-OLD- The Dragon in Me Part5

On the next day it was raining when I woke up. I had slept pretty long and it was already 10:43. Although there would be lunch two hours I didn't want to skip breakfast. I got down and ate some bowls of breakfast cereals. I was rather hungry but I didn't know why. I didn't care at the moment and just ate.
After breakfast I decided to get out and enjoy the feeling of the raindrops on my scales. I had always liked it to be out in the rain when I was human and I wanted to know if it felt different with my scales. I went out into the pouring rain. I had to smile when the drops flowed down my body. I hadn't felt this for a long time so this time it was even better. I just closed my eyes and enjoyed the feeling. There wasn't any difference to how it felt before. It seemed that this was one of the less things that hadn't changed in the last few days. It wasn't like I wouldn't enjoy my new body. It was just good to have this small things that would always be the same.
I stood still in the rain for a long time. Then I spread out my wings. The raindrops felt like thousands of little fingers on my membranes. After a few seconds I jumped off the ground and flew big circles above the house. My eyes were still closed and I enjoyed it to be alone and hear nothing but the raindrops falling on the ground. I thought nothing while flying. I just concentrated on the feeling.
I flew for about fifteen minutes and then landed at the back door. There was a small part that was sheltered and I just had to shake a little and I was dry. Then I went in and saw my mom sitting at the couch. She was always a bit sad when it rained but today it seemed worse. She just sat there and her eyes stared right through the TV in front of her. I sat down beside her and waited till she started to talk. I do this almost every time when she is in a mood like this.
"I thought about all the things that happen in the last days." She started, " Especially I thought about you. If your personality will change any further than it already did." I just listened. She would talk until she would have told me everything that was on her mind.
"I was worried if you would be the same after some time. I mean, you changed so much in the last days and every day there is something different. Also if you don't realize it, you act a little bit different since you are a dragon." She paused to think and although I wanted to ask what she meant, I waited, I was sure she would it explain soon.
"You are far more often out than you used too. Also it seems that your way how you think about some things has changed. I can't really explain it. It's just that I'm worried if there will be anything of you left. I know we have already talked about it but I just can't get it out of my head."
It seemed that she had told me everything she wanted to tell and so I started to speak.
"As you said, we already talked about this but I had the same thoughts like you. I thought if there would be not just minor changes but really big ones. I thought pretty long about this and after some hours I realized that this was still my mind and nothing will change this. I only adapt my way of thinking a bit to my body and capabilities. I made a promise to myself that I would ever be the same. I can only give you an advice. Try to believe in my humanity and don't worry too much."
She seemed a bit relieved when I said this, but she was not the person that stops worrying just because you say that there is nothing to worry about.
"Probably you're right but I think I will need much time to get over this. It's not that I don't want you now. It's just that I worry if you will stay the same."
She let out a sigh and stood up.
"But I don't want to bother you with this. The only way for me is to wait." Then she went away.
`Wonder if she will ever stop worrying about me.´ I thought. Then I stood up too and went into my room where I laid down on the bed. Thinking. After some time the sound of the thunder interrupted me.
`I think far too much in the last time.´ I smiled and went down. Today my dad was at home for lunch and talking with my mother. The meal was already standing on the table. I sat down and the sopped talking.
"Hi, Mark." Dad said.
"Hi." I replied, " Talking about me?"
"Yes," Mom answered, " The same thing we talked about. Your dad says the same thing like you, but even if I wanted to stop worrying, I couldn't."
"Let's not talk about this anymore. I came down to eat and not to discuss whether we should worry about me or not." This talk was going to be far too depressive for me.
"I think he's right. Let's drop this and eat." Dad agreed.
We didn't speak while eating like we always do. I didn't really know why. I had never seen this when I had eaten with other families. They always talk and we don't but I'm used to this didn't disturb me.
As always I was the first one finished. I stood up and went into my room. I decided to listen to music while writing on my story. I had to listen with my speakers because of the missing possibility of putting headsets on. I usual prefer it to listen with headsets because with the speakers I have to listen pretty quiet and I like it more with loud music. I opened iTunes hit the play button and instantly some random song was played. It was Oblivion from 30 Seconds to Mars. I really like this song. Then I opened my story with Win+R. I almost always work with key sequences. I only use the mouse if I'm in the internet.
