The warning from his friends was fresh in his memory, but that didn’t mean that Daniel was listening as he plugged the advanced VR headset into his computer.

“Seriously, they act like this kind of stuff is the kind of thing you need to train for. It’s just a headset with a simulation program…what could be so hard about that?”

Hubris was sitting in the corner and watching him with a snicker as he booted up his computer, continuing to disregard any concern that his friends had for his safety.

Daniel knew all of the precautions that he was supposed to take with virtual reality: he knew that it was important to engage with it just a little bit at a time to avoid fits of nausea, and he didn’t want to end up forgetting what reality was like entirely, but he was perfectly fine with using the simulation program as an escape, if that’s what it took for him to get outside of his own head.

The stress of the real world was such a smothering thing that he considered a little nausea to be a price well worth the cost.

“Experience the digital world from within the body of a cyber dragon…grow wings, spit digital fire, and take flight through a realm that defies all explanation!” he read the synopsis from the back with a tone in his voice that could have fit just as easily in a commercial, as it did in his self-conversation. “If that doesn’t sound like an awesome way to spend the weekend…”

His lips were so used to frowning that he actually felt the effort in smiling so wide, but once the gesture took his lips, it sat and stayed there, determined to remain until something in life gave it a reason to leave.

He didn’t think the simulation itself would ever provide him with such a motivation, and as he placed the headset on and pressed the small power button, he was shocked at how quickly the immersion took effect…but it wasn’t exactly what he’d expected, when he lifted his hand in front of his face.

For some reason, it was still a hand, but he could see the monitor of his computer in the background, next to the tower. The textures of the real world had changed significantly, but much to his disappointment, he appeared to be the one thing that was constant between the two realms.

“So…is this like a game, then? Do I have to play through to a certain point before I get turned into a cyber dragon?” he asked. Standing from his computer chair and taking a look around the room, he found that even the most common objects around him were taking on fantastical appearances, highlighted with such vibrant and heavily contrasting colors that they actually hurt his eyes if he stared at them for too long. “Or is one gonna just appear before me at random?”

The box didn’t have any proper instructions on the back of it, and like a fool, Daniel had tossed the instructions in the garbage with the little twist ties and plastic baggies that everything in the kit was contained with; they’d be long gone, thanks to the weekly garbage pickup.

“This was a huge waste of money, wasn’t it?”

Daniel wasn’t always so quick to despair, but the entire reason he purchased the headset was for the chance to look down and see scales of black, blue and pink on his arms, running up over his shoulders and encompassing his chest. The concept of being a dragon at all would have been cool enough, but getting to be one with an 80’s motif, but modern technology was a selling point that Daniel thought was too cool to pass up.

As it so happened, he was one of the only people to buy up the particular brand, and as he became frustrated with the technology, he was getting ready to unplug the headset and turn it off.

Just before he could reach the head of the cable, he saw something reaching out for his hand, but when it came close to his skin, he didn’t actually feel anything…despite the claws that reached for his flesh looking real enough to confuse his mind.

“Haven’t you ever heard of loading times? I swear, this entire generation is so impatient…you know, there was a time when you had to wait a few minutes just for a game to start, much less for you to get to the good stuff!”

He didn’t expect the voice to sound feminine, but more than that, he was surprised to be met with a scolding when the game finally caught up to his expectations. “Are…a-are you talking to me?”

“There’s no one else in this room, is there?” the voice asked, and Daniel’s eyes moved up from the claws, following them up the wrist and to the chest of a dragoness. “…You…you don’t have any shame, do you?”

Daniel realized where he stopped and felt a very real blush spreading over his face. “I didn’t m-mean to!” he stammered, but by the time he reached the muzzle of the dragoness, it was already cross with an obvious frown. “Sorry about that, I just…y-you…you’re honestly a cyber dragon!”

“And you’re incredibly talented at stating the obvious…though, as you were so intent on noticing before, I’m actually a dragoness.”

