Sunlight shun through my window which caused me to hiss and shift my vision away. Then I realised that it was in fact not my window, or my room by the look of it.

I was on a bed that was far more comfortable than mine with silk covers. Rubbing my eyes with my right hand, I noticed that the left side of my body was preoccupied by an unfamiliar weight, my left hand in particular was gripping something round and soft. I had a pretty good guess on what was next to me.

Wait, it couldn’t be?

I gave a light squeeze of what was in my grasp and was rewarded with a light sensual moan in response. The body that was under the covers rose up and I was able to remove my arm and back away a little, to my surprise to find Sophie next to me.

Absolutely and unabashedly naked.

She seemed to me blinking away the last vestiges of sleep as she rubbed her eyes and muttered something. I wasn’t able to pay attention to what she was saying for obvious reasons and was enjoying the situation before she inevitably lost her shit for seeing her.

Her breasts were larger than I imagined, even on her side they looked perfect and based on how they made contact with my chest a moment ago, soft. I could see the curve of her ass and man, even from an angle I could tell it was just as amazing.

“S-sorry, wait w-what?” I stammered out. “What’s going on? What did you say?”

Rather than answer my questions she yawned, covering her mouth and arching her back as she sat up and stretched. It made her rack bounce in a very nice way and exposed all of her to me. I turned my head to the side so as not to ogle her but my left eye couldn’t help stay where it was.

Sophie then looked at me and then at my lower body and smirked.

“Good Morning to you too,” she quipped.

I looked down to see that I was pitching a tent and with all the excitement I didn’t notice.

Moving quickly I grabbed one the silk pillows I was resting on and covered myself up the best I could. Sophie giggled at my discomfort.

A wave of pain hit me in the temple and I went from embarrassed to pissed. The pain lingered for a little while but slowly went away.

It was like I had forgot something and the idea of not knowing really ticked me off for some reason.

I noticed that Sophie had gotten out of the bed and was heading for the bathroom door which was on my side.

Sophie hesitated after she opened the door.

“Wanna join me?” she asked with a half smile.

I blinked despite my mood and before I could answer Sophie, she shook her head.

“Actually on second thought, I don’t really trust you to control yourself.”

With a grin, she stroked the underside of my chin before entering the bathroom. I placed my fingers in the area to touch where you had grazed me with her own. Now my anger was gone but I still wanted answers.

While Sophie was in her bathroom I familiarised myself with her bedroom. It was crazy tidy, not to mention elegant with a white and lilac color scheme. Even the bedroom she slept in was leagues ahead of mine.

After she was done with her shower I was invited to take mine next. The scent of her was almost mind-numbing as I stepped into the bathroom, especially because my sense of smell was turned up to eleven for a reason I still didn’t know. I quickly entered the shower and started cleaning myself before I got distracted and spent too much time with fantasies.

As the water poured over my head, I allowed myself to drift away and not think so much. As I said that though, a bunch of images began to run through my mind that I couldn’t sort out.

Once I was finished cleaning up I picked up a folded towel from a shut toilet lid and wiped myself down. I was able to catch myself in the mirror and damn did I look cut. Like where did all this muscle come from? I was pretty sure I had gained like ten pounds of muscle that perfectly spread over my body.

Opening the door to the exit the bathroom, it suddenly dawned on me that I had no clothes to change into.

My worries were put to rest when I saw a folded set over a now tidied bed. I started to put the clothes on and by the time I wore the pair of jeans, I could hear the loud exchange through the door.

“No fucking way I’m leaving you here,” Jess stated defiantly. “Especially not with that prick.”

“Keep your voice down,” Sophie soothed. “Everything’s fine Jess, Niko’s the only reason I made it out of there.”

“He’s the reason you were neck deep in the first place,” Jess all but shrieked.

I had never heard Jessica sound so expressive and the fact that I was the topic of the conversation didn’t sit well with me.

“That’s not fair,” Soph retorted. “Why was I talking to him in the first place?”

That last question seemed to be rhetorical in a funny way and this made Jess go silent.

I took this opportunity to interrupt and step into the living room to see both women stare at me. Their expressions couldn’t have been anymore opposite the other and I knew it wasn’t because of what I was wearing as I was fully dressed now.

