Empyreal Dragons

Four

Lovech Kingdom 

“Master! Master! I have news!” James the butler yelled out as he ran into his Master’s office. 

Another day has passed since Drangior had his talk with Reyna. 

Questioning what her purpose was and choking her... weren't apart of the plan, AND Drangior still didn't find out what made him soo drawn to Reyna where he would want to save her. 

So now here was an angry Dragnior, sitting at his office desk with a disappointed face and annoyance filling his soul. And, on top of that, Dragnior was getting tired of James’s outburst at this point as he seemed to be gaining more and more balls and guts the longer Reyna was staying here. 

“What is the matter?” Dragnior asked exhaling a deep breath 

James rushed over to Dragnior as he placed a red letter on top of his wooden desk. Raising his right eyebrow, Dragnior looked at the letter and then looked up at James. 

Is this what I think it is? Drangior thought to himself 

“I-It’s a letter from the Re…” 

“From the Red Crest Kingdom huh?” Drangior replied as he finished James’s statement for him 

Using his dragon blood, Dragnior extended his pinky nail by an inch as he rushed to rip open the red letter sent by the Kingdom that killed his other half. The Kingdom that killed his Reyna. 

Throwing the envelope wherever, Dragnior unfolded the paper and began to scan over the letter. 

James watched Dragnior in worry as he knew what this could mean. James knew the history behind what happened to Reyna and he knew that Dragnior’s heart was something that no one could play with. For Dragnior would not give you a chance to play with it. 

The letter could mean war, the letter could mean killing Reyna, this letter could mean the end of a peaceful era. 

Biting his bottom lip as his bad habit whenever he’s scared, James kept looking at Dragnior watching his face for any expression. 

“HAHA!” Dragnior suddenly laughed 

James jumped as a shiver ran down his spine at the sudden laugh. Sweat was now falling from James’s nose as his nervousness was kicking in even heavier now. Dragnior NEVER laughs. 

“James! Tell Ms. Syrah to gather the servants. We are preparing for our guests to arrive in a few minutes. This letter was delayed by not being delivered here on time, but the King and Queen of the Red Crest Kingdom are coming to visit us. In hopes of a peace treaty.” 

James' eyes widen. A PEACE TREATY?!

Drangior smiled as he read the words carefully once more before laughing again. 

THIS! This might be what he was waiting for. 

Throughout Reyna’s time of being here, it seemed like she has lost herself as she no longer knew what to do with herself. 

But once she sees the people who left her to die in front of her face, what will she do? Fight? Or keep being the new coward that she has become?

Dragnior could feel his dragon blood rushing with excitement as he wanted to transform this very second at the amount of excitement he was feeling. 

“S-Sir?” James called out 

Dragnior glared up at James and rolled his eyes. 

What did I just tell him to do?  Dragnior thought to himself as he began to gather up a little ball of fire in the back of his throat. 

It was almost like gathering air in the back of your throat. Letting the fireball roll down his tongue, Dragnior opened his mouth and blew that little 6 centimeter fireball at the direction of James. 

James, noticing the fireball, began to scream exclusively as his feet picked themselves up and didn’t waste any time running out of Dragnior’s office. 

Lovech Kingdom; Reyna's Bedroom 

Being the last person to rinse her body off with water and scrub it down with soap, Reyna felt cleaner already as the mud was no longer there to remind the brain the shame she brought onto herself once again. Sighing as she rose her curvy brown skin body up from the bath, Reyna moved her right hand to grab the dry cloth that one of the servants left for her to use. 

Grabbing the cloth, Reyna dried off her body before patting her face with extreme care. A woman's face is sensitive, even the slightly movement from patting to a slight rub could put pumps onto the face.

It's been a month since the encounter with King Dragnior Lovech... the man that Reyna felt like could've honestly killed her that day if he truly wanted to. The man was crazy and had a eye of evil intentions, it scared her to know that she was back in the presence of a crazy being. 

