Embracing the Beast (Mysteria, REQUEST)

[Sareth Edara]

Sareth had set up a time with Mysteria to work with her to train him in the use of shifting into his partial transformation. He had done it a couple times on his own and well it proved to be a bit of an issue as he had a bit of an aggression spike while transformed. Not to mention what he did to the windows near where he transformed, luckily he wasn't seen so no one knew it had been him other than his mother anyway. Unfortunately he couldn't spend time with her due to the way his father treated his concubines so she couldn't help him learn to control this form.

While the forever forest would be a good place to train he had insisted on a less inhabited area in Heavens Pass. Up here he could hulk out without endangering anyone since he was quite certain Mysteria could kick his ass with little to no effort. So he had met up with her outside the city providing one of his favored steeds for her to ride seeing as he had brought at least four of his own with him from home though they hadn't been too happy to be on a boat. He had spent a good part of the trip talking with her about his observations about nova and answer questions she had about him.

He stood there once they had found a place where he was fairly certain he wouldn't cause an avalanche should he use that sonic roar of his. He looked over at Myst, "So how do we go about starting this? Or should I say how do you want to go about this?" This form could help him immeasurably in the future and well the better he got at using it the closer he could get to a full transformation. While he has been avoiding becoming a full fledged royal of Pherana he knew at some point he would have to either deny his heritage or accept it and become what he really didn't want to be.

[Mysteria]

Mysteria had met Sareth outside the city; Dressed in a dark cloak that hid her form from sight for the most part. However when she got on the horse, her attire could be seen as a form fitting black leather woman’s body suit that stopped at her high thigh. Her corset top had half-cuff long sleeves that were black and had floral design trimming, hiding her hand and her trask arm while holding the reins. Her tights were semi-transparent and brown, with black boots that clasped at the middle of her leg-calf.

She normally didn’t like riding horses, but the one’s Sareth had brought seemed to be well tame enough. The Journey took several hours to reach the base of Heaven’s Pass, enough time for her to tell him small bits of her past. She told him of her Clan; her parents role with her father being the clan’s head warrior and her mother who had passed at her birth. She mentioned her brother and in a odd way, she slipped the mentioned her Clan had passed close by, pointing towards the direction of the Manna Gorge.

Mysteria had thought the journey would never come to an end; feeling her rump become a bit tired of riding on the back of a horse. When she noticed Sareth begin to slow down and the horses come to a stop, she looked around at the open terrain far up in the Heaven Pass mountains. A decent place to practice transforming, far from the kingdom which was a plus for her. When Sareth spoke up, Mysteria had already began dismounting off her horse. Her heels clicking on the stone ground as she walked a few feet away.

“ First… You need to prep yourself, your body will be going through a stress that it probably has never gone through fully before. To start, you must collect your thoughts. I had told you to study a certain type of dragon, well...The reason; Because you will collect every thought and memory you have of that dragon and then build a blueprint in your mind. Once you have that blueprint, let your body build up with energy and then let that thought come forth as if you are that beast. It might take a bit to successfully achieve at first, but I will watch and make sure you don’t...Do anything stupid if you” Mysteria paused, her pupils turning into slits and scales began to appear around her cheeks and eyes. “ can’t handle your dragon self. “

[Sareth Edara]

He was glad she told him a bit about her past as they rode up here but he didn't press her for more information on it since he could feel that there were things she wasn't really ready to share with him. Dismounting and setting out feed and water for the horses gave him a little time to listen to what Mysteria had to tell him about shifting and the process needed mentally to bring about the physical aspect of the changes. It was a good thing he had been studying dragons most of his life taking a particular liking to the eastern style dragons. Their sense of majesty mixed with a healthy serving of savageness to match any territorial beasts that inhabited the world they lived in.

Moving away from the horses he chose a place that would work well enough for his first attempt, leaving plenty of space between him, Myst, and the horses. Closing his eyes he pictured the white scales along the length of the dragon's body the way the light shone off of the ones he had been able to procure back in Pherana. The shape and feel of them, the weight of them when held in the palm of his hand. Along his hairline, the back of his neck, along his shoulders, as well as on the backs of his hands and up to the bend in his elbow started to feel like someone was making small cuts in his skin as the scales started to show themselves.