No, I had done some shit that had made Jess raise her voice.

She borrow daggers into me despite how unexpressive the rest of her face was yet for some reason, I was pissed because I didn’t know what I had done.

I meet Jess’s stare without blinking, it was early, rather it felt early and I didn’t have the urge to deal with her bullshit honestly.

“Ahem,” Sophie uttered,“Jess could you please give us a moment.”

Jessica looked at Soph and wanted to argue, but you couldn’t argue with Sophie. Well, more like you never wanted to argue with Sophie.

Jess tightened her lips and headed towards the door.

“I’ll be at the store,” she informed Sophie as she looked back.“Let me know if you need anything.”

With one last dirty look, Jess closed the door and left the apartment.

Sophie looked slowly from the door to myself as she pulled the corners of her mouth down to expose her row of bottom teeth.

“Yikes,” she remarked.

Yikes was right.

“I’m used to having her hate my existence in silence,” I stated with a shrug. “Her hating me verbally is just a change of pace.”

Sophie smiled at me and I was able to take her in better without the earlier awkward distraction. She was wearing a smart outfit, a slim pink blouse with a pencil skirt and it reminded me that she might be going work.

“What do you remember from last night?” she asked.

I did my best to recall last night’s events but all I could come up with were a bunch of incomplete scenes and a building headache. Recounting the memories gave me a deep feeling of discomfort, like I did something so dangerous that I would be better for my health that I don’t remember.

“Here, take a seat,” Sophie offered as she gestured to the couch.

I took her offering and sat down as I concentrated.

I got the image of me in back of a car, an unfamiliar messy apartment and…wolves. While I was lost in thought, I heard Sophie turn something on while, I looked up to see that Sophie was fixing some coffee in her kitchen area.

The smell of the coffee was intoxicating so I distracted for a moment as Soph prepared two cups.

In a couple moments Sophie was sat next to me on the couch, handing me a steaming hot cup of coffee.

“You got anything?” Sophie questioned before taking a sip.

I gave my memory recollection another go but I didn’t come up with anything new.

Some commotion, I remember being super upset with a bunch of negative emotions filling me and then I remembered sitting against a building for some reason.

“Aside from a few vague recollections, nothing,” I told her.

She nodded and took up an apple from the fruit bowl and a small knife to slice off a bit to eat. Sophie then returned said apple and blade back in the bowl.

“Do you trust me?” she asked as she gestured for me to give her my hand.

I nodded and placed my hand in hers. Before I could protest she took the knife from the plate and sliced my palm. Instinctively I pulled away and turned on her.

“What the hell was-” I started to rant but paused when I thought I saw the cut close up.

Using my finger to wipe away the blood, I couldn’t see where I had been cut. I blinked.

“What I’m about to tell you is going to be hard to swallow,” she informed me. “But hear me out okay?”

I did and Sophie began to recant what had happened last night from when we met outside the gym, it was then that things began to fall into place.

At first I was confused with what I heard and I wasn’t getting anymore pleased with what I hearing.

My mouth hung open when she told me that the pricks who kidnapped us were werewolves.

“Whoa whoa…whoa…” I interrupted her. “You charmed one of them into attacking the others? And I’m a dragon? How?!”

Sophie shrugged her shoulders.

“I don’t know, once they started hurting you, you just got really, really, pissed and you changed into a seven foot tall dragon man.”

I turned to stare in the direction of the ground and chuckled when I realised that I was being punked.

“Good one and let me guess you’re actually a witch and Jess is a werewolf,” I joked as I shook my head.

Sophie wasn’t amused but neither was I. Some of the stuff she told me was messed up and I had to ask her how she did that magic trick with the knife.

My friend got up from her seat and stood before me, my eyes were on hers with a questioning look.

As if this conversation couldn’t get any weirder, Sophie began to move her hands to her waist and unzip her skirt to let it fall to the floor.

My eyes fixed on the pink lace thong as my mouth slowly lost its ability to close itself.

Her buttoned blouse was next and she made more of a show this time as she took it off, all the while keeping that unreadable gaze was on me.

Then something completely unexpected started to happen.

Sophie’s body began to change as a trail of purple fire shimmered from the crown of her head and descended.

