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You placed your bag on the leaf-covered ground deep in the forest not far from your residence. Luna sniffed in the air making sure none was close. Your shifting is a secret, and you would like it to stay that way. Closing your eyes, the moon wanders over the sky, its red rays cast themselves upon your pale rosy skin, and the process begins. Slowly your skin fades, and black scales pop up. The scaly hide covers fast your whole body except for your eyes and fingernails. You seep a deep breath getting ready for the next phase in the transformation. The body change. The part where it hurts the most. After all, your bones get replaced. Whimpering silently, you stand there, unmoving as the sharp but familiar pain of your bones replacing themselves fills your body.

Luna watches with worry. She hates seeing you in pain; after all, you're the one who took her in, fed her and neutralized her back to total health. You were kind and pure, one of the many reasons she decided to stay when you let her out. She didn't want to forsake you, not the one who had graciously taken her under their care, nor did she care about her raze. All you saw was a wounded animal who needed help. And so you did. Now you were standing on all four, the strong legs of a dragon already having repealed your slender arms and legs. A tail sprouted from your tailbone, lashing in pain as it grew. Wings grew to form your sides and spread, glinting ever obsidian black, reflecting the start night sky. Maybe you had small stars running across your skin who summed from your wing bones. Talons were coloring down into the good soil, making claw marks as you finally felt the aching pain subsides, and you could open your reptilian blue irises.

"Finally," you breathed and almost collapsed on the eh ground. Hadn't it been for the sharp back luna gave who snapped you back to confuses. "master!" she burst, trotting over to you and cuddling against your leg. "you're alright, right master?" she whined softly, looking up at you with doe-eyed eyes. You smiled and lowered your snout, touching her furry head. "yes, I am, little one," you thundered, voice deep and filled with wisdom. "Let's fly, hmm?" you asked while crouching down, letting your friend crawl onto your scaled back, wrapping her claws around your wingspruots, holding on as you rose. Then you set off into the air, beating your wings until you lay in good peace with the wind and looked over the never-sleeping city of Seol. It was pretty now in the early night—the tiny lights of the window whose inhabits yet turned to their beds.

Cars were passing in the streets, buzzing softly in the chilly air. This night would be a calm one, you felt. You smiled fondly at the city where you resided. Then, after a while, you steered to the mountains not far for a goodnight's sleep. After all, a shift could tire anyone out.

Falling into steps with your friends, beli, donut, and erva, you 4 made it down towards the room of your classmates and you. You had dressed in fine silk but warm. It clung like the arms of a lover to your body, showing your ever delicate curves. You walked like the model you are beside your younger friends. They, too, dressed in fine clothes. You may ask, cause today you all have a small celebration for something you did not pay much mind to. "Layla unnie, will you ever draw for us again?" donut, a girl with ebony-colored hair, much like your own locks, addressed you with a sweet tone. You chuckled, a pearl of water slipping out of your pink lips as you turned your head to the side, meeting her brown irises. "what?" you said. Donut smiled, but before she could say something, beli, a girl with black strands of a crown of hair. Mere glasses protected her eyes.

"We want you to draw for us again, unnie," the young girl escaped her friend's words. "ah," you uttered, relation enveloping you like a soft wing. "yeah, sure I could do that, my dear" you answered, smiling a sweet smile. Donut returned the smile and then turned to talk to erva until you 4 reached the classroom. You spotted three boys standing outside, talking. Some girls also perched close to the green wooden door. Your face grew from a joyous expression to a cold and emotionless one when your orbs of ever blue landed on the females whose intent was unknown. They were rude, but still, no hatred kindled in the depths of your heart, disliking maybe. An ever pure heart will not be broken. Elias looked up as your presence became known to him; his blue glaciers of orbs met yours.

His eyes softened, but he didn't say anything but turned to his friends again. You didn't pay any mind, for moments like this were not rare in the group of your classmates you called your pack. Hearing the kind voice of your teacher, you all turned to her, smiling at her as she returned the favor. The class was about to begin.

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A/n: sorry for the short, my dragonlings. Inspiration fails me this hour, but worries not for the writing will continue. Just look forward until the book flourishes in new chapters.

-Saph

"Number 1. If I say we're number 5, people will feel sorry for us. So I'd rather say we're number 1, even if fans criticize us."
― KARA Park Gyuri