The night wasn't as good as it used to be. The main reason is because I was very conscious of Glop.
“Damn it why the hell am I so flustered!” I shout to myself in my head.
Most of the night, just like before, Glop and Peach would normally hug me and I’d do the same back to them. Before they were nice and squishy but now they are less squishy, and more human like. The texture of the body is still slime-like, and my best guess is that they would turn into a puddle if they received a blunt impact. His body is firm if a little bit squishy.
To keep my mind off from it, I at least had the pleasure of holding Glop's tail, which became even squffier than before. The strange furry feeling was even better now as if the slime was actually covered in it. The tail itself was squffy only until a certain point where it became firm like the body, which means that it’s his tailbone part, and the "fur" of the tail is covering that body part of him.
I was able to get some sleep but only after a frustratingly long time.
When I finally woke up, Glop was looking down at me.
He smiled when I woke up.
"Morning… master. Sleep… well?" He asked and I nodded fully awake and shocked to see him looking down.
"Good… love… Master." he said and leaned in but before he could get even half way I unsummoned him.
"Nice morning wake up hehehe." Kumi said as she looked at me upside down from the top bunk.
I was beet red, embarrassed and my heart exploded, I died.
Fin.
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"Hehe, you are acting just like my sister was when she found her boyfriend." Kumi says, looking at me. Suddenly she gasps and becomes wide eyed before flying down and stops hovering in the air with sparkling eyes.
"What?" I asked but instantly regretted it.
"Don't tell me you love your slimes!" She said excited.
“NO WAY!” I instantly made a heavy wind blow her back and jumped out of bed. But she was a better wind mage than I was, so she was only pushed back a bit before stopping my spell.
I was pouting red faced, and ignored her as I got dressed in my school uniform.
I leave without looking back, though she quickly runs after seeing me leave.
“Don’t pout like that. It makes you… wait… you actually look cuter pouting like that.” She says, making me glare at her.
I coat my legs with mana and quickly run away. Reaching the cafeteria with Kumi flying behind me with a grin on her face.
I glare at her while I get my breakfast and then find a seat next to Stephanie which had only one seat to spare.
“AH~! So mean Kuroko!” She complained but went and sat two seats away on the other side of the table.
I looked over to my huggy who was just looking at us confused. When she looked over at Kumi I reached over, grabbed her head, and began petting her chin and sensitive ears.
“KYAA!! K-k-k-k-kuroko S-stop MHHH AHH~~!” She pants as I pet her. “WHY~~!” She shouts as she melts in my hands.
“Healing.” I mutter and enjoy petting the elf princess until I feel comfortable and let her go. Her head drooped on the table while she trembled.
“You seem agitated.” Owen said.
“That’s because she got flustered with Glop who looks more like a human now.” Kumi said with a mischievous grin which caused me to glare at her.
The others looked at me with a grin and I was forced to listen to all the teasing like “Ah~! Little Kuroko is growing up.” which came from Emily which left her in the same state as Stephanie.
When they finally shut up it was time to go to class so I summoned Rama and went ahead so I wouldn’t have to listen to them making fun of me.
The classroom looked much better than before. It was completely remade with a new wooden floor. The walls which were stone before were covered with drywall.
I go and feel the walls, and as I expected it really was similar to it. Must be the result of the school being partially destroyed so they brought in new technologies to make the school more modern on the inside.
The tables were the same though so I went and took the seat I normally sat in. The class only had three other students attending since it was still so early, and I could hear the voices of the students walking through the corridors.
Soon enough the class began to fill up and the others arrived and much to my annoyance they had prepared lots of stuff to say but luckily at the same time Professor Solace entered calling for everyone to get seated. His cold tone didn’t change one bit and it caused everyone to quickly sit into an orderly row.
“Seems everyone is okay after the “incident” we had. The entire school had taken damage and as you know we had to take more time off than we expected so you all got more time off, but now that we have returned we need to get moving because we are behind our previous schedule so let's begin.” He said in the same monotone cold tone of his.
As such class began as it had always but unlike other classes, I noticed something that distracted me for a while. Not just me but also others, by which I mean the whole class.
