VII-Changing those that need it.

“What the hell happened to him??” Thomas screamed as soon as he saw the new Hel, whereas the one being currently pointed at kind of tried to shrink himself and hide from the human. It was easier for him now but he was still way bigger than a human and still two to three times the size of a horse. He moved faster and with grace now, feeling better in this form than ever before, though still getting used to the new muscles and power that came with the changes I had caused. He still had to figure that part out but I could bet that even though he had lost mass and bulk, he could beat his old self just as easily. I smiled at patted that sexy scaly ass, causing the dragon to give me a somewhat embarrassed glance.

“I gave him a little gift for repenting.”

“Repenting?”

“Yes, he was sent here to become a better version of himself, just as you were. He just got the treatment a little bit before you. Yours will come soon, don’t worry.”

“Oh, no thank you. I’m happy this way. I don’t want to become so… effeminate.” There was a lot of disgust in his voice and eyes. Hel, contrary to my experience, snarled at the human.

“Who said that your gift will be like his? Each person gets something different. It’s fascinating to see how someone changes…” I was going to explain the process to him but he just sort of shut me up.

“I’m still not interested in any of these so called gifts. I’m happy to be human and I want to stay like this forever. He can get my gift as well if he wants.”

“Oh, he’ll get something later, provided that he behaves and studies hard enough.” Thomas made a confused expression. “I decided to teach him magic the way I use it and I think he’ll make a fine student. Evan himself told me that he has great hopes for him.” Hel blushed when I praised him, shifting his wings and tail. Krissie came to me and gave him a good examination before approving of the changes.

“He’s gotten better, I think this suits him.”

“Ehm, thank you… ma’am.”

“Call me Krissie, you earned it.” She caressed his muzzle and I guess he liked it, a lot. “Was it good?”

“I didn’t like it at first but then he opened my eyes to a new world. I think I understand myself better now.”

“Good, welcome to the family then.” Hel’s jaw dropped ever so slightly and his eyes went wide in surprise. Thomas was very confused and ignored them as he couldn’t make out the more subtle hints of scents and body language. “Yes, you’re one of us now, someone touched by Aidan in a way that few will ever feel. Even if you were to mate and have clutches with others, you’ll share something with us. Remember this. It also comes with the benefit of spending time with him every now and then.” Hel blushed really hard and I could hear his heart beat even faster now. I wondered if I did take him as mate, he’d change like Krissie and Johanna.

After dinner I made a new bedroom for Hel, making some branches grow from one of the lower areas of the tree. He didn’t ask for much except a bed and running water, the rest he’d make himself. Thomas was left alone on the couch for the night and he was fine with that for the moment but sleeping there for several days, as Hel instead rested on a proper bed and got nice attention and lessons from me, was starting to get on his nerves. He was getting more arrogant and more reckless, refusing to do anything but laze around and do nothing.

I left him do that for more than a week, giving him a room for himself near the base of the tree and left him there. I gave him food and water but forbade him from leaving his room. For all intents and purposes, he was a prisoner in solitary confinement.

Today marked day ten from his arrival and a week of loneliness. I went to check on him and found him walking nervously in his room, going back and forth, muttering words and waving his arms. He didn’t go crazy of course, but it was clear that he had never stayed alone or bored for this long in his life. Well, he did exercise a lot, since it was the one thing he could do.

“Are you done with opposing me? Will you stop being an ass?”

“I am the son of a lord of the human kingdom! You cannot treat me like some common prisoner!”

“See, a normal prisoner wouldn’t get food made by my mates, nor fresh water every day nor a private room, at most two meals a day and maybe, maybe some old meat and bread in the soup. You’d have no place to relieve yourself but a corner of your room as would the other ones in your cell. I am treating you more like the spoiled brat you are. We are both around the same age but you are little more than a baby who has yet to learn how the world outside your little bubble works. Hel has made some incredible progress but you are not even willing to come to terms with me.”

“I have dignity and I will hold my family’s honour high!” He pointed his finger at me and I scoffed. I had informed myself of course…

“Yes, the Bardurs, a powerful family that has served the kings of mankind for generations, killing hundreds of dragons… I learned about you, Thomas, you are not the big shot you think you are: always getting in trouble, starting fights, brawling and making a fool out of yourself. King Pembroke told me that you have been sent to serve him because you have almost charged alone with some servants across the border to slay dragons one month after the conflicts stopped.”

“They were going to attack us so I moved before them! I was on an important mission but some… farmer told the guards of the town I was in of what I was going to do and they arrested me!” He was fuming and clearly had some pretty delusional ideas about himself.

“Yes, because the villagers of the border feared that if you charged into the dragon’s territory and miraculously killed one, you’d restart the war.”

