The Beast within the Guardian

Words of ancient and powerful roared in outrage.

The voice pierced the very earth and sky,

but within the silence of the shadows forgotten in time.

Poaeko, kl't 't tadokl'rs klaek kae'rkt klo vaurb.

I vaet kuoaekob dv klo vavout ag klo sabt!

Mv viuvato vaet ka du'rs klaeat aerb botkuikk'ar, dik I vaet kaetkob aet'bo.

Tlo sabt laeqo dokuaevob do,

tku'vvob do ag dv aeudau aerb tvaub,

rogk do 'r dv vu'tar 'r kaeukaeuit - Tlo qouv vu'tar I laeqo kuoaekob gau vai!

Tlov ouaetob klo dodauv ag dv raedo guad klo'u touqaerkt!

Nav I raev 'r triddou, vae'k'rs gau dv klaerko.

A klaerko ka ba vlaek I vaet kuoaekob gau!

Tlor aegkou aerr klaek I tlaerr laeqo dv uoqorso.

However as the voice slowly echoes past you are unable to decipher it’s words, not yet atleast.

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Ever so slowly my mind came into consciousness. My mind aches from what felt like I awoke from a distasteful slumber that only brought weariness and exhaustion. Keeping my eyes closed I let my mind slowly recover from a restless slumber, and as I did so I was slowly losing consciousness. I allowed myself to slowly be greeted by the darkness once more in hopes to increase the rate of my mental recovery.

After a quite long time I was feeling aches in my muscles throughout my limbs. My chest was sore from lying on top of it, and my neck was stiff. Finally deciding I spent enough time lying around I opened my eyes and was greeted with darkness. Feeling groggy I stretched out my arms and legs as I continued my morning ritual. Feeling most of the kinks have been relieved I began to realize that my eyes are quickly adjusting in the darkness. After another minute of further stretching I felt a whole lot of pops from my back as the bones lock back in place. Feeling relieved from the stress I sighed as my back won't be as sore for the next few hours, but I’m one of those people who have back pains so it will come back eventually. I'll take some Aleve later after breakfast or something if it gets worse.

Still feeling lazy I rolled onto my stomach from my side, and then I began to faintly notice I am not in my room. Seeing that my 'cat's eyes' have finally activated I decided to have a look around, but remained where I was sleeping. I was half expecting to be in my room in a mess, or at least someone else’s house as I have no memory what happened last night. Though what caught me off guard is that I’m not in my home. In fact this isn't any building at all! I was in some sort of god damned cavern! And to make things worse I don't see a way out, well except for the ominously long tunnel leading into darkness.

I'm not one to get afraid of the dark, but I'm not too keen into adventuring into the darkness with many unknowns. I'd like to know what I'm getting into before I decide to do something, and with this mindset I never really accepted any applications to some foreign back or credit card company in the past. Plus I use Debit Cards rather than Credit Cards as I like the sound of me actually spending money instead of credits.

Feeling more alert now with the current situation I slowly and stiffly tried to get off my bed, but I began to notice the muscles in my limbs were painfully sore. It felt as though I haven’t used them in a very long time, but that was preposterous. It must be from what I was sleeping on. Damn, now my back is going to hurt for the rest for the day. Nothing a little stretching won’t help, but I could go with some Aleve or some other medically trusted pain reliever sold in Shoppers Drugmart.

The ground I was sleeping was cold, and moist with a few jagged areas. I have no idea how I ended up in the some wet cave, but I guess I'll find the answers soon. As I rose I noticed with the way I moved my body it felt very, very different from what I am use to. It also felt very wrong from how I was positioning myself. I didn’t feel like myself. Feeling somewhat nervous that something must be broken or some creep cut me open, and took an organ or two I looked down at my body. Now I like to think of myself as the cool, collective type of guy who thinks things through and figure out a solution to any problem. And if something arises that I can't figure out I use Google to help with that. I also like to think I'm the quiet type of guy who wouldn't make a peep when a cousin of mine tries to scare me, or say a simple hello to one of my old acquaintances from High School or work. Though that doesn't mean I'm some sad loner who likes to weep in silent solitude. No, I just like to keep things very simple for myself.

