Watch your desires.

The story tells about a dragon who found a magic lamp, that lamp had a genie capable of fulfilling 3 wishes that his master made. However, one of his wishes caused a very frustrating eternity.
If you ever find a magic lamp, think carefully before making your wishes and ask them in detail, as there is always a gray area if you wish in the wrong way.

Remind that my stories are written in my main language, wich is not English, so you may notice translation erros when reading the story, don't be mad at me, just suggest a correction. Btw idk how to draw so I made this thumbnail to looks like something I would have in mind haha.
Thank you and I hope you enjoy!


Kryo was a very ambitious and adventurous dragon, he was always venturing into ruins and unknown places in that land where he lived, he also liked to collect all kinds of relics he found during his searches, something common for dragons, isn't it?
Kryo knew a relic vendor in the region, he was a chubby raccoon who also looked for lost relics, but he usually bought from other creatures they sold, thus making his little shop of random trinkets he bought.
Kryo bought from him because he was one of the few creatures that were not afraid of dragons, they were all bad and generally stole from other creatures, Kryo also had this extinct in him, but he managed to control himself more so as not to do it with the raccoon he met .
One day Kryo was passing by the store and decided to buy something, the raccoon seeing him said
"Hello my friend, what do you want today? A broken knife? An old pot?"
Kryo laughed and said "I'm looking for something shiny and that I can put in the corner of my cave"

The raccoon looked around and found something that looked like a golden teapot. He turned his gaze to Kryo again and replied "I have this here, someone left it for me for just a few coins yesterday, I didn't even have time to clean it, but if you clean it will look brand new and shiny again, what do you think? ", the dragon looked for a few seconds at that unusual artifact and decided to take it, asked how much it would cost him to keep the lamp and the raccoon answered" 15 gold coins, cheap to sell fast, my snout is already scratching because the dust that this lamp has. "
It was really a very good offer, gold in this world was very common and abundant, it was practically used as the standard currency of any city in that world, where all creatures could acquire with exchanges and other types of services provided in animal villages. Without hesitation Kryo accepted the offer and took the lamp for himself.
After coming to his cave, he decided to take the lamp out of his bag that hung around his neck, Kryo already knew where to put the lamp, in the center of his cave, close to where he slept, since there were no rooms or furniture for him decorate, just gold, some jewelry and some food.


He took some water from a lake near the entrance to his cave and decided to wash the lamp, after rinsing it was very shiny, so to finish cleaning the lamp he rubbed it with his paw to remove some of the dirt marks, and as expected (for us readers), a genie appeared instantly. Kryo went back in fright and did an attack pose, as any creature would do in a threatening situation. The genie looked at him and quickly said "Hello creature, I'm here to fullfill any wish you make! Just don't ask for the end of the world and everything will be fine, I'll give you time to think about your wishes"
Kryo stopped and was thinking for a while, afraid of the genie giving up and disappearing, he decided to make his wishes.
His first wish was: "I would like to be immortal", and so the wish was made. The genie snapped his fingers and said "Now you are immortal, nothing will kill you from now on".
Kryo didn't care much but now he knew he wasn't going to get hurt or suffer a single scratch, so he could live and rest easily.
After this wish, he decided to ask for the following wish "I want to never get tired, so I can fly and run without worry" and so the genie snapped his fingers again and the request was made, this wish was very good considering that one the biggest problem for a lazy dragon was to fly long distances or running for a long time without being tired.
Then immediately afterwards Kryo said "My last wish I want everything I touch to turn to gold".
The genie looked and, without waiting, snapped his finger saying "Okay, all your wishes have been made, remember that all will be permanent since you did not specify a time or duration for each one, the only way to undo or break them will be when someone wish my freedom, now, I will disappear and go in search of another master, have a nice life my friend and enjoy your wishes".
In a matter of seconds, the genie disappeared without a trace, along with the magic lamp, leaving him nothing but the requests he had desired. Kryo was not bothered since it was just him touching something and it would turn to pure gold and for him that was enough. He touched the stones in his cave and they turned to gold in a few seconds, bigger things took a few minutes, the time varied according to the size of the object.
Happiness did not last for many hours, since when he went to eat the meat of his hunt, it turned into gold, even fruits and all types of food.
Kryo now had to find something to get between his paws and the object he wanted to eat so that wouldn't turn to gold.
Suddenly he started to feel an itch on his tail and started to itch with his paw so he could be calm again.
In a few seconds after scratching, he felt a very strange sensation all over his body, his tail tip become completely golden, and he started to hear a sound of metal as if it was being scraped with something, it was a strange sound.

