Now as usually happens in these transformations Ricky
had neglected to read the fine print at the bottom of the
spell in that book.
Basically the fine print at the bottom of the page dealt with the
finer alrterations to the spell
such as gender,duration,size and subspecies amongst
Western dragons.
Had Ricky just waddled off and breathed fire,roared and gobbled
up a nearby sheep the main spell would have ended in a hour or
three and Ricky would have found himself being 4'3" 125 pound
human Ricky again.
Alas he didn't and hung around the cursed pool with the bird blood
and the other stuff that had changed him.
And repeated exposure to that cursed pool,bird blood and the like
was what was mentioned in the fine print of the spell.
So dragonified Ricky waded back into the pool,soaked up that spilt blood from the dead beheaded female bird ,and afterwards rubbed his wings and aching back against that nearby tree infecting his cut sores with all manner of tree sap,bark and other linden leaves.
Nothing happened at that moment beyond relieving some of the
skin irritation he was feeling but Ricky had mucked up a safe
simple three hour dragon transformation somewhat.
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So Ricky's three hour stint as a dragon came and went and somehow he had managed to avoid drawing attention to himself with all those roars.
The nude wimpy younf man returned to the pool where he'd left
his clothing,put them on and got in his dad's old cargo van and
headed back to the garage/warehouse/apartment building his
dad owned.
As Ricky got out of the parked cargo van that size wise
the silent dark warehouse was big enough to carry
out his dragon transformations in.
So now that he had a sense of what to do the landlords son
assembled a 'artificial' transformation centre he could try out in that warehouse.
15 foot diameter inflatable pool to serve as a 'lake'
Check
Tree ?
He went to a nursery and bought a linden tree sampling already in a 33 gallon pot
( for some strange reason Ricky nowe had a hunch the spell would
only work with a 33 gallon planter,not a 25 or a 50 gallon pot )
so Check
the warehouse already had a North facing window so Check on that item
Even back then there were already signs Ricky should have taken
heed of that he'd somehow 'broken' the safe spell and was going into dangerous spell casting.
As an example when he went to examine that spell book he'd kept in his bedroom although the rest of the pages looked unaltered when he went to the section dealing with 'Dragons' it was a little
hard not to notice that the number of pages dealing with dragon spells had increased nine fold and and pages and ink seemed to
glow with a inner fiery orange,red and white glow now.
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So into the artificial pool sank a nude Ricky the
next night and vanished into its suddenly bottomless depths.
Since this was a 15 foot inflatable pool that at most was 3 feet deep
a panicked Ricky knew something bad was going down.
Then the transformation took hold of both Ricky's mind and body
and a while later the young powerful female sea dragon
a sort of fish faced sea lizard monster with flippers for
arms and legs and a long finned tail was pushing herself up from
the depths,not in the warehouse Ricky had set the artificial
'lake' in but the open cold deep ocean near a beach where human
swimmers in the shallows.
The female sea dragon that Ricky had turned himself into certainly
wasn't wimpy human male thoughts anymore and with her
belly full of sea dragon eggs that needed laying she was
more interested in assimilating the nearby humans into her own
already huge sea dragon body.
The deed was done,the humans vanished,Ricky laid her sea dragon
eggs in the shallows near a wreck and then returned to the bottomless depths she had risen from.
Slowly human intelligence returned as well as a human shape
and wimpy Ricky found himself,with flashes of distorted beastial
memories of being a female sea dragon,lying nude and half sprawled out of the inflatable pool in the warehouse.