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So, here it is, my very first story in a long time! I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it. There are going to be a number of stories, as I am currently working on this as a series. Just as a quick note, this story isn’t for minors, blah blah blah, you know all that, you’ve probably been on this site for some time.

Also, the gamer tag that the character uses, TheFeralDragon, is MY PSN gamertag. I was going to make one up, but knowing my luck, I would have accidentally used one that belonged to someone, so this way, no awkwardness occurs if someone messages my tag. Anyway, enjoy the story!

Mail Order Dragon

It’s safe to say that if the most exciting thing you’ve done in a day is to lay in bed and watch the ceiling fan blades spin, you lead a pretty dull life. And that’s exactly the kind of life that was led by Steve Brandt. Steve was 21 years old, out of school, and led a very dull life. He worked a basic 9-5 retail job, but other than that, there really wasn’t a whole lot to occupy his time.

He had his hobbies, of course. He was a gamer though he didn’t much care for online games. He liked to fish, to get him out of the house, and he enjoyed a day on the couch with the tv on for background noise while he read a book, but those hobbies didn’t fill up much time at all. Steve’s biggest problem was that he was a loner. He didn’t much care for people, and so didn’t really have any friends. There were people he talked to, of course. Co-workers and customers and the like, but not anyone he was really interested in spending any time with.

Steve did occasionally go to a bar down the round. It wasn’t a fancy place by any means, but it was a good place to meet women who weren’t looking for attachment any more than he was. Just a one night stand to satisfy their carnal cravings, and off they went, never to be seen again.

Now Steve sighed, staring up at the ceiling, a book laying open beside him. Recently, he was starting to want more, as far as companionship. Maybe not a girlfriend, though he wasn’t opposed to the idea, but at least someone to hang out with. Someone he could play video games with, or take fishing, or hell, even just sit around talking and having some beers. He couldn’t help but think that he might be too late for that. When he was in school, he never tried to cultivate any friendships, nor did he try to expand his circle into any of the other groups. Even his Facebook page was filled with little more than family members.

Steve sighed again and rolled out of bed to go sit at his computer. “Maybe I can go online and buy myself a friend.” he muttered to himself. His mind wandered as he clicked through the screens, not even paying attention to what was on them, searching for nothing in particular. And then he ran across an ad. It wasn’t big or flashy, but the wording caught his attention. ‘Looking for friendship or companionship? Sign up for a mail order dragon today!’ He laughed at the screen, shaking his head. Dragons didn’t exist….. So why was he so compelled to click it? Suddenly the sense of loneliness washed over him again, and he clicked it without thinking about it.

There were no pictures of the ‘mail order dragons’, which disappointed him. He would have liked to know what he was getting himself into. Instead, it was a basic questionnaire: What his interests were, where he lived, what he liked to eat and drink, when he worked, all pretty basic stuff. At least until he reached the bottom few questions. How much time could he devote to his companion, was he married, his sexual orientation, was he willing to try new things….. This amused him more than it alarmed him though, and he completed the questions and submitted the thing, to be met with a screen that said ‘Thank you for your submission for a mail order dragon! You will receive a reply in 48 hours.’

“48 hours, huh? Well, I suppose i’ve been alone this long, another two days won’t hurt.” And with that, Steve got off of the computer and went back to his contemplation of the ceiling fan.

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Steve thought about it all the next day though. Mail Order Dragon? What had he signed up for? Dragons weren’t real, so how could you order one? And what was up with those last questions on the questionnaire? Was someone going to show up in a dragon costume? He wondered if he could cancel the whole thing, but he couldn’t remember the website. He searched all over the place for ‘Mail Order Dragon’, but all he found were websites for stuffed dragons and the like, and he spent hours (what else was he going to do with his time?) looking with no success.

The next day when Steve got home from work, the first thing he did was to check the mail. There was nothing there (other than bills) which didn’t surprise him over much, he had submitted the questionnaire by email, after all. And sure enough, when he checked his email, there was one that was simply titled ‘Mail Order Dragon’. When it was opened, it was a simple email with no return links. He scanned the message quickly.

‘Congratulations! You have been selected by one of our dragon companions! She will arrive at your residence no later than 5:17 pm tomorrow evening, whence your seven day trial phase will begin. If you are both satisfied, an extension can be negotiated. Please be sure to be ready to meet your companion, as missing your meeting time will result in forfeiture of your companion.

-Mail Order Dragon-’

“5:17 pm? What an oddly specific time…..” Not that it was a big deal, tomorrow was Saturday, and he didn’t work anyways. But the email left Steve with even more questions. A seven day trial phase…..So that meant she was staying with him, in his apartment, for an entire week? He lived in a small one bedroom apartment with a single bed. He supposed that he could sleep on the couch, so that was no big deal, it wouldn’t be the first time he’d done it. But what about food? The dragons he read about were huge creatures with massive appetites. How on earth was he going to feed her? He sighed and leaned back in his computer chair. Not for the first time, he asked himself…. What on earth had he gotten himself into?

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Steve went to bed early in preparation for the meeting, but he slept fitfully. He kept having dreams about huge dragons setting down on his apartment complex and crushing it, or setting it on fire. What were his neighbors going to think if an actual dragon showed up on his doorstep? He hadn’t even thought of that until it was far too late. So at 4:50 pm, he started to get ready by getting showered, shaving his scruffy goatee, and all the things he would normally do, he thought with amusement, if he were getting ready for a night out at the bar. He even took the precaution, earlier in the day to get condoms. The more that he thought about it, the sillier it seemed that a dragon would show up, and if a woman was staying in his apartment for a week, he was going to at least try to get laid.

At 5:15, he was dressed in jeans and a white t-shirt with the Playstation logo on it, waiting by the door, writhing with anxiety. At exactly 5:17, there was a hearty knock on the door. Not the timid knock of a first time visitor, but the knock of someone who visited often. He took a deep breath and opened the door, and was met with disappointment. There on his doorstep stood a normal girl. She was cute enough, a little on the short side, and a little chubby. She had a punk rocker vibe with all black clothing and several gold earrings, bracelets, and a gold dragon necklace hanging in the cleavage of her heavy c-cup breasts. She had on her back a blue backpack and she smiled brightly at him and held out a hand.

“Hi, Steve, it’s nice to meet you. My name’s Luna, and i’m with M.O.D. Ready to hang out and play some games?” Steve did the best he could to hide his disappointment as he smiled and shook her hand before leading her inside, heading towards the living room and giving her the brief tour of the apartment. Once the tour was finished and they were in the living room, Luna set down her backpack near the couch. “It’s nice you were actually here, my last two picks were no-shows. Probably too shy. Anyway, i’m going to use your bathroom to change before we get started, ‘kay?” And she bounced into the bathroom, leaving Steve staring after her. It wasn’t even six o’clock, what was she changing into, bed clothes? Or maybe it WAS a dragon costume, like he had originally thought?