I wrote for about one and a half hour and then shut the Computer down. I looked out of the window and noticed it was still raining but at least the thunderstorm had stopped. I didn't wanted to stay inside and so I went out in the rain. I started to fly around, mostly above the streets. I didn't know why but a feeling told me to do this. After some minutes I noticed a car that was driving pretty fast. Almost to fast if you consider that it was raining. I just wanted to look somewhere else when I saw something horrible. The cars right front tire got into an really deep pothole that was filled with water. Normally the car would just get a blow and drive on but on the wet street the tires lost the grip, car skidded, got off the road and spun over. It stopped with the tires up. I immediately flew down and landed next to the car. One window was broken and quickly looked into it to see who was in there. It was a young couple. The guy was unconscious but the girl was awake although she looked really bad. At least they had their seat belts on. I had to get them out of there but this was impossible without hurting them more than they were already. The only way I saw was turning the car around but I didn't know if I would able to do this. I at least had to try it. I grabbed the roof of the car and I stretched my muscles. It was a big car but I managed to turn it around. I quickly ripped open a door and pulled the unconscious guy out. Then I went to the other side and got the girl out. She looked at me shocked but didn't resist. I asked her for a mobile phone. She gave me hers and luckily it wasn't broken and I quickly called an emergency doctor. Then I gave her the phone back and looked at her injuries. She had several bruises and a cut at the left arm where splinter of the window had hit her. All in all she didn't look that bad as you would expect it when you see such a crash. The guy looked worse. He had hit his had badly and there was a laceration. Probably the reason why he had passed out. He had also some bruises like the girl but he had more cuts. I herd moving behind me and turned around. The girl had stood up and came walked towards me.
"Thank you." She said.
"There's no need to thank. I just did what I had to do." I replied.
"Also if you don't think so I have to thank you. You saved the live if me and my husband." She looked at the guy.
"If you think so." I replied. Then I heard a siren. "The emergency doctor is coming." I told her.
"If you don't mind my asking. Why do you look like a dragon?" She didn't look afraid, she just wanted to know it.
"It's because  I AM a dragon. I was rammed by a car and in the hospital I slowly transformed into this. I was the whole time unconscious and so I don't know how the transformation proceeded." She just nodded not saying anything. Then the ambulance came in sight.
"You have to go now. I'm happy that I could help you. Before I forget what's your name?" I asked.
"Maria." She replied, "And yours is?".
"Markus."
Then we went to the ambulance. I carried Maria's husband as carefully as I could. Two doctors ran towards me with a stretcher. Carefully I laid the man down on it and then the doctors carried him away. I looked into the ambulance. Maria was already in and a man bandaged the cut at her arm. She smiled.
"Thanks, Markus." She said.
"Glad I could help you." I replied, "How old are you?"
"Twenty-three. And you?" Now everyone was in the vehicle.
"Fourteen." I shouted before they closed the doors. I could see her surprised look through the windows.
When they were gone in the rain I noticed that it had stopped raining. But what surprised me much more was that I felt exhausted and hungry. I had just eaten less than two hours ago and since I got a dragon I had never really been exhausted before.
When I was flying home some weird theory began to form in my head. `Maybe,´ I thought, `I'm hungry because I have done something that would usually be impossible. And because normal muscles wouldn't be able to do this I used some strange energy in my body and this is how I can do such things. This would also explain why I was hungrier than normal after I had lifted that tree. And if this energy is depleted I wouldn't be stronger than anyone else. I wonder if I have more energy or if I would even had to use it if I would have made me bigger.´
Although I had no proof that this was right it was the only way how I could explain this for me. I stopped thinking about this when my house came in sight, which was pretty soon. I landed in the backyard and went in. I was still a bit exhausted and I noticed that it didn't feel like normal exhaustion. I was just hungry and not tired, maybe my body knew that eating was the only way to refill this energy. Or maybe just the fastest.
"Hi mom." I said as I walked in.
"Hi." She replied, "You look a bit worn. What have you done?"
"Oh, I just saved the lives of two people and now I'm hungry." I smirked when I said this. She looked really surprised.
"You saved two peoples lives? And then you're saying that you're hungry although you have eaten about two hours ago? Could you please tell me what happened?"
