Here we go: it's Halloween. For once, I decided to write a short story for it. Even it's a part of a story to come you only need to this: Dracowolf has lost his powers and dragon-wolf appearance leaving him as a regular human. For the full explanation, see the First chapter of Dracowolf' Remedy.
Enjoy!

Finala @ Dungeon Siege II
Sent1n3l @  Haggith

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THE BLUE DRAGOON: DRACOWOLF’S REMEDY
Chapter 1.5: Drake vs Atlas


Drake walks in the street of New York, the sword of his former strong self Dracowolf in his hand. Aster, the spirit who transform him into Draco, is in trouble, he couldn’t do anything about it because of his lost powers but he trusts his partners and dear friends to rescue him. Until this time, he has an other objective: get the items he commanded to Finala, master mage and genius tinkerer.
He enters a random dark place, puts the light on, presses some bricks in it, places himself in the middle of the room and says: “Finala invited me”. A bright light fills the room, blinding Drake who close his eyes and braces himself for what will happen: the teleportation into Finala’s workshop thanks to a device she invented.

As the light fades, Drake opens his eyes and looks to the new room he lands in: metal covered floor, walls and roof, 4 teleportation devices besides the one he’s standing on and a black door. Drake sighs: Finala is really dedicated to her creations. He opens the door and stops immediately, surprised: he may have enter a room as huge as a hangar. He hears “Thunder Ray!” before a small machine landed near him and broke into bolts and scraps.
“Tss… Rest in pieces stupid toy!
-Huh… Do I interrupt something? I may come back later if needed.
-No, I’m done with this thing. Can’t endure a little exam before willing to kill me. I warn his owner he bought true crap but no… he didn’t listen to me and I bet he’ll try to argue about it.” says an annoyed Finala
I smile. It’s a normal day for Finala. As always, she wears an orange robe with a red hood on her short brown hair with a long white wick. She walks to me putting down this hood, revealing his true nature, she has pointy ears, proof of her elvish lineage.

She expires her anger away and I can’t blame her: she’s truly a genius but for an elf to be a mechanic tinkerer is unthinkable. But the truth is her speciality is technomancy: magic which combine technology and magic, a scandal for the elves so she moved into this place in secret to experiment without worrying. You can bet her perfectionist and fiery personality doesn’t help her either but deep down she has a kind heart.
“Hey? You’re listening?
-Oh hum… sorry… there’s a lot in my mind right now.
-… Even as a human, you are still worrying about others before yourself aren’t you?
-Hehe! I can’t help it, that’s who I am.
-...Idiot. (she smiles discreetly but Drake sees it and don’t say anything) Here you go: the 5 magical invisible ear-flaps which work from anywhere, in the same world or from another dimension.
-Thanks a bunch Finala! You’re really the best technomancer I’ve met! That will help us a lot.
-You believe me without testing them first?
-I do but if you want me to test them, I’ll need your help since there’s no one except us here.
-… You trick me... and I can’t argue since I’m the one who suggested it. Alright, let’s do this: the sooner we get this over, the sooner I’ll return to my work.
-Thanks! I propose you go to this corner and I go to the opposite one. You can’t warn me to be careful since there’s no objects, right?
-… OK.” answers Finala
She looks annoyed and Drake thinks it was because of her latest experiment but the reason is entirely different and he will discover it the hard way.

They go their corners and try the devices. It’s a success, not a surprise, but something unexpected happens: as Drake begins to walk, he slips because of the oil he got under his shoes when the machine broke earlier. He tries to avoid falling and by doing so: he breaks a secret invisible device which opens a dimensional warp hole under him. He falls in before it closed behind him. Finala runs to the trapdoor and try to make the device work again but with no success thanks to the damage Drake accidentally inflicted to it. Finala couldn’t believe it, she has a put a lot of work into this secret device and Drake comes in, destroying all her work. She’s pissed and yet, she can’t totally blame Drake’s clumsiness because it’s thanks to that clumsiness she’s still alive and she got to meet him or rather Dracowolf.
“No, thinking isn’t important now. The dimension he must have landed in should be… No… Anything but this one! It’s where I put this android I purchased and also… where I locked this… thing. And worth of all, it’s the ghostly part of my lab where I create dark magic based items.” worries Finala.
She recovers from the surprise and uses the ear-flap to contact Drake.