“The war will start again! Dragons cannot be trusted! They will attack us soon and I am here doing nothing but wait!”

“Have you not paid attention at what happened? The king signed a peace treaty with the three lords two days ago! The war is over, done, finished! You are the only one that still thinks this way!”

“I know I am right!” Ok, this one was really getting on my nerves and I was finally done with his childish tantrums.

“Fine, since you cannot do anything but complain, I’ll have you punished for real.” I dragged him by the collar and teleported outside: the wind roared around us as we began to fall towards the floor. He screamed, almost making my attempt to scare him worth it. “I’ll have you learn what the world will be like from now on, Thomas. Things are moving and you cannot stay behind.” Once I landed at the very roots of the tree I dropped him and waited for him to realize where we were.

Cobwebs littered the place, and spiders the size of cats and large dogs walked around on every surface available. Thomas shuddered as several hundreds of eyes set on his figure. I walked deep inside the roots of the tree and the webs shifted place in front of me, only to return back when Thomas passed, covering him in sticky webs. I was intentionally making him feel scared and bad, though nothing would happen to him with the pact I made.

Soon we arrived into a very large cave under the tree, where even more spiders weaved and went about their business. A large queen, sitting in the middle, turned her head towards us and looked at me and Thomas. It never failed to amaze me how big she was, and just how many children she had. Damn, she was one busy queen. All of her eight eyes turned towards us, Thomas shivered and tried to hide behind me.

“Visiting I see, worried about the boy are we?”

“No, I am sure he’s fine. I want this one to spend some time with him in the lower floors.” The queen hissed and spat a glob of webs from her mouth.

“No, he’ll die and if he doesn’t he’ll spend the rest of his life mad.” Weird how concerned she was… still, he had to be taught a lesson and I’d give him one.

“I want him to learn a lesson, a big one. He’ll spend time with the other one.” She looked surprised, or at least, I knew she was: her legs wiggled and the webs around her shook. It took me a while to figure that out.

“Then it’s fine. I like him, he’s… servile and gentle. He reminds me of you… when we met of course. You were so nice and quiet back then, polite and all that...”

“Why, am I different now?”

“I can feel the vibrations in the wood each time you mate… it’s annoying.”

“Then in exchange for your help, I’ll have to put up some spell to make things easier.” She nodded with her massive head and moved to the side. “Thank you.”

“You are most welcome, I’ll have the silk delivered as per usual later.”

I moved in the large hole that was hidden by the queen’s body, walking in after shaking Thomas awake. He hurried after me and kept close distance, not leaving more than a metre between us. We kept going lower and lower until we came by another cave where no webs were around at all: the place was clean and sparkling even. Magic candles lit up the room and books and shelves had been neatly stacked on the walls.

Thomas was probably wondering how could such a place hide beneath a tree and behind so many spiders, but the real question was why we were here: this was the underground section of the tree, where the roots hollowed by insects and other less pleasurable critters lived. Horrible and tight as it might have been, it also held deposits of minerals that the tree accumulated throughout the centuries. The little I found was enough to last me for a few years and I wanted to know more of this place, luckily, Hel came just as I was thinking of going on a long exploratory trip so I taught him how to navigate the place or not get lost as the very least and dumped him in there. It was good for me and training for him so… win-win situation.

“Where are you taking me?”

“To your job.”

“Job?”

“Yes, you need a good lesson on a few things and this is the perfect place to learn. Hel? Are you there?” I shouted towards a tunnel and moments later I heard a familiar trotting sound. The young dragon was cheerful today and brought the scent of Orichalcum on his scales, which meant he found something. He deserved a prize later. He leaned and let me stroke his head, purring, noticing the human a moment too late.

“Hello, Aidan. What brings you and… oh, him.” His happiness washed away as he saw Thomas and whatever he represented for him. He growled and bared his fangs, Thomas, though without fangs or claws to show, bared his teeth and stepped back, hands trying to grab a sword that was not there.

“Come on guys, you’ll have to spend some time together, if you try and kill each other on sight every moment you’ll end up too tired too soon.”

“What? Me? Spending time with this… dragon?”

“I could say the same, human. I cannot stand being in your presence and I’d very much like for you to disappear from this house.” I tapped my foot and Hel apologized for his rudeness.

“Alright, let me make this clear: this is not something you both can get away from. He’ll stay with you as you explore the lower levels, you will keep him safe.” Hel rolled his eyes and protested, rather displeased with the events that would surely unfold with a human incapable of coexisting with him.

“Oh, not that, please not that! He’s but a human, barely capable of keeping himself alive above ground, how am I supposed to help him down there? It’s way more dangerous than he can even imagine!”

