Bits of Life

A few days after my birth and I still had not turned into my human form. It was nice to be able to walk, but I knew my mom was felling sad not being able to coddle me since I didn't need it in this form. Walking back to my room I noticed for the first time the state our walls were in. the wallpaper was lifting up in places and the floor was worn where the foot traffic was highest. The tables were worn in the spots the flower vases were set. The vases themselves had chips in it from use. The bedrooms were in a bit better shape but the frames for the beds and the dressers were worn to the point of not lasting another few years at most. Thinking to myself 'I need to fix this situation when I'm older. If I can fix our money problem then my brother can inherit the manor with even more pride. Ill talk to my family about my past when I get older and an speak without thought communication.'

A few days later

Looking around my room after turning back into a baby I realized I looked like a girl. I had white hair and a small frame. 'thank gods I had a skill that brings my vitality and immunity a s out of ss rating'. Looking back now the milk from mom must help that to seeing as how she had just finish feeding me, I went to cuddle her as my mom in my last life as Carla had died early. Mom said "Oh. My good boy wants to cuddle with mom. Want to go see sisters and brothers? I know it's a bit chilly in the spring but I know you also have resistance to temperature. So, what do you say, want to go outside and play with them?"

Nodding my head that yes, I do want to go outside with my siblings. We leave to the backdoor leading to the arena for training. When we finally get to the arena, I see my oldest sister wielding a sword and fighting one of our knights. And winning! Though I can't say I am to surprised. We are a Viscount family that helped to train other families knights in our knights training program. The entry fee in payable by the month or for the whole total and its used for upkeep and food and board in our housing we provide. Looking at the family who were good in the weapons I noticed a good-looking male knight who looked like he should be using throwing knives or a bow. I gestured to mom to set me down while remembering that she got scared the time I dropped to transform. I got into my dragon form and ran to the knight using a sword badly and dragged him to the knives and bows and made him grab 20 arrows 5 knives and a bow to use in practice. He was resisting but as I was a dragon and not hurting him, he didn't put much resistance up.

"Hey kid!" he exclaimed, "what are you doing, I'm training. What do you want me to do" I was dragging him to the rows of targets for the knives and bows? Since he wasn't getting it, I decided to use the thought communication I was born with. "hey this is the dragon talking. Say nothing about it my family doesn't know. I want you to try using the two things I had you pick up. The sword is not for you." He was surprised to hear in his head a voice of a child but listened to the kid's words since he saw the truth in their words. He said "ok". As he started using the knives, he saw a clear view of the target even though he was far away. He knew somehow that this was a skill for the beginner bow and knives. The past bow and throwing masters never clarified to much on the skill but the brief mentioning in the stories written on their about how they started out in the past but he read all of the ones he found.

After the first few tries, he was getting them to the bullseye nearly every time. His confidence with the arrows skyrocketed. Switching to the knives turned out the same results. After the first few throws, he hit the target with the last 3. I ran over to the target retrieved the knives and arrows in my space storage ran back and dumped them on the ground for the knight to use again. Looking around at the silence I noticed even my family was staring at us. When I snorted smoke slightly billowed out of my nose. The knight looked up and then to me saying, "its not normal for a child to use space magic you know, even if you looked confused to that fact." My eyes got a bit big in surprise to the fact I used the magic in front of people with out knowing. Running back to mom and dad I turned into my baby human halfer form and looked up at them from my back and smiled in a sheepish manner. I told the knight in my thought communication "tell no one but my parents if they ask but your skills were noticed"

A week later I was in dragon form again visiting the knights. I wanted to see the kids progress. I call him a kid because to me and my age (at least mentally), but he's maybe 16 or 17. Walking into the Arena shows me 2 by 2 pairs fighting in groups. With what I know about group fighting it is so they can learn to predict their partners moves and learn to predict the opponent's as well. Looking further I see the knight I made learn his inborn skill. He was doing well with the knives and even better at the bow. At mid-range he was only missing 1 out of 20. The rest was all hitting near center on the target.

After watching for 5 to 10 minutes I decided to wander over and talk to him with my skill and ask his name, since I didn't get it before then. Standing next to him watching he finally saw a black, gold and red dragon and said slightly surprised, "well I did expect you around sometime soon anyways. What brings you here today?" I replied "in retrospect, I probably should have asked your name last time. Or any information at all would have been nice". He looked surprised again but replied with "Lurent, and I am 16 this year by the way, how old are you?" I grinned in my dragon form and said "roughly 4 weeks old, but since I am a transforming dragon, I have used my other form to get around. The gods have blessed me with knowledge befitting a teen. So, I am using it. When I turn a year old ill be telling them everything. I kind of feel bad waiting that long but I want to talk in my 2-leg form. So, I've been reading and doing the things I need to get it ready for that by that time I have 11 months to learn to crawl, walk and talk in the other form." He was quiet for a while then replied "I see 4 weeks old, well I can tell we will be expecting great things form you" "yup" I replied "well ill see you in…. well ill see you when I see you" I didn't want to give a time because I didn't know if I would be busy. "bye see you later" …