Everyday Reyna experienced more and more ass beatings as it became her new daily life. Reyna didn't have anyone to help her in this Kingdom as she would come back to my room every night bleeding from all areas of her body. 

Reyna became a mess as she spent every morning waking up the servants of the palace laughing at her from her weakness on the training grounds. 

I became useless... Reyna though to herself 

Luckily, the only thing getting Reyna through these tough days have been Zahn. Zahn has been reminding Reyna of her son who she would always fight for, but Zahn could only do so much for Reyna as he is still a child. A child that loves his kingdom and respects his father... 

“Reyna!” 

Hearing her name being called followed by a series of knocking, an unexpected entrance into the bathroom made her brown face scrunch up in confusion as she stood face to face with a sleep wear attire outfitted little Zahn looking back at her. 

Zahn eyes were widen as he kept starring at Reyna taking in her appearance, his face started turning redder by the second as his skin was flushing with redness. 

Zahn just wanted to walk into the room and say good morning to his mother... he didn't expect to see her bare coming out of the bath!

As Zahn's face was now completely flushed of red, it almost started to look like an unnatural color of red as his skin showed a bit of steam coming from it. 

“Z-Zahn? Are you okay? Are you burning up?” Reyna questioned as she began walking closer to him while seeing smoke

Zahn’s brown eyes quickly changed to a gold color as his eyes looked away from Reyna quickly. 

“R-Reyna…” He said breathless 

“Yes Zahn?” Reyna replied 

Watching him now squirm in his own skin, Zahn kept his head turned away from her before he began to speak. 

“F-Father asked for you to be ready and dressed in a few minutes. He said that you will be entertaining the guest in a sparring session between yourself and Syrah. He wants to see your improvement.” 

Reyna's face fell. 

Improvement? He should know that I haven’t done anything right since I’ve been here, Reyna thought to myself as she looked down at the ground 

“A-Are you going to be there?” Reyna asked 

Reyna didn’t want Zahn to see her getting beat up by Ms. Syrah. She didn’t want him to see her beat up so badly that he might not be able to recognize her anymore. She didn’t want to suffer the emotion of defeat in front of her son. 

“No, father said that it a adult meeting only and that I will have to go to sleep early.” Zahn said while sighing 

Reyna sighed too but in relief, she smiled at him. 

“Thanks Zahn. I’ll start getting dressed.” Reyna replied as she winked at Zahn

Turning her back to Zahn now to start getting prepared for today, Zahn took that as his note to leave as he didn't want to disturb his mother anymore than he felt like he already had. 

“You’ll do great Reyna. I just know it.” Reyna heard Zahn chirp in happiness 

Hearing the door to her bedroom open and close, Reyna glanced over her shoulder to make sure that Zahn was out of the room before she turned back around and began walking over to my muddy training outfit that she haven’t cleaned up yet and sighed knowing that she had to put it back on. 

“I probably should’ve washed this first.” Reyna thought before dropping the dry cloth to the floor 

Trying to fling and shake out as much dried up dirt that was on the outfit, Reyna was unsuccessful as the dirt wanted to stay.

Huffing and blowing her cheeks out, Reyna placed both of her feet into the training outfit as she began to get dressed for this sparring match. 

Even as Reyna was putting on the outfit for today, she couldn't help but feel something weird. Weird... would weird be the word? She didn't know, but what was known for a fact was that this sparring match would not be a simple spar. 

Lovech Kingdom's; Front Gates

I don't get paid enough for this, Drangior thought to himself as he rolled his eyes at the cold weather

As Dragnior waited by the front gates of his palace, in the distance he could see 5 red carriages riding along in the distance coming closer as every second went by. 

“Finally. It is getting cold out here and I would like to go back in soon.” Dragnior said as he looked over at James 

James gave a slight nod of his head as he didn’t want to anger Dragnior into throwing a fireball at him. Annoyed by his bland answer, Dragnior focused back on the red carriages that were now in front of his face. 