He didn’t think she’d care so much about nomenclature, but for being a preprogrammed device, the dragoness had a strong sense of personality and realism: in just that, Daniel realized what a gold mind he’d actually struck with his purchase.

Just their brief interaction was more conversation than he’d had with anyone in what seemed like ages, and it was just as stimulating as the last time he’d bothered talking to a human being.

“Sorry…dragoness,” Daniel corrected himself. “Whatever you are, though…that’s so cool! I’m actually talking to a living, breathing cyber creature!”

“Only living and breathing in this realm, I’m afraid,” she confirmed. “Though it’s awfully nice to be able to see what the real world is like, even if it’s only for a moment or two. You’re just running the demo reel, right?”

“Huh? N-no,” Daniel replied in confusion. “I actually purchased the hardware and the game. This is the real deal.”

Her body had an appearance that made legs appear to walk closer to Daniel, even when there was no physical bodice for her to inhabit. “Now that’s interesting…you’re the first person to actually buy a copy of the game with me in it,” she explained. “Every copy has a different avatar for you to get to know, and depending on how the little perverts want to play the game…a different avatar for you to control. I don’t suppose you’re one of those, are you?”

Daniel shook his head as firmly as he could. “I didn’t buy this just so I could do that,” he replied, though there was a hint of shakiness in his voice, leaving his new companion with more than a little doubt about his claim. “Honestly, I was just looking for non-human company that could still hold a conversation…not to mention that this thing claims that I could become a cyber dragon, too!”

“That’s what the headset will do for you, once you get everything figured out. Every time you look at yourself, you’ll see something completely different from the reality of your situation.”

“What do I still need to figure out?”

The wireframe that made up the cyber dragoness began moving away from Daniel once more, heading back toward the computer screen that he’d since been ignoring. “I guess it’s more of a we thing, if I’m being honest,” she explained. “We need to figure out just how dedicated you are to the illusion, stranger.”

“Call me Daniel.”

“Not to be too stereotypical, but you can call me Cy,” she told him. “And if you’re really serious about experiencing everything this headset has to offer, Daniel, you just have to let me know…and I can make all the rest happen for you.”

It was hard for Daniel to imagine that there was anything more to be had from the program, given the sense of utter surrealism that came with Cy’s appearance. She was buxom and full in the chest and hips, with a tail long enough to reach out and tickle under Daniel’s nose…if it had been real. A forced, digital wireframe gave the idea of how her appearance should have been contained, and in the middle of a black muzzle, a single horn of white popped up from the end of her nose, clinging to a stereotype of features that dragons were supposed to have.

Though her eyes were digitized pools of swirling blue, Daniel felt like he could actually make eye contact with her as he considered her offer. “I bought this thing for a reason,” he reiterated. “I’m here to see what it’s like to be a cyber dragon, no matter what that takes. I just thought it would be as simple as putting on the headset.”

“If you just want the surface treatment, sure,” Cy explained. “But to truly become one of my kind, I’m afraid you’ll have to step out of your world, and into my own.”

Daniel smirked. “If you’re programmed to be this advanced, you don’t have to keep up the forced, video game style dialogue. I appreciate the effort, though.”

“I’m not forcing anything, Daniel. I’m being entirely literal.”

“Okay…what kind of in game task do I need to complete to become like you?”

This time, Daniel was sure that he felt something touching him, but it was as if a probe had been placed into his brain, rather than an outside, physical force was reaching out to him. A tickle spread out from the back of his skull, as if he’d fallen asleep in a funny pose…but it moved down the back of his neck in cool trickles, like the sudden pour of a summer rain.

Soon, his entire body was buzzing with the softest, crawling sensation: the tingle of pins and needles moved down through his shoulders and into the tips of his fingers as he went limp in his computer chair, but the ride didn’t stop there.