Meanwhile, Drake enters the place, lands on some cushions placed here on purpose but the sword he carried landed on his head then on his legs. He decides to put the sheath back to his left hip then he grabs the Light firefly from his bottomless pouch, a magical-created insect which follow its summoner, in this case Drake. Once the light makes it possible to see, Drake explores and discovers he’s in a place with four rooms connected to each other. Ominous air fills the area but even if he’s just Drake, he isn’t afraid. The last room contains what looks like a sculpture made of… metal? As he enters the room, Drake is surprised when he stepped into grey water, covering the entire floor of the room. He looks around the room, touches the sculpture out of curiosity before going into the next to get more clues about his potential location. While stepping out the room, the water begins to move and slowly goes to the center of the room where the sculpture is. On closer look, it’s not water but goo, grey alive goo which goes into the sculpture causing it to… grow? Yes, somehow it grows. The sculpture is in reality the android Finala mentioned earlier and this one is peculiar: it can increase his mass, gaining height, muscles and even something that proves he’s male. When Drake looked at it, it’s closer to Venom size: a powerhouse strongman but as the goo penetrates it, the biceps grow as big as his head then bigger, his traps and delts grow wider giving this Hulk monster size vibe, his pecs grows so big the bulging nipples points down instead of forward and his legs grow longer and bigger than huge tree trunks. As the android opens his eyes, only white can be see into his eyes. He begins to move and heavily, he goes after Drake since he left his imprint on it. While chasing Drake, the ghostly air makes his skin color changes to a ghastly turquoise making him a lot scarier.

It’s at this moment that Finala calls in through the ear-flap to warn him about the area and its dangers. As Drake ends the call after she says she’ll repair the device to get to him as fast as she could, he hears a morbid voice behind him:
“YoU’Re GoInG tO DiE fOr AwAkEnInG mE!”
Drake turns around just in time to see a blade coming towards him! His battles as Dracowolf taught him to always be careful with his surroundings and to have good reflexes: he dodges the attack before he saw his assailant. The big muscular monster gives Drake the creep but he have seen worse and even if Aster isn’t within him, his courage stayed in him: he won’t falter! He tries to hit the monster with his sword Fenrir but his strength isn’t enough to dent it and even if he can wield Fenrir, thanks to Aster’s bond, he won’t unleash its full power. In this case, he has no other choices but to wait for Finala’s arrival to defeat this guy; meaning he has to dodge the attacks the best he could. However, as time pass, he discovers the android grows with each missed attack.
“Not good… I won’t have enough room to dodge if he keeps growing bigger! Finala, I don’t know if your repairs go well but please hurry up! Things are going to be very ugly here!
-Almost there! Give 2 more minutes and I’ll be… (she hears Drake shouts) DRAKE!” yells Finala

Drake crashes into the wall at tremendous speed and lands on his face.
“U… ugh… that… that hurts a lot…” he whispers before slowly getting up
He almost trips but quickly gets back on his feet. The android quickly rushes to him to catch his neck but quick reflexes helps him once again and he rolls out of trouble before he looks once again at the android. He grew twice as big since the fight began: his head touches the roof of the 12 feet room, his biceps are as big as beachballs, boulder-size pecs with watermelon nipples, car-size legs and he knows his sword didn’t pierce his initial ripped 6-pack but now it will more than impossible to do anything to his hyper-muscular 10-pack. Last thing to talk about is his oversized package: as big as his biceps and yet very smooth, Drake bounces on it after a roll and a quick dodge. However, this unfortunate bounce gets him into a corner and with the android humongous size, there’s no way to escape out of trouble, even the classic ‘pass under the giant’ move is out of the question because of his giant… male attribute.

Cornered, Drake becomes uneasy and grabs his sword in both hands in front of him, waiting for the final moment but still willing to fight nevertheless. The situation is desperate as the android prepare to punch Drake but with a fist from this guy, it’s a ‘one-shot kill’ death. As the fist comes to him, Drake grabs the sword firmer, closing his eyes as he waits for the impact when suddenly, time seems to slow down as he hears a voice… a voice in his mind!
“DON’T GIVE UP! LET’S GO DRAKE!
-Aster?”
The fist is on Drake but dodges at the last second, focus his energy on the sword with now glowing runes: the true Fenrir. He opens his eyes… Draco’s yellow eyes and summons his magic in his blade while saying “Dark Art: Boost Nullifier!” and unleashes a powerful slash unto the android before sheathing his sword back to unleash the power of he casted. Such a badass move!
Dracowolf’s arts are in fact spells concentrated in his sword so it is auto-cast as the sword slashes an enemy. In this case, Drake’s attack effect makes the android shrink to his original appearance and add an unexpected effect. From his back-to-normal brown eyes, as the shrink occurs, the goo which penetrates it earlier is forced to exit the android body because of the spell. He’s surprised when the goo transforms itself back into his humanoid form and even more when the android begins to speak to him!
“What… what happened to me?
-… It… talks? The android can talk?(Finala calls Drake to say she’s coming in) Oh, Finala! Don’t rush, everything is good now… somehow. But I think we all need a massive debriefing once we’re back to your workshop.” says Drake exhausted

