Broken

Groggy and confused I, while disoriented, seek light in this dark place.

'Am I still asleep?'

I had a long dream of being a dragon and flying in so many places, feeling the wind on my wings and the beautiful sights my eyes were seeing made the dream seem so true.

Without being able to form a clear thought I try to open my eyes and see where I am, why I smell sulphur, blood and iron the moment I woke up. It turns out I may be under rubble or something heavy, my body hurts all over and my thoughts seem jumbled...

'Concentrate on opening your eyes, Theo, after that see what's going on...'

Growing stronger the more he concentrated, Theo began to find the strenght to open his eyes and see, what he saw scared him, but there was a sense of familiarity, a sense of familiar fear as if his body was afraid.

In the time it took for him to see the dark room filled with bodies of creatures that looked like lizards all around him he realized he could now form more complex thoughts.

'Those lizards, they got wings... Are they dragons?! Wait, why am I on a room filled with the dragon corpses? Where am I? Why can't I recall-'

At this his memories that seemed like a vague mist started to become more palpable and cohesive. He once was Theo a university student that was about to finally graduate after a long time of postponing his delivery of his academic paper, being what he told himself atleast. He also remembered that he was also a dragon, in fact he remembered many lifes, first him as a blue dragon, satiating his curiosity, as a red dragon filling his belly with fish and lazying around all day, as a green dragon sleeping and rolling around the grass, as a bronze dragon feeling the heat on the scales and not remembering what day it was... Even as a black dragon roasting mice to eat, he himself found hatred for that part of him for some reason...

'Well atleast I don't have to deliver that boring paper anymore... Who the hell has the patience to be an academic of all things? But before I celebrate... A DRAGON?! ME?!'

'What happened to my cozy bed and why do I feel like I will never be able to live how I used to?'

At this moment the anguish, despair and trauma started to arise in my mind, not because of being stressed about becoming a dragon, but because of the memories of torture, pain and abuse that I suffered in this place... along with those of my past life in my old world.

'This is a lab? Am I a experiment? Why am I alone right now? Was I Thrown away as disposable after breaking down and being useless?'

My head filled with too many questions to awnser started rationalizing my own situation faster by the second, revelation after revelation shocking me.

'This place, I know this place as Theo as well... I am at Blackrock Mountain... And I know what I am... a Chromatic Drake, an experiment by the black dragon Nefarion, who in his mad pursuit for the perfect dragonflight, started to fuse different dragons together, the great majority ending as me, food for the other experiments as failures...'

Realization soon dawned me that I was in Azeroth, the same from the game World of Warcraft... And that right now I was in deep dung, the deepest of dungs... Even the smell was like dung, for I was currently on the same chamber where a boss of the raid Blackwing Lair appears and fights the players...

'I will have to survive Chromaggus won't I?'

As the fact that I was basically thrown as an option of a buffet for a two headed dog-dragon who was very powerful I finnaly began to look at my own body...

'I am in shambles, I hurt all over, in fact I can't even find a part of my body that does not hurt... So what are my options? I refuse to believe I cannot survive this!"

Memories of the dragons finnaly began to gain detail, and so I gained a very useful insight... Magic, as a race blessed by the titans and with a elemental lineage I was able to cast spells and use magic as easily as breathing... But in my current situation even breathing hurts like hell, but I have hope that as long as I use my cards right I can escape this place.

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[Major Quest found: Survive, Escape, Thrive:

Objective: Survive your encounter with Chromaggus, Escape Blackrock Mountain, Reach somewhere where you can stabilise yourself.]

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'What is this?! A UI? Have I been blessed by the gods of transmigrations on the path to become a main Character?! Well I first need to survive... it would be handy if I could learn my draconic skills before being eaten.'

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Skills:

[Humanoid Form]

[Dragon Breath]

[Power of Life (Red)]

[Arcane Knowledge (Blue)]

[Blessing of Nature (Green)]

[Time Manipulation (Bronze)]

[Earth Connection (Black)]

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'Isn't that convenient? I wonder if I am the only one with the system... Damn it, focus, focus! You will die if you do not have a plan.'

Thus I started slowly testing my powers, everytime I desired to use of my skills I would take on the colour of said power, each of them symbolizing a dragonflight, maybe if I get out of this I would have quite the advantage in life I wondered... But for now I could see that having so much in this body of mine was not exactly all fun and roses, each time I exercised a magic I would find myself with a throbbing chest pain and being out of breath on the verge of passing out.

'So I guess this is why I need to "stabilize" myself... trully I don't have much to live even if I leave this cursed place.'

For now I decided to deal with the pain and keep on testing my limits slowly, without being reckless I started to understand just where the line between life and death lay.

'The Power of Life can buy my body a bit of time... Even if it hurts like hell to use powers I can actually feel my body getting stronger and it lessens the overall pain of my body even if it leaves another one in its place that subsidizes with time.'

'The Blessing of Nature allows me to affect the mind of others, be they beast, humanoid or plant, it is limited to making them sleep, calm them or understanding them at this moment'

'Arcane knowledge allows me to detect magic, mana flow and to shape mana more easily, it's a support skill for spell-casting, not useful right now since I don't know any spells...'

'Time manipulation is quite useful, I can slow enemies, accelerate myself and stop time for a very short time, but it has too big a strain on me to use it freely'

'Earth manipulation is being able to communicate with the elements and to change the land I am on... can prove very useful to maneuver'

'Now we wait for an opportunity and take advantage of the fact that they think I am dead!'