Background:
My DM is planning to revive his Jade Regent Path game, it was shelved before the third book, I had joined this gaming group as he ended it, but now there is interest in restarting it, I am making a 7th level Drow Conjurer with the Teleportation subschool (cuz: Shift is awesome). The rest of the party is a Hunter (unknown race), Half-Orc Warblade, and a 3.5 Scout (unknown race).
I have my character all planned out, however the difficulty lies in with my Faerie dragon friend. I had originally planned to take improved familiar and gain him that way, but with my rp background and how I acquired him, my DM was open to suggestion (it was mostly his idea, I believe) that I could instead take leadership and still have him follow me.
Now, I am ridiculously attached to this dragon despite I haven't played yet. My difficultly lies in advancing him as a sorcerer. I have little experience doing so with monsters with PC levels. The Faerie Dragon counts as a third level sorcerer, in addition to his three levels of dragon HD. So how do I make him a fifth level character, as leadership grants? Also, I can't for the life of me figure out his skills modifiers.
I plan for the Faerie Dragon to compliment my spellcasting, as I am concentrating on mostly summons, misdirection/illusion and utility. The Faerie Dragon starts out with greater invisibility as a spell like ability 3/day. Has grease, silent image and sleep for 1st level spells, and dancing lights, flare, ghost sound, open/close and mage hand for 0 level spells.
Any suggestions or tips for how to do this is highly appreciated.