I've Turned Into A Fox Girl?

<Clara POV>

After everyone left the throne room, Elaina walked up to me, and with a quick touch on my shoulder, we teleported. Appearing in some kind of vault, I saw on the wall a variety of different weapons, all with portraits above them.

Getting a vague sense of familiarity with them, I could only assume these were my ancestors, whose weapons were infused with their souls. My parents were nowhere to be seen on the wall, which was to be expected.

"I'll warn you now that each of these weapons are indeed powerful, but they also have curses. Unless you are the original owner, you will have to abide by the conditions of the weapon, which can easily result in death. Of course, the most powerful weapon here is also the most dangerous."

It sounded very impractical to even keep weapons like these, much less to actually make them. Then again, the idea must have been to try and obtain a greater power beyond the limits of this world, so there needed to be a trade off for there to be balance.

"Are you going to give me one?" I felt like it would be a death wish to accept such a weapon. These also carried a lot of history with them, so I can imagine Elaina raining all nine hells on me if I let something happen to them.

"Haha, of course not. I've only ever used them a couple times for special occasions. I brought you here to show you who your real mother is." Elaina was amused by my question, but I was just glad she didn't get angry at me.

"Wait, real mother?" Having processed what she just said, I was shocked at the implication that the mother I knew wasn't my real one.

"Yes, you were too young to really know anyone, but your father was quite the sleeze bag and slept with your auntie. That auntie also happens to be my mother, who was part dragon. Now, as you can see, I took after my father's side, becoming a succubus." Elaina flicked her spade ended tail, a clear proof of her race. Her horns were also quite thick, which is a feature common to dragons.

"So we are actual half-sisters and my actual race is a dragon demon?" There weren't any signs I could recall that suggested I was a dragon. I knew my partial transformation kind of made me scaly, but not enough to say I was a dragon.

"Technically yes. Although judging from your face, I see you are confused. This is why I needed some time before I told you everything. I wanted to make sure I had all the facts right, as well as the proper methods to unlock your draconic side."

"Right now, you can only use your father's demon side because of a seal. With the help of Himeko, we investigated the location where they tried to kill you, but it turns out they tried to seal you instead. It was the kind of seal that put you in a constant time loop, living your life at that cabin over and over. It may sound nice, but you would have never got to live out your life."

It was hard to believe at first, but I had no reason to doubt what Elaina was saying. At the time I had no idea what was really going on and even Himeko misconstrued that they were going to kill me.

"But wasn't the ritual unsuccessful? Surely If that seal was still on me I would have noticed something by now." I had the system, so I felt like there should have been some kind of indication if I was indeed under some magical effect.

"That's probably because it has been a part of your body this entire time. You've even evolved together with it to the point I'm not even sure whether we can treat it individually. However, that doesn't mean it can't be broken, which leads into why we are here."

"There is an item here that will be able to undo the seal if I am correct about what your parents did." Elaina then turned around and began to rummage through the vault, opening up every box she could find.

'Sounds promising. I wonder what my new form will look like.' My thoughts wandered while Elaina looked for this item. I was curious what Shaman's thoughts were on dragon girls, as I imagined myself gaining a new tail and possibly some other dragon-like features.

"Ah ha, found it." From deep within the vault of goods, Elaina emerged, holding a vial of some liquid.

"That is not what I imagined the item to be." I was expecting some kind of tier 10 monster part that had a special effect or something more unorthodox instead of a very fancy vial.

"It doesn't look like much, but inside it is dragon blood. Conveniently, it is used to seal things as well as get rid of them. Basically, it's a double edged sword and a rare one at that.

We don't see wild Tier 10 dragons often, so you're lucky that I knew we had some blood from hundreds of years ago." Elaina then pulled out a small glass from her inventory ring and poured a tiny amount into the glass.

"How come my parents didn't know about this vial and use it for themselves?" I felt like if they were aware of it, they would have either used it themselves or thrown out the rest so it cannot be used to undo their work.

"Because they didn't expect the seal to be interrupted. If you had gotten fully sealed, your existence would have remained unknown and nobody would try to help you anyways. However, since it was only partly complete, your physical body has remained in this realm."

"So if I were sealed, I wouldn't physically be in this world but instead in some dimensional space stuck in that time loop?" I struggled to wrap my head around it as this seal sounded way too strong considering what it could do.

"Exactly, and because this bottle is half full, I am inclined to believe that what they did involved this blood." Elaina then held out the glass filled with a tiny amount of dragon blood. The blood itself glowed slightly while the glass itself had turned warm to the touch.

"Still don't know how this will undo my seal if the same blood was used to create it." What I really wanted to know was how this blood would unlock this hidden side of me.

"The interesting thing is that dragons are inherently strong against seals but are inadvertently great ingredients to make them. In your case, since you are part dragon, drinking their blood should wake up the dormant dragon aspect within you, therefore breaking the seal." I could see the logic in that, but I still had my doubts.

"Now drink up."

Looking at the glass in my hands, I prayed that it would taste okay and not like some medical concoction.

'Elysia loves blood so maybe I should give her a taste of mine since I'm part dragon, supposedly.' I was curious if dragon blood had any other effects, and whether Elysia being part vampire would grant her any benefit from it.

"Bottoms up, I guess." With no reason to not drink the blood, I raised the glass and swallowed it all at once. As soon as the blood made contact with my mouth, there was a burning sensation, as if I had taken in something extremely spicy.

There was a brief moment where nothing was happening and I thought that it didn't work.

Soon after however, my entire body heated up and every muscle in my body tensed. Soon the heat turned into an agonising burn as if hot lava was flowing through my veins.

"Arghhh!" I fell to my knees, trying to take in deep breaths, but nothing I did could suppress the pain.

When I thought it couldn't get any worse, there was an even greater pain in my lower back, as if something was pushing itself out of my body. I even heard the sound of flesh and bones moving until I suddenly began to gain feeling in a completely foreign body part.

It then occurred to me that what grew out of my back was a tail.

But then my attention turned to my hands as they began to change in front of my eyes, their fingers now resembling dragon claws while my arms were covered in scales.

I didn't know how much time had passed, but finally the pain started to subside. Steam emitted from my body as I began to adjust to my new tail. It was extremely uncomfortable and I couldn't stop moving it around as I instinctively wanted it to go away.

My hands were still partly transformed into claws, which didn't surprise me as my original transformation had my hands change shape as well.

What surprised me the most was that I felt very light. It was like I had taken off a bunch of weights from my arms and legs.

"Interesting, looks like it worked." Elaina stood over me, looking at me as if I were some kind of specimen.