AN: Yes I know I haven't updated as much as I wanted to but I traded 30 minutes of TV, watching Raven's musical episode (it sucked), for no TV today (stupid of me). So I have plenty of time today to write. It was either write this or read 'A Name of Her Own' – really good historical fiction – for my history class it was a really hard choice, but to your delight it was writing that won out. Next day I got distracted (had to go get the mail) and never wrote this but I will now.

Pental

After seeing the white dragon dancing in the air, I went to ask Alpha about some things I dug up in my research.
"Alpha, can you answer some questions I have from my reading?"

"Sure, my lord, what do you need to know?" he replied. We discussed some magical theories I had found for a while than my hunger got the best of me and I asked Alpha if there was some place I could get some thing to eat.

"Have you even explored your chambers, my lord? You have your own kitchen and magic cabinets that will bring you what you want." Alpha replied with a bit of humor.

"Thank you," as I started to walk out of the chamber I remembered something,"Alpha, who is the pure white dragon?"

"Pure white dragon, my lord? I know of no white dragon, even among the White Dragons, there hasn't been one in several centuries. You must be hungry to have thought you saw a white dragon. Go, eat and get some sleep too." I felt that Alpha wasn't telling me the whole truth, but I left to experiment with my kitchen cabinets.

Alpha

When the Dark Dragonlord asked me about the white dragon, a chill sent shivers through my whole body. The appearance of a white dragon signifies a great change in our lives, usually a great interference by the gods and total power to the side of the gods choosing, not good for us Dark Dragons. A memory crossed my mind; about 5,000 years ago a white dragon appeared at the Dragon's Battle and turned into a warrior maiden that was the White Dragonlord, that year the Dark Dragons lost our dominance in the Wars for a few hundred years and our Lord always lost but slowly we regained power.

What confuses me is how a human could change in and out of dragon shape, it has only happened only three times before that Battle and it hasn't happened since, but in each story the dragonshaper was assimilated by a Dragonlord and they were pure dragons, all one color – white for the White Dragons or black for the Dark Dragons. Another weird thing is how in those four times three were white and only one, it seems that the gods were meddling in our affairs and padding the scales in the White's favor. That was too much thinking and I needed to fly to clear my mind, so I soon found myself looping between the clouds.

Gweneve

As I landed and changed back to my human form I noticed that Gamma was standing in the interence to the cavern.

"Congratulations, you discovered a way to fly on your own, and given us a great surprise in the process. There is something you must hear. Please come with me this will take awhile so we will need to be comfortable. You must be tired and hungry after your flight; we will get you something to eat. Come, come, my Lady." He said with a hint of fear masked behind even more respect than I normally got. I was confused but I went with him. As he talked I learned that I had just had done a thing that had only been done four times in living dragon memory and gave the White Dragons certain victory. And the Dragons (both White and Dark) will believe me as a goddess and that the gods are dipping their fingers into the dragon's affairs, which happen even to dragons, and gave a stir to the favor of the Dragon's with the Dragonshaper. I couldn't comprehend all of this so I went to my chambers and I was asleep as soon as I saw my bed.

Pental

After the conversation with Alpha, I went to my rooms and after getting a delicious venison steak out of the cabinets, I wondered if the shelves worked the same way. I was right and I got a book on shapeshifting and settled down to dinner and a book. I soon discovered that what I was reading was the work of the only Dark Dragonlord to be a dragonshifter and that I could easily accomplish the same goal. I went out to the barren plain to attempt the dragonshifting and about five minutes later I was soaring over the mountains in the dragon shape that felt so natural and I understood why the white dragon was dancing with the clouds; the joy of flying is indescribable, the feeling of weightlessness in the huge body speaks to the soul of the flyer and removes thoughts from the mind in the same way as meditation but much easier for the body.

AN: Yes I know that the gods said that no mortal could return from immortal shape, but let's say that they said that because of the Dragon Wars, the strife between Dark and White Dragons, and the mess the Dragonlords made when they returned to civilization and changed between shapes. I read the AN from the last chapter and I realized that I promised this chapter in under a year and I did that but in my mind I meant to do this in mid June so it's a month and a half late but it didn't take a year that it took me to write the other chapters. Oh for personal notes read the last chapter but any new reviewers' notes will be in the next chapter. So just one last blessing; May the wind be at your back and filling your sails. WM