The NightFury Crystal

Story by TiranMaster on SoFurry

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A request from altairthelugia.

Chris has a package which contains something which will expand his life.

I hope you all enjoy, I would love to hear what you all think. ^^

Also, this story isn't that long but for some reason I'm imensely satisifed with this story and I hope you all enjoy it. =)


Chris's grin couldn't be any bigger as he ran towards home clutching a box in his hands, the twenty one year old had been awaiting the box for a long time. Within was contained a package he had ordered weeks in advance, now that it had arrived the man couldn't get home fast enough. Chris nearly got ran over more than once as he ran across the streets; people shouting could be heard as he ran across the road.

His house shuddered as Chris ran into his door, a gasp of pain escaped his lips as his package was rammed into his stomach. "Ouch..." After sitting there on the ground for a moment he shook his head and jumped up to his feet, he pushed his hand into his pocket while balancing the box on his knee. After unlocking the door he rushed inside slamming the door behind him, he quickly turned on the air conditioning before setting his package on his table. Chris wiped his forehead with his hand as he panted; the heat in the town was remarkably hot.

"Alright, time to open this baby up..." Chris muttered to himself as he brushed his black hair briefly with his hand out of his eyes before going to the cabinet and grabbing a knife. As he pushed the knife into the tape of the box he gritted his teeth as he carefully slid the knife down the length of the tape, his hands shivered slightly as he made sure not to dig into the tape too much.

As the tape was cut through, Chris's excitement only grew more so. After a minute of slitting the tape, all of the tape was gone. Chris was about to throw the box open but took a deep breath, "I need to relax, I need to calm down for a moment..." The man went to his fridge and pulled out a soda, he popped the lid of the can and took a drink of the chilled liquid. Chris walked into his living room and pulled out the DVD for How to Train your Dragon and pulled out the disk, as he slid it into his Blue-Ray player a shiver of excitement slid up his back.

Chris looked at the box which sat upon his table but took a deep breath as the idea of what was within the box would do to him, "Alright... just give it a few minutes..." He muttered to himself before turning his attention to the television, as the DVD menu came up he pressed play. The movie started to play, a smile slid over his face as the familiar DreamWorks opening video showed on the screen. The movie started up and the voice of the main protagonist, Hiccup, started to speak.

As the movie played Chris slowly relaxed, his breathing grew even as his body let go of its tenseness. Chris's thoughts went to the box every now and then, it took all of his self-control to not run and open up the box right then and there. After the movie's credits rolled Chris nodded to himself, "Alright, now it's time..."

Chris stood up and walked over to the box and set his hands on the sides of the box and for a moment his body froze, "Should I really do this...?" He muttered to himself as he stood still, it was as if the world disappeared and it was just the box and him in a dark abyss. After what felt like hours Chris nodded, "Yes, this is exactly what I want." Chris picked up the box and walked upstairs, the house which in the past had looked clean now looked less than clean. It was as if Chris had stopped trying to take care of his house.

Stepping up to a window, Chris set down the small box on the floor and slid the window up before picking the box up again and carefully climbing out onto the roof. He stayed low so none of his neighbors saw him, "Alright..." Chris said to himself as he positioned himself on the highest point of his house and carefully sat down holding the box tightly in his hands.

Carefully Chris's hands pulled at the lid of the box and the box opened, a sudden inhale of breath came from Chris as he looked at what took up the box. A small crystal which seemed to glow with a blue fire sat on a small red pillow, the sun shined down making the small gem shine brilliantly. As the light bounced off of the crystal it shined on Chris's face and scales started to form. Chris threw his hand up to his face and felt the scales on his face, "It works..." Chris's voice came out in awe.

Reverently Chris picked up the gem and winced as it burned his hands slightly, his hand movements were very precise while he lifted it up. Slowly he stood up, no longer caring if anyone saw him, until he was standing tall in the sunlight. The crystal's blue aura started to grow more intense as it absorbed in the light from the sun, Chris's skin tingled as the power of the crystal crawled over his body. As the aura finished covered all of his body, the crystal sank into the palm of Chris's hand.

Chris was silent as the aura faded away; it was as if the entire world had gone silent from the sheer power of the crystal. Chris's arms fell to the sides of his body, for a few moments nothing happened before a violent shudder passed through the man's body. If not for the fact that Chris's feet were on opposite sides of the peak of the roof he could've easily fallen off of the roof, "Ouch!" Chris grunted in pain as his face collided with the shingles of the roof.

As he laid there an odd sensation passed over his body, from his skin black scales started to sprout. Chris shivered as the scales started to take over more and more of his skin, his face started to push out into a muzzle as sharp teeth pushed out his own normal human ones. People didn't notice the changing human on his roof as they passed underneath, his clothes started to burn up as a blue flame overtook his scales. As the flame rippled over his changing skin Chris felt his body expanding to a much larger size, his eyes started to expand letting in more and more sight.

Inside of his mind he found new instincts being ingrained into his thoughts, the ability to fly and the ability to blow fire becoming a part of who he was. From deep within Chris's chest a growling sound started to expand along with it a fire roaring up his throat until it escaped flying out far into the sky accompanied by the whooshing of escaping fire.

As his tail and wings grew, Chris smiled showing off his new teeth reveling in his new life as a NightFury. The dragon sat up in the sunlight his scales seeming to absorb the light that traveled around him, his eyes glowing with a slight blue light as his wings started to flap. All of the people watched as the new NightFury started to fly, Chris let out a purr of delight at the sounds of shock at seeing a dragon. Within his head his voice rang, "To think that all I needed to become such a great thing, was five dollars and EBay." A purr of laughter came from his throat as he took off into the sky flying high before he became a blue fiery streak in the clouds.