That was probably it, and Steve sighed softly as he opened the cabinet beneath the tv to show Luna his substantial game library when the bathroom door opened. He picked up his Playstation controller and clicked on the console. “So, Luna, what kind of games do you….?!” Steve stopped, mid sentence, and he stared with his mouth hanging open as the controller slipped from his suddenly slack hand to clatter to the floor. What had come out of his bathroom was not the chubby girl who went in. It was a lithe creature coated entirely in black scales so dark they seemed to drink the light around her. She had deep, golden eyes, and two wings that flowed down her back. Her paws had four digits upon them, and a long, graceful tail. She stood on all fours, as high as his waist, like a large dog. A dragon had come out of his bathroom!

Luna looked up at him and huffed in annoyance, rolling her eyes. She walked past him, picking up the controller with her tail as she went past. “You really shouldn’t drop these.” She said, as though there was nothing wrong with the current situation. It’s not good for them, and they are really expensive. I like your taste.” She said, looking over his game collection.

“Y….You…..You’re a….” Steve sputtered, still gawking at her, his eyes opened so wide they were in danger of popping out of his skull.

“A dragon, yes.” Luna said with the patience of a teacher lecturing a slow student. “I came from a place called Mail Order DRAGON, so what were you expecting, a penguin?” She giggled softly, a sound that Steve would have thought her incapable of making. “Look,” Luna said, looking over her shoulder. “I’m a dragon, yes, and I am real. We DO exist, and this is really happening. Does that cover all the basic questions for this particular situation?” Steve nodded slowly and went to sit on the couch slowly, picking up his other controller. “Good! Now, let’s get started on something a little easy, eh?” So with that, she popped in Mortal Kombat 11, and started it up.

Steve got destroyed, to put it mildly. At first he was distracted by the fact that a living, breathing dragon was in his living room talking to him. But as his competitive nature took over, he put that aside and actually started trying, using his best characters and techniques, combos and special moves, and still Luna wrecked him like a noob. For a creature sitting on her haunches, using four ‘fingers’ to play, she was amazing. “Oh, come on, Steve! You’re going to do a LOT better than this.” Luna said with disappointment in her voice; she had been kicking his ass for over six hours now. “I mean, it’s a start, I guess, but you’ve got a long way to go…….”

“A long way to go for what?” Steve asked with some frustration. It had been a long time since he had been made to feel like a noob in any game.

“You’ll have to get better to find out.” Luna said, giggling again. Then she yawned widely, showing off her glistening teeth which stood out starkly in contrast to her dark hide. “I think we’ll call it a day for now, Steve, i’ve had a long one. Coming to bed?” The question caught him off guard. Sleep with her? In his bed? He stammered a bit until she sighed. “I mean to sleep, you perv. You don’t know me well enough for that to even be considered yet. So, are you coming or not?” Steve demurred on the grounds that he wasn’t tired yet, and he was going to watch t.v. Luna shrugged and disappeared into his room. With her scales as black as they were, she seemed to melt into the darkness.

Steve did turn on the t.v., but he didn’t pay it any attention. He was reliving the wildest night of his life. He had played games with (and lost to) a female dragon. He couldn’t help but wonder though: Was she a female? He had shamed himself in his curiosity by looking under her tail the few times she had stood with her back to him, and nothing about her screamed female, save maybe a slight curvature of the hips…..

He shook his head, as half of his mind went down a path it had no right going, and the other half was appalled at the first for having such thoughts. At any rate, he was far more tired than he let on, he just wanted to give Luna her space, as they HAD just met, and sleeping in the same bed together on the first night didn’t seem right. It wasn’t like this was the first time that he had passed out on his couch, so a few hours later, he turned off the tv and went to sleep, dreaming of dragons and flying.

Sunday, Day 2 of 7

Steve awoke in the late hours of the morning, and started in surprise when he looked up and a woman was frowning down at him, arms crossed over his chest. The same one that he had let into his apartment last night. Had he dreamed the rest of what happened last night? He didn’t remember drinking anything. “You never came to bed last night, Steve.” Luna said with a pout. “I don’t know if you were trying to be a gentleman, or if you were just shamed by the butt whoopin’ I gave you last night, but you should know, i’m a cuddler.” Seeing the blank look on his face, she smirked. “Yes, i’m still a dragon, and last night really happened. Now, i’ve got things to do. What? No, not other applicants, we can only be contractually obligated to one person at a time, so i’m all yours this week.”

“I saw you have Destiny 2 in there.” Luna continued, heading towards the door. “Do you have a full fire-team to play with?” She grinned when he confirmed that he did. “Good, i’m glad to hear it! I’ve got my own fire-team. I’ve got my rig set up in your room. Destiny 2 will be our game for the night, when I get back. See you tonight, Stevie!” And with that, she bounced out the door, leaving him staring after her.

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“Where in the hell did you meet these guys, Steve?” Roger, one of his teammates, asked during a small break between matches. “We’ve been beat by good teams before, but this is like, unreal. They’ve gotta be tournament ranked players.”

“I only know one of them. It’s a girl that I met recently.” Steve said. There was a chorus of ‘ooohs’ and laughter from the other guys on the team, which he pointedly ignored. “I’ve got a hunch that she’s the one with the gamertag TheFeralDragon, who’s been hunting me all night tonight.”

“So you got yourself a badass gamer girlfriend that kicks your ass.” Roger said, with a hint of jealousy in his voice. “Way to go, Steve.” Luna, the dragon version, stuck her head out of the bedroom and waved, a signal that her team was ready to go again.

“It’s not anything like that, guys.” Steve said, feeling heat rise in his cheeks and glad that no one was there to see it. “We only met yesterday, and I slept on the couch. Besides, the other team is read.” He was asked how he could have possibly known that. “Because…...She’s here in the other room and told me so.” This brought on cheers and jeers from his fellow guardians, telling him to ‘drop the controller and go get a piece.’ He was sure if he told them he had a dragon in his apartment, they wouldn’t be so eager to egg him on in that direction.

At around 11:00pm, his team had gotten tired of having their asses handed to them, and not one of them had a K/D over 1.5 for the entire night. The other team, however, had a consistent K/D of 3.5 or higher every single match. Steve sighed as he powered down the console and packed everything up for the night, as tomorrow was Monday and he had to return to work. Luna came out of the room and yawned, stretching her wings. “TheFeralDragon”, I presume?” Steve asked, somewhat sourly. The grin on her face (muzzle?) left him in no doubt that he had presumed correctly. “Those guys and I have been playing together for years, since the first raid on D1 launched, and we couldn’t hold a candle to your team. Thanks for hunting me all night, by the way.”

