Blood entered my eyes after I had stabbed him in the throat with my pencil, I was dying with six inch knife in my gut. My only regret was me not killing the trash before he had gave a severe head wound to my mom. Her belly was bulging from her pregnancy with my unborn little sis. “chough” Vomiting up blood as my vision dimmed I wished I could have seen my little sis growing up and being her big bro. I guess I will not have that chan…
Darkness, warmth, and wetness surrounded me. I guess this is death, funny I thought death resulted in either eternal flaming tormenting, or if you are somebody good, living up in the sky among clouds and behind golden gates. Maybe it’s purgatory? Eehhh…. I …. seem to be …. falling into … slumber….
Light, sounds other then that repeated da-bump, da-bump. Huh, why are there giants around me? Wait, no they’re not big, I’m small! ???? “pass over my child you two.” A woman? As the two men turned me around (one had some really odd pointed ears and dyed hair) I saw the second woman I would call mother for my foreseeable future. Snow-white hair and pale skin, with blood red reptilian eyes that could cause even the bravest man to shudder, six jet black horns with two looking like a big horn sheep’s horn and the other four like an goat’s. A face like a sculpture’s and a model’s body to match it, finally with a devilish black tail that swung around in the air.
10 years past by …
I acted like a normal child during my infancy or I tried to at any rate. My new mother was called Snow Pendragon and she named me Yggdrasil Pendragon with me taking her surname as my own, she also had two husbands an elf and a human. Supposedly one was my father though whenever I asked they kind of skirted the question. My race took after my mom's I was born a Incubus/Dragon hybrid with the infliction of vampirism. I had thought me being a vampire would result in me being nocturnal regardless of whether I wanted to or not, but luckily my nature as an Incubus counteracts my weakness to the sun and light based magic in general. I often spent my spare time curled up in a corner with a good book and read many informational ones as well. Interestingly, the culture was not matriarchal as I had initially thought, instead it was based more on merit. Typically a person that had high talent and/or achievements became a noble for helping the country, never because you born the child of a noble. Furthermore marriages were based on love with the stronger or higher ranking gender becoming the harem king/queen and multiple people of the opposite gender. Meaning my mother was the one with higher merit in the marriage.
One of the most astonishing things I discovered that this “world” is a sub-dimension to Earth, and the portal’s entrance was suprisingly positioned in “Area 51” of the continental United States. I had fallen out of my favorite chair I was sitting in at the time. Afterwards I had asked my mother about Earth acting like I had never heard of it before, much less living my previous life on the planet. My mother then practically beamed at my question and went on like a excited puppy that found a new playmate “Son, Earth is an interesting place with many stories, an equally advanced technology, and yet no magic known to most humans. Their bigger governments know about the sub dimensions like ours and many try to establish friendly connections with those that live in them. Humans are the only publicly known sentient species there but some other species live there undercover as part of a cultural learning program among other things. Our realm is in relations with the United States Government as equals, not superiors. We the proud people of the empire of Aurora did not want to conquer their land nor did we want to colonize them. So we opened diplomatic relations with them. I myself am the chief diplomat in charge of relations with them!” Later I had asked about if I could go to the U.S. sometime, and she told me to focus on my illusion magic along with my shape shifting magic too. If I did that and could transform instantly into a human appearance, I could not only go but also live there if I wanted to. One of the things I could never get used to was how magic and technology worked hand in hand as part of everyday life. I myself was training my body since practically infancy so it could handle more mana and store it. I did this under a supervised Spartan training schedule made by my mom. As far as illusion magic went I had increased my skill to encompass the ability to fool my opponents as to where I was. My shape shifting magic on the other side of the spectrum was rather poor with the only form I had trained was the human one but it took time to do, a possible risk neither me nor my mother would allow in a situation where I need to be able to appear human at any time. Of course besides my default and human forms I could transform into my dragon form and a bat form as well thanks to my innate racial attributes. But I had yet at the time to instantly be able to switch between my normal form with the red dragon eyes and whatnot to my human form. Yet today after all that practice I had finally been able to do so.
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My mother seeing the transformation was rather proud looking and causally stated “now that you have mastered transforming into a human appearance you will go to your distant tenth cousin Aria Pendragon in Virginia, she lives nearby an town called Lune with no one to keep her company so she would make a great teacher for what you need to know. (Lucky!, I had worried that I would not have been able to visit my first mom’s grave and pray for her to rest in peace. Instead my temporary guardian actually lives in the same place! … Should I be worried it seems to be too convenient?)