I woke up to another average day. Sunlight coming through the window, alarm clock going off, and the neighbor's dog barking. I got out of bed, and walked into the bathroom. I saw my reflection staring back at me. Blue eyes, brown hair, white skin. I grabbed the razor and shaving cream, and proceeded to shave off the beard that was trying to grow. I took a shower, and walked out of the bathroom, back into my bedroom. I opened the dresser and pulled on a T shirt and jeans. I walked around the pile of stuff that were failed inventions.
My name is Dylan Jaeger, and currently, I'm a twenty five year old engineer who just got out of college and is now working at Ford. My job? Well, my job description is to design concepts for upcoming cars, but my real job is more like, designing a car, then get it rejected by my superiors. But there is something good about my job, it's that I get paid a lot to sit there and draw cars that will never exist. What do I do with that money? I design other things, other than cars, and some of them become a reality.
For instance, I built the 3D Maneuver Gear from Attack on Titan. That, is probably my favorite invention. It would work, too, if I hadn't accidentally designed it for somebody that is unnaturally tall.
Speaking of which, while I was exiting my room, I tripped over the 3D Maneuver Gear. I looked at it, picked it up, and sighed. I remembered finally finishing it, then realizing it was far too big for any human to utilize. That was a very frustrating moment, and I was pissed off for the rest of the week.
Anyway, with the 3D Gear still in my hands, I walked into the kitchen. I poured myself some cereal, and ate it. It was just then when my phone rang. I picked it up.
"Hello?" I asked.
"Hey, Dylan. It's your boss. I'm calling to tell you that you've got the day off, John showed us a design for another car, I don't remember what it's called, but we think it beats yours, so we're gonna be discussing plans with him all day. No reason to come in." My boss responded.
"Well, alright. Thanks." I said. I hung up. I can't even count how many times I've gotten that call. First time he gave me the day off, though. So, with all my sudden spare time, I decided to kick back and relax. I went over and picked up a PS3 controller, turned it on, and began playing a game I recently began playing. The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon. I was actually going to begin the story mode the other day, but I got distracted by other things. Not today, though. Today, I have the whole day to myself.
I selected the story mode. But what happened next was not what I expected. As soon as I hit the X button, the screen went completely white. At first I thought this was just part of the start up process. Then, the screen went black, and I still believed that it was part of the programming.
What happened after that, definitely was not part of the game.
I wouldn't call myself a religious man, but this; this cannot be explained by science. The TV exploded into some kind of black hole, sucking in everything with a massive amount of force.
It pulled me in, and I saw as the 3D Gear came flying at my face, and collided with my forehead, causing me to go unconscious.
When I woke up, I had the mother of all migraines. My head felt like somebody dropped a nuclear bomb on it, and then smash it into the ground with a sledge hammer. Not to say the rest of my body was in excruciating pain, because it was. The first thing I noticed, there were crystals everywhere. It looked like something straight out of a fairy tale. I saw the 3D Gear laying in front of me, still in one piece. My neck was too sore to even try moving, but I knew something didn't feel right. My body felt bigger. I don't know how it felt bigger, but it did. I could use my eyeballs to look around, since they were the one thing that didn't hurt.
I looked to my left, and I saw that I was lying next to a rather large crystal. It looked like there was something inside it, but I couldn't make out what it was. Suddenly, I heard voices. I couldn't understand what they were saying; as they spoke in a language I did not know. I heard one command something else to do something, judging by the tone of its voice. The crystal then shattered, but because I was below the bottom of the crystal, I couldn't see what came out of it. I heard what I assumed to be the commander order its subordinates to do something.
That's when one of them noticed me. It yelled something, and the leader looked up. It came over to me, and it walked right into my vision. It was big. Very, very big. It looked like, well, I don't really know what it looked like, because I've never seen anything like it. But it seemed its head appeared to be made of wood. It was holding an equally large mace, overall, it was a very menacing creature.
It noticed that I was awake, but just barely. I guess they assumed I was paralyzed, or something. That's why I wasn't moving. The big guy turned around and noticed the 3D Gear. He picked it up, and he looked back at me. I said the 3D Gear was too big for anybody to use, but it seemed too small for this guy. He chuckled, I guessed he caught on that I might have made that. He said something, and the remainder of the force that wasn't carrying whatever came out of that crystal came over to haul me away. I could hold consciousness just long enough to see that they forgot something from the crystal, some kind of dragonfly thing, kinda weird how they didn't notice it. It was glowing and looked like some kind of fairy. I guess it wasn't important to them.
After that, however, I passed out again.
When I woke up the second time, it wasn't by myself, someone was pushing me, so I slowly opened my eyes. I didn't feel like I just got shot by a tank anymore, which was a good sign, I guess.
"Hey, I think he's waking up!" Somebody said. At least I can actually understand someone in this weird world.
"Are you okay?" Another one said. This one sounded female, judging by the pitch of the voice. I turned over to face them, expecting to see humans.
They were not humans, in fact, they were dragons.
My first thought was to scream and run away, but then I realized that these two were the only people that seemed to care for my well being.
"Yeah, I think I'm okay." I said.
When I felt my mouth move, I knew something was different about my body. Immediately, I looked at my hand. It had turned into a scale covered foot with five appendages, each with a claw coming from the end of them. The scales, which I noticed were orange, ran down my arm, and all over my body. My eyes widened in surprise, this caused the dragons to give me a strange look.
I tried to get up, and that's when I noticed my body had gone from a two legged format to a four legged format. I instantly fell over, since I had no idea how to balance this new body.
