Yet Another Dragon Costume 01

I was waiting for my new video card to arrive, according to the tracking site it
should have came that day. It was Saturday and by chance I was home alone. The
UPS truck drove into the yard, the driver came to the door with my package, odd,
the package seemed allot larger then a video card...

I took it inside and looked at it, disappointed, I noticed that it was not from
Newegg. Upon closer inspection I found that it was from someplace called "Second
Identity" it sounded familiar, but I did not remember where I had heard it. Only
when I opened the box did it make any sense, it was full of beautiful scaled
materiel! I took it out and realized that it was like a costume. I said out loud
"No way!" It was one of Drethan's transformation costumes. But that was
impossible! Those only existed in some fiction I read on DeviantART! I must have
been dreaming! I tried every reality check I could think of, from plugging my
nose and trying to breath to sticking my finger though my hand, none of them
worked, so either this was one VERY realistic dream or I was awake.

I started trying to put the dragon costume on, I was very exited to see if this
would really work. As I put my legs in it, it started to move and form itself to
my feet, the rest of it soon followed.
I just relaxed and let it do its work, if the stories on DA were anything to go
by then this would go far easier if I did not fight it, but why would I want to
fight it? I knew what was supposed to happen, unlike most of the characters is
the stories. By now it had covered most of me and had started to reform my body,
I could feel myself smoothly reforming and could feel wings growing. It felt
very odd, like when a limb falls asleep I had that strange 'pins and needles'
sensation everywhere as all of the new skin became mine. This seemed different
from what I had read, so  Drethan must have gotten better at making these
things.

As the transformation completed I was standing on all fours,(obviously, I was
now a western style dragon.) and looking at myself. I was a beautiful back with
some red markings. I opened the door, with some difficulty, seeing as the
doorknob was not designed with dragon claws in mind.


So, what do you think?

What was that? Oh... this must be one of the sentient costumes, I said
"Absolutely amazing!"
When I tried to speak it had come out telepathically, interesting.

Great, can we fly now?
I said "Yes! I have always wanted to fly by myself, without the aid of any
machine."

Here we go!

My body, seemingly of its own accord walked a short way away from the house
and leaped into the air.

It feels so good to be alive! Thank you!

"No, thank you!" I said "This is amazing!"

You already said that.

"I know, but that is all I can think of to say. I'm hungry..."

Looks like we will have to go hunting... I hope you are not a vegetarian.

"Don't worry about that, even as a human I never liked vegetables very much. I
know there are deer around, but I know next to nothing about hunting."

Leave that to me.

We flew (well, at this point, the costume was doing most of the flying.)
over the fields and woods in the area looking for potential meals, I learned
alot about the layout of the land that I did not know before. Even though we
were flying fast, I could still hear perfectly. Apparently, a dragon's ears are
designed in such a way that the wind makes no noise as it blows past. Then I
noticed how sharp my vision was, as a human I had trouble reading a 36pt font
without my glasses, now I could probably read the title of a newspaper from 600
feet in the air!

Nice eh? Look, there is our dinner!

There was a deer near the edge of the woods, we started diving towards it...
It was an extreme thrill, diving at high speed towards our unsuspecting prey,
and feeling the wind on our wings. As we came closer to the ground everything
seemed to go in slow motion, our rear legs landed right on the deer's back,
killing it instantly. We started eating it, and I said "Wow, this tastes
better then any meat I have ever had, although I do not think I would like it
very much if I was in human form."

I was thoroughly enjoying myself, I felt more alive then I ever had before.

Well, now what do you want to do?

"I don't know, I would like to learn to fly under my own control instead of
letting you control my/our body all of the time"

I can do that.

I spent the rest of the day learning how to control my new body. Now it was
getting dark, and I remembered that my parents probably came home hours ago and
were probably looking for me. I wonder what they thought when they found the
empty box by the door, the scratches my new claws left around the doorknob, and
the odd clawed footprints in the snow...

Don't you want to stay out here? You are not going to back to being a boring
human forever are you?

"Don't worry about that, I will not let you die or whatever it is that you
"costumes" do when nobody wares you. I was only planing to take you off for as
long as it would take to explain to my parents why I was gone."

Thank you again, for giving me life.

I started flying towards my house, thinking about what to do, what to tell
my family, or whether I should live as a dragon constantly or if I should make
some sort of compromise. I flew over my house and was surprised to see no lights
on, I looked around and did not see my parent's car anywhere. Odd, they must
have been delayed somehow.

Does this mean that we can stay merged longer?

"Yes, I see no reason why we should separate when there is no one to see us and
freak out."

I flew down to the basement door, because that one has leaver style handle,
far easier for dragon claws to operate. I walked inside and looked around,
noticing details that escaped my poor human eyesight.

Is this where you sleep as a human? It kinda reminds me of a cave.

"Yes, this it my bedroom. My mom always calls it a cave too, 'Why do you spend
all day in your cave on that damn computer?' she says"

That is amusing. Jake, I have been looking at your thoughts and I see that you
are trying to think of a name for me, mind if I suggest one?

"Sure, go ahead."

How about 'Draycos'?

"Ahh, I see you have been looking though my memories of books. No problem. That
is a good name, after all, you are a symbiont like in those books."

I walked to the stairs, which, due to bad planning when the house was built, has
a wood burning stove right at the bottom. Many a friend nearly fell on it when
they got to the bottom of the stairs... I did not have to worry about getting
burned because the stove almost out due to my being gone all day. Its not
like you could get burned very easily with scales anyway... That was true,
and it turned out that I had no trouble avoiding the stove with my dragon body
anyway.
When I got to the top of the stairs I thought of something that I should have
thought of while I was still outside...

"Draycos, since we are a dragon, can we breath fire?"

I though you would never ask...

Before I could do anything Draycos released small fireball, which left a
nice big black spot on the wall... Mom would be happy about that!

Sorry about that...

"Don't worry about it, I nearly burned the hose down when I was five years old.
I always have been fascinated with fire, even before I knew that I liked
dragons."

I walked to the living room and checked the answering machine, my parents had
left a message!
I hit play and heard "Sorry Jake, but we won't be home tonight. We decided to
take little vacation, should be back on Monday! Dad says that you can take care
of yourself for two days." Now that was weird, my parents had NEVER done
anything like that before. Not that I minded very much, on the contrary I was
glad of it.
 
Now you have two days to think of how explain your 'change'.

"Yep, we can think about that in the morning, I am tired, you?"

Yes, very. Do you think you could read me the books my name came from? Your
memories of it are kinda foggy.

"I could, except I don't own them, I borrowed them from the library. I would
have to request them again. It's not hard to do, I just need to use my computer
to do it, and I cannot type with these claws."

By now I had walked back downstairs and was looking at my keyboard.

I can fix that...

Seems appeared at my wrists, and when I pulled them apart my hands and arms
turned liquid and flowed into their proper shape. I still wondered why the
shapeshifting was different then the 'Costume Shop' stories, but I liked this
version much better as it was virtually painless. I then turned my computer on
and put the books on hold. I put my arms back into the costume and they quickly
reformed back to their draconic form. I walked over to my bed and laid next to
it and curled up like a cat, I was slightly surprised at how comfortable it was.

" 'Night Draycos."

See you in the morning.