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ϡ - Chapter Seventeen; in which one becomes a dragon [action]

[ Anyone in the vicinity of Community Housing 7 will, at that moment, hear a very loud roar coming from apartment 22 on floor 5. The glass of the windows in the kitchen will shatter and go flying and there will be some smoke coming out from the windows. Also if you come to investigate you'll see deep claw markings in the door's entry way. Whoops Helios is honestly sorry about that Frederic. He'll apologize later for the mess and for waking you up, he was just startled, hence the roar which would have been a yell but you know...translations and all. He had to leave before he got any bigger and destroyed the entire apartment. At least the houses fix themselves.

There is a golden scaled dragon in your town today Luceti and it looks vicious, but honestly it's pretty derpy and harmless. Well besides his tail, which he still hasn't gotten control of just yet. You also might feel your room shake as he walks by your house/apartment complex. He's about the size of a large house and he's wearing glass which apparently changed with his size, the Malnosso like to joke don't they? You'll also see his tiny golden green tipped wings beside his more larger golden ones. It's a clue as to who it is but he'll answer you if you ask. This dragon is on a mission, albeit a futile one. You might see him walking a bit in the woods and eventually ending up in front of the Bakery. Sweets...he wanted some and now he can't even fit through the door. He'll be sitting on his hind legs, tail curled around him and a clawed hand rubbing his chin. Indiscreet? Never, not when baked goods are concerned. He's trying to devise a way to get in there...but without doing some serious damage there are no options. No matter he doesn't want to alarm anyone so sometime later he will make his way down to the lake and there he will be, talking to himself, and staying there for the majority of well...however long this decides to last. He's honestly not going to be able to make a voice post with huge vicious claws anytime soon. Besides he can probably be heard from anywhere anyway; his voice carries nicely in this form. ]

Oh for goodness sake I don't know how they deal with being this large. [ There's a pause and a snort. ] I suppose the experiment is still going on then. [ Another sigh though it sounds more like an annoyed growl. ] But they can change their forms into humans. I wonder if I can just get that right...and then there is the ring. [ He will just be babbling don't mind the brooding dragon, lounging beside the lake, tapping a clawed hand into the ground folks. He is merely thinking and when Helios thinks it's usually good...sometimes. But you might want to watch the tail it's swaying erratically because that thing has a mind of its own. ]

((ooc; So you can meet him at any point in time! The time continuum is pretty broken in this post. While he's walking, at the bakery, or in the woods by the lake just specify I guess. Also he's going to stick out like a sore thumb anywhere he goes anyway. I'll be replying with

isthemyth for icon convenience. Also replies will be delayed since I has class~))

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Ah...we-well as alright as I can be. I'm not really...erm sure. It's a bit odd walking on all fours and the tail...I can't seem to get it straight. [ God this is awkward. And his tail will be swaying back and forth almost hitting into the houses but not quite. ] I suppose it could be worse.

N-No, I...well, that would take a bit of thinking. You've still spent your life walking on two legs, a-and...[Why are you babbling, Giles? Why are you telling Helios things he probably already knows?

Because Helios is a dragon, that's why.]

Optimism is an admirable quality. Or so I'm told. And the tail is probably supposed to help you balance. Perhaps you shouldn't move it quite so much.

[ Helios will laugh at that. He finds your babbling amusing but no, really, you have a point. ]

I think it's a decent quality, for here of all places. [ His tail does stop, or at least goes back to some sense of normal movement. ] Ah. That is a bit better. For a good portion of my adult life I've spoken to and conversed freely with dragons of all ages and sizes. Never would have thought I would actually turn into one. [ It's a small childish dream come true. ]

Though I do hope I'm doing them some justice, they're very proud creatures after all. Ra would probably be laughing at me right now if he saw this.

Well, there's only so much you can do. [He's...starting to stop panicking. It's not like Helios is the first dragon he's ever seen. But he is the first dragon he's ever gotten to speak with and, okay, it's kind of awesome.]

The glasses help. They make you look quite, um, dignified.

Very true. I suppose keeping a level head and thinking it's not...so bad helps get through it though. Ah, and of course the people around you always lends towards that.

Hm. You think so? [ Another toothy smile. ] Thank you Giles.