"Are you sure you're alright?" The male asked. I looked at him, and noticed that he had purple scales, and the female had black scales.
"Yeah, honestly, I'm fine." I said. At this point, the last thing I wanted to do was tell them I'm a human, that might cause more trouble than it's worth.
I tried to get up again, and this time I managed to balance myself. I looked behind me, and I saw a pair of large wings, and a tail that was the same length as the rest of my body. I was taller than the other dragons, there were maybe, four, five feet tall, while I was easily over six feet tall.
"So, what's your name?" The female asked.
"Dylan Jaeger, and you?" I answered. They gave me another weird look, I guess I have an uncommon name in this world.
"My name is Cynder, and this is Spyro. I don't think either of us has met a dragon with two names before." Cynder said.
"Well, now you have." I replied.
The room we were in began to light up as torches hanging from the ceiling were lit. That's when we began to notice our surroundings. We were on some kind of platform, separated from the rest of the building by a gap between the platform and the rest of the building.
"All in favor of getting the hell out of here, say I." I sarcastically commented. Spyro looked at me and sighed. And they moved to the edge of the platform, that's when some kind of electric chain appeared and stopped Spyro in his tracks. It seemed to be connected to Cynder as well, and it was activated by some sort of distance limit. Being an engineer, I found that to be very impressive, but Spyro and Cynder did not.
That's when the thing that hauled us to this place shouted something, and a small army of troops swarmed us. Spyro and Cynder prepared to fight, but, because I still had no idea how to effectively use this new body, but I did notice one advantage that I could use that Spyro and Cynder couldn't. I didn't seem to be connected to that electric restraint thing, so I was able to freely move.
But, that disadvantage to the dynamic duo over here didn't seem to bother them, because they were kicking ass just fine even with the staple. I watched as they threw enemies, stomped them, and kicked them. Clearly, this was not their first rodeo, and they didn't seem to keen on the idea that this would be their last.
After they had cleared the area of all the little guys, it got kind of calm.
Until the golem showed up. The son of a bitch was an enormous fire monster thing. Spyro and Cynder realized they needed to break what was holding them to the ground. They got on opposite sides of the staple, and pulled back. They ripped it out of the ground, and the link to the ground was destroyed. The golem slammed its hand onto the platform. That's when it finally hit me.
"I'm in the game." I thought. I've seen so many boss fights in video games like this, the big guy slams his hand down, you run up the arm, and attack the back of the neck or something. With this realization, I made the stupidest decision since I got here.
I ran at it. I jumped onto its hand, where it immediately saw me. It tried to shake me off, but I dug my claws into its rock arm. I made it to the shoulder of the creature, which was made completely of lava.
"Maybe this is one of those bosses where you attack the hand when it comes down." I thought. I jumped off, and landed back on the platform. The golem tried to squash me like a fly, but I jumped out of the way. I took this opportunity to see if I was right about the hand. Spyro, Cynder, and I began attacking the hand, which was clearly inflicting pain on the golem, as it pulled its arm back and roared. It got ready to slam its fist down on us, but it was interrupted by something. I saw as an arrow went directly into its eye, blinding it. It fell backwards, and it seemed he was down for the count. A pillar came down as he fell, giving us access to escape.
"Well, that was easier than I thought it was going to be." I said.
"That was a pretty dumb move, running up that thing's arm." Spyro said.
"Spur of the moment decision." I responded.
"Yeah, whatever." Spyro said.
Spyro and Cynder jumped up the pillar with the assistance of their wings, which caused me to remember something.
I don't know how to fly. I didn't tell them right away, because I thought it would be a bit embarrassing. Given my size, they probably guessed I'm older than them, so they assumed I can fly.
"Hey, are you coming, or what?" Cynder yelled.
"Yeah, just, give me a second!" I yelled back. I tried flapping my wings, I could get them to move, but not fast enough to gain any altitude.
Needless to say, they quickly caught on.
"You don't know how to fly, do you?" Spyro asked.
"Maybe." I answered.
"You really don't know how to fly?" Cynder asked.
"No, I don't." I answered.
"Just flap your wings, that should be enough to get you up here." Spyro said.
I tried just that, flapping my wings. I flapped as hard as I could, and I did manage to get off the ground. I managed to elevate myself to the pillar, and landed on it.
"Was that so hard?" Spyro asked.
"Shut up." I replied. I looked ahead, and I saw one of those little guys trying to figure out my 3D Gear. Cynder noticed it, as well.
"Hey, what's that one trying to do? What's that thing it's holding?" She asked.
"An invention of mine. He's not smart enough to figure it out. Even if he does, he's too small to use it." I explained.
"What does it do?" Cynder asked.
I was about to answer, but that would give away the fact I'm not from this world.
"I'm not really sure yet, I've still gotta find a purpose for it." I was kind of half telling the truth, since I didn't have a use for it before, because it was too big.
"Well, let's get down there before he does figure it out." Spyro suggested. He jumped off the pillar, activating the electric chain again. Cynder was taken by surprise and was dragged off as Spyro landed. Cynder face planted next to him. I jumped off, but before we could even take a step towards the little guy, he was picked off by another arrow.
The shooter of the arrow revealed himself, honestly, I was still hoping there were humans in this world, because I know that dragons can't use arrows.
Who shot the arrow?
A cheetah. A God damned cheetah.
I haven't even been here for a full day, and my sense of reality has been completely shattered.
There's chapter one! So, what did you think? Good? Bad? Meh? Also, for those wondering, the 3D Maneuver Gear is a device from the anime series Attack on Titan. If you want to learn more, check it out yourself, because its rather difficult to explain. Thanks for reading!