He looks surprised at my compliance but then shakes it off.
“What is your dragon’s name?” He asks. I make a face.
“Seriously?”
“I’m starting simple,” he shrugs.
“His name is Mitalonys, but when I shift, he prefers being called Talon,” I say.
“When did you shift into your dragon for the first time?”
“When I was 14, but Mitalonys has always been around.”
“Really?” He asks in surprise.
“Yeah, we shift early in our lives, so we have more time to learn control, why?”
“Well we shift into our wolves at 16, and that is also when we are able to start speaking to our wolves,” he tells me.
“That must be why
She is reading a book on dragons?I ask Angel.Yeah, she says she doesn’t know anything about her own kind,she replies, sounding very confused.Well let me know if she happens to find anything interesting, and I want that book when she is finished with it. It could be very useful.***“What are you going to do tomorrow?” my beta Cadyn asks me.“About what?”“The dragon. Isn’t she supposed to be at your side at all times?”“Yeah, but I need to figure out a cover for her first,” I sigh, walking into my house.“Daerius is that you?” I hear Angel yell as she jogs downstairs.“Yeah, it’s me,” I call back. She has a thick book in her arms, co
Red flooded my vision as soon as he said those words. My father is the reason that all the Fire Dragons were killed all those years ago, he is the reason I have been running my whole life and the reason I was tortured just a few days ago.Mitalonys is growling furiously and I watch as Daerius starts to sweat suddenly.“Lyza, you need to calm down,” he says, his breathing ragged. He stands up, walking towards the door quickly and tearing off his shirt as soon as he leaves my room.My dragon’s anger continues to grow as I connect all the horrible times in my life to my father’s mistake.“Lyza you need to calm down!” Daerius shouts from the hallway.“It’s my dragon, not me,” I growl, clutching at my head as pain shoots through my skull.Mitalonys I am not shifting
I don’t blame Lyza at all for what happened. I am pissed at Angel for knocking her out, and for blaming her for it all. It wasn’t her fault.I let out a growl at having to explain this once again to my beta.“So, you are going to let her shift so that doesn’t happen again? And to do that you have to let her go back to the place she was born?” He asks.“Yes, now I want to take a group of warriors with us just in case,” I tell him, and he nods with a sigh.“Okay, what about your sister?”“What about her?” I ask with a shrug.“She is going to want to go with you, she doesn’t trust the dragon anymore.”“Well she is going to have to stay here then, and I want someone watching her at all times. If I come back a
Lyza! Someone is coming!Mitalonys growls in my head. I peel my eyes open and see a shadow just above me.I sit up with a jerk, but the person straddles me and lifts a knife high above their head.I grab their arms, stopping the blade just centimeters from my chest. They let out a growl and push down harder. Mitalonys has strength flowing through my arms within seconds.“Get the hell off me!” I yell, shoving them completely off me. They fall onto their back and I quickly snatch the knife from where it fell to the ground.I toss it behind me and watch as the person gets up and notice they are wearing a black mask.“If I have to, I am going to kill you with my bare hands,” she yells and my face falls in realization.“What the fuck is wrong with you?” I shout. I barrel in
“They said ‘the dragon is back’,” Lyza tells me, a smile on her lips.“Wait they know you?” I ask and she nods.“I kind of forgot to tell you that I lived with them for over a year, that’s how I know so much about them,” she mutters. My eyes widen in surprise.“Seriously?”“Yeah. Now they will want us to come with them, which will add a few days onto our trip but if we refuse, they might kill us.”“I think we can go with them,” I shrug. She turns to the shadows and says something in a foreign tongue.The shadows make strange hissing noises then turn back towards the mountain.“Just follow them,” Lyza says. We start walking up the mountain and I glance back at Angel whose eyes are wide with con