Doing his best to push aside his pain he kept going now his mind was focusing on the horns the way they would jut out and bend along the curve of the forehead branching out into spiked points looking almost golden in color. His forehead erupted in firey pain as the horns sprouted taking shape as they curved back along his head to the crown of his head with three tines coming off of each of them two pointing out to the sides and one to the inside matched up. Next up were the fangs and claws as natural weapons would be needed for a dragon as weapons might not always be an option. His K9s along with the teeth on both sides of them elongated and sharpened to the point where taring through flesh would be rather simple. It was the skin splitting on his finger tips all at the same time as the claws protruded from his fingers that he staggered to a knee the process stopped just short of the tail being grown.

Even a highly trained prince can only take so much before his mind is overrun by the pain of this many changes happening to his body, each of the aspects that had shown so far started to reverse their process in reverse order of appearance until there was the human prince sitting there on the ground covered in sweat. He was breathing hard and flopped backwards onto his back, "I feel like I just got done training with my combat instructor for the first time, gods my body hasn't been this sore and stiff in a long time. Give me a few minutes and I'll be able to try again."

[Mysteria]

Mysteria was somewhat amused at her situation. Here she was standing out in the middle of the wilderness; The Heaven’s Pass no less to teach another kray how to transform. Except this kray was a prince. Far from what she had expected, but she didn’t complain. In fact, she stood silently back and watched Sareth step off his horse and lead the animal away to a more safe location. Her violet-teal eyes following him the entire time while taking note of his stance and how he was closing his eyes.

‘ Now this is interesting.’

She mused to herself; Placing her hand on her hip to rest. She doubted Sareth could see the stance she was in; her body hidden under the cloak. Her attention focused on him when he started his transformation. Somewhat impressed he had managed to make it this far with his first try at attempting this.

Mysteria had to admit he was doing rather well; Though she noticed he seemed to have some problem manifesting scales and keeping his dragonic features from staying stable. Perhaps the pain was too much for him to bare just yet? Mysteria pondered, when Sareth suddenly dropped to the ground and flopped onto his back. Her eyes wide. “ Are you ~?” She stopped herself before saying ‘okay’, Blinking as he spoke to her stating how he felt.

“ I bet.” She chuckled, taking a step forward. “ Pain is just the first step however….” She sighed, taking another step forward to unclasp her cloak. The heavy fabric falling to the rocky terrain floor of the mountain. Her hair tied back in a loose ponytail whipped around her frame, outlining her attire and herself when the wind decided to pick up around them. “ You have to remember, pain is only temporary and fleeting.. Something our mind produces as a response to not wanting to die. That pain you are feeling when you transform is something that you are going to have to not fight.… Allow your body to be pushed to the limits and replace the negativity of the sensation with something else. “ Mysteria spoke, lifting her real hand up to place it on her trask arm shoulder.

Then with a quick snap and flick of her wrist, Mysteria yanked back and the trask arm pulled from her arm socket. Blood soon began to trickle where the arm had been attached. A sharp pain surged up her neck and around her shoulder. Then she tossed the trask arm back to where her cloak was on the ground. Her gaze fixed on Sareth; While black scales began to form around her eyes and face. Soon scales began to emerge on her pale skin, replacing the fair cream flesh with black purple two-tone serpent scales. Her bones began to crack and pop, horns emerging from her skull. While her hair began to morph into her back slowly turning into spines before a tail began to grow.

Mysteria then dropped to her knees; She folded over, hunched on all fours as she muffled her scream through bared sharp teeth. Her bones begin to crack and pop, the sound of cloth ripping could be heard next as the fabric fell away from her. This process looked rather painful; However, her mind said otherwise and body language after suggested the same. When the transformation was complete, The humanoid looking woman no longer stood before him, but a black dragon 25ft long and 11.5ft tall instead. Lavender eyes stared at him from where she stood, Her from that of a western type dragon with three limbs instead of four.

“ This is a full transformation… I do not expect you to accomplish this yet, but you will learn so long as you put your mind to it.” She spoke in kray, her voice sounding grudged.

[Sareth Edara]

Embrace the pain instead of control it, he had a feeling this was going to be the case and didn't want his first full partial transformation to be under his actual personality. But that version of himself will be far more useful for this right now and once one part of him learned it the other could use it to full effect. But she did something he wasn't expecting her to do and that was shift fully into her draconic body. It was a rather interesting thing to watch and well he could feel the pain rolling off of her along with the increased weight of her willpower. It was interesting to see her like this for him, she wasn't taking on the build of a brood queen but more of a huntress.