“Don’t you dare insult me dragon! I am a warrior and I have trained all my life to slay bastards like you and by the souls of my ancestors I will prove to the world that you are all slimy bastards with no honour! I shall survive whatever measly challenge that is and then I will kill you!” An epiphany struck the dragon’s mind and he smiled knowingly.

“Oh, that’s why… alright, I suppose I could open his eyes…”

“How good of you, Hel, maybe I’ll give you a treat when I come back in three days.” Hel seemed very reluctant when he heard the time frame but a quick and discrete slap on his ass and a hint of what would come was more than enough as a reward for his work, for now.

I knew he would succeed and that he’s save Thomas from anything that would come their way, as I had already dealt with most of the really bad stuff. He purred and watched me go out of the tunnels and up above ground. I was going to watch over them with spells but there would be no interference. For now.

Hel hissed in displeasure: if there was a thing he had come to hate all throughout his life, that was not being grateful for something you received for free and from someone you should respect. He respected Aidan so very much, bordering on the same level he had for Evan and the other two lords. They had raised him but the half dragon had gifted him so much. And yet, Thomas, who had done nothing but laze and complain, was not grateful for what he had already received for free, while he worked and became a better version of himself every day. There was a different kind of hate in the dragon now.

“Now what?”

“You follow me and try not to die in a trap of something stupid like that.” Hel snorted and walked into the leftmost tunnel, the one that he had tasked himself with exploring today.

The caves under the tree were essentially old roots that had been dug out by some big bugs, critters and whatnot. Aidan had mapped out some, but the rest had been pushed onto Hel, as his initiation and first job under the half dragon. Thomas followed him a few metres back, making sure not to be anywhere too close to him nor too far. He had seen some pretty creepy stuff on his way down there and the spiders had left him scared, not scared enough to ask for the help of the dragon but enough to be wary of his surroundings.

For hours the two of them walked across the tunnels and Hel mapped them, using the tools that Aidan had prepared for him. They were now about a hundred and fifty metres below, inside a root that stretched well over a kilometre in length.

“How much more until we are done?”

“Getting tired?”

“No, I just want to get out.”

“Well, it’s not going to happen. He’ll come back in three days and unless you can teleport like he can, dig a tunnel up for two hundred metres or get past the spiders, I suggest you entertain the idea that you are under my care.”

“I am not under anyone’s care!”

“You are and you’d better come to terms with it, Thomas.”

Thomas scoffed and pushed past Hel, moving in front of him. Hel was much of the same opinion and let him go, sure that he’d risk his life by doing so. Deep down, the dragon wanted the human to be hurt and learn his place in the new world, not that he’d have made a good warrior even before if that mattered. Thomas was bold, brash, reckless though very witty, his negative qualities and desire to live up to the past generations had driven him to make some pretty big mistakes, mainly in the form of bar fights when someone insulted his family. The biggest of which being, of course, his stunt a few weeks ago when he tried to attack the dragons beyond the border.

He was pissed that he had failed to demonstrate that he was right and that dragons were shifty creatures. He wasn’t wrong, technically, but these days, with the peace that had set, none of the races, be it human, dragons, spiders, beast people and all the others, wanted some hothead to go and restart it. They had tasted peace for a couple of months and they liked it, a lot. Weird as it might seem, anyone would kill anyone who had the dumb idea to go and make a mess.

“Get back here, Thomas!”

“And let me bask in the view of your taint for more time? Dream on, you sick beast.” Hel’s mind was populated by the myriad of insults and curses that he was going to unleash on he human, but one small idea had popped up inside. He pictured the small human, below him as he raised his tail and let the man groom his backside, cleaning it with his tongue… Oh, how enticing and marvellous must a human tongue feel. He wondered what the human would have tasted… smell not being an issue of course, if anything, the human’s musky scent was his best feature, it held that sweat that came from exercise…

Lost in the fumes of his growing lust, Hel failed to notice that they had crossed a path, well, Thomas did, that he shouldn’t have. Dozens of bugs, most of which larger than his head had fallen from the cracks in the roots and threatened to eat him very much alive.

Hel rushed over and killed every bug there was, effectively saving Thomas, though he wasn’t that happy about it and berated the dragon for interfering. Hel had already give up on him and just turned back. He had had enough for the day and wanted to rest. Ironically, since Thomas had stepped in front of Hel before, he was now once again, looking at his wide scaled ass. Hel found some fun and didn’t fail to make him notice that several times, preventing the human to get back in front and raising his tail from time to time.

Had it been before, Hel would have found it wrong and embarrassing to show his privates like this to someone who was not female, much less a human, but the fun that he was now getting in feeling the discomfort of the one behind him was overriding his sense of shame.