"Well, I was flying over the road when under me a car lost the grip and rolled over several times. I immediately flew down to help them. I had to turn the car around to get them out. The car was pretty heavy but I managed it. Then I called the emergency ambulance and waited for them to came. Now Maria and her husband are in the hospital and getting better." She looked even more surprised now but still a bit confused, "And I have and assumption why I'm hungry. I think that if I do things with my body that would be impossible with normal muscles I use some strange energy inside me to do this and eating is the best way to get the energy back."
"In that case you should eat something. I don't think it's a good idea to wait till dinner. Should I make you scrambled eggs?" She asked. I could have made something for me easily myself but if she offered it I couldn't say no.
"Yes, please."
"Okay." She replied and quickly went into the kitchen to make them. I went after her and waited till she was finished.
"Thanks." I said when she put the plate on the table I front of me.
"No problem, honey." She replied. Then she went out.
After she was out of the room I started eating. I liked scrambled eggs and so I ate them pretty fast. I hadn't been much but it would last till dinner. I put the plate into the dishwasher and thought what I could do. I decided to play some video games. I went into the room where we had all the game consoles. I hadn't played a long time with them and it would be fun to do it again. I decided to play Wii. I put in the game "The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess". I had always liked this games. As a small child at the age of six I completed one of the games twice a day. I smiled when I remembered this.
When the screen of the pretty big 42" turned white and showed the menu I selected the game and it started. I continued my second savegame and played till dinner was ready.
I had just finished off the boss of the last temple when mom I heard mom.
"Dinner is ready!" She shouted. I got up, went into the kitchen and sat down at the table. Dad came after me and we all started eating.
It was already getting dark when I finished. I went into my room and opened my book. There weren't only about eighty pages left so I would finish it today.
After a while I finished it. The end of the book had really surprised me. I was a always a bit sad after I finished a book but also happy. Sad because now the adventures with the main character had an end and happy because I could start reading another book.
I looked out of the window. It was already late in the night but I wasn't even a bit tired. I didn't want to start another book, do something with the PC and couldn't sleep. But much less I wanted to be bored. The only thing I could think of was getting outside and see how the forest looked in the night. So I stood up and went out as quiet as I could.
When I closed the backdoor behind me I turned around and looked towards the forest. Although it wouldn't get any darker tonight I could see really well. I transformed and flew towards it. I landed at the same clearing I landed last time and walked around. I could see all the nocturnal animals and even some sleeping diurnal ones. It was really quiet there. Only some small mice that scurried around.
When I spotted one of them I had a fun idea. I could explore their world by shrinking to their size and see how it looked for them. I didn't think that there was any danger doing this because I would just get bigger again when it was necessary and even so small I still had my claws and teeth.
I shrank to the size of a mouse and began to run around. It was pretty fun to be that small. Everything looked so big and not a single other animal noticed me. The owls were probably the most dangerous but I didn't think they were dangerous for me.
After some time I found myself stalking a mouse. It collected food and after some time it went back to its burrow but I didn't follow. I just turned around and looked for something to do. Suddenly I heard some noise behind me and looked behind me. A owl has coming right towards me thinking I was a mouse. I tried to avoid it but I was too slow and it tried to grab me with the claws. They slid off my scales but one of them cut my left wing. It hurt a lot but I made no noise concentrating on the owl. It turned around and came towards me another time but this time I was prepared. I jumped towards it and slashed its belly with my right claw. I didn't want to cut to deep so the bird would survive it. I left three bloody cuts and the owl flew off with a loud screech.
I looked at my left wing. Somehow the membrane was not cut through. There was just a bloody line where the claws had hit it. I couldn't do anything but press it against my side and try to avoid other owls. I didn't want to change size with this injury because I didn't knew what would happen. Maybe it would just stay the same size or it could grow. It could also be that it got much worse and so I stayed the same size. I walked in the direction where my house was and short before I reached the end of the forest I felt my left wing prickling. I looked at it in amazement while I watched the cut slowly getting thinner and thinner and after about a minute it was gone.
`Wow´ I thought, `I wonder if all my wounds heal that fast or if the bigger ones take longer. Probably the big injuries heal as fast as they have healed when I got a dragon.´
After the cut was gone I could finally grow to my normal size and flew home. It was already past midnight and I was getting tired. I landed at the back door and went in. Then I headed directly into my room and got into the bed. I closed my eyes and after some minutes I was asleep.