While everyone in the cave was asleep Cora’s mother had finally returned from her outing. The first thing she had noticed was the large crater that Zach was in as well as the faint sweet smell of blood. She did a double take and sent her senses into his body.
‘This little bastard achieved such perfection!’ She stood there dumbfounded for a couple minutes before she noticed Gart laying next to the crater. Gart had grown already, his transformation wasn’t over yet but he had still evolved from his original form. Now he was slightly larger than his mother had been before and a faint wisp of origin energy could be sensed in his body. With the one feeding he had consumed enough to evolve into a demonic beast.
“And what are you little one?” She mused. Being a beast herself she was immediately fond of the little guy. She could feel the two main blood lines that resided in his body. The most shocking thing was how prominent the blood lines were. It wouldn’t be far fetched to say that Gart could have been a member of the true dragons or tiger clan with his bloodlines. The fact that he was on this backwater world was surprising to say the least.
After studying the cub she went to find Cora. Naturally Cora was asleep in her bed completely nude. Now being a beast Cora didn’t care about nudity so she often went around naked and her mother didn’t care. Now things were different. There was a male human in the cave and she needed to explain certain things to avoid any unwanted incidents in the future. Sadly an incident had already happened.
Another reason to talk to her daughter about this was because both Zach and Cora had entered puberty recently. Zach should have entered puberty much earlier but due to his body failing from the pure yang energy his body had halted the puberty process. This alone was shocking due to his size. Cora on the other had had just hit 100 years old so she had finally become a pubescent dragon. All these hormones would cause them to react completely different from their normal selves.
Cora’s mother lightly shook her awake.
“Mmmm.” She groaned trying to wake up. It was always hard to rouse a sleeping dragon.
“Cora we need to talk.”
“Wha?” she asked deliriously.
“Did you realize that you had turned 100 recently?”
“Yea.” She sat up in her bed.
“Remember that talk I told you we would need to have?”
“Yea.” Mow she was alert. She felt that something was wrong.
“Well… just listen for a moment. Now after a dragon turns a century old their body goes through changes. As a woman you will get your monthly and chemicals in your body will make you act differently than you used to be. You will become more irritable and lash out at things that irritate you. Particularly Zach. Since he is a male you will feel much more anger towards him. I don’t know why that’s just how it is. He is also going through his puberty as well which will make him notice your body even more. Now I know he would never try to do anything with you but other men probably would.
“The talk about mating that we had is what the others would try and force on you. It is a cruel and disgusting thing but it does happen. So to try and stop any unintended incidents from occurring I want you to constantly wear at least a dress while in your human form. Remember that this has nothing to do with you doing something wrong but just trying to follow the ways of this world. I wish it was different but sadly this is what we have to deal with.”
Cora’s face instantly became shocked as she realized what had happened. “Um… mother something already happened.”
Instantly her mother went into a rage thinking that Zach had forced himself on her daughter. She immediately stormed out to kill the little shit.
Cora watched as her mother stormed off before it finally clicked in her head that her mother had taken her words wrong. “Mother!” She shouted out.
“I’m gonna kill him for what he did.” Her mother shouted back.
“No! Mom!” She tried to call her back. If she didn’t stop her mother than Zach would really die now.
No matter what she shouted nothing stopped her mother. Cora knew that her mother hated being called by her name from her daughter so that was exactly what Cora did. “Dragora!”
Dragora came to a dead stop. “What did you just say?” as she turned around to her daughter.
“Mom listen. I hurt Zach not the other way around.”
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It dawned on Dragora’s face that she had over reacted. Now she just wanted to know what had happened. “Explain.” She said curtly.
“Ok so here’s what happened. I was taking a bath when he walked in on me. His eyes scoured my body as if he was seeing me for the first time. I didn’t like it so I chased him and smashed him into the ground. I destroyed all his bones in the process and felt a little bad for being so excessive so the crater I had created with his body was used for the blood pool. I’m sorry mother I shouldn’t have nearly killed him.”
Dragora sighed heavily. “It’s fine. You had no idea and honestly I would have done the same. Now that I think about it you did really good actually.”
“Huh?” Cora was stumped.