He led the human from the tunnel to the clean room from before and opened up a small passage to the side, revealing a second room, hidden to the sight. Hel entered and slumped on the large pillow stack that was by the side, revelling in the ungodly softness of the fabric. This was the spell he wanted to learn. How many females would he get to raise tail for him if he had the monopoly on

such softness and delicate scents?

“What is this place?”

“My… our room for the time being. I’ll sleep here and you’ll sleep in that corner.” Hel tossed a couple of pillows to the far side and ignore the shocked look of the human. “Any problems?”

“How can I be sure that I won’t be killed as I sleep? By you.”

“I have no interest in you and explaining why I did it to Aidan would be a waste of time. You’re not worthy of my time not now or in the future. Had he not ordered me to spent it with you for whatever reason he had in mind, I’d have gladly been alone a few more days.” Thomas scoffed.

“He’s but a freak, I cannot even begin to fathom what made you become so submissive.”

“He had some very… convincing arguments, that I can assure you.” Hel shuddered at the memory of the very first night he spent in the tree. Such magnificent moments and memories that he would enjoy for the rest of his life. “I’m sure you’ll soon see his worth and stop being a stuck-up brat.”

“I won’t let a dragon insult me!”

“Suit yourself. The kitchen is that way, make something for yourself if you’re hungry.”

Thomas was stunned at the idea of having to make his own meals. Not even in the army he had to, as he was the son of one of the highest nobles of the land. Sure he had taken a knife in hand and skinned and gutted dozens of animals but cooking? That was new. In his pride he couldn’t ask the dragon to show him how to man the devices and resorted to make a simple sandwich with bread and some lettuce, adding dry meat to the side.

Hel, on the other hand, had asked Aidan and Krissie how to, learning something in the process. He had bypassed the need for hands as Aidan taught him magic, fine tuning his control by cutting the meat and veggies to put in the stew he was preparing for himself. As Thomas was brooding with his meagre meal, Hel had devoured most of the meat and left some in the pot in case he wanted some later, going to bed as the clock signed that nine of clock had passed.

Thomas was left alone and awake, dissatisfied and hungry, smelly with bug blood and whatnot, but more hungry than he wanted to admit. He spent most of the night waiting for the dragon to jump on him and tear his throat but as that didn’t happen, he moved his attention to the pot of stew the dragon had left in the kitchen.

He swallowed his pride as he ate the meat off the bones and slurped down the lukewarm soup. Hel saw this but didn’t move or make any remark, sure that the say after this weak minded human would begin to come around. He knew that this brat had been handed most of everything in his life and that not having something would be a torture for him, and he planned on banking on this.

The next day was what everyone would call a bad copy of the previous one, as Thomas didn’t get anything right and just kept piling up mistake after mistake, forcing Hel to save his sorry ass over and over and over again from mud traps, insects, moles, rats, roots that came to life, and most of all his own stubbornness at not wanting to be helped.

Hel was pissed and when Thomas fell and got himself attacked by the colony of worms that lived in the mound of dirt that he had crushed, snapped.

“Why the hell can’t you get one simple thing? I told you not to touch anything and yet here you are, making more of a mess of yourself every passing second. I saved your life seventeen times today, seventeen. We’re not even three hours past noon! What can’t you understand in the sentence ‘follow after me and not get yourself killed’?” Thomas didn’t say anything and stormed off, turning on his heels and backtracking to the room they had left in the morning.

It took him two hours to get back and then he just sat in his pillow stack and waited. He waited for the dragon to come back for five more hours and even he, in all of his idiocy, was getting worried about why Hel had yet to come back. The word ‘seventeen’ echoed in his mind like a curse. How many times had he risked his life by now? Dozens in bars and alleys, just to prove that he was just as good as his ancestors, but… was he as good after all?

Thomas was the kind of guy that needed more than a few harsh lessons to learn something when it came to his own behaviour and it seemed that this one last fuck-up was the drop that broke the dam. For the time he was alone, feeling useless because he could not do anything right, as the hated dragon so nicely pointed at, especially because that dragon pointed it out in fact, he boiled in a broth of self-hatred and hopelessness. He had trained, studied, served under several lords and they all came to the same conclusion: he was clever and strong, but a damn fool when it came to honour and none failed to mention that to his father. Was he really wrong in his actions after all this time?

When the door finally opened and the dragon came in, he slumped on the floor, his flank bleeding badly, Thomas jumped on his feet. Hel growled and he stepped back in fear. What had happened?

Hel dragged himself on the pile of pillows, a trail of red blood following him to the bed. He seemed to rest for a moment before using his magic to gather medical supplies and begin to patch himself up. The sewing wire was too small and the needle to fragile and he broke two of them before giving up. He was about to call for help, to ask Aidan to come and save him, when Thomas rushed over and began cleaning his wound.