By the time his toes felt the inescapable tingle, his body was being sucked right through the ocular portion of his headset, as his physical form was melted down into data…the same as the dragoness that had summoned him.

Reality sped up as Daniel flew through the electrical wires of his VR headset, blasting through the circuit boards of his computer just barely slower than light speed. His mind was still that of a human, making it impossible to process everything that he was seeing in such a rapid fashion, but the whiplash of moving so quickly never caught up to him, when he finally came out on the other side and emerged in cyberspace.

His body simply fell from the electrical stream of consciousness and dropped to a floor that he couldn’t initially see, with all the force and inertia dissipating before he arrived: he no longer had the proper mass to create an impact.

“Sorry if that was a little bit too sudden for you, but when they were running the beta tests for this product…they found that people were reluctant to take a chance at going into cyberspace, even when it’s a completely safe thing to do.”

Daniel stood upright against a floor that only became visible when his feet moved against it: hexagonal trails of cyan radiated out from his presence, showing even the lightest shuffle of his shoes against the ethereal floor.

“A little warning would have been appreciated,” he admitted. As he learned to trust that the floor below him wasn’t going to give out, his wobbling legs came together and he stood upright, looking at the reality of the woman that had summoned him for the first time.

There was one more critique left on his tongue, but seeing her in the flesh for the first time precluded any negative words from leaving his mouth.

“Would you have come if you knew that it was going to be such an electrifying experience?”

Cy was standing nearby enough that she was just out of his reach: at such a distance, it was impossible for Daniel to pretend he wasn’t looking at her from bottom to the top, as if he were watching sacred, icy water fill a tall, slender glass. His disbelieving stare took time moving up from her feet and talons, to the gap just above her knees and between her thighs: she didn’t have a scrap of clothing on her, and in the digital realm, her womanhood was completely developed, so much that she could feel him ogling it before he moved on.

“Di…I…I mea-

“Needed to reaffirm that I’m a woman, hm?” Cy muttered. “You just experienced a marvel of modern science unlike anything the world has ever known, and you’re only able to think with your dick…”

“Well, I didn’t think you’d be naked when I got here!” Daniel admitted, flustered so much that his eyes moved up past her full, supple breasts and stared right into her own again. This time, he could see her irises proper, beyond the overt, energized torrents of blue he thought them to be.

They were still sharp, and mildly irritated when they narrowed on Daniel. “I can synthesize clothes anytime I want, if that’s a problem…though I do prefer to go without them.”

“No problem,” Daniel found the words, not wanting to lose sight of what he’d come so far for. “I…will do my best to exercise some restraint,” he claimed.

Cy still wasn’t sure that she believed him, but she could only take him at his word. He was visibly flustered, enough that she had a feeling he would at least give it some effort, but she expected him to slip before too long.

By then, she was sure she would have worked her way to the core of him. “I appreciate that, but since you’re already here, and…you actually picked me…go ahead and look, Daniel.”

His eyes immediately dropped back to her breasts, but she covered them with an arm and offered him a teasing grin. “If you tell me why you picked me…when no one else did.”

When push came to shove, there were a few reasons why Daniel made the decision he did, but they all wrapped back to one central point, and he was nervous to admit that, even when he had his literal dream girl standing right in front of him.

Being put on the spot so directly would give anyone a reason to be lost for words.

“I’m not sure why no one else went for you,” Daniel finally started, “And I think it’s their loss, but…I…just-

“Remember to be completely honest, dear,” she whispered, keeping her arm steadfast across her chest. Her other palm came to rest over the subtle mound of her womanhood, denying Daniel the sensual display that he’d come for in the first place.

He gulped and recollected his thoughts as he tried to look her in the eyes, instead. “I just wanted to get away from the real world,” he admitted. “I hate it out there, and this…this seemed like it would be a nice escape, you know?”

