Absolute Power Corrupts

On a stormy, Saturday night, a lone scientist, by the name of Isaiah Lowe, was hard at work on his latest experiment. For thirteen long years, he had studied about dragons.

Isaiah admired the creatures and hoped to find a way to make their power and strength his. He heard that an exploration group had discovered the fossilized remains of a dragon.

Desperately, Isaiah called the head of the group and asked them if he could receive the skeleton of the creature, so they delivered it to him. He studied the remains and concluded that it was a male western dragon.

However, he needed something to create the serum, but that would prove difficult because there was absolutely no trace of what he needed. Then he hit on an idea; blood had traces of DNA in it, and marrow had red blood cells in them. So if he could retrieve it, then he could use the bone marrow to finish his project.

Luckily, Isaiah knew that there's DNA in bone marrow, and he also knew that bone marrow contained red blood cells. He went to his shelf and retrieved a small bone saw. Then came back to the fossil and carefully split the bone in half so as not to damage it.

After that, Isaiah got a pair of tweezers and picked up a small piece of marrow. He slowly and carefully carried it towards the microscope slide.

When Isaiah looked in the eyepiece, he was in for a surprise; the blood cells inside were actually active. He extracted it and started working on the serum for hours upon hours until it was perfected.

Now came the hard part; knowing if the experimental serum was successful or a dud? So, he decided to test it on a few of his assistants first. After many attempts, twenty-three of the assistants died because of the strain of the transformations or because their hearts gave out. Their deaths pushed him over the edge and worked day and night to perfect it.

Finally, after days of working on the project, Isaiah did it. Now was the time when he would gain the strength of a dragon. Isaiah grabbed a syringe, filled it with the strange ruby colored serum, rolled up his sleeve, and with one mighty thrust, injected the liquid into his arm.

He pulled it out and then started to laugh. Isaiah could feel twinges of pain going through his body, but he didn't care about that.

The muscles in his body started to swell, causing his labcoat to shreds and giving him incredible strength. Isaiah's skin began to shred and fall onto the ground, revealing ruby red colored scales underneath and continued to spread all over his body.

"Yes," Isaiah exclaimed, "Finally the powers of a dragon shall soon belong to me!! Those fools thought I was mad for trying to attempt it! Well, who's mad now?" His shoes began to feel tight as huge black talons grew out from his feet and ripped his shoes apart.

Isaiah looked on as his fingers started to fuse from five to three, as the same black talons grew from his nail bed. He could feel his face starting to stretch out into a huge muzzle and the nostrils of his nose shrink leaving only two holes flaring madly.

Isaiah just giggled madly as the transformation continued onwards; he groaned loudly as his neck and spine stretched outwards towards his bottom.

Then a bump stopped at the base of his tailbone. Finally,a huge ruby red tail burst out of his pants so Isaiah gave it an experimental shake.

Isaiah shook as he felt something coming out of his back; two huge bumps stuck out from his back and then two fingerlike appendages burst out of his back. Black webbings weaved through the fingers.

Suddenly, his hair started falling out as huge clumps as two huge straight horns grew out of his scalp and grew out more. Isaiah's ears were next; his ears grew out and then split into a fin as the same black webbings weaved through them too.

The balls of Isiah's feet stretched out causing him to momentarily lose his balance, but regained it.

His teeth grew out as huge pointed fangs from Isaiah's gums pushing out his human teeth onto the ground. Isaiah laughed, "My transformation is almost complete! Then, I'll show those fools the true power of the dragon!"

Isiah clutched his throat and coughed violently; he felt like someone set his throat on fire. Isaiah could feel his larynx stretch out as he let out a yell that turned into a huge roar.

He felt a sharp pain as his eyes shifted to either side of his face that caused Isaiah to close his eyes temporarily.

When he opened them, the pupils in his eyes became black slits. Black colored spikes burst through Isiah's head and spread down his back towards his tail stopping at the tip.

Black scutes started forming from his throat down to his underbelly and near his tail. Finally, his tongue started getting thinner and then split down the middle like a lizard's tongue.

He roared as the thunder from outside rumbled in the heavens and bellowed, "At last, my transformation is complete! I'm no longer a pathetic human, but a powerful dragon!! Get ready world to face my wrath!" Then he laughed and flew out of the window into the night.

                                         The End..