As the fire headed downwards, the parts it passed over left her changed.

From either side of her temples her black horns began to sprout, they curled forward and her ears were now ending in points and they were directed upwards.

The most noticeable change was her beige skin turning lavender and I saw her pupil turn into slits, like a cat. She smiled just a bit to reveal that her canines were even sharper, while her clearly longer tongue flicked out to drag across her bottom lip.

From behind her back popped out a pair of bat-like wings that folded closed.

The next thing I noticed was a thin swishing tail with a triangle on the end of it that couldn’t seem to keep still.

That was all that was left to point out once the fire had run it’s course and I was looking at a somehow even sexier Sophie. Something I didn’t think was possible.

The creature of female perfection twirled around for me to get a better look and I was able to see how her wings twitched slightly.

Once her spin was done she slinked forward, and smoother than silk slid onto my lap.

It was clearly fucking obvious what she was, she was…a Succubus.

She leaned her neck back as she caressed it before moving her hand to cup my face.

“See…”she cooed as she rubbed her thumb over my lips. “I wasn’t lying.”

This was a lot to process and at that moment it was like something in my mind just clicked. Everything that had happened last night came flooding in and I could recollect what occurred like the back of my hand.

“Sophie,” I began but then she cut off any further talk by pressing her lips against mine.

I stiffened at first but Sophie pushed her tongue past my lips and I instantly melted into her.

She tasted like honey, skittles and just about everything sweet I could think of.

Sophie pulled away slowly and I desperately tried to follow her but I couldn’t keep my lips looked to hers.

She giggled and unclipped her bra from the front to reveal darker purple nipples and then she pulled my shirt up as she leaned against me.

“Are you still not convinced?” she whispered and then nipped my ear and neck.

I shuddered with the sensation of our chest to chest contact and as she looked at me, the desire to have my tongue down her throat was overwhelming.

So I acted on it as I pulled her lips to mine and we fought for dominance over one other. I moved my hands south so that I could cup her amazing ass as she ground into my bulge like she was on a mission.

The room was now filled with the moans and shuffling of our bodies. My heightened senses were able to pick up her arousal and a low growl steadily began to build in the back of my throat.

I had no idea how long we tried to eat each other’s faces before Sophie pulled away to get some much needed air. It seemed I was also in need of a lung full so I just settled for staring at Sophie’s face, then her lovely breasts and back to her face.

Dragon or not, I was still a gentleman.

“Damn,” Sophie huffed.“It was a good thing I asked Jess to leave, she’d be going crazy if she were in her room.”

That’s when a thought occurred to me.

“Jess mentioned something last night about me working with some new people at the gym,” I recalled as I ran my fingers through my hair. “Damn, no wonder she was crazy pissed at me.”

Sophie looked concerned now.

“She most likely assumed you had joined a shifter pack after becoming one,” Sophie informed me. “She knew you were one but obviously wasn’t sure as she’s probably never gotten the scent of a dragon before. She’ll understand that you were as much of a victim last night as I was.”

My mind went back to how those fur-balls had taunted me and tossed me around only for me to turn on them and rip them all nearly limb from limb.

I also remembered how I had frightened Sophie when she tried to get my attention. We had almost escaped thanks to her but she was still the most vulnerable of us there.

A very serious question popped in my mind.

“Is it possible that Jess might know those guys last night,” I asked.

Sophie grimaced but then I quickly added the rest.

“Obviously asking if she knew of them, I know there’s no way she would be responsible.”

I didn’t really believe that part as I knew less about Jess than I did about this whole urban fantasy reality. For all I knew she could have sent those assholes my way but Sophie was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

I didn’t took care from letting my thoughts show and instead focused on Sophie’s distant face as she cocked her head to the side. The lack of conversation made the raging bulge my new center of attention and my vision was now focused on a pair of distracting assets.

“Feel free to stare at them as long as you want,” she offered without looking at me.

I blinked and graciously accepted the offer.

“No,” she answered with a small shake of the head. “If she had known about them she would have let me know. She’s a huge worry wort like that.” I nodded, that seemed reasonable.

“It’s a shame she doesn’t know about other werewolves,” I stated.

“Jess ain’t a werewolf silly,” Soph chuckled, this caught me off guard.