“Oh, don’t feel bad, little Stevie.” Luna said, amused. “We’ve been playing together since before Destiny even launched, on other games. We know each others playstyles, and what to expect from one another, and we have top notch communication.” Here she grew serious again. “That’s what these games are about, Steve. Not the outcome, but the lessons learned. So even though you’ve been losing to me, you haven’t been LOSING.” That went right over Steve’s head, and Luna knew it. “You’ll figure it out soon enough. But we’ve got work tomorrow, so it’s time for bed. And you’re NOT” she said, stopping him before he could speak. “Sleeping on the couch, you’re sleeping with me. I want to talk for a bit anyways, about M.O.D., and what our goal is. Besides, I told you this morning, I like to be cuddled, so let’s get ready for bed.”

Steve’s entire face went red and he shook his head slowly. “I can’t because in my bed, I don’t…..I mean, I, uhhhh…..”

“Oh ho, you sleep naked, don’t you?” Luna asked coyly, winking at him as he nodded. “I might not mind that…..Later.” Steve was surprised to find himself mildly disappointed. “So for tonight, keep your pants on.” Luna said with a giggle. “It’s still only our second night together, after all.” So Steve put on a pair of sweatpants over his briefs and crawled into bed with her. Cuddling Luna was like cuddling a warm, breathing shadow. The room was dark, but she was somehow darker, and that was kind of creepy. “So, before I go into the whole M.O.D. spiel, and questions for me?” Luna asked softly, her voice floating from the darkness. “Everyone always does.”

“Well, I guess I do.” Steve said, running through the many questions he’d had since she arrived. He of course, opened his mouth and asked probably the stupidest one. “How do I tell if you’re a female? I mean, there isn’t anything that gives it away.” Luna then snorted, half amused and half irritated.

“Of all the questions you could ask me, you go with that one?” She asked, turning to look at him, which was seeming just a pair of golden eyes floating in the dark, and that creeped him out even more. “I can only assume you mean tits, otherwise…..” She narrowed her eyes at him. “Someone’s been naughty, looking somewhere they shouldn’t be.” He started guiltily, and Luna felt it. She shrieked in laughter, turning the bedside light on, grinning toothily. “Oh my Gods, you HAVE! I should have known, all males always do at some point. Well, to answer your question, the first way you can tell that I’m a female is my lack of horns on my head. Only males have those. Now, give me your hand.” He held it out and she took it and placed it on her upper thigh. Her scales were warm, soft, and supple against his skin, nothing at all how he thought it would feel. She slowly drew his hand up her thigh to her hip where he felt….Fabric? Luna lifted his hand off and hooked one of her digits beneath it and lifted it up, stretching the fabric.

“Panties, Steve, that’s why you couldn’t see anything when you looked underneath my tail.” She said, letting the panties snap back into place. “They are made the same color as my scales to keep males from sneaking a peek at my treasure. Although I should have known you were looking when I found these last night.” She opened the drawer on the bedside table, taking out the condoms that he had bought the other day and shaking the box at him. “At least you’re smart enough to be prepared and safe.” She said, throwing the box back into the drawer amid his stammered protests, of which Luna ignored completely. “But if you’re lucky enough to have sex with me, you won’t need them. We dragons can’t catch human diseases, nor can we get pregnant by you unless we wish to. No, no more questions, you wasted your opportunity by being all pervy. Now, on to M.O.D.” Here she took what looked like a tablet and placed her paw on it. When the screen came on, she turned it away and put in a password.

“This only opens with my claw print and password, so don’t bother trying to play with it.” She warned. “Now, M.O.D. is a place more for dragons, than humans. We, like humans, have our….. Kinks. For dragons, a relationship with humans is one of them. Be it friendship, a sexual thing, or even marriage. For M.O.D., we dragons actually fill out a full profile. The questionnaire that you filled out made a match with me based on hobbies and various other factors. You and I actually have quite a bit in common, but for the 7-day trial, I chose to base it on video games, because that’s MY favorite thing.” After messing with the tablet a bit, Luna turned it back off and put it in the drawer, then turned the light back off. “I’ve entered the data for the day. Once the week is over, it will compile all the infor taken over the week. Then it will determine if we’re compatible enough to extend the contract, or if it’s best we go our separate ways.” The way she spoke, it seemed to Steve that as though it didn’t matter to Luna either way, but it was only the second day. She sighed and pressed herself back against him. “You are my fourth contract, Steve. The second and third were no shows, as I said but the first…..” He felt her shiver against him.

“What happened?” He asked softly.

“He was a jerk!” She yelled into the dark angrily. “He was nice the first week, so we extended another two weeks. Then he changed.” He felt her almost shrink against him, as though she were trying to hide. “He acted like he owned me, that I owed him something. Before that, we were close to…..I would have given him my…. But he got abusive. Emotional at first, but then he tried to hit me.” Her voice trailed off into a whisper. Steve felt himself growing angry, but he wrapped his arms around Luna and held her gently, silently. After a few moments of silence, she spoke again. “So, I terminated the contract immediately and blacklisted him. So someone from headquarters visited him and wiped his memory of the experience, after they beat the crap out of him.” There was grim satisfaction in her voice. “From what I was told, he woke up thinking that he had fallen down the stairs.” She yawned and snuggled closer to him. “Well, we’d better get to sleep, Steve, it’s a work day, after all.” It didn’t take ten minutes to fall asleep. Steve, meanwhile, had enough to think about to keep him awake long into the night.

Monday, Day 3 of 7

When his alarm went off in the morning, Steve really didn’t want to get up. When he woke fully, he realized he was still curled around a very asleep Luna. How could he forget that she was there two days in a row? He disentangled himself from her as carefully as he could to not wake her and went to the bathroom to shower. He thought about the past two days as the hot water cascaded over him, so he didn’t hear the bathroom door open. “If you’d turn a little to the side, I could at least get a glimpse of your cock.” came Luna’s snickering voice, making him cover himself reflexively.

“What are you doing, Luna?” he asked indignantly. A second or two later he had his answer as he heard her peeing. “Well, I didn’t know we were at the stage of our relationship that we’d be using the bathroom at the same time. He reached for the curtain to look at her directly, and had barely touched it when Luna said “We certainly aren’t at the level for you to watch me pee. Open that curtain and I’ll whack your ass so hard with my tail that you won’t sit down for the rest of this week.”

“I don’t want to watch you pee!” Steve said, revolted.

“Good.” Luna said, flushing the toilet. “I’m not into that kind of thing. I’ve got my kinks, but bathroom stuff certainly isn’t one of them. Now, when you’re done in there, I need the shower. I have to work too, ya know.” He didn’t even get the chance to ask the obvious question. “I’m the general manager of a video game store.”