“Oi oi princess what is this boring place! Let’s go back to the pond so you can help us. Oi HEY! LET ME GO!!”
Yep as you can guess, Momo and Mini appeared in my class and have been pestering us and just now Professor Solace had grabbed Momo by the wings.
“Child, is this one of your dungeon beasts?” he asked in a cold tone.
“No sir, they came about because of the magic power I imparted into my dungeon mixed with lots of other conditions to which I have no idea what they are and are free willed beings.” I said in an equally cold tone.
“HEY LET ME GO YOU STUPID SPIRIT WANNABE!” She shouted and we all paled.
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An evil grin appeared on his face as he put her at eye level, he began to say with the coldest tone we’ve ever heard from him, making us shiver from the sheer coldness.
“Did you know, it was once said that discarded fairy wings are actually an amazing alchemy agent. I practice the craft a bit so I wonder what I can do with such a rare alchemy agent.” He said making the little fairy pale.
“I’m sorry, great sir please don’t hurt me because my wings help me channel magic and it will be almost impossible to return home without them.” She said very scared.
“Oh is that so. Good to know.” He said and let go. “Remain quiet during class or simply leave because you are a disturbance. If you remain, at least don’t make a sound.” He says and returns to pass the subject he teaches.
I picked up Mimi and put her on my shoulder before getting back to work.
“Your… highness…” Mimi began before I raised my index finger towards her to quiet her.
“Call me Kuroko, I'm not a princess.” I say in a quiet voice and then go back to copying what the professor was passing for Magic studies.
“...Miss...kuroko… why are… you here?” Mimi asked.
“To study and grow strong.” I replied then shushed her. At around 10 am the two fly off towards the dungeon field and at noon we finally get some time for ourselves as we go eat.
After this class I had Tamer class and so those who had it with me headed off to the field but what met us there made us swallow hard.
Sitting at the far corner of the field yet covering at least 60% of it with her body was a gigantic golden scaled queen dragon.
Most of the students stopped about 100 meters away from the field and me, Asher and the others that do taming were here.
The amazon that was my demon of a teacher was casually chatting with the queen who was chuckling. The vibrations could be felt at this distance. Breaking my sight from the queen I looked around and noticed how around the queen there were many hatchlings crawling over her body or around her.
“Seems the rumors were true. Seems we will be caring for the dragons to help repopulate them.” I said making all the others break their eyes from the dragon queen and look around.
Instantly the dragon and the amazon looked our way as it was time to start class.
“All you brats get over here now!” The amazon shouted, scaring everyone into motion.
Me and Asher reached her first and stood there like soldiers one beside the other. The aura of intimidation the dragon gave off was even stronger close up but I felt more scared of Belladona.
The others arrived soon after and lined up behind us equally as soldiers. After six months Belladona has put fear in everyone.
“Okay brats, I'm here today because we needed someone to properly introduce you to the dragon queen. This is Queen Ramoth, she is known as a grand queen gold dragon and is the queen of all dragons on Othenia.” The amazon says making us gulp before hearing a rumbling from the dragon.
“Do not scare the kids, Belladona.” A mature female voice said as the dragon dropped her head down and rested it on the ground sideways to look at us with her huge yellow slitted eye.
“I see two of the gods blessed ones are going to be dragon trainers too. Huh… the fairy blessing.” She muttered before a grin appeared on her face. She suddenly laughed, the laughing from her grew until she lifted her head and let out a deafening roar almost making us nauseous from the sound.
When she looked back at us, she lowered her head with her eyes glowing.
“W-w-wh-at does she w-w-want with m-me?” I asked.
“Your blessing and the boys are going to make unique dragons, child. Tell me, are there more blessed children?” she addressed Belladona-sensei.
“Yes, all five had children with blessings amazingly as it sounds.” She said
“Bring them all here. I shall not lose such a chance to possess powerful children.” She said.
Belladona sighed and asked for a few kids to go find them.
“Can we proceed?” She asked.
“Yes.” The dragon said. She turned to the dragons and grumbled, making all the little dragons jump off and glide down in front of the kids.
