I own neither Dresden or DxD, sadly for me.

Prologue

Ow. Ow ow ow. I would probably continue to say ow until I passed out if I didn't get up. I suppose it was a good thing I couldn't remember how I got here. All I could call to mind was being onboard the water beetle waiting for Karin to come back and then…I got shot! Some bastard shot me. I hoisted myself to my feet and patted myself down to check for wounds…only to notice a startling lack of clothes.

Those sons of bitches! They shot me AND stole my clothes? Who even does that?! Also Stars and stones, when had I become so lanky? I must have been down for a while if my muscles had atrophied this much, I couldn't remember being this thin at any time since I was maybe sixteen. After I pulled myself together I took a look around and saw…well a lot of red. I was standing on a rock in some kind of swirling vortex of crimson oblivion.

I thought maybe I was dreaming, so I tried pinching myself. Again. OW. "You should probably stop doing that." Rumbled an earthshakingly deep voice from behind me "I put a lot of effort into making that body and it'd be a shame if you were to damage it, it's quite a bit stronger than your old one physically speaking, so you'll need to be careful." I froze immediately in place.

That voice sounded like it was coming from something very large, and I was honestly a bit afraid to see what could be making a sound like that. I turned around… and wished I hadn't. The creature in front of me was, in a word, titanic. As in…as big as the ship, and that was just the horn on its massive snout. And that massive, unstoppable, nightmare's glowing golden eyes were pointed right at yours truly.

"Guh" I said wittily. The behemoth chuckled, or there was a series of short violent earthquakes, one of those. "Speak boy, you're of no use to me as a mute, if the body was improperly prepared I'll need to start over." I blinked "I…what?" The dragon (because the giant red monstrosity really obviously was) "This conversation is going to be very boring if you're just gonna sit there babbling like a moron."

I pulled together the tattered remains of my courage and managed to force myself to speak in actual sentences "You…are very large." Ok so maybe not INTELLIGENT sentences but hells bells the thing had teeth as tall as the Chrysler building. Those massive burning pools of gold actually ROLLED at me, but I continued. "Or I suppose from your perspective I'm just very small."

The beast snorted, and billows of stinging, searing air swept over me "So it can make some sense, good I thought I'd wasted the effort of creating the new body and stealing your essence." My eyes narrowed at that "And not that I'm not grateful but why and how exactly did you do that." The dragon made a hmmm sound as if to acknowledge that I had made a point

"Boredom ,for the most part. That, and opportunity." I blinked. "Run that by me again?" The burning gold eyes rolled at me again "I took you because it was easy. At time of death your soul momentarily severed connection with your world. Something about your nature allows your life force interaction with forces outside you realm of creation. And the white fire that burns in your soul acted as a beacon for my attention upon your death. Such fires aren't usually touched with mortality and never with the essence of the realms between creations."

I blinked, stunned at the momentous being's words "So wait…you grabbed me because I was SHINY?" The fires must have been soulfire and the other aspect must have been the thing lash had told me about being able to affect Outsiders, before she sacrificed herself for me in the Raith deeps. The dragon gave a grunt in the affirmative "A bit simplistic but a fair enough description. I took your soul and crafted a new body of my own flesh, as your soul was already infused with the white flame it was able integrate into my flesh perfectly." I looked down at my body. I hadn't taken much time to look myself over since my awakening, aside from a cursory bullet-check. My flesh really didn't seem red or scaly though, the dragon noted my glance

"Oh, that. Obviously a giant scaly red beast would hardly make a useful agent in the human world, so I crafted my flesh into a human semblance. Given time for your power to expand to fill the gap your current energy leaves in the vessel's energy stores you'll be able to manifest yourself into the form of a full dragon when you wish. But I suppose you might think of yourself as a dragon/wizard hybrid."

I sputtered at that "Hells's bells you turned me into a Dragon? Why would you even do that? And what do you mean agent in the human world?" Its eyes flicked away for a moment and then back to settle on me "I get so bored here, all by myself. All around the mortal world lesser dragons plot and scheme employing their agents to play games among the humans. I get so tired of watching it all.

I want to play too I want to have my own agent in their world, so I got you. You have a talent for chaos and havoc, and for bloodying the nose of powers greater than yourself. I've given you this new body and the power that comes with it so you can continue to do so in my name. I will watch through your eyes as you go forth into this world and show the other beings that wish to rule it that even from here im a threat to be feared."

