He wondered around the school abit refamilerizing himself with it. He had been gone a while and while he had been hired to teach there he never got the chance to teach a class. And he so wanted to teach A class on dragons.

Robes hanging he took a turn another turn and then oopss he was lost again. "How in the world did I get lost again. My lair is bigger then this I think." He kept moving, in drow form he was just a pile of robes moving about and not as agile as in dragon form. With a final few turns he emurged on the Patio.

"Hello Lyndra. Seems I have been gone a bit longer then I thought."

He sat quietly listening to her with practiced patience. When she was done he fussed a bit with his robes. He had always wondered how people wore these things but after a few moments seemed to find a way to get comfortable. Her news didn't suprise him. On the contrary the way he acted he seem to have known, if not exactly something about it.

"Nightbloom." He paused a moment over the words and smiled. "the name suits you well." he smiled a moment collected his thoughts and continued.

"As to what it is to be a dragon, you have no further to look then in the nearest mirror." He stoped and watched her a moment and continued. "Like every humanoid race, every demonic race, every angelic race, we are what we, ourselves, choose to be. If you choose to be a dragon that likes sunflowers, dancing, and fuzzy bunnies then that is who you are. Or you could like Eating stone, crushing trees and hunting game. What we are does not define us. It is our heart inside and our actions that make us who we are."

Again he lets it sink in a bit but contiues finishing his thought. "Now I can not tell you who to be, but if you wish to learn about your abilities and such that your race affords to you then that I can help with. But how you use them is all yours."

He sits back letting his words sink in. He knows she has many questions and the smile on his face is genuine. Like a great book he sits waiting for someone to open him to the correct page so he may tell the story of a life time.

size=9]Tell me, Knite, if ye will ... what exactly are my abilities? Do ye know them specifically or just generally. Because I haven't found specific answers for my physical kind of dragon .... our - Sha'uri, Sharalis and My kind. I didn't think anyone really knew. Do ye? How do I learn what my abilities are? How did ye learn yer own?"

He smiled quietly as the questions came at him. He was quite ready for them but she needed to ask as he knew. He took a deep breath and carefully worded his response in his head before he spoke.

"First I honestly do not know exactly what your abilities are, nor do I know what kind of dragon you are. I have run into many species of dragons in my long life and although your sent is familiar it is not known to me. I do have a ton of books in my library about many of the dragons I have met or seen or have heard of though" He knew that wasn't the answer she wanted to hear but he wasn't finished.

"Now what I can do for you is get you started. Being a dragon like being anything is a lot of self discovery. But first we need to get you to be a dragon. Then like most races we can get a look at you and at least give you some back ground on what type of dragon you are and what typicaly your race can do. Now what I am going to tell you DON'T try right now. We do not want to accidently break the Headmasters estate." The drow smiled lightening the mood.

"To find out who you are get yourself a nice big area as us dragons tend to take up a little space." He winked a moment and contnued, "Then get some friends around that you trust just to help you out or if anything cheer you on. Next and this is the part not to do just listen. Pull a picture of yourself and put it in your mind, put it right at the front of your mind, you should almost feel a sort of tingle. Then take a small picture of a dragon, and it doesn't have to be exact of what your race is, a black and white picture works just as well. Your skin will tingle and almost start to itch at this point. Then Shrink the picture of yourself while enlarging the picture of the dragon in your mind. Your body will react accordingly, you will start becoming the dragon you are. In the end take the large picture of the dragon and put it over the picture of the humanoid you and let it cover it up. Bye the time you open your eyes you will see with a different vision of the world."

He pauses a moment to fix an errent fold in his robe. "To return to your humanoid form you just do the opposite. In fact this is how we teach wyrmlings to learn how to turn into there humanoid forms. Also don't get discouraged if you can't do it right away. Some times the body does not want to let go of the familiar. Give it time and patience. That is one thing dragons always have." He smiled as he watched her eyes take everything in like a child learning to play a game for the first time.

"From there we can work on the rest and of course we will eventually get to one of the greatest abilities in my book. We can teach you to fly." Knite smiled. "But as always small steps first."

He relaxed letting her take in the information he gave her. She had a lot of work ahead of her but he knew she was willing to work hard.