[Wow, look at the teeth. But, Giles can deal.] Well, if you can manage a level head, it's definitely the thing to have in these circumstances.

You're a lot more talkative than the last dragon I saw.

[ A sigh. ] I think it's more or less grown out of what's happened over the ten or so months I've been here. Not to mention back home...wasn't exactly, er, calm. You know the school and all that. [ Mythological creatures and human students are going to make him go gray by the time he's forty. ]

Most of them do tend to be rather reclusive, or just not very talkative to humans. [ He'll scratch his chin with his claw. ] Though I'd imagine it would depend on the dragon in question.

Yes. At least you have some experience with this sort of thing - I can't imagine having to live through this while coming from any kind of normal life. [Giles is only just going gray and he's fifty. So Helios will probably be okay.]

This one wasn't exactly in the mood for talking. It had just been forcibly dragged over from its home dimension, and it's not as though we didn't have other concerns.

Most people here aren't... [ normal? True but that's a bit harsh. Besides he's not entirely normal himself. ] We're a very eclectic bunch! Which does make things a tad bit easier.

I could only imagine...poor thing. I've met decedents of the dragon in the legend of Saint George. They were not...very inclined towards human interaction to say the least. Though that's more of a past history than being taken from another dimension.

[Giles is so very jealous of your life, Helios.]

Yes, I can see where it would be.

I used to wonder if all dragons had just found another dimension to live in. One without Saint George's. And then I realized that, if dragons did still exist, there was no chance that one in its right mind would ever come to California. So it's all the same, in the end.

[ Aw Giles. Clearly the only thing to be done would to find some way to cross dimensions. ]

You never know, though. Anything is possible! California seems like a perfectly good spot for some sort of dragon. It's at least hot enough, well, at least the few times I've been there.

[Oh, Giles is working on it. Give him time.] You've been to California before?

What's it like, in your world?

[ They have plenty of that in Luceti at least. ] I have. Usually to meet prospective students and their families.

[ He thinks about it, trying to remember the few times he's gone there in the past. ] It was...different, eye opening really. The Golden Gate Bridge is positively breathtaking and San Francisco was very nice too.

Two places in California I actually haven't been. [Giles thinks on this for a second, and them amends.] Not that I've really been outside Sunnydale and its outskirts for the past several years, apart from Los Angeles.

San Francisco sounds...brighter.

My word, Giles. You deserve a vacation I believe. [ He'll chuckle. ] Even I take them...but it's usually on school business. No one usually asks though. [ Yeah he uses the system but he has headmaster privileges. ]

It's really rather wonderful, the trolleybuses especially.

You and Okita-san have both said as much. I don't think I'm going to get one any time soon. But it is nice to think about.

What sort of "school business" qualifies as a vacation?

[ He looks rather sad at that. ] You deserve at least that much.

It only takes an hour or so to speak with the parents of new students. I...simply extend the visit for a few days. Just in case you know?

[He's flattered that you think so, Helios, but it took one of the most important people in his life dying before he even considered leaving Sunnydale. And then he wound up in Luceti. He tries to hide a smile at Helios' words.]

Of course. Just in case. No point in leaving a situation like that too soon.

My thoughts exactly! I do like to dabble in the places culture as well. [ He'll begin to tap a claw on the ground as he thinks his tail will sway back and forth too. ] There's some rather interesting myths from that region. Mostly belonging to the Ohlone people I believe.

[Watch that tail, Helios.]

The Spanish had quite an effect on the place, as well.

[ He's sorry. He just gets excited talking about such things with someone else. ]

Very true. It definately had a major impact on the religion at least. I did get a tip on the whereabouts of Kaknu still being in the area. It's one of the reasons why I went. A bit of a side job you could say. [ He does grin a little at that. Though he didn't actually find said mythological culture hero. ]

...Kaknu?

He actually was in Sunnydale, for a few days. Maybe you just missed him.

[ He'll give another laugh. ]

Really? Though should I ask what exactly he was doing there?

Trying to use the power of the Hellmouth to contact Coyote, I believe.

That would make sense for him to do, he is his grandson after all. I also believe you have one ahead of me in terms of myths too, Giles. [ Just smirking now. ]

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thanks LJ for not giving me this notif till 30mins later /beats it

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Note - do not reply to comments when thinking in Chinese

fff I saw nothing

/ is a ninja

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