“Please remember not to tear their faces off sir.” James whispered but Dragnior's dragon ears caught the message 

Dragnior simply smirked at his remark. 

No promises, Dragnior thought as he couldn’t wait to see what type of man Reyna was married to. 

Learning about most of her history, Dragnior found out that behind many of the great ideas the Red Crest Kingdom had to offer, it was Reyna who made those ideas for her Kingdom to gain and prosper from. 

Now what type of man would willingly want to get rid of a jewel like that, Dragnior wondered.  

As the red carriages stopped themselves in front of the presence of Dragnior, a servant came out and opened the door to a carriage that was right in front of him. Coming out of the carriage was a beautiful young woman. 

The woman had dark mysterious brown eyes as they drew you into her lure of substance. Her long red hair laid by the side of her shoulder as the low cut dress she was wearing revealed a bit too much of her chest and some of shoulder that looked biteable. 

Her small almond face looked at Dragnior as she lips puckered themselves up in seduction. Drangior bite his lip at the sight. 

Damn, Drangior thought in his head as he could feel his body reacting to the woman. 

Beside the woman came a man whose eyes resembled the lightness of Reyna’s, except the color of his eyes were a hazel color. 

The man had on a nice formal outfit as it showed the muscles on his arms, enough muscles to attract a woman for a night. The man had black hair that the wind played in it as it kept flicking his hair back and forth.

Dragnior put a fake smile on his deep featured naturally angry face as the King and Queen of the Red Crest Kingdom walked up the stairs of the Lovech Kingdom with smiles plastered on their faces. 

“Hello and welcome to the Lovech Kingdom. I am the butler, James Lovech.” James said taking a step in front of his Master 

The last thing that James needed to deal with as Dragnior’s second in command was a BLOOD BATH today. Knowing how horrible that would turn out, James held out his hand in hopes to make everything okay today. 

“Is there a reason why the King has his dog barking instead of gracing us with his own words?” 

James and Dragnior's eyes widened as the beautiful woman that stood by the Red Crest's King side spoke in such a nasty manner. 

Did she just… Disrespect my second in command?!  My BROTHER IN BLOOD?! 

Dragnior’s body temperature began to raise in anger. Who the hell does this little girl think that she is?!

James noticing Dragnior anger decided to step in again. 

“I am also the second in command of the Lovech Kingdom. I am the King’s right hand man so I don’t think that the word dog would describe my duties well enough.” James spoke with a smile 

The nasty woman made a disgusted face before turning her attention to the King of the Lovech Kingdom, Dragnior. Just like the rumors told her, Dragnior was definitely a handsome man worthy of her presence for a night. 

The Red Crest King knew what his wife was getting at with her seductive looks and her eyelashes batting themselves with lust and he rolled his eyes at her manners. It was days like this that he wished that he killed her instead of Reyna. 

Coughing to gather everyone’s attention, James smiled once more before pointing to the doors behind them. 

“Shall we go in? We have a lovely space set up for today’s meeting and we even have a little bit of entertainment as our two high ranking warrior women are sparring today.” James said 

The Red Crest King and Queen eyes sparkled at the words of violence. They loved violence since they encountered killing a woman just because they could. The thrill of getting away with the murder made their bodies shiver in excitement as they now couldn’t wait for the sparring. 

“If you don’t mind, would it be okay to see the sparring now?” Asked the Red Crest Queen 

Dragnior rose his eyebrows and James looked scared at her question. James looked up at his Master and Dragnior looked down at him and nodded. 

If they want to hurry up and see the main event earlier than expected, then so be it… 

Lovech Kingdom; Training Grounds 

Stretching out her body, Reyna placed her arms over her head as she reached the training grounds. Reyna could see all of the servants in their palace uniforms as they turned around to talk about her while laughing. 

