Interrealm Shortshot

Dragon's Best Friend

by Xendrian M.


In Xendrian's hi-rise condo, the complex is filled with many items that would be the 27th-century equivalent of the traditional dragon's horde: Except with electronics, weights, clothing, weapons, vehicles and the like. Very much hundreds of thousands of credits worth of stuff kept inside this home in the sky. This also poses a grave problem for the owner. Because Xendrian would go out on missions that would take weeks or even months on end, it leaves him with little to no time to know what's going on and leaves all of his stuff vulnerable to robbers and vandals. Luckily for him, he manages to pitch in for a state-of-the-art security system that can protect his home for the time being. But sadly like most computer systems of the present age, they are not one hundred percent hacker-proof.


This is evident the night a skilled robber with unparalleled hacking skills successfully breached the system and breaks in, Walking through the apartment the robber took months of preparation to break into the home of the away Interrealm agent ready to take some of the valuable weapons he keeps in the secure storage locker so he can sell it on the black market. Even having the the gall to make a huge meat and cheese sandwich out of his fridge and some of his large beers, With nearly four-hundred thousand credits in soon-to-be stolen goods in his hands the thief was about to make his leave adding Xendrian's home to a list of successfully broken homes. Hacking the most advanced home security system is one thing but what the robber didn't see that there was a backup and it came right up to him in the form of a twelve foot tall, three and a half ton grey and white humanoid wolf breathing heavily behind him giving a hard bellowing growl hard enough for the deep bass vibrate across the robber's body.


He turned around to look what is in front of him and completely went agape in shock and fear in the presence of a towering mountain of muscle covered in soft fur. Not thinking twice, he pulls out a high -powered blaster but the beast grabs it and crushes it in his large hand along with the robbers'. Reeling in pain from his injuries, he tries to escape but the monster leaps over his path and lands in front path with a floor shaking impact. With all of its strength the beast attacks the intruder and severely beats him up and tears his clothing to shreds. After minutes of assault the robber leaves limping and screaming with whatever's left of his clothing and none of the stolen stuff. The beast then picks up the stolen goods and puts it all back in the security locker, looking at the sandwich he felt it shouldn't really to waste and devours the big sandwich in a single, throat-swelling gulp. Belching loudly the hulking wolf lays flat back on the scenic spot where all of his personal goods, toys and resting pad that can rival a king-size bed, goes back to sleep hoping that his master comes back home.



Four years ago...

Xendrian was on mission on a earth where there is a low human population and the setting is nothing short of arcadian in nature. Which unfortunately makes it a perfect setup for a backwater black market to take place. After sending out the "calvary" to take them down, over trillions of credits of weapons and battleships where taken in by the authorities and all of the dealers were arrested. Save for some of them put up a good fight until Xendrian got a piece of the action and took all of them down from fellows that match his power to pilots in mechs that match his frame but not his strength and skill. After all that's done he decides to take some time to walk down into the forest to get a good view of scenery until he heard a loud painful yelping coming from across the forest. Curious and worried, Xen goes out to investigate to track the source of the painful howling. What he discovered was a sickening sight it was a wolf but a large, muscular humanoid wolf badly injured as indicated by bite marks, scratches and broken bones.


Xen took a risk approaching the huge wolf but a quick swipe of his claws shows he's still got some fight in him after all of his injuries. He feels that he can't just leave him here to die alone in the woods so with no choice he knocks him out with a stunner and mends to his wounds with the nanomeds. Hours later, Xendrian and the giant wolf are on opposite sides of a makeshift fire he made and takes caution the moment the beast woke up. Instead of being defensive it was just licking his wounds soon realizing he was back to full health. Looking at Xendrian he didn't move or even run away instead he moved up towards him but cautiously Xen knows this kind of behavior so he himself takes caution to the wind when the wolf approaches him.