I scowled at that, it sounded like this thing wanted me to be its puppet, and I was no one's puppet. "Im not just going to roll over and obey your every wish, and if you thought I was you have a hell of a surprise coming." The beast laughed "I don't want a puppet boy, I want a show. And from what I've seen no one puts on a show like you. I can hardly wait for the trouble you'll get into in a world where no one knows your name. They'll never see you coming." "No one…?" But before I could finish a swirling vortex opened at my feet and I dropped into the scarlet oblivion.

SCENE BREAK

For the second time in as many hours I found myself flat on my back in pain. At least this time I was in cool grass, though it appeared my dragon boss had failed to leave me with clothes. The only seeming upside to all this is that apparently my new malicious winter-fresh flavor hadn't come along for the ride. Of course, I was a dragon now and apparently stranded in a world that could be so different from my own as to be unrecognizable for all I knew. I sat up and looked around to see…a school.

I wasn't sure what I'd been expecting but it had hardly been what appeared to be an upper tier private school. "Well, looks like I took a left turn at the wrong Albuquerque." I glanced around to try to gain some sort of perspective on what kind of school this was. Tennis court, sprawling lawn, giant marble buildings, so far all I could tell was that this place was a hell of a lot nicer than where I went to school.

"Excuse me?" I heard a voice squeak, and turned around expecting to see some kind of deformed demon chipmunk only to come face to face with an absolutely adorable little blonde girl of about sixteen in a school uniform "Im sorry" she said blushing profusely "Are you a student here?" I raised my eyebrow at the girl "No I don't go here…"

I trailed off I was fairly sure that I didn't look nearly young enough to go here, but then a horrifying thought occurred to me. I glanced frantically around till I spotted a reflective surface bolting over to glance at my (still naked so that's why she was blushing, oops) reflection. I stared at myself in dawning horror, I was still me but puff the terrifying dragon hadn't made my new body to the exact same specs. I was looking at my face alright, at the age of sixteen.

I desperately tried to think up some explanation that wouldn't land me in a mental institution "I was…um...kidnapped." I said blurting out the first thing I could think of and almost immediately regretted it as an almost unbearably sweet expression of worry and sympathy flooded the girls features "Oh no that's terrible, I'm sure we can help get you home Dear God who art in heaven…ow" She trailed off from the prayer that shed started, yelping in pain. I couldn't help but smile at how cute she was, but I was a bit concerned by the apparent headache that had just hit her.

I could almost feel something supernatural coming from her but I really couldn't understand enough about my new senses and the way this new world worked to be able to say for certain. Something in my new reptilian gut was telling me that her sweetness was on the up and up, I had seen plenty of fantastically gifted monsters pretend to be all hugs and puppies (the former Summer Lady Aurora had been pretty much a gold medalist at the sally sunshine act) but something about this girl rang more…genuine. I decided that I'd have to trust my new dragon-y instincts at least a little I doubt Clifford the Big Red Dragon would get much entertainment value out of me if I wasn't around for more than a few minutes so they probably weren't too far off the mark.

She seemed almost heartbreakingly upset about the sudden headache and I couldn't help but melt a little at the sight "Hey are you feeling alright? You seem like you might have hurt yourself." She shook her whole head vigorously (So cute!) "No I'm fine we should really find you some clothes to wear." This accompanied by resurfacing of her adorable blush (god being a teenager must be messing with my hormones I was paying way too much attention to how cute this girl was) I turned my attention back outward as she continued

"I could take you back to our clubhouse." I didn't really have many options here so I decided to take her up on that. I mean hey, how bad could a club be if it had this little cutie in it? "Alright" I said "I'd be really grateful for the help. My name is Harry by the way. What's yours?" She smiled sunnily at me "My name is Asia Argento pleased to make your acquaintance." I had a good feeling about this girl, I was pretty sure this club of hers would be a nice quiet place for me to lie low and figure out what to do.

Ok this is a new fandom for me. I'd like to start by saying I love this fandom and all the fics posted in this category so far, if you haven't read them I highly recommend you do so. Beyond the outer gate lies by Gabriel blessing and Devil you know by Surrarin are both brilliant and I just hope that my fic doesn't mess up the fandom too badly. I love the direction those two fics have gone but I'm going to be trying my own angle and I hope I can do it justice. Keep in mind this is just the prologue and id love some feedback and even suggestions(not promising to take them but I love hearing ideas) I plan on the future chapters being much longer I just really wanted to get the beginning out and kind of asses the reactions to see what direction I feel will benefit both the fans(assuming I get any) and I the most.