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GRAAAAAAHH !!!! ....
HURTS ! Everything hurts !
What is going on ?!? ... Well i can at least move , lets see why am i in so much pain ... were my scales always this small and ... spiky ? Were there always so many of them ? What is going on ? Is my neck longer ? ... Alright , move you overgrown lizard ... yeah , moving makes the pain go away , so move some more Tramas . Move till the pain goes away ... why am i so stiff everywhere ? Better move to limber up my body and get rid of all these pains and aches ...
Aaahhhh , bit better , wait . Were my claws this ... i don't know , shiny ? They look a bit stronger . What are all these scratches on the stone under me ? Was i always able to scratch stone ? ... Nope ! Not that i can remember , i could not scratch any stone , ever . Heh , maybe i grown stronger , hehe ... Heh , i wish , probably just some weird softer stone and i didn't notice when i went to sleep .
Yeah ! That must have been it ! Just weak stone and yesterday i hunted too much ! That's why i am hurting all over . After all you don't grow overnight ! It takes time for body to grow stronger so i must be just tired and sleepy because i overdid it yesterday ... Yeah , that must be it ! ... Even my memory must be jumbled because of pain and hunger , yeah ! I am actually quite hungry ... more like famished , damn . Better to find me a morsel to gulp down.
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So Tramas went hunting and put the changes his body went through out of his mind . He quickly found his prey , his favourite scalehoof and caught it with ease even though his body was still in pain . But even if the scalehoof was not the biggest , he was still hungry after he devoured it completely . So on another hunt he went and easily sniffed out another , caught and ate it , but something was wrong . He was still hungry . By the time he devoured the third catch of the day , he knew something had to have changed.
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What the hell ???? How am i THIS hungry ?!? I guess overdoing it with my hunts might be it , but it was never THIS easy to catch them . Are scalehoofs in this area weaker ? Smaller or something ? Are they sick ? .... Hopefully not ! I dont want to catch some weakness sickness from them if that is the case . Or are they simply younger ? Maybee ...
Welp , no matter , i have to go on .... lets see now if i can find something bigger or i might be in trouble if i have to hunt this much everyday . Although i am getting better at this am i not ? Yeah ! I am stronger ! Hehe .
Oh ! A spiketail ! .... Is it smaller ? ... Alright , no more of this stupidity , its not that everything is smaller , i AM bigger ! ... But how ? As far as i know , dragons do not get stronger overnight ! Nothing does ! How did i grown overnight though ? Was it my overhunting ? Was that why i was in so much pain in the morning ? ... And now that i think about it , there was a weird voice in my head again , what did it say again ? ...
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GRAAAAAAHHHH !!!!! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT !?! WHO SAID THAT ??? ....
SHOW YOURSELF !!!! ... Nothing , what was that ?!? ... Growth threshold ? Did i really grown overnight ? Am i stronger now ? And why would that weird voice congratulate me ? This is creepy , i don't like it one bit ! ... But what can i do about it ? ... Nothing ... Welp ! Lets see if i am really stronger and try to finish this spiketail without catching its tail ... i am going to regret this , am i not ? ... shit ...
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So Tramas went to the spiketail without any sneaking or real plan , just slowly walk to his prey an fight it with raw strength of a dragon . Of course , the creature easily spotted Tramas and turned towards him , started hissing and backing off , but seeing that Tramas did not even flinch and continued towards it , it stopped and dug its legs in , ready to fight . When Tramas was in easy distance to lunge towards it , he did and was almost surprised how quickly he closed the distance . He swung his right front paw and was astonished to see couple scales and some blood fly from spiketailes face . Of course this astonishment allowed spiketail to retaliate and hit Tramas on his shoulder with his tail . Feeling pain he broke out of his astonishment , reared up on his hind legs and with full weight of his front body and both of his front paws dropped on spiketails neck . What Tramas expected was to stun the creature . What he did not expect was for his claws to break the spiketails scales and plunge right into its neck and spine . Tramas was very astonished when spiketail immediately dropped dead . He took two steps back and simply watched the dead spiketail for couple of minutes.
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... Heh , That happened ! I really did get stronger , didn't i ? ... Welp , this will make me grow stronger faster , no ? I should hunt more spiketails , since they are not so dangerous anymore ... OH ! I have to remove the spikes from my shoulder ... there are none ! HOW ! Are my scales stronger too ? OH ! So i didn't imagine all of that in the morning , i really am bigger and stronger , faster too , am i smarter too ? How should i test that ? .... No ! If anything , i am stupider , i cannot believe i just stood in front of that spiketail and took that hit like an idiot ! Really ?!? What the hell was i thinking ? If it hit me in the eye , i would be half blind ! Get your shit together , Idiot !!! ... Wait , where are all these words my parents didn't teach me coming from ? Where did i hear them , since i am sure my parents did not teach them to me ! ... Neither mama nor papa ever swore in front of me ! I am sure of that ! ... HOW DO I EVEN KNOW WHAT SWEARING IS THEN ?!? ... GRRRRR !!! What is going on with my head ? What the shit is going on ?!? ...
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I am scared ... am i really going insane ? ... How can i tell if i am ? ...
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haaaaaaahh . No matter , once i find my parents they can fix whatever is wrong with me , i am sure of that . They are after all glorious , huge , powerful , magnificent dragons ! I know they are the best in the world ! And that is the absolute truth ! Yeah ! They can do anything , so i just have to find them , and after they fix whatever is wrong with me , we can be happy together again for ever and ever ! YEAH !
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Little did Tramas know , that there was nothing wrong with him . Simply a rare occurrence in the world happened to this little dragon and now he will have to live with it . At least it will make his goal to be strongest dragon easier and maybe it will even help him on his quest to find his family . But his knowledge of new words is strange , are the two somehow connected ? How will the world react to a dragon with not only unnatural power , but knowledge too ? Will he be welcomed as a being of magnificent power and liked by worlds inhabitants ? Will he be shunned as clearly dangerous creature ? Will he be loved ? Hated ? Both ? ... Time will tell .