Suddenly the wolf does something that Xendrian never expects for him to do, He "kisses" him with a lick Normally a seasoned predator wouldn't show this type of compassion in hours when it should have taken years to build up this kind of bond. But Xendrian could see it in his eyes that he wasn't going to do anything funny so he wrapped his big blue arm around him and held him up close as they shared the warmth of the roaring fire. In the passing months, Xendrian saved the dimension's location to occasionally visit his new friend rain or shine. They play around like they are the best of friends even gave him a new name; "Ollie" usual name for a beast of his power, until one night on a regular visit he finds Ollie surrounded by a large pack of other massive werewolves who attacked him earlier and wanted to come back but the outcome didn't favored on honor, pack rules or personal survival he was surrounded and wanted to kill him.


That is when Xendrian came in to save Ollie and fought the pack together getting Ollie out of there the pack soon chased them. Xen would easily fly off but the forest was too thick for him to spread his wings until the reached the cliff. Holding a fairly injured Ollie in his arms he vocally commands his realmengine to port them out of the scene before the pack lunged at them.


Xendrian takes him to a close friend who is also a special type of vet that handles beasts to take care of him. After some conflicting arguments Ollie is brought back to health but the problem remains of how to keep him when taking him back to the forest in his world would mean certain death. His friend solved this with simply placing him under his care and registering him under the nation's natural wildlife registry. Ollie would be considered under Solterran Law an exotic wild werewolf and Xen would be his caretaker. It was difficult to do but Xendrian manages to go through the political red tape to count his new "pet" in as a wild werewolf and not an illegally smuggled animal from another universe.


Xendrian introduced Ollie to his new home with all the room and space to move around if he wants. Unlike dogs Xen would never let him do tricks but needs to teach him what to do and what not to do. The art of disciplining Ollie was difficult and often leaves Xen nearly mauled over simple punishment methods; So a simple "bad ollie" would suffice. Ollie also even mimic his master's moves when he's in practice even learning to use the weights and train like Xen resulting in him gaining a extra hundred pounds of muscle to his frame as if he wasn't already heavily muscular.


But there are times where still as a wild werewolf he still needs to be free and also to maintain those predatory urges. Xendrian already dodged the bullet into explaining who ate a whole cow in a city farm days ago. So every year he takes ollie out to hunt and roam free as much as he wants even gets his jollies along the way. But when he's in the city or away on his missions that would be a problem even for Ollie who slowly adapting to the long waits so on his own tuition, he goes to roam the city on his own often releasing all of his power in one long howl into the night sky that can be heard for miles and miles before returning home.


Sleeping in the corner, he hears the sounds of the elevator coming up followed by hefty footsteps. Ollie doesn't want to believe that it as the robber who would be stupid enough to make a second round with him, that is until he catches the scent of the air. It wasn't human but dragon, with his long tail wagging happily and wildly, Ollie runs on both his hind legs, leapt over the couch and lunges at the shadowy figure with full force. Knocking the figure down hard on the ground he happily licking his face and bearing his weight on him. With a large, blue clawed hand, he stroked Ollie's broad muscular back fur and he gently murred. Getting up and regaining his footing, the owner looked down at Ollie as he crotches down on his legs and placed his hands on the floor positioning for a well-deserved scratch on the head.


"Glad to see you home big guy..." Xendrian said as he appreciates the 'welcome' and sees some minor damage Ollie pointed out to him it was caused by someone breaking into his apartment again and as usual protected his home. Xendrian smiles at Ollie for doing a good job and will give him a treat soon but all he wants to do right now is to fall back on the couch. Swaying his tail into position and folding his wings in and over the backrest of the couch, he was too tired from what he went through to stay awake and falls dead asleep. Ollie then grabs a large blanket from the closet and drapes it over Xendrian afterwards he rests his body over his lap and rests his head. The two of them both softly drift to sleep peacefully as they can deal with the mess later. If dogs are man's best friend, then werewolves are certainly a dragon's best friend.