Now, at the moment I'm going to break my silent streak. It's a shame really I've been keeping it up for a week now. With wide shock eyes I got a good, but short look at myself before I quickly looked away. "Aaaaaaahhh!" I yelled out with a guttural shriek, mixed with a deafening roar of surprise from what I have seen. What in the fuck happened to my body!? What happened to me!? I looked over my hands and to notice that in replace of my fingers I now have long menacing claws that look like they can slice through any living creature on Earth. Despite how cool it is I was still in a frenzy of panic. I was shaking in terror from what I have turned into. What kind of monster have I turned into!?

I began to hyperventilate as I began to think of what my family would think of me. Or worse what the populace would think of me! Oh bloody god! An ass load of hunters and poachers would love to hunt the fuck out of me, and sell my body parts in the black market. Heck I wouldn't be surprised if the Government of Canada or USA would try to capture me, but the more I think about our government they would probably only capture me to study, and protect seeing that I might be the only thing of my kind. Well, from what I could tell at the moment I am the only one of my kind. So I may need to protect myself from anything. Then my thoughts turned for the worse when I thought how am I going to live like this!

‘WAIT! HOLD ON! BEFORE YOU FREAK OUT ANY FURTHER JUST STOP, AND THINK!’

Then my calm, logical persona resurfaced and kicked out the little girl who made me scream like some sorry excuse of a demon. 'Before I panic any further let's think about this.' I told myself as if to further command myself to not freak out, and think. There has to be a logical explanation for this messed up phenomenon. Maybe I'm in just some messed up dream or nightmare. Yeah that would make sense seeing how there's a deep, dark tunnel that most likely leads to nowhere, or leads to a bottomless pit that only ends when I wake up. Yeah, then I would wake up on my soft bed cuddling my blanket and pillow.

With me thinking that I'm sleeping I began to further inspect my body. Already I could tell that my face has stretched out forward, and is covered in some sort of hard bone-like exoskeleton similar to ants. But it seemed to cover the top portion of my face. Although the exoskeleton is not present around the mouth, nostrils and eyes. It’s acting like some sort of semi-flexible face mask. I reached out to feel my face, but was mindful of how sharp my new, and hopefully temporary the claws were. Immediately I felt I had short spikes of sorts lined up on my lower jaw and that the bottom of my head is unprotected by the exoskeleton. Maybe the spikes are acting as some sort of armor in place of the exoskeleton.

I moved my clawed hand to the back of my head, and I felt a multitude of very long, thick spikes spouting from my skull and pointed outwards behind me in similar angles. I placed my hand down to the ground, and I licked my teeth and was not surprised to feel long dagger like teeth from the front and almost leading to the back of my mouth. Although I was quite surprised to feel that I have molars too. Hmm, maybe it serves the same purpose for chewing my food instead of eating my sliced up food whole. Makes sense seeing how I don't want to choke on bones and other hard pointy objects.

I turned my head around to get a look at my body. I was quite surprised to see how long of a neck I have. With some difficulty I could roughly tell it's between four to five meters long, but without something to compare it’s length I wasn’t too sure if my guess was correct. I also noticed that I have a single line of spikes running from neck down my spine to the end of my long ass tail. The tail was probably 8 to 9 meters long; it could possibly be 10 meters. The spikes on the main body seem to stay the same length of a meter or a little less, although from the neck and tail as they were shorter to half a meter or less. I also have a sword like spike on the very end of my tail. Maybe it's used like a sword to lash out with to cut into my foes at a safe distance? No idea, but it was cool.

