The kiss was deep and passionate; she held nothing back so neither did I. We stopped for nothing other than nature's selfish demands for air for in which we finally broke apart. She looked at me with a fierce desire in her eyes, a need that had not been met for many years, one of the most primal instincts took over her and she pounced forcing her tongue into my mouth like a dagger.

To say that I was not 'excited' would be a blatant lie, but my human instincts took over. I broke away from the kiss and turned my head so that she could not resume.

"We cannot do this." I said as I looked back into her lust filled eyes.

"And why, pray tell, can I not claim again what was already mine?" she asked almost harshly.

"I do not feel comfortable doing this, it may have happened in the past, and I will not lie and say I don't remember the immense love we shared for one another, but I do not feel that I am ready for such things.

She huffed irritably, got out of the tub and began toweling herself off. One thing I noticed as she did this was that the water did not stop boiling. It continued to bubble giving off wisps of steam. I could definitely feel a change in myself the moment I got close to her, however I did not know what it was that had changed. I got myself out of the basin to dry off and no sooner did my body leave the water did it stop boiling.

I began to dry myself off but when I brought the towel up my back and over my shoulder blades it caught on something and whatever that something was would not let go. I gave it a good yank and a horrible pain shot across the area where the towel was, a pain so horrible it brought me to my knees with a yelp. At this Alexstrasza looked around quickly from where she was standing, only to find me on the floor with tears running down my face.

"What happened?" she asked, and I replied:

"My back, it hurts!" she walked around to my back and analyzed the situation. She gently grabbed hold of the towel and freed it from whatever was holding it in place. After she removed it she just sat there staring at my back, making no effort to move.

"You may want to go to the mirror and take a look at this." She said finally, traces of a smile at the corner of her lips.

"Why what's wrong?" I asked I asked mildly panicked.

"Just go and see for yourself." I got up and obeyed her. Nothing in the my life could have even come close to preparing me for what I saw. Dotting the tops of my shoulders and starting down my back were silver scales. Yes scales, dragon scales to be exact. As I stood there slack jawed, she padded up beside me still in the nude and looked at the gleaming scales in the mirror with me.

"If there was ever any doubt, is it gone now?" she asked, turning around and moving her long cascading hair out of the way to show me her back where a similar phenomenon was occurring. Bright red scales covered the top of her shoulder and dotted the rest of her back.

"You were the most beautiful out of all of us." She said. I gave her a puzzled look and she simply stated "you were the only dragon to ever be silver." She paused for a moment as I took in that bit of information. Then continued

"There was a legend left behind when the titans left Azeroth. It said this:

Long after the cold one dies,

And the black one falls from the skies,

The youngest aspect will arise

To bring peace

And strike low the evils of the crease

Lest the world as he knows it cease

In the core of the earth

He shall find great worth

In not the place, but the people he calls home."

I looked at the ground, absolutely overwhelmed with this information. I ran my fingers through my hair for them only to be stopped near the back of my skull by short protruding spikes. I quickly dashed back to the mirror to see what they were and lo and behold, they were short gleaming black horns poking out of my head. I collapsed on the floor right there. I curled into the fetal position against the wall and broke down entirely,

"What the hell is happening to me?!" I screamed to no one in particular.

"You are being returned what you once had." She responded quietly.

"I never wanted this! I never asked for any of this to happen to me! I just want to go home!" I shouted as my emotions began to overtake my mind. My body began to shake with pent up emotions, struggling, trying to claw their way to the surface. The war that was raging inside of me slowly forced my mind into the darkness and I was lost in unconsciousness for the rest of the night.

I awoke the next morning to the dawn shattering the darkness that the night brought upon the world. I was lying in the bed with her next to me. She was wearing nothing more than the last time I saw her the night before and neither was I. her body was pressed against me, she had molded herself to my frame, her body was very warm and comforting. I was very content where I was that is until I remembered the events of the night before. I tried to move but my head was stuck to the bed. I tried to pull again but to no avail. Panic began to seep through me, my struggles however awoke her. She looked up at me from her current position, and stared at me for a moment. She then began to laugh slowly at first, then to the point that she could barely breathe.