“Of course you are.” Steve said, unsurprised. “You’ve got tons of skills as a gamer, so it only makes sense that you work at a video game store.” He turned off the water and reached out to grab a towel, which he wrapped tightly around himself before he stepped out to find that Luna had left, leaving him talking to himself. He rolled his eyes and went to his room. As soon as he had closed the door behind him, he heard the bathroom door shut.

“You’ve got a spare key, right?” Luna asked, now in her human form, as they ate some cereal for breakfast. “I probably won’t get home until after you do, but better safe than sorry. I don’t want to have to hang around out in the hall.Too many guys like to stare at my tits in this form, and I don’t want to stir up trouble by knocking someone out in your apartment building.” Steve snapped his gaze upwards, as his gaze had lingered on the aforementioned breasts, and Luna noticed and gave them a little shake. “Maybe you can see them later. But i’d much rather you take my dragon treasure first.” This made Steve spit out a mouthful of orange juice, making her laugh. “Oooh, don’t have a stroke, you actually have to beat me to earn that right…… On second thought, maybe DO have a stroke. I felt you this morning, you know.” Stammering out a denial and feeling his face burning, Steve rushed out of the apartment with Luna’s howling laughter following after him.

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“So the past two nights we’ve tested your skill in games.” Luna said later that night after they ate dinner and settled into the living room. “Though your skills could use a little sharpening, tonight we’re going to test something different: Your luck.” When Steve raised a brow, she giggled. “What’s wrong? This may make it easier for you to get my treasure, if you’re lucky enough.”

“Will you please stop saying that? Steve asked, his face aflame again while Luna snickered. “Not saying that I don’t want your treasure,” he continued, noticing that Luna had stopped laughing and looked suddenly shy. “So, what’s this game of luck we’re playing tonight?”

“Oh, uh…..Mario Party!” She said, losing that cool demeanor for a moment, but it was a short moment. “The game that can rip more friendships apart than Monopoly. I’ve actually seen it happen once. But don’t worry about that with me. This is just a fun test of your luck.”

“Though I get the distinct feeling you really want me to be lucky and win.” Steve said, turning the tables on Luna grinning as she looked away again. He pressed his advantage and luck both. “We could just pass on the game, and go to the bedroom, you know.”

“Oh, you’re definitely not THAT lucky, Steve.” She giggled as she set up a Nintendo Gamecube to his tv. “Or maybe you are. I guess we’ll find out, won’t we?” She had no more difficulty holding a Gamecube controller than she did a Playstation controller. It had been quite a while since Steve had played a Gamecube, much less Mario Party 5. But he remembered it well enough that he managed to hold his own for the first game until he got it all down again. Then it really was all luck after that, and his was not great at all. He won his fair share of the mini-games, but his dice rolls were horrible. If he were going for red and Bowser spaces, he’d have won handily. Luna’s luck, however, was so good that if he didn’t know any better, he’d have thought she was cheating. She avoided every bad space, and always seemed to get the hidden blocks with the stars. And so the third night ended with still no win for Steve, which would have ticked him off, had he any way to change it. It was just luck, after all.

“You got a little closer tonight, Stevie.” LUna said as they snuggled in bed that night, wiggling against him teasingly. “I really wanted you to win, too, but I can’t just let you win. Although…..You can start sleeping in the nude, if you want.”

“I could,” Steve said, trying not to laugh. “But you aren’t that lucky, Luna.”

Tuesday, day 4 of 7

Tuesday started just like Monday. The alarm went off, Steve got up and showered, Luna took her shower, they ate breakfast and went their separate ways to work. While Steve worked, all he could think about was getting back home. What kind of game would they be playing tonight? If he had some idea, he could think up a strategy to finally beat Luna. They hadn’t played a sports game yet, so maybe that would be it? He wasn’t the greatest at sports games, but Luna had to have a weakness somewhere.

What would it be like to have sex with her? The thought came from nowhere, and yet, once it was out, he couldn’t stop thinking about it. At first he was appalled at the thought of having sex with an animal, but Luna was no animal. She was intelligent, remarkably so, and she possessed her own free will. She had her own wants and needs and desires just like he did. She was exotic, of course, being a dragon. How many people could say that they had banged a dragon? What with Mail Order Dragon, the number was probably higher than he thought it was, plus, if all dragons could take human form like Luna, there were people out there sleeping with dragons that didn’t even know it.

His thoughts were so occupied with the black dragoness that his work day was over with before he knew it. He clocked out as fast as he could to be on his way home, and he was excited to get there for a change. But Luna still wasn’t there when he got home, which disappointed him, but he thought he might be able to sneak in a little training while she wasn’t home. Going with his earlier thought on sports, he decided to try Madden for a little while. Luna arrived home about a half hour later as he finished his first game.

“Ohhh, trying to get a leg up on me, are you?” Luna asked, setting her bags on the kitchen table, heading to the bedroom to ‘change’. “Well, football won’t help you tonight. Have you played the new Mario Kart on the Nintendo Switch?” Steve shook his head, as he didn’t even own a Switch. “Neither have I.” She said honestly. “So I borrowed a Switch and the game from work today so that we’d be on an even playing field.”

“Is this your way of giving me a chance to win?” Steve asked with a grin. “I mean, i’m not against an easier win….”

“Oh, now don’t go getting your hopes up too high there, buddy boy.” Luna said as she started setting the console up. “If you beat me tonight, it doesn’t count, at least, not in the same way it would if you beat me in a game i’m good at.” She seemed to think about something for a minute. “Although, I suppose I could give you a consolation prize…..IF you beat me, that is. Oh, I brought Taco Bell home for dinner, so we should eat that before it gets too cold.”

The Switch controllers gave Luna a bit of difficulty at first, as she had never used one before, though she still managed to beat him, even on the easiest difficulty which they practiced on. Racing games weren’t one of Steve’s strong suits, but after an hour or two, he was getting the hang of it, and had even discovered a few shortcuts. But Luna was ruthless, just like in every other game they had played so far. She took to the new game like she had been playing it for years. The only thing that kept him from accusing her of playing before was that he trusted her, and she did make mistakes that would cause her to lose a race. On the hardest setting, she would lose against the A.I. but finish better than he did.

After three or four hours, the competition was getting heated. Steve still hadn’t won a cup and beat her, but he was getting closer, and their time was almost up for the night. Each race was back and forth, the race determined by less than a second. It got so intense that Steve found himself doing the gamer’s lean to try and get into a turn just a little sharper, and a risked glance over at Luna showed him that she was doing it too.

“Last race of the night, Steve.” Luna said with an edge of excitement in her voice. “You’re a mere five points ahead of me. If you place better than me you’ll get your first taste of victory. Lose though, and all you’ll be swallowing is more disappointment. Can you handle the pressure, Steve?”