“Why is she stretching? Does she think that she's going to stand a fighting chance?” 

“Oh please, after a month of getting her ass whooped, I would think that she's delusional if she thinks she has ANY chance.” 

Trying to ignore all of their words, the numbness began to kick in as Reyna mentally began to block them out. Learning how to perfect it at this point, she could no longer hear her surroundings as she only breathed in and out trying to control her breathing and continued to stretch her small body. 

It's okay Reyna, you are going to do fine, Reyna thought to herself before feeling something cloud over her.

Disgust? Anger? Sadness? Reyna couldn't describe the feeling that suddenly came over her, but she know that something was about to go wrong. It was the same feeling she had earlier in her bedroom. 

“REYNA!”

Jumping at the sudden sound from someone calling her name, Reyna turned around immediately facing the loud voice that disturbed her peaceful moment. Seeing Ms. Syrah standing behind her with a training outfit on, Reyna cringed as she didn’t want to ‘“spar” with her for entertainment.

Reyna always came out with her body beaten and her eyes sore from crying. 

So why is Drangior doing this to me, Reyna asked herself.

Straightening out her body, Reyna spread her legs apart and moving her feet to jump twice to gain power in her stance, just like Ms. Syrah taught her. Except, the way that Reyna learned the stance was by getting her legs hit with a wooden stick until she got the stance right. 

Smirking, Ms. Syrah eyes looked to the left of her where there were 4 large chairs with 2 arm handles on both sides standing their tall and they looked like they were waiting for their Masters to come and sit in them.

Today is going to be a good day, Ms. Syrah thought to herself with a smile filling her face. 

… 

“The two warriors should be on the field now.” James said as he lead the Red Crest King and Queen through the doors that leads to the training grounds 

The Red Crest Queen looked around the Lovech palace in awe as this palace has to be way bigger than what hers is. 

She spent 10 years as a mistress to the Red Crest King only to receive a palace that is smaller than the neighboring Kingdom’s palace. The Queen rolled her eyes in annoyance. 

“I never asked,” Dragnior began, “But what are yall names?” 

As they all walked through the doors and all now outside at the training grounds where all of the servants are, the Red Crest Queen smiled as she realized that her beauty didn’t go unnoticed in the eyes of the Lovech Kingdom's King. 

“My name is Clarissa Crest.” The Queen said while winking at Dragnior 

“King Aaron Crest.” The Red Crest King said with a stern face 

Dragnior frowned as he couldn’t see anything about Red Crest King that would’ve made Reyna want to stay with him. 

James watching the interaction chuckled at himself as everything was playing out. The two guests that came in today were a surprise... a surprise that Dragnior decided to go along with in hopes that Reyna will gain her sense of self again. 

What will Reyna do, was the only thought on James’s head. 

Walking towards the 4 chairs that sat in front of the middle of the training grounds area, Queen Clarissa at least expected the training grounds to be inside. It was getting colder and colder as the sun decided to hide behind the clouds today causing the warmth to drop throughout the Earth. 

Dragnior looked onto the field and saw that Ms. Syrah already approached her opponent as Reyna got into her fighting stance. Reyna put her hands up as Ms. Syrah did the same. Reyna was so focused that she didn’t even realize that the people who killed her are here. 

Glancing over at Aaron and Clarissa, it seems that they didn’t seem to recognize Reyna either as they smiled at the possible fight about to happen. 

As everyone sat down in their chairs, Dragnior sat back with a smile. 

This will be good, Dragnior thought as his gold eyes stared at Reyna.

…

Watching Ms. Syrah movements, Syrah jumped towards Reyna with lightning speed as Syrah's arm extracted back a little bit, before she forced her closed fist straight into Reyna's face, punching Reyna in the nose. 

Hearing a loud CRACK followed by her head throwing itself back from the impact, Reyna's body flung itself back immediately. Learning that keeping her eyes during battle open was the smartest thing to do while fighting Ms. Syrah, Reyna kept her eyes open and focused to see where Syrah's next attack was going to come from. 

