#dragonyuan

[aline-the-cat]

Wei Wuxian is fucked. So utterly fucked, he briefly wonders how upset his parents are going to be when they realize he died, he wonders if Jiang Cheng is going to feel guilty... he hopes he does, the bastard; now his only regret is that he cant say goodbye to shijie, because he is about to become a water dragon's middle day snack!!!

Stupid Jiang Cheng and his stupid dares, stupid him for accepting them and seeing them through, and stupid dragons for making it soo easy!!!

"You dare steal from a god?" The voice of the magnificent creature with pearlescent white scales, blue antlers, and gorgeous golden eyes is deep, sending shivers down the fox's spine, in other circumstances he would totally be swooning, as it stands, he has to bluff himself out of this situation

"Well I was hoping to borrow it, gloat, and then return it, but it seems I may have overestimated myself" he looks down to the golden rock in his hands, he was just supposed to grab gold, how was he supposed to know that this was a dragon's egg???!! He was only a fox spirit with only so much knowledge of celestial beings!!

The dragon in front of him growls and Wei Wuxian has to suppress the instinctual fear that comes with having a heavenly, huge, creature in front of you. Just as he considers throwing the egg to the dragon as a distraction so he can run (because he is certain the dragon is going to catch it, they are very protective creatures after all), the rock starts to crack

'Oh fuck'

And just like that, the egg in his hands hatches. Both the celestial dragon and the fox spirit catch their breath for a moment, the tiny hatchling looks up to the fox, adorably tilts his head observing him, Wei Wuxian doesn't know shit about baby water dragons, so he stays very still not wanting to hurt the cute noodle and give the bigger dragon more reasons to obliterate him

The hatchling chirps once with a happy and cute tone and two things happen at once, first, Wei Wuxian hears a child-like voice in his head 'a-yuan! mama!' It says, making him do a double-take at the baby dragon as said baby turns his scales into a red hue, much like the fox's spiritual energy

"A-Yuan? What does that- .... Wait, what??" For a moment he completely forgets about the god dragon in front of him and turns to the true terror: potential parental responsibility "Who are you calling 'mama', little noodle?"

The hatchling just chirps happily again "Mama!" before moving to hug and cuddle the fox's neck. Wei Wuxian is speechless and completely frozen at this turn of events; in front of him the celestial being sighs tiredly and, with a bright light, he transforms into his middle form, with the blue antlers and a white dragon tail coming from his human body

"Congratulations, he just imprinted on you" the dragon deadpans and only a slight twitch of his eyebrow betrays his irritation

"... WHAT?!" Wei Wuxian, who was not totally oogling the divine being in front of him (seriously, dragons being this hot and attractive is not fair!), suddenly jolts at the words, making the tiny dragon coiled around his neck to almost fall, the fox spirit (also protectors) reach with a gentle hand and coos at the tiny noodle "I'm sorry baby" he says in a soft voice, the 'mama!' that sounds inside his head is less of a surprise but still weird. The insanely attractive man in front of him has a complicated expression on his face, Wei Wuxian goes back to the situation at hand "What do you mean imprinted on me?"

The dragon looks like he wants to sigh tiredly again

"Young dragons imprint on the first living being that they see that accepts their name" he explains "The moment you called him by his name, you appointed yourself as the title he called you, the telepathy is proof enough that this hatchling imprinted on you, the color of his scales prove that he already started taking on your spiritual energy"

Wei Wuxian is dumbfounded

"What?"

"You are now his primary guardian, is what I mean" the gorgeous dragon scowls

'Oh fuck' now Wei Wuxian is doubly fucked, as his family won't take too kindly what just happened, he looks down at the baby coddling his neck, at the very least his mother won't be happy to be called a grandma so soon

"I-" he really doesn't know what to say "I'll take responsibility!" He blurts because he is an idiot like that, the dragon in front of him carefully lifts a judgemental eyebrow, as if saying 'Of course you will do it, you want to break a baby's heart and make me kill you otherwise?', the fox winces "I mean... hi, I'm Wei Ying, courtesy name Wuxian" his tails nervously dance at dragon's scrutiny

"Lan Zhan, courtesy name Wangji" the dragon answers with s nod, Wei Ying feels all his blood leave his face at once

Did he just stole borrow and hatch a dragon egg under the care of the second jade prince of the heavenly realm???

He is soo fucked

Writing Prompt #1795

"You dare steal from a god?"

"Well, I was hoping to borrow it, gloat, and then return it, but it seems I may have overestimated myself."