March 18th 2020, Earth unlabeled universe
Janice certainly likes cuddling. When we went to bed last night she snuggled up to my right side and used me as her personal body pillow. When the alarm went off this morning she was still clinging to me.
Janice got ready for the day and got the kids and I breakfast before sending them off to school. While that was happening I was thinking over what I know and making plans for the future.
When Janice came back home from sending the kids off to school she climbed back in bed to cling on to me again.
"Love, don't you need to get ready for work?" I whisper to her while we hug each other.
"Mmmmhh, no I took the rest of the week off and used some of my vacation days." She sweetly responds back in a content tone. Then she tilts her head up to stare into my eyes. "I still have some questions to ask you, also I could use a short vacation anyways." She says to me with a small happy smile.
"Of course love, ask whatever you want! My life will always be an open book for you!" I enthusiastically say to her beautiful smiling face.
"Well.... you said you were a dragon named Avernix. Tell me more about him? What was he like? What did he enjoy doing?" The curiosity written on her face while she asks me that is way too cute.
"Hhmm.. for starters Avernix was a female." I respond lazily while carefully watching her face. Watching her eyes grow in shock is amusing to me. "She spent most of her life pursuing research and study. She never had a family. The idea never was interesting to her." I answer her with a broad smile on my face.
"Ohh... so you were a women then! Why didn't you want a family?" She has a large smile and seems quite curious and excited as she asked me that.
"I didn't see a reason to spend time on that. Also I wasn't attracted to any other dragons to bother having little dragon welps of my own." I answer her easily with a smile on my lips.
"Hhmm... so you weren't interested in any dragons." She says with a thoughtful expression. "What about your transformation magic? What kinds of things did you transform into?" She looks quite excited as she asks that.
"My transformation magic only let's me become living creatures that I understand and know about. Sooo... I have been a few different animals as well as monsters just for fun. I also lived as both human men and women as well as a dwarf male and elven male." I happily answer her curiosity.
"Ooooo." Comes out of her mouth as her face lights up in excitement. "So dwarves and elves were real on your old planet! What were they like?!" She exclaims excitedly.
"Weeelll..." I slowly say to teaz her. "Elves are willowy, agile, and extremely arrogant. While the dwarves are stocky, hardy, and fun!" I say while enjoying the excitement that is playing across her eyes and face. I don't say anything else so I can see the curiosity take over and wait for her next questions.
"Why do you say it like that?! What makes the elves arrogant but the dwarves fun?! Don't just give me vague answers like that! Your making me too curious!" She says in a loud, angry, and excited tone. I better give a decent response before she actually gets upset with me.
"Hahaha! Okay okay! Calm down beautiful! I just wanted you to ask for more information on the things you are most interested in! I'm only slightly teasing you! I absolutely love learning new things and seeing you so excited to learn is beautiful to me!" I tell her. The look of irritation she tries to give me can't hide the smile in her eyes.
"So I called the elves arrogant because they looked down on both the humans and dwarves. Only interacting with them for trade. The elves lived much longer then both the humans and dwarves and believed themselves to be superior. The dwarves on the other hand are excellent craftsmen who take their work seriously but absolutely love to party as well. I got drunk plenty of times while I lived as a dwarf. They will take almost any excuse available to them to have fun when they can." I happily inform the bundle of curiosity that is clinging to me.
"Oh that's so interesting... Let me think of something else to ask..." She looks absolutely adorable with her face scrunched up while she is thinking.
"You said you lived as both a man and woman. Did you ever have sex or think about getting married?!" She asks with a naughty smirk on her face. I think I should indulge her a bit here.
"Oh yeah I've had sex back then! I would go to a brothel whenever I got horny! As a man or woman I was only ever attracted to women. I did enjoy sex quite a bit but I never was interested in getting married! I enjoyed researching and learning things too much to want to spend time on relationships or raising children! Also as a dragon I would easily out live any woman I could have married as well as the children we would have had together." My last sentence comes out in a quieter sadder tone.
She easily sees the sadness on my face and gives me a squeeze. "Are you sad because you will out live me and the kids now?" She asks me while still giving me a comforting hug.
"Maybe... I can make.. you and the kids semi-immortal like me... But being immortal has a lot of downsides so I don't know how to offer it or when would be best. 'Sigh.' Being able to live forever means you will watch lots of people you care about grow old and die. I can't force this on you but I do wish we can stay together for a very long time." I respond to her while squeezing her close.
She takes some time to think about what I've said. I'm glade she isn't jumping on the chance for sudo immortality and carefully thinking about what I said.