Hel was more than surprised at the human’s actions and stared as Thomas carefully cleaned the wound and sewn it shut. The human seemed even worried about the state of his enemy and carefully inspected the rest of his body, patching up a number of smaller wounds and cuts.

“Why did you help me?”

“I don’t know…” he sighed. “Aidan would have killed me if I didn’t, right?” He spoke in a monotonous voice, almost as if he was not really there, merely pretending to be nice.

“Most likely. I appreciate the effort though.” Hel craned his neck and inspected the wounds. “Nice stitching. Where did you learn?”

“It’s none of your business, dragon. Shut up and rest.” The dragon was somewhat surprised but eventually gave up on understanding the human and just rested his head on the pillows. With one last spell he removed some of the blood and dozed off for a few minutes until his stomach grumbled. Thomas smirked at the dragon’s hunger.

“Could you make something for the both of us?” The human was not good at anything but Hel hoped that he’d at least try. Instead, Thomas went to the pantry and grabbed some meat that was stored inside, tossing a chunk to the dragon and keeping some for himself. “Really? Not even try? You really are useless.”

“Don’t you dare call me useless! It’s these… things that are all wrong! Where am I supposed to put the wood to make the fire? Where is the oven?”

“If you asked I’d have told you that there is a small button to the side, put a pan on the surface, drop some meat and press the button. It’s so easy even a child could do it.” Hel mocked the human and Thomas, in his need to prove himself, did exactly as Hel said to do. A few minutes later the meat was sizzling and getting brown to the sides. The human looked at it like he had performed some magic spell but Hel was quick to shut him down. “Don’t forget to turn it or it’ll burn.”

“Shut up.” He paid close attention to the cooking process and when it was done, he slapped the meat on a plate and handed it to the dragon. Hel smiled devilishly and moaned in pain, the fake actions obvious to the human.

“Oh, I don’t think I can use my paws to eat, could you be so kind and put it in my mouth?” Something told the dragon that he could now push this human a bit further than he’d have ever though possible, and he was going to seize the chance. “Please?” He batted his eyelids much like a female would and Thomas scoffed again, annoyed as he could get but still accepted the request.

“Fine.” Thomas scoffed, huffed and puffed, but didn’t refuse the request. He did drop the meat in the waiting maw with little care. Hel was not pleased with the method but he knew something had changed in the man’s heart. But what? “Anything else?”

“My back is itchy.” He gave his back a half-assed rub and then looked at the dragon. Hel gave him a ‘come on, you can do better’ look and Thomas sighed, repeating the process until Hel was purring softly. Seeing the dragon so defenceless and vulnerable, not to mention in such a state, had a weird impression on the human. Was this really a machine of death? His enemy? It seemed like that for the first time he looked at him: he was big and scary but had some grace to his figure. “Hmm, that’s good. Go lower.”

“Lower?” He looked at the dragon’s hindquarters and sighed. “Fine.”

“What? Really? I was joking… did you hit you head by any chance?”

“Do you want the rub or not you stupid lizard?” Hel shrugged and nodded. Thomas sighed, slowly rubbing his back. The dragon purred again.

“What happened to make you change your mind?”

“I thought about something.”

“Mind telling what it was?” There was silence for a long while, maybe some purrs from the dragon. Thomas thought hard and carefully whether to talk or not, in the end choosing the former option. He sighed and looked at the wounded beast.

“I… have been a disappointment for my family for years. You told me that you saved my life seventeen times today, how I cannot follow basic instructions… my father did the same thing a while ago, when I, ehm, got into a bar fight and got two ribs broken by a drunk man for trying to defend my family’s honour.”

“Did you manage to?”

“I have no idea. I passed out and found myself in the hospital, hurting all over and sore, father looking at me with a disappointed look. I just wanted to be up to his standards, but all I did was to lower them more and more. Last month, I charged with some servants towards the border, I wanted to show how horrible you dragons are and make a name for myself, though I did, it wasn’t good.”

“So, not only you have risked your life but you almost restarted a war and sacrificed thousands of innocents, just to try and make your father proud??” Hel was downright flabbergasted. Thomas nodded in shame and stopped rubbing the dragon’s scales. “You must love him a lot.”

“I do, but I don’t know what else to do to prove myself.”

“Ever thought that maybe you should have just… taken it easy? Not try so hard? I’m sure he was worried as well for your safety.”

“I know, should have thought about that before I tried to kill you in front of the king.”

“Oh, I am very grateful for that.” Hel chuckled and stole a very perplexed expression from Thomas, who of course didn’t know about the inner workings of his change. “Had you, we not been so hot headed, I’d have not ended up here and gotten like this.” One large paw pointed at his rather slender frame, clearly proud of this change as he should have been.

“Oh, right.” Thomas was not entirely sure of why exactly was the dragon so different or what happened to him.

