So Damon joined the dragons and the five of them went off to steal some gold from a city this time,rather then a mere village.
Now what Damon didn't know was that the 4 dragons had once been human bank robbers.
They'd been quite a pain for the Kingdom's finaciers,once of them
who had been Damon's great grandfather King Skylock.
That was about a century before Damon's time.Now Skylock had dabbled in black magic ,using a book of curses and damnations he'd found hidden in a
secret chamber in the dungeons of the castle.Some long
forgotten sorceress ancestor of his named Bethogina the Witch Warrior
had left it behind.
So King Skylock had sat there flipping through the book
full of curses and damnations and had placed his goblet of wine carelessly on a nearby wood and copper table -cauldron votive stand that
had carved on its sides rather erotic images of a dragon goddess playing with herself.
That book of curses and damnations was fascinating,so Skylock never noticed that the gemstones set in the eyes of the carved dragon goddess were
beginning to glow or that the wine and the goblet were beginning to glow as well.
So the King slugged down the wine and his eyes began to glow orange
and besides losing lots of body hair,his body became slightly more slender.
Not knowing he'd just downed a dragoness creating potion,the King Skylock went back to his chores in the Upper Chambers of the Castle
and idly scratched off the odd blue,green or brown scale that were starting to push out
where his missing body hairs used to be.
So it was that the weeks flew by and King Skylock ...