After I pull my bleeding head from the wall, a dark voice speaks to me, not Green, not me, something else.

  "Well, well, well, Agent Green, eating me? Do you think you're tough enough? Think you can take it?"

  It was the Dragon.

  Unable to control myself, I ran to the gate that had been shut and locked, I grabbed at the bars and screamed as more pain wracked my body!

  Once more that dark voice, thumping like a second heart in my chest, "You may think you know what you're doing, but you have no idea what you've just done, you have to let go."

  I was forced to let go of the gate, becoming woozy, staggering away towards the crater, suddenly I felt something coming up my throat and I bent over to retch.

  The Dark voice was growing in anger and ferocity as I felt like I was about to throw up, "You have NO idea what kind of pain you'd be taking on!! LET ME OUT!!"

  A HAND covered in sickly green scales, sporting claws bursts out of my mouth and reaches for the crater, only to be sucked back in against my volition.

  the voice howls inside my head, "FINE Boy, if you think you're tough enough to believe you can unseat me, "Prince of monsters." Take this gift as a final caveat to what you've inherited, may you choke on all manner of foulness."

  I fell to my knees and clutched at my belly as the dragon meat slowly calmed down.

  "Beast eater." I heard the dark voice in the back of my head one last time before it vanished for good.

  I flexed my hands, they felt stronger.

  "The fuck was that??" Asked Green

  "You dont know??" I ask in terror, "We just ATE part of the dragon!!"

  Green violently shrugged, "Now I feel like I could fight god!!"

  I roll my eyes, "You always feel like you can fight god, but out of curiosity what do you mean?"

  He raised our left hand and the fingers suddenly thickened, bones crackling as they swelled, scales sprouting from the skin along with a small fountain of blood, my nails creaking as they elongated and thickened into familiar looking talons.

  Green purred, "Looks like the old bastard left us a few things in his will."

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  He gently but quickly slashed a claw across the the skull of the dragon which poked out of the crater, the bone, previously so stonelike and immovable, came open under my claw, which quickly receded into my normal hand after I had done that.

  "Oh..." I exhaled, my pulse quickening as I realized what I had just done, "That is a KILLER power...do we have ALL his abilities?"

  Green looked at our hand and flexed it, "I wanna see if we can make wings...we'll be like a flying demon!!"

  I sighed as he took off our shirt, "Ok, alright, we're doing this."

  He raised his hands and roared at the sky as once again, spontaneous and explosive limb growth sent a shock through my system, blood spraying all over the courtyard as 30-foot batlike wings sprang from my back!

  I coughed in pain as I felt that my torso was now slightly longer, with new ribs and additional shoulder/collar bones flexing as I flexed my new wings.

  Green laughed as they flexed, "Yes!! Fucking yes!!

  And with a motion I didn't know we could do, the bones began to crunch back into my back, quickly and at speeds I had never thought possible, our body resuming it's traditionally humanoid shape with NO sign we had ever done anything remotely similar to what I had seen.

  I looked down at my hands, I could see something beneath my dermis hardening as I looked, the flesh of my arms writhing, "Why do I get the feeling that we'll only be able to do that a few more times before it becomes permanent?"

  Green shrugged, "We'll burn that can of beans when we lay in it....for now let's find that freaky Nun, she's obviously not like the others here."

  After unsuccessfully looking for the Nun who had given me the meat, I cleaned up the mess left by the tail and went to bed.

  The morning came and I was attacked by Agents Love, Wolf, and Edge, who all dove on top of me in bed.

  I screamed and then I started laughing as they slid off me, Love still lying on me as I looked at her grinning face in disbelief, "I thought Singleton said 2 days!?"

  Love pulled me into a hug, "Like we were gonna get a full night's sleep without getting you back!"

  Edge clapped me on the shoulder, "Yeah man, we missed you!"

  Wolf pushed Love aside to punch me in the chest, then hugged me, "Dumbshit! I can't believe you pulled that off..."

  I grunted as she squeezed the air out of me, "You guys are never gonna believe how it all went down..."

  "I think I'd like to hear about it." A voice from behind us caused me to look and see, Pilum standing there next to Singleton in the doorway, I sat up fully.

  "Sir."

  In the next half hour, I took great care to explain everything that had happened to Pilum, right down to recounting the events inside The Box with Desirè.

  "You've been through a lot this last couple of weeks, Agent Green, but you, against all odds and scientific data, killed a creature that all Houska scientists past and present thought was unkillable by any means...a commendation is in order....but first we have to get you all home."

  As we were leaving, I saw Pilum put a huge wad of cash into the hand of an even older Nun I hadn't seen before, different from the one who had sent me into town.

  She looked up at me as we passed and I saw that same inhuman smile on her face.

  "What...is she?" I asked Pilum as we got into the Helicopter that sat just outside the convent

  "Kid, if I knew the answer to that, I'd probably have sent you guys here already to deal with them...but so far the nuns of this convent's true nature have eluded us, and they are very cooperative....so we leave them be."

  I looked down to see the nuns all congregating in the courtyard around the buried bones of the dragon and I felt a sinking in the pit of my stomach as we flew away.