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Hello everyone! It's been a while, huh? Sorry, but it's not Dran And Mist this time... I got so frustrated trying to write the scene it's missing that I just thought "Fuck it" and opened a fresh document to write this instead. I started at 3am and it's now on the way to 7am. I'm not happy with it as usual, particularly the yiff bit... Ah well, it's not proof read as usual, and please go easy on it. I've been away for a long time and I'm ultra-super-mega rusty.

Edit: Re-reading the series to try and get over a block, I realised that I didn't really describe the creatures, 'Remnants' very well. Saying that they're just grey Bio-Angels assumes that anyone reading this has also read Transcender: Dran... So, since if I edit the actual story, I'll be editing forever, I'll just say that Remnants are pretty much Grey-Angel-Things. *Bows his head* Anyways, on with the story...

Gray and Valkyrie â€" Chapter One

Gray: I shall become the man who overcomes fate.

The child's eyes remained closed, the boy rolling over in his blanket, pulling the covering about himself in a makeshift cocoon of a duvet. Gray stifled a yawn, rolling his shoulder to further bury himself in the soft warmth of his bed, plugging his ears to the distant sound of music. His body cast a long shadow in the morning light, the tattoo upon his necks reverse revealed as the ten year old finally pulled himself up against the headboard. His gaze drifted slowly across the plain room, from the wooden doors to the open shutters of the windows, over a round dozen empty and neatly made beds. Gray blinked wearily, smiling at the clear sky beyond the opening, the soft rustle of a tree audible over the far off melody as the wind stirred its branches. "Music..." He pulled himself out of bed at last, casting the white sheets aside and picking up a pair of jeans from a small cabinet. "Why is there.... Music?" Gray pulled on a shirt, wrapping a crimson scarf about his neck to cover his marking as his identically coloured eyes stared blankly into the sky. He blinked once... Twice... And then it hit him. "No..." The youth snapped to attention, turning to face the far wall and the calendar which hung from there, a specific date marked out with a heliotrope purple circle. "Graduation day." He scrambled about the decking of the floor in search of shoes, knocking over and smashing a glass of water as he went. "Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit..." He swore repeatedly as he was doused, finally giving up his search and making a dash for the exit, "I'm gonna be late!"

Gray moved with all of the speed he could muster, putting the huge stone building of the academy behind himself as he sprinted towards a distant gathering. A wooden platform had been raised from the field, littered with the petals of a nearby cherry blossom tree. In the distance, he could see a village, the majority of its people here, standing and facing the stage, breaking out into applause periodically as each of his classmates stepped forth. The music he had been listening to on his approach slowly dwindled into nothingness as a band vacated the area. The kid elbowed his way roughly through the crowd, breathlessly pulling himself up onto the wood, his scarf resting against the feet of his instructor. He didn't look very impressed at the bare footed youths entry, yet he managed to muster an exasperated smile and shake of the head. "You're late." He said simply.

"Did I miss it?" He took the man's hand, pulling himself to his feet, "Did I miss it Master Erin?" He looked around excitedly as the group of his classmates slowly began to dwindle, each of them passing the crowd of villagers and disappearing into a large barn.

"Not a word of apology, as ever..." His teacher sighed, removing and cleaning a pair of glasses, "Everyone here has already been registered and is waiting to be bound. They've chosen, and the ceremony is already underway."

"I'm too late?" He slumped, "It can't be..."

A finger and thumb balanced against his chin as his teacher forced him to look up, "You're lucky that you made it when you did. There's only one left." He smiled at the child's enthusiasm, placing his hand on the boys shoulder as the last of the group disappeared. "You were very late, so it's not like you'll have the best of the group... And your grades in Gua are too low for you to handle a potent partner anyway, but I did what I could."

They moved forwards, but to sullen murmurs and curses rather than polite applause. Today however, the stares of the villagers, the insults of his classmates, none of it meant anything to him. The pair ducked into the barn, blinking a few times as their eyes accustomed to the dim light. "That's..." his voice dwindled as a scaled head reared up before him, the eyes of a pure gold wyvern catching his as the male stared from beside its mate. The creature was larger than a car, wings twisting about its body as he turned away and curled up, poking the electric blue female beside him with the tip of a long snakelike tail. Gray glanced around nervously, watching a wyvern infant no longer than his teachers forearm chewing playfully at the sleeve of one of his classmates.

