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I understood a bit about travel in space and said, dryly, “When? Five million years in the future?”
I adjusted it so that he would receive it at the proper time.
“You can manipulate time?” I was awed.
She nodded.
“I can do that, too?” I practically shouted.
Thank the stars, NO! You must grow into your Hunter powers. It takes a very, very long time.
“Do I have any Hunter powers right now?” It may have come out sounding a bit peevish, but seriously, I was a dragon. I wanted some juice.
Y’rill chuffed. There’s my Yi-yi. A few. But when you become human again, no.
“You mean except for the lightning.” I liked my lightning bolts. I wondered if I’d be able to use them now without turning black.
Not the lightning. That is part of the birthing process. You will be as you were before you changed.
Sucky, still, “But I’m immortal now, aren’t I?” I said, and if I’d been human, I’d have been bouncing in hyperspeed from foot to foot.
You can be killed in your human form until you’ve spent enough time as a Hunter that you complete the full transition. You must be careful when human, Yi-yi.
“For how long?”
You would consider it a very long time. Now come, let me show you your new home.
My new home. All the worlds were my oyster, half my life. The world I loved was mine for the other half. I turned my head from side to side, drinking it all in; the velvety, exquisite, enormous expanse of space and, one day, the mysteries even of time. Beyond that, if I chose to die, I could become as a planet.
This was, I decided, bemused and stunned, the greatest superhero gig of all.
I was a Hunter.
Like the caterpillar, compelled beyond reason to spin itself into a cocoon, I’d grieved the transformation, believing I was losing my life. Deep down, in a place I never let myself feel, I’d actually been…afraid. I’d mourned. Only to discover wonders I’d never dreamed possible. Become an entirely new thing.
I might fly Ryodan up into a starry night sky. Soar overhead while his beast hunted. A dragon and a beast, roaming the Earth together. God, the things we could do now!
It was a future I couldn’t wait to explore.
“How many months?” I demanded.
For what?
“To shift.”
I said years.
I said smugly, “Right, how many months? Come on, Shazzy-bear, break another rule for me.”
Y’rill sighed. You’re going to be a handful.
I grinned. “As if you weren’t. I get to be the kid now. Teach me how to fly like you do. Teach me how to sift. C’mon, Y’rill, show me everything!”
With pleasure.
When Y’rill turned with a sharp, beautiful dark swoop of her powerful Hunter body, curving the merest tip of a wing, I imitated the motion and, together, we glided off into the starlit sky.
There’s nothing left to do tonight but go crazy on you
