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Dragonlings

YEP I AM TALKING ABOUT LOTR DRAGONS AGAIN, NO ONE CAN STOP ME

This is once again about the dragon curse, and more specifically about the time between normal person and full on dragon.

The state of transforming from person to dragon, fully depends on the size of the dragon. For example, it would take around 400-500 years to turn into a Fire dragon, while only around fifty to turn into a spike dragon.

And for the dragon we do not name, it would take a couple of thousand years, but every one of those dragon slayers killed themselved before it.

A dragonling can be killed by a normal person, but they heal pretty fast, and the longer you wait the more scales there will be, and those are tough to pierce.

When you kill yourself however, the dragon curse will be lifted, and you will just die. Pretty unsatisfying way to go, but hey what are you gonna do?

The first thing to happen to a dragon slayer is that scales will appear around their neck area, and they will slowly spread down your back. When the scales have reached the bottom, they will start to etend beyond your body, creating a tail.

When the tail had started to grow, small bumps will appear on the persons shoulder blades, and after a while wings will pierce your skin, which is the most painful part of a Dragonling’s life.

Again, the bigger the dragon, the longer time it will take. For a forest dragonling, it would be a couple of months, maybe a year, of constant pain, while a Mountain dragonling would have to endure it for more then a decade.

And when I say pain, I mean pain.

Like, take the pain of childbirth, multiply it by five, and then put it on your back for a year or ten.

Around halfway through the process of wings, horns will start to grow out of some dragonlings, like Sky dragonlings or Mountain Dragonlings. This will be a lot less painful.

Spike dragonlings, who only have to stand the pain of the wings for a month, will also have their spike growing out of their body during this time.

When all of the painful part is out of the way, a Dragonling doesn’t have any big physical changes until they fully turn into a dragon. Like yea, the scales will continue to spread from your back down you legs and to your chest, but the wings are the worst part.

Except for Water dragonlings, who will have their back legs merge when the scales has reached their feet, and will be unable to fully breathe above water as gills replace their lungs, which is also a very painful process.

A dragonling don’t act very different from what the dragon slayer usually behaved like, or at least for the most part. When a Dragonling feel like either they or their treasure is threatened, they go into something that is commonly called “The Beast Mode”.

The beast mode is basically when a Dragonling goes on instincts and instincts alone, making them basically an animal for a while. When the threat is taken out, and with taken out I mean killed and eaten, they will be kind of like a dog for a while if they trust you.

They’ll jump around, growl at random things, wag their tail a little, it’s all pretty cute.

If they don’t trust you however, well then you’re dead boy.

The beast mode can last for as short as a day or two, or as long as three weeks. And the Dragonling have no idea what they’re doing while in the beast mode, they just wake up, often in a pile of blood, and can only pray that they haven’t killed that many people.

A fascinating thing about dragonlings is their fascination with Rosemary. If the Rosemary smell managed to get in contact with their nose, then it’s all over for them.

They will just grab the Rosemary, even if they have to kill someone to get it, curl up in a ball and hold it close to their nose just to sniff it.

It’s a bit like catnip, but for dragons. Dragonnip.

And it’s not easy to get the Rosemary away from the dragonling, you have to basically pry it out of their grip while they snark and bite your hand, and then get it as far away from them as possible.

The wings of a Dragonling can tell you a lot about their mood, it’s sort of like the tail of a dog.

For example, small flutters of their wings signify happiness or excitement, if a dragonling randomly flares their wingspan, it’s basically the equivalent of men flexing their muscles to impress a possible mate, and if the Dragonling is a bit horny, their wing muscles can suddenly go stiff, sort of like a wing boner.

A Dragonling’s diet at first consists of what the person would normally eat, but a bit into the transformation they will start craving real meat, preferably that they have killed themselves. Some Dragonlings get disgusted by this and tries to avoid it, but everyone eventually breaks and starts to kill everything from small animals to creatures like bears or elks.

The Dragonlings general behavior will eventually change after about three thirds of their dragon transformation is complete.

A Fire Dragonling will get more angry and irritated, a Forest Dragonling will snarl at people and stop being around people, a Swamp Dragonling will get more lazy and start to eat more (because Swamp Dragons are chonky boys) and a Venom Dragonling will be more excited to meet people.

It’s about this time when you should end it, if you’re planning to do so.

If you don’t, then you should know what really happens when you turn from a Dragonling to a dragon.

Most people think that when you turn into a dragon, you will just be a large greedy reptile, and that’s it.

That’s not it.

The transformation into a dragon is a very painful process, like take the wing growth times eleven, though it is shorter.

You get fully surrounded by dragon fire, which, depending on the dragon, can be hot, and your limbs will change from human/elf/whatever-like to a reptile. That’s not easy, but it only takes a few minutes.

But when the dragon fire disappears, left is only a dragon with a broken mind.

A dragon has no memory of their previous life as first a normal middle earthian, and then a Dragonling. They rely on instincts alone, though in a more civilized way than the beast mode of a Dragonling.

Not all dragons can speak, despite common belief. Only Fire dragons, Forest Dragons, Venom dragons, Swamp dragons and sky dragons are capable of speech.

A Water dragon can sing however, which is a way they attract mates.

Fire and sky dragons both have full vocabularies, while Forest dragons mostly snarl out a “Go Away!” and little else, Swamp dragons chooses not too speak that much because they busy nappin, and Venom Dragons mostly just make excited squels and dad whines, though the occasional “Friend!” can come out.

Newly transformed Dragons are often the most aggressive and ready to burn stuff, while those who have been dragons for a while is just chillin’. Smaug for example was just a few days old when he took Erebor, and he was just mostly confused and craving gold.

A little known ability of Dragons, is that they can actually turn back into a Dragonling if so desired.

They are still technically a dragon, they still don’t remember their lives as a Dragonling, but they are back to that form.

Most dragons just chooses not to do that though, as it makes them vulnerable to attacks, and make them physically weaker.

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At this point, I feel like a biologist who’s studying dragons, which is my dream job tbh

I seriously had no idea how to finish this post, so I just ended it there.

Again, thanks to @a-e-g-g and my own dear uncle for the help.

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These Giant Spike Dragons are taking wing to who knows where to get a bit of exercise and to train up their young 'uns. They've all managed to make it without leaving any babies behind, much to the Yaols dismay (the colourful cats in the foreground).

Artwork © Sarah-Kaye Moss (scaryk26)

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Finally painting this Spike thing...

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More MLP Human!Ponies.

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Lulz, human!Pony sketches for the win!

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These three are invented characters of an invented race. They are a humanoid version of a spike dragon I invented. They are very tall and very ferocious. A race of Noble warriors where the king is the only male(first char).