His face was already twisted up with emotional discomfort, but at the start of his confession, Cy began lowering her arm from her chest, allowing more of her cleavage to become visible again. “Is that all?” she asked, knowing he was bashful…but refusing to back down.

“I’ve just made a lot of mistakes in life,” he rushed through the words, a little panicked at the idea of owning up to his problems. “And there’s no way for me to make up for them, but at least, if I came here, I’d be able to get away from them for a little while…? And then, there’s you, in the middle of all that…”

Her arm finally dropped from her chest, resting casually against her hip. “Me?”

“You looked so cool on the box art, and just…so beautiful that it was hard to believe that you could have been imagined to life to by someone. I was so desperate to have a real girlfriend, but it just never worked out for me, and I thought…m-maybe you-

She cut him off again, but this time, she didn’t have to speak to accomplish that task. She merely softened her gaze at him, allowing him a slight release from the pressure that he felt to answer her interrogations.

“You’re not going to accomplish anything by being so hard on yourself, and I could tell that’s just what you were about to do,” Cy claimed. “After going to all the trouble to bring you here, the last thing I’m gonna let you do is stand there and put yourself down.”

It wasn’t easy for Daniel to accept that answer, but he knew that she was telling the truth: in fact, she was surprisingly practical about the way that she approached the topic of his self-improvement.

He noticed her palm moving out from over her thighs, complete with a slow stroke of her thumb around to her backside; her nudity was the reward for his honesty, but Daniel knew things wouldn’t stop there.

“So what do you want me to do? Just sit here and stare at you until I feel better?”

“You know, as high as you talked me up, I’m inclined to think that might work,” Cy teased him. “But that being said, no…you’re not just gonna stand there at all. We’ve gotta work on your self-confidence, and that means taking action, Daniel.”

The simpler, perverted part of his mind thought that she was just coming onto him, and deep inside, he quietly hoped that would be the case.

“By d-doing what, exactly?”

“I’m not limited to just talking to you in this realm,” Cy explained. “I can do a lot of things to help you feel better about yourself, and in some ways, I can quite literally improve you!”

Daniel’s head tilted slightly, having expected a more direct answer. “Improve me how? Just teaching me how to talk to girls or something?”

“You’ve been doing just fine talking to me so far,” Cy pointed out. “I don’t think that’s quite what you need to work on, though. I’ve got something that will help you improve and feel better about yourself right away, and…I won’t deny that it’ll help me a little bit, too.”

Remembering how he was sucked into the digital realm, Daniel wondered if he was going to feel another jolt of revitalizing electricity, but as he waited for her words to instantly come true, nothing happened to him.

“…Uhm…I’m sure this is gonna be a stupid question, but…what exactly do I have to do?”

Cy giggled into her palm. “You thought it was just gonna magically happen to you, didn’t you?”

“Kinda.”

“Cute,” She murmured. “I’m afraid it’s not that simple, Daniel. This real is my reality, meaning that you actually have to engage me if you want my help to take effect.”

Before he could ask what she meant, she decided to make things terribly obvious for him, beckoning him closer with a single claw.

The hexagonal energy that followed his movements illuminated the floor around him in an instant, but it still felt slow as he moved closer on uneasy, nervous feet.

“We’ll start with a little something to calm you down…and once you’re thinking clearly, we’ll move on from there. I’m afraid things are going to start happening very rapidly from here.”

Daniel stopped just short of what he thought her reach was: he was caught completely off guard when her claws hooked around the back of his neck and yanked his face into the gap of her cleavage.

“Drink up.”

Knowing that was a common euphemism for someone wanting their breasts suckled, Daniel looked upon her full, tender nipple and wondered how it could feel so real against the data of his lips, but he could actually taste her flesh when he looked up to her and saw a nod of approval.

His lips sealed at the offered bud and suckled tenderly, worried that he might be too eager with the first move…but her quiet, pleasured gasp encouraged him to keep going.

He was glad to have heard that noise when something warm, sweet and creamy poured across his tongue and started spilling into his throat.