“You thought you figured me out?”

Instinctively turning her head to look behind her with speed in her movement, there was Ms. Syrah as she lifted up her left leg and kicked Reyna's back with so much force that she could feel her spine shift and it sent her entire body flying forward. Falling face first into the grass below her, everything on Reyna's body started to feel heavy.

Ms. Syrah likes to attack once when your feet are on the ground and then attack again as your body is in the air so that the impact of you falling from the damage hurts you more. Its a smart plan, especially when you know the moves to back up that plan. 

Feeling warm liquid coming down her nose, Reyna already knew that her nose was bleeding without even having to look. 

Come on girl! Shake it off, Reyna thought to herself as she began pushing herself up onto her feet fast. 

Reyna turned around to face Ms. Syrah. 

“Come on little girl.” Ms. Syrah said as she motioned her hand for Reyna to come closer 

Moving her feet as Reyna began running to Syrah, Reyna balled up her fist and flung it at Syrah. Smirking , Syrah dodged Reyna's attack with ease and she took a quick step back and used her right foot to kick the cheek of Reyna's face. 

Sending Reyna's head to twist a hard 90 degree angle to the left, all Reyna could see the 4 chairs filled with the guests for today. Those ... guests … were…

Drop… 

Dropping to her knees as she looked at who was sitting in those chairs, Reyna could feel her blood begin to boil as her body temperature began to rise. Reyna's heart wasn’t beating as she was now struggling to even take a deep breath. 

Falling to the ground completely, Reyna clutched her throat as no air was getting through. 

WHY WASN’T THERE ANY AIR GETTING THROUGH!

“Oh no b***h,” Ms. Syrah said as she grabbed Reyna by her hair and pulled her head up from off of the ground “this ain't over yet.” 

Finishing her statement, Syrah pulled Reyna's hair back and heavily flung her face into the grass. Hearing more things crack, Reyna could no longer feel her face. 

Ms. Syrah pulled Reyna's hair once more before she kicked Reyna in her stomach and slapped her across the face throwing Reyna's body around. The abuse continued… everything continued in the eyes of the people who killed Reyna… Aaron and Clarissa.

After feeling Ms. Syrah foot stomp on her face once more, Reyna could see Syrah bend her body down to look her in the face. 

“Poor little girl. Did you think that dying once could make you immortal? You're a weak little b***h who was chosen by my Master as a training ground doll as we whoop your ass everyday. No one wants you, no one cares for you,” Ms. Syrah said now smiling “Now tell me little girl are you going to get up and keep fighting? Or will you continue to be beat down by me?” 

Listening to Ms. Syrah words through the ringing in her ears over and over, Reyna could feel her eyes trying to close themselves. Her body was hurting... hurting badly from this beat down as she could see Dragnior's face in the distance looking at her with a face of disgust.

But... Reyna could also see the happy smiles on the face of Clarissa and Aaron. 

As her vision started to become cloudy and blurry, Reyna heard someone call something out… 

“Finish her! KILL HER!” 

Reyna eyes shot open immediately as she could feel blood rush to them. As her eyes moved around frantically, Reyna had to blink twice before moving her head to look into to the eyes of Ms. Syrah. 

Those were Aaron's words... Aaron's words... those words that he called out in hype and excitement was towards me. He wanted someone... to kill me... AGAIN!

I won't die, NOT AGAIN!

The rush of emotions helped Reyna push her body from off of the ground. Smacking Ms. Syrah's body away from her with a huge push and a kick to the stomach, Ms. Syrah's body was now far enough away from Reyna to gathering herself up.  The blood rushing to her head began to make her head pound with pain as her blurry vision looked at Ms. Syrah. 

Forcing her weak arms to be supported while forcing herself onto her feet, Reyna was now standing up and glared hard at Ms. Syrah. 