“For real?” I asked with wide eyes. “What is she then?”

Sophie’s huge smile turned to a pensive one as her bottom lip sucked on the top one.

“I can’t say,” she apologized. “That kind of stuff in personal and if you really want to know, you’ll have to ask her.

“So I’m not going to find out then.”

As I concluded this, Soph just giggled at what I said as well as the deadpan face I gave. Now I let myself get serious, as the fact sank in that I was not human anymore. Looking at my left hand, I curled my fingers a bit and my mind projected the massive claw that I had used to tear into my attackers.

“Anyways,” she said catching my attention. “How asked you to make that delivery? If anything you should be pointing the finger at them.”

I was stunned for a moment as it occurred that Zack was in some way responsible for our kidnapping. How the hell did I need Sophie to spell something for my dumbass.

I was looking away from her and it was obvious she was looking at me, in a very concerned way and I knew if I told her who it was she would lose her shit.

Knowing what her view of Zack was like, it was end up with her confronting him in some way which could just make things worse.

So rather than create a shitstorm and faced my super sexy friend and grinned dumbly.

“You gonna tell me or…?” she questioned, giving her head a little shake.

“Sorry,” I replied with a shit-eating grin. “You’ll have to ask them.”

Her stare could send any man running with a devilish appearance and I might have if she wasn’t on my lap. It was obvious she really wanted to no but I couldn’t tell her.

I toned down my grin from smug to quasi innocent and she just sighed as if she was tired of dealing with a child’s shenanigans.

A low humming noise made me snap back to a devilishly smirking Soph.

“What is it?” I carefully asked the vixen on straddling me.

Sophie slid off my lap and onto the floor infront of me just as smoothly as she had slid on.

“What are you going to do?” I asked stupidly as she undid my fly and I sprang free.

“Take a guess,” Sophie replied licking her lips.

When she took her right index finger and began to trace the bottom of my scrotum along the center to the tip, all I could do was shudder out a breath. The tip of her nail was stimulating and not painful despite how sharp it looked.

“I still haven’t thanked you yet for saving me,” she said in cutesy voice.

I didn’t say anything and she took me into her mouth, sucking on me softly before pulling me out. She repeated this action a few more times, going deeper each time until I finally hit the back of her throat.

In all honesty I thought I would have blown my load already with how well Sophie was using her mouth as she licked my penis on both sides and how she pushed my tip against her cheeks.

I was kind of starting to get to that point were it was becoming painful as the pent up feeling was on the edge, shit who was I kidding, the discomfort was a small price to pay compared to the pleasure I was experiencing.

As if I thought she couldn’t top what she was doing, Sophie arched her back and engulfed my member with her breasts while as she worked me, her mouth periodically taking my tip into her mouth. That actually made me groan despite how hard I tried to refrain from any.

“Mmm,”Sophie moaned,“cum whenever you’re ready Niko.”

“Yeah that’s not going to be a problem” I growled out as I was finally able to hit my release.

Sophie took me as deep as she could and began swallowing my cum like she had been dehydrated. She made a noise and did her best to bury her nose into pelvis and I had to almost push her head back as she was doing virtually too good a job. Sophie didn’t stop there and pulled back till only have half my length was filling her mouth, my climaxing coming close to an end.

Her violet eyes glowed and pulsed as she made eye contact for a good while before releasing me from inbetween her lips. My member flopped down, now lifeless and I leaned my head back on the couch to catch my breath.

She looked extremely pleased with herself as she still continued to play with my member that was at half-mast.

“You have no idea how much I needed that,” she told me, slapping my johnson against her cheek. “A shame we can’t do more…there are other ways I could thank you.”

At that prompting, I instantly began to harden again which made Sophie put on a grin that split her face.

She rose up on her toes gracefully and shimmied forward into my lap until her crotch was grinding against my erection. Despite not actually touching her sex, the sensation against her panties was unbelievable.

Shit was this finally happening?

Sophie used her finger to pull her thong to the side and the other hand to aim my penis at her entrance.

Neither of us said anything as we impatiently waited for Sophie to slide onto me.

It was at this time that some bastard decided to cock block me as my phone rang on the table.

