Feed The Dragon

POV: You're a broke scholarship student. You feed a chained beast. He turns into a man. Now you have scales. A tail. And a mark on your hand counting down to your own death. Every circle that closes? You lose yourself. Someone else takes over. The Academy isn't a school. It's a slaughterhouse. Every headmaster was the same immortal parasite wearing a different face. Your bloodline was written into the ritual before you were born. You were never a student. You were a container. Your only ally? A dragon burning his own soul to keep you alive. He gave you his true name. He taught you to fight. But the last circle is almost complete. Tonight, the dragon graveyard opens. The parasite is coming for her final feast. She didn't expect you to wake the dead. She didn't expect you to fight back. The dragons fade. But you're still standing.