As a morning person, Yazi liked to jog before the "city of brighter days" really woke up. His lithe muscles bounced in the compression shirt and sweatpants. Classic Asian undercut, a face that made some people ask if he was half-white, a bit on the short side but with a proud physique.
The white, blue and golden buildings of Neo Aurora gleamed in the sunrise along the river promenade, stretching past the horizon, as the air warmed.
Yazi jogged past a billboard where Silver Tiger, the second muscle dragon, endorsed the protein rich, silvery Mercury Cola that Yazi found a little too sour.
Silver Tiger's physique looked too insane to make sense, like a perfectly tweaked muscle-morph by a horny homo, each muscle emphasized to the point where a real person should have had trouble moving, so big the head seemed shrunk. It was a shame the ad only showed him from the navel up but otherwise it would have basically been porn, despite the clothing.
The silver "wrestling suit" uniform with bold white stripes looked painted on, barely a vein or fiber left to the imagination where it covered his skin -- arms and shoulders free.
Yazi's fitness journey had been inspired by the muscle dragons, just like every other gay boy in Neo Aurora.
Unfortunately the dragons' list of officially slain pussy (never mind all the girls claiming they'd fucked their civilian identity) was only outdone by their list of Nyx kills. And all five of them had hinted at girlfriends.
The jogging 20 year old kept his eyes on the billboard. Silver Tiger's face was hidden under a glowing projection surrounding his head like a hood. The silver projection was a mix of anthro-dragon and tiger. It had a slight transparency, making you think you'd get to see the face beneath if only you stared hard enough.
It wasn't a simple mask, though, but translated the expression of the man underneath to the draconic visage and "talked" when the man did. On the ad, Silver Tiger's face was smirking.
Distracted by horny thoughts, Yazi nearly slammed into a crowd.
People were squeezing by the edge of the promenade to stand clear of a Nyx incursion.
A blob of darkness was wobbling grossly on the path, big as a van. Defense Force drones circled overhead. Yazi couldn't help but grin with horny anticipation. He had to stand clear, though. Things weren't safe until-
Two streams crossed the sky. One silver, one jade. Yazi wasn't the only one giddy but most people had a less... obsessive relationship with Neo Aurora's protectors.
The streams of colored plasma resolved into men.
Silver Tiger landed with his back to Yazi, the muscle dragon's mass implausible in its masculine glory, standing two meter (6'8'') tall. The true impact of his unachievable physique was vastly greater in real life.
The ultra-tight uniform covered the man's legs to the knees, fabric seeming to strain without ever ripping around the legs muscles thicker than Yazi's whole torso.
Even though nothing about the crazy thighs' shape was hidden, Yazi still felt drawn to the naked skin of the diamond calves over large, naked feet and the arms so big that each shoulder and bicep outdid the hero's head. His skin was slightly tanner than most Neo Aurora's native Asian population. His comparatively narrow waist was emphasized by a clunky belt, with alternating white and silver segments.
"Stand back, citizens," the draconic anthro-tiger head said. "We'll handle this."
Jade Turtle landed with quivering thighs -- muscle dragon #3. His jade green uniform with white stripes sat just as perfectly on his body. He was the heaviest muscle dragon, the waist not quite as narrow but with his lats even more flared. His body was so broad and utterly immense that shouldn't have been able to turn like he did.
Jade Turtle faced the crowd, a human face's shape vaguely visible under the turtle-dragon head projection but never clear enough to give away features.
Not that Yazi was looking at the face. Jade Turtle was mostly a "right carrier", his dick tugged horizontally under the jade-green belt with a dragon symbol on the buckle.
The muscle dragons wore boxers under the singlets but that only hid the precise details of their packages. The cock and ball outlines were as clear as under any wrestling suit. The shape, the structure, the distinct mushroom. It looked merely "large" on the body, making it the size of a normal man's forearm.
Silver Tiger turned around, confirming he was an upward carrier today, his dick pointing at his navel, the cockhead basically touching the belt, pressed to the abs.
Yazi didn't even notice the defiler vine until Silver Tiger was already blasting.
The Nyx incursion had whipped out a grey, ugly tendril, rushing toward the crowd.
Both muscle dragons shot plasma beams in their colors from their fists. The vine ruptured and got vaporized. The crowd dispersed slightly.
More defiler vines broke from the blob. Jade Turtle focused his beam into the blob itself while Silver Tiger shot down the vines.
One of the tentacles had buried underground. This was known to happen so Yazi had been on the lookout. The defiler broke from the promenade path amidst onlookers.
People ran screaming but a little girl stumbled and fell, narrowly escaping a trampling.
Yazi rushed in. The vine snapped toward him. He was fit but not escape-an-interdimensional-invader fit.
He threw himself over the girl and absorbed the hit. It was barely softer than taking a baseball bat to the spine. Air left him.
Breathing with difficulty, he ignored the pain as much as possible and pulled the girl into his arms. He rose -- thank you squats -- and tumbled away with the child.
The vine snapped at him again. It barely grazed him when an orb of jade plasma shredded the tentacle to fading gray mist. Yazi still fell from the hit, twisting to shield the girl.
A woman came rushing in -- her mother?
Yazi pushed the girl at her, then his vision faded. He couldn't even tell if he'd had his back broken or the Nyx had managed to defile him in one hit.
Darkness.
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Yazi was done with his web design class, heading out with Baxley and Novena to find a food stall they all agreed on.
"Soccer later?" Baxley asked. The Chinese-descended man wore drab athletic clothes.
"Nope," Yazi said. "Doc said my back has to absorb the stabilizer gel for a whole week. I'm glad I don't have to skip gym, but no squats."
"What does it look like?"
Yazi lifted his shirt and pointed his back at the man. He still felt the numbness of the black and blue spot.
"Freaky," Baxley said.
"Does it hurt?" Novena asked. The half-white girl's hair was dyed in a different color every month. As always, she clung to her boyfriend.