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Gems and GenesAlex sat down on the chair, and turned on his computer. That day he was going to hit 5000 pageviews in his DA account, and he was really excited. He quickly opened the web browser, and he logged on his account….4997 pageviews, right in time. He looked at the number with excitement: 4998, 4999, and 5000. And when the pageviews reached 5000, he heard the doorbell ringing:

“Weird”

Alex said to himself, while walking toward the door. He opened it, and he saw that there was no one outside…but there was a package on the floor. He took it, and he brought it inside. Alex opened it, wondering who sent it, and more important…

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“Now James...show us what you prepared”

The man in front of me said. One dance, one last dance...and my dream was going to become a reality, I couldn't fail....not in that moment. I was going to show them....that even a dragon can dance.

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by ~ben300, Nov 21, 2007, 12:36:00 PM
Literature / Prose / Fiction / Fantasy

My friend and I were walking in the streets. We spent almost the whole evening in the disco with our girlfriends. They were too drunk to stand, and so some friends brought them home. We decided to walk, because we were a little tipsy, and we wanted some fresh air.

“Wow Jack…I never saw Stacy so drunk in my life”

“That’s because you met her just a week ago”

“Whatever…”

We reached a small square. There was an old church in that place…it was very creepy, but since we were a little, tipsy…we both said:

“Cool…let’s take a look”

We went to the front door of the church, but before we could get in, and old man told us:

“I wouldn’t get in there if I were you”

We turned to the old man, and Jeff, my friend, said:

“Why not?”

The old man walked closer to us, and he said with his deep and slow voice:

“The church is haunted…people say that there are ghost in there that launch curses to the people who get in their house”

“Cool…that sounds great…come on Jack…let’s go investigate”

I was starting to get sober again, and I told him:

“I don’t think is a good idea…it’s late and…”

“Oh come on…are you a pussy or what?”

The old man stepped forward

“Listen to your friend…that place is evil”

“Shut up old man”

Jeff said, pushing him away. The old man felt, and rolled on the ground. When he got up, he told us angrily:

“You will regret your decision”

Then he walked away. Jeff turned toward me, and he said:

“Well…what are we waiting for?”

He opened the church’s main door, and walked in. I had no choice; I followed him.

The old man was right…there was something evil in that place; I could feel it. However, Jeff did not notice that, he was not sober yet. We walked toward the altar of the church; there was nothing on it and nothing anywhere…that happen to the abandoned place, what is abandoned…can be taken.

“Man…there’s nothing in this place…I thought that churches have gold stuff in it.”

“This place is abandoned….do you think that everything valuable was going to stay here? Now please…let’s go away”

“Not yet…maybe there’s some kind of secret passage down there”

He pointed at a small door.

“Now you’re being ridiculous”

“Come on…just a few minutes”

He walked toward the door, and I followed him. He opened it, revealing a very small room…the priest’s room.

“Ok…no secret passage…now we can…”

The door closed behind, leaving us in the darkness…since there was no window, and it was night. We did not speak for a long times…we were trying to realized what was just happened.

Then suddenly, I heard Jeff screaming.

“AH…IT BURNS…STOP IT!”

I could not see anything, so I searched for something to illuminate the room. I found what looked like an old lantern…and a somehow, I managed to light it. I turned toward Jeff, and I saw that his whole body was bleeding…there was blood everywhere…and his skin was being tear apart, revealing what looked like…black scales.

I tried to take a closer look, but suddenly I felt an immense pain in my whole body. I dropped the Lantern, and it broke. I could not see what was going on, but I could feel it. It was like having a thousand needles destroying my skin. I could not help but scream, and tear my skin apart, and with it my flesh. The pain was so much…that I blacked out after a while.

………

The time passed slower in the reign of my mind…I had no dreams…no emotions…nothing. I woke after a while…the first breath I took was like the benediction of god itself. I opened my eyes…scanning the environment. It was dark…but somehow…I could see. Every object in the room had a strange white fog around it, and I could perfectly see it.

I stood up, and I immediately felt something wrong in my body. I looked at my arms, and even if I could not see the color of my skin…I could see the shape of my hand. It has only three fingers; ending with deadly claws…Same with my feet.

My head was different too; I touched it, and it felt like a muzzle. I touched my teeth…they were no more teeth…but deadly fangs. I felt something protruding from my shoulders; I reached for it…there were like another pair of arms on my back…no…they were….wings. I felt something protruding from my tailbone too…I immediately realized that I had a tail.

After that…I knew what happened to me…it was clear…I turned into a dragon…a shadow dragon.

I looked around, and I saw another draconic creature lying on the floor…I assumed it was Jeff. I shook him…trying to wake him up. He jumped on his feet almost instantaneously, yelling:

“AH….GET AWAY, IT’S NOT MY FAULT”

“Jeff calm down…it’s me”

I grabbed him by the arm, and I shook him again. He calmed down, and he looked at me

“Jack? It’s that you?”

I left him

“I guess you should look at yourself…but please…stay calm”

………

Jeff panicked for a while at first…but then he calmed down…and he sat down on the floor.

“And now? What should we do? What should we tell our parents?”

“We will invent something…why don’t wee look at the positive aspects of the situation?”

I said sitting down too.

“For example?”

“Well…we can fly…scare people…see trough the darkness…and we are cool”

“That doesn’t help…”

“Well…I tried”

We did not talk for a few minutes. Then Jeff stood up, and he said:

“Well…we must at least try to find a way out of this situation”

I stood up too.

“Well…let’s try”

………

What happened in the following days was nearly unimaginable. We walked back home…and no one said nothing to us…just someone said: “Good costumes”. And when we went back home…we explained our parents the situation. Jeff parents revealed “dragon fanatics” and they were almost euphoric. My parents simply understood the situation and told me that they love me because of my soul…not my body.

And in the following days, we let the population know us…the shadow dragons. They accepted us…that were something that I never believed possible.

And so now we here…our life did not change so much, still our old life…but in a different body. But I was suspicious…why we had such an incredible luck?

I understood why a month after our transformation. We were suppose to make an exam that was going to decide our life…we prepared ourselves for a whole year. And you know what? We failed.

And in the end we went working in a fast food…cocking hamburgers with our flame breath…just to impress our clients.

So…DID YOU THINK THAT WE WERE LUCKY?

WRONG!