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Cirrus

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537 years ago, an odd-looking fish looked up at the falls leading to the Dragon Gate. Year after year, there was a contest to see who could swim up it - no one had done it in decades. While this wasn't the day the contest would happen, this fish felt like trying anyway. He'd trained most of his life in the hope of pulling this off, he could swim faster and longer than any of his friends. Every other time, he'd failed, but this time felt different. With the most confidence he'd ever had about this, the fish started swimming up the waterfall.

He'd grown to expect the immense force of the water by now; he already knew to swim with everything he had. The water almost seemed to bash at his body, stinging a little, like it was trying to stop him... But he fought, and fought, gradually getting higher up. Soon, he'd beaten his height record, but he was quickly growing tired... Not far above him though, he could see the bright red pillars of the gate, closer than he'd ever seen them before. His determination surged, and he swam the hardest he'd ever had, pushing the soreness of his body to the back of his mind as he went closer and closer... Then, suddenly, he leapt from the water.

Time seemed to slow as the fish arced toward the gate. Immense pride welled up within him, already certain that he'd finally done it! Nobody would believe him, but he didn't care any more, a wide smile on his face as he passed through the gate at last-

Then, an extremely strange feeling rushed through him. Parts of his body felt like they were stretching, while others contracting, both more than ever before. His body lengthened, as did his pectoral fins and face, a section near the end of his body bulging out as well. He gasped in surprise, which somehow didn't hurt - a pair of lungs was forming inside him, his gills fusing to the side of his neck before fading away into nothing... And he was getting bigger, too - MUCH bigger!

In just 10 seconds, the fish had entirely changed... He'd become a dragon! He floated in the air, panting in the most exhaustion he'd ever felt, incredibly dizzy as well. Strange thoughts were crossing his mind: Odd sounds that somehow had meaning, how he could use his new body... His still-fishy mind almost couldn't take it, and he absentmindedly floated himself away from the river, before he collapsed onto the ground from the overload of new thoughts.

Some time later, the dragon came to again. He looked around in confusion, and tried to think about what had happened... Nothing came to mind. For all he knew, he'd come into existence only seconds ago, yet with a fully-formed mind and even a knowledge of language. The dragon floated up off the ground as if he'd been using that ability all his life, and hovered through the forest he'd found himself in, looking for answers.

He eventually came across someone - once again, he didn't know who. He talked to them, they asked his name, and he realized he didn't have one... Or if he did, he couldn't remember it. He looked around, wondering what to say, before he looked up at the sky. It was late in the day now, and the sky looked beautiful... The clouds, as well... The dragon looked back at who he was talking to, having decided on what name he'd go by.

"...Cirrus."

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male 1,194,115, dragon 149,421, feral 92,835, transformation 43,048, water 16,951, fish 8,583, swimming 4,714, eastern dragon 2,716, tired 2,207

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William315

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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holy cow! so that was how Cirrus was born. now i want to know the conceptions of the rest

lolboy4

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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@ William315

His is by far the most interesting, and all the others that are actually something special are already in their bios.

lolboy4

4 months, 1 week ago

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squirtlerocks07 and I did an RP based on this.

S: on a rather interesting afternoon, A mew was getting ready to use some powerful magic to send Cirrus and a Garchomp to time travel to a random area, which cirrus has no idea that he'll be going somewhere familiar if he remembers about it, once mew does that magic, both of them find themselves near the Dragon Gate, a really long time ago, over 500 years ago...they land on a nearby ledge that overlooks it

the garchomp looks around a bit curiously on where they ended up

L: Cirrus looks around the area, recognizing it immediately. "...This is right near where I first woke up. That's a weird coincidence..."

S: "Huh? What do you mean you first woke up?? I thought this whole time travel thing was pretty cool when you first told me about it...but... this feels strange... I'm getting some interesting vibes in this area"

L: "My first memory is of waking up around here... Right over there, actually." Cirrus gestures to a nearby spot on the ground. "This must be a REALLY long time ago, I marked that spot with rocks a few years later. Something about this feels really familiar beyond that, though..."

S: "Really?" the garchomp notices the dragon gate and gestures to it "What's that over there? Looks like a gate"

L: "Those are called torii gates. They're supposed to mark the entrance to sacred places. I've always found it weird that this one is kinda just... Here. There's nothing else around."