“Hahaha. Oh the look on your face is priceless! OK ok ok. See I would have probably actually killed him but you didn’t so that was good. Next you actually put him into the best possible state for his level of cultivation! You not only helped him pass the cultivation level he was at but made it so he had completely perfected the blood and bone stage to an extent that I have never seen before! Truly amazing! Hahahaha!” She cackled.
Cora shook her head and started to walk away. Her mother was too odd, even for her. As they both headed towards the house Zach had slowly started to exit the crater. He had of course been awake for the whole conversation but smartly decided to wait until now to show himself. Lucky for him both women had been completely distracted so they had no idea otherwise he probably would have been beaten again.
Dragora turned back first. “Congratulations Zach on your breakthrough. Next we will toughen your skin. This will be a long process so be prepared.” She was now extremely formal as she saw Zach as a business transaction for the most part.
Zach said nothing as he stared at Cora again and yes she was still naked. Cora turned back to Zach when she heard his name and froze as soon as she saw the stupid look on his face. It took maybe a half of a second to realize she was naked again. Her face turned crimson as she ran over and kicked him in the face with a flying leap. His body rocketed back into the cave wall and Cora ran to the house to put something on.
Dragora laughed silently as she went to pluck Zach out of the wall. Thankfully his boned were so sturdy now that nothing broke or got injured in anyway. After being liberated Zach dusted himself off.
“Well that went better than last time.” He said.
“Yea… probably going to happen a lot actually. Damn girl always forgets things and since clothes are new to her and she doesn’t care for them in the least you will probably leave silhouettes of your body throughout all the rock in this world! Hahaha!” She cackled.
‘Fuck that is going to suck. Gotta be more careful.’ He thought. “So what do we do now for skin thickening?”
“Well we have a couple options and we will probably do all of them. The first thing will be burning you with fire. Now it sounds terrible, which it is, but the skin will naturally recover. I’m going out on a limb here but I believe that the pure Yang energy that I feel coursing through you now will heal you extremely quickly. Also I know that the vitality in your blood could heal a deep laceration in a matter of seconds.”
“Wait you’re not sure!” He exclaimed.
“Eh. It’ll be fine. Don’t worry so much.” She said as she waived him off.
“Well fine but can I at least eat something first?”
“Sure! I know that I for one am starving after all the antics today.”
They walked back to the house and had a large meal. Cora joined them and refused to look Zach in the eyes as her face turned redder and redder throughout the meal. Gart was still undergoing his transformation next to the crater outside.
Once done they checked on Gart again and found him wrapped in a cocoon that looked like a giant fleshy boulder. Excitement coursed through everyone as they wondered about how he would transform. Not many would be able to experience something so interesting after all.
As they kept walking they went to the training arena. “Sit in the middle Zach.” Dragora said.
He sat down slightly nervous. “Ok were going to transform and breath our fire at you to help you thicken your skin.” Dragora said. She and her daughter walked away behind the 10000 pound boulder to transform.
They lumbered back in their dragon forms. Cora had grown and was now an easy 12 feet tall and 30 feet long from snout to tail because she had advanced to the next stage of her growth. Her mother was monstrously huge. Easily 150 feet tall and 400 feet long their wing span couldn’t be determined since they were folded along their bodies, a good guess would be 400 feet for Dragora and 50 feet for Cora.
Dragora stopped in front of Zach. “Close your eyes and enter a meditative state. I will know when you’re ready.” He closed his eyes and swiftly went into a deep meditative state. Thanks to his intense martial intent he had easily entered the meditative state.
With a deep breath Dragora exhaled her flames and bathed Zach in it. The smell of burning flesh quickly filled the cave as his flesh constantly melted and reformed. His pure Yang energy was flowing at an extreme pace and sped up his healing process rapidly.
Once Dragora ran out of breath and energy Cora took over. Cora’s flame was much weaker than her mothers so Zach’s body was able to focus more on changing his skin rather than just trying to heal. This process of rotation went on for about 3 hours until they were both too exhausted to continue.
The baptism in fire was greatly beneficial for him. His skin had at first rapidly went up to the small success stage in skin thickening. As he came out of his trance he could feel that his skin had the defensive properties of thick leather but still was as flexible as it was in the beginning. Actually he could be said to be more flexible, which seemed like it shouldn’t be possible. He could only wonder at the complexities of the human body as it traveled along the path to defy the heavens.
Back besides the crater the fleshy cocoon that Gart was in slowly started to tear open.