[ WP ] When everyone turns 18 , they receive a pet which is figurative of their personality . You 're the first person to receive a dragon ...

`` So what do you think it'll be, I mean your dad ended up with a gorilla which is scary as hell. Then your brother and mother both have giant boas equally terrifying. Do n't get me wrong they are lovely people and their partners are gentle, but to the average passer bye your family is quite off putting.'' He wasn ’ t wrong, but this was something I was all too familiar with. 
 “ Listen Eric, I ’ m well aware that I much like my family will end up with some bizarre, off the beaten path partner. I have come to accept that it ’ s not going to do any good guessing when ill find out in the morning. So let ’ s just hit the hay, I ’ m sure nin is tired anyways. ” Eric laid back down in his sleeping bag defeated, allowing nin his big green sloth to resume her resting place across his chest. The look of comfort and ease on her face showed just how close her and Eric were, but it ’ s not only them every person has this unbreakable bound to their partner. From the dawn of your eighteenth birthday till the day you pass on they are there. People say they represent the personality of the individual. Which seem to be true my father ended up with Bern a massive silver back gorilla with arms as think as my dad himself. ( 6 ’ 2 and 200 lbs for needles reference ). Now my dad is nice guy he just also happens to be the police chief and is quite the stern takes no bullshit alpha male kind. My mother the city mortician. You can guess how they meet, but they ’ ve never mentioned it. Is accompanied by Whendon a twenty foot Boa, jet black and blood red in the pattern of skulls and bones, she ’ s always been interested in morbid things even as a child or so grandma tells me. Then there is Nathan my older brother who also has a boa for a partner, Hess is completely white and half the size. Still people seem more unnerved by the ghost like presence he gives off than the oddly vibrant pattern of Whendon. 
 “ Yeah my family has some odd features, but I like that about us and you like that about us. I mean the reason you came to me on the first day of kindergarten was because you saw my folk ’ s partners. Remember what you said to me? ” I looked at Eric and he had that cheesy grin he always bared when thinking back on fond memories. 
 “ Your Parents have the Craziest Partners I have ever seen. Can I be your friend? ” He finished with a chuckle. 
 “ Now here we are hanging out on a summer night before the awakening of my partner, just like we did for you two months ago, and the wait is killing me. I finally get why you were so wound up. ” I rolled onto my side to face the few remaining flames of the camp fire. Thinking about what the morning would bring the only thing I knew for sure was that tomorrow my life is going to change, and I intend to embrace whatever the future has in store for me. 
 The thud brought the meaning on the word “ awake ” to a whole new level. I was up on my feet running before I realized what was even happening. After about twenty feet I hear the most bone chillingly roar I could have never imagined. The hollow cavern howl meet with a raging thunderstorm raining down on an erupting volcano the sound reduced me to a statue, paralyzed with fear. I mustered up everything I had to turn my head, and what I saw made my stomach sink to my ankles. A fucking Dragon three fucking stories tall was looming in the clearing that is our campsite. It looked right into my eyes and I knew right at that moment I was not prepared for this outcome. His eyes were a beautiful sunset orange, his scales the most magnificent blue with a sheen to match the finest polished silver. The body sleek and trim but noticeably muscular, you could tell just by looking at him that he possessed a will that would not falter. A confidence that would not be broken by any hard ship, and perseverance to accomplish all that he desired. I know now with that one look into his eyes I see the man I am to become, this is my partner, and my parents are not going to be happy about the increase in the grocery bill. 
 
 Thanks to anyone who reads this it is my first prompt after lurking for a few months. Any suggestions and critique are welcome. I am new so I wish learn more and write better stories. 

