Quetzalcoatl -- My Story
Hola, que tal? Oops sorry, too much time spent south of the border, down Mexico way (is there a song like that?). Hi, I need to talk with you folks. The guy telling the story so far was okay for the historic background, but is (too obviously) a historian, and he leaves out or glosses over the important stuff (the good stuff). And he has a few of the details wrong too (hey, I was there, I know what happened).
This all happened to me a few years ago (the dates all blend together after a few hundred -- or thousand -- years). I was down in what is now southern Mexico or Guatemala enjoying myself. This may seem strange to soft-skinned humans (hey -- not trying to be derogatory here, but facts are facts) but to a dragon who is (usually) in reptile form or a derivative thereof (I do change shapes -- it's fun to play around) with scales, a warm, humid jungle is sweet.
Anyway, I was playing around in snake form (think large snake). I was playing with changing the composition of my scales -- making them more sensitive to the touch, then less, then back -- and sliding through different types of materials -- leaves, rotted vegetation, dirt, sand, rocks -- just to feel it across my scales. I was really enjoying all of the textures sliding across and along my body with the different sensitivities (hey, I'm a sensitive type of guy). How to describe this to a non-dragon, hmmm - some of it was like a caress, some like a massage (the rocks), some like sliding a human body against another body slippery from sex -- yeah, like that.
Needless to say, I was enjoying myself. While playing around like this, I came to a nice stream and I caught a glimpse of my reflection. Feeling pretty good, I stopped to admire my scales (yes, narcissistic too). I started playing around (is there a common theme here?) changing the colors and textures. I made some great diamond patterns, some spirals, circles (around my body), and even tried some circles (like polka dots) and circles within circles. I tried changing the scales -- made some of them with little bumps, then changed the bumps around to form little horns -- you get the idea.
After doing this a bit, I started growing feathers like some of the birds around me. I got more colorful and fancy -- feathers turned into plumes around my head and neck -- I was looking pretty good in a strange way - sort of surprising as I'd never really been or seen a feathered snake before.
As I was posing in front of the stream admiring my plumage, I was totally surprised by a group of Mayan hunters. Fortunately, they were just as surprised as I was -- not every day you find a wildly colored, feathered serpent while wandering through the jungle.
My first reaction was to twist around to face the hunters, raise my head up out of a coil, hiss, and flare my plumage (think a cobra with feathers -- I know -- rather silly, but it was what I had at the moment). After their initial surprise, the hunters quickly pulled themselves together and started pointing sharp objects at me -- some large spears. As I wasn't really hungry, I decided I should make myself scarce. The easiest way was just to blink out of their existence.
I repositioned myself a ways away, up in a tree and quickly reformed myself into a more camouflaged color and lost the feathers so I could move more easily if needed.
After looking around a bit to figure out where I'd gone, they gave up and wandered off to continue their hunt.
Being as I had no pressing appointments, I decided to continue playing in the jungle. So I moved a ways away and morphed into a large feline -- a very nice looking jaguar, if I do say so myself. It was a good change of pace to bound through the jungle, twist to avoid different obstacles, swim in some of the streams (I even caught a few fish for dinner), and climb in the trees. Finally a bit tired, and with a full belly, I stretched out on a limb for a cat nap -- ha ha, get it?
It was a while later when I was woken by a considerable ruckus -- actual roaring and growling -- sounded like a fight to me. I drifted toward the noise to see what was happening and came upon two jaguars -- one obviously male and one female. He was pressing his suit, wanting to mate, while she seemed to be either teasing or really not wanting anything to do with him -- hard to tell with some women.
Being the gallant type that I am (yes, not only sensitive, but gallant too), I decided to rescue the damsel -- even if she did not wish to be rescued. So I just jumped into the fray and knocked the guy flying with my shoulder (hey, you'd probably go flying too if 200 pounds of cat hit you unexpectedly in the shoulder). Needless to say, he was not happy about my interference and I suddenly found myself on the wrong end of a mass of sharp claws and teeth backed by a lot of muscle -- and did I mention this guy was fast! Oh yeah, and pissed too.
Suddenly, I was in a serious cat fight, doing my best to avoid some nasty swipes with those razors on his paws and more attempts at crunching me with his rather powerful jaws. Yeah, it was serious. So I cheated. I made my skin impervious to his claws and teeth and then just started whaling right back at him. He was quite surprised when his teeth and claws did no damage. After a few minutes he gave up -- it just wasn't worth the pain he was getting without inflicting any damage on his opponent.
The female just sat there watching and preening -- you know how girls do (well, girl cats anyway) -- grooming herself as if it was her due that two dudes were battling for the right to get to know her better.
When her previous suitor took off into the jungle, she sauntered over to me, gave me a couple licks with that big, rough tongue, rubbed against me and took off into the jungle. I may be slow at times, but this tongue business seemed like a come-on, so I took out after her as fast as I could. Let me tell you, she led me a merry chase. We ran up hills, we ran up trees, we swam across streams and a couple rivers. Eventually, without my really noticing, we were running side by side. Then we got to a large clearing in the jungle and we got amorous.
Now amorous for a cat is a bit different than how humans might attack the problem and even how dragons might usually go about pleasuring each other. It was more like the cat fight that I came upon when I first saw her. She presented herself -- let me tell you, it was nice -- an open, swollen vagina with her tail lifted to the side -- and oh, my, the odor. In my jaguar form it was heavenly. When I tried to take advantage of her offer, that's when it got to the cat fight part as she swiped at me.