The texture and golden color started to rise by his tail, he felt it getting heavier, but in a few seconds the same golden texture was on in his paws and was rising to his back. Kryo was desperate because he already knew what was going on, he was turning to pure gold, just like the objects he had touched. The desire said that everything he touched would turn to gold, that means even him, and this is what was happening.
Kryo tried to do everything, fly, move, or run for help, but his fate had already been determined in that place since his paws were completely paralyzed in gold, he was unable to fly due to the immense weight of his body it was like his weight went to over many tons, his tail and the back of his body was completely golden, he couldn't move any of them, but he could feel it.
As the golden texture went up his body, less and less movements Kryo could make, and throughout the transformation his movements were restricted to just making a pose that could at least be comfortable, by that point his whole body was already golden, his wings, his paws and even his neck, and consequently the golden texture arrived on his head, everything became pure gold, shining perfectly. Kryo felt his body perfectly, but no matter how much effort he made it was not possible to move an inch, he was unable to breathe but that was not a problem since it would no longer be necessary, and now his body had been completely transformed into gold inside. Kryo could no longer turn his neck around so he looked forward as if he wanted to let out a roar, but his snout was soon shut due to the transformation and consequently turned into gold.
Within a few minutes the transformation was complete, Kryo was now a golden dragon statue, looking straight ahead, standing all fours with a fierce looking. He could feel his whole body, think, hear and look normally, but he could not even move his pupils, his vision was permanently fixed forward, the air passed through his body and he felt cold, and the cave was cold very cold too, he didn't imagine because of his flesh it was quite normal, but when he became gold he felt the coldness from his cave.
Kryo was now just a soul imprisoned in a completely golden body, in the shape of a dragon. Whoever who see him would not even know that inside this body there was a soul that was once a living creature and consequently could not help but look as if it was just a well-made sculpture.
He was there, trapped in that body, trapped in that cave for all eternity, as he had wished to be immortal, nothing could destroy him and not even the heat could melt him. The only way to be freed from that situation was if someone wanted the freedom of the genie, since by being freed all desires would be undone as he said before disappearing.
Kryo spent some years in that cave, after a long time an adventurous creature ended up finding his cave, it was an awesome find! Gold everywhere and in the middle of all that gold a huge dragon statue, almost 3 meters high, even though gold was abundant on that planet, a gold statue well sculpted as that would cost many, many golden coins, without hesitating this creature called for help to rescue that statue and move from that place to a new one, within a few days they removed Kryo from that cave together also with the gold that was there.



They took Kryo to the center of the nearby village, where he went to visit the raccoon, it was a high standard area and with that huge and beautiful dragon statue that now they put there, everyone would appreciate in that place as it was in the entrance of the village.
Kryo was still desperate inside knowing that he couldn't do anything, even he felt ashamed at first when people looked at him thinking they would make fun of him for being stuck like this forever, or something else, but people could not see inside of him because of course everything was completely golden and his mouth was shut, but that was definitely just a unecessary fear for him since for those who saw that statue, looked like it was just a normal dragon statue well sculpted by someone very professional and dedicated, since no one knew where it had come from or who had "sculpted it" they decided to just put the title "Dragon Statue" and below the description "Found in a lost cave near a pile of gold, the most beautiful artifact ever found" at the base of the statue, and around him was a golden circle base to match the colors and the material. Kryo was now admired by everyone who passed that place every minute, and there he stayed, a big and beautiful dragon statue, circled with a golden base with a golden plate with that title and description, at that point Kryo didn't even care about the past anymore and had forgotten what it's like to be able to walk and move, or communicate, he was already adapted in being a statue, he had only to think and watch the animals and creatures passing in front of him, it was as like he had been a statue all his life, but inside his now golden heart he still had all memories and mainly that desire to become a living dragon again.

The only way out of that, was the day when the genie would be released by a wish, and how long it would take is a mystery, but soon that day will come, until that moment, Kryo would be a beautiful dragon statue admired by everyone inside that village for a long time.