After Finala deactivates the device which falls back into pieces, she asks Drake what happened in there. Drake tells her about this crazy moment before turning to the 2 others guys.
“First, I’m guessing it’s you mister Goo that this whole thing happens. Can you introduce yourself now that you seems to be calm?
-OK. The name is Sent1n3l, I’m not goo but a living biomass, thank you very much.
-That explains why you were able to pump to big guy(he points at the android)
-Indeed. By some odd events, I ended in this woman’s place and before I could return to my current form and explain myself, she opened this portal and I landed in the dimension where this robot was.
-Then I bet when I landed here myself, you were scared because you thought I was sent to finish you off and went into him to hide and defend yourself, correct? (He agrees) I’m truly sorry Sent1n3l! There’s an awful misunderstanding!
Didn’t I have said you are a bit hasty sometimes Finala?
-Ugh… No need to rub it Drake. I know I was wrong so until I create a new warp device, you’re welcome here. (Sent1n3l thanks her) Now for the other, we’re hearing.
-Certainly. My name is Atlas. I was created by a man who wanted to dominate the worlds but was defeated some years ago by a light blue dragon-wolf. He saves me before my previous master perverted my IA with dark and bloody ideas.
“Huh… that would be me.
-Negative. You don’t look like the saviour… but my scanner may be broken since it says you have the same biomolecular identity as him.
-Not an error. Some… circumstances gives me back my past human form… (Drake has a thrill)
I must leave immediately! My friend is still in danger! I see you later Finala! Sent, Atlas, it’s being a pleasure to meet you both!
-Wait! Allow me to accompany you.
-Huh? Why?
-You claim you are Dracowolf and yet not him for the moment but my scanner confirm you at least have a link to him. So I will join you to help him like he helps me: my previous master is dead now because of a death sentence for his crimes. I was turned off because of that and Ms. Finala buys me at an auction before restoring and upgrading me into a fighting robot with auto-repair function.
-True. I was planning to have a robotic guard in here which will also be my assistant. I guess I must go find another one.
-Looks like the three of you have figured out your plan.
-Indeed. Now then Drake, let us depart. Your friend needs help, doesn’t it?” asks Atlas

Drake and Atlas leaves Finala and Sent1n3l to return to New York. While warping back, Drake couldn’t help but thinking about Sent1n3l: there’s a low chance he will see him again and yet somehow he knows they will be good friends with him just like when he met his first partner Spiderman. Not a surprise since they have similar physique and attitude except his grey skin and the anarchy symbol on his face … no, that’s a lie because Sent is more muscular than Spidey, he has the musculature as me… well as Draco anyway. They arrive in the random dark room, exit it when Drake felt a gigantic spike of energy coming from somewhere. Atlas invites Drake to jump on his back so they can fly in direction of the energy spike origin. Drake looks at Atlas, the normal Atlas: his face is on a screen, it looks like a robot kid face (cute) while the rest of his body contrasts with it. His shoulders, forearms, ankles and crotch are covered by a shield like plate (enchanted robust titanium according to Finala), the rest of his body is covered in cables in different size which duplicate and multiply to increase his size and strength. He still has a heart inside of him to make him work and thanks to Finala’s upgrade, he can enchant those cables to use elemental attacks and give these boosts through those same cables.
“Impressive mechanic! Finala is truly a master tinkerer!
-I agree but please hop on me and grab my antennas tightly, we are going to go fast!”
The cables on his back moves, multiply to create robo-wings and a thruster then Drake grabs the hand-sized antennas which moves with each emotion he expresses. Saying he’s ready, Atlas‘ s thruster comes to life and they ascend to the sky in direction of the area Drake pointing at him. As they fly, Drake thinks about what happened when he got his surge of power while fighting Atlas.
“Aster is truly a master tactician, he must have felt he will be drained from and left a small part of his power within me in order to defend myself. You can count on me. I will use this power to rescue you!”
He stops his thoughts and says out loud: “Hang in there guys! We’re coming!”