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PREDAKING’S SPARK - CHAPTER 2

Hi there👋🏻 I’m sorry about this but I haven’t quite figured out how to link chapters together 😬

Anyway pls enjoy!

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I stayed rigidly still, too frightened by what this great beast would do if I moved too quickly. I had heard somewhere that animals saw any sudden movements as a threat, and while I didn’t know whether or not it was the same for a dragon, it wasn’t a risk I wanted or was willing to take.

I couldn’t help but gape at this magnificent creature. In my life I had seen many different depictions of what people believed dragons looked like, some where long and slender like snakes, some had legs and/or wings while others where just glorified worms, some even had multiple heads! But never had I ever seen a dragon real or otherwise, that looked as if it was made entirely of metal.

I mentally sighed. While for some irrational reason I felt safer acting like a petrified statue, I knew that eventually I would need to move.

I tried my best to stand, but I couldn’t stop my legs shaking with the strain of what felt like giving a piggyback ride to a baby elephant. Despite me trying my best not to, I just couldn’t handle the weight of my own body, and I flopped back down with a clank and a frustrated huff.

I looked down so I could glare at my body, thinking I would have to be built like a toothpick for me to be so weak. But instead of the body I had been using for the past seventeen years, I was now glaring at the scrawny physique of another metallic reptile.

My brain must have short circuited, because however hard I try I cant remember what I was feeling in that moment, I only remember being completely fixated on these new appendages of mine. What should have been my arms where now the front legs of a smaller dragon. My hands where now paws, each with two large and very sharp looking claws, which I experimentally flexed.

I was simply astonished, examining every detail as carefully as if I was trying to understand a quantum physics textbook.

Through my haze of unidentifiable emotions, the dragon must have sensed that I was feeling distressed, because it brought its face back down to my level and started to rub against mine (thankfully minus the tongue), like it was trying to comfort me.

I started to chirp again, trying to steady myself as the dragon was pushing me closer to the edge of the table I was on with its face.

??? - *rumbling chuckle* There is no need for panic, I would never hurt you, accidentally or otherwise

My head swivelled around, looking in confusion for who the new voice could be coming from, but I found nothing, and whoever it was just kept chuckling.

While the mystery voice was busy being amused at my confusion, and I was busy questioning whether or not I had finally gone mad, the stranger with the large hand was standing in a corner, taking notes on what looked like an oversized, luminous iPad while occasionally looking up at us. Once he seemed finished with his note taking, he put the iPad down and walked over to a still very confused me, and very gently, picked me up by my mid-section like how you would pick up a cat.

The stranger cradled me in his arm and held my right hand-turned-paw softly as he removed the IV. As the stranger wiped my paw of the small bulb of glowing blue blood I gawked at the fact that his other hand was a massive cannon.

‘What the actual hell is going on? This just keeps getting weirder’

I took the opportunity to look around the room as the one-handed giant started to move about while still holding me, and I realised that I was in a dilapidated lab, filled with all sorts of alien looking devices.

‘Wait a minute… I’m in a lab? …Thats concerning’

I looked up at the colossus, trying to gauge whether or not he was the kind of person who would experiment on me. Sure he had told me I didn’t need to be afraid, but could I really take his word for that?

Looking up at him I was mildly surprised that the only facial feature he had was a single, glaring red eye, which unfortunately gave away nothing about his character.

??? - Doctor in the house, so, how is the little femme fatal

A new voice spoke up as the sound of an automatic door swooshed open and closed. When the robot holding me turned to face him, I could see he was another enormous bot, however he was very different to the one holding me. He was sleek and well polished, had both hands and a bright cherry red paint job which made him stand out from everything else around him.

??? - The sparkling is doing well, despite its early emergence, however, its designation is yet to be determined

I barely acknowledged the sigh that came from the newest robot as he tried to explain what he meant by femme fatal, and thought about what had just been said.

‘Sparkling? Whats a sparkling and why are they calling me that? And what did they mean by my designation is yet to be determined, what even is a designation?’

I had a million and one questions running through my head, all of them demanding to be answered.

I started squirming in the cyclopses hold, suddenly being uncomfortable with being held so high from the ground by someone who I was 99 percent sure was a mad scientist. The giant noticed my discomfort and placed me back on the table I had been laying on, but when I didn’t stop squirming he became concerned… I think.

The dragon, who had been sitting idly by, seemed to notice my distress as well, and did something unexpected.

It picked me up by the scruff of my neck, and brought me down to the floor. It then made a little cradle around me with its front legs, keeping me close to its chest as it started making a noise that sounded like purring.

I felt my rising panic slowly ebb away as the dragon continued to hold me close and comfort me, its eyes meeting mine again as it gave me that same look from earlier… as if it were seeing something more.

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PREDAKING’S SPARK - CHAPTER 1

Second is that this is going to be the first fanfic I have ever published and while writing I’ve found it hard to write for characters that already exist eg. What a pre-existing character would say or how they would act in everyday life, but I’ve tried my hardest so pls be forgiving in that aspect

Other than that I’m sure you’ve all read enough fanfic to know how this works so without further a due, ✨enjoy✨

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As I began to wake up, I could hear the muffled sound of a machines rhythmic beeping.

As the beeping gradually grew louder, and the sound became clearer, I also started to regain feeling in my body, and I could feel that I was being prodded all over by someone with large fingers.

Very, large fingers.

Whoever was poking me was taking their time, carefully going over every limb and sometimes lingering in certain spots, almost like they were searching for something. The prodding felt uncomfortable, especially in the places where this persons fingers concentrated. They would press down on one of these areas, and each time they did it felt like they where pressing down on something sensitive and sore, and out of reflex I would try to pull away.

‘Am I covered in bruises or something? Why else would certain parts of my body be so much more sensitive than others? I must have gotten beat up or something…’

I was prodded in another sensitive spot, but when I flinched again I felt something tug on the back of my hand.

‘An IV? So I'm in the hospital?’

There was so much of this that didn’t make sense, and it didn’t help that I couldn’t see anything. I tried opening my eyes but was surprised to find how difficult it was, I had to struggle for a few moments before I was able to very groggily open them, however, my vision was seriously blurred. I tried to blink the blurriness away but it didn’t work, and only seemed to make seeing anything harder.

In my frustration I hadn’t realised I had been making a strange noise that sounded like a distressed chick chirping for its mother. However my chirping didn’t go unnoticed by the person who was still feeling my body, and they paused their actions to rest a comforting hand on my head.

??? - Fear not little one, you are safe.

‘Little one?’ I was only a month away from becoming a legal adult, but I suppose given the size of this persons hand that compared to them, I was a little one.

Just then I was broken from my confusion by thunderous foot steps approaching me at lightning speed, and in a few moments I could feel a large presence looming over me. Before I even had a chance to blink, a gigantic tongue pressed against my cheek and started licking me all over my face and body!

I would have been marvelling at the shear size of the tongue if I was not busy trying to get away from it. Whomever the tongue belonged to seemed to focus mainly on my face, going over my eyes a number of times before finally relinquishing and conceded to gently nudge me in the side.

I tried opening my eyes again so I could see what the hell was going on, when I realised that my sight had cleared up to were I could now see everything clearly again.

The first thing I did with my new found sight was look for the owner of the tongue, and when I turned my head I was met with a rather extraordinary sight.

Two glowing, golden eyes where gazing into mine, but it was as if they weren’t just making eye contact with me, but also looking past me and at something deeper

Thats when I felt something snap into place deep inside my chest…

And I felt like something that should have been there all along…

Something that had been missing from me…

Was finally found again.