"Well aren't you gorgeous. Sleek build to aid in fast flight along with more complicated aerial maneuvers. The two tone luminescent scales are pretty on top of being protective. Have to give you even more credit for being able to use a four legged western style body and maintaining your balance." While talking he had gotten up and moved a little bit closer to her to get a better look at her form but was keeping enough distance to not seem as if he was crowding her or invading her space. Careful to not look her directly in the eye for more than a second or two to make sure she doesn't think he is challenging her. "So this is the Kray Variant of Draconic speech. Interesting, the dialect is slightly different than my mother's though I didn't get to hear too much of it."

Her new state made him less worried about affecting her with his empathic ability so he slipped back into his normal self instead of the public mask. "Embrace the pain you say....should be easy enough now that I've felt it once." With that said he started to shift again as he was walking and let the pain wash over him and eventually pass through him or more accurately be broadcast out from him. He figured for right now her mental fortitude would be more than strong enough to deal with anything sent out in a broad pulse instead of a focused one. This time he actually made it to getting his tail to manifest and it twitched around a little as he let his mind get used to having an extra appendage to move around.

While he played with the movement of his tail he floated into the air unintentionally though once he realized it he dropped back to the ground. "Interesting, so what do you think Melania?" He asked as he turned around to let her get a good view of his new form and she should be able to feel his genuine curiosity of her opinion on his form. While instinct was telling him to try and mark her he knew that right now she had the upper hand especially if she took to the air where he was pretty certain he couldn't follow as it seemed he could only levitate though he had to test that out a bit more. The was also curious what his breath weapon would manifest as well, sound or speech had been his weapons for so long he kind of felt as if it would be linked to that.

[Mysteria]

Now this was getting interesting by the minute. Mysteria thought to herself, while watching Sareth when he approached. Her dragonic eyes reflecting his person within the brilliant lavender and teal orbs. She jerked her head up; Her eyes blinking rapidly at his statement. Shocked at his compliment, Mysteria took a couple of steps back. First having a bit of difficulty adjusting to the missing leg, but she managed on three. Her tail flickering about over the rocks. Behind her scales hid her blush. Something she was rather thankful for at the moment; Trying to mask her emotions with a confident chuckle when she looked down at Sareth.” You have a kin eye.” She spoke in dragonic, turning her head a bit when he spoke of the speech she had used.

So what he said was true…. His mother really didn’t teach him anything of being a kray. How disheartening, but Mysteria understood and shook the thoughts aside. Perhaps she could teach him the knowledge where his mother had failed. Which Mysteria nodded to his statement of that being the variant of draconic speech. “ Each clan has their own variant of speech, Each species of dragon has their own dialect and thrum. You being able to pick out the difference is a good sign, means you’ll have no difficulties learning and remembering this bit of knowledge.” Mysteria nodded, looking down at him for a moment longer before catching the switch in his personality.

Mysteria took another couple of steps back. her eyes focused on him when he suddenly began to pulse with energy. So he was going to try it again? She thought, amused and some what curious to see how far he would go this time. To her surprise he was able to push past the pain and managed to manifest a tail and horns. Then when he began to levitate and drop, Mysteria couldn’t help but laugh. “ You did well! A eastern type from the look of the tail and horns.A interesting choice, but one that suits you “ She nodded her head and flicked her tail around to rest in front of her.

“ So...How do you feel? The pain is always short lived and goes away once your body gets used to it. The more you practice, the longer and stronger your true self becomes. “ She spoke in the dragonic tone.

[Sareth Edara]

She really wasn't good at hiding her emotions around him then again he hadn't met very many empaths so far. The hopping brought forth a mixture of pity and adoration from him though gladly they were washed away during his transformation. He had also noticed her backing up as he took on the partial form and the laugh as he fell back to the ground after levitating. So it would appear that his innate ability to learn languages just hearing them would come in handy then. Now his mind was more focused on what this form could do and how much it had expanded his ability to function as a shock trooper in combat. He had a goal of being able to change forms while in motion in mind now and well he had a bit of the pesky Royal born arrogance.

"So the pain will lessen over time and repeated use. Good to know, though the rest of that means I'm on a timer while like this correct? Again something that can be improved over time and practice." He started to pace slightly as the gears started spinning like mad in his head about the various implications of this and having to time its use in combat along with learning to fight with awareness of his tail. Then again the tail could be a weapon in and of itself which gave him more versatility in combat as well. The entire time he was pacing he was muttering to himself in the same dialect that Myst had use to speak to him in her current form so she should be catching snippets here and there when the pitch of his voice would rise due to some realization or bit of excitement.

"I assume there are further risks to this form beyond what you've informed me of so far correct?"