My eyes swiveled back to see if Sophie was going to carry on but she seemed more interested in who was calling rather than changing my entire life.

I sighed deeply, picked up the phone as Sophie released me and sat in my lap.

I was prepared to answer the phone and rip whatever asshole a new one before turning it off, but those thoughts were all swept away when I saw the caller ID.

It was Zack.

Sophie noticed my apprehension.

“Who is it?”

My eyes went up to meet hers.

“Oh, it’s just Zack.”

She frowned then and I couldn’t help but chuckle a little.

We starred at each other while the phone rang.

“You gonna answer it?” she asked.

I hesitated but then nodded and answered the phone.

“What up?” Zack greeted.

“Hey bro.”

“How you been? Sorry I had to leave you hangin’ on the weekend.”

“Ah you know, it is what it is,” I assured without trying to sound anxious.

I leaned back on the sofa and rested my left arm over the top of it. Soph got up from my lap to sit next to me, leaning in to press her naked bust into the side of my chest.

“What are you calling for?”

“Yeah…” he muttered. “I’m going to need that money you collected for me.”

“Oh shit, for real? When?”

“Right now.”

“Right now?” I echoed.

“Did I stutter?” he sounded serious.

“Nah bro, I-I just…”

A burst of laughter cut me off from explaining myself. Prick.

“I’m just messing with you fam, but seriously come through as soon as you can,” he said after calming down. “We got some stuff to catch up on.”

“Bet,” I told him. “I’ll let you know when I arrive.”

“Sweet, in a bit.”

With that, Zack ended the call and I took in a deep sigh as I rubbed my eyes.

“What did he want?” Sophie asked me.

“To meet up,” I said as I got up from the couch.

“Is that all?” she inquired as she picked her clothes up off the floor.

My soul cried a little at the shitty timing of things.

“Yeah, I do have other friends you know“ I joked.

Sophie narrowed her eyes and I scrambled for an excuse.

“It sounds like there’s some stuff he wants to tell me.”

This seemed to satisfy her.

“I got you some shoes by the way,” Sophie informed me as she pointed to a pair of black converse next to the coffee table near the door. I saw my gym bag was also there and I had completely forgotten about it.

“Oh thanks,” I said to Sophie and went to go put them on.

I laced my shoes up and waited on Sophie to get herself ready. She slid in to some high heels and grabbed her keys from the bowl on said coffee table.

“Let me give you a lift,” Soph offered.

“Nah, it’s fine,” I declined, waving my hand.

“Niko…”

“I’ll be fine Sophie, really,” I tried to soothe her.

She still didn’t seem all that convinced.

“Also you have to go to work right?”

She frowned, rolled her eyes and checked the time on her phone. Sophie pinned me with stare and huffed as she walked past me to leave her apartment.

“Call me if anything happens.”

After getting to my dorm, I raced up to my room to find that everything appeared to be in the right place.

The envelopes were also where they were supposed to be so I put them in my bag.

After getting my stuff together I called a cab to take me Zack’s address.

I didn’t feel like sending a text though for some reason so I didn’t. Several knocks on his door and I was told to come in.

The apartment was dimly lit like the last time I was here but this time I was still able to see well as broad daylight

Zack was on his couch smoking something before his head turned to face me.

“Hey bro,” he greeted in between taking a drag of whatever.

“Hey man, you wanted us to meet up?” I asked.

He was definitely not human based on the depth of his voice. Even the way eh looked I couldn’t place it.

“That’s right,”he affirmed,“you got my money?”

I nodded and fished into my back pack to pull out Zack’s envelope and I held it out in his direction.

I began to tense up.

Zack’s skin now had a greenish tint to it and his ears were now pointed but they were larger than Soph’s. His square jaw was also jutting out a bit with his canines also reminding of Sophie’s. Zack’s were more blunt though which was kind of ironic.

My friend took the envelope from me as I gazed dumbfoundedly at him, Zack for his part not even the slightest bit fazed at me seeing him like this for the first time.

He checked the enveloped, nodded and then looked back at me.

“Come and have a seat.”

We just sat there for a bit as I watched Zack continue to smoke his cigar.

“I’m a half-orc,” he stated finally.

“Huh,” I acknowledged. “I guessed as much having a look at you now but I didn’t want to clown myself this early.”

