"Renounce your evil ways, bitch!" The paladin's yell, muffled slightly by an enclosing helmet, filled the mostly empty room. From an overstuffed chair surrounded by a pile of books, and exasperated-looking woman glared over her glasses, staring daggers back at the fidgety man in plate now occupying the space the door had once been. She would need to make her mate fix that later. The gods alone knew why he insisted on breaking it every damn week. She sometimes wondered if the door was designed to be broken in like that, given how easily he seemed to break it down every time. Then again, he did have quite a bit of practice.
Giving up on actually getting any quiet time to herself, she folded the corner of her page and regarded the interloper with mild amusement and spoke up, "Do we really need to do this right now, Chuck?"
"Justice waits for no man, woman, or even dragon, monster! And do not call me Chuck. I am Sir Charles the Relentless, slayer of the foul dragon of Rotendorf, destroyer of the arch lich Szilard, purifier of the great necropolis of -" he was cut off by a narrow jet of flame aimed directly at his face, which he sidestepped to avoid. "You think such petty tricks could fool a servant of -ooof!" The paladin's monologue was swiftly interrupted as he was beaten aside by a long, red tail that had swept out from the side of the room without warning. His eyes following the tail back from where it had struck him, the fallen knight watched the long, scaly appendage wrap behind a pile of books to attach to the rear of the woman, now standing in front of her chair, book still in hand.
"I am not familiar with this master you speak of. 'Oof', was it?" The woman replied with a grin, now stepping slowly towards the paladin. As she drew closer, it was impossible to miss the sway of her hips under the checkered bath robe she wore over her pale skin. Waist-length red hair, slightly mussed by hours spent curled up on a chair, spread down her back, dancing over the large tail now protruding behind her, lifting up the robe.
"You can at least try to take this a little seriously, Elizabeth," the paladin said with mock offense in his voice.
"You tell me to take this seriously? Did you even bring your sword?"
Shit. He knew he had forgotten something. Scrambling to pick up the crumbling pieces of his pride, he rose quickly to his feet and assumed a boxing stance, throwing mock punches in the direction of his opponent. "I need no weapon to defeat the likes of you. Have at me, and feel the crushing weight of justice."
She folded her glasses with a sigh, putting them in the breast pocket of her robe. Untying the rope around her waist, she let the linen slide down her narrow shoulders, slowing briefly just below, caught upon her generous cleavage. Falling lower, the cloth revealed a long, toned stomach that gave way to wide hips. Her curvaceous figure belied the strength the knight knew hid underneath her alabaster skin. His eyes following the sinking gown, the knight saw a neat tuft of crimson hair crowning her mons, slightly obscuring the view below. Nevertheless, Charles knew all-to-well what lay beyond that well-kept curtain of hair: Puffy. Dragon. Vulva. She stepped over the robe, now discarded about her feet, and continued to approach the knight, who still stood awkwardly in the doorway, gauntleted fists held before him.
Dropping to her hands and knees, the woman began to grow. First, her arms and legs began to stretch and widen, a faint pattern of scales printing behind her porcelain flesh. Scales began to spread from the base of her tail, forming an armored ridge of red along her spine and spreading down her sides. Head thrown back, she began to claw at the floor as her limbs started to redden and fingers fuse into muscular claws, tipped with sharp, ebony-colored talons. Wings erupted violently from her back as she continued to grow, already far larger than the ridiculous-looking knight before her. Her entire body shook as her head began to elongate, her jaw protruding along with her snout as it was pulled forwards, as if by an invisible rope, into the fearsome maw of a dragon. Finally, as enormous, hellishly sharp teeth began to sprout from her mouth and the small, ridged horns that identified her kind began to emerge from the crown of what used to be her forehead, her hair began to recede into what the paladin assumed to be the remnants of her scalp.
The woman-turned-dragon straightened herself out and stretched her wings, knocking over the piles of books that surrounded her throne. Picking up her robe with a single claw, she tossed it gently over her back, where it landed without sound on the mound of books. The paladin still stood before her, arms dropping slightly at the sight, though obviously still insistent upon seeing this through to the end. Finally returning to his senses, he lifted and crouched behind the cracked wooden door just as a blast of fire began to spew from the dragon's mouth.