A Message from Brother

(Continued)

The announcement of my gender was making me have very mixed emotions, so I decided to set that aside and focus on the other bits of information first…apparently staying inside the egg was the right choice as I was able to rank up in only 1 year (only 11 months of which I was actually aware) this should be good, as it usually takes 10 years on the outside for those who are able to rank up to rank up…as most chose to hatch as fast as possible that is if they even have a choice because they must have a certain level of intelligence in order to even have the option. Curious I searched through my stat windows and found that one piece of information I had seen before…

Siblings:male:16female:8eggs:2 (male:1, female: 1)

Surprised to see one of my brothers had also elected to stay in egg I checked his stats, but other than staying in his egg nothing much about him seemed to have changed as he was still a brown dragon egg…which leads me to confirm that I was fast in ranking up. I looked outside, out of curiosity, using dream travel and saw my  brown siblings wobble around as they got used to their bodies, they also seemed unable to talk yet as they were mainly making kitten-like noises. My mother and father were there, for the special occasion and were happily watching and laughing at the antics of their offspring…I was also surprised to see several of my older siblings there as well: two green males, and one blue female.

I decided to look at the eggs of myself and my brother and was slightly shocked to see our new colors. Before we were both dull browns indistinguishable from the other eggs, now my egg was the greenish blue of the ocean with a slight metallic hint as if it were reflecting more sunlight then it was absorbing, my brother on the other hand although he didn’t officially rank up officially his brown was a far different hue than it  had been before he refused the hatching option, it was now a much richer chocolate brown with a smooth gleam that was similar to satin.

Curious to see if my other siblings were different compared to other (non-royal) dragons, I decided to also look at the more “common” hatching grounds for comparative information. I, out of curiosity had already seen them before, other than the room being a lot less private and fancy as well as  much more vast in size, it was not so different from the room where my egg rested…except maybe the ratio of servants to eggs was a lot smaller, though this was not a big deal as the amount of servants we had were probably somewhat overboard and excessive.

I soon saw that the majority of eggs there had also hatched. None of the ones that hatched were rank ups, but all the parents, siblings and friendly onlookers seemed very satisfied none the less, I learned from some gossipers that this was because luckily, to the point of miracles, this year no wyrms or impaired had been hatched. I wondered somewhat bashfully if this was partly because of my excistence, after all several of the skills I had learned had useful effects such as:

Lead by Example:

The best leaders do not even need to speak. Those with less leadership than you are effected by your current status; if you are healthy they are less likely to become unhealthy. They are also more likely to make the same or similar decisions as you. Effect increases if they are currently viewing you. Possible negative effects can be decreased and positive effects increased as long as your appearance is maintained during any negative status or your appearance is appropriate for your positive mood

Probably unwarrantably proud of myself I continued to watch my peers, only after comparing the majority to my newly hatched siblings did I even better come to understand the idea of “blood tells” compared to the majority them my siblings had been graceful, musical even beautiful. As expected most of them about 60-70% were males (what is with my luck?) there were also out of the hundreds of eggs only 5 that remained unhatched…though unlike my brother or I wouldn’t go so far as to call any of them beautiful… they all had slightly different colored hints in their browns and they weren’t quite so dull as they had been.

If you are curious as to why I have been avoiding the subject of my feelings for my new gender, it is because that is exactly what I was doing at the time…(that is avoiding thinking about it), I had decided to ignore it, sweep it under the rug, pretend it didn’t exist.

It is not like I had anything against women personally, it’s just, I didn’t have any desire want to be one either, obviously this was mostly because I was used to being a male. But there were other reasons, feelings of mine that go way back to the past. Where the experience of seeing all those fanatics who followed hero and who possessed no sense of self-worth was fresh on my mind.

However this was only the smaller part of the reason behind my feelings of reluctance. Yes they were disgusting, but my disgust was only directed towards them…I have never been one to let one bad apple or so spoil a bunch of them…I mean what a waste? You could easily take out the bad apple, and feed it to the pigs…and then wash and dry the others to make sure they wouldn’t go bad as well.

