This is my first fanfic and I have no way of telling how good it is and am open to constructive criticism.

Jim woke in the warehouse, though it was abandoned, Jim couldn't shake the feeling he was being watched. He knew with the windows covered with banners, the trolls could sleep in it for the day, as long as they stayed away from one area where the window had been broken and the banner had fallen off slightly. Jim rubbed his eyes, then looked around, the rest of the trolls were still asleep. Without a heartstone, they needed more sleep. Jim saw something move out of the corner of his eye, something white and large, but when he looked, it was gone. He ran his hand through his hair, and over his horn. He stretched, then noticed Merlin. He was crouched down, and appeared to be studying a wall in the aria with the broken window, Jim stood up, and immediately, the feeling of being watched returned. The half troll sighed and walked over to the wizard, stopping just far enough away to avoid being burned.

"What are you doin-" Jim began but Merlin cut him off.

"Shush! Can't you see I'm investigating something!" Merlin said in a harsh whisper.

"What are you investiga-" Jim whispered, only to be cut off by the wizard once again.

"Shush!" he whispered, annoyed, "Go back to sleep! This doesn't concern you!"

Man! That guy could get angry fast. Jim took a step closer, forgetting where Merlin was. He suddenly felt like he had walked into a wall of fire, he grunted and jumped out of the sun. He heard a soft growl coming from the corner where Merlin was 'investigating' the growl sounded like a stalklings, but lower, though and more raspy. Jim summoned his sword, Merlin reached out and began peting what looked like a piece of furniture covered by a sheet.

Wow, he really is crazy Jim thought.

Suddenly the fernature began to move and faded into a creamy white wing, and a giant cream-colored reptile appeared. It had giant, bat-like wings, four muscled legs(with feet as big as Jims torso), a tail covered in long spikes each a little longer than Jims forearm, a long snout, four curved horns on each side of its head, and one green eye and one blue eye(the colors were very visible compared to its pupils which were narrow slits). Without thinking, Jim threw his sword, but too high, it stuck into the wall a few feet above the creature, It looked up at it, then at Jim, its pupils widened and it cocked its head in curiosity. Then it turned, knocking Merlin across the room, and bit Eclipse, Jim was about to summon it again, when the creature yanked it out of the wall, walked over to Jim, and dropped it in front of his feet. Jim gave the reptile a confused look, and the creature bent down, its hind legs still straight, tail in the air, it reminded Jim of a puppy's playful stance. What was it doing? Jim heard Merlin and Clair groan, he turned and saw Merlin on Clair, who was pushing him off her, grunting.

"Merlin! What are you doing! Get off!" She grunted.

Merlin quickly rolled off her and got into a standing position and glared at the creature, who had moved into a dog-like sitting position, he folded his arms.

"Codiesia! You stupid dragon! How can you be so ignorant of your surroundings!" he shouted at the creature.

"D-dragon! That's a dragon!" Jim shouted pointing at the dragon, causing many trolls to groan.

Clair then saw the dragon, then grabbed a pole that had fallen out of the wall, and jumped to her feet.

"Jim! It's right behind you!" she shouted.

Jim suddenly felt something wet and slimy flick against the side of his face. He turned and saw the dragon, tongue out, looking surprised. Merlin walked over to the dragon, and flicked its snout. It responded by jumping back slightly. Merlin cleared his throat

"Don't lick them!" He said sternly, sounding like a person scolding his dog.

The dragon bowed its head, looked at Merlin, and knocked him over with a big, long lick, Jim held back a laugh as he looked at Clair, who was smiling, struggling to stifle laughter. The dragon let out a noise that sounded like deep laughter. Merlin got up, glaring at it. Jim heard Blinky yelp.

"Great Gronka morka! A dragon!" he shouted.

Merlin pinched the bridge of his nose and muttered something to himself.

"This is Codiesia, a creature who helped me make the amulet." he stated as if it was obvious.

"You have a dragon!" Jim said, baffled.

"I'm owned by no one!" Codiesia said with a raspy voice that didn't give away it's gender, surprising everyone except Merlin. "And I'm a dragonborn not dragon, forgive my behavior, Merlin, but the look on your face was worth it, as for the rest of you, I would rather the other trolls not find out about me until I'm ready. Even if I was Merlin's apprentice."

"Dragonborn?" Clair asked.

"Can turn human. I'm funny that way." Codiesia responded, "Oh and by the way, I go by Cody, just FYI."