Master Erin steered him to one side, a single wyvern even smaller than the others staring around the room, surveying the group with a look of sadness in its eyes. Its mother met its glance for a moment, letting out a snort of disapproval before returning her attentions to her mate. Gray looked up at his master as it slumped, "What would happen if that wyvern wasn't chosen?"

"Well..." He sighed, running his fingers through long dark hair, "She's the runt, so it would most likely be discarded... If she was lucky." He tweaked his own scarf slightly, "She might be raised frugally as a toy for the males, or maybe even killed as an offering. It all depends on what they decide." The young teachers jaw set slightly, "The fate of a runt is a terrible thing."

Grays sight fixed upon it, the man taking a few steps forward before dropping to his knees. He reached out, smiling in reassurance as it withdrew; the snort of a class member a few meters away loud enough for his master to turn and glare at them. "It's alright... I'm an outcast too." She nudged his hand nervously, pulling her head back a little as if she expected him to strike her, "My name is Gray... Because of the hair." He ran his fingers through a silver-grey fringe, "The villagers have another name for me though." The kid sighed sadly, "I'm a Li user. A fire type." He pulled off his scarf, twisting and pointing at his tattoo as he did, the wyvern stretching her neck for a better look. He tapped its lines, solid, broken, solid, before twisting his scarf about himself once more.

Her nose poked his hand tentatively, finally drawing closer as he stroked across her azure forehead with a finger, smiling as the wyvern finally rubbed up against his hand, "Well, I'm Gray the fire type, and from today onwards, I'll be your Guardian." She let out a small high pitched call in response, akin to a bird chirping. Eyes, azure like her scales met his red ones, "Master was telling us all a story yesterday... About powerful women warriors that fought in another world. One day, you'll be big and strong, just like one of them â€" and nobody will ever look down on either of us because I'll get big and strong too!"

He smiled, "Your name... Is Valkyrie."

*****

The winds whistled past Gray as he fell, his body drawing level and overtaking the raindrops all around him. Things seemed to move in slow motion, the boy now a man, with a heightened sense of his surroundings, noting his entire reflection in the split second that he passed the white sphere of a droplet. His scarf whipped about behind him, his hair much longer flowing with it. He smiled as he angled his body, forcing it into a rotation as a shadow drew level with him. The earth was looming beneath him, a deep canyon coming closer and closer as he fell, waters raging in the form of a river at its base. He could see more shadows above him, streaking faster than he was, wings spread as humanlike figures slowly gained. The shape at his side twisted towards him, huge wings angled upwards, tail whipping through the air as a Valkyrie eight years older caught him, shifting the vector of her flight as he swept his arm upwards, "Li!" Flames erupted and grew in his palm, finding shape in the form of a sphere as he fired it into the oncoming shadows. "Li! Li! Li!" More fire blasting skywards, their bodies contorting as each impacted. The azure wyvern dodged to the side as the battered grey body of a Remnant fell past them.

A voice invaded his mind, deep but obviously feminine, "I liked them better when they were black and we called the Bio-Angels." The wyvern levelled her flight as several others pulled up beside them, drawing together in a formation as Master Erin shouted instructions into the wind from atop a large pink wyvern. "And your teacher looks really camp up there, pink scarf, pink wyvern; we really should ask these questions."

"You're just saying that because you don't like Sakura." He glanced at his teachers companion before returning his attentions to the growing number of Remnants ahead, "And we owe Master Erin a lot, regardless of his... Questionable dress sense." He pulled himself into a kneeling posture, placing one hand over the other, palm facing outwards as fire amassed, "Besides Val, it's because of him that we became partners in the first place."

Valkyrie ducked her head as his array of fireballs passed over, rising with the formation as they began to gain height over their opponents, "And I'm very grateful for it, too." She gave a sigh, "I just see more of the bad in things recently... I can't make sense of this world, Gray."

"Val, you've been acting all depressed for days now. What happened?" He took careful aim, his sphere of flame connecting with the wind technique of one of his comrades, the resulting explosion fracturing the group below. "We're all we've got. Don't keep things like this from me."

The sound of the battle seemed to cease slightly, "I wonder if you would have been happier if you had gotten one of the stronger wyverns as a partner... I'm not very powerful, and like you said, you're all that I've got." She drooped slightly, simply gliding forwards, "All that I can do is be useful to you, but you're getting stronger... I feel like I'm burdening you. Nobody wants me."