“What, not curious about how I came by this power or form?”

“No thank you, I told you that I was fine with being like this.”

“Not even a little bit?” Hel was clearly leading Thomas in a certain direction, one that would, with no doubt, lead to something every interesting. His body shuddered at the thought of the pleasure that would come upon the two of them. Luckily, Thomas took the bait and decided to ask.

“Well, maybe.”

“I can tell you one thing: it involves a lot of moaning and pleasure.” Hel smirked and shuddered at the pleasant memory once again. Thomas got the hint and his eyes went wide as dinner plates, mouth slightly open. Hel had the very enticing thought of forcing his tongue in that mouth but he also feared that the stitches would come undone and so he waited, the opportunity just around the corner.

“He… he fucked you?”

“Very much so, yes. Though I tried to do that to him and ended up making a fool of myself. I thought I was some hot shot with the females and in the end I learned that I was but a selfish asshole.”

“Ehm, how so?”

“Why, weren’t you not interested?” Thomas blushed again and Hel smirked at the human’s inner conflict between curiosity and modesty. “I tried to dominate him but I only spilled twice before I gave up and handed my body to him. He touched me like none would and made me see a different world. I also got this new form and a sizeable increase in magic power but that is just a pleasant side effect.”

“So… are you…?”

“Homosexual?” The human nodded. “No, I like both actually, or rather, learned to like both sides of life. It’s not always one or the other, just like now in this world it won’t be either humans or dragons to live. Both can be good.”

“And did you, ehm, like it?”

“What? Letting a male get under my tail and pound me to heaven? Obviously so.” Hel chuckled.

“Oh, you’re…” Thomas shuffled and moved aside, letting Hel know that he had grown out of his slit and bared himself to the human. He wasn’t that shocked nor felt all that embarrassed, though his scales turned a deeper shade on his cheeks.

“My, I’m terribly sorry. If you could give me a moment, I could try and get it down. Would you mind… turning around? It’s going to be messy.”

“Oh, ehm, sure…”

Hel was extremely excited as the human turned around and looked away, sitting on a chair facing the opposite direction of the dragon and his tool. Thomas forced himself not to focus on the slurping sounds or the cure moans as the dragon began to suck himself. The human had seen how big the dragon was, much bigger, thicker and hotter than his own, the image of the inhuman cock burned in his mind. The lewd noises began to get into his head and, contrary to Thomas’ wishes, awoke something inside him and his growing erection strained his pants. He was rather surprised by this reaction but could do little to control it. He shifted uncomfortably in his seat and did his very best not to turn or listen, with little to no success. He could have also gotten out and went for a walk but he didn’t, why he did not do that, he himself did not know, he just… gave up and surrendered. Slowly, he turned around and saw the dragon licking himself, dragging that huge tongue on the throbbing member, sucking the pre coming off in large globs with excitement.

Shocked and completely unable to believe himself, his hand drifted increasingly lower and eventually reached that painful erection in his pants, unfastening his belt and letting the hard member fall out of his briefs, dripping already on its own. Hel noticed with pleasure that the human had begun masturbating in front of him and that pushed him to put on a little show, lifting his tail and plunging it deep in his tailhole. The penetration coaxed a moan from the dragon and one more from the human as he bit his lips in a vain attempt at masking his pleasure.

Thomas was the first to come, affected by the cloud of musk coming from the dragon and Hel, seeing a human get off from watching him, brought his own pleasure over the edge and came, howling. The thick streams of seed shot in his waiting maw and on his muzzle as they multiplied. In a titanic effort, the dragon aimed his tool at the human and splashed him with his seed. Thomas got some in his mouth and tasted the salty and spicy flavour of dragon seed, his hand stroking his yet again hard member, now slick with seed and bringing him to a new climax in the span of a minute. The few drops of human seed lost themselves in the veritable sea of Hel’s, and he felt somewhat inadequate in front of this beast that clearly outclassed him in several areas.

“Hmm, I see you like the taste and my little show.” Thomas blushed and looked away, flinging a strand of seed from his face on the ground. “No need to be ashamed. We are males who like to get off, nothing major.”

“But… I came looking at a dragon… oh, gods, what will my father think now?”

“Well, does he need to know of this? Of course he doesn’t, you are not just his son, but your own person, so what if you like my seed? I have learned to like it as well over these past few days.”

“So, you never did this before?”

“Licking myself? Before coming here? Never, and if anyone asked me about it, I’d have lashed out and insulted the other one as a deviant and pervert.”

“Then, what happened?”

“Aidan happened. I told you he showed me a new light, showed me what I had missed out. I realize it was wrong of me to think of myself as some kind of hot shot when the females I bedded had to lick themselves to orgasm as I was not good enough for them.” Hel blushed and Thomas, finally over his interspecies block, laughed heartily. “Yeah, I know… how embarrassing of a male not to bring a female to climax.”

