"I should have expected as much, shouldn't I?" it asked as it suddenly began to grow. The wings grew larger and its hinde legs stretched much farther than those in front. The paws turned into the shapes of feet and hands and you suddenly realize that the cat you had been looking at was Vaprrenon, only in a diffrent form. You had forgotten she was a shapeshifter.

As Vaprrenon now sits before you in her normal ishna form, she poses a question to you. "Would you like to see the emanas? I'm sure you'd like them. They're desert dragons."

Well, you are there to see Vaprrenon's cyberpets, so you nodd with a "yes" and wait for Vaprrenon to get up from her spot on the ground. She takes your hand and leads you to another portal, much like the one you used to see the cypran.

"Come on, keep up!" Vaprrenon calls back as she steps through the empty canvas. You watch the rainbow ripples flow to the edges of the magical painting, if you could call it a painting, before stepping throught yourself. Upon doing so, you suddenly find yourself in a desert. After the cypran, you had assumed you would pop up in a forest, but this wasn't apprently the case.

You see Vaprrenon off a little ways and walk up to her, trying to get a grip on the sand under your feet. "Oh good!" she calls as she trots over to give you a helping paw, "I thought you got lost with your delay. I was just about to go looking for you!"

The feline gives a sharp whistle out to the wind and the two of you stand there for quite some time. After almost ten minutes of sinking in the grains of sand, you are aobut to protest and head back to the home page. Anything is better than this--it's hot! Just as you open your mouth to speak, you see a dark cloud decend from the sky. It lands a couple hundred feet away from the two of you and begins to walk forward. It's not a cloud, but a lovely dragon.

She pulls you toward the beast and lays her paw against his long neck. You do the same, given what she had just said about his personality. The dragon's skin is soft, smooth, no scales at all. It has flesh, and you're suprised. The great giant looks down at you and you swear that this crature, too, can smile. How these Cypris.Org creatures can smile without lips, you'll never know and frankly, you're not sure if you want to find out.

"Night Shadows is the oldest Emana here. He'll take you to the nesting grounds here at VCG. I'll catch up in a bit." Vaprrenon says suddenly as she turns to you. "Just mount him as you would a horse and hang on to....well, hang on to him." She turns to the Emana Dragon and the creature nodds, as if the two had just ended a conversation.

The ishna suddenly takes to the sky and leaves you with the large beast, who lowers his neck for you to get on. You carefully mount the creature, lying on your stomach for the most part, and griping the base of the monster's wings. Seeing you are securly fasened, Night Shadows flaps a few times to lift you both into the air, then turns and heads back the way he came.

Your arms go up and down with the movement of the dragon's wings and you think that you're gonna be sick. You bury your face into the emana's skin to keep from feeling woozy.

After a while, you feel Night Shadows come to a stop, landing on the sands with a thud. You lok up to see another dragon, this one much more noticable in the desert sands. If anything, it appeared to be a walking form of shimmering water.

It looks up at you and stands from where it was laying down. You notice it's a bit smaller than Night Shadows, but massive none the less. You look up to the darker dragon and it grunts. You slip from its back carefully, but are forced to lean on Night Shadows because your feet keep shifting int he sand.

The beast picks you up but the back of your shirt collar and you have to put your hands around the front of it to keep from suffocating. He carries you over to the other dragon and you see that there is a large nest there. You are dropped right inside of it so that you can get better tracksion. You thank him before looking at the other dragon and a large mound laying near you.

"She is very kind, very loving." She kisses the emana dragon's nose gently and the creature looks up at you, taking a step into the nest and laying down around the mound that was so close to you. You stand, walking around the dragon to get a better look at it and its treasure.

The egg you discover is beautiful--a bright blue that reflects in the sunlight. You wonder when it will hatch. Night Shadows lays down next to the nest and watches the egg. Is it close to hatching? you wonder. You turn to Vaprrenon for a brief instant, then turn back to Mraleky and the small egg.