“Now choose the child you wish to go with. But you can’t choose if someone has one but if you beat them you can take their place.” The queen says.
Instantly the dragon hatchlings ran forward and cautiously walked forward and started sniffing us. Maybe it was as a kind of checking with feelings, but many passed us and went to those behind, but me and Asher still had at least 10 that duked it out to get us as their trainer. The winner for me was a dark green scaled female hatchling. I knew it was female because they are larger than males. As for their current size, it was about the size of an adult cat, domestic ones.
Asher’s was a male with dark scarlet almost black. The male dragon won by waiting and pouncing on the “winner”, stealing the winner title from her.
The “losers” moved on until all the students had a hatchling and all the remaining hatchlings had lost.
Moments after the three remaining royal family arrived with the three students that went to get them. The fight broke out again as six more hatchlings got a partner.
“Seems everything is decided.” The queen said.
“Wait! Why is this hatchling following us as well?” Owen asked.
“I would never lose the chance for all five gathered royal family members with the blessings to train a hatchling. With this, variant hatchlings will be born from your partners. Take care of them well.” The queen said not accepting any refusal. “Now children the contract.” She said and instantly a strange black screen appeared.
Dragon Contract
Due to the danger of going extinct the dragons have searched for proper trainers to raise the hatchlings. You have been given the chance to raise an unnamed hatchling. Due to circumstances you cannot deny this contract.
Magic Link formed with Dragon Hatchling. This contract makes the hatchling a companion but not a pet. They will adhere to your orders by their own will.
You possess a divine blessing. Because of this your magic power holds the power of the blessing. Due to the Magic link the dragon hatchling has begun to feed on fairy magic power and has changed into a fairy dragon hatchling.
Just as sudden as all these screens were read, the dragon hatchling in front of me began glowing just like the other four royal family members.
When the glow subsided the small dark green dragon had completely changed. The body shape was the same but now it’s scaly body was sleek with the scales really small and smooth. Color remained dark green but now all around the body was a single winding vine that ended at a glowing mystical tip that was releasing a glowing pollen. The legs and back had the same glow. The previous pair of dragon wings had transformed into a pair of long fairy wings that had the bone and muscle near the top part, the same as normal dragons, with the skin transparent and glowing. Below these two were smaller wings that looked just the same. On the head the spikes and horns extended were giving off the same purplish glow the scales were giving, while the two largest horns turned into what looked like wings similar to the real wings.
The hatchling examined herself, spread her wings, jumped up and glided around me landing on my shoulder as she wrapped her tail around my neck and rubbed her head against my cheek.
“She seems to like you little one.” The queen says. “As do all the others.”
She looked at the others. Looking to the side is Asher’s dragon that has turned into a pure black dragon, Stephanie’s turned into a nature dragon, Owen’s turned into a demon dragon, and Nova’s red dragon turned into a shining gold dragon.
Ramoth grinned seeing the five unique dragons.
“This is the rebirth of such unique and powerful dragons. You children let us return home. And you who formed a contract, grow strong for we are the power that guards this sacred land, so we must be powerful to protect.” She says and after the hatchlings climbed onto her back she stood up and began flying off
We were all still stunned by what just happened and couldn’t really process what was going on but all that was caught up when Belladona called out.
“HEY THE DRAGON IS GONE SO GET TO YOUR OWN CLASS!”
The yell surprised us all and when we looked at the target we found our taming class teacher hiding behind a tree trembling.
“I-its gone.” she said and sighed with relief and came out looking at the skies. It was only after she saw all the hatchlings that she froze up after having come so close. Her body was so tense that it was only after several moments we realized she fainted because Belladona went over and poked her, making her collapse.
“Good grief. Class dismissed, this class is free period to get to know your dragons. They can’t talk yet but will learn the more you talk with them.” Belladona said before tossing the teacher over her shoulders and taking her off to the infirmary.
We could only stare a while before bursting out laughing at what we just saw.
“We should get going. See you later.” Owen said followed by the others who have their own classes to attend. For the rest of the time we spent time with the dragons.