A Dragons Tail ch4

A dragon's tail CH4

I woke up when my mom came into my room.

   "Good morning Simon," she said.
   "Good morning," I mumbled. What time is it? "
   "A quarter to seven."
   "Okay," I replied and sat up slowly. Give me ten minutes and then I'll come and eat breakfast ".

She did not reply but turned and went out to the kitchen.
I sank down on the pillow and closed my eyes again.

To my disappointment, I did not rest for a minute before I felt someone poking me in the back.

   "I said ten minutes mom".

She did not answer but just poked harder and harder.
Eventually, it really hurts.

   "Alright, I'll go up".

I sat up quickly and hit my head in the ceiling.

"Son of a ..."

I rubbed my head and looked around.

   "What the? There is nobody here!"

Then I felt how I got poked in the back again. I slowly looked down and saw that it was my tail. It continued to eagerly poking itself in my back.

   "I'm going to go up, take it easy", I said to it.

It immediately stopped and I laughed.

   "I swear, it's as if you have your own mind.
   "Maybe I have," said a voice.
   "Huh?"

I quickly lifted my head and looked around but there was no one there.
I listened for a bit but no mysterious voice was heard, so I shook my head.

   "I have read and play video games a bit too much. Now I hear voices ".

I laughed and climbed down out of bed, dressed myself and went into the bathroom.


I looked in the mirror and immediately froze. Instead of my usual blue eyes, I had two predator like eyes. Almost completely yellow in colour and with two dark slits. Once I thought about it I could see much better than before. The world was more focused than before. I have never seen badly, but the difference was huge.

   "I must try this."

I took a magazine with as little text as possible and put it on the wall.
When I was sure it was stuck I went to the other side of the bathroom and tried to read the text.
To my surprise I could read every letter. It was as if I was reading the newspaper with a magnifying glass and not three feet away.

I began at once if I had a few other things changed.
The first thing I noticed was that my hearing was much better (if I listened hard enough I could hear the spiders scurried under the floor). Then came touch and smell (it was not a funny way that I discovered that one).

   "That's vision, hearing, smell and touch," I said. So there is only one left. "

I turned to the mirror and opened my mouth. My tongue was forked, just like a snake's.

   "So, I said and shut my mouth, all my five senses have changed. What else is there on a dragon? It's the tail, the five senses, scales, wings, hands and feet, head, and then (hopefully not) mind and walk on four legs.
The tail came while I was knocked out and eyes and all that while I was sleeping.
So with luck, I have four days before I become completely transformed. I wonder when I get my wings. "

I took a quick shower and then went to have some breakfast.

Mom looked up from the magazine when I came in and said:

   "Good that you came up now. I was about to get into the water bucket. Some changes in the night? "

I shuddered when I thought about the last time I was about to get late for school. It's never fun to wake up because of a bucket of ice water poured over one's body.

   "Yes indeed," I answered quickly and started to make a few sandwiches. All my senses have changed. "
   "How?"
   "Well my tongue, for example, has been forked".

She stared while I stretched out my tongue. She managed to pull herself together pretty quickly and said:

   "You said all your senses, which means ..."
   "Yes," I replied, looking up.

As soon as she saw my eyes as she opened her mouth to scream but quickly regretted it and looked down at the table.

   "Sorry Simon, she said. I was just not prepared for that. I'm so used to seeing your blue eyes every day and now that they have been exchanged for those things ... it's just so hard. "
   "It's okay mom," I said while I walked around the table and hugged her. It's like you said: It doesn't matter how much I changed on the outside. It's inside that counts and I am, and always will be, your son. "

She looked surprised when she heard me and smiled then.

   "You're right Simon; I do not know what I was thinking".

She picked up the newspaper, which had fallen down on the floor and began reading again.


I was just about to leave the dinner table when she opened her mouth again.

   "Well anyway, I rang the headmaster and told her what had happened."

I froze in the middle of a step and fell down on the chair again with a terrified expression on my face.