Gray clenched a fist, "You're all I've got too... I said it at the start that we'd become strong together." He smiled and hugged her neck, "You're not burdensome you idiot. Hell, I don't know what I'd do without you."

"Gray, you're missing my point." The group began to converge, "It's not just you either, I mean that no other wyvern wants-"

She was cut off as Erin whistled, "They're turning back! Good job everyone! Let's go!" He looked at her questioningly as the group began to turn yet the wyvern simply shook her head. For the journey home she was silent.

*****

He slumped in his chair, staring forwards from the back of the class as Erin took the podium. Gray yawned obviously, scribbling a few notes as his teacher rambled, "So of the Li, fire, we've finished out work on the ‘Jia Ren', the ‘As One' technique for synchronising and transferring damage and effects between Guardian and Wyvern, and now begins our specialised look into the ‘Ge', the ‘Change'." Gray allowed his gaze to drift from either side, Yuri, the blond to his right toying with her snow white scarf, staring boredly into the wood, Karin adjusting her jet one to his left. She shook black hair from her eyes, drinking in Master Erin's words as she scribbled his monologue frantically into a book. "Change alters the structure, the biology of the user or target, converting it into whatever the caster deems appropriate... For example:" He moved to the side, a female in a crimson scarf taking his place. Her eyes closed, appearance shimmering as if through a mirage, and moments later a lycan reared in her place, the wolf howling impressively before she returned to normal. He clapped along with the rest of the group as he returned to the stand. Gray ignored them.

"So, Karin..." She stopped writing for a moment, "New scarf?" He smiled nervously.

"Yes. Master Erin gave it to me for passing last weeks test with the highest grade." She was silent for a few moments, "No. I'm not going out with you." She returned her attentions to the lecture, Grays ears burning as Yuri sniggered to his other side. He scowled at her.

"I wasn't going to ask that. I'm not interested anyway." She raised an eyebrow, "You're very attractive and all, you're just not my type... Uptight women scare me, and you're always so aggressive too-"

Karin cut him off, "This is how you ask for a favour?" She put down her pencil, adjusting it as a perfect parallel to the edge of the desk, "You are kidding me? Right?"

"Look, Val is all depressed, and as you can see, I'm not good at dealing with women, She won't give me all of the details and..." He sighed, "Could you ask Rose or something and help me out?"

"I don't need to ask my wyvern, yours is already gossip among the females." She turned her chair slightly, "It's about this age that wyverns start seeking a mate... None of the males are interested in a runt; she's the only one left. Again. Only this time, you won't be able to help her." She picked up her pencil, "She'll just have to cope until next year, or try and work something out by herself..."

"That's..." Gray looked as confused as usual, "She's like this because she's been left behind again..." He turned away, "I've gotten stronger, made friends, I'm even getting better in my studies. But Val is..." He clenched his teeth, "She's still all alone."

Yuri chimed in, "Don't beat yourself up, Gray. You have a habit of pulling through. Your wyvern does too and..." She elbowed him slightly, forcing the man to look up as most of the halls eyes were upon him, "Master Erin wanted you to display a Li technique a few minutes ago."

"S-Sorry!" He blushed as he stood and bowed his head, sniggers running rampant as Gray slowly edged his way towards a less than impressed Erin. "Sorry, Master." He murmured to his feet.

He just sighed loudly, stifling the cries of Grays usual nickname from the back of the class, "Now then, Gray here is going to demonstrate the Ge technique for us, the Change, since he's a fire type." Master Erin took a step to the side, "Go ahead."

"Uh... I'll become..." He was clearly distracted, his gaze drifting around the hall as even now his thoughts strayed, *How can I help her?* his eyes settled on a tapestry at the back of the room, a rich flowing display of colours, capturing the sun of the skylights and reflecting in the gold and silver of the borders of wood desks. The creature depicted snarled down at him in majesty, "I'll become..." Gray smiled. "Ge!"

Karin dropped her pencil.

