Outcast

"Right now?" asks Valoris startled by the abruptness.

"Yes, come with me. This will get messy and I don't want it happening in my cultivation chamber. Have you ever seen an evolution before?" asks Vanor as they make their way outside, following a path to a small hidden clearing.

" No, I haven't, I have read about it though. It's said that each evolution is harder than the previous."

" True but not detailed enough. During the time you evolve, your entire body will be sealed within a kind of elemental egg. Inside your body will slowly destroy itself, to then rebuild into something stronger.

This could take weeks, or even a month to complete. It will be very painful, and disorienting to you as you take the next step in becoming a dragon" explains Vanor before taking out a small cup. insides is a thick, and viscous blood with the tiniest specks of God within.

" That's the blood of Taleos Stormfury?" asks Valoris staring at it in excitement.

" Yes, it's very difficult to get your hands on this, huge contributions to the clan must be made in order to consider being able to get it. I tell you this so you understand, by taking this you have a debt to the clan.

I want you to always keep in mind that the clan helped you, and in turn, you must help it. Do you accept this debt?"

" .... I do" answers Valoris. Before taking the cup.

" Drink it, send it to your dragon core and it will do the rest. Rantil will watch over you while evolving"

As he lifts the cup to his mouth, Valoris hears a faint " wait I will what???" in the background before everything fades away. Until he is surrounded by the color of blood.

*Vanor's Pov*

As soon as the young kobold drank the blood. Gold and light blue energies surrounded him, forming a giant egg. Ignoring Rantil's complaints, I take a couple of steps back and notice something interesting. there are also tiny veins like crimson red mark's.

"Interesting seems like he hasn't told me everything. I wonder what it will do to him?" I think before lifting off to go finish Valoris's registration. I'm sure there will be cries of outrage that I'm letting a mere kobold into the clan, honestly, I can understand their shock. But this is the only way to let my sons dream live on. If I have to tolerate a lower lifeform like him then so be it.

*Valoris Pov*

I'm in a sea of red, I can't see anything else but I can feel my body slowly breaking apart. It's agonizing in its constant pain. I think I may go insane if not for the periods of sleep I seem to go through when it becomes too much. Every now and then I hear a quiet thump and wonder what it is.

In the end, it doesn't matter I suppose, all that matters is getting stronger, strong enough that people tremble uncontrollably before me like I do before Vanor.

*Rentil's diary*

Day 1: I can't believe Grandpa left me here and made me babysit. I have classed myself you know!

Day 7: Sooo boring, it's gotten to the point I decided to practice throwing rocks at Valoris just to pass the time, I hope they annoy the hell out of him.

Day 15: I'm getting weirdly good with rock-throwing, sadly the kid still hasn't come out. How much longer does he need?? Ugh, I'm sure my grades are complete trash now.

Day 22: The lone hunter stalkers her prey, unaware of its impending doom. Smash! ha! no one can defeat Rentil the rock thrower! her latest victim, the savage annoying bird that kept taking my rocks.

Day 28: Okay that's it! tomorrow I'm bashing that stupid egg open! I don't care if he is done or not! ehhh what's happening?"

A loud crack is heard before the egg disappears into nothing. leaving behind an 8 ft long wyrm. His head and body have taken on a more dragonic shape, small blue spines come out of his back, his horns are a bright gold color, his scales a dull blue/grey, all of his previous muscle gone. Cannibalized to feed his body's growth.

As impressive as his visual changes are, his internal changes were even more drastic. he feels his entire body overflowing with power, His heart has thin strands of gold, and crimson red in it.

" Wow, the change is surreal. I feel like I could fight a hundred of my old self's. My blood purity has degraded back down to Mid blood. That's to be expected, but now I really want to fight to see how much I improved" thinks Valoris before hearing a noise.

Looking around he doesn't see anything before a small rock hits his horn hard.

" Ow! who threw that!"

" Hahaha finally! I was about to bust you out of there. Come on, let's go show you off to grandpa. I'm sure he is just as impatient as I am." Says Rentil appearing from her hiding place.

They follow the path back to Vanors cave, his cultivation room closed.

" sigh... guess you gotta wait, I'm off for now. gotta go see how behind I am."

While waiting Valoris tests his new limbs. All of them even though weaker looking from malnutrition, they hold a strength he couldn't believe. Especially his tail, the blade on the end was 6 inches long, but he found he could coat the blade with the wind to sharpen it.

As he is exploring his new body, the doors to the cultivation chamber open revealing Vanor.

He looks Valoris over before nodding in approval.

" It was worth the wait, your potential has improved by a lot. How does your dragon heart feel?"

" It pumps slowly... every time my body spasms a little."

" That because its pumping dragon blood, your body can't handle continuous amounts of it. Anyways follow me to your new quarters"