“Judging by how big your eyes just got, y-you…you thought I was just teasing, didn’t you?” she asked, panting quietly as Daniel offered up a level of skill that even he didn’t realize he had. “Sorry for not giving you more of a warning, first…but I’ve never heard anyone complain about drinking their fill from me before.”

Daniel couldn’t begin to put a finger to what the taste was: it was every bit as sweet as the fullest milk he’d ever consumed, almost as if he was drinking a candy bar…but there was no artificial aftertaste.

There was only the drive to drink more of the warm, creamy fluid, as the dragoness affectionately stroked her palm over the back of his head.

“I know this all probably seems a little weird at the moment, but…just trust me that you’re going to be happy with the results,” Cy assured him. “This is just the first step, but what you’re taking from me is more than an ordinary dose of milk.”

Still believing that everything happening to him was part of a computer simulation, Daniel carried on with a sense of comfort, leaning into something so warm and comforting. It was kinky enough that she was able to produce breastmilk in the first place, but the fact that it was so smooth and sweet against his tongue was the kind of thing that he didn’t think humans had the technology to simulate in the first place.

He was pleased with whoever decided to program the flavors in the first place, but in the same way that a mother imparted vital nutrients onto a child as they fed from her breasts, Cy was feeding Daniel something that would prove absolutely essential to turning him into the man that he wanted to become.

“Do you think you’ve had enough yet? Don’t let me r-rush you away…it’s…quite the wonderful experience for me, too.”

Daniel hesitated, but seeing her other breast lifted and offered, he turned to it with a greed smirk, finding the flavor and texture of Cy’s milk to be so satisfying that he wondered if he might end up addicted to it.

Just the volume of it rolling past his tongue and filling his throat was like the first sip of a warm, pleasant beverage after a day out in the cold, and the sense of comfort that filled him was every bit as strong as the undeniable arousal he felt at getting to fondle and suckle the dragoness as much as he pleased.

Cy could have taken a stroke along his cock at any time, and she wouldn’t deny that the temptation to feel it against her fingertips was difficult to ignore, but there was something greater to be dealt with before they went having that kind of fun.

“They’re g-getting a little sensitive, Daniel. Do you t-think I could convince you to take a breather?”

Though she kept her palms in a delicate drape over his shoulders, Cy did nothing to hide the mild discomfort in her expression. She chuckled when Daniel looked up at her with a dribble of warm, creamy milk still running down the underside of his chin, but there was something endearing and flattering about finally being wanted by a customer…and more than that, being wanted so bad that they would willingly come into cyberspace, just to spend time with her.

“Did you like it, Daniel?”

He nodded eagerly before swallowing down the last gulp he was able to steal, keeping his chin right near her cleavage. “That was one of the best things I’ve ever tasted!” he admitted, wondering how such a sweet flavor was possible…but it was the hint of something warm and savory at the end of the tasting note that truly brought the experience together. “I can understand why some guys are into literally drinking that stuff, now…”

“I’m afraid that human females don’t have quite the same flavor that I do,” Cy warned him. “But I was…k-kind of hoping that you wouldn’t have need of going after any other females for a while, anyway.”

Her arms were slipping down his back, but she wasn’t getting any closer to him. As Daniel looked up, he felt his chin moving through the slick gap of her cleavage, until her breasts were just barely over the top of his head, settling on his hair.

“This is, uh…this is all an effect, right? You’re able to change size in cyberspace or something?” he asked, trying not to sound as panicked as he truly was.

She shook her head. “I can change size if I want to, but…I’m not the one who is,” she explained. Just as Daniel became comfortable with the idea of her breasts on his head, he shrunk out of their range and watched as the clothing that followed him in from the real world became comically large on his bodice, until he could almost crawl up through the neck hole of his t-shirt. “I’m afraid I needed you to take a little something from me so you would gain a similar ability, but…before we go any further, I need you to promise me a few things.”