“Bring it on.” Steve said, gripping his controller a little tighter. “You’re going down.”

“We’ll see.” Luna said with a saucy wink. Steve got a good jump off the start, but with Luna and the other racers after him, it didn’t take long for him to get hit with a red Shell and Luna to zoom past him. He put that from his mind. He wasn’t going to lose. Not this time. He didn’t pay attention to his place standing, or Luna’s or even the other racers. He focused solely on his racing, and his item usage. He always kept an item in defense against shells from other racers and was glad he did, or he would have lost many times. Two laps to go. One lap to go. Final lap. His eyes were glued to the screen, his fingers seemed to be moving on their own. With the skill of the computer racers and the items fired, every second was hard won. He heard Luna cry out, but he didn’t know why, or let himself be deterred as the finish line was just ahead, and then he had crossed it. 2nd place and Steve cursed, assuming Luna had beat him. He looked at the screen and Luna had come in 4th place. He’d won!

“You got lucky and hit me with the green shell in the final turn.” Luna pouted at him. “And you didn’t even notice because you were concentrating so hard! Well, congrats Stevie, you finally beat me. Too bad it wasn’t a game I was good at, or you’d be able to have my treasure tonight. Keep playing like that, though, and you may just win next time. Now it’s time for us to call it a night…..For your consolation prize, you can start sleeping naked with me.” Not what he would have liked, to be sure, especially after the thoughts he had had earlier that day. Still, it was a step in the right direction. She was already in bed, but even in the dark, he could feel her eyes on him as he stripped down completely. When he crawled into bed and curled up behind her, he couldn’t help but shiver as his crotch touched against her soft, warm scales. It felt really good, and now that he was naked, he could definitely feel the fabric of her panties against his bare flesh.

Luna turned to face him, her eyes regarding him steadily as she slid her paws over his chest. “You were right earlier, you know.” she said huskily, and he gasped as one of her paws slipped down and wrapped around his cock, stroking him slowly up and down, coaxing him to hardness quickly. “I am going down….You just didn’t know that i’d be going down on you.” She pulled the blankets back and slid down his body and took him into her mouth with a throaty moan as Steve’s head fell back into the pillow with a groan of pleasure.

Luna took her time teasing him expertly by taking only a little bit of him at a time before she would take his dick all the way into her heated mouth, dragging her tongue on the bottom of his cock, stroking his balls in her paw at the same time. Steve moaned and writhed in pleasure under her ministrations, gasping out as she sealed her lips around him and sucked slowly up and down, gradually picking up speed.

As he drew closer to his orgasm, he could see in the time light of the room that her tail was between her legs, masturbating as she sucked him off. His breath quickened and he gripped the sheets tightly as he moaned loudly, arching his hips up into that eagerly sucking muzzle as he came hard, harder than he had in a long time, filling her mouth and throat with hot, thick cum. She held her lips flush to his crotch, waiting for the last pulse of his cock to make sure she got every bit before she swallowed, dragging her lips slowly up until his tip left her muzzle with an audible pop, and she licked her lips.

“Not bad.” Luna sighed as she lay down, assuming her normal sleeping position. “Hopefully you’ll beat me soon so that you can fuck me.” And with that, she went to sleep, leaving Steve stunned and basking in the afterglow of the best blowjob he’d ever had in his life.

Wednesday, Day 5 of 7

“You should grab some beer before you come home tonight.” Luna said the next morning while Steve was in the shower. “I have a fun idea for tonight, and the drunker you get, the more fun it is. You needn’t get anything for me,” she added as she flushed the toilet. “Except maybe a few pizzas to eat before we go to bed to soak up the alcohol.”

“I don’t know, being drunk will make it near impossible to beat you.” Steve said as he washed his hair. “Not that it’s any easier when i’m sober.”

“Oh, tonight isn’t about beating me, Steve.” Luna said, poking her head into the shower. “Oh, knock it off, I just had your dick in my mouth last night, there’s no need to cover it up.” She grinned and added “You’ve got a nice ass too. No, tonight is to see how compatible we are together socially.” She said, withdrawing her head as he turned off the water to dry himself off. “It’s also about fun! So grab some beer and pizza and get ready to have a blast! I’ve actually been looking forward to playing this game with you. I put a lot of importance on this one.” She waited for him to leave the bathroom. “It’s great and fun that your a gamer, but I like to be social and be able to talk to my partner too, about things other than games.” Then she closed the door to take her shower.

Steve worried about what Luna had said all day while he was at work. He really liked Luna, but he wasn’t much of a social creature, and he definitely didn’t talk about himself much. What was there to talk about? He had a boring life. He slept, went to work, gamed, and slept some more. Still, he was determined to be as social as he could be. He wouldn’t lie to her about anything, or make anything up, of course. He got the distinct feeling that Luna would know if he was lying, and he was a poor liar anyways. Once his shift ended, he grabbed some beer for himself and a couple of frozen pizzas and headed home.

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“So, the game of the night is Dragon’s Crown.” Luna said excitedly. “It’s a loot based dungeon runner. Have you ever played it before? Ahhh, no biggie.” she said when he shook his head. “The controls are easy, and a gamer like you will catch on quickly. She was right about that, because he had caught on by the time they went through the first dungeon. He had chosen a fighter while she was an amazon. While they played, they drank, and after the first beer or two, Steve loosened up and was surprised by how easy it was to keep up a conversation with Luna. They talked about all kinds of things: What they did in their childhood, how they liked their jobs, fun places they’d been to and done, until they reached their current topic of what they wanted to do in the future.

“I want to own my own video game store.” Luna said, taking a swig of her mystery alcohol that was in an unlabeled brown bottle. “I like being the manager of a store, and i’m fine with the responsibilities involved, but I want my own store. I do so much of the work where I am now that the store might as well be mine.” She giggled and finished off her seventh beverage. “So what about you, Steve, what do you want to do?”

Steve pondered the question as he polished off his either beer. He was getting pretty drunk, as the fun game and stimulating conversation made them go down easier. “I want to go to school.” He said as they hacked and slashed through another dungeon. “I want to either be a video game designer or a video game story writer.” He smiled to himself. “I actually have some ideas for games already. I keep ‘em in a notebook, and every once in a blue moon i’ll take out the notebook and tinker with some new ideas.”

“If both of our dreams come true, our career aspirations are certainly compatible.” Luna said, giggling again. She certainly looked and sounded drunk by this point. “You make the video games, and i’ll sell them in my store!” They both had a laugh, and after a few more drinks, they made the pizzas, and after eating got ready for bed.