"I am interested in your offer but I can see your point. I will think on this issue carefully and we can talk about it more later." She says in a carefully measured tone. I am glade we can work this issue together. I am really happy having a relationship and kids and I don't want to go through life alone anymore.
"I should probably get up and get some chores done for now. I don't want the house to get messy when I'm home and able to catch up on things that need doing." She says in a determined tone.
"Let me help you with that! There's no good reason why I can't help! We can get a bunch done if we work together!" I say cheerfully while she is getting off the bed. The confused look on her face as she turns and looks at me is funny too.
"And how is a man with broken limbs supposed to help me?" She quips back with a raised brow and a smirk.
"Have you forgotten I can use magic love?!" I respond back to her with sarcasm. "Levitation" I intoned before slowly rising into the air out of bed. "The kids aren't home and as long as we close the blinds no one will see me using magic!" I exclaim to her shocked face as I float towards her.
I orient myself vertically in front of her and give her a quick kiss on the lips before giving her a wink.
"What do you think about that love?" I say to her with a smile.
"Uuuhhhh what..." She responds back in shock. "What kind of spells can you use to help?!" She asks in an excited voice.
"Well I can use cleaning spells to clean anything you want! Also I can use magic to fold laundry and I have several spells for fixing things!" I say with a cheeky smile and a wink.
"Ohhh gods yes! I am so gonna make you teach me magic! This is awesome! Wait here I'm gonna make sure all the blinds are closed so no one sees you using magic!" She exclaims brightly before dashing off.
I can hear her going room to room checking all the blinds and curtains before she rushes downstairs to do the same thing. She is as excited as a kid in a candy shop. I can understand her excitement I've done chores the manual way and it sucks.
She comes rushing back into the bedroom flushed from both excitement and the physical exertion of her impromptu morning run.
"Ok! Let's start on our room! I would make the bed, vacuum the floors, dust the surfaces, and pick up anything that's out of place and put it away!" She barks out at me her cleaning schedule.
I give her a broad smile and a wink before turning around. "Clean" This spell is first and I target the whole room including Janice and I as well as the hamper of dirty laundry.
Next I use a go to spell that's been a favorite for so so long. "Greater Prestidigitation" under my mental guidance the bed makes itself while the now clean clothes in the hamper float up and start folding themselves and gently landing on the bed in sorted piles.
I turn back to my lovely wife to see shock on her face and a sparkle in her eyes.
"So that should do it. The clothes are clean and folded. The bed is made and the room is clean from top to bottom." I say to her with a happy and slightly smug smile.
She turns to me her shocked face quickly becoming excited again. "Go use that clean spell on the bathroom while I put the clothes away!" She demands at me with the biggest grin. Before she shoots off to do as she said.
I gently and as quickly as I can float into the bathroom to do as commanded. My clean spell cleans the whole bathroom and I carefully check to make sure it got everything before going back into the bedroom.
Janice just finished putting away the last of the clean clothes as I come out. She rushes past me into the bathroom and checks it. The excited squeal she makes seeing a completely clean bathroom that took almost no work is absolutely adorable.
She rushes up to me and grabs my neck and pulls me down for a kiss. "You are so going to teach me magic." She whispers to my lips before giving me another kiss.
"Of course my beautiful wife! How could I ever deny you anything!" I respond back as she let's me go.
"Come along Cal let's get everything finished!" She says over her shoulder as she saunters off.
We spent the next couple of hours going room to room getting everything picked up and cleaned. The happy excitement she has over a completely clean house is great to see.
We sit down on the couch together and Janice snuggles up to my right side again hugging my arm and resting her head against my shoulder.
"It's around noon. We should eat lunch soon. What do you want to eat?" She asks me.
"What ever you want love. You know that I'm not a picky eater." I say to her before giving her a kiss on the head.
"I don't really want to make anything... hmm. How about pizza? It's always been a favorite of ours." She responds back in a lazy and content voice.
"Sounds good to me. Just get our usual and have it delivered.. Oh by the way I wanted to tell you that I actually don't have to eat. My body is sustained by mana and I usually only eat since it's enjoyable." I tell her while being content by her snuggles.
She looks up to me confused by my statement. "Cal. You're in a human body now. Doesn't that mean you still need food?" She looks so cute like this.
"I'm not sure about that. I can feel my body is using my mana just like it used too. I feel more like I am just using my transformation magic then being a normal human.. I'm mostly sure that if I cancel my transformation I will revert to a dragon." I respond to her in as comforting and confident tone that I can.