Zack grinned.

“You’re taking this pretty well,” he pointed out.

“Well after last night…this is pretty tame.”

My best friend’s eyes narrowed at that.

“What happened?”

I hesitated about telling him but he was my best chance at knowing what I had gotten into.

“I got jumped by some asshole werewolves last night.”

“That was you?” Zack asked as he put his cigar on the ashtray.

I nodded and Zack looked deep in thought.

“What do you mean that was me?” I questioned.

Zack leaned over with his impressive bulk and interlaced his fingers with one another.

“I caught word last night that some werewolves from a local pack got into it with someone but came out worse for it.”

My thoughts went back to that night and how I tore out a jaw with my teeth.

“I had no idea it would be you,” he continued. “So how long have you been able to shift?”

I shook my head a little.

“Last night was the first time,” I stated.

Zack nodded before taking another puff of his cigar.

“You’re a dragon Niko,” he said in a mock Hagrid voice. “A red dragon to be exact.”

A red dragon? The way he said it made it sound like a big deal.

“A-a Red Dragon; how exactly did I turn into one?”

Zack waved down my agitation at not knowing what the hell was going on.

“We can discuss how that happened later Niko,” Zack promised. “Right now we need to talk about what you’re going to do to stop them from coming after you.”

“I think they followed me to the restaurant but I’m not sure where from,” I explained.

The corner of his mouth hiked up in a displeased grimace.

“They were most likely posted up outside my building expecting me to make the delivery,” said Zack and I shot up from seat.

He followed me soon after and clarified himself.

“I didn’t set you up bro, when I left it was for a genuine emergency and I only asked you to do it as an afterthought. Niko I swear on my moms, I did not think you would be in danger, especially because you’re a human.”

“What does me being a human have to do with this…”

Zack could clearly tell that I was frustrated and I couldn’t think straight so he was being real patient. He taped on my shoulder and directed me to sit back on the couch and so I did.

He retook his own place and returned his cigar to his ashtray.

“Everything concerning your shift I’ll explain later but to keep a long story short, you were human before you entered that Asiago Italian but that changed when you left.”

That didn’t make all that much sense to me but I gave him the benefit. So I decided to move onto what was more pressing.

“So what am I going to do about this red dragon thing? Will I need to hide or something?” I questioned.

“You don’t need to hide Niko,” Zack said confidently. “You’re a Red Dragon, a lowly type but one nonetheless. You’re not a part of the official Red Dragon family but we can change that once we start getting some serious work done.”

My eyebrows pinched together at this response.

“What are you saying Zack?”

“I’m saying,” he began as he took a pull from his cigar,“that I want you to join my crew.”

In my confusion, I did what I always did when I felt awkward. Made a cringe joke.

“What like, the Godfather?”

Zack grinned with his cigar inbetween his teeth and he looked as funny as he did look terrifying, then he got serious.

“If you join my crew Niko, not only will we pay those fucks back for what they did but we’ll be able to make sure you get a position with the familia as soon as possible. Because of what you can do, you are going to be able to earn alot of respect and money. And once you’re made, nobody’s going to be able to touch you and in my opinion it’s the best way for you to remain safe.”

He then stretched out his hand to me.

“You in?”

Zack was by far the best man that I looked up to and trusted, even in the face of all the bullshit I was knee deep in. Even though he was not telling me things yet, I just sort of felt that he had my best intentions in heart.

If I accepted his offer it sounded like I could protect myself and Sophie by extension if she or I were confronted like that again. It also sounded that by the looks of it I could gain more money like I did before and maybe even help my mom out a little.

On the other hand, it seemed like I would be getting into a shitstorm if it meant I would do more violence. I knew absolutely nothing about what the magical world is like.

If only I had more time to speak to Sophie…but then I shook my head. I needed to start being more decisive and I as much as I cared about Sophie I doubt that she could do anything to protect her or myself. Well at least based on what I knew so far.

If I rejected this offer, it may not only mean that I would lose an opportunity but I might potentially burn bridges with Zack. Whereas the only muscle Sophie had were the ones on Jess and she would much rather do harm to me than help protect me.

“I’m in,” I said taking Zack’s hand and shaking it.