<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.
"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.