“They’re not going to let me leave again,” I mutter, feeling a cold terror sweep over me.“Nolo ut noceat te, permitte mihi placet,” I plead to the leader. He makes an awful hissing noise that makes me cringe.“What? What happened?” Daerius asks in panic.“I told him I didn’t want to hurt them and to please let me leave, but he took it as a threat. Now I have no choice,” I whisper in defeat.“How can you hurt them? Didn’t you say you can go right through them?”“There is another reason they wanted to keep me here. Fire is the one thing they want, and the one thing that can destroy them.”Ready?I ask my dragon.Yes,he growls, and I feel a comforting warmth surround me. I throw
My wolf is growling at me, and I am growling back.How could you let her go? You had her in your arms!He snarls.Because she asked me to! If I hadn’t then she would be completely pissed off and there is no way she would ever let that happen again!I spit. I get silence in return.That’s what I thought,I mutter before ending our connection.I walk behind Lyza, next to my sister who is smirking widely.“What?” I snap as she throws me another devious glance.“Nothing, it’s just it looks like I was right about the dragon, it pissed you off didn’t it?” She sneers, failing to hide her obvious delight.“She isn’t an ‘it’ and no you weren’t right about her,” I growl, and she
Princess Lyza, that sounds good to me,Mitalonys chuckles.“Princess?” Angel growls behind me. I whip around and realize that they are all still chained.“Hey, can we unchain them?” I ask my uncle who gives me a funny look.“Why are you traveling with him in the first place?” He asks, tossing them a wary glance.“I am staying with them so they came with me here so I can shift. Basically, I’m trying to show them that dragons aren’t savage monsters, and this situation isn’t helping,” I mutter.“I meant, why are you traveling with the Werewolf King? The son of the man who nearly threw us into extinction?” My uncle snarls. I unconsciously bow my head, the rage and power in his voice forcing me fearfully into submission.“He i
I let out a growl as the wolf continues to yell at me. I leap off of the back of the warrior’s dragon. My dress flies around me as I fall through the air.I land in a silent crouch, just inside the edge of the burning forest. With a wave of my hand the flames subside long enough for me to walk through the trees and into the clearing of wolves.My Fire Snake hisses and spits beside me, swaying side to side. The wolves look at me with eyes full of fear, all except for one; the Werewolf King.“Lyza!” he yells again, and I growl angrily.“How do you know my name?” I snarl. He takes a step forward and my finger twitches. The snake hisses loudly and slithers closer. He leaps backwards in shock.“You’re my mate Lyza! You saved my life; you saved my sister’s life!” he yells. I growl.
I wake up to a loud knocking at my bedroom door. I sit up with a groan.“Come in,” I say. I look up and see one of my guards.“Alpha, the messenger from the Mountains is back,” he informs me. The urgency in his voice makes me hurriedly follow him through the house.He leads me to my office where he stands guard outside the door. I walk in to see my Beta beside a ragged-looking wolf.His hair is sticking up in multiple directions, there are dark circles under his eyes, and he is covered in dirt. His shoulders are slumped, and he looks exhausted.“I apologize Alpha for my condition, I could not stop and what I have to tell you is too important to wait until morning,” he says, his voice hoarse.“Get him some water,” my Beta tells the guard outside.
I can’t feel anything. My entire body is numb. My memories are distorted too, all I remember is my father telling me that we have to leave soon, and then the fire.Something presses around my neck and I realize I am being dragged to the ground by a chain. A red dragon is leading me away from the black clouds of ash.I try to fly towards my uncle, but nothing moves. It’s like my body is paralyzed.After several minutes we reach the ground. I collapse onto the black dirt, my eyes darting around in panic. A dozen unfamiliar faces surround me. One of them sticks a needle into the underside of my neck and I feel a cold liquid run through my veins. My eyelids start to fall, and I pass out moments later.***The ashes are so deep, they completely cover my feet. Black and white flecks drift in the wind down from the volcanoes.