   "You did what?"
   "I rang the headmaster and told her what had happened"
   "And she believed you?"
   "Not at first, but once I had got her to stop asking me to seek help and explained she believed me a little bit."
   "What do you mean by little?"
   "Well, she said she would believe every word I said if she saw it herself."
   "So what?"
   "So you have to go to school a little earlier so that she can see that it's true. That way he can tell your teacher's what has happened. "

I stared at her for a long while before I said anything.

   "So you have done so that I have to go to school?" I asked her with anger in my voice.
   "Yes," she answered, smiling. It was all I could think of who could get you to go to school today. If you don't want your mother to look like an idiot that is ".
   "AND YOU DIDN'T THINK ABOUT WHAT I WOULD FEEL ABOUT THAT?" I yelled and stood up. IT'S MY LIFE MOTHER. I AM NOT 3 YEARS OLD!"

My tail was whipping back and forth. All my teeth were bared in an animal grin and I felt an enormous sense of killing everything that stood in my way. I stared coldly at my mother who just sat there quietly and looked at me.

After a while,  I managed to calm down. The tail lay on the floor, my pulse calmed down and I fell down in the chair again.

   "You done?" She asked.

I gave her a slow nod and she smiled.

   "Good because that scared the shit out of me. The only reason that I didn't ran screaming out the door was because I know you and know you would never hurt anyone. If that happened at school or in the vicinity of someone who does not feel so well so I do not know what would happen. "

I looked at her surprised and then down at my hands.

   "I was really so creepy?" I thought.
   "That was nothing!"

I winced when I heard the voice again. I looked around quickly but there was no one there except me and my mom so I turned toward her.

   "Did you say something?" I asked.
   "I was wondering if you could go to school or not".
   "Yes I will. I promised you, right?  A promise is a promise."

I succumbed quickly and went back to the bathroom. I brushed my teeth, careful not to hit my tongue (as it was totally new to me, I had no idea how things tasted, I remember all the  old flavours, but the sandwiches that I had eaten recently was a new experience for me, so it there was no reason to be careless).
Once I was finished I started to investigate whether I could do the things that snakes can do.
First, so I stuck the tongue out of my mouth and tasted the air.
Nothing happened.

   "Thank God for that, I said and was silent. Wait a minute; if I now have a snakes tongue then I should roll on all my S".

I tried and to my surprise, I sounded like a king cobra.

   "SSSSSSSSS, that'sss ssso cool. I almossst ssscare myssself ".

I laughed a little to the sounds that my new tongue could do and then went into my room.


20 minutes later, there was a knock on my door.

   "Simon, you need to go to School".
   "I know," I replied and picked up my things.
   "I'll wait in the car".
   "You don't need to, I'll go on my bike"
   "With your tail in full view so everyone can see it? I think not. "
   "I still must show it at school so it probably does not matter if someone else sees me."
   "And how was it with that to be cut open like a fish?" She asked.
   "Those who see me will probably think that the tail is supposed to be in a theatre. And besides, it will not be completely visible, "I replied calmly and camouflaged tail so that it was the same colour as the wall behind me.

Mom stared at me when she saw the tail disappearing and I understood her. Unless I had known that my tail was where I had also thought that it disappeared into thin air.
I changed the colour back and waited for my mom would pick up.
She stood and gaped a good while before I gave a small cough.
She winced and turned slowly towards me.

   "How ... How long have you been able to do that?"
   "About ten minutes."

She stared at me and I explained.

   "When I was out in the summer house the colour of my tail changed each time it came into contact with other surfaces. I could not even touch it.
It made me wonder if I could control it. It took some practice but I learned quickly."

As proof of everything I just said, so I put the tail against the wall again.
This time it happened nothing. The tail retained its orange colour.

Mom looked at me stunned for a little while before she managed to recover and said:

   "Then you must go and get ready. I said you would be there at eight o'clock ".

I glanced at the clock. Five to eight.

   "I have lots of time", I thought calmly and slowly walked out into the hall.

I pulled on my shoes and took my pre-packed backpack.
I gave my mom a quick goodbye, closed the door and went down to my bike.

(And no I will not tell you how I got to school with a tail).
(The only thing I say is that it was neither fun nor painless)