Chapter 21: Dragon Rising - 1
"This is amazing!" Kaden whooped in joy ten minutes later as he soared through the sky.
Dragons did not fly like a mere bird flapping their wings.
Dragons created clouds and ran through the sky as they pleased as if it were their garden to play in.
Orange clouds glinted around his clawed hands and feet as he tore through the sky, soaring higher and higher until he broke through the clouds themselves and hung there staring up at the giant, bright moon that shone down upon him.
It had taken a few minutes and a few tries to generate the flame clouds, but after he did, it was almost like second nature to him.
His heart thundered in his currently scaled chest and a whooping laughter left Kaden's throat. There was lightness to him he hadn't felt since he ended up in this world.
No...he'd never felt a lightness like this before.
"I get it now Luffy, I understand what you were on about all those times," a giggle left Kaden's maw filled with razor sharp teeth, "This is freedom isn't it? To have nothing chaining you down, to be able to go and do whatever you want. This is what you've always been about huh?"
All his life he'd been chained down. As an unloved orphan with nobody who cared for him. As a struggling orphan working multiple part time jobs and attending school to make something of himself. Then the oppressive weight he felt over himself the last few months after he ended up here and was practically jumping at shadows expecting monster pirates to burs tout of the woodwork and tear him apart, which only got worse when he found out the true origin of how he ended up here, where he felt like the whole world was against him somehow.
With this power though, he had broken his chains and all that tethered him down was now gone.
He could go anywhere he wanted now.