My whole body from skin or scales, to bone like armor, and spikes seemed to be as black as the shadows possibly allowing me to easily hide in the cover of darkness. This natural camouflage would become useful whenever I needed to evade a fearsome foe or stalk my prey. I also noticed that my back, neck, and upper tail is covered in armor from a bone-like exoskeleton much like the one on my face, but it seemed to be designed for mobility as it wasn't built in one slab bone armor. It looked to be built for mobility for stealth, and flexibility for comfort but it looked like it can block whatever is used against me. I took a closer look at my body as I was expecting thick scales of sorts, but it seems that I have instead is black thick skin on the under belly, and on my upper arms and upper legs. On the lower legs, and lower arms I have some patches of black scales but it wasn’t much. Also on my tail it was covered in scales where the thinner and more flexible exoskeleton and shorter spikes wasn’t covering. My legs were also double jointed which really felt unnatural, but I let it slide as it wasn’t the weirdest thing that has happened to me.

My body also had a pair of wings folded onto my sides. The wings looked to be enormous even as they rest against me folded. I wonder how large my wings would be if they were outstretched, but I didn’t dwell on that as I continued to inspect myself. The wings had a strong structure with a few spikes located on the thicker frame. Finally the whole wing was covered in thick leather surely telling me that even if I was shot by buck shots it would be fine. Well I hope it would be fine, but I’m a monster for Christ sakes let’s just assume I’m fucking bad ass until proven otherwise. But as I tried to move my wings they haven’t moved an inch. Maybe these wings had damaged nerves or muscles or something? Maybe I just need to fully get use to my new anatomy.

Now my arms thankfully have five digit hands with an opposable thumb, and each finger plus thumb has a claw. I also have a single spike sticking outwards from my elbows acting as though they could be used as spears to stab into my foes. My legs had four digits with three pointed forward, and one at the back of my foot pointing backwards. They also had claws though they seemed to be a little longer then my fingered ones. Maybe they can be used for grabbing my prey when I'm flying. Just like how eagles snatch up mice or squirrels.

Okay, so I looked over my body and now I can safely assume that this is an awesome dream for which it turned me into a dragon! Albeit a flightless dragon, but a dragon neverless. Though that's where the awesomeness of the situation ends. I may be a dragon sure why not, but I'm trapped in darkness with nowhere to go except for an ominously dark tunnel that's possibly endless seeing that even with my night vision eyes I can't see the end of it. And there might be something dangerous in the tunnel hiding in the darkness. I'm not afraid of the dark, but I'm afraid what's in it. Deciding to take the somewhat safer route I just laid there on the cold, moist, hard surface made from stone. So I tried to sleep, but the more I stayed in here the more I felt the need to get the fuck out. I know I’m a dragon which should handle anything in the dark, but I still felt this very human instinct in fear of what’s hiding in the dark.

After what felt like an hour or so I grew restless from doing nothing when I could possibly be doing something awesome as a fucking dragon! That's it dream if you want me to be a dragon then at least allow me to do something with it! I roared in frustration, and my mighty roar travelled throughout my cavern and down the endless tunnel. Just then I felt a rumble in the stone as if something collapsed. Taking this as a excuse that my dream is telling me it granted my demand I was now growing curios. Staying where I was I scanned the cavern only to come up with nothing interesting, but then I looked at the large tunnel leading into darkness. I sighed and I got up, and walked on all fours. Surprised on how natural it felt moving around in my new body, but I dismissed it seeing how I'm in a dream.

I've walked up to the entrance of the tunnel, and I peered into the darkness and within seconds I could see about a 100 meters in total darkness. But if there were a light source of some kind maybe I could see even further down this tunnel. Seeing nothing threatening I ventured into the tunnel and I began my trek into the unknown having no idea what's at the end of it.

Though as I travelled further down the tunnel I slowly began to feel something. It felt like something is prodding my mind. Like it was trying to break in, and tell me something. But I only felt rage, and a taste of betrayal.

Though it the feeling slowly faded away and I never gave it a second thought, but I swear something spoke within the silence…..

Well this dream is going to be interesting.