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Chapter 24: Avani
CooperWhat do you think of Naremyn taking the elves back to their home?
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The Dark Protector Chapter 25: Merethyl
I love flying on Avani’s back. It’s like I was meant to be here. I can feel the wind blowing over my skin, taste the water particles in the air, feel the coolness of the clouds as we pass through them. I lean back, letting my fingers caress Avani’s back again. I’m so amazed at how his body is a dichotomy of hard versus soft. The scales are hard as stone. You can feel that they can’t be penetrated, and they lay over top of each other, giving him protection, like he’s wearing armor. But if you actually run your hands over the scales, you can feel the warmth, the muscle underneath. It’s very similar to Avani’s personality. Cold and hard on the outside, soft and warm on the inside, although I would never tell him that. He’d just deny it anyway. I feel Avani’s rumble under me and I sit up, looking around. We’re over the forest and I’m not sure, but I think he wants me to help him look for anyone that shouldn’t be here. He makes a couple of circles around the forest area before finding a
The Dark Protector Chapter 26: Avani
I took the opportunity while I was getting the dead elves out to the pyres made by Merethyl, to see if the bullets in their bodies matched the ones I saw in the hunters’ laboratory we just found. They don’t, which means, that while those hunters knew about this place and what happened here, they weren’t the ones to capture Mere’s brother and her brethren. Merethyl’s grief is palpable, and I knew that when it came time to say goodbye to her parents, she would struggle. One good thing about dragons is that we have good memories. Because her song was something that sounded like it came from the earth, I was able to pick it up easily, so on our final night of laying her dead to rest, when Mere couldn’t sing the words, I did it for her. Each night, after we’d send off the next group of dead, I’d curl up around her in the forest and we’d fall asleep. Tonight, as we lay here, I can tell that she won’t be able to sleep. I can almost hear the wheels turning in her head, keeping her awake. I
The Dark Protector Chapter 27: Merethyl
As he lifts us into the sky, I sigh. “So, you don’t like Naremyn either, huh?” I say to Avani. “Or at least, you don’t trust him? Probably good instincts.” I say and lay down on Avani’s back. I really love riding on him. The air up here is so clean and clear, the sky seems so much closer. Of course, Avani doesn’t answer me. Even if he did, I don’t speak dragon. It’s an ancient language, older even than the elves. So I lay there, thinking of our next steps. Avani said he had other places where we could search, coordinates he got from Ishir. I wonder how the tiger knows about these places. And I wonder if we’re going to one right now. I didn’t ask Avani where we were going, but he keeps insisting that he’s with me, so I trust that. I need to find Yhendorn. I need to find him before Naremyn tries to take over our troupe. I have no doubt that he’ll try to do that while I’m out looking for Yhendorn. And if it takes too long, Yhendorn will have to fight for his position once more. As t
The Dark Protector Chapter 28: Avani
I about lose my shit when I show up on top of the mountain. Merethyl is gone and these hunters arrive telling me to give myself up. When I see her climb up the mountainside in my peripheral vision, I feel like I can breathe again. The moment the leader tells them to get me, Merethyl and I are in motion. I realize we’ve fought together before, but it’s like we’ve been fighting together for years. I go for the leader, and she goes for the minions. I see Mere take the first one by surprise. She throws him off the mountain. By then, I’ve jumped on the leader. He has weapons and if he is here, knowing what I am, then it is likely that they will be able to hurt me. I grab hold of his gun with one hand, swinging him around so he’s facing away from me before grabbing him by the throat. I look to make sure the Mere is okay before extending my claws and ripping the leaders throat out. I take the gun out of his hand as he falls to the ground, and I aim it at the guy that just turned from Mere
The Dark Protector Chapter 29: Merethyl
I hear the humans tell us to put our hands up. My senses aren’t as good as Avani’s especially at night, but one thing I do know, is that he is protective. There’s no way he has any intention of turning himself or me in to these hunters. I don’t know what he’s going to do, but I know I need to be ready. I turn my focus on the hunters, just as Avani shivers beside me, his body growing in an instant with his shift. The trees around him are leveled as he takes his dragon form and the shots ring out. They come from everywhere and I throw my hands up, trying to divert as many as possible as Avani swings around, his tail slashing through the air, taking out a large number of hunters. “Lower your wing!” I shout at him. I need to be able to see and he’s too large to see around. It was different when we were inside. I knew where he and I were in relation to the room and the walls. Outside, the area is much too large for me to manage blind. He has moved his large body in front of me, but I see
The Dark Protector Chapter 30: Avani
I begin racing after the hunters and those bastard scientists that are doing experiments on shifters, trying to create who knows what kind of creature. I’m still distracted by Merethyl moving me with her element. She shouldn’t have been able to do that. I’m a fucking dragon. I know I was in flight, but her ability to maneuver me mid-flight caught me off guard. For a moment, I thought she had decided to take advantage of the situation and claim me. She could have. She might have, if she had continued on the way she was. I had roared my fury at her and got her simple ‘sorry’ in response. Seriously? The woman has no clue how much strength she has and how much power she truly has over me. I almost couldn’t wait to get away from her, needing this time to calm myself. Of course, now that I’m away from her, I want to get back to her. Fucking mate bond. I hear cars starting in the distance and I realize the hunters and scientists raced to their cars, thinking they could out run me. Not a ch
The Dark Protector Chapter 31: Merethyl
After Avani left to go after the hunters, I had an easy time getting everyone out. There was no one here to fight me and I realized he did that on purpose. Always so protective. I want to believe that it’s because I mean something to him, but he’s called the Dark Protector for a reason. And that reason has nothing to do with me. When I hear him roar, I go rushing out of the laboratory. I was healing some of the shifters and was nearly done. I know Avani enough to know that when he roars, he’s pissed. I’m shocked when I walk outside and see him confronting a shifter, rather than fighting a hunter. The shifter, a leopard Avani called him, realizes that Avani outranks him, or whatever it is in the animal kingdom, and he defers to him. When Avani says the leopard can’t kill one of the scientists, I know he has a plan. I also know that he’s on the verge of shifting and tearing this entire place apart. I put my hand on his arm, pushing calm into him until I feel him respond. I turn and l
The Dark Protector Chapter 32: Avani
I don’t know why I didn’t want Merethyl to know that I had let those humans burn alive, but something about her seeing my darker side didn’t sit well with me. I trusted her to watch over the scientist while I doused the flame. I made sure none of them had escaped before I pulled the fire back, keeping it from catching on the surrounding trees and brush. When I returned, I heard Mere talking about the goal of the Chief. He wants to kill the dragons. Of course he does, we’re the reason his arenas are being destroyed. However, the idea of him building an army makes me uneasy. What sort of army? I glance at Mere. What if they make her brother into one of these creatures. I know her well enough to know that she’d never be able to kill him and she’d never forgive me if I did. But if he became a killing machine, working for the Chief, I’d have no choice. I walk over to Mere, seeing that she’s nearly done healing the shifters that are left. “G’day sir.” One of the shifters bows his head to
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