“Oh, don’t worry, Hel, I have had the same issue with my first love. She dumped me because I was too quick to come.” He laughed at himself but Hel didn’t join him and instead looked at the human with shock. “What?”

“You called me by my name!”

“It… seems that I did. So what?”

“Nothing, nothing, it’s just that… you never did.” Thomas thought for a moment and realized that he had indeed never referred to the dragon as Hel, just as… dragon, beast, monster, liar, deceiver, creature, lump of scales and enemy. He realized that this one was also someone with dreams and hopes and what made him tick, not just some beast that he had to kill. “I like that.”

“Sorry, I… it’s just that I have been trained all my life to fight you and then…”

“And then some random dude chosen by a god comes, fucks everyone twice over and ends the war alone and prevents you from joining a long series of heroes so you lose your shit and try to get some before the tempest is finally over.” That was one way to put it, Thomas thought but it was the rather uncomfortable truth.

“Yeah, sorry.”

“It nothing, really, I was of the same opinion but there just isn’t quite something like a good fuck or paw off to let some steam and see the world in a different light.” Thomas broke into laughter and left Hel confused. “What?”

“Paw off… is that what you call masturbation in dragon language?”

“Well, we have paws so I guess it’s a yes. What do you call that? Hands off or something?” That made the human laugh even harder and the contagious laughter passed to the dragon. Both laughed until they were out of breath and gasping for air. “What’s so funny about that?”

“Nothing it’s just… oh, boy… you caught me by surprise, paw off… that would make sense.”

“Of course it does! Oh, my sides, it hurts…” The laughter loosened the stiches just a bit, drawing some drops of blood, but the work done by the human was excellent and held tight.

“What happened to you by the way?”

“Met a big fucking thing, insect thing, lots of teeth and lots of nasty bits. Got a good hit on me by crawling out of a hole and tried to get inside me to do whatever insects do. Managed to kill it but damn if it hurt.”

“There are things that can kill dragons other than humans?”

“Surprised? Humans are the ones that should be surprised when they can actually kill us. You’re small, weak, soft, can’t last long in a fight and die way too easy. How did you get the best of us for the past three hundred years is a mystery.”

“Weapons, Hel, weapons. I know we are weak but we have more resources, can use them better and work well together. I learned that dragons, even when in an army, tend to work alone, going on killing sprees rather than follow orders in formation. I think that this is the reason we can kill you, because we work well together.”

“That is scary talk. Can we move on a more pleasant topic?”

“Like what?” Hel smiled and licked his snout, cleaning it from his essence.

“Like how much I covered you. Come here.” Thomas moved close to the dragon and he used his tail to grab onto the human and began licking his face, removing the still warm seed off of him. “Mmmh, so good.” Hel took him even closer and kissed the man, forcing his mouth open and lodging the massive tongue inside, spreading the taste on his own. Thomas didn’t know what to do and left Hel do the job, feeling as those paws moved on his body and the tongue explore his small mouth. Eventually, Hel stopped and let the man breathe. “Did you like that?”

“I-I think so. It that weird?” Thomas’ brain was firing on all cylinders, be it because his muscles were telling him to run or kill and his more rational mind whispering all the sermons made by priests in the church about decency but the loudest of all voices, as always was the one coming from below the belt, a perpetual scream of: do it, do it, do him, let him do you… nothing like the human had ever experienced before. Girls had a strong effect on him, especially after a day of training or a couple of weeks in a camp, but this… this was ten times stronger and better in every way. The fact that he was doing it with a male of another species, well… he hard the weirdest boner ever but he didn’t complain, not after spilling, twice, to that male.

“I made the same question and I learned that it’s not. What you like is normal, maybe a bit unconventional but here you may be the most reserved.”

“Even if I wanted to get some more?”

“Even if you want to get some more, straight from the tap.” Hel smiled and pushed the human’s head closer to his cock, still hard and now dripping with spent seed and the new flow of sweet pre.

Thomas still had his doubts but the smell had long since gotten through his brain and fried whatever self control he had. He opened his mouth and licked the tip, collecting a bead of pre. He moaned and lodged himself on the spire, sucking and licking as if trying to milk it for all it was worth. Hel marvelled at how the human was a natural cock-sucker but didn’t complain and instead grabbed the human, moving his scaleless ass in front of his muzzle. Thomas registered the warm and wet tongue on his backside and kept going at the dragon’s member now that he was getting more and more pre and small droplets of cum that, even though small for the dragon were about his normal load on a good day. Thomas had long since known that dragon were stronger and better than humans, all humans knew it, it was necessary to fight them, but this was not something they taught at the academy. He had always longed for strength, power, now that he had seen what Hel was capable of, he was kind of jealous. He moaned around the dragon’s tip as he felt that tongue, that marvellous tongue, slither its way around his balls, slathering them in a thick layer of saliva, adding to the pleasure that his skin caused him by the mere contact with those hard and warm scales.