S: "Torii gates...hmm, very interesting...I see a stream of water going up it as well, maybe we should explore further"

L: "Yeah, I really feel like we should look around." Cirrus floats over to the gate, inspecting it, before looking down. There's a waterfall just past the gate, going about 20 feet down. "Yep, there's that waterfall..."

S: the garchomp glides over to another little ledge next to cirrus so no water gets on him as he looks down
"That's quite a bit of a way down... you recognize the waterfall?"

L: "I remember seeing it not long after I first woke up. It just makes this even more weird, like, people are meant to go THROUGH gates like this."

S: "Yeah I'm not too sure, but being surrounded by all this water is making me uneasy... I don't do that well in water, can't swim...and well this whole thing is getting more and more weird"

L: "Speaking of water... I know you're probably not gonna like it, but maybe we should look around down there, too? You can just hold onto me so not being able to swim won't matter."

S: "Wait a minute...what do you mean by going down there....you don't mean submerging do you?" the garchomp laughs a little nervously, hoping by down there means just hovering over the water to explore

L: "I mean, just going over it might be enough, but we'll have to see. Gotta check out everything, I feel like there might be a reason the time travel brought us here."

S: "Well....ok, as long as we don't have to go underwater or be in the water then I'm good" the garchomp then climbs on cirrus "Let's do this then..." little do they know, they have to submerge if they are gonna see the reasons behind all this

L: Cirrus hovers down to just above the river once the garchomp is on him, looking into the water to see if anything interesting is there.

S: there doesn't seem to be anything that they can see from above the surface of the river
"Hmmm, I don't see anything Cirrus..."

L: After a little while, Cirrus sighs. "As much as I don't want to put you through this, I think our only option is to go underwater. Sorry."

S: "Uh uh no! Absolutely not!! Look you can go down on your own, but there's no way I'm going down underwater, I simple refuse! Even tho there's not really any areas around here you can safely drop me off in...ugh"

L: "There might be something down there that I end up missing if you're not looking too! It's not like it's all that deep, it'll be fine."

lolboy4

4 months, 1 week ago

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S: "There's no way I'm going down here! I went on this time travel thing to hopefully not be in water, if I can't swim then I don't even know the basics of submerging... there's just no way I can do it Cirrus...let's just forget it...there's probably nothing down there anyways"

L: "All you'd have to do is just hold me and your breath, nothing else to it. I could actually hold onto you myself, if that'd help."

S: "Look, I said no! And that's final! I'm gonna have a heart attack if I go down there! It's not worth it for me! Me and water do not get along, at all!"

L: "I'm not just gonna leave... So I guess I'll just have to do this myself, and hope for the best. I'll find a spot for you to wait..."

S: "But Cirrus, there's no safe spot here, and you can't just leave me surrounded by a bunch of water... ugh, there's nothing you can say or do that's gonna get me to go underwater... I've never been submerged in my entire life... it's a scary thought yknow, I can already feel my heart pounding like crazy just being over the water...why must this have to happen to me!!" the garchomp tears up

L: "Everyone can learn to like water, if they just try... Have you ever even been in water at all?"

S: "Nope, never! I've never ever been in the water... but I know how scary the water is from videos I saw... and I knew that I would never go in the water... and I don't think I'm gonna one to like the water" the garchomp sighs heavily

L: "How can you know for sure if you've never been in water? What if, once you go under, you actually end up loving it?"

S: the garchomp can't help but burst out laughing a bit at that
"Oh really?? Loving it?!! Ha! Don't even make me laugh! I'm gonna be too stressed out to love it, that's not happening! I don't believe that I would love it! Come on now"

L: "You should at least try it once, alright? If it turns out you really don't like it, I'll stop asking, and that'll be it."

S: the garchomp sighs heavily again
"....Ughhh...I'm gonna hate myself for doing this...fine! I'll try it ONE time, that's it! I'm already guaranteeing that I'll hate it..."

L: "You'll see! Hopefully, at least... Anyway, you know how to hold your breath, right?"

S: "Uhhh no, I don't... I never learned any of this kind of stuff"

L: "Right, you said you didn't know the basics... Well, you hold your breath by breathing in and then just not breathing out, like this." Cirrus takes a deep breath and holds it.

S: the garchomp yelps in fear as he watched cirrus hold his breath for that brief moment
"T-t-that sounds scary! Not breathing in air like that! I don't know if I'm gonna be able to do that..."

L: "You kind of have to to be able to go underwater... But just doing it isn't dangerous or anything."

