Shannon recoiled backward, steam raising from her muzzle as her hot breath mixed with the chilled air. She had slashed at the stranger but her claws had not done a thing against her tough scaly hide. The whole thing had been a test, she should have known the minute she could not have smelled Noah's scent but she had been led astray by her feelings. "Don't worry, Noah is fine, I never would have hurt him." The stranger spoke softly, holding her hands out.
Shannon's ears swiveled as she heard the rest of her pack racing up the mountain to meet her. "You better be right," She snarled, drips of saliva rolling off of her fangs.
"Honestly I did not think you would pass the test, nor did the elder, however I am not without a heart." The stranger smiled expanding her wings, she turned her head as if she were talking to someone else before focusing back on Shannon. "By accepting Noah's decision to be a dragon, allowing him to stay, and recognizing that I had replaced him you have passed our test."
Shannon began to relax just a little bit, she could feel Kaida and the rest arrive, the hairs of her tail began to smooth down as the massive elder dragon seemed to grumble again and relax as well. "Wait does this mean Noah has to stay here for a year?" She asked.
"Why don't you ask him yourself?" The Stranger called out as two figures descended from the sky, her lupine eyes focused only making out their silhouettes at first, but slowly she could see that one was female and the other was more a child. As they came closer she caught sight of their scales and her heart leapt. She recognized the same blue color of Noah's scales and she let out a dog like cry as she ran forward on all fours to meet him as he landed.
"Woah, Woah down boy." Noah laughed as Shannon licked his snout over and over again, she responded with a growl causing him to laugh even harder and pet her behind the ears. "Mom...er..I mean... the dragon lady... she said it's just for the test."
Shannon was in bliss, she rubbed her head against his scaly chest, all she wanted to do was spread her scent all over him. The mountainous dragon spoke in an ancient tongue that rumbled the rocks all around them, the stranger that stood next to them lifted her head and replied back with the same type of strange words.
"My son, you may return home, be with your own kind, but you will always have a place here." The stranger spoke, three tears slid down her muzzle that crystalized as they dripped from her face and into her hand. Together the three crystals formed a crystal heart container with a small amount of fluid inside. "To call upon the dragons for help, you must speak our tongue, to do that, you will need to be a dragon, drink from this container and it will change you into a dragon for one night and we will come." She placed the small bottle in Noah's hand closing his claws around it before looking directly into his eyes.
"Be warned though, if you drink from the container three times, you will be a weredragon forever, no matter if you are already a werewolf or anything else, this is ancient powerful magic, do you understand?" She asked.
Noah nodded his head slowly as she stepped away, allowing the other packmates to come up and sniff Noah, their noses and claws poking and exploring his new scaly hide. "You look so cool! If we're the Wolf Scouts, then what are you? Dragon Boy?" Kaida asked, her mind always in awash in superheroes.
"I like Dragon Man more." Noah took in a deep breath and pushed out his chest, trying to appear more manly.
"Well Dragon Man.." Shannon giggled, prodding his scaly chest. "Can we go flying together?" She glanced over at his wings, her tail wagging in excitement at the thought of finally spending some quality alone time with him.
Noah glanced over to the stranger, his draconic mother for approval, when she nodded he placed his arms around Shannon's back and felt her place her furry arms around his neck. "Hold on.." He whispered into her ear, and with a burst of speed the two leapt into the night air.