The soul stone slid down Zekes throat and hit his gullet, Zeke had never eaten a soul gem before so he wasn't really sure what to expect. Thirty or so seconds passed and he didn't feel any changes which led him to believe that the soul gem must have been either inactive or from a very weak basic dragon. However at exactly sixty seconds Zeke felt an explosion in his stomach, he gasped for air and bright golden lights exited his mouth, nose, ears and eyes. He tried to scream as the power surged through him like lightning through copper wire discharging from his openings. His body was starting to be cocooned in the golden light, it burned away his armor and bow and soon he laid bare, just his grey fur cocooned in the golden light.
Zeke awoke and uncertain amount of time later, his body ached, and his eyes strained to adjust to the current lack of light in the nest. "Ok so at least i know it night time" he thought to himself,his eyes adjusted and to his surprise he could see better than in the day. He noticed the ache in his bones had subsided, he felt energized, powerful, "had the soul stone worked?" Zeke thought to himself.
He put his hands out in front of him, his grey fur was now a brilliant gold, he almost couldn't believe it. His claws were sharp and black as obsidian, he scratched the wall of the nest, leaving deep indentions in the stone. Zeke also realized he was much taller, his head was brushing the roof of the nest, which was at least two meters high and he wasn't standing all the way straight either. Eager to really see himself he decided he'd leave the nest, even if it was much more dangerous at night in dragon country.
Nocturnal species of dragons were much more terrifying, some lived inside the shadows and could kill you just by attacking your shadown, some blended in with the night sky and could swoop down at a moments notice.
Zeke made his way to the hole that he had made falling through the roof of the nest earlier, he straightened himself all the way out and noticed he could peek his head through the hole. " white fangs ass! Im the tallest Foxxen in the world!" Zeke wasn't exagerating, most Foxxen topped out at a meter tall, he had to be almost two and a half meters tall! He reached up and pulled himself out of the hole, not only had he grown in height but in obvious strength. Zeke considered himself in good shape but the climb out of the nest was effortless, he felt like he could have just jumped out.
The night breeze reminded Zeke he was naked as the day he was born, he blushed a little but wasnt too concerned, there was no one around and most likely there wouldn't be and he could fashion something from materials in the area before finding his way back home.
"Home" another revelation hit Zeke, his cousins, they were still fighting the warring dragons when he ran away, guilt oozed from him, " I can't go back until I know if the boys are ok!" With new resolve he pointed himself back towards the area where the battle had previously taken place. He traversed the rocky hillside as if it were a flat plain, the top speeding towards Zeke, he could get used to this new power, for once something good happened to him and he couldn't wait for the hunters back in the city to see his evolution.
Within a few minutes he had made it to the clearing. Rotting bodies of dead dragons littered the area, torn asunder trees and boulders crush to pebbles were a common sight across the area as well, but Zeke didn't see and remains of any Foxxen in the war torn clearing. He decided to try his sense of smell, he made his way to the last area he saw Jeffery.
He pointed his nose like a pistol, aiming at the spots jeffery had been, he could almost envision the battle taking place just off the smells. The battle formed in his mind as he tooo large sniffs of the ground.
The two dragons focused on destroying each other as their dragon minions clashed, Jeffery and Damon worked in unison killing the stragglers and two on one-d the ones the could moving toward the edge of the battle, he let out a sigh of relief as he saw them high-tail it into the thicket. He continued to smell the battle to find out what happened to the two great dragons.
The battle played forward as he sniffed around, the large green dragon had grown tired of the posturing first, lunging towards the three headed dragon blowing plumes of fire at its foe. He felt the scorch marks that were left in the ground and tasted the ground underneath, many of the less powerful dragons on both sides were reduced to ash with its attacks. The three headed dragon did't move and try and dodge it assailant, instead all of the head started moving rythmatically in unison, all three pairs of eyes glowing purple. As the green dragon cane in close the three headed dragon let lose beams of energy from all of its eyes. The green dragon tried to dodge but he was too close, the most he could do was make sure his vitals weren't hit. It rolled to the side allowing its wings to get hit, sending it crashing to the forest floor taking down trees as the forest itself seemed to take the brunt of crash. The dragon however stood up and shook itself off and let out a loud roar before throwing more fire at its opponent and much like before the weaker dragons in it range were reduced to cinders. This time the flames met the head of the left most head, it let out a high pitched squeek of a road before only the skull and some of the spine remained, laying limp and un responsive to the other two head who had become more pitiful looking as they momentarily mourned their loss. The middle head looked at the green dragon, who was now preparing another assault on the newly formed duo.
"Man this battle is intense, i hope the three headed dragon wins" he said to himself, still sniffing the area, watching these two dragons battle in his mind was interesting to Zeke. No one had ever witness two great dragons fighting each other, for the most part everyone assumed they were all under the control of what ever grand dragon took of residence in the area. Now it appeared great dragons also fought each other and it seemed they had a grudge of some sort. If they didn't before after what had just happened there definitely was now.
He watched in his mind as the two purple heads bite down on the useless neck holding the skull of their brother head and ripped it off. Green blood oozed from the wound, the green dragon had a confused look in his eyes as he watched the blood flow from the stump. Zeke couldn't believe what he saw next, so much so he cursed out loud " holy shit!" As the stump formed two new necks and heads. The green dragon looked as if he had just realized he made a huge mistake, the now four-headed dragon decided to let loose a four headed laster blast at the green dragon. The laser hit its target, but not where it had hoped to, the new heads weren't as in sync with the other two original heads and as such the beams weren't concentrated as strongly. The beams hit shredding the upper right portion of the green dragons torso, it screamed in pain as it fell backward knocking down more trees. Now its army changed its focus on the four headed dragon who's eyes were charging for another blast. They began charging the great dragon pulling their focus on the now flood of minions attacking him.
As the four headed dragon set its attention on the mob attacking it the green dragon made its escape. By the time the four headed dragon realize what had happened the green dragon had hidden itself in a nearby lake to rest and heal. The four headed dragon had won this territory and the army the green dragon had brought now swore it allegiance to the four headed great dragon.
" i'll have to find that green dragon, its wounds looked grievous and if i could get to it as it died i could gnab its soul gem." He thought to himself, "maybe after I find the twins" Zeke put his nose back to the direction of where the twins ran and began to look into his mind again.