Eh sorry…my analogy got away from me a bit there, but basically I am saying I am never one to let my experience influence how I feel about something unreasonably. But basically throughout my entire life I have felt that that I didn’t really understand what it really means to be a what others thought a man should be, but because I was intelligent I could fake it and act like other "normal" males, but I have never once felt like I have fit in with other men. And men on the most part fairly easy to understand

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But woman on the other hand,  even though through necessity I have developed varies ways of dealing with women I have never even come close to even thinking I could understand them. If my male self of the past, had difficulty with emulating the simple straight forward expected behaviors of a manhood…how in the world am I supposed to be a woman?  

From the brief times I have spent with my sisters I know for a fact that being a woman is a very complex and difficult occupation, one that I don’t even want to attempt, especially on top of the fact that I am no longer human and I am having difficulties in learning my new culture. This difficulty in understanding is a big part of the reason I chose not to hatch as I felt I would like to learn more through observational, before I hatch and attempt to put things into practice...as what dragon instincts i might have were obviously corrupted by my ,though strange, human, memories.

Later on in the future after thinking about my situation for quite a while, I finally came to decide on my plan  of action. It was a simple plan where denial was key. I would no longer be bound by the rigors of gender…instead of thinking of myself as male or female I will simply think of myself as “me”, and thus hopefully avoid a lot of problems.

As to any potential romances I didn’t really see the problem…If I didn’t experience any extreme passion in my prior life when I was a guy, which is supposed to be the gender with the higher sex drive. Why should I have any problems now that I am no longer of that gender? My strange nature would probably come into play no matter what I was because from what I could tell who I was hadn't really changed in anyways except for the minor flesh trappings.

I watch the newly hatched for a little while longer, after gathering my information, but soon I grew bored and decided to then go back to sleep, this time utilizing my new skill deep sleeping.

5 years pass

A psychic tap, that my shells magic defenses easily blocks wakes me up, I then get a notification

Notice:

Your brother:[Name: N/A -Variant: brown dragon Rank: 2 (egg)] is trying to contact you.

After calculating your shell defense magic compared to his communication magic the following options of allowing, ignoring or blocking his communication are available.

Available Options :[accept][ignore][block]

Curious, I thought for a while and then decided to accept. His mind then reached mine, and began to communicate or more accurately attempt to communicate. Unlike myself he hadn’t quite become fluent in basic dragon language. In fact he was basically only able to send me emotions and "pictures". I had learned from my research that you had to have very high amounts of intelligence in order to become a true psychic  and they were very rare, however there was a brief exception, while in an egg with thick shell having, made it so that none of your senses were appeased but that of the mind … your mind would temporarily increase in power in order to compensate.

So most baby dragons had a large amount of mind sense or in other words a  slight  telepathic ability, allowing them to at least hear what was going on outside their shells and close to them. This mind sense was fairly weak and after hatching all the other senses acquired soon overwhelmed it so that most dragons lost most of their mind sense upon hatching.

I however apparently according the information I gathered was a true psychic; I was able to “see” very far outside my egg even without using dream travel or deep dreaming. And I was somewhat sure that when I hatched I would be able perhaps with a little practice to maintain the same level of mind sense. My brothers inability to use our language as well as his fragile weak mind sense (and my having to bridge the gap) soon gave me a head ache so I formulated a theory and decided to test it out on him. I put into practice my theoretical steps in order to  initiate a mind link.

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I want to warn/inform you guys. This is the last chapter (at least the last in chronological order) in which I have already completed since the beginning. Thus I have no clue how long it will take for me to write the next ones. So there may be a bit of a gap between this chapter and the next ones.

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PLEASE READ THIS: "The Forum Post of Doom" is a side story, the characters portrayed in it are minor characters you won't see until the next volume. I have updated the names of the side story pages to clearly say: Side Story. They and the other characters that will be shown in the side stories will mainly be used as ways to give more information or background gradually with out me having to do big info dumps. I was thinking about putting it in the prologue but the prologue was already so long already plus the timelines didn't mesh...so in the end it ended up as the first chapter.