She flung the covers off exposing both of our naked bodies and got off the bed, then proceeding around to my side. "Hold still." She said with a smirk and reached over me, making no attempt to restrain her ample breast mind you, she grabbed something and said to pull. I did with all of my might, and whatever was holding me gave way with the sound of splintering wood. My head shot forward and to my dismay, was stopped only when my face was firmly planted between her breasts.

"Eager aren't we?" She asked lecherously as I removed myself from her. I tried to run my hands through my hair only for them to be stopped by the massive horns that were protruding from my head in the same spot as Alexstrasza's. I stood up quickly and walk over to the mirror preparing myself for the worst. When I saw what happened to me overnight, I was nothing short of shocked. My body had reshaped itself. I was no longer the young slightly built teen, but a massive man. I had grown nearly a foot, the horns had grown to their full size, nearly six inches longer than Alexstrasza's. They gleamed a polished black. I ran a shaky hand over them, feeling the slick bone like material. Upon closer inspection, they nearly had the appearance of marble being mostly black with lighter gray streaks. Fitting for the aspect of earth, I suppose. I thought to myself. Now I'm not very familiar with the seven stages of denial, but at this point I was just brushing the acceptance stage. I thought to myself, there's no sense in bitching and whining about it, there's nothing I can do about it, so I might as well play the cards I have been dealt. I mean honestly, how many people can say they have a girl like her throwing themselves at them?

"The horns are pretty badass." I said aloud. She looked at me as she was finally putting clothes back on. It then occurred to me at that moment, that the clothing I had worn yesterday would never fit me in this new body. I wandered over to where they were discarded last night and picked them up. The plain denim pants and simple tee shirt were little more than rags to me now.

"I'm going to need some new clothes…" I said. She looked at my nude body, as a fox hungrily eyes a rabbit, appraising it, studying it. My cheeks began to burn as she scrutinized me.

" We shall get you clothing worthy of the aspect of earth then!" I was about to protest when she thrust a long black robe with ornate silver accents into my hands and said, "Wear this until we can find a proper armorsmith." I donned the robe and followed her out of the room.

We strolled down the stairs back to the lobby of the inn and when the young woman saw us she dropped to her knees with her forehead pressed to the ground and her arms in front of her speaking some form of gibberish that I later found out to be Darnassian. Alexstrasza padded over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Rise my child there is no need for this kind of behavior." She looked up her eyes full of fear and awe, staring at the hand that Alexstrasza was offering. After a brief moment of hesitation she took it and was swiftly brought to her feet.

"My lord and lady I had no idea you were staying here. I can only hope that you have enjoyed your stay here at my humble inn." I spoke up for the first time since leaving the room, "Your inn has accommodated us nicely, thank you very much for your hospitality. However there is a bit of damage to the headboard of the bed." She visibly paled from a near burgundy to a light pink. "I will be more than happy to pay for the damages done to the bed." I said.

She nervously looked at me and quickly said "Please do not worry about the headboard, it is such a pleasure to know that two of the world's most powerful beings have graced my inn."

"I must insist, I will pay for the damage." I said

She shook her head and said "I will not accept your money, please if you wish to compensate me, would you bless my daughter?" I had not expected this request and I did not know how to respond to it, so Alexstrasza spoke.

"We would be more than happy to bless this child, if you would fetch her for us we will do so immediately."

The woman scurried off to find her daughter, and Alexstrasza turned to me and said "Alright then, so we need to teach you how to bless a child in the next three minutes." She grinned wryly. I gave her a look that was nothing short of pure horror. She smiled and said "I am only kidding; I would never force you to do such a thing with so little control over your powers."

I breathed a sigh of relief; I had begun to feel that she enjoyed making me uncomfortable. Scratch that, I knew she enjoyed it.

"This will not take long." she said to no one in particular. I was pacing around thinking to myself.

"Don't worry, I will teach you how to wield your power."