S: "Not dangerous!? You must be out of your mind for saying that! Seems dangerous to me!" the garchomp shakes a little with fear

L: "It's really not! It feels uncomfortable, and if you do it for long enough it starts to be a little painful, but it'll never really hurt you."

S: "Well I for one don't wanna be uncomfortable doing this... I don't know if I'm gonna have any courage to actually try holding my breath... even above water"

L: "I mean... If you're slowly exhaling the whole time, that's not really holding your breath. Might at least give you a few seconds."

S: "Of course... awww man, I don't know what to do... yknow what, screw it... I'm gonna try holding my breath... just to see if I can at least do it"

L: "At least try it, yeah. It'll only have to be for a second or so, not a big deal."

S: "Fine fine... I'll try it..." the garchomp hesitates for quite a while, a whole 2 minutes...but eventually summons up his courage to take a deep breath and hold it in, his eyes squeezed shut as he manages to keep it in for a whole 3 seconds before letting it out and gasping in the air
"M-m-mama mia!!!"

L: "There you go! Hope that wasn't too bad, but it kind of sounds like it was..."

lolboy4

4 months, 1 week ago

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S: "It was bad! It was freaky not breathing in air! I don't think I'm gonna survive this Cirrus... I'm not gonna be able submerge if I can only hold my breath for that very short amount of time!"

L: "That's still long enough to safely see whether you end up liking being underwater, so we should just check that real quick I think."

S: the garchomp sighs
"....fiiiiine!!! I did say I was gonna try this whole thing one time, so may as well then"

L: "Alright, let me know when you feel like it's time to go under, then I'll dip below for a few seconds and come right back up."

S: "Alright..." after a lot more hesitation, the garchomp doesn't say anything until 6 minutes later
"....I-im ready..."

L: "Okay, deep breath!" Cirrus starts to go underwater, hoping the garchomp will be staying on him.

S: shockingly the garchomp manages to stay on and take a big deep breath and holding it before his eyes squeeze shut when they submerge underwater, constant bubbles escape his nose and mouth as he struggles to keep in his breath, it's clear he doesn't like this one bit as his body is in a full blown panic mode and not seeing the calmness under the waves

L: Cirrus quickly surfaces again. "You didn't have your eyes open! How are you gonna really know what being underwater is like without seeing it?"

S: the garchomp gasps in the air heavily
"I can't open my eyes! What if the water stings me?? And plus I'm too scared to even open them up!"

L: "We just have to hope it doesn't sting for you, we're not gonna be finding goggles this far in the past..."

S: "....well, technically I'm called a land shark... so maybe my shark aspect will let me see just fine? I don't know honestly"

L: "Maybe, yeah... It's worth a try, at least, if you're up for going underwater again."

S: "I REALLY don't wanna go again, but I have to at least try it one more time and see if I can open my eyes and all that...if I can then maybe I'll end up feeling better about this"

L: "Once you actually get to look around underwater, I'm sure that'll end up changing your mind about all this."

S: "Well, we'll see then... I'm ready already let's just get this over with so I can still hate it and we can move on"

L: "Alright, deep breath again. If this doesn't work, I'll stop bugging you about it." Cirrus starts going under again.

S: the garchomp takes a deep breath and holds it, his eyes immediately closed when they submerged but this time he tries to open them, and because of his shark aspect of his body he's able to see perfectly fine underwater! His eyes widen as it actaully worked, looking around as constant bubbles escape him

L: Cirrus almost goes back up, but stops as he sees the garchomp looking around. He smiles at them, able to tell this is already going way better.

S: the garchomp admittingly does feel a bit better now that he can see perfectly fine, but he's still uncomfortable holding his breath, his face already turning red as he tries to keep looking around a bit more

L: Soon, Cirrus surfaces anyway. "You're definitely looking a lot happier than last time!"

S: the garchomp gasps in the air a bit heavily and blushes
"Heh... about what I said about me hating it... I don't fully hate it now... but the breath holding? I still hate that... I was quite uncomfortable..."

L: "It's definitely a lot of progress though! I'm sure you'll get used to holding your breath at some point."

S: "I don't know about that... it's possible I guess... I'm just glad I was able to see fine down there... but we should probably actaully explore now before I start to change my mind about going back down there"

L: "Yeah, let's take care of that quick. Hopefully we'll actually find something and this won't have been a waste of time..."

S: "We better find something good! Or I'm gonna be complaining that we did all this for nothing!"

