuries, maybe millennia, worth of skeletons in each and every person's closet and I have not concealed anything as I wrote what is in this book. Not a single one of us should have done a fraction of what was done. I am sorry for what you need to learn about the family.

One of your games always struck something in me and I would like you to know my answers to Ravel's question. Regret and love, that is what changed me from what I was to who you know. It is also what released me from the curse that was placed on the family. You will read about that in the first few pages in this book.

By the time you read this I will have left with your mother. Be wary of the others in the family, most of them are still the power-hungry monsters they have always been. I’ll meet you with your mother at one of your future campsites after you leave Kansas City.

-Randy

Alright, now I want to read this book. I didn’t know that there was a family curse only that magic supposedly ran in our blood. Is that why grandpa mentioned dad didn’t have much magic anymore? A curse, but he wrote that he no longer was held by it. Does grandpa know?

He also never mentioned my brothers, did they get their own letters? I’ll have to ask them later today. I place the book in Void Cache as I don’t have time right now to read it.

Once I walk into the hallway I see that the door to the room my mother and brothers shared is open. I push the door further open as I know there is no way that they should be awake yet. What I see is a messy but empty room. Glancing around I see that some of the bedding is missing but there isn’t anything they would have left behind if they went with dad so I guess all three of them must have gone with him.

Who should I talk to first? It would save me a trip if I just talk to the government people now and then just come back with Trane after talking to him. I walk over towards the part of the hotel where the military people are only to be stopped by two soldiers who point their guns at me as one of them speaks.

“This is a restricted area. Who are you and what do you want?”

Should I ignore him and disable the gun? No that would only unnecessarily aggravate those I need to talk with today. I may not feel overly threatened by the current arsenal I’ve seen but I still doubt I can fight the whole army.

“Adrian Ravnos, could you go get someone from conference room two for me? I would like to talk with Secretary Jasmine.”

“What is wrong with your eyes?!” the soldier responds as our eyes meet when I answer him. Great dragon eyes freak out people. Should I conceal them? No, messing with light for that would make it difficult to see. Maybe sunglasses I would just look sketchy instead of . . . appearently monsterous. . .

“Nothing they work fine. Now please either bring me to conference room two or tell Secretary Jasmine I would like to talk to her.”

Once the man calms some he nods and walks down the hall. I don’t follow since his compatriot is still pointing his gun at me. I suppose we will just have to wait even though I don’t want to the end results will be better if I do.