The room spun a bit and there was a pleasant buzzing in his ears. Steve couldn’t remember the last time he got so drunk during the week, but it had been a fun night and he felt that he and Luna had learned a good deal about each other, and he smiled as she snuggled into his embrace with a hiccup. He didn’t remember how much she had drank, but her alcohol was stronger than his. “Made for dragons, by dragons” she had said. “Our alcohol tolerance is much higher than yours, so it needs to be stronger.” She wasn’t asleep yet, but she was moving against him, trying to get comfortable, or so he thought.

“She started rubbing her paws over his chest and her breathing started to get heavier. All of a sudden, she was on top of him, straddling his hips, nuzzling and kissing his neck while she ground against him. “I have my rules,” Luna whispered huskily, nipping his earlobe. “But i’ll bend them for you, Steve. I want to fuck you, Steve. I’ve wanted to fuck you even before the blowjob.” Even through her panties he could feel her getting hotter and wetter against his stiffening cock as she moved her panty covered pussy up and down his length. “I feel you getting harder, and I know you want it too. All I have to do is pull my panties aside and you’ll slide right in……”

There was no way he could possibly deny it. He’d been thinking about it for days now, and he wanted to have sex with her just as badly or more than she did. But it didn’t seem right. Her actions now were no doubt fueled by alcohol. It wasn’t in his nature to take advantage of someone, and he knew that if he went through with this, his relationship with Luna would never be the same, and his heart couldn’t take that. So he sat up and wrapped his arms around her and pressed his lips to hers, and she returned the kiss hungrily, but made a noise of protest as he cut the kiss off. “No Luna, not like this.” He said quietly, gently rolling her off of him. He got out of bed and put his briefs and sweatpants on before returning to bed and cuddling around her. “The rule is I have to beat you to earn your treasure, not get you drunk.” Luna gave a groan of protest, trying to rub against him, but he held her away from his body until she stilled. “Tomorrow is another day.” He grinned in the dark as Luna began to snore the snore of drunken sleep.

Thursday, day 6 of 7

It was quiet the next morning. Far quieter than it had been since Luna’s arrival, and she wasn’t in bed. Well at least she hadn’t gotten so drunk that she overslept. She didn’t come into the bathroom as was her usual wont either. Maybe she had to work earlier than usual? Steve went about his morning routine as usual, and when he went into the kitchen for breakfast, that’s where he found Luna, staring dully into a bowl of cereal and picking at it. “Morning” Steve said, as brightly as he could. Something was wrong. “Rough night?” She looked up at him, and he started in surprise when he saw tears in her golden eyes. “Hey, woah! What’s the matter, Luna, is everything alright?”

“No.” Luna whimpered softly, and he Steve could tell she was barely holding back from crying. “I’m sorry, Steve, for last night. I was drunk, but that’s no excuse for me climb on top of you and try to take advantage.” She had her tablet on the table and she slid it over to him, her voice barely a whisper. “If you want to authorize an emergency termination like I did, you just push that button on the screen.”

Steve looked down at the screen. “I, Steve, am requesting an emergency termination of contract with Luna because…..” and what followed, typed in by Luna herself, was an account of the previous night that would have him believe that she had tied him up to the bed and raped him through the night. He curled his lip in disgust and pushed his finger on the cancel button and slammed the tablet on the table, making Luna wince. “No.” Steve said loudly, making the dragoness look up in surprise. “Request for emergency termination denied and deleted.”

“But, why?” Luna cried out. “After what I tried to do last night…..”

“Under the influence of alcohol.” Steve said, sitting down and getting his cereal for the morning. He was going to be late to work today, but he didn’t care. He wanted to sort out this little misunderstanding. “I know alcohol isn’t an excuse for such a thing, Luna, but the fact of the matter is, nothing happened that needs to be excused. I put on my clothes to keep anything from happening.” He was quiet for a moment while he ate, and Luna stared at him in shock the whole while. And was he crazy, or was that hope in her eyes? “No, the alcohol was only part of it.” Steve continued. “There’s been growing sexual tension between us for days now. You were right, last night when you said we both wanted it, because the Gods above know that I do. But there are rules, as you said. I have to beat you at a game, and that hasn’t happened yet.”

“You’re such a gentleman, Steve. You saved me from making a huge mistake last night.” She smiled, and to Steve, it was as beautiful as a sunrise. “And another one this morning. I’m sorry for everything. And i’m glad you resisted what must have been the ultimate temptation last night. I don’t want to lose my virginity while I’m drunk. I want to remember it forever.”

Now it was Steve’s turn to stare in surprise, and then realization dawned on him all at once. “When you referred to your treasure, you were talking about your virginity!” He could have slapped himself for not catching it sooner. “From the way you talk and act I never would have thought you were a virgin.” Luna gave him a shy smile and Steve was positive that she was blushing, even though he couldn’t see it.

“Just because i’ve never done the deed doesn’t mean I don’t know how to do it, Steve. We dragons have porn just like you humans do, you know.” That made sense, and it also made Steve want to see some of it. “Aren’t you going to be late for work?”

“Yes, but it was more important for me to straighten out things with you first.” Steve said as he put his dirty dishes in the sink. “And no way in hell I was gonna let you terminate the contract over something so silly. Because I still have two more nights to beat you, and I intend to.”

“Give it everything you’ve got, Steve.” Luna said to herself after he’d walked out the door. “Because now more than ever, I want you to be the one to finally beat me.”

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“So for tonight’s game” Luna said with such enthusiasm that he’d think this morning had never happened. “I picked a game that is highly fast paced and competitive, and one of my personal favorites: Rocket League. I saw it in your online library a few days ago. Your skills have been improving, and I want to really put them to the test tonight.” Steve didn’t say anything, but he fairly quivered in excitement. Rocket League was one of HIS favorite games too. He’d poured hundreds, almost thousands of hours into that one game. He knew the ins and outs of that game all the way through. He knew how to dribble, how to control his car in flight, and tons of strategies, be it against a team or one-on-one. This was the one game that he had a legitimate chance of winning. Maybe even a better than legitimate chance.

Did Luna know that? If she had looked at his online game library, she could easily have checked to see how long he had played the game and gotten some gauge of his skill level….. No, he wouldn’t believe that of her. It was too much like cheating or screen watching, and a gamer of her calibur just didn’t do something like that. There was also this morning's revelation to think about. She was a virgin still and to win her ‘treasure’, he or someone else had to beat her in a game. It was a test, and Steve felt that there was a deeper meaning behind it that he just wasn’t grasping.

He put it from his mind, and turned his focus on the game as he changed into his comfy clothes for gaming, nothing more than sweats and a t-shirt. He didn’t count his knowledge of Rocket League as a complete advantage: If it was one of Luna’s favorite games, he was in for a fight. When he went back into the living room, Luna already had the game on and her car and profile loaded, and that was when he saw her Gamertag clearly for the first time: TheFeralDragon.

