With the sound of rushing wind coming and going in a split second, I was once again inside my own soul. Rather than a black void, a third of was a dark grassy field covered in pitch shadows and dim moonlight. The third belonging to me was the same… But the third belonging to Mr. Dragon was cracked and small. The sand was all gone, and all that was left was the lava chamber and the expansive roots sprawling out like webs.

"Mr. Dragon!" I shouted, but there was no response. 'I integrated him, but then still used dark magic, did I completely force out my dragon's blood? But there is still something here…' "Mr Dragon!" I called again as I jumped and fell down to the large platform surrounded by lava. My nerves got the better of me, and I shouted again and again until my voice broke. 'Please… I don't want to say goodbye like this…'

I walked out to the edge of the platform and looked out into the sky, piercing through the massive opening in the wall. Sitting down, I peacefully curled my knees to my chest. "Mr. Dragon…" I mumbled. 'You never even let me give you a proper name…' My eyes slowly widened as I raised my head. 'When Kylo met me, what did he say? He called me the child of a dragon, but he gave me a name.Wouldn't that name be…?' "Melchizedek. I mumbled."

The lava rose and erupted, bursting forth and flooding the chamber until I thought I might drown in it, my whole body heating up until I felt as though I was running a high fever. Suddenly, lava was the only thing around me, as though I were in an orange ocean. It became translucent, and before me was a colossal beast larger than a castle with pure ivory white scales and golden insignia tracing its skin.

"Why have you called this name?"

Despite the intense heat, a chill ran through me at his familiar voice. "So you aren't gone after all… Mr Dragon…"

"What do you want?"

I slowly swam closer until I could grab onto his nose and look him in the eyes. "At first… I just wanted to see you and make sure you were ok… But now I don't think it matters… Either you will get integrated or forced out if you stay inside me… But I don't want you to die…"

"I see you are as annoying as ever…"

I chuckled, resting my head against his nose for a moment until suddenly everything became clear again. The lava was gone, and now only two sections remained: a peaceful gazebo where I sat, and a dark grassy field. In a panic, I looked around before standing up and running out into the flowers outside the gazebo, but he was nowhere to be seen. "So I'm annoying! AT LEAST I'M NOT A SMELLY OVERCOOKED PERVERTED LIZARD!" I shouted at the sky before letting myself fall to my knees, grabbing handfuls of the grassy dirt, tearing it up as I tensed my whole body.. "You could have at least said goodbye…"

The breeze cooled my hot skin as I slowly relaxed, wishing I could sink into the ground and disappear for a while, but knowing full well there was no one to take my place anymore if I did… And hating myself for doing it the first time, resulting in me being where I was. 'He tried to kill me so many times… Why do I care… Why does it hurt so much…'

The wind became stronger, bursting in gusts as if responding to my pain and nearly lifting me off the ground until the ground began to shake like an earthquake, making me tense up and hide even more until it all suddenly fell quiet.

"Hey." A puff of fire scorched my back from above, and chills ran through me yet again as I hesitated to look. By the time I finally did what I saw, instead of a dragon, was a man. Not the boy I had known, but a fully grown man with the same face… Wearing long baggy leather clothes.

I didn't know what to say… So all I did was stare. He didn't say anything more either. Eventually, I stared at him so long that the sorrow hard-boiled over into a bright rage, leading me to walk up and slug him in the face so hard that it leveled him completely, sending him to the ground.

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"Hey! Wha–"

"STUPID!"

He shut his mouth before he could even finish his last word, and before I knew it, I was on top of him, punching him in the face again. "Stupid, stupid stupid stupid! You did that on purpose, you rude, unforgivable, miscreant of a stupid dragon!" I hit him with every repetition of the phrase, every following punch becoming lighter until I wasn't even hitting him and just pounding, tapping on his chest with my fists, lying on top of him and choking back my tears, refusing to cry anymore over someone that wasn't even dead.

I couldn't find it within myself to push myself away from him, only wanting to disappear more as he started to laugh, making me suddenly more embarrassed than anything. "You've been holding back your feelings for me for a while, I see." After a while, he sighed, lifting a hand and placing it on top of my head, sending shivers down my spine at first, but slowly helping me relax again.

"I really… I really hate you…"

He chuckled again. "That's a lie. You used to, but not anymore."

"Go die…"

He laughed even harder, wrapping his arms around me. "Come on, you know I can't do that. It would make you cry."

I growled, finally pushing myself away and stomping on his stomach as I stepped away. "I've wasted enough tears on a jerk like you… No point crying over big meanies…"

He let out a sharp puff of air through his nose, trying desperately not to laugh as he grinned and stood up. "You're terribly inconsistent."

I growled. "Well, it doesn't help that I'm sharing my body with someone from the opposite sex of a different species…"

He sighed, scratching his head. "It's true… So why don't we fix that little problem of ours?"

"If you leave, I'll kill you…"

"You really work just like your magic, don't you… Fire from ice and ice from fire… Well, it keeps things interesting, I suppose."

"Get to the point. What do I have to do?"

He unfolded his arms, lifting them out in a grand gesture with a slight shrug.. "It's not terribly complicated. You just have to give birth to me."

My eyes went wide as I wrapped my arms around myself, feeling my whole body shudder before I took a large step backward.

"I see we're still ice then."

"I feel sick…"

He sighed. "To be more precise, you would have to lay an egg, it's not a big deal."

"NOT A–" I bit my tongue, my jaw shaking slightly as I forced myself to calm down, stepping back again, suddenly feeling unsafe somehow, despite being inside my own soul

"And we're back to fire. It must be exhausting, no?"

"AND WHO'S FAULT IS THAT! Just explain it clearly!"

For once, he actually looked concerned, if only slightly. "Ok, in the simplest terms. Dragons cannot be classified into any category of species. One of the reasons for this is that while they give live birth, they can also lay eggs. Under the condition that a female dragon is too old or too wounded, they can impart their soul into an egg and essentially start life over again with all their memories and experiences intact. Fire breath is a much more complicated process, physiologically speaking, so it wouldn't be hard for me to further adapt your body until you can lay an egg designed to restart your life cycle. Then instead of imparting your soul, you impart only the piece of your soul that is me."

I shuddered again just at the thought. "You're saying dragons can give birth to themselves…"

He tilted his head to the other side. "Well… Yeah, basically."

"Only instead of a new me, it would be your soul entering the egg…"

"Exactly. And since it would be an egg, rather than developing in your womb, I would be a full blooded male dragon, my body growing based on the shape of my soul… In… Theory…

I wrapped an arm around my stomach, suddenly feeling nauseous. "No way… I won't do it…"

As he continued explaining why it "wouldn't be so bad," eventually my head just got fuzzy until I tuned out.

"Siya?"

In an instant, I was suddenly in my physical body again, regaining consciousness, as if I instinctively fled from the conversation. My physical body was even weaker than my spiritual one, and after a few moments of being groggy, I flipped over and vomited out the side of the cart.

"Good to see you feeling better," Airsidh said calmly.

"Oh… Well… You know me…" 'That was sarcasm right? I don't even care… I still feel deeply unsettled… I havn't even been able to use my words properly because I was so overwhelmed from the beginning… I should have just never gone inside my soul…'

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