My head snaps up at the faint rumbling noise. I search the horizon in the direction it came from and my face falls.A bright red flame shoots through the sky, on the other side of the Zhyden mountains. Then suddenly a searing white pain shoots through my skull and I collapse onto the forest floor.My Beta rushes over, shaking my shoulder but I can’t hear a word he is saying. I can only focus on a single coherent thought as everything goes black.Lyza.***I open my eyes to someone calling my name. Angel’s face hovers over me, full of concern. The agony is gone now, replaced by a strange numbness.“Daerius are you alright?” My sister asks softly.I sit up, looking around my room in confusion. “What happened? All I remember is a red flare . . .” I trail off, confused and
I hug my knees tighter to my chest, hissing in pain. It hurts to breathe, and it hurts to move.My head aches, and bright light is irritating. I pass out every few hours, only to wake up a few minutes later.I haven’t seen anyone since a dragon brought me a clean pair of clothes, just after they dragged me in here.My uncle is even more powerful than I remember, even Mitalonys is still in pain. And when he is injured to the point of feeling pain, neither of us can heal.I close my eyes, focusing on the moment I had with Daerius when he marked me. It seems like it was years ago.I miss him so much,I tell my dragon.Since he marked you, you are going to miss him a lot more. In a few weeks it’s going to be painful to even think of him,Mitalonys says.I internally groan, my f
My arms curl tighter around her, my hand running through her hair. She suddenly seems so small, so fragile.I listen as her heartbeat and breathing slows. She is asleep in minutes.“Wow, the dragon doesn’t look so vicious now,” Angel says, walking out of the castle.“What do you want Angel?” I ask in annoyance. She raises her hands in surrender.“Oh, so now I need a reason to talk to my brother?” She scoffs.“You do when I’m with my mate,” I growl lowly.She purses her lips. “Fine. I wanted to know when we are leaving,” she says. I sigh, my head falling against the stone wall.“I don’t know, I can’t leave Lyza. And this is her home, I can’t make her leave that. I don’t know what to do,”
“Does this mean we are accepting the mating bond?” Daerius asks. I sigh, biting my lip in thought.“I guess but there is one problem. You are going to go back to your pack, and I will be here. How is that going to work?” I ask.“Why are you staying here?” He sounds surprised and I raise an eyebrow at him.“Because this is my home. I didn’t know before that anyone survived the massive attack years ago. But now I havefamily, I’m not going to throw that all away afteryearsof being completely alone.”“Well that puts us in a difficult position,” he growls, roughly running a hand through his hair.“Maybe not, I mean now I can shift. If you can get the order for the extermination of dragons to be removed, then I can come to visit you eve
I can’t stop staring at Kailo’s mangled, bloody body. His eyes are still open, staring straight ahead.He looks like a boy again, like the boy I loved and vowed to spend eternity with. He used to be kind, strong, gentle, and would look at me as if I were the most important person in the world.And today I found out he was going to kill me for my throne. Years of affection and devotion, all for nothing.“Lyza? Are you there?” I hear Daerius’ voice say. I turn my head, still under Talon’s control. I see him standing at the edge of the dirt bowl I’m in. My head is level with his.“Listen I’m going to help you shift back, but first you need to come over here,” he says. My body moves forward but instead of presenting my neck to Daerius like I wanted, Talon has me knocking Daerius into the ring.
A hoarse yell fills my ears, and it takes me a moment before I realize it’s my own. All I could see were shadows and now all I can see is Lyza falling through the sky.Her wing has a huge tear in it, and she is covered in a glistening black liquid, blood. I feel my heart drop as I notice she is not moving, and her eyes are closed as she falls.I am standing, but my legs give out underneath me as her body hits the earth. The ground shakes and a plume of dust floats over us.Kailo soars down from the clouds, his wings beating away the cloud of dirt. I see he is missing an eye and half of his face is badly burned.“Oh shit, I don’t think she’s getting up,” someone whispers behind me.Then flames suddenly burst from within the dirt cloud. I jump back, narrowly avoiding getting my eyebrows burned off.