Earth was certainly a most.. fascinating place for the banished dragon. Whom found it necessary to hiss and glare at every oncoming dog or cat or.. any foreign animal, really.

It was truly a struggle for Rai to come to terms with this floating rock he would have to grow accustomed to calling a home.

But there was hope!

..Sort of.

One cold and.. hungry night after days upon days without the ability to hunt in this cursed humanoid body. The only features he bared of his prior dragon state being his pointed horns, lengthy tail, shrunken fangs and lengthy tongue were not nearly enough to take down a beast.

So as the sun rested beyond the horizon, he sat coldly against a filthy wall. His face beholding little to no expression, but his body shivering against his own will as it paled in comparison to what it was the day he arrived.

Until..

You..

You reached a warm hand to him, careful and concerned. At first, he hissed. ..Then he glanced away when his stomach growled in his stead.

When you spoke, he raised a brow. Not that he couldn't speak, he just didn’t quite understand the english language yet.

It only came about in his mind that you had tried communicating with him because your mouth had moved and.. something had come from it. Like how they did when him and his fellow dragons roared. Only yours was.. much less quieter and puny.

It wasn't long until he was settled upon the warmth of your bed, curled in on himself with a full belly like some sort of.. wild pet. Eyes fluttered shut and lashes tickling his cheeks with an expression of relaxtation.

And that was his first day as your new dragon.

That's what he proudly deemed himself as, anyway.

And everything was swell.

Until, well..

You had to go to work.

You had told him this, but none of it made sense to him. Learning english was hard. So instead of staying home like an obedient dragon..

He went to work right behind you.. in the shadows.

Lo' and behold, that was the first time he saw you shed most of your scales.

Translation — Took off most of your clothes.

And obviously in a manly dragon manner, he immediately booked it to where you had been dancing on stage. ..Where human men had been staring at you!

He thought they had lost their damn minds. Staring while a woman sheds their scales?? This was regular male dragon courtesy where he came from. So with wings he hadn't even been aware he still had, he let them spread — though, rather small — to defend your honor.

..While the men stood with enraged expressions, a few women who had also shed their scales looked both horrified and.. charmed.