L: "Alright, one more deep breath, and let's properly look around down there." Cirrus starts going under once more.

lolboy4

4 months, 1 week ago

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@ lolboy4

S: "Okay..." the garchomp takes a deep breath and holds it before cirrus goes back under, this time a lot better then before and hoping this won't take too long as he starts to look around a bit more closely this time

L: Once he and the garchomp are submerged again, Cirrus finally starts searching for anything interesting as well.

S: the garchomp constantly let's bubbles loose from his nostrils not knowing how to prevent that from happening as he's already struggling a little, but he tries to ignore it as his cheeks puff up a bit and look around with cirrus for anything good that they have may missed when they were just looking at it from the surface

L: Gradually, Cirrus starts to worry that there really isn't anything down in the river... But he doesn't give up yet, continuing to look around.

S: thankfully, they do find something! A rather interesting fish that has the colors of Cirrus exactly, swimming pasted them, the garchomp points to it as his face turns fully red, grunting a tad in strain

L: When Cirrus sees the fish, he pauses in confusion... But upon hearing the garchomp grunting, he quickly surfaces. "That fish... It's weirdly familiar for some reason."

S: the garchomp gasps in the air once he surfaced
"Familiar? It seemed familiar to me! The colors of that fish look exactly like you! It's almost like you if you were a fish instead of a dragon... we should follow it! But we better be careful and not let it see us...I heard bad things happen if you see yourself in the past, call me crazy but that fish could potentially be you!"

the garchomp looks around to find the direction of where the fish went to

L: "I've been sort of worried about that too, the past version of myself is out there somewhere... I doubt that fish is me, maybe we're in a different timeline or something if it is." Cirrus does his best to track the fish from above the water.

S: "It could be you who knows..." As this continues on, both the garchomp and Cirrus watch the fish go up the waterfall almost effortlessly, getting closer to the dragon gate

L: "Look at them go... That's a pretty strong fish!" Cirrus keeps his voice fairly low just in case.

S: "Tell me about it..." the garchomp whispers back to cirrus, and eventually they get towards the gate
"What's gonna happen..."

L: As the two watch, the fish reaches the top of the waterfall and jumps through the gate... Suddenly, its body rapidly changes and grows, and in seconds, it's become... Cirrus!

Cirrus is stunned at the sight of it. "Th-that... I-I..."

S: the garchomp's mouth drops open in pure shock
"W-w-what?!?! There's....no way.... what....just happened...that's you Cirrus!"

L: Cirrus: "...Th-this is where I came from..."

Past-Cirrus floats in place for a few seconds, before hovering over some distance past the river bank - right to the spot Cirrus had said was where he first woke up - and collapsing to the ground.

S: "Wow.... you looked so tired when you first became a dragon, I mean a transition from a fish to a dragon is a pretty big deal after all... so you were the fish after all in all this, jeez... who knew that gate would legit turn you into a dragon like that"

L: "...I think I'm starting to remember this... Yeah, this isn't a different timeline, this actually happened. I really did start out as a fish..." Cirrus cautiously flies to his past self, looking them over. Past-Cirrus seems to have passed out.

S: "Unbelievable... this is crazy! It seems like your past self passed out and then you probably woke up later on in that forest you mentioned... wow"

as the two watch Past-Cirrus for a bit longer, the time travel effects are seemingly wearing off as they slowly start to disappear from the past world

L: "Ah, looks like we're going back now... Man, this has been so cool! Found out my origin, and got you underwater for your first time!"

lolboy4

4 months, 1 week ago

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S: "None of my buddies are gonna believe this, especially me going underwater...heh" they then fully disappear from the past world and reappear in a laboratory where Mew sent them on that journey to the past

Mew - "Heyy!! Your back! So how was it?"

Garchomp - "What an experience....I say it was definitely worth the journey to get here"

L: "We saw where I came from, I'm a fish that got turned into a dragon! I bet that's why I like water so much!"

S: Mew - "Whoa really?? That's really cool! Quite the lucky transport then"

Garchomp - "And I also went underwater for the first time too!"

Mew - "Huh?! Well ain't that something, I know how much you told me you hated the water, quite interesting...well that ends the session for you two, I've got more folks waiting to test this out, so if you could kindly exit that'll be great, the check is in the mail too for trying this!"

L: "Alright, thanks! This was a lot of fun!" Cirrus leaves the lab with the garchomp.

S: Garchomp - "Totally! Thanks again!"
Mew waves goodbye to the two of them as they leave

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