*****

A shadow soared high above the mountain fortress, faster and larger than any wyvern, sharp eyes focusing on every edge and point of the stone towers that formed the apprentice dormitories. It span a loop-the-loop in the moonlight, plummeting low into a dive, pulling up to skim the surface of a vast lake. The dragon shone like a piece of the moon, silver as Grays hair, eyes of crimson surveying its own magnificence and smirking in response as his course angled towards the network of caves which formed the wyverns roost. He sniffed the air, revelling in his new control over his senses, even his mind felt sharper as the clarity of his observations met him. "How did I ever do without wings and a tail? It just feels so... Natural." Gray folded them against his body as he dropped outside a dark tunnel, scent having guided him to his target. "Ok, wyvern customs one-oh-one... I gotta be straightforward with my intentions... And the book said that heat effects wyverns and dragons too, she won't be thinking straight." He blinked, "Wait, does that mean it would effect me too? The Ge technique has made me a complete dragon, would it..."

A voice drifted from the cavern, almost slightly menacing but unmistakably Valkyrie. "Who are you?" He stifled the urge to respond with familiarity, instead clearing his throat loudly, accidentally issuing a small jet of flame into the rock. It melted instantly, casting light over the entranceway, an azure wyvern peering out nervously.

"I'm... Uh..." *Damn it, think of a name, THINK OF A NAME,* "Gin?" He blinked, using the first name that popped into his head from a book he had recently pored over. Gin was a legendary dragon of the fire caste. Val didn't seem to question it much.

"Gin? Like Silver?" He nodded. "Where are you from?" She moved a little closer to the magma, rolling her eyes as if to question its necessity.

"From... Far away." He pointed vaguely. "North, where there's lots of snow. And I don't stand out quite as much." Gray smiled nervously, *Damn, this is tough.*

"That's east, sweetie." She said simply.

"Ah, it is..." He floundered, "I'm sorry! It's just you're so beautiful that I got all..." He drowned out into nothing, the corner of his mouth tweaking as he noticed her subsequent blush, *Nice save, Cassonova.*

A few hours later, he was lounging against the rock of the caves interior, having melted a central pillar, for the first time in a long time, the place was actually lit. Gray had been there before, as a human of course, but with limited senses had failed to notice the pile of oddly phallus shaped stones in the dark by the slab she used as a bed. And his sense of smell now delighted in her scent coming from them, and more as he noticed, from her. "Why are you here anyway? What do you want with a runt like me?" She looked up at his larger form with the same tentativeness that she had when she had first hatched, Gray stroking her cheek instinctually.

"You should know that already."

"But..." She shivered slightly, "Dragons are rare... And you almost never breed with wyverns... Why me?" She was blushing more evidently, the scent of heat fogging Grays mind as much as its state was clouding hers.

"You're saying you don't want this?" He moved closer, everything in him that was human slipping away.

"I need this..." She moved with a speed and ferocity for which he was completely unprepared, diving and tackling the larger dragon, his wings twisting awkwardly against his back as her claws grasped about his wrists. Valkyrie drew closer, tongue tracing her lips before they met his, pulling the male close in a deep kiss, dampness brushing against his abdominal scales. Knowing roughly what to expect of his wyverns anatomy, he let his tail drift upwards, twisting about her leg, winding upwards before brushing against slick folds. She moaned into his jaw as he flicked its tip, moving back as she attempted to gyrate her hips against it. Grays efforts to tease her proved all for naught as she entwined his tail with her own, guiding it up and into her waiting snatch. His motion was clumsy, the dragon himself having only had his tail for half a day; he was still having trouble manipulating it. The wyvern seemed not to care though, bucking up against it, her tail tip and his setting a fevered pace within her, a wet sound accompanying every thrust. Under such a barrage she didn't last long, breaking free of his kiss to roar as her orgasm simply flooded out their tails. Mating between their kind was often swift and brutal, the female leaking copious amounts of cum as lubricant. Gray licked his tail clean, delighting in the odd taste and scent, Val but new... "Valkyrie... Can I call you Val?"

"Only my guardian calls me Val..." She released his claws, drifting down his body before pulling away, "I'll let you get away with it, Gin." He never even noticed how aroused he had become, a string of pre cum linking his long draconic member to his stomach, the purple organ slick and ribbed. Of course, his state very much came to mind when her tongue draped about it, head bowed as the inexperienced wyvern worked to please him. He grinned to himself as he imagined flying over on his afternoons off, every position that he could coax his perverted partner into, and she would have a man to brag about to the other wyverns. He shifted his hips, groaning softly, thinking of her lying back, a cute expression across her face as he ploughed her. He lasted only slightly longer than she did, spraying thick jets of dragon seed down her throat.

