I’ll tell you if there is anything to wake you up from passing out it would be a FUCKING DRAGON! I mean what else would be a normal response to literally seeing the peak of fantasy creatures! A creature so recognizable that even a blind person could take one look and know what it is. Ok, I might be going a little over the top with that last analogy, but it gets my point across.

As I stood there before its looming figure, I was able to make out more details about it. Even with what I could only see through the glaring light, I was able to see the sheer size of this monstrosity. It was so large I could barely even comprehend it, covered in thick scales and barbs. And rested upon its head sprouted two horns that bowed upward towards the sky seemingly piercing it. It was a beast of war and destruction, every curve and muscle made for one thing: absolute domination.

Stunned,I watched as it began to raise its head and its eyes locked onto mine. Its gaze stared into my very soul, they were filled with confidence and arrogance. It knew where it stood in the hierarchy of species, the apex.

The dragon then began to open its mouth and roared. And asreality itself shattered into glass shards, my body finally gave out on itself.

I was unconscious but also awake. I couldn’t see anything, I felt trapped inside my own body with my only companion being the specks red and gold swirling all around me.

“So we’re back to the light thingy again,” I spoke outloud. “I’m getting pretty tired of them.”

“Well, I wouldn’t get tired of them so soon young one, seeing that they are a part of you and a pretty important one at that,” spoke a voice with a booming chuckle.

“What the fuck!” I shouted startled out of my thoughts.

“Oh, I see how this could be startling to you, let’s fix this environment.”

As the voice spoke again, I felt a tap on my forehead, what felt like a finger pressing on my temple. My environment immediately underwent change as the darkness and lights disappeared to be replaced by sunlight. Yes, sunlight, the very thing I haven’t seen in what feels like a forever. It took a second for my eyes to adjust to my newly found surroundings.

A grand hall. With ceilings so high I couldn’t make out where they ended, maybe they never did? The grand hall wasn’t decorated in finery or art but seemed quite plain. Don’t let that fool you as the very walls and pillars gave off the aura of ancient times.

“How was this place constructed and how old is this place, it seems thousands of years old,” I thought in awe.

“Try millions little one,” spoke the voice. It was familiar, it was the same voice that had spoken to me seconds earlier.

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I turned my head towards where the voice was coming from. I took one glance and sprinted away. I have never ran so fast in my life, but hey when you turn and see a freaking DRAGON. One so large that you can’t make out its whole body in your view you turn and run like hell. Yep, I had found the dragon that I had glimpsed before I passed out.

As I was booking it out of there and running as far away as I could get, I heard a sigh behind me.

“You know you aren’t going anywhere, right?”

After it spoke, I realized that the distance between me and it hadn’t increased at all, it was still there looming, towering over me.

“Well now I just feel stupid,” I thought.

“Don’t feel too bad most mortals just collapse after getting a good look at me. The fact you are even still standing and was even able to run is puzzling,” the dragon spoke out with a tinge of bewilderment in its tone. “I believed that I would have had to talk to you in another form to have even the slightest of conversations with you. What a pleasant surprise,” he spoke in a cheerful tone. “But for simplicity’s sake and maybe even your sanity I believe we shall converse in a better form for you to grasp.”

As it finished speaking, the dragon simply vanished from my view and ten feet away stood an older man. Seemingly in his mid-sixties, he gave off an aura of ancientness contrary to his appearance. The man stood at an impressive six foot five inches, towering over me.

“Are you, you know...?” I gestured behind him at where the massive dragon had been towering over the hall.

“Yes, that was me. As I spoke, I am simply conversing with you in my human form to make this conversation easier for the both of us. Let us start this all over, without any running this time please. I am Alder, may I know your name, small one?” the dragon, apparently named Alder, asked.

“My name is Grant, Grant Parker,” I managed to stutter out, still frightened, and terrified about, well, everything.

“I am confused about one thing if you would be able to help me understand?” asked Alder in a humorous tone.

“Yes,” I stammered out. “What do you want to know?”

His face turned serious. “How did you manage to get here?” he questioned in a deep voice.

“Actually, I don’t quite understand myself,” I managed to get out after a second. I was slowly acclimating to my situation. “I was skydiving and suddenly I wasn’t,” I shrugged. “I was taken into a dark void that had all these light thingies. Then I saw an outline of what I guess was you and voila! I came here,” I explained to Alder.

“Hmm. Quite interesting, I noticed that something had entered my sight, but I would have never expected it to be something like you.”

“Okay, first ouch,” I said, offended. “And secondly, how the heck did you manage to see me in whatever dark tunnel I was in?” I asked, confused.

“Not only did I see you but I also brought you over so we could have our little chat,” Alder replied jokingly.

“How did you manage to do that?” I asked.

“Oh, it was simple,” Alder said waving his hand in a dismissively. “Just grabbed you out of a small subspace, nothing to worry about.”

“Lots of questions. What is a subspace? How are you able to just grab me out of one? And lastly, where am I?” I quickly rattled off a series of questions in a panicked frenzy. I was beginning to panic as everything was too much and not normal at all.

“Well, I won’t elaborate on that first question since that would take too long. But you are in my home,” Alder spoke as he gestured around him to the massive hall.

“Okay, I get that, but why am I here? I’m just a normal kid,” I shouted. I was really beginning to freak out with the situation I was in.

“Yeah, I was about to get to that,” Alder spoke as his entire body released a wave of power and aggression. Then Alder, in a threatening and bloodlust-filled tone, asked, “I would like to know how you appear to be one of my kind, Dragonkind.”