He got tugged up to stand next to Lyndra. The mirth in her eyes was like a child eager to get there parent to open Christmas gifts.
"Well I can't change here but hold on one second." His eyes glowed white as they did in dragon form and he smiled letting them return to normal.

He gently pulled her into his arms. " I can get us to that field in a instant. Hold on." In the blink of an eye they were both standing in the field. Flowers bloomed, grass birds flitted back and forth catching the insects that dances about the flowers.

"You were right, plenty of room out here." He let get her barrings and then released her. He could tell the trip was a bit quick for her but the smile on her face was that of acceptance and she was good to go.

"Okay step back a little and I will do a slow change for you. After you do it many times it becomes natural but I can slow it down for you."
"First get the image of your self right to your fore mind." He closed his eyes and relaxed. "A tingling of your skin will occur when you got it correct. " As to show her he pulled up a sleeve of his robes and showed almost like goose bump on his flesh.

"Then imagine the small dragon. The reason a small one is it makes doing the first transformation easier." With that he took another deep breath and the goose bumps on him started to arrange themselves into a scale like pattern. "At this point everything will tingle very strongly and at this point you will have the hardest part as your body will want to almost reject the picture in your mind. Just hold your resolve."

"Now watch, I am going to shrink the person and increase the dragon very slowly." With that he opened his eyes and they started to go from the normal dark eyes of a drow to the bright white of his dragon form. His body slowly arched and the robes started to blend in with his flesh as scales started to from. His limbs lengthened his face and neck started to also. Black scales were now visible as were 3 new appendages. Two wings and a tail. With that he started to grow more and more. He put his front hands down on the ground and just kept growing.

"Now at this point the dragon image is almost full grown and the person is small. Take the dragon image and place it over the person. This will also be difficult as it is the final step and any will the body has left against transforming will come through here. But just push on through. Once you do it the first time it becomes easier and easier like this."

With that his wings grew and spread out his tail filled in full. He was his dragon self, a piece of the night sky with glowing white eyes and twinkling stars in his hide. You could tell he was not full grown but he was still the normal size he was when in the Red Dragon Inn. he smiled down at Lyndra.

"And that is how you do it. Your size is something you can control but it will come later. First lets get you to dragon form, but even before that, if you want to try flying I am more then willing to give you a ride."
He bent down and on his back a silver saddle appeared complete with feet straps, and safety belts.

"It is entirely up to you where we go next."

The ancient dragon swiveled his head around to make sure she was fastened in. A keen nose caught different scents from her and he smiled but held his tounge. This woman was quite ready to become who she was.

As she made the last click on the straps he gave a toothy smile. "Well if it is anywhere I choose you will need to hold on with all your might cause we are going up!"

He crouched like a great cat about to pounce on his prey and checked to make sure she was ready then with a great leap and rush of wings they were air born. He continued to beat his wings for a bit then let them out flat to catch the air currents and he zoomed through the air. He glanced back once in a while to make sure she was ok, then with a "HOLD ON" he banked and flew over the school then the town proper and even the Inn.

His wings beat once in a while but she could tell there was more then just the air currents keeping them aloft as he zoomed towards the mountains. With an up draft he went up and over a hill and then down into a valley. He followed a river for a bit untill it ended at a water fall. Flying out over it left a spectacular view of the valley below. He turned and with a few hard beats of his wings landed on out cropping of Rock about half way down the waterfall and far enough away to keep them dry while providing a great view of the water fall and the valley.

"Well what do you think? Enjoying so far?" The dragon smiled at her. It was a good day.

The ancient dragon smiled back.

"No this is not my lair, we are a few miles from it. But I know of a nice mountain lake where we can go swimming. Hold on."

Making sure she was holding on he leaped off the outcropping and plunged downward. His wings snapped open and he glided out from the waterfalls face and back up into the sky. With a few flaps he was flying high and over some hills. he let the thermals carry him more of a relaxed glide then true powered flight.

With a left bank he plunged downward coming to a beautiful open area with a good size lake. The clear lake boasted cyrstal blue waters and beautiful surroundings.

The dragon glidded in and landed near a sand bar. This part of the lake was cut off from the rest because of the large sand bar and make a more or less small pond. A small stream ran into the far edge and with pleny of outlets the water stayed moving and fresh.

