Scout

***"I've forgotten, but I've remembered. In the dark, I see them and I hear them. The voices make me sick, yet I stay calm inside."***

-Scout to Jiro

**Appearance:**

In dragon form, Scout is completely pitch black, with blue ridges running down his spine. He is a rather large dragon, being two to three times the size of a human. Scout possesses two sets of wings (one main pair and one smaller pair near the base of his tail). The first pair allows him to do a vertical take-off. Behind that is a set of smaller wings that aid in his gliding. Scout's right eye is blood red, and his left one is an icy grey.

In human form, Scout is a reasonably tall and rather muscular young man who is well-built for his age. He has quite long hair, though it doesn't pass his neck, and wears bangs. His hair is evenly split between two colors: black on his right-side and white on his left. He also possesses heterochromia iridium, which causes his left eye's iris to appear icy grey, while his right is red.

He is usually seen wearing a small device like a vest on his back, and in a stiff grey jacket. He wears a utility belt with multiple useful items hanging off it, grey pants, and a pair of light grey snow boots. To help with controlling his powers, he wears a set of gauntlets on his wrists.

Being a werewolf, Scout has the ability to transform into a wolf under the full moon. As a wolf, he is entirely black, with a few white splotches on his left side. His eyes glow red, as he is the Alpha of his pack.

Scout also wears an earpiece that he can communicate to others with.

Originally (before the fusion with Griffin), he had complete white hair, icy grey eyes, and a scar over his right eye.

**Family:**

Unnamed Mother (Deceased, unintentionally killed by Scout)

Guardian of Shadows, Father (Status Unknown)

Unnamed Sister (Deceased, unintentionally killed by Scout)

Sparkus, Brother (Alive)

Jiro, (sort of) Adopted Sister (Alive)

Beatty, Adopted Mother (Deceased, killed in the Eighth War)

**Personality:**

Due to his fusion with his close friend Griffin (deceased), he has a split personality. He can be cold, arrogant, ruthless, prideful, and violent, while he can also be kind, creative, intelligent, and cheerful. Usually, he's something in between. Scout is a natural leader, being able to lead TSS and support others. He is rather protective of his loved ones. He is rather mysterious, and his past is unknown to everyone. He hates his father, the Guardian of Shadows, and despite what he says about his family in the past, he loved his mother very much. He has a very good relationship with Jiro, a girl who grew up with him. He cares and loves about her very much, and treats her like his own sister.

**Equipment:**

* Temperature resistant jacket: Scout's jacket is fire proof and electricity proof.
* Combat vest: A device capable of sensing Scout's body temperature and automatically heats up or cools down accordingly.
* Earpiece: Scout can channel his electricity through this earpiece and tune into nearby stations.
* Gauntlets: These gauntlets are metal and are designed to hold hot and cold air within them.
* White Dragon: A deadly weapon that can transform into all sorts of tools. Scout usually does not use this.
* Laceration: A throwing knife that can turn into pure electricity.

Scout has the ability to control all forms of electricity, including lightning. If he uses too much at one time, he'll be temporarily incapacitated.

Shadows:

Scout has the ability to manipulate shadows and make them rise from the ground. He can use them to suffocate living beings, and bind them.

**Backstory:**

A white egg. A white dragon hatched. But when he reached the age of one, his scales turned blue, then black.

There’s no denying it: this boy was born twisted. His father, the Guardian of Shadows, was full of hatred and abuse. His mother, who both cared and loved for Scout, was usually abused heavily by his father when she tried to help him. His older sister, who was kind to him, was almost never home.

A full year and a half after Scout hatched, his power first manifested. He was able to control shadows, to make them do his bidding, but it would never end well. It started when his father burned his whole left arm in a heated vent. Angry and in pain, Scout screamed and yelled at his father until-

His mother and sister came, trying to protect and help him. Reaching out for them in agony, Scout unintentionally suffocated both his mother and sister to death when his power over shadows spiraled out of control.

The anguished howl of a dragonling would fill the ocean.

\*1 year later\*

Within a year, Scout had managed to push the past away. He shoved away the screams and howls of the dead, and moved on as best as he could, his mind still haunted by the suffocation of his mother. A kind Beta, Beatty, took him in as her own. He followed her around, learning the many ways of being a good Beta. Beatty taught him how to fight, and defend his clan. Scout learned every single thing about clans and powers, and even had special access to a secret library only available to Alphas and Betas. Beatty showed Scout how to hunt, trap, and blow up cruise ships for fun.