"When can I see your dragon form? Can you tell me what you looked like?" She asks with renewed excitement.
"Sure I can tell you! How about placing our pizza order and I'll tell you about it while we wait for the delivery?" I respond back in a cheerful voice.
"Oh alright. That sounds good I'll get my phone and do that. Be back soon." She says and gives me a quick kiss on the cheek before getting up and leaving to get her phone from the bedroom.
"Can you grab mine too while your up there!" I shout out as she goes up the stairs.
"Sure thing honey!" She yells back to me.
After placing our food order she snuggles back up to me. I never knew that cuddling could be so rewarding.
"Ok mister time to answer those questions." She says to me while looking at my face.
"Ok sure. On the topic of seeing what I looked like we can do that after I get these casts removed or I can make a small illusion of what I used to look like. It's up to you." I respond back to her with a smile.
"Ohh yes! Make an illusion I want to see it." She exclaims in joy.
"Ok here it comes!" "Minor Illusion" I proceed to make a roughly person sized illusion of my old dragon form in the middle of the living room. I have the tail curled around it so Janice can walk around the illusion if she wants too.
The image I conjured is a regal looking western style dragon with two horns on her head running straight back along the sides of the head starting from near the eyes. The wings are folded up and raised above the back to show them off a little. The dragon is in a seated posture with the head raised high and proud. The scales are slivery and kinda look like liquid mercury. There is a frill that starts on the top of the dragons head and runs all the way down to the tip of the tail. There are also sharp looking spines spaced evenly through the frill holding it up and rigid. The dragon has a slender lithe body type rather then looking bulky.
"Gasp" I hear from beside me as Janice stares at the image I conjured. She slowly walks around the dragon looking it over rather intensely. I can see the awe in her eyes which makes me smile.
"How big were you? You look so pretty too." She asks while still taking in the image.
Her comment about me being pretty actually brings a small blush to my face.
"I was roughly 75 feet long last time I measured myself. My shoulders were well over 20 feet high. Probably about 25 or 26 feet. I have no idea how much I would weigh either but probably around 100 tons if I had to guess." I tell her as confidently as I can.
"Wow!" She says just staring at the illusion. She moves her eyes to me and seems to be contemplating something.
"So you think you're still a dragon right? Does that mean your a woman or a guy?" She asks me as she moves back onto the couch and hugs my arm again.
"Hmm... Well if I'm still a female dragon then I am a woman I guess. But you don't have to worry about how you address me. Just use words based on if I'm currently a male or female. I'm not bothered by either." I give her an answer I'm most comfortable with.
"So for this body your using now I would address you as a guy and if you are using a female body I should address you like a woman. That seems easy." She says back while nodding.
"What about future kids? Can you still get me pregnant? If I do end up choosing semi-immortality will that change things?" She asks me with a thoughtful look.
"Yeah no big worries there. I'm healthy in that regard. We can have more kids if you want. The semi-immortal thing can cause issues depending on how we do it. So we can discuss the options later when you have made a choice." I answer her with a smile and nod.
"Hmm. Yeah that sounds good. I still haven't made up my mind on if I even want to live that long." She says back before a new excited expression crosses her face. "What about teaching me magic? How are we going to do that?" She asks in glee.
"Well the first problem is going to be you learning a new language so you can read and study my magic grimoires. While you are learning a new language I need to figure out a way for you to store mana so you can use it." I answer her.
Her face scrunches up in annoyance when I mentioned learning a new language.
"Why do I have to learn another language? I already know English and Japanese." She says with exasperation.
"Two languages actually. The first language is Epherium which was the first human language I learned and wrote my grimoires in. The second language is Arcanum which is a magical language and how the spells are used." I say back with a shit eating grin on my face since I remember her complaining about having to learn Japanese growing up and how much she hated it.
"Grrr! You did that on purpose! I hated learning Japanese and now I have to learn two new languages! This is going to suck so bad." She bemoans to me with a glare.
Knock knock knock
"Oh is pizza here?" I ask her.
"Should be. I'll get it." She says to me. "Coming!" She shouts at the door as she gets up.
She soon comes back into the living room carrying some pizza boxes and places them on the coffee table. She then walks off to the kitchen. She comes back into the living room with paper plates and a couple of soda cans.
She loads up a plate with two slices for me and puts the plate in my lap and gets her own slices for herself before sitting next to me.
We spend the next hour with casual conversation and enjoying our nice pizza lunch.
