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Dream was actually rather fond of children ironically enough, it was the teenagers he couldn’t stand honestly – but he knows everyone would doubt that bit of information now. But that honestly doesn’t matter anymore what anyone else thinks, because now he’s currently dealing with an eight year old blonde who’s swearing at him – he wonders if Phil or Wilbur taught him that.
“Tommy I promise if you come with me, I can take you to see your dad and brothers!” Dream knows he’ll probably get the blame for this, but he could care less as long as it won’t get him attacked. Though he’s certain that it would only be TommyInnit, who got affected by a code glitch that altered your age both physically and mentally.
“Not a chance bitch boy!” Tommy’s tiny wings flutter from the air running through them, due to the small blonde running away from the Blob.
Dream knows if he hurts the child he’ll never get his trust which is why he’s not just grabbing him, but the little gremlin is quick – and paired with biting is not fun. “Do you want to see a dragon?”
Mention of the dragon causes Tommy to come to a stop and allow Dream to come closer, but he still looks at Dream with distrust – since he knows you’re not supposed to trust strangers. Although he’s probably brave since others are afraid of Technoblade and Philza. “A dragon?”
“Yeah I know the Enderdragon personally, I can get you close to her without being worried about getting hurt.” Dream prays to Prime and hopes to XD that this would work, not wanting to hurt the kid even if he is Tommy.
“How can I trust a human like you?” Tommy knows humans can’t be trusted, since he’s had people hurt him for his wings – of course Philza and Techno made them regret it.
“Is that the problem? That I’m human? Well don’t worry then because I’m a hybrid too.” Dream hates that he’ll have to do this but knows Tommy won’t willingly go with him otherwise, so he takes a deep breath before reaching up to unclasp his enchanted mask.
Once he removes the mask the magic for his face and body melts away, revealing Dream in all his hybrid glory. He offers the blonde gremlin a sharp fang filled smile when he can only look in awe, Dream unable to help preening with pride at the awed look – he had always been a bit of a smug bastard honestly.
But how could Dream not be proud of his species?
With his dark amethyst wings that shimmered when light hit it at certain angles to give it an iridescent look, that he uses to fly through the sky and are strong enough to protect him from any weapon without enchantments. His Alexandrite coloured eyes that he used to see in the dark with, and lit up when he was enraged right using magic.
His heightened sense of smell that could detect someone coming from several metres away, even if they did use potions to hide themselves – his pointed almost elven like ears used to hear things moving around within five or so meters. His long thick tail he could use to knock someone off their feet with ease, but could curl around someone to move them out of the way.
His sharp teeth he uses to tear apart flesh from bone with little to no trouble, and let’s not forget the random patches of amethyst and black iridescent scales scattered along the rest of his skin – or the sharp slightly curved back horns resting atop his head.
“Do you want to feel one of my wings?” Dream waits until he receives a nod after the child moves closer, before he stretches out one of his wings to Tommy with ease - not having to worry about the gremlin actually hurting him.
Tommy gently slides a hand along the scales of the wing as he looks at the large appendage with awe, so excited to see something this awesome.
Of course the excitement in Tommy’s eyes causes them to become like little Sapphire’s as the sun hits his bright golden topaz coloured hair, causing a long forgotten instinct to well up in Dream – but the dragon hybrid pushes it down.
“Wow this is so fucking awesome! Can you do any magic?” Tommy wanted to know all about this hybrid, since he’s never encountered a dragon hybrid before today – since they were hunted down due to the materials that could be harvested from their bodies.
“What, my other features not enough for you?” Dream smirks as he listens to the child panic and apologise for not appreciating it, laughing a little which causes the child to stop as he flushes red from embarrassment. “Don’t worry Tommy, I’m just kidding. I can do a bit of magic and my saliva has a paralysing touch if I’m hunting.”
Of course mention of hunting, makes Tommy wonder if Dream was a hybrid with only some features or one that could transform completely. “Hey can you transform all the way?”
“Can I change into a proper dragon? Well yeah I can, but I would never do it in the overworld unless it was my only option. It’s because not only is it dangerous for someone knowing I’m a dragon hybrid, but my instincts take precedence over my thoughts.” Dream resists the urge to preen when he sees Tommy listening so attentively to him, but smiles at the blonde child.
“What does that mean?” Tommy isn’t sure what Dream means when he says he’d listen to his instincts over his thoughts, wanting to know more about the other hybrid.
“It means even if you’re a friend, if you go to touch or - Prime forbid - claim my stuff without my permission I’ll attack. Because you would be threatening me even if you didn’t realise it.” Dream knows he could have avoided so many problems if everyone knew he was a hybrid, but he couldn’t trust anyone with that – not after last time. “But do you want to meet another dragon? They’re not a hybrid though, so she can only speak in her native tongue which is Ender.”
“Are you fucking kidding me?! Of course I want to go see a dragon! That would be awesome! And I can rub it in Wilby and Techno’s face!” Tommy’s smiling so brightly at the thought of meeting and seeing a dragon before his brothers, practically bouncing in place at just the idea of it.
“Alright, well I’ll have to hold onto you because I’ll be using my magic to get us to the End. I don’t want anyone to follow after us since that would be dangerous.” Dream can see Tommy hates the thought of being carried like a child, but knows he needs to make sure the gremlin comes with him – ignoring what his instincts are trying to tell him.
“It’s the only way?” Tommy really doesn’t want to be treated like a child, since he is the biggest man after all.
“To make sure we both get there safely? Yes.” Dream waits patiently for the child to decide before grinning when he gets a nod, only to happily pick up the eight year old – feeling concern with how light he is, but hoping it’s only his strength. “Alright then, let’s go to the end.”
Dream creates a portal to the end using his Enderdragon and Admin magic, using the Enderdragon magic to direct where exactly the portal opens and using Admin magic to open the portals itself. Smiling at the sight of curiosity and joy on Tommy’s face when the black portal with shimmering purple particles opens up, folding up his wings so he doesn’t hurt them with the portal.
“To the end!” Dream smiles mischievously before running into the portal, with Tommy letting out a startled but joyful shout.