Zeke's super smell replayed the scene like a movie, he saw the twins jump into the bramble and take off through the woods, he sighed with relief prematurely. Two high dragons and a handful of sentient dragons broke off to chase the twins who had slain many of their comrades.
He picked up his pace following the twins and the small horde of dragons chasing them. Jeff threw a couple blade over his should hitting two sentient dragon in the forhead instantly killing them, one of the high dragons, a white snake like dragon with a large cloud goatee, blew tornados in the direction of the pair. They jumped into two separate directions to avoid it, Damon slung a vial filled with a blue liquid at the beast, it shattered against its white scales. As the liquid sprayed against the beast it let out a shriek, steam and smoke rose above its body as the liquid melted away chunks of its flesh. The dragons that entered the mist also started to scream as they breathed it in,like they were breathing in clouds of acid. Jefferey slung another knife, this one aimed at the injured high-dragon now rolling on the ground crushing the smaller dragons in its vicinity.
BANG
The blade sunk deep into one of the wounds in its neck, if were not for the blue potion the blade would have never pierced the scales. The light from the dragons eyes left as it bled out on a bed of sentient corpses. Zeke was more relieved as the last high-dragon, which reminded him of a scorpion mixed with a porcupine rolled into a spikey cannon ball and shot itself in the opposite direction of the twins, after seeing the tornado dragon bleed out and corrode in a painful death it decided to run. The twins had continued to run until they ran to a nearby river that led back to a waterfall deeper in the forest.
Zeke could also see that there were currently five high dragons stalking him, he smiled almost hoping one would attack him, he really wanted to see what this new evolution could do. It had to be powerful, normal it took a few soul gems before you saw any viable differences or mutations, but Zeke underwent a major mutation, he surmised he must have found a grand dragon egg. Great dragon soul gems were powerful, after two or three you could expect an evolution of some sort to take place, but seeing as only a handful of Foxxen had grand dragon mutations there wasn't much knowledge on their soul gems.
Sadly for him none of them dared attack, it was like he was a natural dragon repellent, once he even jumped into the bush at a red high dragon with large black horns and large black tusks, it whelped as it ran into the darkness. " this is crazy, these high born dragons are terrified of me! What kind of egg was that!"
The waterfalls roar became louder as he approached the area, being sure to keep his nose to the ground to make sure the boys were still there.
" jeffery! Damon! It's Zeke! Come out cousins we still have a hunt to finish!" Zeke's voice boomed through the basin, some small basic dragons and various birds flew out of the trees startled abruptly from their slumber. A few minutes went by before he finally heard what he was waiting for "Zeke! Is that you!" Damon carefully came from behind the waterfall brandishing a make shift spear. " yes cousin, its me, where's Jeffery?" Damon moved closer to Zeke, " cousin, why are you gold, why do you have dragons eyes, and why are you as big as a dragon yourself!" Untrusting of this imposter, Zeke was a silver Foxxen, average height, and definitely didn't have eyes that resembled a dragons.
"Cousin i promise its me! " zeke pleaded with Damon, he didn't want to have to fight his cousin, he wasn't as good a fighter but felt like his new dragon evolution was far more powerful than they were, he doubted if their weapons could even pierce his fur. "It's Zeke! I underwent and evolution cousins please believe me!"
The twin kept their defenses up but didn't attack, keeping their blades pointed at him, " how did that happen? You have only eaten a few basic gems souls, maybe a sentient gem soul at best." Jeffery was skeptical, but at second glance the giant gold foxxen carried itself just like his cousin, he even spoke like him, he looked closer at the gold boy face and began to see his little cousin looking back. " ok "Zeke" tell us what happened yesturday, then we will decide if we believe you or if we need to remove YOUR soul gem." Damon was indded truly a fierce warrior, but Zeke was still certain they could not hurt him. Zeke recanted his being in the dragons nest and finding the egg, upon describing the egg Damon looked puzzled. In all his studies and experience he'd never heard of a dragon egg like the one Zeke described.
"So you passed out and woke up like this?" Zeke nodded, the twins began to whisper back and forth for a few minutes, he just stood there quietly, he wasn't sure what to really do next. Finally the boys looked at Zeke and smiled "cousin, we think we know whats happened." He felt relief, he didn't want to have to harm his cousins and flee, " we think you managed to find a grand dragon egg and ate its soul gem." Jeffery said with certainty in his voice, " no one in our city has managed to ever find a grand dragon let alone an egg before so nothing is known as to what would happen if you managed to eat one." Jeffery continued their theory, " so maybe grand dragon soul gems cause an immediate evolution, and according to the type of dragon it was explains your changes in appearance."
" well now cousin it looks like youre no longer useless!" Damon chimed in smiling "Any clue what abilities you gained?"
Zeke had only tested his strength a little bit, but he knew it had been greatly enhanced, his size was obvious and even though he was big he was still very agile. His smell sight was new, and his fur changing color to gold and his claws becoming the color of obsidian and as sharp as a dragons talons. Any other abilities he hadn't really discovered yet, so he shared what he had found so far. " interesting, you can replay activities in an area based on smells? " he nodded, "I also can see in the dark like its day time"
The three talked about the events that had perspired, and Zeke begged for their forgiveness, the two laughed at the sight of the giant gold powerhouse crying large globby tears, as they hit the ground small flowers began to grow. Zeke smiled meekly, he didn't deserve the luck he had recently been bestowed nor the family he had, by all rights they should report him when they returned home for his cowardice and ruin his reputation but the twins were always protective over Zeke and didn't expect him to stay in that chaos, hell they were gonna tell him to run anyway.
The cave was well hidden, the wall of water over the entrance had kept this place pretty hidden, but the dampness kept them from being able to make a fire. They did explore the cave to find it was one cavern and didn't go very far into the rock face and no dragons had made its home there luckily.
"I wonder if you can breathe fire!" Damon hoped, "try, aim at the waterfall."
Zeke hadn't tried to create fire or anything " why not" he took a deep deep breath, his chest expanded and his cheeks bulged, and then let it out as hard as he could. Aside from a little spit nothing happened, they laughed some more about how funny he looked, Zeke looked at his hands and the wall and then took some cotton from his survival pack. He walked over to the wall and ran his claws it creating large blue sparks. He caught a few on the cotton and it started to smolder, he placed it where the twins had set up a fire pit and the let the twins go from there.