Daniel found such a peaceful state of nirvana in drinking from Cy’s breasts that it was hard to understand the calm in his own mind, but that was being replaced with panic as he continued to shrink, until he was only slightly larger than a doll. Everything stayed in proportion, but as he was lifted from the pile of his clothes, he realized he had no other option.

“I’ll…I’ll do my best to honor that,” he offered, wanting to be honest with her about his doubts.

As she held his tiny body in a careful grip, she smiled and went flat on her back, before spreading her legs wide and leaving a gap between her thighs; his eyes were drawn to it in an instant.

“Promise that you’ll try to be a good lover, a faithful mate, and a better person on the other side of this, okay?”

It was a heavy load on his mind, but Daniel did his best to contend with it as he felt a growing warmth near his head. “Wait, a…a faithful mate?” he asked, wondering just what Cy had in mind for him…but she kept him moving forward in her steady grasp, taking just the right angle that he could finally see what his destination was.

She’s…gonna use me as a living sex toy, he thought, and as he felt the first tickle of her natural arousal in his hair, he wasn’t wrong to have such a thought.

He’d actually missed the mark of her intentions just a little bit, but she wouldn’t pretend that she wasn’t enjoying herself as she pushed the shrunken human past the full, messy petals of her womanhood, taking her time with his head and making sure she never used too much pressure; tiny humans, in her experience, were rather fragile.

“Don’t worry, y-you…you won’t suffocate in there,” she assured him, though he felt the words more than he heard them. His torso was already passing into her opening and filling her with even greater bliss, but she tried to ignore the physical delights of pushing Daniel’s tiny form into herself, knowing there was a greater purpose to all of it. “Just try to relax, and when you feel something starting to happen, just…just let it happen, baby.”

Even Daniel’s wiggling toes added a layer of delight to the act, and Cy squirmed as she pushed the flat of her palm against her petals, ensuring that he was trapped inside of her bodice, moving up toward her womb.

For her, it was a heavenly experience, as his body was taken and moved around by the natural workings of her inner muscles.

For him, it was mildly terrifying: everything was dark, slick and warm around him, but it was so dark that he couldn’t see where he was going, even when he found the courage to reach out and feel around in his temporary prison of flesh.

His wiggling made it harder for Cy to focus, but she as she propped her feet against the floor of the digital realm and moved her fingertips away from her own slit, she turned her focus inward, allowing the code that was literally a part of her existence to bathe Daniel with her same level of technological prowess. The milk he’d taken from her before was the start of the process, unbeknownst to him…but being trapped inside of her this way was creating a transfer of data unlike any other.

He couldn’t see in the least, leaving him blind to the way that a digital wireframe was spreading over his flesh and forcing it to meld with itself. Fingers that were once easily spread apart lumped together into larger, thicker digits, and stubby nails burst outward until they resembled deadly talons. His face grew just as rapidly as the wiggling nubs on the back of his shoulder blades, but all the while, he could only feel the transformation occurring: he had no idea what he’d look like when it was all said and done.

“I understand if you’re reluctant to come out of there: to be honest, I’d…r-rather you stayed in a little longer, myself,” Cy admitted. She was growing attached to Daniel a little too quickly, and thanks to their natural chemistry, she was willing to allow him into a place that no one else had ever been before.

She was already wondering just how he felt about the whole experience when she pressed her palm flat to the circuitry in the floor, sending a jolt of electricity through her body…and a deep, powerful spasm through the inner walls of her vaginal passage.

Daniel felt as though he’d been used as nothing more than a tool for Cy’s twisted pleasures…and he didn’t hate the idea, by any stretch. To be pushed out so unceremoniously, swimming in a puddle of her juices as he finally had the chance to breathe, however, seemed just a little disrespectful.

Even before he stood upright and started growing back to his original size, he was glaring up at Cy, furious that she would have done such a thing to him without properly filling him in on the details.