"I hope this will do. The is one of my favorite places to visit."

The dragon smiled and then slipped carefully into the water so as not to disturb anything. He was apparently accomplished at this task cause only small ripples were formed.

"Well I was just exploring the mountains, when I came across it. Something I always love to do was explore new places. Rhydin is no different. I have been all over the place and even have a part time job drawing up maps for people. It is quite a pleasent past time."

He slid the rest of the way in to the water so only his head and a bit of neck were above the surface.

"So what about you Lyndra? I come to find I don't know too awful much about you besides the fact you work at the acadmy. How long have you known you were a dragon. Are you scared about any aspect of it?"

He watched her a bit as he relaxed in the water feeling his body relax more. He kept his core temperature down so as not to heat the water and he was just relaxing.

Knite made no faces or any comments while she told her story. He just listened like he always did. He moved a bit as she held on to his scale.

"Oh yes if you want you can come with me. Once we get you able to change forms I think you will be doing to if you like it that much."

He gave a toothy smile.

"Then you have to keep up with me." He winked then caught her shiver.

"OOpss water a bit chilly." The water wamred up a little next to him. "There you go that should take the chill off. And NO i did not release gas in the water. I can control the internal temperature in my body and radiate it out. It helped Shauri and me out of a tight spot when we ran into Cutter that one time."

He swam a bit more just relaxing. Making sure she was relaxed, cause for her to change it would have to be giving up everything she knew up until now.

He watched her sink. The bathing suit floated accross the top of the water like some grim reminder of a body once there but the dragon didn't stir. He had seen her start to transform. His eyes caught the scales and he could smell the touch of her scent.

Right now there was no scent, no noise, just the beating of her heart which he picked up. He sensed no panic, no fear, just the want to be what she wanted to be.

The ancient let her go. His head came under the surface to watch as a set of eyelids slid over his eyes to let him see clearly under water. He monitered her. The Ancient would not let any harm come to his friend but he did not want to interfear either. So with patience born of a dragon he waited and hoped. It was really all he could do.

Blink Blink. The ancient dragon stared at the baby dragon at the end of his maw. He knew who it was, but did not expect this. To go from one form to another was one thing but to go to that other form and come out smaller that was something interesting.

He pulled his head out of the water carefully so as not to dislodge the Bronze Baby. Once out of the water he smiled a toothy smile. "So you are a bronze. Interesting I wonder if your a true metallic or something a bit different. No matter."

He brought his head over near the shore, and set it down. Now you followed all my information right except making the dragon in your mind bigger. That should take you to your correct size. Although you may just be a baby dragon. With out knowing your full make up it is impossible to tell."

He watched a moment at the baby got off his nose and she started testing wings and tail. "I do have to say, your darn cute that small." He gave another toothy grin wondering how much more the woman would suprise him.

The ancient watched quietly and smiled. Lyndra's bare elven form didn't even get a curious look, For him being without cloths was just his nature. Then again dragons had a different sense of modisty then most humanoids and well honestly never really had a god use for clothing. There scales did such a good job. But her dragon form had the elder taking in a deep breath. His eyes took in the splash of colors the golds and bronzes playing off one another. the blue and greens combining to give her difinition and charecter. The opal to highlight features. In the ancients eyes she was as breathtaking as the day he saw Sha'uri change.

He blinked a moment and realized he had probably paused a bit too long but he quickly regained his composure.

"Yes my friend you have done it." he bowed slightly in acknowledge of her transformation. "You have become what you are my lady." He brought up his head and smiled a toothy grin.

"And if my reading is correct and my mind is not being decieved by your beautiy. I would say that you are a Soul dragon, or at least that is one of the terms used to describe your race, although I am afraid I do not know much about them. Only what I have read."

Knite watched her a moment and let her get used to her form. The ancient was very impressed.

He had excepted the hug with a smile and had enjoyed the wonderness in her eyes. He could see though that she wanted more. More knowledge of who she really was. A lifetime of knowledge in as much time as he could give it to her. Normaly the ancient would just give guidence and let the wyrmling learn on there own. But Lyndra was different. Not a wyrmling but an adult dragon over night. He know she would be going through a lot but he also knew he had to help. He felt a bond with her for some reason.

