I just sat there in my hospital gown, trying to process what the shaman had just told me. My parents, sitting in a pair of seats next to my hospital bed, were in their human forms. They sat their patiently, holding each other's hands, allowing me time to process what the shaman had just told me.

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The shaman finished typing something on his wall mounted computer and said, "well, I need to make some phone calls, that'll give you time to change and make arrangements. If you have any questions or anything at all, don't hesitate to ask anyone at the nurse's station." With that he walked out the door, closing it quietly behind him. I was still in shock, just sitting there, nothing like this had happened in centuries.

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"Alex," my mom said after several minutes of silence, "sweetie, are you ok?" I nodded my head slowly, "I uh, I just can't believe it, it's uh..." I trailed off into silence again, still trying to wrap my head around it, it was a lot to take in. "Everything's not going to happen all at once," my dad said softly, "you're always going to be our son, I'm sure there will be a transition period and training and what not." I nodded my head, his words were helpful, I was a lot like him so his rationalizing of the situation started to bring me back to reality.

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"I just can't believe it," I said, "I'm relieved, and it explains why I've never been able to make the transformation, but it's been what? Three hundred years since there was a new elder dragon?" My parents both nodded their heads in agreement, and my dad said, "I know, it's completely unprecedented, but you can do it, you'll be great." My parents stood up in unison and embraced me, and they held me for several minutes before separating, tears in mom's eyes.

Incredibly well written

I just stood there, mouth a gape, staring with unbelieving eyes at the creature before me. It was as massive as it was terrifying, being 6 foot tall myself, it was easily twice my size. It had dark grey skin, almost like that of a rhino or elephant, but for all it's size it's head seemed almost disproportionately small, and with no visible neck. For being twice as tall it had too have been at least 4 or 5 times heavier, arms and legs like tree trunks, and a torso like one of those flat faced semi-trucks. By far the most terrifying part though were the eyes, not to mention the complete lack of any visible mouth or nose. It had four eyes, one pair where you would think eyes should be, and one pair being set a little closer to where one would think the creatures' ears would be. There was no white to it's eyes, just darkness, black in the center and dark shades of gray fading away from where I was sure the pupil was.

There was no doubt that the creature was looking at me though, it's gaze not quite looking me in the eye, but piercing, as if it were trying to see behind me, and it was quite unsettling. I had read about the creature only briefly, texts that even mention it were scarce and mostly in volumes speaking of mythologies. Images of it were scarcer still, but the memory of the few times I had seen them had certainly stuck. Those texts never gave a name, only referring to it as The Destroyer. In the ancient myths, it was believed to have been responsible for the razing of all of Atlantis.

Completely frozen in fear, I still just stood there staring at it, wondering where I had gone wrong in casting the spell. It was old magic and translation took a fair bit of time, but it was still fairly straight forward. The only real difficulty being finding the dragon scale needed for the fire. Then, in a low voice, I heard odd sounding words that seemed to be coming from the beast, though from where exactly I had no idea. When the sounds stopped, still utterly terrified, I could barely summon the courage to raise my hands and shoulders in an obvious state of confusion. I saw it's head tilt to the side a little and it's horrifying dark eyes somehow visibly narrowed. It was almost ten feet away, but with one step it closed the distance immediately and held out it's giant hand in front of my face. Flinching backwards a bit when it suddenly put forth one finger and reached to touch my head. The finger made contact with my left temple, and it was warm, almost hot. The sensation that followed was by far the most unsettling part yet, it was like when you're half asleep and you think you're falling, awakening in terror only to realize your still laying down. It was like that, but in slow motion and with the added twist of having the sensation of something trying to pull you from your body.

Lasting only a few long moments, the relief I felt when it pulled away was immeasurable. The monster took a half step back and raised it's hands to the sky, slowly lowering it's hands palm down, as if it were doing some kind of tai chai breathing exercise. Again, in a trance of complete fear, I was convinced it was going to cast some kind of spell and render untold destruction all around. It was odd though, cause no such spell came forth, and as strange as it was, it almost seemed to be shrinking. Suddenly the light bulb in my brain came on. It was getting smaller, but not only that, there were other curiosities happening at the same time. It's skin and eyes seemed to be getting lighter and it even looked as though it's eyes closer to the ear area were moving closer to where the more normally placed eyes were.

Right about when it was only about a foot taller than me was when things really started to get weird. The rear eyes got so close to the front ones, they were almost touching, until they were squeezed together and then suddenly merged. Things were starting to grow too, and it was quite unsettling. Hair was starting to grow out of the top of the head along with, what I was assuming was going to be, lips, ears, and a nose. It's chest seemed to be growing oddly too, as if it were becoming pregnant with two tiny, assumingly hideous creatures. Once it was my height it dawned on me what was happening, and I immediately looked away in embarrassment. How could I be so dumb, obviously it was changing into the form of a human woman. Furthermore, how ridiculous was it that I felt embarrassed at this particular moment.

Still looking away, I felt a light tapping on my shoulder. I turned to look over my shoulder very slowly, worried now that I would accidently see too much, stopping when I made eye contact with what turned out to be quite a lovely young woman. "Could I borrow your jacket dear? It seems people these days are quite modest, and I can't tell you how hungry I am right now."

Thank You

'T H A T.' I let out a short sigh. "That's what I thought you would say. Listen, I know that was you fucking with the lights last week, it blew out the breaker panel and the landlord made me pay for it, you owe me."

'I O W E U T H I S D I-' "GROSS dude, seriously. You're disgusting, I know you keeping doing something to the water pipes outside the bathroom to try to wash away the protection spell, that was another $2k for the plumber by the way."

'S H O W M E-' "Absolutely not. Look, I've had enough. I ran into the priest from the church I used to go to and I invited him over for coffee. Now, I didn't tell him about you, but if I don't see some cash by the time he get's here, I'm gonna have him excersize your bitch ass."

'B U L L S H I T' "Look out the window, he should be here any minute."

The ouija board is still for a minute and I know I got him on the ropes.

'H E L O O K L I K E A B I T C H I A I N T S C A R E D' "O really? Well did you know that he used to be an Arch Bishop and has been ordained by the pope?"

There was a brief pause and then 'I M A J U S T P O S S E S S T H E C A T A G A I N A N D C L A W H I-' "Apperantly you didn't notice, but I took the cat to the neighbors, this ain't my first day."

Another pause 'B I T C H I M D E A D Y O U K N O W I M B R O K E' "Bullshit, I know you got money somewhere, I found out about your little friend, Monica isn't it?"

'W H O D A T' "Don't play dumb, I know she's a stripper, and I know about the pizza guy that always show's up with a pizza at the same time. Just tell me where you've got the money stashed and Leonard and I will just have a nice chat about old times and the weather."

There was a knock on the door. The timing couldn't have been more perfect, but the Ouija board didn't move. "Alright, fine, enjoy hell dickhead." I got up and started towards the door when a book went sailing pass my head from behind. I looked back at the Ouija board and saw it shake a little. I walked back towards it while I heard another Knock at the door. "Just a minute," I called over my shoulder.

'F I N E L O O S E F L O O R B O A R D I N D I N I N G R O O M' "Thank you," I said with a devilish grin as I started towards the dining room. I heard a loud tearing noise, like wrapping paper behind me. I turned around to see the wallpaper had been tore in just such a way to spell out the word 'BITCH.' I just smiled again and collected what had to be at least $50k from under the dining room floor.