They met for the first time at the entrance to that tower, one that belong to a wizard who recently perished. in their will, its stated that the "content of the tower belong two whoever is foolish enough to risk going in and take it." of corse this beign a traditional wizard tower, there are magical traps a plenty.

These two made a temporarily alliance go in at the same time. already other foolish adventures have blazed a trail and triggered a lot of traps already , running in to be first looters, and end up begin transformed into mundane animals. statues and even paintings, or simply flung out the windows. but studying how these poor souls must of triggered their traps, they where able to avoid a lot of traps that have yet to be set off.

Finally, after a hour of tip toeing, puzzle solving and secret finding they find a small hidden room behind a book case with a single chest inside. this had to be something!

Well haven was confident moving in to open it up, as soon as it cracks open something dark and shiny shoots out, some kind of tendrils of condensed magic emerges, and without missing a heartbeat, wraps themselves around every living thing in reach, witch happens to be the bird and dragon duo. they where bound up and lifts off the ground with unnatural strength. they both thought this is it. its all over.

*then something else happened, the magical mass bough the two up together, side by side. things seemed off as it was like the rules of reality itself was being temporarily ignored as they suddenly found themselves the exact same size, Deltad being shrunken to match.

But that was nothing as they both feel the most alien sensation along one side of their body, as they look to their side, they see the face of the other getting closer and closer as their side of their body has began to fuse into the other, their hearts collectively race as the adjacent arms and legs merge in out of existence and their cheeks are bought together. their hearts syncing up as it became one.
as their brains hit each other, their minds are overwhelmed as the entire existence of one is forced in and flashes though the others eyes as both minds are in a state of begin overtaken by the other constantly. until it evens out into something more balanced, unified. this feels like it lasted ages to them even if it was only a minute.

When the mental haze settles enough for this new mind to think, they look over them self. and see the black tentacles have almost completely dispersed, their split body has been transformed out evenly into some kind of bright orange bird/dragon hybrid. he... was alive! ye sure he was merged mind and body into some sort of brand new creature, but he wasn't petrified or something horrible like that! this... felt kinda good actually... maybe it wasn't a trap. but a packaged spell, traps are not normal like this. are they?

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So the new hybrid did manage to find some real loot and safely get out, still aware of the situation of its existences, and that he should use some of this fortune to make himself a dragon and bird again so they can go back to their lives, but their time as one has let both halves pear into the others mind and memories. and maybe.... maybe haven would like to come back to deltad's lair a just be a hybrid until something needs them not to be. they are sure that they can work out a way of prying their existence apart form each-other... maybe?

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shared commission with  haventhewyvern art by  gloedik