Now Rick was interested in the origins of the human race,and had decided we weren't primates,but some kind of dinosaur whose development had been stunted so that we looked like
poor copies of apes.Basically humans were reptiles acting like apes in drag.
He had taken ice samples from places were he thought the human race had originated and made a startling discovery.Up till 50000BC these areas had contained a pinkish gas in the atmosphere but no humans or trace of a human civilization.Then around 50000BC the pinkish gas vanished from the ice core samples and humanity left its traces.
He had concluded that the loss of the gas had stunted the gestation of our dinosaur ancestors and left a race of half formed dinosaurs later know as homo sapiens.He had been working on recreating this gas and planned to administer it to test subjects to see what they developed into.
As he advanced up the stairs to confront Brendan he never noticed his skin starting to thicken and turn darker.As new muscles rippled under his hide he began to growl as his teeth began to lengthen and his face began to push out into a reptillian snout.
His heart began to beat faster as it began to grow,and his organs began to shift about as his shoulders widened and his chest grew.As his neck began to thicken and lengthen his growing finned ears detected the wet sound of budding wings forming under his shirt,
As his tail ballooned out and his limbs thickened and grew claws,he roared with discomfort as his new gizzard began to ferment the methane he would need to flame his prey and warm the meat.As his horns spiralled out of his skull he roared in shock as it suddenly occured to the rapidly emerging dragon that he was turning into a dragon.Then the dragon heard a answering roar from Brendans room and swarmed up the stairs to confront the dragon which had challenged him.
Rick and Brendan were no more.They were now dragons,intent on a fight.