Her words did not do much to comfort me. However when she snaked her hand into my own, my nerves began to calm. I couldn't understand why I was so easy to accept what I was being told, the fact that I had great power, the fact that I was bound to a woman, and to address the elephant in the room, the fact that I would most likely never see the place I had grown up again. I would be lying if I were to say that I had completely accepted my situation however, in the day or so I had been here, I had been able to experience things I could have only dreamed of up until this point. Everything I could have imagined has been handed to me on a silver platter. I would be stupid to not take advantage of the situation.

The young woman hurried back into the room carrying an infant in a swaddling cloth. The child was the same shade of violet that her mother was however she lacked the markings around her eyes that her mother had. I would later find out that every night elf must go through a rite of passage to earn her tattoos. Alexstrasza took the child into her arms. The child squirmed about, making odd noises. Alexstrasza rocked the babe in order to calm her while speaking words in an ancient tongue that I had never heard but could subconsciously understand.

Tendrils of golden light flowed toward her and more specifically, the child. The light was soaked up by the little elf and she began to giggle. Alexstrasza smiled brightly and handed the bundle back to the young mother, the woman thanking us profusely.

We walked out of the building attracting stares from every person within line of sight of us. I was slightly uneasy with all of the eyes boring holes into me, and I firmly believe that Alexstrasza could sense my unease due to the simple fact that she smirked and continued forward. After about ten minutes of walking, with many stares of fear and awe, as well as a few respectful bows, I could hear the distinct sound of hammer meeting metal. I could smell the hot metal and the burning coal in the air. This was something I knew well; ever since I was a little kid I had always been fascinated with the art of blacksmithing. I went so far as to try and make knives out of random hunks of metal I had found lying about on the garage floor.

As we approached the forge, a male night elf came into view. It was easy to tell that he had worked the forge his entire life. He was much broader in the shoulders than most of the other night elves I had met, as well as bearing the scars up and down his arms from years of hot sparks and metal scale burning his skin. As we approached, the burly man gave a courteous bow and spoke.

"My lord and lady, to what do I owe this honor?" he asked looking between us expectantly. Alexstrasza elbowed me in the ribs just hard enough to get her message across.

"I need a set of armor good sir, one that fits properly and is unique to me." I said a bit apprehensively.

"It will be of no trouble at all my lord, judging by your build I would suggest that you stick to heavy plate armor, I can easily fashion something for you in a few hours at most." I looked at him like he was insane. There was no way any man or elf could create a full suit of plate armor from scratch in a couple hours. Apparently he caught my look because he gave a hearty laugh.

"I assure you I can have it done in that time; I was trained by one of the greatest dwarven smiths to ever live. I worked alongside him for years in the great forge of Ironforge." I shrugged and said

"I do not doubt your skill; it has just been a very long time since I have met someone with your level of expertise." In all honesty I have never met someone with the capabilities that this man seemed to have. He began taking measurements of me whilst asking questions. He asked me if I preferred one or two handed weapons, if I fought would I use a shield, and what metals I would like it to be made out of. At this point Alexstrasza spoke up saying two words, "Truesteel." At this the blacksmiths eyes widened.

"Are you sure my lady? Truesteel is not easy to come by and what can be found isn't exactly cheap"

Lex spoke again, "fear not, we have the required funds to pay for the suit." He grinned and set to work as we began moving around the village, the sound of billows fading into the distance.

"Well is there anything that you would like to do while we wait for the blacksmith?" she asked.

"Nothing in particular, I would really like to understand more about the night elves, I find their culture fascinating." I said.

"The best way to understand something is to experience it firsthand." She replied to my statement.

"Then let us see what can be seen and do what can be done." I said as she led me off, her mind already full of different things that we could do together.

a/n: guess what kids? i am not dead! i figured that i had better start writing again after i had to beat a search party off of my front porch. anywho, i wish you all a nice day and a great rest of the summer. i will try to put out more chapters, i am very sorry for the delay, i have been swamped with college stuff. so yeah have a good one. R&R please be productive in the reviews. i am always open to new ideas so if you hav them send them my way via PM. the worst i can do is say no and all who contribute will be recognized in story =P