The best blacksmith in the whole clan, Drago, took Scout as his apprentice. Drago taught Scout how to forge shields, build Archimedes Spheres, forge swords, and every other thing Scout could ever want to know.

Scout also learned from an old sorcerer, a commander of magic, Gregon. Gregon would mutter and hiss at Scout’s side, yelling advice, and screaming at him when he couldn’t get a move right. Scout began to learn with Gregon when he was two years from being a dragonet. It wasn’t long before Gregon found out about Scout’s heritage, and decided to train the dragonling.

When Gregon first told Scout about the training, he refused, remembering what had happened with his mother.

“You must train. Such a power manifested in a dragonling must be harnessed. You control the shadows, boy. The shadows do not control you.”

The training began.

With much concentration, he learned to make them rise from the ground. With a lot of concentration, the shadows rose, misty, black, full of darkness. They seemed to leech life out of everything. Gregon watched Scout, a note of proudness in his expression. Scout kept concentrating. They rose and rose and rose, getting higher, curling around the tops of the cave he was in. The corals and life around the shadows began to gray. Scout found he could control them. He could make them form shapes, to curl around a being, to infest the minds of others. The ghosts of the past continued to haunt him, but Scout was no longer afraid of using his power.

Each day, he swam to the deepest, most darkest crevices of the trench, and searched for shadows. He practiced, the old sorcerer muttering by his side, correcting him and screaming at him. Soon, Scout could duel pretty well with the sorcerer, as well as kill a whole army of soldiers with one mass of shadows formed into a cloud. Soon, the sorcerer passed away, leaving Scout with an ancestral sword called White Dragon. It was ironic, as Scout once was a white dragon.

After a year, Scout had completely harnessed and was able to control the ability to control shadows. He could finish off a whole army just by blinking, and destroy a whole city with a finger snap.

Even though his life wasn’t half bad, at night, in the dark, he would hear his mother and sister’s screams, his father’s anger. He would see his mother’s talons clawing uselessly at the shadows as she fought to breathe.

That was when the king, Draca, came in. He was greedy, the old dragon king. He demanded Scout teach him the ways of shadows. When he refused, Draca took Scout’s eye, leaving his face with a long red scar that ran from the tip of his horn to the end of his snout. So, Scout taught the king, fearing for his life. But the king didn’t have the ability to harness shadows. No matter how much he tried, nothing would work. Finally, the king demanded Scout’s mind to be altered so that his power with shadows would be no more. From then on, Draca held the power of being able to control Scout’s mind.

On one fateful day, when Draca’s rage was the greatest, he possessed Scout, and made him destroy his old clan, the Heisendragons. He murdered every single dragon in there, starting from the new Alpha to the lowest peasants. The only dragon to flee was Beatty.

Three days later, the horror of what he’d done submerged in Scout’s mind. In a fury, he disappeared from the realm of dragons, and morphed into a human, where he lived in the cities and alleyways of human civilization. He met Jiro, a young dragon hybrid who became his close friend and sister. They ventured in the streets and alleyways, twisting further and further from the dragon world and Draca.

But Draca found him anyways. They faced down in a final battle, and with Jiro’s help, Draca was no more.

After.

He practiced and practiced, studied and studied, but couldn’t get his full power back. He could no longer destroy a city, or a single dragon in one blink. He could no longer summon all the shadows in the world to him. Scout was weakened greatly by the operation.

It took a while to get used to harnessing the power of shadows in a weaker format, but with much dedication, it was done.

But then, he joined TSS, and was appointed Beta by the Alpha, Sapphire. He started a forge store. He collaborated with others. He was appointed Alpha. He trained young dragonets to become great dragons. Scout became the dragon/Alpha/Beta Beatty always wanted him to become. He learned to harness electricity and lightning, his gift from the Ancient Dragon, and his power with shadows increased a little with the help of his shark tooth, also given by the Ancient Dragon. Somehow, somewhat, his object from the Ancient Dragon strengthened his manipulation of shadows. At first, no one knew about his manipulation of shadows. But as TSS continued to develop, he was forced (fine maybe not forced) to put it out in the light.

Scout had always been a dragon of the dusk. He was most active at night, as it was easier to sabotage and manipulate. Shadows are proof of that.