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Project Dragon-X: Chapter 1

As I walked upstairs, anger still deep inside me...I wondered who the person was that she had my biological dad send. He worked for the CIA so I was sure it was someone from the government. But why, I thought to myself, why should she have him send someone from the government? Finally I put it all aside as I reached my brothers door, I gathered myself, forcing down more tears as they welled up in my eyes.

I knocked on his door hearing his raspy voice letting me know he had just woken up. "what is it," he said groaning as he just did an 11-7 shift.

"Asto, I have some bad news," I said, more tears welling up in my eyes.

"What is it, hold on I'll be there" I again heard his raspy voice along with a ruffle of the sheets hitting the floor, and footsteps as he came to the door. I then the door handle unlock along with a turn of the handle. The door opened partway before the chain lock stopped it. "awww fuck," he said before shutting the door again hearing the kachunk of the chain lock before the door swung inward, his long hair a jumbled mess, swatting some of it out of his eyes before beginning to speak, "So, what's the bad news..."

Henning awoke from his nap to a pounding on the door of his home in Sweden, still holding his father's six-shooter which his father had given him before dying from the creatures that have been on a killing spree. So far his luck had been holding out, but he was running low on ammunition needed an alternate idea to get out of the darkness. Heading to the door cautiously, he opened it to find a man in a black suit, almost reminding him of the MIB (Men in Black). "Wh-who are you?" he asked the mysterious person.

"I am part of a secret project monitored under the CIA, and you are coming with me," the mysterious man said.

"I am not going anywhere unless you tell me what the FUCK I am going to be getting myself into," Henning said fear rippling inside his voice.

"Ever heard of dragons, Mr. Oden", the man said, pushing his sunglasses up closer to his face, emphasizing the word dragons.

"Of course I've heard of dragons, I'm an otherkin for petes sake!" He scowled at the remark glaring at him and making a low growl in the base of his throat...

"I know..." the man simply replied seeming to take no offense at the previous gestures... simply smirking at him. However the man seemed to be getting more and more aggravated with each passing minute. "Would you like to become one Mr. Oden?" Again the man seemed nonchalant about the events going on around him, until Henning noticed the distortion in the sky behind the man...

At that Henning raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms in a defiant way and with a small huff he asked, "How in the hell would you do that?"

The man's reply to that was a small chuckle and a fix of his suit as he looked down over his glasses before he spoke, his voice sharp and to the point. "I am sorry Mr. Oden, but that is classified info, now I am getting tired of this little chat we are having. Now let me put it bluntly, either you come with me or I make you. It's your choice...but you are coming with me nonetheless."

Henning sighed as he looked at the man and lowered his shoulders unable to hold back and question the man anymore, afraid of how he would "make" him go with him. Following that sigh of defeat, he stated, "Alright, you win...I will come with you."

"Good choice...now, let's be on our way, we don't have much time to dawdle in this darkness."

The man looked at his watch, and before Henning could ask what he was doing, a white light enveloped them, and they were gone.

My brother just shook his head after I finished retelling what happened during the phone call. "It can't be... it just can't be true, they can't be dead," Cory said before at me, "I can see it in your face... you are lying to me."

What he said hurt me...him thinking that I would blatantly lie about our parent's death, so I replayed the phone call, Cory sitting there in disbelief with tears beginning to form in his eyes. After the phone call was done replaying, we heard a knock at the door.

When we reached the door and opened it, we noticed that everything was moving on its own, almost like there was something "distorting" our vision. In front of us stood a man dressed in black.

"You must be who my dad sent to get us," I said inquisitively staring at the man and looking out from behind my brother doing as my mother said, Cory having donned his swords in the meantime.

"Yes, I am," the man said, eying the swords behind my brother and smiling, "now enough chit chat...would you like to become what you always desired?"

"You mean?" Cory asked as he pulled out his "dragon blade" ad eyed it up and down giving it a few swings, before re-sheathing in a graceful manner before looking at the man and crossing my arms smirking. "Didn't expect that kind of skill from your average 21 year old, did you?"

"Yes...Dragons," the man simply laughed as if Cory said some kind of joke, before finishing his statement with a slight retort, "Oh actually I expect much better based on your otherkin file... Astorathen."

"How the fuck do you know My GOD DAMN NAME!" Cory said staggering back and grasping at one of his swords in defensive posture fearing some kind of trick...

"We've looked into your otherkin histories, and we have all the data on your fighting styles and skills. Your father gave us permission to share our classified files that he sent us regarding your... special background," He looked at his watch as if the check something before he nodded and begun naming in detail what we were, " our information files on you Jeremy say that you are a female wolf-dragon with amazing weaponry and possess a high scale armor system, with high grade missiles and high heat plasma lasers; and you Cory, are a skilled swordsman of the highest caliber with intense training and a perfect armor HUD with near lightning reflexes, not to mention your skill with conflicting elements... Both of which would be perfect for our... mission."

"And what mission is that?" I simply asked in disbelief of what I had heard come out of the man's mouth.

"To reverse this paradox that has brought these fowl beasts into being." The response was simple and short like all the other blunt responses that had come before.

"So with my understanding of paradoxes...after we reverse it everything will go back to normal, with our parents still alive?" Cory explained to the man, pulling both swords out again and twirling them midair end over end before catching then on the hilt sheathing them again, whispering under my breath.

"Yes, except you will still be dragons after the reversal is done." The man licked his lips as if he sealed the deal and checked his watch again...

My brother looked at me with a smirk on his face which I returned with one of my own. We nodded together and looked at the man. All we could say was...

"Count us in."