There was a great rumbling then. The entire forest seemed to shake, sending deer running and birds flying.
Snapping his head back toward the source of the rumbling, Grizzly saw the robed figure, his body crackling with an electric blue aura, intertwined with yellow sparks. His face, illuminated by the aura, extended and changed color to a deep azure, his mouth twisting into a maw of fangs. He burst out of his robes, body stretching into the air as great spiked wings burst forth from his shoulderblades. The whole of the shifting being rose into the sky.
The transformation completed, a serpentine dragon with a mane of white hair and whiskers trailing from its snout hung in the air. Its eyes had a glow the same electric blue as its aura.
"Another shapeshifter..." Grizzly said, hand falling to a javelin. "And this one looks like it's looking for a fight. Well, I'm more than happy to oblige!"
But the dragon turned to Ghost and opened its crocodilian mouth, a ball of crackling blue energy forming in its throat.
"Wha- GHOST, LOOK OUT!" Grizzly shouted.