"Yeah... Drink it all..." She struggled to comply, coughing and sputtering at his load, letting its overflow run down her chin. His movements mirrored her earlier ones, his larger dragon body this time pinning her beneath him as he bent over her back, Valkyrie utilising her dexterous tail to line him up as he pulled close, "Let's mate like dragons."

"Ahhhhh!" She screamed as he pushed forwards, impaling her small body with a single savage thrust, feeling her shuddering breaths beneath him and the heat that could only be blood as his lust fuelled mind forced him to set up a pace. On all fours, her wings spread strangely to each side, his own partially unfurled to give the male support as he tempered his instincts into a distinct rhythm. Valkyrie seemed to have recovered, finally moving once more as the pain drained away to be replaced by pleasure that no stone or tail had ever given her. "Harder..." She muttered into the ground, bucking her hips back to meet his, "Harder... Deeper... Oh, fuck me!" she could feel her cum matting her thighs, running down her body and dripping to pool beneath them as she orgasmed about him. Gray felt the effect ripple along his member, his pace building to a brutal tempo as she begged for more, unloading a load of draconic seed deep within the squirming wyvern bucking beneath him.

Val felt the warmth of his spray inside her, moaning as she felt it flow deeper inside, her leg lifting slightly as his ramming coaxed another weak orgasm from her. Gray had indeed inherited a dragons stamina, he'd shot his third load into his partner, and was still up for more, snarling and biting her neck to increase his tempo still further, strings of their combined fluids dripping from the wyverns abused sex. She cried out, body still unused to his size, stretched even further as he separated her legs, ramming hard enough to lift her hindquarters from the ground. Gray could feel he was pressing against something, a limit near the end of every thrust, his muscles twitching as with his constant slamming motions he finally broke through, jettisoning his seed directly into her womb. Valkyrie's moans became screams of pleasure as she clamped down upon him once again, her final climax defiantly her strongest.

Gray slumped against her, panting before finally rolling off and letting her collapse. Val rolled onto her back, raising her head and looking down at the mess she was covered in. She grinned mischievously, tongue lolling from the side of her mouth as Gray began to lick their combined fluids from her stretched cunt. He looked up after he felt the second orgasm about his tongue, but she was already asleep.

*****

Gray yawned in the morning light from the lakeside. Human once more, washing his body clean in the shallows while desperately trying to invent some sort of excuse as to why he was out all night... "Valkyrie was ill? She had a problem? I was helping my wyvern out?" He shook his head, lying back in the sands, "No. I'll need something that'll stick...." He sighed, "I wish I'd brought some clothes."

As if by magic, there was a splash as his jeans and scarf landed next to him, the man scrabbling with them before turning to face the waiting figure on the shore. Master Erin. "You're doing well. Three taboos in one night..." He allowed a finger to rise for each one, "A Guardian outside the complex after hours for an invalid reason. A Guardian misusing a Gua to change himself into a dragon. A guardian fucking his wyvern senseless during their mating season."

"Oh shit..." He had never heard Erin swear, the expression on the mans face only deepening his concern. "Master, I can explain!"

"The first two taboos are not that big of a deal, but mating with your partner..." He slowly walked closer, "I've seen it before, I know what they do if you spit in the face of tradition..." His eyes caught Grays, "They'll bleed her out... Slowly... And they'll make you watch as she dies..." He paused before him, "You're pactbound. An instant after she fades away, you too shall perish."

"Master... Please..." Gray bowed his head, fist clenching about his scarf, "Please..."

"Well, that's just so you understand how serious this is." Erin smiled, "I didn't see anything on my morning walk."

"You...?" He looked up, confused. Erin had almost always been a man of the rules, yet for Gray particularly, he seemed to have little difficulty bending them.

"The other apprentices, they call you ‘Demon' because of your hair and eyes... It's different, but I was an outcast once too." He sighed, flicking his pink scarf giving no doubt as to why, "I've heard the rumours from Sakura. You did this for Valkyrie, and I can hardly turn you over with motives like those."

Gray dived forwards, hugging Erin, "You've always been the closest thing to a father I've ever had." He smiled, "Thank you."

"Sakura is waiting for me." He shouldered a bag, "Study hard. Or I'll kick your ass."

~ Arc ~

Well, there you have it. I have a storyline drafted for the next four chapters and it may go on for even longer than that. I guess it depends how this is accepted and if I can kick my ass to do more Shin and Light / Dran and Mist... Ah well, thanks for reading. Please rate and review.