“Not that I ever thought I’d complain about being inside of a woman in my life,” Daniel paused, wiping some of the liquid desire from his newly formed muzzle, “But that wasn’t exactly what I had in mind, Cy!”

“I’m sure it wasn’t,” she agreed, “But that’s what it took to make the changes that you so vehemently requested at the start.”

As his palm curled around the long, slick muzzle that now extended from his face, Daniel trembled with the sheer gravity of the situation. His fingers quivered as they moved away, and, in their disbelief, they roamed down the front of his body, feeling a smooth underbelly of cyan blue…but just to the edges of that were scales of rigid black, decorated with a glow of the energy that he now possessed.

His wings spread of their own volition, his tail thrashed about with emotion, and he looked to Cy with an expression that couldn’t decide where it wanted to go.

“You…y-you turned me into a cyberdragon!”

“You said you wanted to improve, and I…w-well, I wanted someone to share my time and company with,” Cy admitted. “You couldn’t have stayed here forever as a human, and now that you’ve got this new body, you’re no longer bound by the terrible evils of the human world that inflicted them upon you!”

She was doing her best to make a solid pitch to Daniel, as he continued growing up to the height that he should have stood at in the first place. “But what if I wanted to go back to the human world? What if I didn’t want to just have my life suddenly ripped away from me in exchange for some crazy fantasy?”

“Judging by the way you were staring at me, I didn’t think becoming your mate was a crazy fantasy on my part…”

Daniel’s shoulders caved forward. “I’m…I’m sorry,” he stammered out. “This is all just so much, and it’s happening so fast! I haven’t even had a chance to tell anyone where I am! They could all be really worried about me!”

“Daniel…do you really think I would have changed you this way if I hadn’t thought of that, myself?”

**

Cy knew the inner workings of the digital world inside and out, and getting out of Cyberspace was easy, as long as there was a portal for her to access.

The headset, still plugged in and sitting on the desk, was all the room that they needed to escape, back into the flesh and blood of reality.

“Once we head up there, it’ll be a little different for you…but it’s still the same, human reality that you grew to know and love. We just have to be mindful of hiding our real appearances while we’re there, and thanks to you, I can come and go as I please.”

When Daniel was inside of her, he shared his DNA with her body, allowing her to write a code that would mask her own appearance into that of a human when she was on the outside. Daniel could simply take on his old appearance, thanks to her DNA being intermingled with his own…and no one would be any wiser to the trick.

Before he stepped into the portal, however, he felt Cy’s arms around his neck once more.

“I never did properly thank you for giving me that ability, Daniel.”

Her lips pressed in eagerly against his own, taking a taste of his new muzzle before he could put it to work with a verbal response.

Meeting her affectionate gesture in the middle and moving his lips against her own was a better use of that muzzle, as far as he was concerned. With his arms wrapping around her waist, just under the reach of her smaller, narrower wings, Daniel embraced the woman that had shared so much of herself with him and held her close, accepting her as his mate in the span of a single, shared breath.

As she eased back, she smiled bashfully and rested her palms on his wrists, not wanting him to let go…but they’d have to go back to the real world sooner or later.

“I know it’s awfully early for this to be happening, but…ready to go meet my folks?” Daniel asked, as his appearance slowly regressed, moving back toward the human body that he once had.

Closing her eyes and focusing on what she thought she might look like as a human, Cy actually grew in height, coming to stand just a little taller than her new boyfriend. The crested mane of green upon her scales rose up artificially and took a firm stance as a mohawk, and along her slender bodice, a green tank top and black pants synthesized into existence, complete with a stripe of brilliant blue along each leg to show the presence of her energy.

When she was done, Daniel had trouble telling the difference between the dragoness that he’d first fallen for, and the woman that stood before him now…but whether she was really human or not, he couldn’t wait to introduce his new girlfriend to his folks.