“So it WAS you hunting me all night on D2!” Steve said, feeling righteous in his anger as Luna batted her eyes at him. “I knew it was you! That wasn’t very nice, you know.”

“That was days ago, Stevie.” She said, handing him his controller. “Besides, you should consider it as a compliment that I was hunting you. On our fireteam, it's my job to take down the player most likely to give us difficulty, and that player was you. And if I remember right, you got me with headshots more than a few times.”

“Yeah, well, you deserved it.” He shot back. “Now let’s get this party started, shall we? I take it since you’re out here, we’re going head to head?” Luna nodded, settling onto her haunches with her tail curled around herself, her gaming posture. “Well then, what are the rules? Surely one win in a five minute game isn’t enough.”

Luna shook her head. “You’re right, it isn’t. Five rounds, three matches each round. Best of five wins.” Steve had assumed as much, and was ready, more prepared than he had been for any other game. So he wasn’t at all surprised when he won the first two games, taking the first set. “Stevie!” Luna exclaimed, looking around at him in astonishment, dispelling any thoughts he may have had about her sneaking a peek at his profile. “Well done, I didn’t know you had it in you! I’m going to have to give it everything i’ve got, and now i’m getting excited.” And give it her all she did. The way she controlled her car was like it was an extension of herself. She picked him off and air dribbled to score several times to decimate him for the first game. The second was far tighter, and Steve snuck out a win, but Luna would rally to win the third match to take the second set, tying them 1-1.

Steve let out an explosive breath and settled back on the couch. He couldn’t let himself get rattled. He was confident enough that he could win. He just had to concentrate and make his plays. He looked over at Luna and he didn’t think he’d ever seen her so focused before. She wasn’t even giving him the usual ribbing like she always did. The third set began, and it was like watching an aerial ballet. The feints, jukes and dribbles were played to perfection by both of them, so much so that neither one of them could score. The first game lasted three minutes into overtime before Steve was able to sneak one past Luna to win the first game. The second was not nearly so well done, as plenty of mistakes were made, but Steve was able to walk away with the second set. He was actually winning, 2-1!

“Steve…” Luna said, sounding as though she were out of breath. “One more set, and you’ve won at last.” Her eyelids drooped in the sexiest ‘come hither’ look he had ever seen in his life. He felt a stirring in his loins, and at that same moment he became aware of a scent he recognized from somewhere, but couldn’t place it….. Wait! The night Luna sucked him off and was masturbating with her tail….That was the smell of her arousal! The scent was affecting him now, and he squirmed as his erection strained the fabric of his sweats.

“Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.” Steve said, trying to maintain his focus. “We’ve got two sets left to go, and anything can still happen.” With that heavy, alluring scent in the air, though, keeping his focus proved to be difficult. He lost the first game badly, with a score of 2-6, the largest margin of defeat of the night. He fell in the second match as well, tying the match at 2-2, and Luna looked at him with disappointment in her eyes.

“Why don’t we take a short break before we finish the final set?” Steve suggested. “I find I was a little…..Distracted, that last set.”

“So I see.” Luna said, staring at his very tented crotch. “And a small break sounds like a good idea to me. I want you to be at your best. I don’t want to win because you got distracted. Only ten minutes though, ‘kay?” Luna got up and disappeared into the bedroom while he waited a few minutes for his erection to go down before stepping out in the hallway for some air to clear his head. He leaned against the wall, breathing deep of the clean air that wasn’t heavy with the scent of arousal. When he went back in five minutes later, Luna was back in her spot, and the smell was gone. How Luna had dissipated the heavy scent that quickly was beyond him, but he was thankful. Now that the air was clear, hopefully his focus would remain just as clear.

The first game made him think that this might just be the case. After an intense back and forth, he was able to surprise Luna. He drove straight towards her, then hit the brakes. As she tried to swerve around him, the ball popped up and Steve instantly launched after it, bashing the ball at its peak for a goal from half court, and he won the first game. “Oh, well done.” Luna breathed out, but that was all she said, although Steve could have sworn he smelled a hint of her scent again.

Luna was not to be outdone, however. She repaid his trickery with some of her own. At the start of the second game, she aimed a shot at the top of his goal, and when he went airborne to save it, she slammed into his car in the air, forcing him back to that his car knocked the ball into his own goal. Steve was a little sore about that, even though it was completely legal, and he tried to pay her back. That proved to be his undoing, as in concentrating on revenge led him to make mistakes that Luna easily took advantage of, and he lost.

“From the first night we played a game, Steve, I never thought you would beat me.” Luna said, flexing her fingers, making them crackle. “If you told me then that you would be just one game away from beating me, I’d have probably laughed at you. Even if you won’t win tonight, just know that I am very impressed with your progress.”

“I am very pleased with the compliment, Luna.” Steve said. From the way she spoke, it was impossible for him to take the words as anything but a compliment. He turned and looked her dead in the eyes, his gaze unwavering, full of more confidence than he had ever felt in his life. “But know this Luna. I. Will. Not. Lose.” She stared right back at him, and Steve finally understood the meaning of the phrase ‘unstoppable force meets immovable object.’

“We’ll see about that.” Luna said calmly, and turned back to start the match. Their matches up to this point had been good, but Steve could tell that Luna was pulling no punches with this final match, and he was giving her nothing short of his absolute best. The normal time limit of five minutes came and went with intense action that had Steve on the edge of the couch. For one thrilling second, he thought he had won until Luna blocked the shot. Not long after his heart plunged as the ball soared towards his goal and he barely got a wheel on the ball to knock it away.

Ten minutes in, then fifteen, and the score was still 0-0. It was far and away the longest match he’d ever played, and his hands were starting to sweat. Dimly, he was aware of Luna’s scent again, but his focus was entirely on that ball. At the eighteen minute mark, they both hit the ball at the same moment, knocking the ball straight up into the air at midfield, and they both reversed and launched after it. Luna hit the ball first…..straight into the front of Steve’s car. It went towards her goal and bounced once, then again, straight into the goal.

They both stared in awed silence at the screen for a moment. He had actually won, 3-2! Steve couldn’t believe his luck! As the shock faded away, he became fully aware of Luna’s arousing scent, just as her controller clattered to the floor. She was panting heavily, he eyes half lidded once more. “You won, Stevie.” She said, standing up on all fours and looking over her shoulder at him. Her tail tip hooked under her panties, pulling them down until the fabric was stretched between her thighs, revealing herself fully to him for the first time. “No more games, Steve, and no more waiting. We’ve waited long enough, so come and claim my treasure.” With her panties down and her scent so strong, he couldn’t have refused her even if he had wanted to, and he certainly didn’t want to.

