Chapter 25: Ancalagon

I heard Ishir telling my mother this morning about the juvenile females that smelled like they had dragon DNA. The dragons are mine, whether they are hybrids born from a dragon and another shifter, or they were created in a laboratory and hatched from an egg, or their DNA has been altered with dragon DNA. It doesn’t matter. They are mine and I am their Alpha.

So instead of joining this morning meeting, I went looking for them. While I don’t go on the bigger hunts that Cedric, Ishir and my father go on, I do search for hybrids when I’m out. Sometimes, I catch their scent and usually they run from me.

I’ve also come across the scent of the bad hybrids. Their scent is tainted. Rather than dragons, they smell like lizards. Lizards or lions. One smells like my father, and two smell like Tana, but I can tell from their scent that their shifts haven’t gone well. The lizard smell is the same smell that Eric had when he first arrived, but now that Doc is fixing him, he’s started to smell more