"Indeed, a dragonborn is a sorcerer that can turn into a dragon, or adopt dragon-like traits." Blinky said.

"How did you get in?" Merlin asked.

"Through the window" Cody said, speaking as if Merlin was a child who had just asked what color the sky was.

Clair put down the pole and pulled out her phone to check the time.
"The sun will set soon, so unless Cody wants all the trolls to see him, he should leave." she said and looked at the dragonborn.

"Actually, She's female, you can tell by her lack of fangs." Blinky said, as if it was a stupid mistake.

"Exactly." Cody said, now sounding more like a teenage girl. "And I don't have to leave to avoid being seen, besides, trolls are heavy sleepers."

With that she crouched down and seemed to disappear. So Cody was a girl. But how long had she been there. No wonder Jim had felt like he was being watched. The light coming from the broken window turned gold, and eventually faded as the moon rose. The other trolls eventually woke up and all of them left together, Clair, using google maps, led the way. Jim wondered if Cody was following them.

Cody had been following them ever since they entered the warehouse in Utah a week before. Now they were in Colorado, near the border of Missouri. Jim knew she was near because he had learned her smell after the second time she decided to talk to them, this time as a human-sized, bipedal version of her dragon form, wearing Roman armor, and a necklace with an amethyst gem at the end, and willingly showing herself to every one of the trolls, many of which responded by throwing rocks at her. And explained she was able to speak in a dracanic toungue. Jim felt weird smelling her, but he couldn't stop himself, he had apologised, but she had said it was an instinct and she was used to it. Which only made Jim feel weirder about it. Sometimes she showed up with a few pieces of meat charred so much that no one could tell what it was, for Clair, who was just grateful to have something to eat, even if it was practically charcoal on the outside. Now, Jim could tell by smell that she was in a nearby tree. Something caught his eye, it was figure with a silhouette of a body, long black hair, horns that curved like Jim's, but had short horns coming off the larger set curved back slightly, its skin was a pinkish-orange color and seemed to glow subtlety enough that Jim didn't think he could have seen it as a human, not without his night vision, he noticed the figure had long, pointed ears, like his. It was running, and Jim ran to get a better look, the figure turned its head, and Jim noticed its nose matched his, but a different color, and slightly smaller, it's tusks were smaller than Jim's, and it's eyes were a dark reddish brown color. It continued running but its eyes widened when it saw Jim, it kept running, and looking at Jim, until it ran into a tree, and fell on the ground, Jim ran over to where he saw it fall, but smelled Cody, invisible, standing in a nearby tree, the figure was gone. He reluctantly walked back and rejoined the group.

"Master Jim, why did you run off?" Blinky asked.

"I-I thought I saw something-someone like me." Jim said, and heard Cody grunt from her perch, and jump to another branch, nearly silently.

"James, I am quite certain you are the only human-troll hybrid that exists."Merlin said, followed by another grunt from Cody.

"Yeah it turned out to be nothin- AUGH!" Cody shot a spike from her tail narrowly missing Merlin and hitting Jim's armored, five fingered hand, "WHAT WAS THAT FOR!" Jim shouted at the hidden dragonborn.

"That was for making me run into a tree." Cody said.

Cody dropped to the ground this time in a fully human form for the first time Jim had known about, her hair was the color of gold, and her skin was a light tan color, her face was round in a way that made her look a little like an owl, and she was really short, like under five feet, she was wearing a dark blue shirt with a picture of a parrot with its beak open and the words 'Are You Yelling?' above it, and the words 'Because I'm Louder' below the picture, jeans, knitted gloves, and the necklace she was usually wearing. Jim noticed she was holding a tissue to her nose, and Jim smelled blood. She looked at him and they made eye contact, but Jim Quickly looked away.

"And then calling it nothing" she said.

"Wait, That was you!" Jim said, sencing Clair walking towards them.

"How did Jim make you run into a tree?" Clair said.

"Litha Jim qil pyha pyhitapik liqa cuiw, hiceu" Cody responded, in the draconic tongue (of coarse!), looking at Clair.

"Litha whoda whata?" Clair said, confused.

"He distracted me, he made me think he was chasing me. And I ran into a tree."Cody said, smirking."Goodbye."

With that, scales formed on her skin, then she turned invisible, except for the blood and the tissue, and she jumped into the nearest tree.

Jim thought of the figure he saw, that couldn't have been Cody. Could it?