His body moved on its own as he drank in the sight of her bared pussy, pushing down his sweats and stepping out of them The pink folds of her slit stood out starkly against the black scales of her thighs and a patch of moonlight silver scales that made up her fertile mound. Stepping behind her, he took hold of her hips, slipping the tip of his cock against her heated folds, and found that she was already wet with anticipation. He could have teased her, but he had been wanting this for so long that he couldn’t wait. He pushed inside of her and groaned in ecstasy as her virgin tunnel gripped at his cock hungrily. He ached to slam into her, but she was a virgin, and he didn’t want to hurt her, so he sank into her slowly to find her barrier, but he was embedded fully within her and had not hit it. Luna hissed in pleasure over her shoulder at him.

“Dragons have no hymn, so no blood, no pain.” She said, grinding her hips back against him. “No need to be gentle, so stop with the teasing already and fuck me!” When she talked like that it was hard to remember that she was a virgin, or was, at any rate. He held her hips tight and slammed into her hard, making her throw back her head and cry out in a primal scream of ecstasy. He would pull her back into each hard thrust, their hips slapping together hard and wetly, until she pulled away from him suddenly, turning on him with lust burning in her eyes.

Luna pounced on top of him, knocking Steve onto his back and straddling him. “My turn.” She panted, reaching back and guiding his cock back into her hot cunt, slamming her hips down to take him all the way back inside and rolling her hips. “Just how I wanted it last night. She pinned his hands to the ground while she rode him hard, growling down at him. Steve was no sub by any means, but he thought this was the hottest sex he’d ever had. Looking down, he watched her slit take him to the hilt and groaned as she squeezed her inner muscles around him. She was trying to make him cum first, but he wanted this to last, but he wasn’t sure how long he could hold on with her hot, virgin pussy sucking at his dick.

He rolled to the side, making Luna cry out in surprise and flare out her wings as he put her beneath him on her back, careful not to hurt her wings. “I’m not sure how familiar you dragons are with the missionary position,” Steve whispered into her ear. “But i’m sure you’ll like it.” He gave three shallow thrusts before burying himself balls deep within her with a hard thrust.

“Oh my GODS!!!” Luna cried out, digging her fingers into his shoulders, her body stiffening. “You’re so deep, Steve, don’t stop! You’re going to make me cum!” Her paws raked over his back and he hissed in a breath, feeling the scratches forming on his back while he met her lusty demands, pistoning his hips into hers, pushing as deep as he could. Her body started to spasm suddenly and she cried out as she locked her hind legs around his hips, twitching in her first orgasm, and her inner muscles clamped down on him like a vice.”

“Cum inside of me.” Luna demanded, bucking her hips up into his. “I want to feel you fill me with your hot cum, Steve. As if he had any choice in the matter. She was so tight, and the spasming of her inner muscles drove him faster, pounding harder, and in another moment he threw his head back and moaned loud and long, holding deep within her as his cock pulsed and throbbed, sending wave after wave of thick cum flooding into her womb.

He may have pulled out normally, but he remembered what she said about dragons not being able to get pregnant by humans. They lay where they were for a long while, joined at the hips, until Steve’s softening cock slipped out of her, drooling a pool of their mixed fluids out onto the carpet. “That was amazing, Steve.” Luna murmured sleepily “Well worth waiting as many years as I have for it.”

“I’m glad you enjoyed it, Luna.” Steve said, picking her up to carry her to the bed. “We can have sex again later, if you’re up to it. Unless, of course, I have to beat you in another game.” He put her gently in the bed and joined her, curling around her, stroking the scales of her neck gently.

“No more games.” Luna murmured softly, and was asleep moments later.

Friday, day 7 of 7

Their final day was much the same as the other six, except that Luna actually showered with him, and that had led very quickly to a morning quickie in the shower. Satisfied and clean, they went to the kitchen for breakfast, and Luna played with her tablet while she ate. “This will run through all the data of the week and give us a compatibility score when it’s done.” Luna said, setting it aside to finish her cereal. “From there, we’ll decide if we want to extend the contract, and for how long.” From her tone, it sounded as though there were no ‘if’ for her, but how long, and Steve would have agreed with her whole heartedly. “It will be done by the time we get home from work.”

And so it was. Luna was sitting at the table waiting for him. “95.8% compatibility, Stevie!” She said happily. “Shall we extend the contract for another two week?” They did, and it was a happy two weeks. Then two weeks was extended to a month, then a month to three months, then three to six. Over the course of time their compatibility rose steadily. But that wasn’t the only thing that changed over time. Steve himself changed tremendously. Where before he was shy and kept to himself, now that he was with Luna he was outgoing and confident in himself. He was much more sociable now, and everyone around him noticed the changes, co-workers, friends, and even women. The changes were so drastic that women who had once disdained him suddenly found themselves attracted to him. But try as they might, they couldn’t get his attention in any romantic way. He was polite to them, of course, but he ignored their hints, suggestions and their flirtations. He had eyes for only one woman, a chubby, punk/metal girl that seemed to always be dressed in black, and they just couldn’t understand it.

It seemed in no time at all, their one year anniversary came up, and the time to once again extend their contract. “Hard to believe it’s been a year, isn’t it Stevie?” Luna asked, stripping out of her clothes and throwing them on the bed. They had just come from their anniversary dinner. “We’d better get the contract extension out of the way. You know how to do it by now. I’m gonna shower and get out of this grubby human form.” Steve smiled and picked up the tablet as the bathroom door shut, and sat on the bed and turned it on. Their compatibility rating flashed on the screen: 99.4%

Not at all surprising, considering all the time that they spent together. He scrolled down to the extension option, planning to extend for another year. Luna had to approve the extension, of course, but he knew she would. Then he stopped and almost dropped the tablet on the floor. There was a new option that had never been there before. It read ‘terminate M.O.D. contract for mateship.’ Mateship…..That had to be the dragon equivalent of marriage, right? He looked towards the bathroom door. He loved Luna deeply, he could never love another woman the way he loved her…..But would she want to stay with him? There was only one way to know. He clicked the option for Mateship, and laid the tablet on the bedside table.

“Ahhhh, I feel much better now.” Luna said, coming out of the bathroom in her dragon form. “I love going out with you, Stevie, but I hate the human disguise. Showers all yours, sweetie.” Before Luna could get anywhere near the tablet, he went into the bathroom. He had barely gotten his shirt off when there was a gasp from the bedroom. “STEVIE!” Luna screeched, slamming into the bathroom and all but tackling him to the tiled floor, kissing him fiercely. “Yes, Stevie, YES! I would love to be your mate! I can’t believe it!” She kissed him some more, and when she pulled away, there were happy tears in her eyes.

Steve wiped them away gently and smiled up at her. “I’m so happy, Luna, truely. I love you so much, I can’t imagine being with anyone else. They kissed for long moments before Luna pulled away, smiling.

“Now we have to go visit my parents so you can meet them, my mate.”

The End