chapter 4

Basil was walking around the sanctuary when he saw the cave of Rita. She had a personal cave with a large open window. He walked to it maybe he could have a glimpse of her but as he reached a little closer "My, my," he hear Xenia say as he turned around to see her looking at him. Ok the way that old dragon crept up on him and appeared everywhere was freaky. He turned around frightened "No, now Xenia it's nothing like you think I wasn't just roaming around here hoping to see Rita anything I was just walking around, yes totally just walking around."He stared at her frightened and she smiled and left to a nice evening stroll hoping to get some fresh air. He was walking around when he saw a red dragoness near a steam holding a lot of berries. He remembered Clay telling him that they worked like Alcohol on dragons. She stood up and screamed "I HATE YOU BEARDED DRAGON." I pity the dragon she's talking about basil thought to himself. He was kind of surprised that people actually did that. Then he saw that she was getting tipsy and almost fell in the pond "CAREFUL" Basil shouted to her as she turned around. Somehow that red dragon looked familiar to basil but he wasn't able to recognize "I'm not lonely enough to be with a hatchling." She said turning back to the pond "I'm not hitting on you" basil said irritated. She looked at him with a teary expression "I can't even get a hatchling who doesn't even know about dragonesses to like me," She turned to a pond "I shall leave this world and this body."Basil jumped and stopped her as she was about to jump in. "Don't kill yourself" Basil said wrestling her away. "Oh I want Xenia's special soup" She said. Was it the Xenia at the sanctuary? He kept the question to himself as she looked at him "Hatchling I'll tell you something," she said "I'll teach you transformation magic" she turned around and walked to a clearing as he followed her "So do as I say, first you relax your wings and then think about what you want to become, I'll say you start with things like elephants and eagles but humans are good too but take a lot of practice." He relaxed his wings and thought about what he might become as he closed his eyes. He thought elephant will be the best and started picturing himself as one but then his human form popped up in his mind and how he looked. When he opened his eyes he expected to be was an elephant but it felt different and very familiar. He looked down as he saw the he was standing on two legs. He had transformed back into human but now he was a bit bluffer and taller too. The Dragoness stood in front of him stood with her mouth open as if he peeled his scales and revealed a hippo inside. Then she smiled and shimmered as she transformed to a human with red hair glasses and for one thing big chest. "You're a natural at this," She said "It took me years to be able to transform in humans. Very well you shall be awarded, How about a kiss human consider it a big deal." He knew what a kiss was and for one thing knew it was a pretty big deal probably as big as her chest he looked at her but she was already too close a little distance from kissing him when a scroll came flying and hit her stopping her in her tracks. They turned around to see Rita standing there with no emotions on her face. Then he turned to see that she had transformed back to a dragon and was flying to her as he transformed back to a dragon again which was surprisingly easy. He wasn't sure but if dragons could have blushed he surely was right now. The red dragon flew to her and said "Rita!!! It's been sooooooo long since I met you." She tried getting near Rita but she was agile enough to dodge her every time till she gave up. She then again turned towards basil and said "Hey cutie I'll teach you how to dive bomb." The berries had affected her mind as well as her speech but basil knew one thing if she dive bombed at that angle then she'll land directly at him. But before she could Rita came in her way stopping her. Rita was stopping her and trying to save Basil he felt as if his heart might burst out and fly to her. But then the red dragon smiled and caught Rita in a rough embrace and they both fell from the sky on the ground directly on Basil. "Ow" he said "I thought i might live till tomorrow." They stood up and looked at each other sheepishly "Well I should introduce you two" Rita said. Ok now he was sure whenever Rita talked the music of violins did sound around her. Rita looked at him and said "Basil this messed up drunk dragon is.... Mayumi the fifth resident of the sanctuary I think clay showed you a portrait for her." His surprise was visible this drunken dragoness looked everything but from the portrait but it was the same dragon unless she had a twin. Then she turned at Mayumi and said "And Mayumi this is Basil our newest resident." After that she took the scroll she had thrown and flew away. He didn't like her going away even if it was back to the sanctuary. Mayumi caught him looking at her and said "Try all you can I won't be cheering a lot." And flew away. Well basil thought to him she did have what looked like a breakup recently but it was still a surprise to see that. Thinking about it he flew back to the sanctuary