"Don't breath the smoke from dragonfire"said Gretchen
That elicited blank stares from me and Becky,so Gretchen pointed a taloned finger
at what we two girls had earlier thought was a weird looking rock formation.
It was then I noticed that wifts of smoke appeared to be coming off one end of the
long sinuous looking rock
As we stared at the strange rock Gretchen tosses a rock at it.
As the rock hit near the smoking front end we heard not the sound of
rock hitting rock but rock hitting something softer covered in metal plates?
Suddenly a burst of flame came from the smoking end and as we watched the weird rock
shimmered,altered and we found ourselfs staring at a huge greenscaled dragon.
The startled annoyed wild dragon snapped up its neck,roared and spat flame in our direction.
However we were too far away and instead the beast stretched out its wings after one more
growl in our direction and flew away
Gretchen explained that although dragonfire would crisp a human on the spot
if I or Becky had sat against the camaflouged dragoness and breathed in her smoke
while she slept,the dragonsmoke would have turned up into anthrodragons.
He had one more thing to show us.
He took us to the infirmary,where we saw a dragonman writhing in pain in a huge cavern,
and on the ledges around the cavern were other dragonpeople.
They were all covering their snouts with wet clothes and weren't helping the
lone dragonman in distress.
Gretchen and the others put on wet cloth masks as well and gave three to me
Becky and Elsie to put on.
Gretchen explained in a muffled voice that a overdose of dragonsmoke breathed in by
a dragonperson had a rather drastic effect.
He explain the individual we saw writhing in pain before us had been lulled into letting his guard down
by the wild dragoness we'd seen outside,had got to close,and had breathed in the deadly
transformative dragonsmoke.
"Now watch what happens" said Gretchen
As we watched,the dragonman writhing away suddenly started coughing out smoke and
sparks,then bent over on the ground as his skin stretched and bulged as new bands
of dragonmuscle formed.
As we watched his tail and neck seemed to stretch out and we could
hear the snap snap snap of bones under his lengthening hide grow longer and
thicker.
All at once all points of his body seemed to be growing in size and we
watched in horror as a 8 foot tall dragon man turned into a still
growing 16 foot long dragonman thinning out,shifting,scrabbling and clawing at the
cave floor as his rib cage pushed out,his shoulders shifted,his hips cracked and swivelled and
his already impressive dragon man wings stretched to a huge new wingspan
The doomed dragon man tried to shout out for mercy,for help
" Helppp meeee pleeesrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
And it was at this point the growth and change of the emerging wild male
came out as "rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrROOOOOAAAAR"
as its snout tripled in length and its forked tongue
plopped out,big breathes heaving the wild dragons chest
as it puffed out flame from its lungs for the first time
in between puffs of dragonsmoke
In a matter of minutes a 6 foot tall dragon man had changed into a fierce wild
four footed 50 foot long flamebreather
The beast glowered at the rest of us through blazing eyes,roared,
then charged out through the cave entrance and took flight,to join the other wild dragons
Gretchen turned to us and said "remember,dragonsmoke is meant only for one thing,
to create more beasts like him"