With the blood that was racing through Reyna, she could feel nothing but pain, nothing but suffering, not but sadness. As she felt a rushing of these emotions, Reyna opened her mouth to let her emotions out. 

How do I feel... how do I actually feel ... I ... I... 

“I HATE IT!” Reyna yelled out tensing her whole body 

With her consciousness cornering her brain, there were questions that she needed to know as she was frantically losing herself, but within those frantic feelings, Reyna could hear a voice speak out to her in reply to what she said. 

But what do you hate exactly, the voice asked

Reyna already mentally knew. Reyna already knew what the answer was before the voice even spoke back out to her. Knowing the answer for herself, she spoke it. 

“I hate being weak and getting my ass beat by this Lovech Kingdom b***h!”

But... why exactly are you here?

Reyna squinted her eyes in question.  

“...Because I died, and Dragnior along with Zahn brought me here...”

But, what made YOU DIE?

“I…”

Reyna's mind drew a blank at that question. 

What made me die? My husband stabbing me through the heart while I was pregnant with his son? The b***h Clarissa standing by my husband's side as I was dying? The guards who were by my side for 15 years leaving me to die?

BUT, WHAT MADE YOU DIE?!

“… My son being ripped away from me as he was stabbed out of my stomach.”

And ...who ripped your son away from you?

“My husband…” Reyna replied as her eyes shifted over to the man smiling at the violence happening 

Who?

“THE b***h CLARISSA!” 

WHO?!

"THE f*****g RED CREST KINGDOM!" Reyna yelled out as her skin was now fuming with the burning passion of fire as it was being fueled by hatred and anger 

SNAP!

Feeling her body temperature reaching an all time burning high, Reyna could feel her teeth burning in her gums as her grey eyes felt ready to come out of their sockets. Her blood ... her blood was rushing through her body backwards as the nails on her fingers began to swell. 

Anger filled her being thoroughly as Reyna realized that this is why she was still alive. I am alive because my son wanted me to avenge his innocent soul. This was her purpose!

SHE IS ALIVE BECAUSE HER SON WANTED HIS MOTHER TO AVENGE HIS DEATH!

Glaring at the couple in front of her, Reyna's heart began beating frantically as she now knew … 

“I WAS REBORN TO KILL YOU!” Reyna yelled as felt something burning her throat, my arms and my hands 

As her eyesight sharpened again in detailed ways like it did back in the dining hall weeks ago, Reyna could see the full body skeleton of the man and woman that she wanted dead in her hands. DEAD! 

Feeling the sensation of her body now being burnt by something, Reyna looked down at her arms as she could there was … fire… 

FIRE?! Why was my body on fire?!  

Confused by the golden flame that was surrounding her brown arms with layers on top of layers, Reyna tried to shake off the flames from her arms but they stuck to her like glue. 

The golden flames weren’t just surrounding her arms but as Reyna looked down at her legs, she could tell that her whole body was covered in these golden flames from head to toe. 

Feeling her skin hardening under the pressure of her anger, Reyna could feel her teeth hurting worse than they were before. Using her tongue to lick her gums, Reyna cut her tongue on something sharp as she could now taste the iron from her blood. 

Moving her right hand to her teeth, Reyna eyes widened as her teeth were now an inch long. Swallowing her sudden fear, Reyna's anger was still residing in her and it was too strong to notice the fear anymore. Her anger won't go away, until she kill these bastards where they stand! 

Reyna thoughts were all over the place and her confusion was high, but nothing mattered right now other than killing the people who killed her innocent baby just because they could.

Moving her eyes away from the flames that were consuming her body and back to the couple that killed her and left her to die in the rain… The couple that took her life and everything that she ever loved away from her… the couple that physically took her son from out of her… 

Reyna was ready for their death to be served to them from the hands of the woman they thought they killed… 

From the hands of Reyna Rose herself...