"First before I tell you what I know about Soul dragons lets start on being a dragon. Emotions for one thing is something you will have to get used to. In your humanoid form you knew when someone is happy, sad, excited, scared or any other emotion just by watching there body, and by almost getting a feeling. Well dragons can put emotions into feelings and project them. Just when you touched me I felt gratitude and trust in that one simple touch. Even though you were not trying to project it you did. Dragons can project almost every emotion. The most notable to most people is fear. Dragon fear is in almost every legend, every tome every sages book. And what is sad is that a dragon can do all emotions like that, just most focus on the negative. It is how most communicate with each other in concert with our touches. Like this."

He lowered his head and with the side of it he touched her neck and ran it up to her lower jaw. In that touch powerful emotions of warmth, trust, and caring were felt. Like a hug from one you care about, or someone who just made you feel comfortable and safe. All the emotions flowed out of him.

He brought back his head. "You are in a much different world now Nightbloom. While most your age have lived here there entire lives you have just stepped into this world. While you must learn lots on your own. I will be here for you to get you through." He smiled a toothy grin.

"For A Soul dragon, your life is a rare one. One of rare healing magic, that does not come from a god or goddess, but that is formed from with in." He touched his nose to the side of her neck and she felt that he would protect her no mater what.

"You are special Nightbloom. For that I am sure."

The ancient smiled. "Now be careful with your emotions. Some dragons have been lost to those very things, sleeping for hundreds of years, terrorizing country sides, or just watching there own reflections."

He touched her softly. "And you have so much to learn. Another thing I don't want to do is over load you."

He streatched like a great cat letting his wings and tail all the way out. Shaking a little he sat back down. "Besides you want another thrill. Wait till you learn how to fly." The grin and wonder not only on his face but behind his eyes was something to behold. It spoke of an emotion that would make anyone tingle from head to toes.

the large dragon smiled.

"Well that is pretty easy. Just reverse what you did earlier and when you do imagine your clothing, like what you would wear normally on such as an occasion. You will find your scales will form the clothing for you."

He grinned a bit and looked at the bathing suit. "If that doesn't work I will gladly avert my eyes and provide you seclusion with my wing." His words sencere.

"Now remember the change has to be felt as a tingle. And always just let it come, your body will remember. Then we will go flying, and if not then I will fly you back in that form. I can carry you no matter." He gave a wink and let her absorb the material. She had a lot on her plate.

"Freebird?"

The dragon kinda scratched his head a moment as she changed. He shrugged, apparently she like the name. He watched quietly and smiled when she was finished.

As she jumped on his back and into the saddle he smiled at her almost wickedly. "So you ready for a real flying lesson." Quick silver armor appeared over his head and in lines running down his scaled body. Like a great outer skeletal member it streaked over vital points and bones giving a look of almost a skeleton on the outside of the dragons body.

"I would say hold on but to make sure I don't loose ya. My armor will keep you in place." With that the quick silver slid up and onto her body. It did not restrict her movment but she could feel it holding her in place and it seemed to stiffen as the ancient dragon moved. A makeshift wind shield appeared on the saddle in front of her with hand grips to keep her head down.

"It will help till I can get to a good cruise. Now hold on."

With that the dragon flexed his wings and with a leap was airborn and with the armor in place they rocketed into the sky. With hardly a flap the dragon trippled his fastest speed from before as they soared into the heavens.

The dragon chuckled in her mind.

~I am glad you like it. The armor is an artifact my brother and I created. And the speeds I can approach now witht he menuverability is mind blowing. But I should mention the only reason this works is because when we fly, nature and magic work hand in hand. And it verys in every dragon, some use only there wings, while others use only magic. I am use both all the time. ~

He let her think about that a moment then he banked hard and headed down wards, rocketting over the landscape. Soon the Acadamy was in sight and comeing up fast. It had been a fun day.

The ancient dragon returned the hug and just enjoyed the feelings. It had been a good day. In a way the elder dragon didn't want it to end. But the conflict inside of him would not let him dwell for too long.

He smiled then shrunk down to drow form. He held out his arm waiting for hers.

"Shall we go inside and talk some theorys and maybe a little bit of tea." He smiled with a twinkle in his eye as he waited for her.