Under the careful ministrations of Thomas and very much still sensitive from before, Hel didn’t last long and climaxed right inside the human’s mouth. The seed that had not been spent before, was shot inside the tight throat and down his esophagus. He tried to drink as much as he could before the amount became too much and he let the rest plaster his face and what little of his clothing was not already drenched by now. Hel roared and plunged his tongue deep into the human’s hole, squirming and thrashing. Thomas, though tired and exhausted, came once more and Hel was quick this time, turning the human around and taking him deep in his maw, tasting the human seed.

Minutes later, as he stopped coming on Thomas’ back and his seed stream became a trickle, the two cum-covered males slumped on the cushions. The human was panting and the dragon much the same.

“I’ll… be… damned. That was so… hot and I cannot believe I just used ‘hot’ to describe being covered in dragon seed.”

“Same, same. Oh, gods, you are one good sucker, Thomas.”

“Ehm, thank you?

“I see you two have made up your mind.” The two of them turned their heads and saw Aidan looking at them and smiled. He was excited as well, both member jutting out of his slit. “Good job, Hel.”

“I think he did most of the work by himself, both here and before.”

“I saw that, I was watching you to make sure. That neither died under my care.”

“You… watched us? All this time?”

“Yes, I did. Amazing show by the way. Krissie and Johanna are upstairs watching the replay and getting some fun by themselves.” At the idea of two women on top of each other, both exhausted males showed interest, though neither had more energy to get aroused now. “Now, I cannot let you interrupt them. Let them be alone, you two are mine.” Aidan smiled and put a spell on the two in front of him, letting his energy seep in their bones and muscles, healing them. Hel’s wounds disappeared and only a small scar was left while Thomas felt himself get stronger and more agile. They felt their hearts pump harder and their member get once again in full mast. “So, Thomas, how do you feel about taking it from behind?” The half -dragon half-man smiled again and the boy swallowed his saliva and what little of dragon seed was left in it.

With one more spell, Aidan lifted the both of them in the air and lined them with himself. Thomas held his breath as he felt the hybrid spear him and something incredible wash over his skin and permeate his very being. Under the influence of the one pounding him, his skin wriggled and shifted, taking a bronze shade only to spilt into countless scales under Hel’s eyes.

The human began to take a more draconic shape as his face became a muzzle and his teeth sharpened. What was once Thomas lunged for Hel and kissed the dragon of his own volition, tongues wrestling in their mouths. Aidan was gleeful and picked up the pace, pre lubricating the dragonling’s passage and the dragon’s cock. A tail sprouted behind his back and latched onto Aidan, pulling him harder against his ass. Bones cracked and reshaped, skin shifted and became stronger and better. The now not-so-human’s balls tightened and retreated in a growing slit, disappearing from the outside world, safe inside his flesh and under a layer of scales, his member retreating as well only to come out a moment later, changed, much more sensitive and flexible.

When Aidan came, the other two were ready: they stopped kissing and opened their mouths to receive the streams gushing out of their members and the one of their master as he pumped into the former human’s ass with even more strength. Thomas roared and Hel joined him: two bronze reptiles sharing an unbelievably powerful climax, the seed of three different beings joining in one large and warm puddle at their feet, rivulets forming on their bodies. Their collective pleasure, heightened by the transformation, lasted far longer than it should have been, fuelled by insane lust and the hybrid’s magic, ten minutes of hot spurts and full mouths.

The three rolled and coiled around each other, their members spurting wildly in all directions, grinding against each other or against strong scales and the occasional hole. The new additions to the family fainted in the throes of pleasure, cocks still spurting weakly and Aidan left them alone for the moment, letting them cuddle and share warmth, teleporting out to his mates.

Johanna and Krissie could smell the scent of horny males on him as soon as he arrived and assaulted their lover, throwing him on the floor and licking off any stray strand of seed that was left, coaxing him into getting ready for a few more sessions with them.

Aidan leaned back and let the two females clean every crevice of his, under his tail, under his arms, between his feet and his cocks, now ready for another round. Krissie claimed his mouth and sat on him as Johanna positioned herself so that her mate could rest her back on her wide ass and Aidan could ram her while tending to Krissie’s needs. He didn’t forget to put a sound barrier on the tree as per the request of the spider queen and began thrusting in, Johanna moaning under him.

With another addition this family would soon get very weird, as if it wasn’t already, but there was nothing wrong with this at all.