A couple of minutes were spent checking out Aidan´s new body. Aidan himself felt happy and energetic, feeling the need to test out flying. Mark was satisfied, as Aidan looked like he wanted him to look.
Then Mark finally asked: “Are you happy with how you´re now, Aidan?”
Aidan answered: “Absolutely yes, I love this body. Do you think I can try flying?” He didn´t notice Mark´s eyes gleamed with something dark.
Mark grinned at him, but was now ready to continue his plan. By now the part screaming that Aidan was his friend had been pushed back by his new desire. “Good that you like it, Aidan. And I´m sure I will fly soon, yeah. But if you will enjoy that, too, I don´t know. You see, after seeing how you turned out, I think I need control over you, own you. That’s why I decided you can bid farewell to the higher functions of your brain now. Aidan, from now on you will be bound to me as my size-changing, mostly mindless but loyal pet-dragon called Saphir.” Finishing his command, Mark´s grin turned eviler.
Aidan´s eyes widened in shock at that. “No, you can´t be serious, please Mark no. Don´t do thi… growl…” Aidan´s voice was the first to vanish from him. If he was still human, he would have grabbed his head as pain went through it, erasing his mind. As Mark watched, Aidan´s eyes dimmed while his posture turned more feral. Aidan saw his memories vanish, felt his knowledge slip. Instead, instincts formed, controlling more and more of him. With a loud growl, as Aidan screamed no, the last bit of him was blown away, leaving only basic knowledge ad dragon like Saphir would need.
Saphir sniffed the air, recognizing the smell in front of him. “Master” he thought and laid down, facing Mark waiting.
Mark saw the change in Saphir´s body language, showing off submissive intend, and grinned satisfied. “Ready to go out again, Saphir? I will pack my things and then we can go flying. Can you shrink down so I can carry you?”
Saphir showed understanding, and started to shrink smaller until he was the size of a house-cat.
At the same time, Mark said more to the empty air: “Everything Aidan had owned belongs to me now, as the human Aidan Starns has never existed. But he will be there, buried deep within Saphir´s body, aware of everything we do. And nobody will think it weird I have a dragon as my pet.” Afterwards, he deleted the “Mark rules” command from Saphir´s profile, noting it also had changed to that name, before packing the laptop.
A few minutes later, he put little Saphir on his shoulders, took the bag containing the laptop and other things before heading out. Just outside, he asked Saphir to grow big enough to carry him, and soon he was whooping in the air on Saphir´s back, enjoying flying. Saphir was just happy to not be in that cramped place they had been in before.
Meanwhile, Aidan´s consciousness had returned to awareness within Saphir, and needed some time to remember what had happened. He couldn´t do anything but watch what was happening, begging Mark to give him his body back. A small part of him enjoyed it when Saphir took off into the air, but the bigger one wanted release from his prison. But Mark didn´t intended to free him.